Mill Collection from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

MILL,John Stuart. The Contest in America. Reprinted from Fraser's Magazine. Second edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company 1862 Small octavo, original grey printed paper covers, pp.32, a fine copy. First separate publication. £150

J S Mill's step-daughter and 'chief comfort' HELEN TAYLOR [1831-1907] autograph letter signed to Mrs S Woolcott Browne (?) Avignon 12 March 1891 16.5 x 10.5 cm, 3 pages, autograph letter in ink, paper embossed at head HT, a few blemishes and holes to the second leaf where formerly mounted, otherwise in good condition. £1,100 [plus VAT if applicable] Helen Taylor, feminist, was… Read more about this item

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Vol.III. London, John W Parker and Son 1867 Octavo, original publishers cloth, rubbed and worn, upper cover with The Cork Library printed paper label, spine laid down lettered gilt, pp.(4), 379, 24 adverts., library stamp of Cork Library on the title. £350 First edition of… Read more about this item

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. London, John W Parker and Son 18592 volumes octavo, original publishers brown cloth, a little faded, spines lettered gilt, a little wear to the hinges, pp.vi, (ii), 474, (6) adverts; (iv), 563, (1), ownership in ink on both titles Isabella Sanders 1870, a… Read more about this item

1. MILL,John Stuart. OгюстЪ Контъ и Πоложительная. Изложеніе и Изслъдованіе Ѓ.Ѓ.Дьюиса и Д.С.Милля. Переводъ џоџъ редакџіеи Н.Неклюдова и Н.Тиσлена. St Petersburg 1867 Octavo, 2 parts, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine with four raised bands and title gilt, pp. (iv), xiv, iv, 370, 184, (1) index, (1) blank, bookplate of Kelecius on front pastedown and his… Read more about this item

MILL,John Stuart. A képviseleti kormány. A Második Kiadás után Magyarra forditotta Jánosi Ferencz. Pest, Emich Gusztáv Tulajdona, 1867 Octavo, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.(4), 350, (1), title and final leaf browned. First edition in Hungarian. Very rare. [no copy in copac]

MILL,John Stuart. Kvindernes Underkuelse. Paa Dansk ved G.Brandes. Kjøbenhavn, Forlagt af den Gyldendalske Boghandel 1869 Octavo, contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine lettered gilt, hinges cracked, (2), ix, (1)blank, 186 bookplate, a fine copy. First edition in Danish. Georg Brandes [1842-1927] was a well-known Danish critic and scholar. Very rare [no copy in copac]

MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862 Octavo, quarter cloth and boards, morocco label lettered gilt, pp.(4),5-354, title damp stained. First edition in Swedish. Rare, no copy in Copac.

First edition in German, translated by the political economist Adolph Soetbeer [1814-1892]. This edition is more than a translation; it is an elaboration, with contradictions discarded or reconciled. It includes an appendix, an extensive bibliography, and statistical tables. "As far as I have had time to examine it the translations seems extremely well executed: the sense appears to be very faithfully… Read more about this item

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865 Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank… Read more about this item

[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858 Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2). MacMinn, p.90 FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. Of this Memorandum Mill wrote in his manuscript of the bibliography of his writings of this I was partly… Read more about this item

Octavo, 13.5 x 21.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, embossed JSM initials on writing paper, lightly dust-soiled, slight creasing and chipping at fore-edge, repaired without loss. £3,500 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable] A very fine political letter to Edmond Beales, relating to one of the most notable episodes in Mill's later political career. In it, Mill outlines his reasons for favouring… Read more about this item

Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65. £4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable] Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation… Read more about this item

Large octavo, 20.5 x 13.0 cm, 3 pages in French in ink. £2,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable] Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin (1801-1864) was co-founder of the Journal des Economistes in 1842 and was publisher of the French translation from the third edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Representative Government and Charles Dupont-White (1807-1878) was the French economist who… Read more about this item