HOWARD, John.

An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...

Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly...

First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine...

£575

MORGAN, Lewis Henry.

Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines...

New York, Holt, 1877. 

First edition. Morgan’s influential work...

£400

MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered...

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

£5000

MALTHUS, T. R.

An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

London, John Murray, 1817.

Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’,...

£2200

KANT, Immanuel.

Immanuelis Kantii opera ad philosophiam...

Leipzig, for Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert,...

First Latin translation of Kant’s Critique...

£2500

[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.

Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle...

Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.

First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the...

£27000

ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.

[half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau....

Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.

Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected...

£1150

[RUSSELL, William].

The History of modern Europe. With an Account...

London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and...

Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened...

£1950

WAYLAND, Francis.

The Elements of political Economy.

New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837. 

First edition of an important work long...

£500

WEBER, Max.

Der Sozialismus.

Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.

First edition of Weber’s early and influential...

£300

[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]

De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que...

Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].

First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s...

£25750

[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]

[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...

[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...

A handsome set comprising the third and...

£10000

[MILDMAY, William, Sir.]

The Laws and Policy of England, relating...

London, printed and sold by T. Harrison...

First edition, an unjustly neglected study...

£350

PAXTON, P[eter].

A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage,...

London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin...

First edition of this important but little-studied...

£900

[LINCOLN, Abraham, and Stephen DOUGLAS.]

Political Debates between Hon. Abraham...

Columbus, Follet, Foster, and Company, 1860.

First edition, later issue, with a rule...

£950

FISHER, Irving.

Mathematical Investigations in the Theory...

New Haven, by the Academy, 1892.

First appearance of Fisher’s ‘startlingly...

£5500

KIPLING, Rudyard.

The Seven Seas.

London, Methuen, 1896.

One of 150 copies printed on handmade paper...

£3750

PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.

Della decima e di varie altre gravezze...

Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e...

First edition, scarce on the market, of...

£5500

PETTY, William, Sir.

Another Essay in Political Arithmetick,...

1682. London, printed by H.H. for Mark...

First edition, scarce – seemingly unique...

£12000

LIST, Friedrich.

Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie...

Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841.

First edition, the first work to articulate...

£8000