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Human Sciences at Quaritch embraces a wide range of books and manuscripts documenting the history of ideas from the earliest times up to about 1960. Our strengths are in the history of economic thought and in philosophy, but we also deal in law; finance and banking (including speculation, actuarial science and insurance); politics and political theory; sociology; psychology; agriculture; education; logic; and the theory of language.

Some notable items which have recently passed through our hands include the only known copy of the Communist Manifesto inscribed by Karl Marx, Rudolf Carnap’s annotated copy of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung), Joseph Penso de la Vega’s Confusion de Confusiones (1688, the first book to describe the practice of a stock-exchange) and a copy of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (4th edition, 1786), inscribed in Smith's own hand to Bonnie Prince Charlie's private secretary.

As well as dealing in individual books and manuscripts, we also offer collections. In recent years we have sold author collections of Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Thorstein Veblen, Emile Durkheim and Jeremy Bentham. Among subject collections we have offered are the Herwood Library of accounting literature (including Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, 1494, the first printed exposition of double-entry book-keeping); the philosophy of language; texts pertaining to the theory and study of language in the West, and the history of probability - the calculus of probabilities, statistics and their applications.

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  1. [CARLYLE.]

    Illustrated memorial Volume of the Carlyle’s...

    London, The Carlyle’s House Memorial...

    First edition of an uncommon commemorative...

    £325

  2. CARNAP, Rudolf.

    1959 & 1962.

    The first photograph shows Carnap and his...

    £1500

  3. [CARTOUCHE.]

    The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique...

    London, printed for J. Roberts … 1722.

    First edition in English, published in...

    £1750

  4. CASAUBON, Meric.

    A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it...

    London, R.D. for Thomas Johnson, 1655...

    First edition of the first separate treatise...

    £1750

  5. CASTELLESI, Adriano.

    Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

    A fine sammelband of theological works,...

    £1750

  6. [CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

    Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

    Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

    First edition in French, translated from...

    £3000

  7. [CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

    Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

    Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

    First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

    £375

  8. ‘CHAFF, Gumbo’ [pseud. Elias HOWE].

    The Ethiopian Glee Book; a Collection of...

    Boston, Elias Howe, 1848 [– 1849].

    First editions of all three parts – a...

    £2000

  9. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  10. [CHAPBOOK.]

    Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death,...

    London: Printed by Augustus Applegath...

    An uncommon early chapbook from the press...

    £225

  11. [CHAPBOOK.]

    The Patriarch: an Account of a Family in...

    London and Bristol, Wright, Allis, & Bagnall,...

    Unrecorded. ‘This interesting article...

    £950

  12. [CHARITY.]

    Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

    Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

    Very rare work detailing the regulations...

    £850

  13. [CHARITY.]

    Costituzioni della Congregazione della...

    Parma, Stamperia Reale, [1778].

    Uncommon set of constitutions for the Congregazione...

    £300

  14. CHERUBINI, Luigi.

    Autograph note signed ‘L. Cherubini’...

    [Paris,] 19 December 1825.

    A short note in which the composer and...

    £350

  15. CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of.

    Letters written … to his Son, Philip...

    London: Printed for Dodsley … 1777.

    Eighth edition, a very pretty set.

    £250

  16. CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

    ‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...

    [Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

    A manuscript treatise concerning the three...

    £375

  17. CHEVRET, Jean.

    Épitre a l’humanité et a la patrie...

    [Paris?], au temple de la vérité, 1789.

    A good copy of this rare essay on the workings...

    £275

  18. CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

    [Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis...

    Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

    First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...

    £2800

  19. CIGAULD, Vincent.

    Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

    (Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

    Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

    £2500

  20. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (Titus Flavius CLEMENS); Gentian HERVET, translator.

    Omnia opera.

    Paris, Sebastien Nivelle, 1572.

    A thoroughly annotated copy of this early...

    £4750