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GILBRETH, Frank B.
Motion Study. A Method for increasing the efficiency of the Workman.
New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911.
First edition, rare, of this pioneering work in scientific management. The field of ‘motion study’ was developed by engineer Frank B. Gilbreth and his wife, psychologist Lillian M. Gilbreth, in order to increase the efficiency of work processes through methods that promoted the welfare of...
£550
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KÜLPE, Oswald.
Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893.
First edition of this important work in the development of experimental psychology.
£400
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[PRATT, Samuel].
The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made practicable and easie, to the Government and Subject. Humbly submitted...
London, Bonwick, 1696.
First and only edition. William Lowndes had the Treasury pay for this argument for the recoinage of the currency of 1696, and it was supportive of his policy of devaluation. Pratt calls for regulation of the mint and an end to clipping, hoarding and the exportation of coins. He develops the idea...
£575
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George Combe (1788–1858) was a Scottish lawyer and a leading exponent of phrenology, co-founding in 1820 the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. This is an art historical retrospective using phrenology as the basis for an understanding of beauty and artistic ability,...
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste, 1892–1894.
A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1830–1842, disseminated by the Positivist Society as a fitting memorial to the author, whose original work, as stated by the editor’s preface, was already very difficult to obtain.
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Appel aux conservateurs. Prix: trois francs.
Paris, Chez l’Auteur et chez Dalmont, Août 1855.
First edition of Comte’s ‘appeal to conservatives’, a briefer and more logical exposition of the Positivist system than the Cours. The folding tables depict the positivist structure and the positivist calendar. Comte was seeking a system of logic in which the very explanation of the...
£500
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HOWARD, John.
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various Papers relative to the Plague: together with further...
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly and Taylor, 1789.
First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine hospitals for victims of infectious diseases throughout Europe. This work, illustrated with 22 plans and views of hospitals, was the continuation of Howard’s investigative reporting which had begun when he served as High Sheriff, with his State...
£575
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MORGAN, Lewis Henry.
Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization.
New York, Holt, 1877.
First edition. Morgan’s influential work was considered by Marx and Engels to be putatively supportive of materialist history. Marx’s notes on this book were reputedly the source for Engels’s Origins of the Family, of private Property and the State, published in German in 1844. Morgan...
£400
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MALTHUS, T. R.
Principles of political Economy considered with a View to their practical Application.
London, John Murray, 1820.
First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment of issues in political economy, an attractive copy from the library of the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£5000
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MALTHUS, T. R.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its past and present Effects on human Happiness; with an...
London, John Murray, 1817.
Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’, of one of the most influential works in the history of economic thought, a handsome copy owned and possibly annotated by the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£2200
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[CATHERINE the Great of Russia]. BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].
Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonnés par sa majesté impériale Catherine II. pour l’éducation de la jeunesse, et l’utilité générale...
Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.
First edition in French, translated from the Russian originals of 1764–7, of Catherine the Great’s plans for the Enlightened reform of education in her empire. The large engraved plans, the tables and the allegorical vignettes strike a compelling balance between a utopian and a practical vision...
£4000
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CARNEGIE, Andrew.
The Empire of Business.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.
First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement printed on the copyright page) of this elegantly printed collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie, one of America’s most notable industrialists and philanthropists.
£600
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KANT, Immanuel.
Immanuelis Kantii opera ad philosophiam criticam. Volumen primum, cui inest Critica rationis purae Latine vertit...
Leipzig, for Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert, 1796.
First Latin translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, extensively annotated by a contemporary critical hand. The translation, by the philosopher and Kantian apostle Friedrich Gottlob Born (1743–1807) was published during Kant’s lifetime, and was the first into any language of...
£2500
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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.
La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.
Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.
Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s great early utopia Civitas solis.
£500
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[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.
Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement...
Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.
First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the Physiocrats and one of the most important and original works on political economy to be published before the Wealth of Nations.
£27000
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CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de.
Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’espirit humain.
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s epoch-making definition of progress, the summation of the Enlightenment belief in man’s perfectibility, the outline which provided humanity with a view of its own history as a narrative of progress and emancipation.
£2200
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GODWIN, William.
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on general Virtue and Happiness.
London, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
Second, much-revised edition, ‘differ[ing] in many important particulars from the first’ (author’s statement, see below; first edition 1793) of ‘one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialism and anarchist doctrine.
£1200
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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.
[half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau. Tome neuvieme. Contenant les …] Lettres écrites de...
Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.
Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected edition of Rousseau’s works to be published by Rey (1762–1764), and printed the same year as the first edition, using a reprinted title-page conjugate with the half-title present here, and without the errata leaf.
£1150
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[RUSSELL, William].
The History of modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the...
London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and Sewell, 1779.
Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened history’. This first edition was published in the same year as a Dublin imprint. Two further volumes were issued in 1784, and the whole work issued as a five-volume set in 1786.
£1950
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WAYLAND, Francis.
The Elements of political Economy.
New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837.
First edition of an important work long held as the leading principal economics text in American colleges. Wayland (1796–1865) was for twenty-eight years president of Brown University. ‘His notions of political economy and philanthropy dictated that the most important obligations of the state...
£500