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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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  1. RENTSCH, Carl, Edler von Ehrenthal.

    Die Staatswirtschaft nach Naturgesetzen.

    Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1819.

    First edition. Rentsch’s political economy...

    £150

  2. RICARDO, David.

    Zasady ekonomji politycznej i podatkowania.

    Warsaw, Jan Cotty, 1919.

    Second and most complete Polish edition...

    £150

  3. [RICARDO, David.]

    Report from the select committee on the...

    London, ordered by the House of Commons...

    First edition of the report from the select...

    £200

  4. RICHARDSON, Ralph.

    Coutts & Co. Bankers Edinburgh and London,...

    London, Elliott Stock, 1901

    Second edition, revised and enlarged, narrating...

    £40

  5. ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

    The present State of the Arts in England. ...

    London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

    First edition in English, published in...

    £19500

  6. [ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]

    A Collection of Advertisements, Advices,...

    London, printed for H.M. and sold by J....

    First edition. The Royal Fishery Company,...

    £200

  7. [ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]

    The Report of the Committee of the House...

    London, E. Whitlock, 1698.

    First edition; a French version appeared...

    £275

  8. [SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

    Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

    Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...

    £850

  9. SAY, Léon.

    Les solutions démocratiques de la question...

    Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1886.

    First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896),...

    £125

  10. SAY, Léon.

    [cover title: ] La Société coopérative...

    Lille, L. Danel, [1866?].

    First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896),...

    £75

  11. SCHREBER, Daniel Gottfried.

    Sammlung verschiedener Schriften, welche...

    Halle, im Verlag Johann Jacob Curts, 1755-65.

    First edition, a complete set of this collection...

    £1250

  12. SCHUMACHER, E.F.

    Small is beautiful. A Study of Economics...

    London, Blond & Briggs, 1973.

    First edition of this collection of essays...

    £280

  13. SCIALOJA, Antonio.

    I Principî della economia sociale esposti...

    Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846.

    Second edition, enlarged. Antonio Scialoja...

    £75

  14. [SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

    Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe,...

    Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel...

    £100

  15. [SEVILLE.]

    Mercantile contract between Sebastián...

    Seville, 25 July 1576.

    A commercial document from the heyday of...

    £1200

  16. SISMONDI, J. C. L. Simonde de.

    Nouveaux principes d’économie politique,...

    Paris, Delaunay, Treuttel & Wurtz, 1819.

    First edition. ‘A number of concepts...

    £850

  17. [SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COINAGE.]

    The King’s Assay Master’s Report, with...

    [London, 1834].

    Three tables of coinage weights and fineness...

    £250

  18. SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...

    Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.

    First Latin edition of one of the classic...

    £20000

  19. STOURM, Auguste-African, dit Eugène.

    Opinion sur la question des sucres.

    [Paris, Bourgogne & Martinet, n. d.,...

    First and only edition of this work on...

    £100

  20. [SUEZ CANAL.]

    Vade-mecum des porteurs de Suez. Extrait...

    . Paris, [1882].

    Scarce pamphlet, signed ‘J. R.’, advising...

    £50