[COMTE, Auguste.]
LITTRÉ, Émile. Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive. Paris, Hachette, 1863.
8vo, pp. [4], [1 blank], 687, [1 blank]; slightly age-toned and with small waterstain to gutter of first few quires, otherwise a good copy in contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, one corner and edge of front board bumped and broken, otherwise good, spine with raised bands and lettered direct, gilt.
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LITTRÉ, Émile. Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive.
First edition. Littré, better-known as a philologer and compiler of French dictionaries, was a devoted positivist. This edition contains Comte’s correspondence with John Stuart Mill but also with Harriet Martineau, translator of the Cours de philosophie positive; an account of Comte’s influences; his life and the progress of positivism; and a critique of Comte’s classification of the sciences.