Human Sciences
Contact 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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[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]
The present state of the unhappy sufferers...
London, [n.p.], 1733.
First and only edition of an anonymous...
£250
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...
£3500
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[ISELIN, Isaak].
Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.
Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.
Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...
£150
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[ISELIN, Isaak; Peder Topp WANDALL, translator].
Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af...
Frid. Stein, 1774.
Very rare first Danish edition of Iselin’s...
£250
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[ISLE OF WIGHT.]
By-laws for the regulation and government...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1789.
First edition thus of a rare survival documenting...
£950
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ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.
Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...
The petition explains that the parish of...
£250
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JEFFERIES, Richard.
Hodge and his Masters …
London, Smith, Elder, & Co. … 1880.
First edition, an influential volume of...
£450
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JENKINS, Edward.
The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....
[Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...
A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...
£100
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JEROME, Jerome Klapka.
Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster...
Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.
A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome...
£500
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JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.
Historic Macao …
Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.
First edition of an important history of...
£950
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JEVONS, William Stanley.
Studies in deductive logic. A manual for...
London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.
First edition. Jevons had been preoccupied...
£175
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JEVONS, William Stanley.
La moneta ed il meccanismo dello scambio.
Milan, Fratelli Dumolard, 1876.
First Italian edition of ‘a most readable...
£50
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JONES, John Gale.
An Oration on the late General Washington,...
Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.
Scarce revised second edition, printed...
£375
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JOURNET, Henri.
‘Cahier correct à Journet Henri. Classe...
Ambert, 1851–1854.
A charmingly decorated exercise-book belonging...
£275
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[JULY REVOLUTION.]
Habitans de Paris, les députés de la...
[Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July...
A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s...
£100
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JUSSIEU, Laurent Pierre de.
Antoine et Maurice. Ouvrage qui a obtenu...
Paris, L. Colas, 1821.
First edition, rare, of this unsurprisingly...
£250
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[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]
The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...
...
First edition(?), very rare, of the first...
£27500
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JUVENAL.
The Satires … translated: with explanatory...
London, for J. Nicholson, Cambridge;...
Third edition of this parallel-text translation...
£1250
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[JUVENILE.]
Preliminary lessons on the history of England,...
Taunton, J. Poole, 1821.
Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed...
£135