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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
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MITCHELL, Wesley Clair.
Gold, prices, and wages under the greenback standard.
Berkeley, University Press, 1908.
First edition, rare in commerce, a statistical essay in continuation of A history of the greenbacks (1903). Statistical analysis was a significant part of Mitchell’s early work, of which this is the weighty apotheosis, both intellectually, and physically (this is a heavy book). Taken from censuses,...
£225
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MOODY, William Godwin.
Our labor difficulties: the cause, and the way out; being a practical solution of the labor problem.
Boston, Williams, 1878.
First edition thus, presumably the first appearance of Moody’s pamphlet on unemployment, the copyright for which is dated 1877; another edition was issued in the same year with reference to a paper, delivered at the annual meeting of the American Social Science Association on 24 May, regarding the...
£175
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MORGAN, Lewis Henry.
Ancient society or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization.
New York, Holt, 1877.
First edition. Morgan’s influential work was considered by Marx and Engels to be putatively supportive of materialist history. Marx’s notes on this book were reputedly the source for Engels’s Origins of the family, of private property and the state, published in German in 1844. Morgan posits a...
£400
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ODUM, Howard Washington and Guy Benton JOHNSON.
Negro workaday songs.
Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press and Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926.
First edition. This book continues Odum’s interest, demonstrated in a minor way in the above work, in the folk songs and oral history of Southern African-Americans. Odum and Johnson present lyrics divided by category, including ‘blues’, ‘chain gang’, ‘bad man ballads’, ‘minstrel’ and...
£175
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PARETO, Vilfredo.
Le mythe vertuïste et la littérature immorale. [Librairie des sciences politiques et sociales].
Paris, Rivière, 1911.
First edition. Pareto observes that all social movements which have had any impact on history have been upheld by a faith, so their success has been guaranteed by the intensity of myth as opposed to logical reasoning. Le Mythe is important not only because it summarizes Pareto’s earlier works,...
£150
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PARK,
Robert Ezra and Herbert Adolphus MILLER [and William Isaac THOMAS]. Old world traits transplanted. [Americanization Studies].
New York and London, Harper, [n.d., copyright 1921].
First edition. A still-pertinent study of European and North American (Mexican) immigrants to the United States, and of ideas of heritage, with case studies of New York. Apparently far more sympathetic than Le Bon. Donald Young’s introduction to the 1975 Patterson Smith reprint edition explains how...
£100
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PATTEN, Simon Nelson.
The new basis of civilization. [American Social Progress Series. The Kennedy lectures for 1905, in the School...
New York and London, Macmillan, 1907.
First edition, rare in commerce. A study of contemporary society in America, including the pervading problem of poverty and inequality despite the massive wealth generated by industry.
£125
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PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich.
ANREP, and G. V., translator. Conditioned reflexes, an investigation of the psychological activity of the...
Oxford, Milford for the University Press, 1927.
First edition in English. Pavlov’s account of his famous experiments on dogs of the 1890s and early 1900s, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.
£100