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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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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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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[BANK OF ENGLAND].
RICARDO, Samson, and others. Collection...
1837-1838.
Twelve rare and important texts, witnessing...
£3250
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[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]
Act of Parliament for erecting a bank in...
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...
Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...
£750
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BELLONI, Girolami, Marchese.
Del Commercio dissertazione.
Rome, Niccolo and Marco Pagliarini, 1757.
Second edition to be authorized by Belloni,...
£300
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BODEMER, Heinrich.
Die Wirkungen der Creditpapiere in Bezug...
Leipzig, Heinrich Hubner, 1853.
First edition of a rare German treatise...
£185
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BROGGI, Ugo.
Die Axiome der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.
Göttingen, Dieterischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerei,...
Rare first edition of this doctoral dissertation...
£375
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CHARLES, King of Sweden and Norway, or OSCAR I (attrib. authors), and Friedrich Ernst FELLER (translator).
Ueber die Banken. (Von einem schwedischen...
Leipzig, Goetz, 1843.
First edition thus, scarce, of a treatise...
£300
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FOSTER, John Leslie.
An essay on the principle of commercial...
London, J. Hatchard, 1804.
First edition of a contemporary response...
£2250
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[FULIGNATI, Giuntino (pseud.
for Tommaso BUONI?)]. Della famosissima...
Vicenza, Giorgio Greco, 1601.
Scarce humorous dystopia of indigence,...
£800
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GARRIDO, Joam Antonio.
Taboada curiosa, novamente reformada, e...
Lisbon, Ignacio Nogueira Xisto, 1759.
Sixth edition of a rare Portuguese merchant’s...
£650
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[GREAT BRITAIN: PARLIAMENT].
[Drop-head title:] ‘An act for repealing...
London, Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1787.
Rare first edition of the consolidation...
£2750
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HOGARTH, William.
[South Sea Scheme].
[London], [n.p.], [after 1751].
Final state of eight, the first dated to...
£750
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HURRY, Thomas.
Tables of interest, from one pound to five...
[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...
One of two editions published in 1786,...
£150
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HUSKISSON, William (1770-1830), politician.
Autograph letter signed (‘W Huskisson’)...
18 Hertford Street [London], 21 December, 1810.
Huskisson was a leading exponent of strict...
£150
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JEVONS, William Stanley.
‘Preliminary account of certain logical...
London, Longman …, Liverpool, Marples, 1867.
First edition of the account of Jevons’...
£350
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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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KING, John, barrister at law.
A Report of the Cases of the King v. Wright,...
Butterworth, and J. Cooke (Dublin), 1811.
?First edition. The question of forgeries,...
£100
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LAEMMEL, Rudolf.
Untersuchungen über die Ermittlung von...
Zurich, Jean Frey, 1904.
The doctoral dissertation of Rudolf Laemmel,...
£250
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[LAW, John.]
Abbildung des auf der Strasse Quincampoix...
[1720.]
This engraving is a German version of ‘Rue...
£1250