CAGNAZZI, Luca de Samuele.

Analisi dell’ economia privata e pubblica degli antichi relativamente a quella de’ moderni …

Naples, Società filomatica, 1830.

First edition. Cagnazzi (1764–1852) was originally a teacher of mathematics by profession, receiving a professorship at Naples in 1806. ‘His life was full of trouble; having been concerned in political intrigues, he had to flee from Naples and, after wandering, nearly always on foot, through Italy...

£500

CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

A discourse touching the Spanish monarchy. Wherein we have a political glasse representing each particular...

London, printed for Philemon Stephens in Paul’s Church-Yard, 1654.

First edition in English. The translator’s preface to the reader is unsigned, but the translation is usually attributed to Edward Chilmead (see Oxford DNB). He explains that he could not discover in which language the Discourse was originally written in, but that the recent [1653] Latin edition published...

£7500

CAMPBELL, George.

A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of the principles advanced by David Hume Esq; in an essay...

Edinburgh, for A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1762.

First edition. This dissertation, expanded from a sermon preached before the provincial synod in 1760 is called by Mossner ‘the most elaborate of the eighteenth century and is further remarkable in that it drew comment from Hume himself’ (p. 292). Through an intermediary, the Reverend Hugh Blair,...

£850

[CAMPOMANES, Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de].

Discurso sobre el Fomento de la Industria popular. De orden de S. M. [Carlos III] y del...

Madrid, D. Antonio de Sancha, 1774.

First edition; preceding the complementary Discurso sobre la educación popular de los artesanos y su fomenta (1775); Dutch and Italian editions appeared in 1780 and 1787. Campomanes (1723–1802) was, according to McCulloch, ‘one of the most intelligent and distinguished Spanish statesmen of [the...

£400

CAPPELLO, Pier Andrea (also CAPELLO).

Nuovo trattato del modo di regolare la moneta.

Venice, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1752.

Very scarce first edition. Cappello’s work seeks to deduce the general principles regulating supply and demand by studying the relative circulation of gold and silver across twelve international markets. He offers the empirical basis of his study in fourteen tables which provide exhaustive details...

£5000

CARBONARO, J.

A. Nouveau traité d’arithmètique.

Tournay, Blanquart, 1800.

First edition, very rare, of a book on arithmetic which concentrates on its applications to trade and accountancy. The book deals with tariffs, tables of exchange, measures, calculation of interest, rent, and chapters on the nature of companies and of bankruptcy.

£1200

CAREY, Henry Charles.

Principles of social science.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1858-1860.

First edition, a very attractive copy, of Carey’s principal work. ‘His treatment of social science was original, and led him to a series of supposed discoveries, the order of which he has stated in the introduction of his most important work The Principles of Social Science. His point of departure...

£1500

CARNAP, Rudolf.

Introduction to semantics.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1942.

First edition. The letter inserted in this copy, dated February 26th 1947, is one leaf, penned and signed by Carnap, and addressed to R.P. Brady, a graduate student whose idea of a new introduction to Principia Mathematica Carnap finds ‘very interesting’. In response to Brady’s request, Carnap...

£1250

CARNAP, Rudolf.

1959 & 1962.

The first photograph shows Carnap and his wife outside their house and is signed and, in another hand, dated 1959 as having been taken in Santa Monica. The second photograph is of Carnap and is dated 1960, signed and inscribed “Der lieben Erna, in alter Freundschaft”. This refers to Erna Lowenberg...

£1500

[CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia].

Le Czarewitz Chlore. Conte Moral. De main impériale & de maitresse.

Berlin, Fréderic Nicolaï, Lausanne, François Grasset, 1782.

First edition, very rare, of a speculum principis of the Enlightenment, by one of the time’s most enlightened monarchs. Le Czarewitz Chlore is a moral tale written by Catherine II of Russia for her two grandsons, the future Alexander I and his younger brother Constantine, while their father and mother,...

£3000

[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...

£850

[CIVIL LAW.]

COMMENTARY, in Latin; a complete paper leaf, double columns of 61 lines, the words commented on written in a large...

Much of the commentary is concerned with legal transactions and gives instructions about how to produce a valid legal document, such as putting the name of the reigning emperor at the start of the text. The commentary also discusses the different professions and occupations such as head of state, judge,...

£250

CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of.

The History of the Rebellion and civil Wars in Ireland, with the true State and Condition of that...

London: Printed by H. P. for J. Wilford … and T. Jauncy … 1720.

First edition, a large paper copy in a presentation binding, from the family library of the Dukes of Ormond, the source of the manuscript from which it was published.

£12500

[CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].

The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant and planter of Surinam. Paper, No. 160.

[London, n.p., 1711].

First extended account of Clifford’s long-running legal battle with the Dutch West India Company in Surinam over Corcabo, his sugar plantation. The earlier publications had been just four pages long; this work furnishes us with plantation account details and testimonies, chronologically arranged with...

£1250

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 the Clifford case in four parts. The work covers the years 1667-1737, the years of the case as it proceeded after Clifford’s death, followed by the latest details of the case presented on 7 October 1762 and the replication of the lawyers acting in Clifford’s...

£1800

[COCHRAN, Charles B.]

OSTROWSKA, Wanda and Viola G. GARVIN. London’s Glory.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin.

£75

COLTON, Calvin.

Public economy of the United States.

New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1848.

First edition of an attack on the concept of a free-trade economy in favour of the institution of a protective economy within the United States. Colton, a Massachusetts born clergy-man who also had experience as a journalist, reflects his Northern roots in arguing against the inherently ‘European’...

£250

COMPAGNA.

Anno I, numero 1 (-2), gennaio (-febbraio) 1972.

Bari, Edizioni Dedalo, 1972.

The first two issues of this scarce Italian feminist and Marxist-Leninist monthly periodical, which took its name from a 1920s journal produced by the Italian Communist Party for a female readership. These two issues consider female emancipation and revolution; women in the workplace, divorce, motherhood,...

£125

CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de, abbé.

Le commerce et le gouvernement, considérés relativement l’un à l’autre.

Amsterdam, et se touve à Paris, chez Jombert et Cellot, 1776.

One of the three editions to appear in the year of the first edition, this is the one produced in two volumes with separate pagination, and without the errata, with errors partially corrected in the text. The other two editions, including the first, were published in a single volume.

£600

COOLIDGE, Mary Roberts.

American public problems: Chinese immigration.

New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1909.

First edition of Dr Coolidge’s impassioned critique of the contemporary US policy regarding Chinese immigrants.

The first wave of Chinese immigration into the US was in the 19th century, when Chinese workers provided cheap labour for the construction of the railways and in other industries...

£150