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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. GANF, Iulii Abramovich, and P. PISKUNOV, editor.

    Да здравствует конституция...

    Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo...

    Typically Soviet poster illustrated by...

    £700

  2. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].

    Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...

    Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.

    Very rare first edition of this account...

    £350

  3. GEORGE, Henry.

    Izbrannyia rechi i stat’i … Perevod...

    [Nikolaev]. Moscow, ‘Posrednik’, 1905.

    First edition, very rare: Russian translations...

    £500

  4. GESELL, Silvio.

    Denkschrift für die Deutschen Gewerkschaften...

    Potsdam, Robert Müller [for the author],...

    A very good copy of the rare first edition...

    £125

  5. GIZZI [or GITTIO], Andrea Giuseppe.

    Lo scettro del despota, overo del titolo,...

    Naples, G. Raillard, 1697.

    Only edition of this extraordinary and...

    £2500

  6. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

    Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  7. [GRANT, Charles, Vicomte de Vaux.]

    Recueil d’Essais, ou précis des opinions,...

    A Londres: De l’Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury...

    An interesting tract volume, containing...

    £1500

  8. GRIMKE, Frederick.

    Considerations upon the nature and tendency...

    Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & Co., 1884.

    First edition, scarce in commerce, of this...

    £850

  9. [GROUVELLE, Philippe-Antoine].

    Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un...

    [s.l, s.n., c .1794].

    First and seemingly only edition of this...

    £375

  10. [GUNPOWDER PLOT.] William CAMDEN, translator

    Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Iesuiticae...

    London, John Norton, 1607.

    First and only edition in Latin of the...

    £1000

  11. [HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON, and John JAY].

    The Federalist: A Collection of Essays...

    New York, John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788.

    First edition in book form of The Federalist...

    £220000

  12. HAREL, Charles.

    Ménage sociétaire ou Moyen d’augmenter...

    Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, à la librairie...

    First edition of this work by the entrepreneur...

    £975

  13. HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].

    'Baktiaris Persans'.

    [Iran, c. 1905-1911].

    An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...

    £1500

  14. HARRIS, James, later first Earl of Malmesbury.

    A small group of documents.

    [1779–1785].

    Harris (1746–1820) was ‘the leading...

    £325

  15. HEXHAM, Henry. 

    A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene...

    Printed at London [i.e. Holland].  1623. 

    First edition, written in reply to a rare...

    £1650

  16. [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

  17. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  18. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  19. ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

    Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

    The petition explains that the parish of...

    £250

  20. JOHN OF SALISBURY. 

    Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium,...

    Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1639. 

    Attractive Maire edition of the two principal...

    £600