signed
1896 · Paris :
by HALEVY, Elie (1870-1937).
Paris :: Germer Baillière et cie, Felix Alcan, 1896., 1896. 8vo. [II], XL, 378, [2] pp. Later red cloth, gilt-stamped spine titles. SIGNED BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE, bookplate of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good. SIGNED BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE. After studying at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Halevy received his doctorate in philosophy in 1901 with the theses La Theorie platonicienne des sciences [The Platonic Theory of Knowledge and The Origins of Philosophical Radicalism], 1896 (this book). The latter formed the base of his first major study, La Formation du radicalisme philosophique [The Formation of English Philosophical Radicalism] (3 vols., 1901–1904).
(Inventory #: S14316)