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TAINE, H. Le Positivisme Anglais. Étude sur Stuart Mill. Paris, Germer Baillière 1864
Octavo, contemporary quarter blue cloth and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 157
First edition. Hippolyte Taine [1828-1893], French historian, critic and philosopher, who reviewed Mill's Hamilton "with boundless admiration". His deterministic theories, which held that man was the product of heredity, historical conditioning, and environment, became the theoretical basis for the naturalistic school.
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TAYLOR, Harriet (Mrs. John Stuart Mill) Enfranchisement of Women (appearing within) Westminster Review. 1851. New York: Published by Leonard Scott & Co, January, April, July, October, 1851.4 issues in one volume, octavo, contemporary quarter black morocco and marbled boards, pp.(4), 143-285, (1), 1-288, 1-140, iv, iv, small Burlington Vermont binder's ticket; small printed and period bookplate of James Dougherty of Johnson, Vermont. Dougherty's copy with his name, occasional scattered pencil marginalia throughout, (this may be a James Dougherty (1796-?) who was an Irish-born minister of some wealth living in Vermont as of 1850.) mildly rubbed and lightly scuffed; various gatherings evenly tanned; a few pages with minor foxing; a very good clean copy. First American edition. The July issue begins with and contains (pp. 149-161) a seminal work on woman suffrage by Harriet Taylor [1807-1858]. This is the American edition of the Westminster Review, first published in London in the same year. While… Read More

TENNANT, Charles Utilitarianism explained and exemplified in Moral and Political Government. London, Longman Green 1864Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, cloth faded, a little wear, pp.viii, 463, (1)adverts, an excellent copy.First and only edition ref:063