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MÜLLER, Johann Baptist.
Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse oder ägyptische Augenentzündung. Gesammelt am Krankenbette.
Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.
A fine presentation copy of Müller’s ophthalmological study of a disease then known as the ‘Egyptian eye infection’. A physician and surgeon with the Prussian military, Müller describes his findings in cases of eye infections amongst soldiers sometimes so severe as to result in blindness. He...
£350
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ZAMPELIOS, Spiridion.
Βυζαντιναι Μελεται [Byzantine Studies]...
Athens, Christos Nikolaidos, 1857.
First edition. Spyros Zampelios was a champion of the continuity theory in the history of the Greek nation in the crucial decades of the mid nineteenth century, and the first Greek historian to adopt a tripartite examination of historical periods, divided into ancient, medieval and modern Hellenism....
£350
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CHOUFFE, Jean-Baptiste-P.
Des accidens et des maladies qui surviennent à la cessation de la menstruation.
Paris: Croullebois et Gabon, Floréal an X [April-May 1802].
First and only edition. This work discusses the cessation of menstruation and its causes, beginning with female bodies and the changes they undergo from puberty to old age. Chouffe, formerly a military doctor, then focuses on ten case studies of individual patients in whom the menses had ceased,...
£450
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[CHINA.]
Précis des nouvelles reçues des missions de Chine et des royaumes voisins, en 1819.
[Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1819?].
An extremely rare summary of the state of French Christian missions in Su-Tchuen (China), Tong-King (Vietnam), Cochinchine (Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), and Pondichery (India) in 1819.
£180
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[NAUDÉ, Philippe, attr. author].
Histoire abrégée de la naissance & du progrez du Kouakerisme avec celle de ses dogmes.
Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1692.
First edition of the earliest work on the Quakers to be published in French. In his survey of English Quakerism the author gives voice to widespread contemporary English criticisms of the movement, radicalizing the charge of Socinianism into one of ‘pure deism’ and ultimately atheism.
£750
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application.
London, Murray, 1820.
First edition. The Principles were developed through controversy with Ricardo, especially with regard to the theory of value, but the origins of the essay are in the Essay, which constituted Malthus’s earliest writings on prices, income and savings. The difference that emerges between...
£1400
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BASCOM, John.
Growth of nationality in the United States: a social study.
New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1899.
First edition. As President of the University of Wisconsin Bascom advocated the ‘Wisconsin Iidea’ the Universities should work to improve the lives of people beyond the borders of its campus. ‘In a way unmatched by any leader of a major American university in his time, Bascom outlined a social...
£175
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[BELL, Benjamin].
Three essays on taxation of income, with remarks on the late act of parliament on that subject. On the national...
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799.
First edition. On 3 December 1798, the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Pitt the Younger, denounced the ineffectuality of traditional methods of taxation and announced the introduction of a tax ‘upon the leading branches of income’. One of the major weaknesses of his plan was...
£250
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CALVERT, George.
Introduction to social science, a discourse in three parts.
New York, Redfield, 1856.
First edition. The first to hold the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of arts and sciences at the University of Baltimore, Calvert went on to be elected major of Newport, Rhode Island; he keenly translated and wrote essays on many pieces of European literature. In his Introduction...
£195
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
Essay on the rate of wages, with an examination of the cause of the differences in the condition of the labouring...
Philadelphia, Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835.
First edition. In this, his first work, Carey (1793–1879) opposed trade restrictions as running counter to the providential order, and postulated harmony between capitalists and workers, the former benefitting from rising profits and the latter from wages that rose as a result of the accumulation of...
£275
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CAREY, H.
C. The British Treaties of 1871 & 1874: letters to the President of the United States.
Philadelphia, Collins, 1875.
First edition of a pamphlet which marks the completion of the arc in Carey’s thinking regarding bilateral trade deals, described in his time as ‘reciprocity’ arrangements. Having endorsed such deals early in his career as acts that promoted free trade, in the 1840s and 1850s Carey came to believe...
£195
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CAREY,
H.C. Commerce, Christianity, and civilization, versus British free trade. Letters in reply to the London times.
Collins, Printer, Philadelphia [PA], 1876.
Throughout his political economy, Carey asserted that there was a harmony of interests among men and nations in their economic relationships. Unfortunately, the British system of free trade was not in keeping with this harmony. It was his opinion that countries like India, for example, that were in trade-dependent...
£195
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COUSIN, Victor.
Elements of psychology, included in a critical examination of Locke’s Essay on the human understanding ... translated...
Hartford, CT, Cooke and Company, 1834.
First edition in English, and first American edition, translated from the French with an introduction, notes and additions by the Transcendentalist C.S. Henry. This is the first work in English with ‘psychology’ in the title. Cousin’s stress on the importance of method in philosophy led him to...
£250
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DEL GIUDICE, Odoardo.
Psychologiae eclecticae elementa ad usum studiosae juventutis.
Perugia, Constantiniana, 1793.
First edition, very rare: OCLC records a single copy, and a few of the second edition, published in altered circumstances in 1825. A Franciscan, Del Giudice writes a compendium on the theory of the human mind for students. His account tackles contemporary philosophies, such as materialism, in ample footnotes,...
£295
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MACKENZIE, George.
The moral history of frugality with its opposite vices, covetousness, niggardliness and prodigality, luxury.
London, Hindmarsh, 1691.
First edition, rare; an Edinburgh edition followed in the same year. Mackenzie settled in Oxford before dying in 1691, and this posthumous work opens with his paean to the University and the Bodleian. It concludes with Thomas Glegg’s Latin epitaph.
£250
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness;...
London, Murray, 1817.
Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’. This is a significant edition, containing the new chapters that had appeared in the Additions of the same year. These included those on the Poor Laws, which were revised after 1815, and the harsh but prescient critique of Robert Owen’s utopian community...
£650
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MILL, James.
Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind.
London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.
First edition of Mill’s work of empiricist philosophy, largely an exercise in logical thought rather than a careful study of psychology. Mill describes the body’s interconnected system of sensual receptors through which the mind forms complex ideas, which in turn inform the passions and the will....
£800
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PATTEN, Simon Nelson.
The principles of political economy; being a reexamination of certain fundamental principles of economic science.
Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1885.
First edition. Patten was one of a group of ‘new school’ American economists who had gained their doctorates in Germany, and subscribed to the German Historical School by rejecting classical Ricardian and Malthusian theories of rent, wages and population. Here Patten addresses each of these subjects...
£200
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PIGOU, Arthur Cecil.
Industrial fluctuations.
New York, Macmillan, 1927.
First edition. This work was ‘hived off’ from the larger and monumental Wealth and welfare (1912), the work that had been in hand when Pigou succeeded Alfred Marshall as Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge in 1908: ‘to the end of his life he remained steeped in the Marshallian system. What...
£200
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ROETHLISBERGER, Fritz Jules and William J.
DICKSON. Management and the worker.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1939.
First edition, the famous ‘Hawthorne study’ of Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo (who provides a preface), carried out on willing employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne branch, this book being dedicated to those employees. The researchers tested numerous short-term variables such as...
£200