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Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: uk2nd.editiom.(1865) good only. detached cover,marble fep missing o/w clean tight copy.ribbed spine.original boards. 562 pages.
Seller: S.Carter, NEWPORT, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: viii, 560 pp. Hardcover, bound in contemporary calf over marbled boards. A former library copy with late 19th c. labels. The binding rubbed, its rear joint cracked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.69 + shipping
Description: VIII, 560 S. Gr. 8°, gold- u. blindgepr. Ln., vorne Buntpapiervorsatz mit Namenszug, Bögen unbeschnitten. Einband berieben, bestoßen, Lichtschäden, rauher Schnitt; im vord. Vorsatz Fristenzettel, hinten fehlt flieg. Vors.-bl. Stockfl. vor allem in Vors. u. Titelei. Englischer Text. Bibliotheksexemplar in noch ordentlichem Zustand mit den üblichen Kennzeichen in Vorsatz u. Titel. 1200 gr.
Seller: Gloria Mortzeck, Karlsdorf, Germany
Price: US$76.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Original publisher's cloth with the Edmonds & Remnants small tab to the rear pastedown, 560 printed pages. Bumped and scuffed to the corners and spine ends, frayed to the spine, someone has decided to stick the spine to the book at some time in the past so it no longer has a hollow-back, chipped to the top corner of the title page (no loss of text), name in pencil to the top of the title page, a few pencilled notes to the text.
Seller: Knights Rare Books (Est. 1994), Glastonbury, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Viii, 560 pp. Octavo. Original plum cloth with decorative border stamped in blind, gilt title to spine. Corners are rubbed, spine cover is age-darkened and worn with cracks and losses. Original brown endpapers. Small minor stain on the verso of the half title, otherwise text is clean and unmarked, only occasional foxing or age darkening. The first edition of this important work by Mill. "It was because he regarded the writings and sayings of Sir William Hamilton as the great fortress of intuitional philosophy in Great Britain that Mill undertook to counter his pretensions." The book is still quite sound but priced low to reflect the condition of the spine covering. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 560 pages
Seller: Leaf and Stone Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$735.77 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. viii, 560 pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers panelled in blind, brown coated endpapers, edges untrimmed (light wear to extremities, spine faded and gently creased at tips, notwithstanding a very good copy). London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. Mill's devastating, book-length critique of the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton's (1788-1856) Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860), regarded by many as Mill's ?most serious onslaught on transcendental belief? (ODNB). Although Hamilton's philosophy is now little-known, the book contains various themes central to Mill's thought, including: ?Mill?s analysis of Matter in terms of 'permanent possibilities of sensation', his confessedly abortive analysis of personal identity in similarly phenomenalist terms, his analysis of free-will and responsibility, and his ringing declaration that he would not bow his knee to worship a God whose moral worth he was required to take on trust - all these still find their place in contemporary discussions of empiricism? (Alan Ryan, Introduction to Vol. IX of Mill's Collected Works). Provenance: contemporary ownership inscription of 'J. M. Marshall' to recto of front free endpaper; later ownership inscription of Ernest Thorp, Professor of Modern and Political Thought at the London School of Economics, dated 'Cambridge, 1959' to verso of front free endpaper. MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 96.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. viii, 560 pp. Original plum cloth with ornamental blind-stamped borders on the covers, gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Spine with some external repairs, but still an unusually nice, tight copy of a typical hefty 19th century book in its original cloth that is very prone to wear.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1 leaf + half-title + TP + [vi]-viii + [1]-560 + 1 leaf, Octavo. First Edition (McMinn, p. 96).The book is a review in detail of the intuitional philosophical position held by Hamilton which Mill attacks and counters with a positive statement of Utilitarian philosophy.Mill's most famous pronouncement on religion occurs here in his discussion of Mansel's use of Hamilton's view that we cannot know the absolute: "I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures, and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go." Original dark brown covers with gilt lettering on spine. The spine tips have been professionally and sympathetically repaired. A ¾" hole from an old erasure has been similarly repaired. There is a signature and date (May 1865) on the half-title. Light, occasional pencil marginalia to the first 33 pages. A very good copy of this important work by Mill. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Seller: Athena Rare Books ABAA, Fairfield, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, in the publisher's original oxblood-brown cloth paneled on the boards in blind and gilt lettered on the spine. Neat private name on half-title, and minor sunning to the spine, otherwise about a fine copy. FIRST EDITION OF MILL'S ATTACK ON SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY. To the destruction of Hamiltons philosophical reputation, Mills Examination contributed a great deal. Mark Pattison, reviewing the Examination in The Reader, exclaimed: "The effect of Mr Mills review is the absolute annihilation of all Sir W. Hamiltons doctrines, opinions, of all he has written or taught. Nor of himself only, but all his followers, pupils, copyists, are involved in the common ruin. The whole fabric of the Hamiltonian philosophy is not only demolished, but its very stones are ground to powder. Where once stood Sebastopol bidding proud defiance to rival systems is now a coast barren and blue, sandheaps behind and sandhills before." Within this text Mill also expounds his most important ideas on religion. "The Book focused the whole controversial energy of the period belonging to the two opposed schools, the intuitional and the empirical. it became the leading text-book of that psychological philosophy which had been adumbrated by Hume. It is a work that shows Mill's powers at their most mature state".
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1566.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. pp. viii, 560. complete with half-title. A fine untrimmed & partly unopened copy in original blind & gilt-stamped plum cloth (former owner's name-stamp on title, faint foxing to half-title, final leaf & free-endpapers). First Edition. It is in the present work that Mill makes his most famous pronouncement on religion. Discussing the use made by one of Hamilton's philosophical followers, Henry Mansel, of Hamilton's view that we cannot know the Absolute, Mill criticized in particular Mansel's theory that even the moral terms we apply to God do not mean what they mean when we apply them to men. Mill not only objected to this theory on logical grounds, but argued that a being, no matter how powerful, whose acts are not sanctioned by the highest human morality conceivable, is not deserving of worship: "I will call no being good.who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures, and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go." "The book focused the whole controversial energy of the period belonging to the two opposed schools, the intuitional and the empirical.it became the leading text-book of that psychological philosophy which had been adumbrated by Hume. It is a work that shows Mill's powers at their most mature state." (Sorley, History of English Philosophy) Jessop p. 138. NCBEL III 1552. Rand I p. 373. cfEinaudi 3900 (5th edn. only)
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada