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WITTKOWER, Jochanan.
Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’. Anthologie deutscher und hebräischer Gedichte für Geist und Herz …
Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.
First and only edition of this anthology of moral poems and satirical and edifying epigrams translated from German into Hebrew, as well as transcriptions and translations of epitaphs from the Jewish community of Altona, now a district of Hamburg.
£350
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MILL, John Stuart, and Edward Livingston YOUMANS.
Новѣйшее образованiе: его истинныя цѣли и требованiя....
St Petersburg, Izdanie “Russkoi knizhnoi torgovli”, 1867.
First edition in Russian of these two works, published in the original that same year.
£100
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[MONASTICISM].
Risposta ad alcuni aggravi fatti ai monaci nel libro, che ha il titolo di Politica, diritto, e religione.
Milan, Francesco Agnelli, 1742.
Only edition of this anonymous response to Giuseppe Gorini Corio’s controversial Politica, diritto, e religione, that had appeared in Milan at the start of the same year.
£400
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[NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH.]
Regularization of Business Investment. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau...
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1954.
First edition. ‘The question this book raises and helps to answer is whether the entire responsibility for preventing the next depression is to be left to government, or whether a leading role can be assumed by private enterprise, through regularization of investment expenditures. Twenty-six...
£120
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PASQUIN, Anthony [i.e. John WILLIAMS].
The Eccentricities of John Edwin, Comedian. Collected from his Manuscripts, and enriched...
London, Printed for J. Strahan … [1791].
First edition of the earliest biography of the actor and singer John Edwin the elder (1749-1790), written by his friend, John Williams, journalist and author of the satirical collection of verse portraits The Children of Thespis (1786). Williams published both works under the pseudonym ‘Anthony Pasquin’...
£200
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[MALTHUS, Thomas Robert].
Art. I - Essay on Political Economy. Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. VI. Part I. Edinburgh....
The Quarterly Review Vol. XXX No. LX, January 1824, pp. 298-334.
First edition. A review by Thomas Malthus of John Ramsay McCulloch’s famous essay on political economy.
£100
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ALLAIS, Maurice Félix Charles.
The hereditary and relativistic formulation of the demand for money: circular reasoning or a real...
June 1975.
The Nobel Prize economist Allais obtained the most prestigious of commendations for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources. In this paper Allais takes issue with a note by J.L. Scadding, published in the same journal in March 1972, ‘on various aspects...
£100
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GRECO, Gioachino (William LEWIS, translator).
A treatise on the game of chess, by Gioachino Greco; translated from the French....
Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833.
Second edition of William Lewis’s translation of Greco; first published in 1819. William Lewis (1787–1870) learned chess under Jacob Henry Sarratt and went on to run a well-known chess school at 5 Nassau Street, Soho. ‘He took part in the correspondence chess match between Edinburgh chess...
£1500
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[DARIEN EXPEDITION].
A perfect list of the several persons residenters in Scotland, who have subscribed as adventurers in the joynt-stock...
Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman, 1827.
First edition of this reprint of the list, first published in Edinburgh in 1696, of subscribers to William Paterson’s Company of Scotland. Paterson (1658-1719) sat on the first board of the Bank of England, but left following a disagreement with the other board members. Following this he devoted...
£50
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[ENGLAND, PARLIAMENT.]
An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the speedy raising and levying of moneyes,...
London, for John Wright, 27 July 1643.
The ordinance which introduced Excise into England. ‘Excise’ is defined in the OED as follows: ‘A duty charged on home goods, either in the process of their manufacture or before their sale to the home consumers … In England this kind of taxation was first adopted in 1643, in acknowledged...
£275
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GROSSI, Vincenzo.
Fra i pelli-rosse d’America: curiosità etnografiche.
Turin, La Letteratura, 1888.
Very rare only edition of a pamphlet about native peoples of North America by the ethnographer and geographer Grossi.
£250
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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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PUBLICOLA.
An answer to an audacious letter from John Angelo Belloni, dated Rome the 4th of May, 1732. N.S. Being an antidote to...
London, [n. p.], 1732.
An extremely rare pamphlet of economic and political interest, relating to fraudulent activity in the Charitable Corporation and to one of the chief culprit’s rumoured links to the Old Pretender.
£450
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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