‎A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principal Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. In Two Volumes. 2 vols. - [THE SCIENTIST'S CLAIM TO TRUTH]‎

‎London, John W. Parker, 1843. 8vo. 2 uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised gilt bands to gilt spines. Marbled edges. A nice and tight set with only minor wear to extremities. Vol. 1 with tiny damp-stainin to upper margin, barely affecting but a little bit of the end-papers and the first three leaves - here only the top blank margin, far from affecting any text. Blank leaves a bit brownspotted, otherwise also internally very nice and clean. (2), XVI, 580" (2), XII, 624 pp. Bookplate of ""Reginald Dykes Marshall"" to inside of both front boards.‎

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‎The scarce first edition of what is probably Mill's greatest book, an epochal work in logical enquiry, not only for British philosophy, but for modern thought in general. ""Mill's most important work in pure philosophy was his ""System of Logic"", which he began at the age of twenty-four and completed thirteen years later"" (D.S.B. IX:383).By the first quarter of the 19th century, the theory of logic had been almost overlooked in the English speaking world for centuries. Logic was practiced merely as an academic study on traditional lines, with Aristotle as the great master, but with Mill and some of his contemporaries this was about to change, and Mill's theory of terms, propositions, the syllogism, induction etc., greatly affected 19th century English thought. The many years that Mill allowed himself to work on his ""System of Logic"" allowed him to be inspired by a number of important steps that were made towards the development of the theory of logic in order to fulfill his groundbreaking work. Mill's main concern as a philosopher was to overrule the influence of the sceptical philosophers and provide science with a better claim to truth. A main breakthrough in Mill's Logic was thus his analysis of inductive proof, and his originality on this point cannot be denied. ""We have found that all Inference, consequently all Proof, and all discovery of truths not self-evident, consists of inductions, and the interpretation of inductions: that all our knowledge, not intuitive, comes to us exclusively from that source. What Induction is, therefore, and what conditions render it legitimate, cannot but be deemed the main question of the science of logic - the question which includes all others. It is, however, one which professed writers of logic have almost entirely passed over. The generalities of the subject have not been altogether neglected by metaphysicians, but, for want of sufficient acquaintance with the processes by which science has actually succeeded in establishing general truths, their analysis of the inductive operation, even when unexceptionable as to correctness, has not been specific enough to be made the foundation of practical rules, which might be for induction itself what the rules of syllogism are for the interpretation of induction... "" (A System of Logic, Vol. 1, p. 345) . With his demonstrative theory of induction, Mill reduced the conditions of scientific proof to strict rules and scientific tests. He provided the empirical sciences with formulae and criteria that played as important a role to them as the formulae of syllogism had done to arguments that proceeded from general principles. The laws that Mill established are discovered with his famous ""eliminative methods of induction"", which later figured prominently in controversies about scientific method.Mill's Logic came to found a new strand in the theory of logic, logic as incorporated in a general theory of knowledge, where the whole is rendered more precise by its definite reference to the question of proof. According to Mill the ultimate elements of knowledge are subjective entities, however, knowledge does have objective validity. ""Logic alone can never show that the fact A proves the fact B"" but it can point out to what conditions all facts must confirm, in order that they might prove other facts. To decide whether any given fact fulfils these conditions, or whether facts can be found which fulfil them in any given case, belongs, exclusively, to the particular art or science, or to our knowledge of the particular subject."" (Introduction, 3, p. 11). The work underwent several editions, and Mill kept changing it considerably. The first edition is said to have been printed in a small number, less than 1.000.‎

‎Auguste Comte et le positivisme. Traduit de l'anglais par G. Clémenceau.‎

‎ 1893 In-12, pleine toile moderne, (4), 200 p. et 16 p. de catalogue éditeur, qqs soulign. au crayon. Paris, Alcan, 1893.‎

‎Autobiography and literary essays.‎

‎University of Toronto Press, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, gr. in-8vo, LIV + 766 p., clothbound with orig. jacket / reliure en toile originale avec jaquette.‎

‎Autobiography. With an appendix of hitherto unpublished speeches and preface by Harold J. Laski.‎

‎ Petit in-12, pleine percaline sous jaquette éditeur illustrée, xx, 343, 16 p. Londres, Milford, 1936.‎

‎Index. Très bon exemplaire. ‎

‎Considerations on Representative Government. Second edition.‎

‎London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861. 8vo. In publisher's original embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear and soiling to extremities. Hinges a bit weak. Ex-libris and previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper. Underlignings in pencil throughout. (VIII, 347, (5) pp.‎

‎Second edition. ‎

‎Die inductive Logik. Eine Darlegung der philosophischen Principien wissenschaftlicher Forschung, insbesondere der Naturforschung. Nach dem Englischen in's Deutsche übertragen von Dr. J. Schiel. - [THE INDUCTIVE LOGIC IN GERMAN]‎

‎Braunschweig, 1849. 8vo. Cont. hcloth. w. gilt title and single gilt lines to spine. Tears to top hinges and a bit of loss of cloth to top capital. A bit of even browning, but otherwise internally very nice and clean. Probably lacking a half-title. LX, 654 pp.‎

‎First German edition of Mill's ""A System of Logic"", probably his greatest book, an epochal work in logical enquiry, not only for British philosophy, but for modern thought in general. Here in the German version, the title puts emphasis on the main idea of the work, -the inductive logic, which came to found a new strand in the theory of logic throughout Europe. The work was originally published in English in 1843, and it underwent numerous editions. ""Mill's most important work in pure philosophy was his ""System of Logic"", which he began at the age of twenty-four and completed thirteen years later"" (D.S.B. IX:383).By the first quarter of the 19th century, the theory of logic had been almost overlooked in the English speaking world for centuries. Logic was practiced merely as an academic study on traditional lines, with Aristotle as the great master, but with Mill and some of his contemporaries this was about to change, and Mill's theory of terms, propositions, the syllogism, induction etc., greatly affected 19th century English thought. The many years that Mill allowed himself to work on his ""System of Logic"" allowed him to be inspired by a number of important steps that were made towards the development of the theory of logic in order to fulfill his groundbreaking work. Mill's main concern as a philosopher was to overrule the influence of the sceptical philosophers and provide science with a better claim to truth. A main breakthrough in Mill's Logic was thus his analysis of inductive proof, and his originality on this point cannot be denied. ""We have found that all Inference, consequently all Proof, and all discovery of truths not self-evident, consists of inductions, and the interpretation of inductions: that all our knowledge, not intuitive, comes to us exclusively from that source. What Induction is, therefore, and what conditions render it legitimate, cannot but be deemed the main question of the science of logic - the question which includes all others. It is, however, one which professed writers of logic have almost entirely passed over. The generalities of the subject have not been altogether neglected by metaphysicians, but, for want of sufficient acquaintance with the processes by which science has actually succeeded in establishing general truths, their analysis of the inductive operation, even when unexceptionable as to correctness, has not been specific enough to be made the foundation of practical rules, which might be for induction itself what the rules of syllogism are for the interpretation of induction... "" (A System of Logic, Vol. 1, p. 345) . With his demonstrative theory of induction, Mill reduced the conditions of scientific proof to strict rules and scientific tests. He provided the empirical sciences with formulae and criteria that played as important a role to them as the formulae of syllogism had done to arguments that proceeded from general principles. The laws that Mill established are discovered with his famous ""eliminative methods of induction"", which later figured prominently in controversies about scientific method.Mill's Logic came to found a new strand in the theory of logic, logic as incorporated in a general theory of knowledge, where the whole is rendered more precise by its definite reference to the question of proof. According to Mill the ultimate elements of knowledge are subjective entities, however, knowledge does have objective validity. ""Logic alone can never show that the fact A proves the fact B"" but it can point out to what conditions all facts must confirm, in order that they might prove other facts. To decide whether any given fact fulfils these conditions, or whether facts can be found which fulfil them in any given case, belongs, exclusively, to the particular art or science, or to our knowledge of the particular subject."" (Introduction, 3, p. 11). ‎

‎LA PHILOSOPHIE DE HAMILTON. Traduit de l'anglais par E. Cazelles.‎

‎ P., Germer Baillière, 1869. In-8°, bradel, demi-toile gommée havane, dos lisse, pièce de titre noire, bordée d'un double filet doré, répété en queue du dos, fleuron doré, plats marbrés et coquillés, VI-XLVII-620 pp, deux ex-libris illustrés, ‎

‎ Coins émoussés, des taches sur le bord latéral du titre et par décharge sur le suivant, exceptés qques rousseurs éparses l'intérieur est propre, ex. bien relié en bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 6,9 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €) ‎

‎L'asservissement des femmes. Petite Bibliothèque Payot, N° 254.‎

‎Paris, Payot, 1975. 11 x 18, 195 pp., broché, bon état.‎

‎présentation de Marie-Françoise Cachin.‎

‎L'UTILITARISME.‎

‎PRIVAT. 1964. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 234 pages agmentées de quelques gravures dans et hors texte en noir et blanc - traces de stylo - annotations et tampons sur les pages de faux titre et page de titre -. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES‎

‎Traduction de la nouvelle de Georges TANESSE. Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES‎

‎L'Utilitarisme‎

‎Paris Garnier- Flammarion 1968 In 12 Collection " GF-Texte intégral " . Traduction , chronologie , préface et notes par Georges Tanesse . - 186 p. , 250 gr.‎

‎Couverture souple Très bon 1ère Édition‎

‎L'utilitarisme.‎

‎ In-12, broché, couverture défraîchie, 126 p. Paris, Félix Alcan, 1914.‎

‎Traduit de l'anglais par P.-L. Le Monnier. ‎

‎L'utilitarisme‎

‎ Le Monde Flammarion Le Monde Flammarion, 2010. In-8 broché, 172 pages. Très bon état‎

‎ Toutes les expéditions sont faites en suivi au-dessus de 25 euros. Expédition quotidienne pour les envois simples, suivis, recommandés ou Colissimo. ‎

‎L'utilitarisme - Collection GF n°183.‎

‎Garnier-Flammarion. 1968. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 181 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES‎

‎Collection GF n°183 - Traduction, chronologie, préface et notes par Georges Tanesse. Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES‎

‎L'utilitarisme: Essai sur Bentham‎

‎PUF, Quadrige, 1998, 253 pp., poche, passages soulignés et annotés au crayon, dos un peu écrasé, état assez correct.‎

‎Mes mémoires, histoire de ma vie et de mes idées‎

‎Traduction par E. Cazelles, 3ème édition, Paris, Felix Alcan, 1894 – in-8°, 300 p – demi-rel. jans. d'ép. chagrin noire, quelques rousseurs‎

‎Bon ex. de cet excellent ouvrage.‎

‎Principles of Political Economy with Some of their Applications to Social Philosophy. In Two Volumes. Sixth Edition.‎

‎London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. 8vo. In the original green full cloth bindings with printed title labels to spines. Title labels with loss of paper. Outer hinges cracked, front board of first binding almost detached. Exlibris to inside of front boards. Front free endpaper and half title of second binding loose. Internally clean. XVI, 617 XV, 608 pp. ‎

‎Sixth edition of Mill's seminal work on political economy.‎

‎Three Essays on Religion. (Nature, Utility of Religion and Theism)‎

‎London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874. 8vo. In publisher's original embossed cloth-binding with gilt lettering to spine. Spine-ends chipped and hinges weak. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Internally nice and clean. XI, 257, (3) pp.‎

‎First edition of Mill work on religion. ""Mill was somewhat cagey on this subject, both in public discourse - he refused to answer questions about his religious beliefs while running for Parliament - and in his writings. In correspondence Mill said that he had never had a belief in God. He did write that there is enough evidence for a divine designer/creator in nature to 'afford a large balance of probability in favour of creation by intelligence', yet he added that it was possible that a recently proposed alternative explanation for this evidence might turn out to be a better one. He was adamant that the existence of evil in the world established that no being could exist who was both omnipotent and perfectly morally good. Mill had a tremendous amount of respect for the moral teachings of Jesus, which he saw as only one part of a complete morality, but he believed that these teachings had been perverted by modern Christianity' (Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2002).‎

‎Principles of Political Economy with some of their applications to social philosophy. 1) ‘Collected works II’. Books I, II.‎

‎Routledge, 1996 gr. in-8vo, 1) XCIV + 451 p., frontispice, original clothbound / reliure en toile originale.‎

‎Principles of Political Economy with some of their applications to social philosophy. ‘Collected works III’. Books III, IV, V and appendices.‎

‎Routledge, 1996 gr. in-8vo, frontispice-portrait + 710 p. (pages 456-1166), original clothbound / reliure en toile originale.‎

‎John Stuart Mill: Critical Assessments, boxed set of four (4) volumes. Edited by John Cunningham Wood, Ed. ‘Routledge critical assessments of leading economists’. ‎

‎London & New York, Routledge, 1987, lg. in-8vo, Hardcover. All four volumes in original brown leather with a matching slip case. Gilt letterinig. A fine set.‎

‎ The Croom Helm Critical Assessments of Leading Economists. All four volumes are in almost new conditions. ‎

‎La liberté‎

‎Paris, Guillaumin et cie. 1877 323pp., 3e édition revue et précédée d'un avant-propos du traducteur, dans la série "Bibliothèque des sciences morales et politiques", br.orig., 19cm., très peu de rousseurs, bon état, F80354‎

‎La liberté‎

‎Paris, Guillaumin et cie. 1877 323pp., 3e édition revue et précédée d'un avant-propos du traducteur, dans la série "Bibliothèque des sciences morales et politiques", reliure cart. (charnière peu restaurée), 19cm., peu de rousseurs, quelques cachets ex-libris de E. de Radetzky, F80620‎

‎La liberté‎

‎Paris, Guillaumin et cie. 1864 xix + 304pp., 2e édition revue et précédée d'un avant-propos du traducteur, dans la série "Bibliothèque des sciences morales et politiques", 19cm., br.orig., quelques rousseurs, bon état, F80520‎

‎Over vrijheid‎

‎Amsterdam, Boom Meppel 1978 187pp., 21cm., in de reeks "Boom klassiek" vol.10, linnen band, 2 stempeltjes, mooie staat, F73371‎

‎A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive. Being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation. Books I-III.‘Collected works VII’.‎

‎Routledge, 1996 gr. in-8vo, CVXII + 638 p., frontispice, original clothbound / reliure en toile originale.‎