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EARL, George Samuel Windsor.
The eastern seas, or voyages and adventures in the Indian archipelago, in 1832-33-34, comprising a...
London, Wm H. Allen and Co., 1837.
First edition. Earl (1813–1865) spent two years voyaging in the Indonesian archipelago before being given his own command of the small schooner Stamford on a trading voyage to Borneo. He was an intelligent observer, and his account contains much important information on Singapore, Java, Bangkok, and...
£650
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[POEMS ON DRINKING.]
Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni; apostrofi al vino; inni in lode di Bacco, canzoni da tavola;...
Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.
First edition of this compact font of inspiration for all partygoers, containing odes to Bacchus, endless praise of the merits of wine, drinking songs, and toasts for every occasion, including a party of printers.
£200
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KEATS, John.
The Poems … arranged in chronological Order with a Preface by Sidney Colvin.
London, The Florence Press for Chatto & Windus, 1915.
No. 145 of 250 copies, in the deluxe vellum binding (for 45s); it could also be purchased in japon for a reduced price, and there was a trade edition on normal paper.
£1200
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BENNETT, Terry.
History of Photography in China.
London, Quaritch, 2009-2013.
First editions of the three-volume set of Bennett’s comprehensive History of Photography in China, together providing a study and survey of the development of Chinese photography from 1842 to 1879 both by Chinese and by Western photographers. The work examines photographs and photographers...
£175
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ANGELL, Sir Norman.
The money game.
London, J.M. Dent, [n.d.].
Early edition of this ‘new instrument in economic education’. This unusual, yet educational game combines strategy and economics to provide a little-known, but deeply rewarding alternative to Monopoly. ‘The Money Game’ aims to teach players the principles of economics, including the mechanisms...
£100
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[ANON].
Elogio del corno. Dell‘ autore della felice produzione italiana intitolata Della Necessità ed Utilità dei Debiti.
Venice, Stamperia Graziosi, 1796.
Only edition, as far as we can tell unrecorded, of this anonymously published poem in praise of the horn. Although ostensibly a chaste work extolling the virtues of the instrument, there is enough to suggest that the poet may have been thinking along less musical lines; the horn, we are repeatedly told,...
£275
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BAUMGARTNER, Reinhard.
Conclusiones ex universa theologia morali in catholico lyceo Societatis Jesu ad S. Salvatorem Augustae publicae...
[Augsburg], Joseph Antonius Labhart, [1754].
Only edition of this attractively printed summary of moral theology, presented as a disputation in the Jesuit college in Augsburg under the supervision of the professor of the subject, Reinhard Baumgartner (1699-1764). Over fifty paragraphs, the reader is offered a concise guide to the operation of conscience,...
£175
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BARGINET, Alexandre-Pierre.
De l’amnistie et du mariage de S. A. R. le duc d’Orléans.
Paris, Laisné, [1837].
First edition, rare. A work commending the Prince Royal, Ferdinand Philippe of Orléans, whose talent at exercising influence and popular support gave a hopeful outlook for the constitutional monarchy in France – a position strengthened by his marriage to Hélène of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in May 1837....
£75
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[BATEMAN, John].
Land surveying. Definitions, problems, and theorems in geometry requisite in landsurveying.
[S.l.], April 13th, 1866.
An attractive and well-preserved manuscript copy book, signed at the end by one John Bateman, examining arithmetical, geometrical, and other problems connected to land surveying. After a section on geometric definitions, Bateman discusses chain and cross staff surveying, before offering a series of problems...
£275
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CHALMERS, George.
An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses...
London, printed for C. Dilly and J. Bowen, 1782.
Second issue of the first edition with a revised errata leaf and a second appendix.
£150
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[CONDUCT].
Lettres d’un vieillard a un jeune homme qui entre dans le monde.
A La Haye, et se trouve à Paris, chez Belin, 1788.
First and only edition of this anonymous set of letters addressed to a young man about to make his way in the world in the final years of the ancien regime.
£350
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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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FILANGIERI, Gaetano.
Opuscoli scelti editi, and inediti ...
Palermo, Francesco Abbate, 1815.
Rare first edition of this collection of short works on subjects ranging from sovereignty to judicial reform by the eighteenth-century jurist Gaetano Filangieri (1753-1788), collected after his death by Giovanni Battista Ferrari, to which is appended a translated extract from an ‘Essay on the National...
£250
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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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[GEORGE III.]
An Act for repealing the duty imposed on tea by an act passed in the last session of Parliament, and for granting...
London, Eyre and Strahan, 1785.
Rare separate edition, not in ESTC. When Pitt the Younger became prime minister in 1783 he found Britain’s economy to be on the verge of collapse. To increase trade and reduce smuggling, he began cutting duties on imports. As detailed in the present act, in late 1784 duties on tea were slashed from...
£75
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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