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gibbets, and cauterizations, and whipping posts, and gaols in this kingdoms, and would render these kind of disciplines less necessary and less frequent” (preface). A lovely copy of one of the most important early treatments of the subject, written about 1659 but first published in 1683, seven years after Hale’s death. A 26-page octavo edition was also published the same year, priority not established. Duodecimo (145 × 86 mm). Recent quarter calf and drab boards, red morocco label to spine. Top edge cut a little close, fore and lower margins uncut. Some dust-soiling, else a very good copy. ¶ Kress 1580; Wing H241. See Goldsmiths’ 2533 for the 26-page version. £3,750 [136337] 73 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Law, Legislation and Liberty . . . Volume 1: Rules and Order. Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice. Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973–79 The culmination of his philosophical career First US editions, first impressions, of each volume of Hayek’s last major work of social philosophy, published over a seven- year period. In many ways the culmination of his philosophical career, Law, Legislation and Liberty was Hayek’s most extensive philosophical analysis of the structure of society, the nature of justice, and the underlying principles of economics. The work joins The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty in the triumvirate of Hayek’s three philosophical masterworks. The US and UK editions, both printed in Britain, were published the same years, apparently simultaneously. 3 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt on blue grounds. With dust jackets. Endpapers and facing leaves of vol. I
foxed, neat ownership signature dated 2005 to front free endpaper of vol. III; jackets slightly toned with light sunning to spine panels, very minor spotting to verso and flaps. Notwithstanding a near-fine set. ¶ Cody & Ostrem B–15, B–16, B–18. £2,750 [144233] 74 HEARD, Gerald. These Hurrying Years. London: Chatto & Windus, 1934 First edition, first impression, scarce in the dust jacket. An attempt to write a “history of our own times” and to determine the underlying causes of modern events, by the British author and philosopher Gerald Heard (1889–1971), whose innovative works examined history in the context of humankind’s evolving consciousness. Heard’s conclusion, that “we have reached a point of development upon which posterity may look as a crisis in the progress of civilization” was, in 1933, remarkably prescient. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in white, top edge green. With dust jacket. A little rubbed and darkened at the edges of the covers, spine faded particularly at the head and tail, spine titles flaking, spotting to endpapers but otherwise contents clean and fresh. A very good copy in the like jacket, rubbed and nicked, closed tear to the fold of the tanned spine panel repaired with tape on verso. £375 [68865]
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