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John Stuart Mill.. Considerations on representative government . Second edition. Parker, Son, and Bourn,, 1861.

Price: US$51.97 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Some bending and wear to the cover edges. The book is very aged and feels used, sticker to the inside page, some of the content may have light pencil markings. Fine to read, and considering age a decent copy.

Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom

John Stuart Mill. Considerations on representative government. by John Stuart Mill. London. Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861., 1861.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: [From the library of Eugene A. Sekulow.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Gutters weakened. Corners bumped. Tears to spine ends. Blind stamps and owner's names on front end pages. viii, 340 p., 23 cm. Eugene A. Sekulow was a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was fluent in German. For more than 30 years, he was chairman of both the German American Chamber of Commerce and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of JHU. In 2006, in recognition of his efforts to foster post-war reconciliation between Germany and the United States, he was awarded Das GrosseVerdienstkreuz (the Great Cross of Merit) from the German government.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

STUART MILL, John. Considerations on Representative Government. Parker, son, and bourn, west strand, London, 1861.

Price: US$222.74 + shipping

Description: Tela ed. 340 pags. 1ªEd. Firma en página de respeto

Seller: LIBRERÍA GULLIVER, MADRID, Spain

Mill, John Stuart. CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. Parker, Son, and Bourn, London, 1861.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, viii, 347, [4] pages. In Very Good condition. Full binding of publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Chipping and some foxing on front and rear boards. Bumping to corners. Ex-library, with institution stamps throughout. Tearing and previous owner on front free endpaper, as well as stamp of previous bookseller. Age-toning and light foxing to textblock. Shelved in Case 13. 1371278. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

MILL John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. , 1861.

Price: US$1299.55 + shipping

Description: First edition. 8vo. viii, 340 pp. Nineteenth century half calf with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five single raised bands outlined in gilt, the second and fourth panels lettered in gilt on red and green morocco labels, the rest tooled in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. London, Parker, Son and Bourn. An attractively bound copy of the most important of Mill?s political works following On Liberty (1859), and his most substantial work on political institutions, Considerations on Representative Government ?discusses to what extent forms of government are a matter of choice, the criterion of a 'good form of government', and explains his belief that representative government is the best form of government because it demands the most from its citizens and encourages their development. For this reason he commended the plan for proportional representation . as 'among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government' (Sabine, p. 667). 'It is a wide-ranging book, and its interest lies as much in the discussion of general principles as in the particular recommendations regarding the ballot, proportional representation, and plural voting, not to mention the treatment of local government, federalism, and nationality' (IESS). 'The influence which Mill?s works exercised upon contemporary English thought can scarcely be overestimated. His own writings and those of his successors practically held the field during the third quarter of the 19th century and even later. Many of Mill?s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognise the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannise over a minority' (PMM 345). Provenance: from the library of Charles B. Farwell (1823-1903), U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois, with his engraved bookplate to the front pastedown. MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 93.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom