Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, in Three Volumes: Vol. I; Vol. II: Common Place Books; Vol. III: Common Place Books

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1872. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards a bit rubbed, dealer label, pencil note, and bookplate of Charles H. Spencer on front endpapers. Bindings tight, text clean and unmarked. 1872 Half-Leather. 209 pp. Brown leather spines and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Often called the 'father of scientific history,' Buckle was a skilled chess player, and left his History of Civilization unfinished upon his death. This set includes a biographical notice by Helen Taylor, together with a selection of historical, political, and philosophical essays on topics such as John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty,' British nobility, physiology and climate science, manners in the seventeenth century, slavery, Calvinism, economics, etc.