Spencer Herbert, Signed (17 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No edition or printing stated. Printed by John F. Cuneo Company, Chicago. Inscribed on front pastedown "To / Dorothy Dings Kohler / Elmwood / Kohler, Wisconsin / from / Herbert Spencer Simpson / 1955" . Book has light spine end wear, 92 pages. This volume is the first volume issued in the series written by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Tan cloth. 275pp. Short gift note inked on the dedication page, else a near fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No edition or printing stated. Printed by John F. Cuneo Company, Chicago. Inscribed on front pastedown "To / Dorothy Dings Kohler / from / Herbert Spencer Simpson" with 1957 date with a different pen. Introduction dated March 1957 with no copyright date, 118 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No edition or printing stated. Printed by John F. Cuneo Company, Chicago. Inscribed on front pastedown "To / Dorothy Dings Kohler / from / Herbert Spencer Simpson / 1957" Introduction dated April, 1957 with no copyright date, 104 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Octavo, 340 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is grey with black print. Price unclipped: "$2.95". Cover is illustrated, blue and black print. Detached front panel taped at front hinge, top rear fore corner torn off, light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has spotting to edges. Illustrated: color. Inscribed in ink by the Robbins and Zim on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P(ds). 1392813. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. With illustrations from photographs by the author (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st edition, 1929. A Good+ copy lacking dust jacket. 8vo., 304 pp., bound in decorated green cloth. INSCRIBED by author inside front cover. Spine is darkened, minor soiling to cloth. End papers toned, text unmarked.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in the prelims. Lacking dj, cover shows minor wear, rubbing, bumped corners, and fading. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. folio, signed by the author, , bookplate, good copy of the first regular edition, with dustjacketr, Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good + condition. Early American edition. Bookplate of Allene Gregory, author of "The French Revolution and the English Novel" and daughter of John M. Gregoryâ"the first Regent of the Illinois Industrial University. She also wrote a biography of her father. A copy inscribed to J. M. Gregory with kind regards from (?) C. L. Jummains". Four major sections examine "What knowledge is of most worth?"; Intellectual Education; Moral Education; and Physical Education. 8vo, xv, 283 pp, ads (xxviii). Dark green stamped cloth covers, with gilt title dulled at spine. Spine lightly rubbed. Internally, owner bookplate inside front cover and inscription at ffep.

Condition: Fine. No dj, as issued. 1st Edition. 23 x 26cm 32 black and white photographic reproductions, black boards. Edition limited to 250 copies, signed by the photographer. Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth. Introduction by Rick Poynor. Near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Signed. A Good copy in green cloth lettered in gold of this 566-page 1875 printing. Early bookplate inside the front cover stating that this is from the Elihu Thomson Collection of the Franklin Institute Library (given by Mrs. Elihu Thomson), and with the 1875 signature of Elihu Thomson, prominent 19th-century inventor and electrical engineer. Small spine label shadow, no other ex-libris markings. The binding is sound and the text is clean/unmarked. (Note: signed only by Thomson, not by Herbert Spencer.). Signed by Author(s). Book.

First edition, association copy of famed English philosopher Herbert Spencer's classic work on the evolution of society; presented and inscribed by him to Charles Darwin. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, dark green endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Charles Darwin with the Author's kind regards." English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist Herbert Spencer invented the expression "survival of the fittest" which he coined in his Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). A description of the mechanism of natural selection, in Principles of Biology, Spencer drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones: "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." Darwin responded positively to Alfred Russel Wallace's suggestion of using Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as an alternative to "natural selection", and adopted the phrase in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication published in 1868. In On the Origin of Species, he introduced the phrase in the fifth edition published in 1869, intending it to mean "better designed for an immediate, local environment" (Gould). Darwin wrote on page 6 of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication published in 1868, "This preservation, during the battle for life, of varieties which possess any advantage in structure, constitution, or instinct, I have called Natural Selection; and Mr. Herbert Spencer has well expressed the same idea by the Survival of the Fittest. The term 'natural selection' is in some respects a bad one, as it seems to imply conscious choice; but this will be disregarded after a little familiarity." He defended his analogy as similar to language used in chemistry, and to astronomers depicting the "attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets", or the way in which "agriculturists speak of man making domestic races by his power of selection." Spencer and Darwin were occasional correspondents and would regularly send each other copies of their latest works. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Charles Darwin's great grandson, Edward Darwin, gifting the book to a relative dated November 27th 1969. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Books from Darwin's library are very rare to the market. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. âIt is a function that no one has performed sinceâ (DSB). During his lifetime he was considered "the single most famous European intellectual" (Eriksen, 37). "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century" (Richards). Spencer's philosophies were heavily influenced by Darwin, he cites Darwin several times in this book and references On the Origin of Species as "one of the most influential scientific publications of recent times." Given the primacy which Spencer placed on evolution, his sociology might be described as social Darwinism mixed with Lamarckism. However, despite its popularity, this view of Spencer's sociology is mistaken. While his political and ethical writings had themes consistent with social Darwinism, such themes are absent in Spencer's sociological works, which focus on how processes of societal growth and differentiation lead to changing degrees of complexity in social organization. The evolutionary progression from simple, undifferentiated homogeneity to complex, differentiated heterogeneity was exemplified, Spencer argued, by the development of society. He developed a theory of two types of society, the militant and the industrial, which corresponded to this evolutionary progression. Militant society, structured around relationships of hierarchy and obedience, was simple and undifferentiated; industrial society, based on voluntary, contractually assumed social obligations, was complex and differentiated. Society, which Spencer conceptualised as a 'social organism' evolved from the simpler state to the more complex according to the universal law of evolution. Moreover, industrial society was the direct descendant of the ideal society developed in Social Statics, although Spencer now equivocated over whether the evolution of society would result in anarchism (as he had first believed) or whether it pointed to a continued role for the state, albeit one reduced to the minimal functions of the enforcement of contracts and external defense.

3 in hardcover. Orig. settings. 4 volumes : formats vary, as described. - Method of structural functionalism employing the hypothetical-deductive mode. De la division du travail social : etude sur l'organisation des societes superieures. 1st ed. Paris: Felix Alcan, 1893. [6], ix, 471 p.; 22.5 cm. Good ex-lib. black cloth under mottled green boards, front cover of wrapper bound in -- Les regles de la methode sociologique. 1st ed. Paris: Felix Alcan, 1895. viii, 186 p.; 18 cm. - with: Spencer, Herbert. Classification des sciences. Traduit par F. F. Rethore. Paris: Librairie Germer Bailliere, 1872. [3], ii, 171 p.; 18 cm. - with: Worms, Rene. Elements du philosophie scientifique et de philosophie morale. Paris: Hachette, 1891. viii, 114 p. Signed inscription by Worms: A mon eminent maitre M. Fernand Faure. Chafed and abraded quarter cinnamon cloth under marbled boards -- Le suicide : etude de sociologie. Paris : Felix Alcan, 1912. xii, 462 p.: planches I-VI (and many statistical tables) in text; 22 cm. (Bibliotheque de philosophie contemporaine) Second letterpress printing from the 1897 setting. Fair heavily edgeworn and detached green wrapper. Scattered pencilling -- Les formes elementaires de la vie religieuse : le systeme totemique en Australie. 1st ed. Paris: Felix Alcan, date 1912 effaced from title-page. [3], 647 p.: folding 'Carte ethnographique d'Australie' with tribal names in red; 22 cm. (Travaux de l'Annee sociologique) Firmly bound in quarter leather, head of spine torn and upper joint detached. Review by Clodius Piat of Institut catholique, septembre 1912, p. [944]-962, bound in. - bound after: Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. Les fonctions mentales dans les societes inferieures. 1st ed. Paris: Felix Alcan, date 1910 effaced from title-page. Fair to good condition, pages lightly toned but unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Author's edition in 15 volumes limited to 1000 copies. Includes THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY in three volumes, THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY in five volumes, THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY in three volumes, THE PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS in two volumes, EDUCATION: INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL, FIRST PRINCIPLES, and SOCIAL STATICS abridged and revised together with THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE. The first volume of Biology is slightly chipped at the head of the spine. In publisher's original rust colored half-leather and marble boards, with marbled endpapers. Title and decorative details stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edges gilt. Volume one, the first volume of PSYCHOLOGY, is signed by the author. Signed by Author. Signed.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A signed reprinted issue from the New Series of 'Typographica', containing only Charles Hasler's article on 18th and 19th-century stock blocks. No. 10 of the New Series, "Reprinted from Typographica". This copy only contains an article on the emergence of the printer's stock block by Charles Hasler.Signed by Hasler to the blank verso of the first leaf.Unbound, comprising eight leaves (p. 30-48), two of which are dual-spread. Held in the original wraps, matching the design of the original issue. With an additional glassine wrap.Illustrated throughout with engraved examples.Typographica was a typography and visual arts-focused journal founded and edited by Herbert Spencer, a British designer, writer, photographer and teacher. Unbound, comprising eight leaves, held in the original wraps. With a glassine wrapper. Externally, with minor fading and edge wear to the wraps. Pages are generally bright and clean, with light spotting concentrated to the margins. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Original-Leinen. Condition: Gut. dem unsignierten Buch liegt der ausgeschniittene Schluss eines Briefes bei ("very sincerely yours") signiert von dem englischen Philosophen und Soziologen Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). Spencer wandte als Erster die Evolutionstheorie auf die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung an und begründete damit den Evolutionismus, der als Vorläufer des Sozialdarwinismus angesehen wird. leichte Gebrauchspuren, Rücken etwqas lichtrandig und Ränder etwas beschädigt. with cut out end of a letter signed by author Size: 8°. Buch.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Portrait etching by Samuel Hollyer, 6 x 8 inches, of Spencer, whose works include "System of Synthetic Philosophy" and "Principles of Psychology." The engraving is signed in pencil by Hollyer (1826-1919), considered the last of the old school of American line-engravers, remembered for his landscapes, bookplates, and oft-reproduced portraits of famous historical figures. A stunning piece. Signed by Illustrator(s).