[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]

The present state of the unhappy sufferers of the Charitable Corporation...

London, [n.p.], 1733.

First and only edition of an anonymous plea to Parliament for the rescue of the Charitable Corporation for the Relief of the Industrious Poor, a pawnbroker which granted credit at low interest to the ‘deserving poor’ who left a pledge. Founded in 1707, in the 1720s the Corporation came under scrutiny...

£250

HURRY, Thomas.

Tables of interest, from one pound to five hundred millions, for one day; by which the interest for any sum of money...

[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robinson, London; and Downes and March, Yarmouth, 1786.

One of two editions published in 1786, the other one undated, ESTC does not give any precedence. Tables for calculating interest at a quarter, half, three-quarters, three, four, and five percent; intended as a quick reference for bankers and merchants. Hurry precedes his tables with four pages of example...

£150

[HILLER, Johann Adam, editor].

Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter französischer, deutscher, italienischer, holländischer...

Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

Scarce first edition of Hiller’s two-volume collection of literary, philosophical and historical anecdotes. The editor’s note at the end mentions the contemporary publication of a French work of similar inspiration, and states the editor’s intention to translate it and publish it as a sequel to...

£175

HERYNG, Zygmunt.

Teorja i praktyka ekonomji.

[Warsaw, G. Centnerszwer], 1897.

First edition, very rare, of Heryng’s Theory and practice of economics. Zygmunt Heryng, Polish economist and political activist, was deeply concerned with economics as a science. He saw it as a systematic and conscious pursuit of efficiency in resource allocation in relation to targets. One of the...

£150

[HENRI IV.]

Edict du roy, portant deffences de porter sur les habits aucuns draps, ne toille d’or ou d’argent. Paris, P....

Paris, F. Morel and P. Mettayer, 1620.

Three very scarce works on the subject of luxury clothing and accessories employing gold and silver, of significance for the insights they provide into debates around economic and moral regulation in France in the early 17th century.

In his edict of 1607, Henri IV condemns such luxury clothing as ‘vaine...

£1950

HADLEY, Arthur Twining.

Economics. An account of the relations between private property and public welfare.

New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896.

First edition. ‘In Economics Hadley went further than Marshall by explicitly developing the interrelations between property rights, economic evolution and economic efficiency. Hadley utilized the real world examples of the fisheries and mining to demonstrate the impact of ill-defined property rights...

£175

[LUZAC, Elie, attributed].

L’homme plus que machine.

‘A Londres’ [Leiden?], 1748.

First edition of this attack against materialism and La Mettrie’s L’homme machine, published in the same year. The work was included in the 1774 edition of the Oeuvres of La Mettrie, volume III.

£250

[KERNER, Johann Georg.]

Reise über den Sund.

Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1803.

Rare first edition of this historical, political and economic analysis of Sweden, in epistolary form, complete with a folding table detailing land tax revenues by region.

£250

[TRENTO, Giulio].

Gli spiriti. Paragoni poetici. Dialogo d’un giovine, ed un cinico dell’andare alla Guerra. Diario mensuale...

Treviso, G. Trento, [1788].

Only edition, mentioned only in one or two pieces of local antiquarian history but not recorded in any of the usual library catalogues. An ephemeral publication containing a short story, a literary divertissement linking passages from Parini’s Mattino with an unidentified poem on gambling and an ode...

£300

[TOYNBEE, Arnold.]

“Progress and poverty,” a criticism of Mr. Henry George. Being two lectures delivered in St. Andrew’s...

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.

First edition of the transcript of two lectures delivered in 1883 by the social reformer and political economist Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) criticising Henry George’s Progress and Poverty (1879).

£50

MENGOTTI, Francesco.

Il Colbertismo dissertazione coronata dalla Reale Società Economica Fiorentina li 13 Giugno 1792. Di Francesco...

Venice, Tommaso Bettinelli, 1792.

First edition under this title, absolute second edition, revised by the author and published the same year as the first. This dissertation had first appeared under the title Ragionamento della libertà naturale del commercio de’ generi greggi. Mengotti’s advocacy of free trade was a radical rejection...

£100

[PASCOLI, Livio.] ‘Vilio LOCASPI’.

Del modo di mantenere abolita la mendicità, discorso familiare.

Verona, Mainardi, 1817.

Only edition, very rare, of this proposal for the abolition of begging, and of poverty more broadly, by the poet and essayist Livio Pascoli.

£285

[THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

A special Number to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

The Book Collector, 1997.

A collection of essays together recounting the history of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, published by The Book Collector to commemorate the firm’s sesquicentenary in 1997.

£25

CARTER, John, and Graham POLLARD.

The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.: Footnote to An Enquiry.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, and New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.

First edition of Carter and Pollard’s further research into the forgeries of Thomas J. Wise. The authors examine pamphlets of Swinburne’s poetry published under the imprint of ‘Charles Ottley, Landon & Co’ and expose them as the work of the book-collector and forger Thomas James Wise (1859–1937)....

£12

GERARD, Alexander.

Account of Koonawur in the Himalaya, etc. etc. etc. ... Edited by George Lloyd. With a large map.

London, James Madden, 1841.

First edition of this important work on the Kinnaur region in the western Himalayas, now in northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, comprising a detailed account of its geography, transport system, agriculture, flora and fauna, and native culture, religion and language, as encountered in the early...

£1500

LANGLEY, Edward Archer.

Narrative of a residence at the court of Meer Ali Moorad; with wild sports in the valley of the Indus ...

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1860.

First edition of this important work on Sindh by Langley, a captain in the Madras cavalry who served as secretary to Mir Ali Murad, ruler of Khairpur (a princely state of British India on the Indus River) from 1842 to 1894. Langley’s Narrative gives a detailed picture of the region around the time...

£1000

MARSHALL, John, Sir, editor.

Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus civilization being an official account of archaeological excavations at...

London, Arthur Probsthain, 1931.

Scarce first edition, a handsome set, of Marshall’s outstanding contribution to archaeology, documenting discoveries made in the Indus valley of the Punjab and Sind. ‘His announcement in 1924 that he had there found a new civilization of the third millennium marked an epoch in modern discovery; the...

£3500

PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de.

The history of the conquest of China by the Tartars. Together with an account of several remarkable...

London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671.

First edition in English of Palafox’s Historia de la conquista de la China (1670), an account of the Manchu conquest of Ming China based on reports sent to him from Macao and the Philippines. The work deals also with Chinese customs, manners, religion and costumes, and one chapter discusses Japanese...

£2000

ROLLIN, Charles.

The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians & Grecians.

Durham, G. Walker, [c. 1824].

Durham edition of Rollin’s history, accompanied by a series of large folding maps by d’Anville. The magnum opus of Charles Rollin (1661-1741), the Ancient History was among the most thorough publications on the ancient world. Appearing in English translation in 1730, very soon after the first publication...

£250

STEIN, Aurel.

Report of archaeological survey work in the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan for the period from January...

Peshawar, Government Press, 1905.

Scarce first edition of this significant report from Stein’s period as Inspector-General of Education and Archaeological Surveyor of the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan, to which combined post he had been appointed in July 1903. No copies are recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub.

£6000