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Human Sciences at Quaritch embraces a wide range of books and manuscripts documenting the history of ideas from the earliest times up to about 1960. Our strengths are in the history of economic thought and in philosophy, but we also deal in law; finance and banking (including speculation, actuarial science and insurance); politics and political theory; sociology; psychology; agriculture; education; logic; and the theory of language.

Some notable items which have recently passed through our hands include the only known copy of the Communist Manifesto inscribed by Karl Marx, Rudolf Carnap’s annotated copy of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung), Joseph Penso de la Vega’s Confusion de Confusiones (1688, the first book to describe the practice of a stock-exchange) and a copy of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (4th edition, 1786), inscribed in Smith's own hand to Bonnie Prince Charlie's private secretary.

As well as dealing in individual books and manuscripts, we also offer collections. In recent years we have sold author collections of Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Thorstein Veblen, Emile Durkheim and Jeremy Bentham. Among subject collections we have offered are the Herwood Library of accounting literature (including Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, 1494, the first printed exposition of double-entry book-keeping); the philosophy of language; texts pertaining to the theory and study of language in the West, and the history of probability - the calculus of probabilities, statistics and their applications.

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  1. [PASCOLI, Livio.] ‘Vilio LOCASPI’.

    Del modo di mantenere abolita la mendicità,...

    Verona, Mainardi, 1817.

    Only edition, very rare, of this proposal...

    £285

  2. [PATERSON, William].

    Proposals and reasons for constituting...

    Edinburgh, [n. p.], 1701.

    First edition of a plan for the setting...

    £1200

  3. 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

  4. PICK, G. Vesian.

    Digest of political economy: the principles...

    London, Swan Sonnerschein & Co., 1893.

    Second edition (first 1892) of Pick’s...

    £100

  5. [PORTUGAL.]

    Memorias economicas da Academia Real das...

    Lisbon, Officina da Academia Real das...

    First edition. The long period of publication...

    £750

  6. [PRATT, Samuel].

    The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made...

    London, Bonwick, 1696. 

    First and only edition. William Lowndes...

    £575

  7. ‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.

    An Answer to an audacious Letter from John...

    London, [s.n.], 1732.

    An extremely rare pamphlet of economic...

    £450

  8. RENTSCH, Carl, Edler von Ehrenthal.

    Die Staatswirtschaft nach Naturgesetzen.

    Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1819.

    First edition. Rentsch’s political economy...

    £150

  9. RICARDO, David.

    Zasady ekonomji politycznej i podatkowania.

    Warsaw, Jan Cotty, 1919.

    Second and most complete Polish edition...

    £150

  10. [RICARDO, David.]

    Report from the select committee on the...

    London, ordered by the House of Commons...

    First edition of the report from the select...

    £200

  11. [ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]

    A Collection of Advertisements, Advices,...

    London, printed for H.M. and sold by J....

    First edition. The Royal Fishery Company,...

    £200

  12. [ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]

    The Report of the Committee of the House...

    London, E. Whitlock, 1698.

    First edition; a French version appeared...

    £275

  13. [SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

    Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

    Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...

    £850

  14. SAY, Léon.

    Les solutions démocratiques de la question...

    Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1886.

    First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896),...

    £125

  15. SAY, Léon.

    [cover title: ] La Société coopérative...

    Lille, L. Danel, [1866?].

    First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896),...

    £75

  16. SCHREBER, Daniel Gottfried.

    Sammlung verschiedener Schriften, welche...

    Halle, im Verlag Johann Jacob Curts, 1755-65.

    First edition, a complete set of this collection...

    £1250

  17. SCHUMACHER, E.F.

    Small is beautiful. A Study of Economics...

    London, Blond & Briggs, 1973.

    First edition of this collection of essays...

    £280

  18. SCIALOJA, Antonio.

    I Principî della economia sociale esposti...

    Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846.

    Second edition, enlarged. Antonio Scialoja...

    £75

  19. [SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

    Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe,...

    Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel...

    £100

  20. [SEVILLE.]

    Mercantile contract between Sebastián...

    Seville, 25 July 1576.

    A commercial document from the heyday of...

    £1200