ZECH, Franz Xaver.

Hierarchia ecclesiastica, ad Germaniae Catholicae principia et usum delineata.

Ingolstadt, Schleig, 1750.

First edition of a comprehensive exposition of the prerogatives, duties, jurisdiction, authority and responsibilities of the secular and regular German Catholic clergy. Forty tituli set out the legal profiles and relative hierarchy of pope, patriarchs, cardinals, envoys, bishops, canons, members of religious...

£175

WALKER, Francis Amasa.

Discussions in Economics and Statistics.

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1899.

First edition of this collection edited by Professor Dewey of more than fifty articles by Francis Amasa Walker, some published here for the first time, classified under the heads of Statistics, National Growth, Social Economics, Finance and Taxation, Money and Bimetallism, and Economy Theory.

£350

VICTORIAN POLITICS.

A Sammelband of three pamphlets, comprising:

A Sammelband of three pamphlets, comprising:

A Sammelband of three late-nineteenth-century British political works, bound up for the owner by Bickers. The first item, The Sabbath, is by the scientist John Tyndall (1820-1893), and was an address delivered to the Glasgow Sunday Society in his capacity as president. The Society was formed to obtain...

£250

VALERIANI MOLINARI, Luigi.

Discorsi concernenti la pubblica economia il gius pubblico e l’antico gius romano.

Bologna, Masi, 1809.

First edition of Valeriani’s (1758–1828) rare work of political economy presented as a science which stands as an organic complement to a nation’s set of legislation.

£750

[VALENCIA.] REAL SOCIEDAD ECONÓMICA.

Instituciones economicas de la Sociedad de Amigos del Pais, de la ciudad, i reino de Valencia....

Valencia, Monfort for the Society, 1777.

Rare first and only edition of the prospect, statutes and plans of the Valencia Royal Society of the friends of the Country. The Sociedades Económicas de Amigos del País were private associations established in various cities throughout Enlightenment Spain, and to a lesser degree in some of Spain's...

£750

TOOKE, Thomas.

Thoughts and Details on the high and low Prices of the last thirty Years.

London, John Murray, 1823.

First edition of Tooke's first work, discussing the influence of climatic conditions and changing demand on agricultural prices. ‘During the three years which followed the Resumption Act of 1819 prices of nearly all commodities decreased, and the opinion that the fall in prices was the result of the...

£750

TOMPSON, John, editor.

English Miscellanies consisting of various Pieces of Divinity, Morals, Politicks, Philosophy and History;...

Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer and Bookseller to the University 1746.

Second edition, revised, of John Tompson’s important English Miscellanies, expanded to almost twice the size of the first edition, including up-to-date content published since 1737.

£300

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de, and Gustave de BEAUMONT.

Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis, et de son application en France, suivi...

Paris, H. Fournier jeune, 1833.

First edition of de Tocqueville’s forerunner to Democracy in America. A detailed report on the innovative penitentiary system in the young United States, Du système pénitentiaire was published by Tocqueville and Beaumont after their observational tour of North America at the behest of the July Monarchy....

£650

THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von.

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft und Nationalökonomie …[Part I and part II/1].

Rostock, G. B. Leopold, 1842–50.

Scarce second edition of the first part, revised and enlarged, being the repository of Thünen’s major theories, and the edition used by Roscher in his Geschichte der National-Oekonomik, here bound with the first edition of part II/1, the last to be published during the author’s lifetime;...

£4500

TATE, William.

The modern cambist; forming a manual of foreign exchanges, in the direct, indirect, and cross operations of bills...

London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

Third edition, corrected and expanded to reflect changes in the monetary systems of Portugal and Geneva, a new coinage introduced by the East India Company and the opening of trade with China. There is also a new appendix which discusses the mintage regulations for the coins of the United States, reflecting...

£125

SWOBODA, Hermann.

Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus: in ihrer psychologischen und biologischen Bedeutung.

Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

First editions, all rare, the first two being foundational works in the formation of the theory of biorhythm. Swoboda’s early studies on the recurrence or periodicity in phenomena acquired a psychological character and application in his work since his encounter and brief experience of analysis with...

£200

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 model....

£850

SCIALOJA, Antonio.

I Principî della economia sociale esposti in ordine ideologico … II. edizione riveduta, corretta ed aumentata.

Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846.

Second edition, enlarged. Antonio Scialoja (1817–1877) studied at Naples, publishing the Principi della economia sociale (1840) there when he was only 22. It proved a great success in Italy and elsewhere, receiving many editions in Italian and a translation into French in 1843. In 1846, the year of...

£75

[SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe, contenant les réductions des argents dont ils...

Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel Flon, 1774.

£100

[ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]

A Collection of Advertisements, Advices, and Directions, relating to the Royal Fishery within the British...

London, printed for H.M. and sold by J. Whitlock, 1695.

First edition. The Royal Fishery Company, incorporated in 1662, had great trouble finding subscribers. Initially, Charles II offered £9000 as an incentive to investors but on these only raising £3680 he withdrew his undertaking, instead allowing a lottery to aid the Company’s fortunes. After attempts...

£200

RIPLEY, Percy.

A short history of investment.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1934.

First edition of this work aimed at a British audience of bankers, members of the Stock Exchange and City workers, charting the history of investment from early times and the Elizabethans through to 1933, passing both prosperity, and tragedy and national debt. The work is dedicated to the financial journalist...

£50

RHOADS, James Evans.

Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’) to Henry Horniman.

Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

A letter from the first president of Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia. Rhoads (1828–1895) helped establish the college as a nondenominational, internationally respected school, and the first higher education institution to offer graduate degrees to women.

£100

RENTSCH, Carl, Edler von Ehrenthal.

Die Staatswirtschaft nach Naturgesetzen.

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1819.

First edition. Rentsch’s political economy offers an in-depth analysis of concepts such as income and expenditure, value and cost, market value, and competition; particular attention is paid to coin, notes, circulation, public and private credit, and exchange.

£150

POPE, Alexander.

An essay on man… with illustrations, and notes, by S. R. Wells.

New York, Wells, 1867.

First edition thus: Pope’s Essay on man edited, with many notes, by the phrenologist Samuel Wells. ‘Looked at from a phrenological stand-point, this Poem exhibits rare beauties not seen, or rather not fully appreciated, by other eyes’ (preface). Phrenological thinking was influential in 19th-century...

£120

PINDER, Richard.

The Spirit of error, found, and discovered, in the accounted pastors and teachers of the Island Bermuda, in the...

[London, Robert Wilson, 1660].

First and only edition of this tract by Richard Pinder, a Quaker who, with George Rose, was among the first to take the Society of Friends to Bermuda –and to appear before the Council of Governor William Sayle, charged with disturbing the peace. The most particular object of Pinder’s attacks is the...

£750