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HOWARD, John.
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various Papers relative to the Plague: together with further...
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly and Taylor, 1789.
First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine hospitals for victims of infectious diseases throughout Europe. This work, illustrated with 22 plans and views of hospitals, was the continuation of Howard’s investigative reporting which had begun when he served as High Sheriff, with his State...
£575
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MORGAN, Lewis Henry.
Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization.
New York, Holt, 1877.
First edition. Morgan’s influential work was considered by Marx and Engels to be putatively supportive of materialist history. Marx’s notes on this book were reputedly the source for Engels’s Origins of the Family, of private Property and the State, published in German in 1844. Morgan...
£400
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MALTHUS, T. R.
Principles of political Economy considered with a View to their practical Application.
London, John Murray, 1820.
First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment of issues in political economy, an attractive copy from the library of the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£5000
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MALTHUS, T. R.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its past and present Effects on human Happiness; with an...
London, John Murray, 1817.
Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’, of one of the most influential works in the history of economic thought, a handsome copy owned and possibly annotated by the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£2200
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[CATHERINE the Great of Russia]. BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].
Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonnés par sa majesté impériale Catherine II. pour l’éducation de la jeunesse, et l’utilité générale...
Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.
First edition in French, translated from the Russian originals of 1764–7, of Catherine the Great’s plans for the Enlightened reform of education in her empire. The large engraved plans, the tables and the allegorical vignettes strike a compelling balance between a utopian and a practical vision...
£4000
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CARNEGIE, Andrew.
The Empire of Business.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.
First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement printed on the copyright page) of this elegantly printed collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie, one of America’s most notable industrialists and philanthropists.
£600
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KANT, Immanuel.
Immanuelis Kantii opera ad philosophiam criticam. Volumen primum, cui inest Critica rationis purae Latine vertit...
Leipzig, for Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert, 1796.
First Latin translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, extensively annotated by a contemporary critical hand. The translation, by the philosopher and Kantian apostle Friedrich Gottlob Born (1743–1807) was published during Kant’s lifetime, and was the first into any language of...
£2500
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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.
La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.
Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.
Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s great early utopia Civitas solis.
£500
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[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.
Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement...
Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.
First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the Physiocrats and one of the most important and original works on political economy to be published before the Wealth of Nations.
£27000
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CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de.
Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’espirit humain.
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s epoch-making definition of progress, the summation of the Enlightenment belief in man’s perfectibility, the outline which provided humanity with a view of its own history as a narrative of progress and emancipation.
£2200
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GODWIN, William.
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on general Virtue and Happiness.
London, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
Second, much-revised edition, ‘differ[ing] in many important particulars from the first’ (author’s statement, see below; first edition 1793) of ‘one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialism and anarchist doctrine.
£1200
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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.
[half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau. Tome neuvieme. Contenant les …] Lettres écrites de...
Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.
Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected edition of Rousseau’s works to be published by Rey (1762–1764), and printed the same year as the first edition, using a reprinted title-page conjugate with the half-title present here, and without the errata leaf.
£1150
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[RUSSELL, William].
The History of modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the...
London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and Sewell, 1779.
Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened history’. This first edition was published in the same year as a Dublin imprint. Two further volumes were issued in 1784, and the whole work issued as a five-volume set in 1786.
£1950
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WAYLAND, Francis.
The Elements of political Economy.
New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837.
First edition of an important work long held as the leading principal economics text in American colleges. Wayland (1796–1865) was for twenty-eight years president of Brown University. ‘His notions of political economy and philanthropy dictated that the most important obligations of the state...
£500
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MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the...
London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868.
Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph letter and printed presentation slip.
£1000
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WEBER, Max.
Der Sozialismus.
Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.
First edition of Weber’s early and influential lecture articulating the author’s sceptical view on socialism.
£300
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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, of a landmark of sociological studies: a classic which blurs genre distinctions blending raw travel storytelling, sharp social insight, and practical know-how, unveiling the hidden network of America’s transient labourers.
£400
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FLORI, Lodovico.
Trattato del modo di tenere il libro doppio domestico col suo esemplare … Per uso delle case, e collegii della...
Rome, Lazzari Varese, 1677.
Rare sole reissue of the even rarer first edition (Palermo, 1636) of ‘the highest expression of early bookkeeping. One has to reach the nineteenth century to find another author of Flori’s calibre’ (Peragallo).
£2250
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[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]
De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution...
Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].
First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s masterpiece of political theory asserting the principle of the separation of a government’s powers as a means to prevent tyranny: a principle which formed the ideological basis of the French and American revolutions and became the cornerstone of the...
£25750
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[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]
[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of...
[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin [i.e. 1782] and Jiaqing 23 [i.e. 1818].
A handsome set comprising the third and fourth series of ‘without question the best-known opus of Chinese color woodblock printing’ (Splashes of Color, pp. [2]–[3]).
£10000