democracy america de tocqueville alexis translated henry reeve (9 résultats)

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. Janet Halverson (Cover Deisgn) (illustrateur). Unabridged Edition. 522 pp. Vol. 1 issue only! A great study or work or reading or research copy! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Occasional pen markings on text. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/ or international shipments.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint Edition. Very slight foxing to the page ends. DJ has tiny tears to the upper spine end and adjacent front edge. ; Volume Two only, out of Two.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. xxviii, 599 p.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 5th US Edition. Spine backstrip is missing a large piece from each end, including the title lettering. Covers have wear to the outer corners. Pages are slightly or very slightly browned. Owner's name written on the front free endpaper. ; Volume Two only, out of Two. Revised and corrected from the eighth Paris edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. 4th Edition. This 1845 printing is the "Fourth Edition Revised and Corrected, from the Eighth Paris Edition." Original blindstamped dark brown boards, while well worn to corners, remain well attached. However, 2/5ths of the spine covering ("backstrip") is missing, and what remains -- including the gilt author and title, and half the eagle -- was "positioned" for our scan but is actually "loose" -- this copy clearly requires a new spine covering, to which this original gilt title and author name could then presumably be "laid down." Although the text is never obscured or rendered hard to read, the interior text pages show considerable foxing to their edges, occasionally extending onto the text itself. This was the copy of T.L. Chadbourne, who (in addition to writing his name in pencil to original yellow FFE) has stamped "Chadbourne." in ink, now browned, to bottom of title page. T.L. Chadbourne was likely Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, an American lawyer who played a significant role in establishing multinational corporations during the 1920s and was involved in efforts to restore commodity prices after the Great Depression. He was the founder of the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, which was established in New York City in 1902. However, "T.L. Chadbourne" was also the name of the lieutenant after whom Fort Chadbourne, a United States Army reservation established in Texas in 1852, was named. The fort was established to protect from the Apache the western frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail route. Lieutenant, T.L. Chadbourne was killed in the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, the 1846 battle in which Gen. Zachary Taylor threw the larger Mexican army out of Texas. Laid in to this copy, oddly enough, is a 1953 Walter Lippmann column from the New York Herald Tribune, on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 494 pp. including the Appendices.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2 Volumes. Very Good matching hardbacks, publisher's original dark cloth bindings with gilt lettering and eagle with flags to the spines, and blind stamped to the front and back covers. No other markings have ever been added to the exterior of the books. Inside there's oval college stamps sporadically added. Fourth American Edition. Fourth Edition, revised and corrected from the Eighth Paris Edition.

First edition in English, of Tocquevilleâs magnum opus. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's cloth. Without the blank leaf between the appendix and notes in volume one. Likely a review copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Editor of the North American Review, with respects of Weeks Jordan & Co. Boston, Publisher." The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others. It was published continuously until 1940, after which it was inactive until revived at Cornell College in Iowa under Robert Dana in 1964. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. Ownership names. First editions are rare, particularly in the original publisher's cloth. âOne of the most important texts in political literatureâ (PMM). âThis is by far the best book ever written about America, and the most penetrating book ever written about democracy. It won instant acclaim, not only in the writerâs native France, where Royer-Collard declared: âNothing equal to it had appeared since Montesquieu,â but in England, where John Stuart Mill hailed it as âamong the most remarkable productions of our time.â Its central theme is that democracy has become inevitable; that it is, with certain qualifications, desirable; but that it has great potentialities for evil as well as good, depending upon how well it is understood and guided. In the view of de Tocqueville, the greatest danger that threatens democracy is its tendency toward the centralization and concentration of power⦠There is revived interest in Tocqueville today because of what seems like the uncanny clairvoyance of his prophecies. For example (this by a Frenchman in 1835): âThere are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to the Russians and the Americans⦠The principal instrument of [America] is liberty; of [Russia] servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globeâ (Hazlitt, 163).

First edition in English of Tocquevilleâs magnum opus. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters period calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, half-titles, folding engraved map. I very good condition. An attractive contemporary binding. âOne of the most important texts in political literatureâ (PMM). âThis is by far the best book ever written about America, and the most penetrating book ever written about democracy. It won instant acclaim, not only in the writerâs native France, where Royer-Collard declared: âNothing equal to it had appeared since Montesquieu,â but in England, where John Stuart Mill hailed it as âamong the most remarkable productions of our time.â Its central theme is that democracy has become inevitable; that it is, with certain qualifications, desirable; but that it has great potentialities for evil as well as good, depending upon how well it is understood and guided. In the view of de Tocqueville, the greatest danger that threatens democracy is its tendency toward the centralization and concentration of power⦠There is revived interest in Tocqueville today because of what seems like the uncanny clairvoyance of his prophecies. For example (this by a Frenchman in 1835): âThere are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to the Russians and the Americans⦠The principal instrument of [America] is liberty; of [Russia] servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globeâ (Hazlitt, 163).

HARD BACK. Etat : READING COPY ONLY. FOURTH ED. translated by Henry Reeve, Esq., with an original preface and notes by John C. Spencer Counsellor at Law, 4th edition revised and corrected from the 8th Paris edition, Vol 1 494 pgs, it contains color statistical map of N. America 1841 13 x 15" it's tape many years ago across the entire map, however it still unfolds & has many wrinkles, half of cloth spine missing, Vol 2 385 pgs, there is no map in volume and there is no sign of ever having a map, both books badly chipped and frayed at corners & at spine ends, gilt decorated spine, pages are badly foxed throughout DATE PUBLISHED: 1841 EDITION: FOURTH ED.