DONOUGHUE, A.

An Essay on the Passions: with other Poems … Shrewsbury: Printed by T. Wood … for P. Owen … Welshpool; sold...

Welshpool; sold by Champante and Whitrow … London, and all the Booksellers in Shrewsbury. 1799.

First edition. ‘I have felt as many woes as ever tore the bosom of a Petrarch’, writes the author in the Preface, ‘and have struggled with as many penurious calamities as ever agonized the soul of a Chatterton; will not then a generous public pardon my presumption, when informed, that I woke my...

£325

SEGNERI, Paulo.

Devotus Mariae Virginis … Ad ejusdem Virginis gloriam, & honorem, Mariaeque devotorum fructum latine redditus...

Lincii, Joan. Michaelis Pramsteidel, ‘1858’ [i.e. 1758].

An apparently unrecorded edition of this work of Marian devotion by the Italian Jesuit Paolo Segneri (1625-1694), printed for the Jesuit College at Linz in Austria and bound, probably as issued, with a short unpaginated work providing instructions for Marian feasts, reprinted by Pramsteidel from numerous...

£195

[SCOTTISH AGRICULTURE.]

A collection of fifteen county reports on the present state of agriculture in Scotland produced for the...

Edinburgh and London, 1794-5.

The agricultural improver and social campaigner Sir John Sinclair had long desired a Board of Agriculture ‘as a means of publicizing agricultural developments, advising the government, spreading information, conducting experiments, and promoting legislation’. Finally Pitt granted him an annual stipend...

£3000

[‘E. S.’, sometimes attributed to Elizabeth SANDHAM].

A Cup of Sweets, that can never cloy: or, delightful Tales for good Children....

London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery … 1807.

‘Third edition’, scarce with the frontispiece; first published 1804. A typically moralistic collection, with one very gruesome tale pertaining to animal welfare. Straying unwarily into the kitchen one day, the unfortunate dog Fido is horribly scalded by a falling pan of boiling water, losing an eye...

£150

JUSSIEU, Laurent Pierre de.

Antoine et Maurice. Ouvrage qui a obtenu le prix proposé par la Société Royale pour l’amélioration...

Paris, L. Colas, 1821.

First edition, rare, of this unsurprisingly moralising novel by the writer, geologist, and natural historian Laurent Pierre de Jussieu (1792-1866), written in response to a competition held by the Royal Society of the Improvement of Prisons to find the best book to circulate amongst inmates.

£250

FERRARI, Silvio.

Votometro per elezioni e referendum. Pavia, Bruni, 1909.

Large 8vo (162 x 230 mm), pp. 8; marginal light...

Pavia, Bruni, 1909.

Two unrecorded pieces of ephemera, witnesses to one of the earliest attempts to mechanize the voting system in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century.

The main aim of Ferrari’s invention was to simplify the way the vote was cast, by introducing balls or dice in the voting machine, and therefore...

£250

[TODESCHI, Claudio.]

Lettere filosofiche dirette alla nobil donna la signora baronessa Laura Astalli Piccolomini sotto il nome di Clori.

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1783.

Extremely rare first edition of these four verse letters by Claudio Todeschi (b. 1737) addressed to baroness Laura Astalli Piccolomini, his fellow member of the Accademia degli Arcadi. Known as 'Clori', Laura was a soprano and one of the last surviving members of the noble Roman family the Astallis;...

£475

HÔNE, Hubert.

Archive of original drawings for the Liège Trocadéro.

Liège, circa 1966-1979.

A substantial collection of set-designs for the famous Liège Trocadéro theatre, ‘the most Parisian of the Belgian theatres’, and the last one to feature revue shows in Wallonia.

£550

[BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri de.]

Lettre d'Hypocrate à Damagette. Traduction.

'Cologne, chez Jacques le Sage', 1700.

Rare second edition (following the first of 1699, of which we have traced only one copy, at the Wellcome Library) of this important clandestine tract, attributed to the historian and political writer Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722).

£450

SKARBEK, Fryderyk.

Gospodarstwo narodowe. Elementarne zasady gospodarstwa narodowego.

Warsaw, N. Glucksberg, 1820.

First edition. The work is amongst the first to differentiate between the principles of individual wealth and the wealth of nations. Divided into two parts, the first discusses production, exchange, revenue and consumption. The second is a general examination of the wealth of nations in which the author...

£1500

BISHOP, Isabella Lucy (née BIRD).

The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of...

for John Murray, ‘1890’ [but c. 1894].

Seventh edition. As Bishop states in her preface, ‘I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity of leading a life of open air and exercise...

£200

TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

Small archive relating to his military career.

1826-1854.

An interesting set of documents tracing the military career of James Dundas Gregorie Tulloch (1804-1879), from his initial struggles to obtain a commission to his promotion to Major under Queen Victoria. Tulloch was the younger brother of the statistician Major-General Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch (1803-1864),...

£2000

[NAPLES.]

Manuale della contribuzione fondiaria compilato per disposizione di S. E. il ministro segretario di stato delle finanze....

Naples, Tipografia Flautina, 1835.

First edition. In two parts, the first of which sets out the basis of property taxation, while the second treats the collection and transmission of sums owing, this manual prints the legislation in force in the nearer Neapolitan part (always described as ‘This side of the Lighthouse’, whereas Sicily...

£200

ANTWERP, William C. van.

The Stock Exchange from Within. Illustrated from photographs.

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.

First edition of this historical account of the New York Stock Exchange.

£50

BARBIERI, Lodovico.

Trattato di psicologia nel quale si ragiona della natura dell’anime umane, e degli altri spiriti, della loro...

Venice, Pietro Valvasense, 1756.

First edition of the polymath Barbieri’s treatise in which he argues that the soul is an ‘active power’. Barbieri’s text tackles the interrelation of the body and soul, the nature of space, will and freedom, argues for the superiority of the spiritual over the corporeal and against the...

£350

BODEMER, Heinrich.

Die Wirkungen der Creditpapiere in Bezug die Vehmehrung der Banken in Deutschland.

Leipzig, Heinrich Hubner, 1853.

First edition of a rare German treatise on banking, money, paper money and credit. Bodemer argues for a bettering and widening of credit in Prussia at a crucial time of its economic development, where both production and trade required ever more more advanced, unified and modern financial tools.

£125

BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugon von.

Gesammelte Schriften … herausgegeben von Franz X. Weiss.

Vienna & Leipzig, Hölder-Pichlin-Tempsky, 1924 [– 1926].

First edition of Böhm-Bawerk’s collected works, edited by Professor Franz X. Weiss, ‘one of the ablest of Böhm-Bawerk’s pupils’ (Schumpeter, p. 845). This collected edition comprises important treatises, articles, and papers, some of which had hitherto appeared in periodicals only. Among others...

£550

BOSE, Johann Andreas.

Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. Accedunt eiusdem dissertationes...

Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

First edition of a pioneering work of statistics and rare Americanum, by the philosopher and historian Johann Andreas Bose (1624-1674). Bose’s crucial intuition as a student of human societies lies in his advocacy of interdisciplinary investigations. His work ‘on all the states in the world’ marshalls...

£1500

BROGGI, Ugo.

Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.

Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, 1907.

Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation on the solution of Hilbert’s sixth problem, written under the supervision of David Hilbert. The problem posed tried to axiomatize those branches of science in which mathematics is prevalent. Broggi here aims to establish a system with which to prove...

£200

CALVERT, William John.

The demand for labour is wealth … Supplement to monopoly and taxation vindicated against the errors of...

Newark, M. Hage and London, Longman … 1822.

Very rare first edition of Calvert’s supplement to his own work, Monopoly and taxation vindicated etc., published in 1821. Calvert wrote anonymously in the name of ‘a Nottinghamshire farmer’, but here uses his name. The supplement argues that Britain’s wealth and military success against France...

£250