HEBER, Reginald, and Nicolas BARKER (editor).

A Letter from India.

The Roxburghe Club, 2020.

'I do not expect that with fair prospects of eminence at home, you should go to the Ganges for a mitre,’ wrote Sir Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, President of the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs, in 1819 to Reginald Heber at Hodnet in Shropshire, but in vain. Despite a growing reputation...

£100

[HERVEY, Elizabeth].

The Mourtray Family. A Novel …

London: Printed by Millar Ritchie … for R. Faulder … 1800.

First edition of the penultimate novel by Elizabeth Hervey (c. 1748–1820), elder half-sister of the writer William Beckford – her father, Francis Marsh, had died and her mother Maria (née Hamilton) remarried another Jamaica plantation owner, William Beckford senior, who also died in...

£2500

HERYNG, Zygmunt.

Teorja i praktyka ekonomji.

[Warsaw, G. Centnerszwer], 1897.

First edition, very rare, of Heryng’s Theory and practice of economics. Zygmunt Heryng, Polish economist and political activist, was deeply concerned with economics as a science. He saw it as a systematic and conscious pursuit of efficiency in resource allocation in relation to targets. One of the...

£150

HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN, August Heinrich.

Unpolitische Lieder.

Hamburg, Hoffmann and Campe, 1840–1. [bound with:]

First edition of each work. Hoffmann (1784–1874), self-ennobled ‘von Fallersleben’, was first librarian (1823) and then professor of German language and literature (1830) at the University of Breslau, before his dismissal in 1842 due to the politically sensitive content of the supposedly Unpolitischen...

£100

[HOLBERG, Ludvig, Baron].

Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum novam telluris theoriam...

Copenhagen and Leipzig, Jacob Preuss, 1741.

First edition of a classic utopian novel, the archetypal journey to the centre of the Earth.

£500

HOLLANDER, Jacob Harry.

Economic Liberalism.

New York and Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press, [1925].

First edition, dedicated ‘to the memory of Herbert B. Adams, who first taught me the meaning of liberalism’.

£50

‘HURLBUT’ [i.e. HURLBERT], William Henry.

Pictures of Cuba.

London: M’Corquodale and Co. for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1855.

First British edition, revised and retitled, issued in the ‘Traveller’s Library’ series. Pictures of Cuba was first published under the title Gan-Eden: or, Pictures of Cuba (Boston: 1854), and Hurlbert (1827-1895) states in his preface that, ‘In the short time that has elapsed...

£150

HURRY, Thomas.

Tables of interest, from one pound to five hundred millions, for one day; by which the interest for any sum of money...

[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robinson, London; and Downes and March, Yarmouth, 1786.

One of two editions published in 1786, the other one undated, ESTC does not give any precedence. Tables for calculating interest at a quarter, half, three-quarters, three, four, and five percent; intended as a quick reference for bankers and merchants. Hurry precedes his tables with four pages of example...

£150

HUSKISSON, William (1770-1830), politician.

Autograph letter signed (‘W Huskisson’) to an unnamed ‘Dear Sir’.

18 Hertford Street [London], 21 December, 1810.

Huskisson was a leading exponent of strict adherence to the Gold standard and an opponent of the perceived over-issue of bank notes in the early nineteenth century. This letter was written only a few months after Huskisson had published his important pamphlet, The question concerning the depreciation...

£150

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

[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]

The present state of the unhappy sufferers of the Charitable Corporation...

London, [n.p.], 1733.

First and only edition of an anonymous plea to Parliament for the rescue of the Charitable Corporation for the Relief of the Industrious Poor, a pawnbroker which granted credit at low interest to the ‘deserving poor’ who left a pledge. Founded in 1707, in the 1720s the Corporation came under scrutiny...

£250

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

[INTERSEX.]

Three pamphlets.

Paris, 1892–1920.

A collection of rare French pamphlets on the subject of differences in sex development from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two of the three pamphlets are doctoral theses, covering the social impact of differences in sex development, and persistent müllerian duct syndrome (‘tubular...

£450

[ISELIN, ISAAK].

Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

First edition, part one only (very rarely to be found complete with both parts), of the most mature expression of Iselin’s anti-Rousseau republicanism, a social ‘dream’ of great articulation and -arguably- applicability, residing confidently on the borderline between utopia and reformism, and the...

£150

[ISELIN, Isaak]. [WANDALL, Peder Topp trans.]

Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af en Menneskeven. Oversatte af Peder Topp Wandall.

Copenhagen, Aug. Frid. Stein, 1774.

First Danish edition of Iselin’s earliest work, the very successful Filosofische und patriotische Träume. First published in 1755, a couple of years after his deeply affecting journey to France, having met among others Rousseau, Fontenelle and Buffon. His reformist version of utopia, a response to...

£250

[ISLE OF WIGHT].

By-laws for the regulation and government of the Poor, in the House of Industry, in the Isle of Wight.

Newport, J. Mallett, 1789.

First edition thus of a rare survival (two other copies known), documenting the transition from the Poor Relief Act of 1662 to the New Poor Law. The Isle of Wight was granted a licence to manage a House of Industry in 1771. This book of its by-laws consequently reflects the growing belief that the poor...

£1250

JACOBS, H. W.

Betterment Briefs. A Collection of Published Papers on Organized Industrial Efficiency.

New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1909.

Second, definitive edition. ‘The nucleus of the present volume is a series of four articles published by Mr Jacobs in The Engineering Magazine from September, 1906, to January, 1907, under the title “Organization and Economy in the Railway Machine Shop”. This was followed in June by a paper on...

£220

JACOB, William.

Report on the Trade in Foreign Corn, and on the Agriculture of the north of Europe … To which is added, an Appendix...

London, James Ridgway, 1826.

First edition; two further editions were published the same year. William Jacob (1762?–1851) was appointed to the comptrollership of corn returns in 1822. ‘He was commissioned by the Government in 1825 and 1827 to report on the condition of agriculture in some of the states of northern Europe; the...

£220

JAMESON, James.

Manuscript exercise book on mensuration and surveying.

Perth, 1780s?

A particularly attractive manuscript schoolbook from Perth Academy (founded 1696).

£1450