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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
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GIOJA, Melchiorre.
Del merito e delle ricompense, trattato storico e filosofico ...
Filadelfia, [n. p.], 1830 (vol. I); Lugano, Giuseppe Ruggia, 1830 (vol. II).
Second edition (first published in 1818, a third followed in 1832) of this important work by the political theorist, economist, and champion of Italian unity, Gioja (1767–1829). ‘He contended in his best known work, Del merito e delle ricompense ..., which was inspired by Beccaria’s Dei delitti...
£250
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[HARRINGTON, James.]
The commonwealth of Oceana.
London, printed for J. Streater, 1656.
First edition, first issue. ‘Oceana presents Harrington’s vision of the ideal state: an aristocracy of limited, balanced powers. Harrington believed that democracy is most stable where a strong middle class exists and that revolution is a consequence of the separation of economic and political power....
£3750
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PEARSON, Karl.
King Robert the Bruce, 1274-1329, his Skull and Portraiture.
[London:] printed by W. Lewis, at the University Press, Cambridge, ‘Offprinted from Biometrika, Vol. XVI, and issued to Subscribers only’,...
First and only separate edition, ‘issued to Subscribers only’ (this copy unnumbered). The British biostatician and eugenicist Pearson (1857-1936) studied mathematics, physics, and Darwinism at the universities of Cambridge, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and (following a brief but abortive training in law)...
£75
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PUBLICOLA.
An answer to an audacious letter from John Angelo Belloni, dated Rome the 4th of May, 1732. N.S. Being an antidote to...
London, [n. p.], 1732.
An extremely rare pamphlet of economic and political interest, relating to fraudulent activity in the Charitable Corporation and to one of the chief culprit’s rumoured links to the Old Pretender.
£450
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[SMITH, Adam.] [STEWART, Dugald.]
Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith, LL.D. From the Transactions of the Royal Society...
[Edinburgh? N.p. 1794?].
First separate edition of the first ‘Life’ of Adam Smith, and one of only a handful of copies that were printed for limited private issue. A year later, it was incorporated into the Essays on Philosophical Subjects, and later in editions of the Wealth of Nations. Stewart (1753-1828) read the paper...
£3750
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[TRADE AND EXCISE].
An Additional Act for the better improvement and advancing the receipts of the Excise and New-Impost. At the...
London, Henry Hills and Iohn Field, Printers to His Highness, 1657.
First edition. The most substantial part of the Act, entitled ‘A Book of Values of Merchandize imported, according to which, excize is to be paid by the first buyer’, includes a 40-page alphabetical list of imported commodities, each recorded with the respective payable duty. A lively and detailed...
£250
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MITTAG-LEFFLER, Gösta.
Sur la représentation analytique d’une branche uniforme d’une fonction monogène.
Stockholm, 1899-1909.
First edition of this important series of papers by Mittag-Leffler, offprints from Acta Mathematica, the international mathematical journal established by him in 1882.
£750
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PICK, G. Vesian.
Digest of political economy: the principles of John Stuart Mill.
London, Swan Sonnerschein & Co., 1893.
Second edition (first 1892) of Pick’s epitome of J.S. Mill’s Principles of political economy. Stating his aim as to ‘present a bird’s-eye view of Political Economy’, with a secondary intent of being used by students as a companion volume to the treatise itself, Pick aims to bring a new simplicity...
£100
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REID, Thomas.
The Works of Thomas Reid … with an Account of his Life and Writings, by Dugalds Stewart … with Notes, by the...
Charlestown (MA), Samuel Etheridge junior, 1813.
First American edition of the foundation of the Scottish Common Sense School, with a life of Reid by his disciple Dugald Stewart. The set includes his early treatises and analytics, his enquiry into the human mind and the senses, memory, intellectual and active powers, actions, and morals.
£120
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SCHREBER, Daniel Gottfried.
Delineatio historiae scientiarum oeconomicarum quatenus ut academicae considerandae sunt qua sub auspiciis...
Leipzig, ex officina Iacobaeeria, [1764].
First edition of this interesting outline of the history of economic science by the jurist and philosopher Schreber (1708-1777), presented as his inaugural lecture as professor of economics, politics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
£75