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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. [PRATT, Samuel].

    The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made...

    London, Bonwick, 1696. 

    First and only edition. William Lowndes...

    £575

  2. [LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.]

    By-laws, orders, and rules, for the good...

    London, [n.p.], 1722.

    First edition of the by-laws of the London...

    £550

  3. [MABBUT, George].

    Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...

    London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742

    Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...

    £125

  4. BELLONI, Girolami, Marchese.

    Del Commercio dissertazione.

    Rome, Niccolo and Marco Pagliarini, 1757.

    Second edition to be authorized by Belloni,...

    £300

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

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

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

    £100

  6. HURRY, Thomas.

    Tables of interest, from one pound to five...

    [Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...

    One of two editions published in 1786,...

    £150

  7. [SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COINAGE.]

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

    [London, 1834].

    Three tables of coinage weights and fineness...

    £250

  8. [HAMBURG.] 

    A sammelband of material relating to the...

    [Germany, 1842.] 

    A fine and unusual volume of materials...

    £850

  9. [FRANKLAND, William.]

    A large collection of manuscript correspondence...

    [Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...

    An interesting archive relating to the...

    £650

  10. FROST, Thomas Gold.

    A treatise on guaranty insurance: including...

    Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1902.

    Only edition of the first treatise on the...

    £125

  11. LAEMMEL, Rudolf.

    Untersuchungen über die Ermittlung von...

    Zurich, Jean Frey, 1904.

    The doctoral dissertation of Rudolf Laemmel,...

    £250

  12. 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