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[COLOMBIA.]
Resolucion del rey. Comunicada por el excelentisimo senor Don Miguel de Muzquiz a la direccion general de rentas, en...
[Madrid, 1776].
Very rare resolution issued by Charles III of Spain granting the right of free trade to the province of Santa Marta, in modern-day northern Colombia, then in the Spanish Virreinato de Nueva Granada. Stating his express desire to encourage commerce among his subjects, the king grants comercio libre to...
£275
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[BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri de.]
Lettre d'Hypocrate à Damagette. Traduction.
'Cologne, chez Jacques le Sage', 1700.
Rare second edition (following the first of 1699, of which we have traced only one copy, at the Wellcome Library) of this important clandestine tract, attributed to the historian and political writer Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722).
£450
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[WILLIAMS, John.]
The History of the Gunpowder-Treason, collected from approved Authors, as well popish as protestant.
London, Richard Chiswel, 1678.
First edition of an anti-popish history of the Gunpowder Plot. A well informed account drawing on both Anglican and Catholic sources, The History of the Gunpowder-Treason was published anonymously by John Williams (1633/6–1709), later Bishop of Chichester, amid renewed interest in the subject during...
£750
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SKARBEK, Fryderyk.
Gospodarstwo narodowe. Elementarne zasady gospodarstwa narodowego.
Warsaw, N. Glucksberg, 1820.
First edition. The work is amongst the first to differentiate between the principles of individual wealth and the wealth of nations. Divided into two parts, the first discusses production, exchange, revenue and consumption. The second is a general examination of the wealth of nations in which the author...
£1500
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BISHOP, Isabella Lucy (née BIRD).
The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of...
for John Murray, ‘1890’ [but c. 1894].
Seventh edition. As Bishop states in her preface, ‘I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity of leading a life of open air and exercise...
£200
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GUASP Y PUJOL, Manuel.
Apuntes de Economia Política. Cursos de 1866 a 1867 – 1867 a 1868 en la Universidad de Barcelona.
[Barcelona], 1868.
Unique witness to the lectures of political economy taught by Manuel Guasp y Pujol at Barcelona in the mid-1860s: a ponderous manuscript, endowed with the depth of numerous corrections and additions, amounting to an unpublished full-blown treatise on political economy, with topics such as labour, capital,...
£850
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TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.
Small archive relating to his military career.
1826-1854.
An interesting set of documents tracing the military career of James Dundas Gregorie Tulloch (1804-1879), from his initial struggles to obtain a commission to his promotion to Major under Queen Victoria. Tulloch was the younger brother of the statistician Major-General Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch (1803-1864),...
£2000
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[NAPLES.]
Manuale della contribuzione fondiaria compilato per disposizione di S. E. il ministro segretario di stato delle finanze....
Naples, Tipografia Flautina, 1835.
First edition. In two parts, the first of which sets out the basis of property taxation, while the second treats the collection and transmission of sums owing, this manual prints the legislation in force in the nearer Neapolitan part (always described as ‘This side of the Lighthouse’, whereas Sicily...
£200
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ANTWERP, William C. van.
The Stock Exchange from Within. Illustrated from photographs.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of this historical account of the New York Stock Exchange.
£50
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BARBIERI, Lodovico.
Trattato di psicologia nel quale si ragiona della natura dell’anime umane, e degli altri spiriti, della loro...
Venice, Pietro Valvasense, 1756.
First edition of the polymath Barbieri’s treatise in which he argues that the soul is an ‘active power’. Barbieri’s text tackles the interrelation of the body and soul, the nature of space, will and freedom, argues for the superiority of the spiritual over the corporeal and against the...
£350
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BODEMER, Heinrich.
Die Wirkungen der Creditpapiere in Bezug die Vehmehrung der Banken in Deutschland.
Leipzig, Heinrich Hubner, 1853.
First edition of a rare German treatise on banking, money, paper money and credit. Bodemer argues for a bettering and widening of credit in Prussia at a crucial time of its economic development, where both production and trade required ever more more advanced, unified and modern financial tools.
£125
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BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugon von.
Gesammelte Schriften … herausgegeben von Franz X. Weiss.
Vienna & Leipzig, Hölder-Pichlin-Tempsky, 1924 [– 1926].
First edition of Böhm-Bawerk’s collected works, edited by Professor Franz X. Weiss, ‘one of the ablest of Böhm-Bawerk’s pupils’ (Schumpeter, p. 845). This collected edition comprises important treatises, articles, and papers, some of which had hitherto appeared in periodicals only. Among others...
£550
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BOSE, Johann Andreas.
Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. Accedunt eiusdem dissertationes...
Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.
First edition of a pioneering work of statistics and rare Americanum, by the philosopher and historian Johann Andreas Bose (1624-1674). Bose’s crucial intuition as a student of human societies lies in his advocacy of interdisciplinary investigations. His work ‘on all the states in the world’ marshalls...
£1500
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BROGGI, Ugo.
Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.
Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, 1907.
Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation on the solution of Hilbert’s sixth problem, written under the supervision of David Hilbert. The problem posed tried to axiomatize those branches of science in which mathematics is prevalent. Broggi here aims to establish a system with which to prove...
£200
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CALVERT, William John.
The demand for labour is wealth … Supplement to monopoly and taxation vindicated against the errors of...
Newark, M. Hage and London, Longman … 1822.
Very rare first edition of Calvert’s supplement to his own work, Monopoly and taxation vindicated etc., published in 1821. Calvert wrote anonymously in the name of ‘a Nottinghamshire farmer’, but here uses his name. The supplement argues that Britain’s wealth and military success against France...
£250
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CAMPOMANES, Pedro Rodriguez (Antonio Conca y Alcaraz, translator).
Trattato della regalia d’ammortizzazione, nel quale si dimostra,...
Parma, Filippo Carmignani, 1767.
First Italian translation of this influential treatise on the property rights of the Church and the state in Spain by the Spanish philosopher, economist, and historian Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes (1723-1803).
£350
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[CASTILLO Y SORIANO, José del.]
Amor á la creacion. Poesia dedicada á la Sociedad Madrileña Protectora de los Animales y de...
Madrid, Sociedad de Tipógrafos, 1879.
Very rare survival: a poem in twenty-four stanzas each of five lines devoted to the celebration of animals and plants, dedicated to the Madrid Society for the protection of nature, and publicly read by the actress Carolina Civili on the occasion of the May 1879 exhibition of plants and birds....
£375
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CHARLES, King of Sweden and Norway, or OSCAR I (attrib. authors), and Friedrich Ernst FELLER (translator).
Ueber die Banken. (Von einem schwedischen Fürsten). Deutsch von F....
Leipzig, Goetz, 1843.
First edition thus, scarce, of a treatise on banks, banking and money in Sweden in the crucial years from 1800 to 1842, probably a translation of Om banker; skrift meddelad i Conseljen den 15 augusti 1842, attributed to Karl XIV Johan by Linnström, Svenskt boklexikon. Humpert’s...
£125
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[CONDORCET, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de].
Vie de Monsieur Turgot.
‘Londres’, [i.e. Paris?, n.p.], 1786.
First edition of the sole example of Condorcet’s economic writings to employ mathematics. Condorcet’s use of ‘the sign ∫ as a sign of summation of finite quantities’ is an ‘innovation’ in his ten-page footnoted discussion of the various ways ‘in which indirect taxation could be replaced...
£200
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CONSTANT, Benjamin.
Discours de M. Benjamin Constant à la Chambre des Députés.
Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1827-8.
First edition of a collection of speeches delivered to the Chamber of Deputies by Benjamin Constant whose eloquence and oratorical skill led him to become a leader of the parliamentary block known first as the indépentants and later as libérals. One of the first liberals to go by the name, he was the...
£150