Recent Acquisitions

  1. [ALMANACK.]

    The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...

    London, R. Baldwin, 1761.

    An interesting and extremely rare account...

    £850

  2. MILL, John Stuart.

    A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive,...

    London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,...

    Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph...

    £1000

  3. LE PLAY, Frédéric.

    Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].

    Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879. 

    Second, greatly enlarged edition. This...

    £750

  4. KEYNES, John Maynard.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest...

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 

    First American edition (includes the Erratum...

    £300

  5. MURDOCH, Iris.

    Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

    Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

    First edition, the first published book...

    £200

  6. [BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

    Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in...

    Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...

    Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...

    £650

  7. LAUDERDALE, James Maitland.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of...

    and London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804.

    First edition. Lauderdale ‘was the first...

    £900

  8. MANDEVILLE, Bernard.

    The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices,...

    London, Wishart and Co., 1934.

    First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable...

    £190

  9. HICKS, J. R.

    The Theory of Wages.

    London, MacMillan and Co, 1932.

    First edition, scarce on the market, of...

    £200

  10. CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

    La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.

    Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.

    Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s...

    £500

  11. CARNEGIE, Andrew.

    The Empire of Business.

    New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.

    First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement...

    £600

  12. MALTHUS, T. R.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

    London, John Murray, 1817.

    Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’,...

    £2200

  13. MALTHUS, T. R.

    Principles of political Economy considered...

    London, John Murray, 1820.

    First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

    £5000

  14. MORGAN, Lewis Henry.

    Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines...

    New York, Holt, 1877. 

    First edition. Morgan’s influential work...

    £400

  15. HOWARD, John.

    An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...

    Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly...

    First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine...

    £575

  16. COMBE, George.

    Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

    London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.

    First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

    £350

  17. [PRATT, Samuel].

    The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made...

    London, Bonwick, 1696. 

    First and only edition. William Lowndes...

    £575

  18. COMTE, Auguste.

    Cours de philosophie positive.

    Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

    First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s...

    £1600

  19. FERGUSON, Adam.

    An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

    Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768. 

    Third edition, corrected: the edition owned...

    £700

  20. MARINO, Giambattista; Gasparo MURTOLA.

    La Murtoleide fischiate del cavalier Marino...

    ‘Norinbergh’ [i.e. Venice], Ioseph...

    Rare first edition of these Baroque burlesque...

    £900