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[NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH.]
Regularization of Business Investment. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau...
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1954.
First edition. ‘The question this book raises and helps to answer is whether the entire responsibility for preventing the next depression is to be left to government, or whether a leading role can be assumed by private enterprise, through regularization of investment expenditures. Twenty-six...
£120
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PASQUIN, Anthony [i.e. John WILLIAMS].
The Eccentricities of John Edwin, Comedian. Collected from his Manuscripts, and enriched...
London, Printed for J. Strahan … [1791].
First edition of the earliest biography of the actor and singer John Edwin the elder (1749-1790), written by his friend, John Williams, journalist and author of the satirical collection of verse portraits The Children of Thespis (1786). Williams published both works under the pseudonym ‘Anthony Pasquin’...
£200
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[MALTHUS, Thomas Robert].
Art. I - Essay on Political Economy. Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. VI. Part I. Edinburgh....
The Quarterly Review Vol. XXX No. LX, January 1824, pp. 298-334.
First edition. A review by Thomas Malthus of John Ramsay McCulloch’s famous essay on political economy.
£100
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ALLAIS, Maurice Félix Charles.
The hereditary and relativistic formulation of the demand for money: circular reasoning or a real...
June 1975.
The Nobel Prize economist Allais obtained the most prestigious of commendations for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources. In this paper Allais takes issue with a note by J.L. Scadding, published in the same journal in March 1972, ‘on various aspects...
£100
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[CITY OF LONDON.]
An Act for the better regulating the Nightly-Watch, and Beadles within the City of London, and Liberties thereof;...
[London, 1737].
Rare first edition of an act providing for the ‘raising and levying of Monies’ for the employment of night-watchmen in the City of London. ‘The said Constables, shall … use their best Endeavours, to prevent Fires, Murders, Burglaries, Robberies, and other Outrages, and Disorders …’. The act...
£150
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CARNAP, Rudolf.
Existe-t-il des premises de la science qui soient incontrôlables? [Abstract from ‘Scientia’].
[N.p., n.p.,] September 1936.
First edition. ‘All the premises on which science depends, when they are not of a purely conventional nature, rest on experience’: thus the exitus of this article, a decisive statement of the impossibility of a synthetic proposition being beyond empirical test. Carnap published it in response to...
£100
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[DEFOE, Daniel, attributed author].
A golden mine of treasure open’d for the Dutch. By a lover of Britain.
London, [n.p.], 1718.
First edition. ‘Ostensibly by two authors: p.1-32 by a foreigner, presumably a Swede; the “Application” which follows by an Englishman. Probably, not certainly, by Defoe’ (Moore, J.R. A checklist of the writings of Daniel Defoe). While Moore, in his Second Supplement, modified his statement to...
£125
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GRECO, Gioachino (William LEWIS, translator).
A treatise on the game of chess, by Gioachino Greco; translated from the French....
Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833.
Second edition of William Lewis’s translation of Greco; first published in 1819. William Lewis (1787–1870) learned chess under Jacob Henry Sarratt and went on to run a well-known chess school at 5 Nassau Street, Soho. ‘He took part in the correspondence chess match between Edinburgh chess...
£1500
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[DARIEN EXPEDITION].
A perfect list of the several persons residenters in Scotland, who have subscribed as adventurers in the joynt-stock...
Glasgow, reprinted by Hutchinson & Brookman, 1827.
First edition of this reprint of the list, first published in Edinburgh in 1696, of subscribers to William Paterson’s Company of Scotland. Paterson (1658-1719) sat on the first board of the Bank of England, but left following a disagreement with the other board members. Following this he devoted himself...
£50
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ENGELS, Frederich, and Georgi Plekhanov, translator.
Людвигъ Фейербахъ. Сочиненiе Фр. Энгельса....
Geneva, “Sotsial’-demokrata”, 1892.
First Russian edition, rare. Engels and Marx’s analysis of Feuerbach’s philosophy, which played such a vital role in the development of the Marxist legacy, translated by Georgi Plekhanov in the years leading up to the first Russian revolution.
£100
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[ENGLAND, PARLIAMENT.]
An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the speedy raising and levying of moneyes,...
London, for John Wright, 27 July 1643.
The ordinance which introduced Excise into England. ‘Excise’ is defined in the OED as follows: ‘A duty charged on home goods, either in the process of their manufacture or before their sale to the home consumers … In England this kind of taxation was first adopted in 1643, in acknowledged imitation...
£275
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GROSSI, Vincenzo.
Fra i pelli-rosse d’America: curiosità etnografiche.
Turin, La Letteratura, 1888.
Very rare only edition of a pamphlet about native peoples of North America by the ethnographer and geographer Grossi. His overview concentrates primarily on funeral rites and dances, on poetry, narrative and songs, of which he cites several examples undoubtedly for the first time translating them into...
£250
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ROSE, George.
Observations respecting the public expenditure, and the influence of the Crown … Third edition.
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
The third of four editions published in 1810. ‘A rabid Anti-Bullionist’ (Stephens, p. 42), Rose (1744–1818), here, ‘for Pitt’s greater glory … illustrate[s] the decline of the influence of the crown since 1782 by reference to the elimination of places and sinecures. His conclusions were...
£30
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[NAPOLEON.]
Napoleone, per la grazia di Dio e per le costituzioni, imperatore de’ Francesi, re d’ Italia, abbiamo decretato,...
Milan, Stamperia Reale, [1806].
Scarce decree regarding ‘civil and punitive justice’ issued by Napoleon for the newly created Kingdom of Italy. The text covers, inter alia, judges, tribunals, courts, clerks, attorneys, and ushers.
£125
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STEPNIAK-KRAVCHINSKII, Sergius Mikhailovich.
Подпольная Россiя ч. 1. Революцiонные профили (№...
Kiev, Otdel soldatskoi kooperatsii K. Iu.-Z. F. V. Z. S. [Department of Soldier’s Cooperative of the Committee of the South-Western Front...
Extremely rare Civil War edition (first London, 1883). This edition was published by ‘revisionist’ or Menshevik troops in the Ukraine, as the list of further publications (Bernstein, Kautsky, and Plekhanov, amongst others) at the end of the pamphlet indicates. The publishers also list part two of...
£125
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SOUTHCOTT, Joanna.
Four works.
London, 1808-1812.
A selection of the prolific output of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), described by E. P. Thompson as England’s ‘greatest prophetess of all’. Southcott’s millenarian visions began in 1792 when a voice started telling her of future events, from war to famine. As her fame grew in her native Devon...
£125
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SHAKESPEARE, William; Mihály VÖRÖSMARTY, translator.
Lear Király …
Pest, Landerer & Heckenastn, 1856.
First edition of the first translation of King Lear into Hungarian.
£950
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STOURM, Auguste-African, dit Eugène.
Opinion sur la question des sucres.
[Paris, Bourgogne & Martinet, n. d., but 1840.]
First and only edition. ‘Le mauvais état de santé de M. Stourm ne lui permettant pas de monter à la tribune pour y développer une opinion longuement méditée sur la questions des sucres, il a pris le parti de faire imprimer ce qu’il ne pouvait pas dire’ (p. 2).
£100
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SMITH, William.
An authentic account of the life and memoirs of Mr. William Smith, an unfortunate convict, executed at Tyburn,...
London, for J. Jefferies, 1750.
The last account of William Smith, son of an Irish vicar, containing the story of how he came to be executed for forgery, in addition to odes written by Smith shortly before his execution.
£40
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[COMPAGNIE DES INDES]
[MORELLET.] [drop-head title:] Eclaircissemens, sur le Mémoire de M. l’Abbé Morelet [sic], concernant...
[S.l., s.n., c.1769].
First edition of an anonymous contemporary reply to Morellet’s Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes (1769), in which the Abbé had given a succinct history of the Compagnie and shown how its directors were benefitting to the detriment of the state.
£150