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GASTALDI, Louis.
De la liberté commerciale, du crédit et des banques, avec projet d’une banque générale du crédit et...
Turin, Mussano, 1840.
First edition, a very attractive copy with a good provenance, of this important monograph on credit and the banking system, and its role as support in the creation of wealth.
£850
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[GEORGE III.]
An Act for repealing the duty imposed on tea by an act passed in the last session of Parliament, and for granting...
London, Eyre and Strahan, 1785.
Rare separate edition, not in ESTC. When Pitt the Younger became prime minister in 1783 he found Britain’s economy to be on the verge of collapse. To increase trade and reduce smuggling, he began cutting duties on imports. As detailed in the present act, in late 1784 duties on tea were slashed from...
£75
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GESELL, Silvio.
Denkschrift für die Deutschen Gewerkschaften zum Gebrauch bei ihren Aktionen in der Frage der Währung, der Valuta...
Potsdam, Robert Müller [for the author], [1922].
A very good copy of the rare first edition of Gesell’s advice for the trade unions on the current traps of the monetary system, and his antidote, free economy. After the 1918/19 revolutions, and during the hyper-inflation free economy theories were debated more widely and incorporated in working class...
£125
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GIOJA, Melchiorre.
Ideologia, esposta da Melchiorre Gioja ...
Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1822-1823.
First edition, a very good copy, of the work in which the Italian economist and philosopher expounds his theory of sensations and passions. It was immediately placed on the Index.
£125
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GIORDANO, Andrea.
Discorso pronunziato … nell’Assemblea Generale degli azionisti della Banca del Tavoliere di Puglia alla tornata...
[N. p., de Stefano, 1837].
Only edition of this speech delivered by a well-connected trustee to the members of the board of the Banca del Tavoliere di Puglia, outlining the events of the previous two years - during which the bank had lost, through maladministration, the trust of numerous important foreign investors - and calling...
£100
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GISBERT, Mateo.
Diccionario Español – Bagobo compuesto por el P. Mateo Gisbert de la Compañia de Jesús.
Manila, J. Marty, 1892.
First edition of this Spanish – Bagobo language dictionary, including a brief grammar, by the Jesuit missionary Mateo Gisbert, published just six years before Spanish rule in the Philippines was ended by the 1898 Treaty of Paris. Bagobo is a language of the southern Philippines spoken in the Davao...
£150
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[GROUVELLE, Philippe-Antoine].
Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un senateur allemand et un républicain francais. Rapporté...
[s.l, s.n., c .1794].
First and seemingly only edition of this dialogue on the aftermath of the French revolution, attributed to the playwright, journalist, and diplomat Philippe-Antoine Grouvelle (1758-1806). While the ‘senateur allemand’ is instinctively hostile to the French revolution (‘J’ai l’horreur du nouveau,...
£375
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CLIFFORD, Jeronimy.
The case and replication of the legal representatives of Jeronimy Clifford; a British subject; and late merchant...
London, C. Say, 1763.
First edition of this comprehensive summary of Clifford’s long-running legal battle with the Dutch West India Company in Surinam over Corcabo, his sugar plantation, from the Macclesfield library, including a handsome folding ‘map of the colony of Surinam’.
£850
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HUTTEAU, Jean Baptiste Louis Philippe.
Trattato dei contratti per le condotte di terra e di acqua reso conforme al codice civile...
Milan, Francesco Sonzogno, 1806.
A lovely copy of this rare Italian translation of a treatise by the French lawyer Jean Baptiste Hutteau (1765–1855) on the laws relating to the transport of goods, whether by road or by water, in the light of the new Napoleonic Code civil. The work describes the ways in which goods should be handed...
£225
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INGALL, Godefroi D., and George WITHERS.
The Stock Exchange.
London, Edward Arnold, 1904.
First edition of Ingall’s and Withers’ instructional overview of the Stock Exchange.
£100
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KARG, Stanislaus (pr.), Celso EISENMAN and Eccard HOCHENBAUM (resp.).
Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio sacramentali ad...
Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, 1712.
Only edition, rare, of this dissertation on the theological and legal aspects of theft and restitution, presented to the distinguished canon lawyer, and author of the monumental Manuale theologico-canonico-legale practicum, Stanislaus Karg. Divided into four sections, the work examines the nature of...
£275
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[KELMARSH HALL].
HANBURY, William. Manuscript ledger book of documents relating to the Kelmarsh estate.
Northamptonshire, c. 1762.
A detailed account of the workings of Kelmarsh Hall and related properties, one of Northamptonshire’s foremost estates. The majority of the work consists of transcriptions of earlier documents, collated against the originals by William Hanbury himself in 1762, including documents thought to date from...
£550
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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 economy, that...
£300
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KNAPP, Georg Friedrich.
Die neuern Ansichten über Moralstatistik …
Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1871.
First edition of a lecture given on 29 April 1871 at the University of Leipzig, presentation copy, the title-page inscribed ‘Herrn Dr Adolf Mayer, freundschaftlich G.F. Knapp’.
£250
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LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm.
Oeuvres de Leibniz publiées pour la première fois d’après les manuscrits originaux avec notes...
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1859-1875.
A handsome seven-volume edition of the correspondence and historical and political writings of the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the ‘last universal genius’, edited by Louis-Alexandre Foucher de Careil (1826–1891), with texts in French, German, and Latin. The second volume...
£250
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LEGRET, G.P.
Rudiment de la comptabilité commerciale A l’usage des jeunes gens qui se destinent au commerce et de tous les négocians...
Paris, Belin fils and le Prieur, 1811.
Scarce first edition of this introduction to bookkeeping for lay people, addressed by the author to the young who are destined for trade, businessmen and merchants, artisans and manufacturers, and anyone else who falls under the Napoleonic Code de Commerce of 1807, which required businesses to keep up-to-date...
£375
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MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.
Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate alle persone popolari per uso del comercio umano, e civile, in questa...
Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.
A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably augmented from the first of 1754, of this book of applied mathematical problems by the Veronese mathematician Gaetano Marzaglia (or Marcegaglia, 1716–1787), heavily influenced by the work of Wolff, who provides the motto to the book, and whose works...
£650
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BOEMUS, Johann, and ‘Lucio FAUNO’ [pseud. Giovanni TARCAGNOTA] (translator).
Gli costumi, le leggi, et...
Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1542.
First edition in Italian of Johann Boemus’s influential ethnographic compendium, a sixteenth-century bestseller considered the first of its kind.
£475
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ACTON, William.
Prostitution, considered in its moral, social, & sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities. With proposals...
London, [Savill and Edwards for] John Churchill, 1857.
First edition of this medico-social analysis of sex work and sexually transmitted infections in London, in which physician William Acton argues for increased governmental intervention, influential in shaping the later Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869.
£1250
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[CORFU.]
Notificazione. Uffizio della segreteria del governo. Corfu, 7 Maggio 1816 …
Corfu, ‘en te typographia tes dioikeseos’, [1816].
A seemingly unrecorded bilingual broadside, in parallel Italian and Greek, reporting on cases of plague in the district of Leftimo on the island of Corfu, issued during the British protectorate in May 1816 and printed in the capital at the government press.
£375