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DURKHEIM, Émile.
“L’Allemagne au-dessus de tout”. La mentalité allemande et la guerre. [Études et documents sur la guerre].
Paris, Colin, 1915.
First edition. Durkheim’s essay, written as the First World War was underway, detects a ‘morbid character’ at the heart of the idea ‘Deutschland über alles’. The essay considers the place and power of the State above morality, in the context of international law.
£55
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DURKHEIM, Émile and Ernest DENIS.
Qui a voulu la guerre? Les origines de la guerre d’après les documents diplomatiques.
Paris, Colin, 1915.
First edition. An attempt to read the ‘facts’ behind the origins of the First World War by studying diplomatic documents. France and England are exonerated, as us Russia to some extent; basically, Austria gets the blame.
£45
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DURKHEIM, Émile and Ernest DENIS.
WILSON-GARINEI, A. M., translator. Who wanted war? The origin of the war according to...
Paris, Colin, 1915.
First edition in English of the above. The translator, of whom nothing is known, is described as ‘late student of Newnham College Cambridge, Modern Languages Tripos’; an interesting case of a graduate, jobbing, female translator in wartime.
£35
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DURKHEIM, Émile.
Le socialisme. Sa définition, ses débuts, la doctrine saint-simonienne.
Paris, Alcan, 1928.
First edition of Durkheim’s historical study of socialism, its relationship to communism and utopian ideas and its ‘debuts’ in positivism and Saint-Simon’s Système industriel, which is the primary focus of the study.
£100
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ELY, Richard Theodore.
An introduction to political economy.
New York, Chautauqua Press, 1889.
First edition; there is also an issue with a variant brown cloth binding. A nice general introduction from a sociological perspective, in that the first part is broadly concerned with sociological theories of economics, including stage-based theory and social functions; the second part deals with more...
£60
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FLINT, Robert.
Socialism.
London and Philadelphia, Isbister and Lippincott, 1895.
First edition. Flint’s rather conservative view of socialism is largely an unsympathetic one, and he even brands the Collectivists of the earlier part of the nineteenth century as ludicrous, though they were the progenitors of Marx’s idea that the worker owned the produce of his labor; an idea, Flint...
£100
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GUMPLOWICZ, Ludwig.
MOORE, Frederick W., translator. The outlines of sociology.
Philadelphia, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1899.
First edition in English of Gumplowicz’ Grundriss der Soziologie (1885). Gumplowicz was chiefly interested in jurisprudence, and its relation to the ethnology and nationhood of ‘mixed’ societies, where two or more racial groups have come together. Continuing here from his earlier Rassenkampf...
£100
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GUMPLOWICZ, Ludwig.
Geschichte der Staatstheorien.
Innsbruck, Wagner’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1905.
First edition, the last of Gumplowicz’s works to be published in his lifetime. He committed suicide with his wife in 1909, terminally ill with cancer. The Geschichte is a compendium of brief studies on the chief figures of ‘state-theory’, philosophy and sociology; the chief movements of the latter;...
£150
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HAECKEL, Ernst.
Die Wissenschaft und der Umsturz. Separatabdruck aus der “Zukunft” ar. 18 vom 2. Februar 1895.
Berlin, Damcke, 1895.
First edition thus, very rare, an offprint from Die Zukunft (“The Future”), a German socialdemocratic weekly journal edited by Maximilian Harden. Haeckel writes about the Umsturz (i.e. Putsch or coup) debates in the Reichstag in January 1895, and the applications of the laws which affected...
£295
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HALL, Granville Stanley, editor.
The pedagogical seminary.
Worcester, Mass. and Orpha, 1891-1893.
First edition, rare in commerce. The first six parts of Stanley Hall’s journal of education, which in 1924, the year of Hall’s death, became the Pedagogical seminary and journal of genetic psychology. Hall dominates the first volume, with his critical view of higher education in Germany, France and...
£150
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HANCOCK, Thomas.
Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations.
London and Edinburgh, Philips, Hatchard and Tait, 1824.
First edition. Hancock’s study of the relationship between the mind and the soul is essentially a Quaker’s digestion of Locke, drawing heavily on Locke’s system of perception and his views on education. Hancock follows Locke’s conception of the mind as a tabula rasa capable of creating thoughts...
£225
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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann.
Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge. [Erstes-Zweites Heft].
Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1865-1871.
First edition, the first two parts only of Helmholtz’s ‘popular lectures’, a third part appearing in 1876. The subjects of the lectures here included are, amongst others: music theory; Goethe’s natural history; glaciers; optics; and engineering.
£65
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HOBHOUSE, Leonard Trelawny.
The Labour Movement.
London, Unwin, 1893.
First edition of Hobhouse’s first book, an interesting example of his early thought on the Left. Hobhouse was referred to by a contemporary reviewer as a ‘mild radical in labor matters’ (Journal of political economy). His argument for liberalism and trade unions is based on the idea that...
£125
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HOWARD, John.
The principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations...
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly and Taylor, 1789.
First edition of Howard’s study of lazarettos or quarantine stations for victims of the plague throughout Europe. A continuation of Howard’s investigative reporting; he had already published his State of the prisons which, with the present work, led to a popular desire for improvement in the construction...
£500
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JEVONS, William Stanley.
Pure logic and other minor works.
London and New York, Macmillan, 1890.
First collected edition, comprising some of Jevons’s major earlier works, and including the first appearance in book form of his essay entitled ‘John Stuart Mill’s philosophy tested’. Edited posthumously by the philosopher Robert Adamson and Harriet Jevons, the author’s wife.
£150
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
L’organisation du travail, selon la coutume des ateliers et la loi du décalogue, avec un précis d’observations...
Tours and Paris, Mame and Dentu, 1870.
First edition of a late work, beginning with historical analysis and outlining the ‘invasion du mal’ in France in all its aspects and at all levels: language, local government, abuse of inheritance, abuse of the word democracy, the abuses of Catholicism and religious institutions, etc. Le Play, however,...
£95
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
EMERSON, Gouverneur, translator. The organization of labor in accordance with custom and the law of the Decalogue;...
Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872.
First edition in English of Le Play’s L’organisation du travail (1870). Emerson was a Quaker doctor who eventually gave up his practice to devote himself to political economy, hence the slightly unexpected appearance of this first translation in Philadelphia, where Emerson lived. He died suddenly...
£75
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
L’organisation de la famille, selon le vrai modèle signalé par l’histoire de toutes les races et de...
Paris, Técqui, 1871.
First edition. This is one of the most important of the group of later works in which Le Play applied the empirical research he used for Les ouvriers européens (1855) to more specific subjects (see also the work above). In La famille Le Play analyzes books of accounts and budgets kept...
£75
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LEWES, George Henry.
The physiology of common life.
New York, Appleton, 1860.
First American edition, scarce in commerce, first published 1859. A serious work of physiological biology by the self-taught scientist, known for his supposedly humane experiments (using ether and chloroform) on the nervous systems of frogs, which he describes here. Darwin is not mentioned, but Lewes’s...
£125
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MARSHALL, Alfred.
Official papers.
London, Macmillan for the Royal Economic Society, 1926.
First edition, a collection of Marshall’s work on boards, committees and commissions, including the Gold and Silver Commission, the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor and the Indian Currency Committee, and his memoranda on fiscal policy and taxation.
£65