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POWELL, John W.
Outlines of sociology. [Presidential Address to the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., February 7 1882.
[Washington], From the Transactions of the Society, 1882.
First edition thus, rare offprint. This lecture really is just a basic outline of sociology. Powell is known as the first non-Native American to explore the Grand Canyon. He was later the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution during his service as director of the U.S....
£150
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RATZENHOFER, Gustav.
Soziologie. Positive lehre von den menschlichen Wechselbeziehungen.
Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1907.
First edition. Ratzenhofer, the watchmaker-turned-philosopher, attempted to explain all the laws of human coexistence by scientific methods, as outlined in this work, in which noble aim he was preceded by Auguste Comte, and anticipates Talcott Parsons.
£125
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WAYLAND, Francis.
The Elements of political economy.
New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837.
First edition of an important work long held as the leading principal economics text in American colleges. Wayland (1796-1865) was for twenty-eight years president of Brown University. ‘His notions of political economy and philanthropy dictated that the most important obligations of the state were...
£500
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ROSCHER, William.
Principles of political economy …
New York, Holt, 1878.
First English edition, published simultaneously in Chicago and New York, of Roscher’s main work, originally published in 1854. This edition translated from the thirteenth German edition: this was ‘perhaps the most widely-read textbook of economics in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century’...
£375
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MITCHELL, Wesley Clair.
A history of the greenbacks with special reference to the economic consequences of their issue: 1862-65....
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1903.
First edition. A famous study of the Union’s attempts to prevent inflation after issuing the first paper money in the United States that operated as legal tender for bullion, called ‘demand notes’ or ‘greenbacks’ (since they were printed in green on the back), by keeping down the price...
£275
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RIBOT, Théodule.
La psychologie Allemande contemporaine. [École Expérimentale].
Paris, Baillière, 1879.
First edition, a nice association. The ‘new’ Germany psychology was scientific and empirical, relying solely on observation of physical phenomena. Ribot’s work was published in the same year as the establishment of Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological laboratory in Leipzig; he was delighted with the...
£175
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RIBOT, Théodule.
The diseases of personality. Authorised translation.
Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1891.
First separate edition in English; there appears to have been an earlier appearance with other of Ribot’s Diseases; first published in French in 1885. A study of mental illnesses including double personality (‘double monsters’, and twins), insanity, sexual characteristics such as ‘opposite...
£125
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SCRIPTURE, Edward Wheeler.
The new psychology. [The Contemporary Science Series].
London and New York, Scott and Scribner’s, 1898.
First British edition, from a series edited by Havelock Ellis; first published 1897 in America. Scripture founded a laboratory for experimental psychology at Yale University, the experiments of which are described here, and was a founder of the American Psychological Association. He trained under Wilhelm...
£100
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essais. [Philosophischsoziologische Bücherei, Band XXVII].
Leipzig, Klinkhardt, 1911.
First edition.
£45
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Rembrandt, ein kunstphilosophischer Versuch.
Leipzig, Wolff, 1916.
First edition.
£50
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Lebensanschauung, vier metaphysische Kapitel.
Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1918.
First edition.
£35
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SMALL, Albion Woodbury.
General sociology, an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.
Chicago and London, Chicago University Press and Fisher Unwin, 1905.
First edition. Small was one of the founders of academic sociology in the United States and was the first President of the new American Sociological Association. His study of Spencer and Ratzenhofer is a significant development on stage-based sociological theory, i.e. the development from savagery to...
£125
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SPENCER IN AMERICA SPENCER, Herbert.
The study of sociology. [The International Scientific Series].
New York, Appleton, 1874.
First edition thus, the first American appearance of the sociological portion of Spencer’s ‘philosophical system’, which commenced in 1860, and thus the first appearance in America of his foundational system of sociology, which unified Darwinian evolution and social science, famous for introducing...
£100
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[SPENCER, Herbert.]
GEORGE, Henry. A perplexed philosopher, being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s various utterances...
New York, Webster, 1892.
First edition. A perhaps ill-conceived attack on Herbert Spencer, considering that at the time, as the author freely admits, the British philosopher, ‘of all his contemporaries, [held] the foremost place in the intellectual world, and through a wider circle than any man living, and perhaps than any...
£65
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SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.
A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man.
Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.
First American edition, ‘revised and improved by the author, from the third London ed.’; first published in Edinburgh in 1821. A typically eccentric work by the German phrenologist Spurzheim including observations on development of the brain, drawn in part from the study of ancient cultures. The...
£125
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SULLY, James.
Illusions, a psychological study. [The International Scientific Series, Vol. 34].
London, Kegan Paul, 1881.
First edition of Sully’s study of perception, dreams and memory, with his discussion of psychology as a ‘positive science’. It was supposedly praised by Freud and Wundt.
£100
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TARDE, Gabriel.
Les lois sociales. Esquisse d’une sociologie. [Bibliothèque de Philosophie Contemporaine].
Paris, Baillière, 1898.
First edition. The result of discussions at the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales, founded 1895 in Paris, in October of 1897. Tarde’s ‘social laws’ are another example of an attempt at empirical sociology, a scientific law or ‘loi d’uniformisation’ to cover the social phenomena of history...
£175
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VEBLEN, Thorstein.
An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation.
New York, Macmillan, 1917.
First edition. Veblen considers the situations in Germany and England during the First World War and projects the economic consequences of plenty in peacetime, which he frames as the rise of the middle-class ‘gentleman’, based on a model of Victorian English, peacetime gentlemanliness. This envisages...
£150
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VEBLEN, Thorstein.
The higher learning in America, a memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men.
New York, Huebsch, 1918.
First edition. Veblen’s project for the ideal university and his consequent criticism of American Universities for failing to reach his ideal. He describes the dominance of American universities by business interests, making academic communities subservient to concerns of accountancy and conformity,...
£300
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[WEBER, Max].
ROGERS, Howard J. Congress of Arts and Science. Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. [Volume VII, economics, politics,...
Boston and New York, Houhgton, Mifflin & Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906.
First edition. This volume apparently contains Max Weber’s first appearance in English, entitled “The Relations of the rural community to other branches of social science”. The paper was delivered by Weber at the St. Louis World’s Fair and was first published in this translation. It never appeared...
£200