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KÜLPE, Oswald.
Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893.
First edition of this important work in the development of experimental psychology. Külpe’s Outlines of Psychology was published at the suggestion of his mentor Wilhelm Wundt, to whom the work is dedicated. However, it reflects Külpe’s divergence from Wundt’s views on the scope of their discipline....
£350
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LAWRENCE, William Beach.
Two lectures on political economy delivered at Clinton Hall, before the Mercantile Library Association...
New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832.
First edition, uncommon. The author, an American jurist and politician, was the son of Isaac Lawrence, President of the New York Branch of the Bank of the United States and a Presidential Elector. In his Lectures Lawrence deplored speculation as the mechanism which gives rise to boom-and-bust cycles,...
£450
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879.
Second, greatly enlarged edition. This groundbreaking, comprehensive work of sociology, which examines the working condition, domestic life and psychological aspects of European workers, had appeared in its first form in 1855 a single volume. ‘Since public opinion was not yet ready to accept his conclusions,...
£750
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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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[PRATT, Samuel].
The regulating silver coin [sic], made practicable and easie, to the government and subject. Humbly submitted...
London, Bonwick, 1696.
First and only edition. William Lowndes had the Treasury pay for this argument for the recoinage of the currency of 1696, and it was supportive of his policy of devaluation. Pratt calls for regulation of the mint and an end to clipping, hoarding and the exportation of coins. He develops the idea of a...
£600
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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
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1908.
First edition, an uncommonly appealing copy. Simmel ‘had laid the foundations for the discipline of sociology long before Max Weber [who has essentially eclipsed him in the history of the discipline] turned to the problem of sociology as a special subject … The aim of sociology was to describe the...
£200
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SMITH, Samuel Stanhope.
An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added,...
New-Brunswick, Simpson, and New York, Williams and Whiting, 1810.
‘Second edition, enlarged and improved’, really the third and enlarged American edition, first printed in Philadelphia in 1787. Smith was very much still alive and involved; in the preface he acknowledges his debt to the anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, whose works he was unaware of when...
£225
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TARDE, Gabriel.
Psychologie Économique.
Paris, Alcan, 1902.
First edition, scarce. Tarde believed in the necessity of social harmony for viable economic activity, arguing that economic growth and innovation, like any form of social progress, is dependent on leisure, since it is leisure that encourages interactions between individuals and the formation of a social...
£250
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VEBLEN, Thorstein.
The higher learning in America. A memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men.
New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1918.
First edition. Veblen’s project for the ideal university, and consequent criticism of American universities for being something different. He describes the dominance of American universities by business interests, making academic communities subservient to concerns of accountancy and conformity, all...
£150
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WATSON, John B.
Animal education, an experimental study on the physical development of the white rat, correlated with the growth...
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1903.
First edition, scarce, of this foundational work of behaviourist psychology or what Watson coined as ‘behaviorism’, this being his PhD thesis completed under J. R. Angell and H. H. Donaldson at Chicago. It details the physical development of the white rat’s central nervous system, and its neurological...
£250
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BAIN, Alexander.
On the study of character including an estimate of phrenology.
London, Parker, Son and Bourn, West Strand, 1861.
First edition. On the study of character offers an insight into the psychological and phrenological theories of polymath Alexander Bain, Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, whose work spanned philosophy, logic, linguistics, psychology and educational reform, inter alia. Though most claims...
£150
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[BEATTIE, James.]
FORBES, Sir William. An account of the life and writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy...
New York and Philadelphia, Isaac Riley and Co. and William F. McLaughlin, 1806.
First American edition. James Beattie was author of The Essay on Truth (1770) and Elements of Moral Science (1790-93), in which he argued against the institution of slavery, but he was also a poet, known principally for The Minstrel (1771-74). This work prints over two hundred letters, the recipients...
£225
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BEBEL, August.
DE LEON, Daniel, translator. Women under socialism. Translated from the original German of the 33rd edition.
New York, Labor News Press, 1904.
First edition in English, first printing; first published in German in 1884. The cause of some controversy between its translator De Leon and James Connolly of the Socialist Labor Party, who thought it would scare off female recruits. Babel’s work contained a radical denunciation of marriage and tradition...
£80
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BONNET, Victor.
WALKER, George, translator. The example of France. Two essays on the payment of the indemnity, and the management...
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
First edition in English. In the first of these two essays, which appeared in the Revue des deux mondes in 1873, Bonnet provided an account of how France was successfully paying the enormous sum demanded from the Prussians at the end of the Franco-Prussian War: 5,000,000,000 francs. The second essay...
£150
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BROOKLYN ETHICAL ASSOCIATION.
[Cover title: Evolution]. Man and the State. Studies in applied sociology. Popular lectures and discussions...
[N.p., n.d., n.d.].
First edition. A more broadly political collection including essays on economics, racerelations, the Democratic and Republican parties, and suffrage. This copy likely belonged to George Clement Perkins, a Republican Governor of California from 1880-1883, and a Senator in Washington from 1893, which is...
£150