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ROSE, George.
Observations respecting the public expenditure, and the influence of the Crown … Third edition.
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
The third of four editions published in 1810. ‘A rabid Anti-Bullionist’ (Stephens, p. 42), Rose (1744–1818), here, ‘for Pitt’s greater glory … illustrate[s] the decline of the influence of the crown since 1782 by reference to the elimination of places and sinecures. His conclusions...
£30
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STEPNIAK-KRAVCHINSKII, Sergius Mikhailovich.
Подпольная Россiя ч. 1. Революцiонные профили (№...
Kiev, Otdel soldatskoi kooperatsii K. Iu.-Z. F. V. Z. S. [Department of Soldier’s Cooperative of the Committee of the South-Western Front...
Extremely rare Civil War edition (first London, 1883). This edition was published by ‘revisionist’ or Menshevik troops in the Ukraine, as the list of further publications (Bernstein, Kautsky, and Plekhanov, amongst others) at the end of the pamphlet indicates. The publishers also list part two of...
£125
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SOUTHCOTT, Joanna.
Four works.
London, 1808-1812.
A selection of the prolific output of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), described by E. P. Thompson as England’s ‘greatest prophetess of all’. Southcott’s millenarian visions began in 1792 when a voice started telling her of future events, from war to famine. As her fame grew in her native Devon...
£125
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STOURM, Auguste-African, dit Eugène.
Opinion sur la question des sucres.
[Paris, Bourgogne & Martinet, n. d., but 1840.]
First and only edition of this work on the sugar beet trade; the French had begun cultivating sugar beet during the Napoleonic wars, when the British blocked shipments of cane sugar from colonies such as Martinique and Guadeloupe.
£100
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[COMPAGNIE DES INDES]
[MORELLET.] [drop-head title:] Eclaircissemens, sur le Mémoire de M. l’Abbé Morelet [sic], concernant...
[S.l., s.n., c.1769].
First edition of an anonymous contemporary reply to Morellet’s Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes (1769), in which the Abbé had given a succinct history of the Compagnie and shown how its directors were benefitting to the detriment of the state.
£150
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GIOJA, Melchiorre.
Del merito e delle ricompense, trattato storico e filosofico ...
Filadelfia, [n. p.], 1830 (vol. I); Lugano, Giuseppe Ruggia, 1830 (vol. II).
Second edition (first published in 1818, a third followed in 1832) of this important work by the political theorist, economist, and champion of Italian unity, Gioja (1767–1829). ‘He contended in his best known work, Del merito e delle ricompense ..., which was inspired by Beccaria’s Dei delitti...
£250
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PEARSON, Karl.
King Robert the Bruce, 1274-1329, his Skull and Portraiture.
[London:] printed by W. Lewis, at the University Press, Cambridge, ‘Offprinted from Biometrika, Vol. XVI, and issued to Subscribers only’,...
First and only separate edition, ‘issued to Subscribers only’ (this copy unnumbered). The British biostatician and eugenicist Pearson (1857-1936) studied mathematics, physics, and Darwinism at the universities of Cambridge, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and (following a brief but abortive training in law)...
£75
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[TRADE AND EXCISE].
An Additional Act for the better improvement and advancing the receipts of the Excise and New-Impost. At the...
London, Henry Hills and Iohn Field, Printers to His Highness, 1657.
First edition. The most substantial part of the Act, entitled ‘A Book of Values of Merchandize imported, according to which, excize is to be paid by the first buyer’, includes a forty-page alphabetical list of imported commodities, each recorded with the respective payable duty.
£250
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MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.
Sur la représentation analytique d’une branche uniforme d’une fonction monogène.
Stockholm, 1899-1909.
First edition of this important series of papers by Mittag-Leffler, offprints from Acta Mathematica, the international mathematical journal established by him in 1882.
£750
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PICK, G. Vesian.
Digest of political economy: the principles of John Stuart Mill.
London, Swan Sonnerschein & Co., 1893.
Second edition (first 1892) of Pick’s epitome of J.S. Mill’s Principles of political economy. Stating his aim as to ‘present a bird’s-eye view of Political Economy’, with a secondary intent of being used by students as a companion volume to the treatise itself, Pick aims to bring a new simplicity...
£100
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REID, Thomas.
The Works of Thomas Reid … with an Account of his Life and Writings, by Dugalds Stewart … with Notes, by the...
Charlestown (MA), Samuel Etheridge junior, 1813.
First American edition of the foundation of the Scottish Common Sense School, with a life of Reid by his disciple Dugald Stewart. The set includes his early treatises and analytics, his enquiry into the human mind and the senses, memory, intellectual and active powers, actions, and morals.
£120
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SPURR, George Graham.
The Land of Gold. A Tale of ’49. Illustrative of early pioneer life in California, and founded upon fact....
Boston, A. Williams & Company, 1881.
First edition. ‘This narrative ... is contributed to the file of literature for the purpose of keeping green the memory of the achievements of the early pioneers in California, and to show future generations what it cost to add what was once a wild unbroken solitude to civilisation and fame’...
£100
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RUFIANDER, Fabius Jocosus, pseud. [Friedrich Julius ROTTMANN].
Curiöse Inaugural Disputation von dem Recht / Natur /...
‘Teutschland, Gedruckt in denen Hundes-Tagen, 1716.’
First edition, very rare, of this satirical academic disputation on melancholy, dedicated to the author’s ‘unpleasant and universally despised’ peers in the hope of cheering them up (p. [4] trans.).
£675
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[SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.]
CLAVIUS, Christophorus. In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius, nunc iterum ab ipso Auctore...
Rome, Francesco Zanetti for Domenico Basa, 1581.
Third edition, the first to contain Clavius’s condemnation of Copernicus, with ten highly detailed woodcut diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses not included in the first edition.
£2500
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[ZATTA, Antonio.]
Il filosofo del nord, ovvero Corso di morale filosofia.
‘Londra’ [i.e. Venice], [Zatta], 1788.
First edition under this title of this course of moral philosophy, broadly construed, in which the author attempts to invoke the authority of the ‘philosophers of the North’ (inter alia Hobbes, Bacon, Clark, and Addison on one side of the English Channel, Bayle, Pascal, La Mettrie, Grotius,...
£950
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‘G.’ [i.e. Terence Ian Fytton ARMSTRONG].
Annotations on Some Minor Writings of “T.E. Lawrence” by G.
London: W. Graves for Eric Partridge, Ltd. at the Scholartis Press, 1935.
First edition, no. 484 of 500 copies. Annotations was the second bibliographical work on Lawrence to be published, and was written by the poet, author, bibliographer, and bookseller T.I.F. Armstrong (AKA ‘John Gawsworth’), who possessed ‘a bibliographic talent that led Lawrence Durrell to...
£75
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STENUIT, Alfred, and G. de VOGHEL.
Manuel de sauvetage dans les mines. Notions théoriques sur les accidents et le sauvetage....
Tamines, Duculot-Roulin, 1909.
Only edition of this attractively illustrated and very rare guide to life-saving in mines, by the Belgian mining engineers Stenuit and de Voghel. Divided into three parts, the book opens with explanations of the possible hazards, ranging from asphyxiation to explosions and underground fires, as...
£350
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TUGAN-BARANOVSKII, Mikhail Ivanovich.
Величайшая въ мірѣ коммунистическая организація...
Moscow, Vserossiiskii Tsentral’nii Coiuz Potrebitel’nykh Obshchestv’, 1918.
Rare Russian language tract on ‘The Greatest Communist Society in the World (Doukhobor Society),’ which left Russia for Canada in 1898-9, aided by Leo Tolstoy.
£250
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PLINY the Elder.
Historia mundi, multo quam antehac unquam prodiit emaculatius [...] annotationibus eruditorum hominum...
Basel, Johann Froben, March 1525.
First Froben edition of Pliny’s encyclopaedia, with a prologue by Erasmus and Hermolaus Barbarus’s commentary, given to Erasmus’s correspondent Bartholomaeus Latomus by his student and future patron, Johann Ludwig von Hagen.
£4800
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[ALMANACK.] ‘CHOTESCHAU, Christian Joachim von’ [pseud. Johann Franz NOWAK].
Neuer Titular-Calender zu ehren des...
Prague, Georg Labaun, [1713].
An annotated Bohemian almanack for the year 1713, with extensive manuscript notes by a local brewer.
£875