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  1. COMTE, Auguste.

    Appel aux conservateurs. Prix: trois francs.

    Paris, Chez l’Auteur et chez Dalmont,...

    First edition of Comte’s ‘appeal to...

    £500

  2. HOWARD, John.

    An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...

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

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

    £575

  3. MORGAN, Lewis Henry.

    Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines...

    New York, Holt, 1877. 

    First edition. Morgan’s influential work...

    £400

  4. MALTHUS, T. R.

    Principles of political Economy considered...

    London, John Murray, 1820.

    First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

    £5000

  5. MALTHUS, T. R.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

    London, John Murray, 1817.

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

    £2200

  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...

    £4000

  7. CARNEGIE, Andrew.

    The Empire of Business.

    New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.

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

    £600

  8. KANT, Immanuel.

    Immanuelis Kantii opera ad philosophiam...

    Leipzig, for Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert,...

    First Latin translation of Kant’s Critique...

    £2500

  9. CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

    La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.

    Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.

    Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s...

    £500

  10. [QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.

    Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle...

    Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.

    First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the...

    £27000

  11. CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de.

    Esquisse d’un tableau historique des...

    Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].

    First edition of Condorcet’s epoch-making...

    £2200

  12. GODWIN, William.

    Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and...

    London, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796.

    Second, much-revised edition, ‘differ[ing]...

    £1200

  13. ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.

    [half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau....

    Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.

    Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected...

    £1150

  14. [RUSSELL, William].

    The History of modern Europe. With an Account...

    London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and...

    Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened...

    £1950

  15. WAYLAND, Francis.

    The Elements of political Economy.

    New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837. 

    First edition of an important work long...

    £500

  16. MILL, John Stuart.

    A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive,...

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

    Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph...

    £1000

  17. WEBER, Max.

    Der Sozialismus.

    Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.

    First edition of Weber’s early and influential...

    £300

  18. DEAN STIFF [pseud. of Nels ANDERSON].

    The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos.

    New York, The Vanguard Press, 1930.

    First edition, with authorial gift inscription,...

    £400

  19. FLORI, Lodovico.

    Trattato del modo di tenere il libro doppio...

    Rome, Lazzari Varese, 1677.

    Rare sole reissue of the even rarer first...

    £2250

  20. [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]

    De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que...

    Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].

    First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s...

    £25750