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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
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[MILDMAY, William, Sir.]
The Laws and Policy of England, relating to Trade, examined by the Maxims and Principles of Trade...
London, printed and sold by T. Harrison … and by J. Robson … 1765.
First edition, an unjustly neglected study of the politics and economics of international trade, inspired in part by comparison with France, where Mildmay spent five years in the 1750s.
£350
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PAXTON, P[eter].
A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage, and Improvement of Trade: with some Considerations why the Charges...
London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin … 1704.
First edition of this important but little-studied work on free trade for the public good by the physician and political writer Peter Paxton.
£900
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[LINCOLN, Abraham, and Stephen DOUGLAS.]
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas,...
Columbus, Follet, Foster, and Company, 1860.
First edition, later issue, with a rule above the printer’s names on the copyright page and advertisements stating fifteen thousand copies sold, of the Lincoln–Douglas Senate campaign debates of 1858, ‘historically the most important series of American political debates’ (Howes), our...
£950
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FISHER, Irving.
Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices. Read April 27, 1892. [in:] Transactions of...
New Haven, by the Academy, 1892.
First appearance of Fisher’s ‘startlingly original PhD thesis’ (Blaug) which contained, among other things, the design of a machine to illustrate general equilibrium in a multi-market economy. This work expounds his monetary theories and established his international reputation.
£5500
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
London, Methuen, 1896.
One of 150 copies printed on handmade paper of the first English edition of Kipling’s anthology; this copy from the library of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
£3750
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DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.
Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine; d’où l’on déduit la manière de déterminer...
Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.
A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of the first edition of a classic of statistical science: it is the first to define expectation of life – which Deparcieux calls ‘la vie moyenne’ – and the first to contain life tables for men and women.
£3000
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PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.
Della decima e di varie altre gravezze imposte dal...
Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e si vende da Giuseppe Bouchard librajo francese in Firenze’), 1765–66.
First edition, scarce on the market, of a highly important work in the history of economics and world trade. Pagnini (1714–89) worked in the financial department of the Tuscan government and published translations of several of Locke’s works. The Della decima is his most important work,...
£5500
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[LE GUERCHOIS, Madeleine d’Aguesseau, Madame.]
Avis d’une mere a son fils.
Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1743.
A popular work of maternal advice first published in 1708, here in a simple vellum binding richly decorated by the master calligrapher François Nicolas Bédigis (1738–1814).
£2750
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PETTY, William, Sir.
Another Essay in Political Arithmetick, concerning the Growth of the City of London: with the Measures,...
1682. London, printed by H.H. for Mark Pardoe, 1683.
First edition, scarce – seemingly unique in its uncut and unbound state – of Petty’s first work of political arithmetic, a landmark work of statistics, demography, and economics.
£12000
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GIOIA [or GIOJA], Melchiorre.
Indole, estensione, vantaggi della statistica. Confutazione dell’ opuscolo che ha per titolo:...
Risposta alle obbiezioni fatte alle Tavole statistiche. Milan, Pirotta and Maspero, March 1809.
First and only edition of this rare work on the nature and necessity of statistics by Melchiorre Gioia, presented by the author to the former Minister for the Interior, Daniele Felici.
£1250
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LIST, Friedrich.
Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie … Erster Band: Der internationale Handel, die Handelspolitik...
Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.
First edition, the first work to articulate developing economies’ need for protective regulation, one of the earliest and most severe critiques of Adam Smith and his followers.
£8000
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica, nunc primum edita. Cura & fide Guilielmi Rawley...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani Pulleyn, 1658.
First edition, second issue of this collection of the philosophical, political, and theological writings of Bacon, including numerous essays previously unpublished, and the first appearance in Latin of a biographical sketch of the philosopher by William Rawley (c. 1588–1667), Bacon’s literary...
£1250
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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
An Historical and moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it has produced...
London, J. Johnson, 1794.
First edition of Wollstonecraft’s eloquent analysis of the causes of the French Revolution, written as an antidote to Burke’s Reflections, our copy with manuscript notes by William Michael Rossetti. The work was never completed before Wollstonecraft’s death in 1797, though the first...
£7250
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SISMONDI, J. C. L. Simonde de.
Nouveaux principes d’économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population...
Paris, Delaunay, Treuttel & Wurtz, 1819.
First edition. ‘A number of concepts and theories that later became important in the history of economics first appeared in the writings of the Swiss economist J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi … Sismondi developed the first aggregate equilibrium income theory and the first algebraic growth...
£850
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HICKS, J. R.
The Theory of Wages.
London, MacMillan and Co, 1932.
First edition, scarce on the market, of a classic microeconomic analysis of wage determination in competitive markets.
£200
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MANDEVILLE, Bernard.
The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, public Benefits. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas Garman.
London, Wishart and Co., 1934.
First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees was first published as a poem in 1705, entitled The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turned Honest, which is printed in this edition as first text, and later expanded into a prose work entitled The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices,...
£190