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PATINKIN, Don.
Money, interest, and prices; an integration of monetary and value theory.
Evanston, Ill., Row, Peterson [1956].
First edition, rare on the market, of the book which was for many years one of the most widely used works on monetary economics. ‘Money, Interest and Prices is perhaps as great in its vision as Keynes’ General Theory. … Don Patinkin states his theory of the labour market and corresponding notion...
£250
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[PATERSON, William].
Proposals and reasons for constituting a Council of Trade.
Edinburgh, [n. p.], 1701.
First edition, rare, of a plan for the setting up of a council of trade in Scotland for the purpose of controlling and directing the nation’s ailing economy at the turn of the century, by a remarkably entrepreneurial proto-banker who participated in the Darien project and became one of the founders...
£1200
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OWEN, Robert.
Robert Owen’s Journal. Explanatory of the means to well-place, well-employ, and well-educate, the whole population....
London, James Watson, 1850-1.
The first 23 issues of Robert Owen’s Journal, which would go on to reach a total of 104 issues ending in October 1852. Almost entirely written by Owen himself, the Journal was the main vehicle of Owenite social and political philosophy, directed to a general readership as well as policy-makers.
£350
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[NOLHAC, Jean-Baptiste-Marie.]
Réflexions sur la punition des grands crimes, considérée dans ses rapports avec la morale, extraites...
Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1836.
First and only edition, inscribed from the author. An extensive essay against the death penalty, and especially against public executions by Jean-Baptiste-Marie Nolhac (1770-1878) using arguments derived from ‘la digité de la nature humaine et du danger des spectacles sanglants’, written in response...
£150
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[NECKER, Jacques.]
Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Discours qui a remporté le prix de l’Académie Françoise, en 1773.
Paris, J.B. Brunet, 1773. [bound with:]
First edition of Necker’s first work. Necker (1732–1804) was the opponent of Turgot (whose position he was to take over in 1777) in action as well as in theory, agreeing with Forbonnais on the side of State-regulation. The encomiastic function of this work, his first book, is in fact a thin cover...
£750
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MYLIUS, Georg, and Michael HOPF.
De visitatione ecclesiastica.
Jena, Tobias Steinmann, 1593.
First edition, rare, of an early work on the nature, scope, limits and jurisdiction of canonical visitations, the visitationes ecclesiasticae, a key element in the outline of jurisdiction, responsibility and control established by the Catholic Reformation in the last decades of the sixteenth century.
£200
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MOHEAU.
Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France …
Paris, Moutard, 1778.
First edition. This work is held in high regard by both McCulloch and Peuchet, though when first published it received little acknowledgement, being attributed to Baron Auget de Montyon, who assisted in the work and to whom Moheau was secretary. The first part contains statistical tables; the second...
£250
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MILL, John Stuart.
A szabadságról. Fordította és az előszót írta Kállay Béni.
Béni. Pest, Ráth Mór, 1867.
Extremely rare (1 copy worldwide) first Hungarian edition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. This translation, published in Pest, came out as the Habsburg Emperor accepted the consequences of a twenty-years-long strife for autonomy and rights on the part of Hungarian subjects. Mill’s anti-paternalistic...
£975
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MILL, John Stuart, and Jánosi FERENCZ (translator).
A képviseleti kormány.
Pest, Emich Gusztáv Tulajdona, 1867.
First Hungarian edition of Considerations on representative Government, Mill’s most important political work after On Liberty. In his major work on political institutions Mill ‘discusses to what extent forms of government are a matter of choice, the criterion of a “good form of government”, and...
£875
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MILL, John Stuart.
A szabadságról ... Angolból forditotta és az elöszót irta Kállay Béni.
Pest, Kiadja Ráth Mór, 1867.
First Hungarian edition of John Stuart Mill’s great essay On Liberty, with a lengthy introduction by the Austro-Hungarian statesman Béni Kállay (1839–1903). First published in 1859, Mill’s vastly influential essay was dedicated to his wife Harriet who had provided the stimulus for...
£450
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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay, and Augustin PLANCHE (translator).
Principes d’économie politique, suivis de quelques recherches relatives...
Paris, A. Moussin for Guillaumin et Cie, 1863.
French translation of McCulloch’s Principles. First published in 1825, the book provided the first synthetic modern definition of political economy and quickly established itself as one of the most referenced manuals on the subject. ‘For McCulloch was reserved the honour of presenting in a popular...
£200
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[BALDELLI, Giovanni Battista].
Elogio di Niccolò Machiavelli.
Londra, 1794.
Uncommon first edition of this speech in praise of Machiavelli, given to the Reale Accademia Fiorentina on 7 August 1794 by the Florentine soldier, politician, and historian Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni (1766–1831).
£325
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LOCKE, John, and Francis BACON.
The conduct of the understanding. Essays, moral, economical, & political.
London, C. Daly, [c.1850].
A good copy of this surprisingly rare printing of two works by Locke and Bacon, printed by Charles Daly, who also printed works by, inter alia, Coleridge, Combe, and Swift. One issue had appeared in 1841, with the address of Red Lion Square; the current issue is undated, with an address in Greville Street,...
£125
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KRUG, Leopold.
Abriss der Staatsökonomie oder Staatswirthschaftslehre ...
Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1808.
Rare first edition. Krug was a civil servant whose writings on political economy and statistics had to be carved out of ‘the odd spare hour’. From 1805 to 1834 he was heavily involved in the development and expansion of the Prussian Statistical Bureau, during which time he conducted numerous statistical...
£250
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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).
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. Her biographers concur in singling out Kipling as her best-loved poet, and not just on the grounds of her many assertions. In the...
£3750
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KING, John, barrister at law.
A Report of the Cases of the King v. Wright, and the King v. De Yonge, who were severally tried for...
Butterworth, and J. Cooke (Dublin), 1811.
?First edition. The question of forgeries, which were punishable by death, was an important one during the debates; it gave an argument to the bullionists.
£100
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[QUARITCH.]
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).
Quaritch, 2006.
A catalogue of a collection of the works of the Renaissance scholar and Arabist, Guillaume Postel. ‘Not only does it include editions of quite exceptional rarity, to be found in few libraries on either side of the Atlantic, but it illustrates every moment of Postel’s extraordinary career and...
£60
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BARTOLI, Adolfo.
Scenari inediti della Commedia dell’arte. Contributo alla storia del teatro popolare italiano.
Florence, Sansoni, 1880.
Rare first edition, one of only 350 copies, of a foundational source for the study of Commedia dell’Arte. The exceptionally well-loved and widely-performed form of drama is the subject of the author’s pioneering study: he examines tropes, characters, plots, structures and lines of ‘scenarios’...
£500
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GUAZZO, Marco.
Historie di M. Marco Guazzo di tutti i fatti degni di memoria nel mondo successi dal 1524 sino a l’anno 1549....
Venice, Giolito, 1549.
First edition thus, this copy owned by the future Pope Clement XII, of a remarkable history of recent and contemporary events, first published in 1540 and here updated by almost ten years, resuming the account of world event and Italian politics and including references to American history from 1522.
£3600
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MILBANK, Augustus Sussex.
A Treatise upon the political & social Condition of Europe, from the Fall of the Roman Empire, down to...
[Richmond, M. Bell for] London, Messrs Hatchard & Son, and Richmond, M. Bell, 1847.
First and only edition of a rare Yorkshire-printed treatise of social history by an amateur historian and educational enthusiast, inscribed by the author to the Countess of Sandwich.
£125