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ESCHER, Franklin.
Practical Investing.
New York, The Bankers Publishing Co., 1914.
First edition. In the words of a contemporary reviewer, this book “is most serviceable and has the lasting virtue of dealing with a technical subject in a readable manner” (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, p. 245). Concise and accessible, this early work of investment...
£100
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FORTUNE, Thomas.
A concise and authentic history of the Bank of England. With dissertations on medals & coin, bank notes and bills...
London, Boosey, 1802.
Third edition, ‘with considerable additions’. The first two editions of 1797, says Fortune in his ‘advertisement’, were written to defend the bank against the calumny it received from the public after the financial scares in that year, when the bank was forced to suspend specie payments. This...
£275
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FREUD, Sigmund.
Moses and monotheism [translated from the German by Katherine Jones].
New York, Alfred A, Knopf, 1939.
First American edition of the last lifetime publication of Freud, a study of the origins of monotheism in Judaism and Christiantity, where Freud took as his point of departure the theory that Moses was not an Israelite but an Egyptian, who imported the seeds of Judaism into Israel from Egypt. The book...
£80
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FROST, Thomas Gold.
A treatise on guaranty insurance: including therein as subsidiary branches the law of fidelity, commercial,...
Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1902.
Only edition of the first treatise on the theory and practice of guaranty insurance law and its branches.
£125
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GASTALDI, Louis.
De la liberté commerciale, du crédit et des banques, avec projet d’une banque générale du crédit et...
Turin, Mussano, 1840.
First edition, a very attractive copy with a good provenance, of this important monograph on credit and the banking system, and its role as support in the creation of wealth.
£850
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GESELL, Silvio.
Denkschrift für die Deutschen Gewerkschaften zum Gebrauch bei ihren Aktionen in der Frage der Währung, der Valuta...
Potsdam, Robert Müller [for the author], [1922].
A very good copy of the rare first edition of Gesell’s advice for the trade unions on the current traps of the monetary system, and his antidote, free economy. After the 1918/19 revolutions, and during the hyper-inflation free economy theories were debated more widely and incorporated in working class...
£125
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GIOJA, Melchiorre.
Ideologia, esposta da Melchiorre Gioja ...
Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1822-1823.
First edition, a very good copy, of the work in which the Italian economist and philosopher expounds his theory of sensations and passions. It was immediately placed on the Index.
£125
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GIORDANO, Andrea.
Discorso pronunziato … nell’Assemblea Generale degli azionisti della Banca del Tavoliere di Puglia alla tornata...
[N. p., de Stefano, 1837].
Only edition of this speech delivered by a well-connected trustee to the members of the board of the Banca del Tavoliere di Puglia, outlining the events of the previous two years - during which the bank had lost, through maladministration, the trust of numerous important foreign investors - and calling...
£100
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[GROUVELLE, Philippe-Antoine].
Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un senateur allemand et un républicain francais. Rapporté...
[s.l, s.n., c .1794].
First and seemingly only edition of this dialogue on the aftermath of the French revolution, attributed to the playwright, journalist, and diplomat Philippe-Antoine Grouvelle (1758-1806). While the ‘senateur allemand’ is instinctively hostile to the French revolution (‘J’ai l’horreur du nouveau,...
£375
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CLIFFORD, Jeronimy.
The case and replication of the legal representatives of Jeronimy Clifford; a British subject; and late merchant...
London, C. Say, 1763.
First edition of this comprehensive summary of Clifford’s long-running legal battle with the Dutch West India Company in Surinam over Corcabo, his sugar plantation, from the Macclesfield library, including a handsome folding ‘map of the colony of Surinam’.
£850
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KARG, Stanislaus, Celso EISENMAN, and Eccard HOCHENBAUM.
Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio sacramentali ad restitutionem...
Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].
Only edition, rare, of this dissertation on the theological and legal aspects of theft and restitution, presented to the distinguished canon lawyer, and author of the monumental Manuale theologico-canonico-legale practicum, Stanislaus Karg.
£275
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KEYNES, John Maynard.
The general theory of employment, interest and money.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First American edition (includes the Erratum printed on p. 403) of Keynes’ path-breaking work, perhaps the most pervasively influential twentieth-century contribution to the social sciences, responsible for instilling the notion that ‘national budgets are major instruments in a planned economy, that...
£300
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KNAPP, Georg Friedrich.
Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik …
Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1871.
First edition of a lecture given on 29 April 1871 at the University of Leipzig, presentation copy, the title-page inscribed ‘Herrn Dr Adolf Mayer, freundschaftlich G.F. Knapp’.
£250
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MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.
Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate alle persone popolari per uso del comercio umano, e civile, in questa...
Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.
A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably augmented from the first of 1754, of this book of applied mathematical problems by the Veronese mathematician Gaetano Marzaglia (or Marcegaglia, 1716–1787), heavily influenced by the work of Wolff, who provides the motto to the book, and whose works...
£650
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BOEMUS, Johann, and ‘Lucio FAUNO’ [pseud. Giovanni TARCAGNOTA] (translator).
Gli costumi, le leggi, et...
Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1542.
First edition in Italian of Johann Boemus’s influential ethnographic compendium, a sixteenth-century bestseller considered the first of its kind.
£475
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[CORFU.]
Notificazione. Uffizio della segreteria del governo. Corfu, 7 Maggio 1816 …
Corfu, ‘en te typographia tes dioikeseos’, [1816].
A seemingly unrecorded bilingual broadside, in parallel Italian and Greek, reporting on cases of plague in the district of Leftimo on the island of Corfu, issued during the British protectorate in May 1816 and printed in the capital at the government press.
£375
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ENDERS, Elizabeth Crump.
Swinging Lanterns.
New York and London, D. Appleton and Co., 1923.
First edition of this celebrated Chinese travel memoir by Elizabeth Crump Enders, a vivid depiction of China in the 1920s formerly in the possession of Josephine del Drago, American heiress and Chinese art collector.
£100
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[DA PORTO, Luigi.]
‘Lettere di Alvigi da Porto vicentino al Savorgnano, al Ghilini, e ad altri intorno ai successi della Guerra...
[Milan, c. 1800].
A manuscript of an influential and then-unpublished historical work by the author of the original Romeo and Juliet, copied from a sixteenth-century codex at the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana.
£950
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[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE, Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent.]
Manuel des amphitryons; contenant un traité de la dissection des viandes...
Paris, Capelle and Renand, 1808.
First edition of Grimod de la Reynière’s famed manual on the arts of the table and the entertainment of guests.
£1250
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MENDONÇA, Manoel Teixeira Cabral de.
O Guarda-livros moderno ou curso completo de instrucções elementares sobre as operações...
Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1823.
Second edition, corrected and expanded, of vol. I, first editions of vol. II and the Supplemento. The first volume provides a broad overview of the history of commercial exchange, including present practices. Mendonça states that his intention is to demonstrate the benefits of studying geography, insurance,...
£300