Human Sciences
Contact Edmund Brumfitt, Jonathan Harrison, Alfred Pasternack or Barbara Scalvini
Human Sciences at Quaritch embraces a wide range of books and manuscripts documenting the history of ideas from the earliest times up to about 1960. Our strengths are in the history of economic thought and in philosophy, but we also deal in law; finance and banking (including speculation, actuarial science and insurance); politics and political theory; sociology; psychology; agriculture; education; logic; and the theory of language.
Some notable items which have recently passed through our hands include the only known copy of the Communist Manifesto inscribed by Karl Marx, Rudolf Carnap’s annotated copy of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung), Joseph Penso de la Vega’s Confusion de Confusiones (1688, the first book to describe the practice of a stock-exchange) and a copy of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (4th edition, 1786), inscribed in Smith's own hand to Bonnie Prince Charlie's private secretary.
As well as dealing in individual books and manuscripts, we also offer collections. In recent years we have sold author collections of Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Thorstein Veblen, Emile Durkheim and Jeremy Bentham. Among subject collections we have offered are the Herwood Library of accounting literature (including Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, 1494, the first printed exposition of double-entry book-keeping); the philosophy of language; texts pertaining to the theory and study of language in the West, and the history of probability - the calculus of probabilities, statistics and their applications.
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[AGRIPPA, Heinrich Cornelius.]
De la grandeur et de l’excellence des...
Paris, François Baruty, 1713.
The third translation into French, but...
£1450
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AINSWORTH, William Harrison.
The Combat of the Thirty. From a Breton...
London: Chapman and Hall … 1859
First edition of the first English translations...
£550
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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
El Momo. La moral e muy graciosa historia...
Alcalá de Henares, Joan Mey Flandro, 1553.
First edition in Spanish of Alberti’s...
£3800
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ALLEN, Willam.
Picturesque views on the River Niger, sketched...
London, John Murray, Hodgson & Graves,...
First edition, one of a very few copies...
£5750
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[ALMANAC.]
Le Parnasse des dames.
Paris, Janet, [1814].
An attractive copy of Janet’s Parnasse...
£325
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ALMEIDA, Theodoro de.
Lisboa destruida poema, author o P. Theodoro...
Lisbon, Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo,...
First edition of this poem in six cantos,...
£400
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ALVAREZ DE ARENALES, Jose.
Noticias historicas y descriptivas sobre...
Montevideo, [Imprenta del Comercio del...
Rare second edition, after the first of...
£200
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ANDREADES, Andreas Michael.
De la monnaie et de la puissance d’achat...
Liège, Imprimerie H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1924.
An offprint, with its own title-page and...
£45
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[ANDREAE, Johann Valentin.]
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio ...
Strasburg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1619.
a fine sammelband of four first editions...
£12500
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ANDREUCCI, Andrea Girolamo.
De vicariis basilicarum urbis tractatus...
Rome, typis Antonii de Rubeis in via Seminarii...
First edition, rare, of Andreucci’s treatise...
£250
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ANDREWS, Alexander.
The History of British Journalism, from...
London, R. Clay for Richard Bentley, 1859.
First edition of a detailed study of British...
£150
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[ANGLO-SPANISH WAR.]
Papers relative to the rupture with Spain,...
London, Mark Baskett and the assigns of...
One of two editions published in the same...
£300
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[ANON.]
Microselene. Curioso viaggio etereo di...
Milan, Angelo Stanislao Brambilla, 1824.
First edition of an innovative early Italian...
£950
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[ANON.]
Law Quibbles, or a treatise of the evasions,...
Dublin, Samuel Fairbrother, 1724.
First Dublin edition, first printed...
£275
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[ANON.]
More Reasons for a Reform in Parliament...
London, James Ridgway, 1793.
First edition thus, printing four...
£50
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[ANON.]
The Mystic Cottager of Chamouny: a Novel …
London: Printed for William Lane, at the...
First edition, very rare, presumably...
£3750
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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS.
De censuris et De sponsalibus et matrimonio.
Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes...
A beautiful copy of the first edition...
£9500
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ANTWERP, William C. van.
The Stock Exchange from Within. Illustrated...
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of this historical account...
£50
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[ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]
Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii...
St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum,...
Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial...
£250
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[ARISTOTLE’S MASTERPIECE.]
The Works of Aristotle, the famous Philosopher....
London, Printed for Archibald Whissleton,...
A very rare edition of the four popular...
£650