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Positivist Thought in France During the Second Empire 1852-1870
by Charlton, D. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 251pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine in original printed price-clipped dust jacket. Charlton examines the fortunes of positivist thought during the period of its greates influence in nineteenth-century France. Minor staining on boards, tail of spine slightly bumped. Dj spine and outer edges sunned. Tight copy with dust jacket and binding in good+, interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30970
- Title
- Positivist Thought in France During the Second Empire 1852-1870
- Author
- Charlton, D. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- 19th century france, social science, scientism, sociology, western philosophy, french politics, french government, emile littre, claude bernard, comte, renan, taine, french second empire
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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- Device
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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