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MANDEVILLE, Bernard.
The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, public Benefits. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas Garman.
London, Wishart and Co., 1934.
First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees was first published as a poem in 1705, entitled The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turned Honest, which is printed in this edition as first text, and later expanded into a prose work entitled The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices,...
£190
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LAUDERDALE, James Maitland.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase....
and London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804.
First edition. Lauderdale ‘was the first in England to consider systematically the fundamental conceptions on which the science is based. In this respect alone he is in advance of Adam Smith’ (Palgrave II, p. 574). He has been described as a forerunner of Keynes, arguing ‘that over-saving...
£900
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MURDOCH, Iris.
Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.
Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.
First edition, the first published book of Iris Murdoch, in her capacity as a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
£200
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[ANGLO-SOVIET DIPLOMACY.]
Papers regarding the Anglo-Soviet Negotiations 1939. Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign...
London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1939.
A proof copy, complete with typed errata attached, of this collection of ninety-five papers relating to the negotiations between the Soviet and British governments between March and December 1939.
£750
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[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]
Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in Scotland. Edinburgh, July 17 1695.
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695.
Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament establishing Scotland’s first and oldest bank, founded just one year after the Bank of England.
£650
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BACON, Francis.
Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus … cura...
London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland] for Richard Whitaker [and John Norton], 1638.
First edition, first issue, a copy from the celebrated Albani library: tangible witness to the early and fecund reception of Bacon’s thought in the circles of Galilean science in Italy.
£3500
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WOOLF, Leonard.
Socialism and Co-Operation.
London, National Labour Press, 1921.
First edition. In the interwar period Woolf was ‘a patient and committed advocate for a cooperative model of participatory, rank-and-file democracy founded on the organization and practices of the Co-operative Movement, whose socialist, transformative aspirations Woolf found most fully realized...
£180
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SCHUMACHER, E.F.
Small is beautiful. A Study of Economics as if People mattered.
London, Blond & Briggs, 1973.
First edition of this collection of essays saluted as an ‘eco-bible’ by Time Magazine.
£280
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THALER, Richard H.
Misbehaving; The making of behavioral economics.
New York, W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2015.
First edition of a landmark work on behavioural economics by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler, professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
£270
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KEYNES, John Maynard.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First American edition (includes the Erratum printed on p. 403) of Keynes’ path-breaking work, perhaps the most pervasively influential twentieth-century contribution to the social sciences, responsible for instilling the notion that ‘national budgets are major instruments in a planned...
£300
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LAWRENCE, William Beach.
Two Lectures on Political Economy delivered at Clinton Hall, before the Mercantile Library Association...
New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832.
First edition, uncommon. The author, an American jurist and politician, was the son of Isaac Lawrence, President of the New York Branch of the Bank of the United States and a Presidential Elector. In his Lectures Lawrence deplored speculation as the mechanism which gives rise to boom-and-bust...
£450
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TOALDO, Giuseppe.
Tavole di vitalità.
Padua, Conzatti, 1787.
Sole edition of the first Italian published study on demographic statistics, and the first scientific treatment in Italy of child mortality, conducted by a professor of astronomy at the University of Padua, the editor of Galilei. As a priest, Toaldo had familiarity with, and access to, large sets...
£1500
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879.
Second, greatly enlarged edition. This groundbreaking, comprehensive work of sociology, which examines the working condition, domestic life and psychological aspects of European workers, had appeared in its first form in 1855 a single volume. ‘Since public opinion was not yet ready to accept...
£750
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[SAURIN, Bernard-Joseph, attributed.]
Le nouvel an, pöeme heroī-fou. ‘A Brochuro-manie, l’an du deluge des Almanachs’,...
[Paris?], 1751.
An extremely rare satirical tale of two lovers in nine canti, fictitiously printed in ‘Brochuromania’ during the ‘year of the deluge of almanacks’, satirising the craze for literary almanacks in eighteenth-century France.
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
Les étrennes à la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush of love’, collecting amatory poems using the motif of the rose, here bound in red silk strikingly embroidered in silver and dated with the French Revolutionary year ‘An XII’ (1804).
£2500
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[ALMANACK.]
The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's and Tradesman's complete annual Accompt-Book for the Pocket, or Desk. For the...
London, R. Baldwin, 1761.
An interesting and extremely rare account book for 1761 used by a series of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century carpenters, joiners, and a tallow chandler in Denbighshire, North Wales to record appointments, time spent on ongoing projects, and accounts.
£850
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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, avec plusieurs augmentations & corrections, pour l’année mil sept...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand] and Pierre-François Durand, 1775.
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775, our copy in a handsome binding embroidered in gold and silver threads and with emblematic mottoes and charming illustrations depicting putti fanning smoke from a burning candle and holding a flaming heart.
£1500
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1785].
A very attractive miniature London Almanack in its elaborate original binding of gilt white calf and matching étui, with an engraving of the soon-to-be-finished Somerset House.
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, pour l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.
Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.
Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome contemporary binding of silk and sequins featuring lyres surmounted by hearts and torches, issued on the eve of the French Revolution with much material on the storming of the Bastille and revolts throughout France.
£1950
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’, 1800.
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands,...
£1450