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ROETHLISBERGER, Fritz Jules and William J.
DICKSON. Management and the worker.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1939.
First edition, the famous ‘Hawthorne study’ of Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo (who provides a preface), carried out on willing employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne branch, this book being dedicated to those employees. The researchers tested numerous short-term variables such as...
£200
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1908.
First edition, an uncommonly appealing copy. Simmel ‘had laid the foundations for the discipline of sociology long before Max Weber [who has essentially eclipsed him in the history of the discipline] turned to the problem of sociology as a special subject … The aim of sociology was to describe the...
£200
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SMITH, Samuel Stanhope.
An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added,...
New-Brunswick, Simpson, and New York, Williams and Whiting, 1810.
‘Second edition, enlarged and improved’, really the third and enlarged American edition, first printed in Philadelphia in 1787. Smith was very much still alive and involved; in the preface he acknowledges his debt to the anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, whose works he was unaware of when...
£225
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TARDE, Gabriel.
Psychologie Économique.
Paris, Alcan, 1902.
First edition, scarce. Tarde believed in the necessity of social harmony for viable economic activity, arguing that economic growth and innovation, like any form of social progress, is dependent on leisure, since it is leisure that encourages interactions between individuals and the formation of a social...
£250
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VEBLEN, Thorstein.
The higher learning in America. A memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men.
New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1918.
First edition. Veblen’s project for the ideal university, and consequent criticism of American universities for being something different. He describes the dominance of American universities by business interests, making academic communities subservient to concerns of accountancy and conformity, all...
£150
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WATSON, John B.
Animal education, an experimental study on the physical development of the white rat, correlated with the growth...
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1903.
First edition, scarce, of this foundational work of behaviourist psychology or what Watson coined as ‘behaviorism’, this being his PhD thesis completed under J. R. Angell and H. H. Donaldson at Chicago. It details the physical development of the white rat’s central nervous system, and its neurological...
£250
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BAIN, Alexander.
On the study of character including an estimate of phrenology.
London, Parker, Son and Bourn, West Strand, 1861.
First edition. On the study of character offers an insight into the psychological and phrenological theories of polymath Alexander Bain, Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, whose work spanned philosophy, logic, linguistics, psychology and educational reform, inter alia. Though most claims...
£150
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[BEATTIE, James.]
FORBES, Sir William. An account of the life and writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy...
New York and Philadelphia, Isaac Riley and Co. and William F. McLaughlin, 1806.
First American edition. James Beattie was author of The Essay on Truth (1770) and Elements of Moral Science (1790-93), in which he argued against the institution of slavery, but he was also a poet, known principally for The Minstrel (1771-74). This work prints over two hundred letters, the recipients...
£225
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BONNET, Victor.
WALKER, George, translator. The example of France. Two essays on the payment of the indemnity, and the management...
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
First edition in English. In the first of these two essays, which appeared in the Revue des deux mondes in 1873, Bonnet provided an account of how France was successfully paying the enormous sum demanded from the Prussians at the end of the Franco-Prussian War: 5,000,000,000 francs. The second essay...
£150
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BROOKLYN ETHICAL ASSOCIATION.
[Cover title: Evolution]. Man and the State. Studies in applied sociology. Popular lectures and discussions...
[N.p., n.d., n.d.].
First edition. A more broadly political collection including essays on economics, racerelations, the Democratic and Republican parties, and suffrage. This copy likely belonged to George Clement Perkins, a Republican Governor of California from 1880-1883, and a Senator in Washington from 1893, which is...
£150
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CALVERT, George Henry.
Introduction to social science. A discourse in three parts.
New York, Redfield, 1856.
First edition, rare in commerce. George Calvert (1803-89) was a journalist, traveller, and writer, and was the first American author to produce biographies of Goethe and Wordsworth. Calvert held the position of Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Baltimore.
£200
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CAREY, H.
C. The British Treaties of 1871 & 1874: letters to the President of the United States.
Philadelphia, Collins, 1875.
First edition of a pamphlet which marks the completion of the arc in Carey’s thinking regarding bilateral trade deals, described in his time as ‘reciprocity’ arrangements. Having endorsed such deals early in his career as acts that promoted free trade, in the 1840s and 1850s Carey came to believe...
£175
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to painting and sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George Combe (1788-1858) was a Scottish lawyer and a leading exponent of phrenology, co-founding in 1820 the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. This is an art historical retrospective using phrenology as the basis for an understanding of beauty and artistic ability, one...
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste, 1892-1894.
A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1830-1842, disseminated by the Positivist Society as a fitting memorial to the author, whose original work, as stated by the editor’s preface, was already very difficult to obtain.
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Appel aux conservateurs. Prix: trois francs.
Paris, Chez l’Auteur et chez Dalmont, Août 1855.
First edition of Comte’s ‘appeal to conservatives’, a briefer and logical exposition of the Positivist system than the Cours. The folding tables depict the positivist structure and the positivist calendar. Comte was seeking a system of logic in which the very explanation of the ideal would be tantamount...
£500
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COMTE, Auguste.
Lettres d’Auguste Comte a M. Valat.
Paris, Dunod, éditeur, successeur de Dalmont, Juillet 1870.
First edition thus, Comte’s letters written to Philippe Valat, a disciple of whom little seems to be known. He was a professor of mathematics at Montpellier and rector of a church at Rhodez. The letters, all of them from Comte to Valat, are sometimes highbrow but mostly show Comte simply discussing...
£125
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COMTE, Auguste.
CONGREVE, Richard, editor and S. LOBB, translator. The eight circulars of Auguste Comte. Translated...
London, Trübner & Co., 1882.
First edition, the first appearance in English. Comte’s ‘circulars’ are fundraising essays, addressed to the patrons who subscribed to positivist funds. Congreve was a founder of the London Positivist Society in 1867, and promoted a specifically religious interpretation of the positivist philosophy,...
£150
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COMTE, Auguste.
DESCOURS, Paul and H. Gordon JONES, translators. The fundamental principles of the positive philosophy....
London, Watts, 1905.
First edition thus, rare in commerce. The introduction is by Edward Spencer Beesly, an English positivist who was acquainted with Marx. In 1893 he founded the Positivist Review. He describes this as the first instalment in a more complete translation of Comte’s Philosophie Positive than...
£80
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COMTE, Auguste.
HARRISON, Frederic, editor. The new calendar of great men. Biographies of the 558 worthies of all ages and...
London and New York, Macmillan, 1892.
First edition of a positivist collection of biographies drawn from Comte’s thirteen-month calendar of eminent men in history. This is not one for feminists; though in leap-years, an additional day is generously provided for ‘good women’ (and another for ‘all the dead’). Harrison was tutored...
£175
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[COMTE, Auguste.]
LEWES, George Henry. Comte’s philosophy of the sciences: being an exposition of the Cours de philosophie positive...
London, Bohn, 1853.
First edition. Lewes brings Comte’s philosophy to a new audience in England, where Comte’s reputation is on the rise, and updates the scientific context to include all the ‘very latest facts and ideas’. Lewes had no formal scientific training but from around 1853 onwards he took an active interest...
£175