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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SMITH, William.
The Speeches of Mr. Smith, of South Carolina,...
Philadelphia printed, London reprinted...
First London edition, a rebuff to the punitive...
£175
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STATUTA COLLEGII DD.
Almae Urbis Medicorum ex antiquis Romanorum...
Rome, Printer of the Apostolic Chamber,...
The very rare enlarged and updated issue...
£550
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STAUNFORD [Stanford], William, Sir.
Les Plees del Coron, Divisees in Plusors...
[London], Richard Tottell, 1583.
The definitive edition, and that owned...
£2500
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STEPNIAK, Sergey.
דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...
New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921.
Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...
£150
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STEPNIAK, Sergius [pseudonym for: Sergius Mikhailovich Kravchinskii].
Podziemna Rosja. Obrazki z przeszłości...
Lviv, [ printers of the Dziennika Polskiego]...
Extremely rare first edition in Polish,...
£100
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[STRASBOURG.]
Souscription patriotique de la part du...
[S.l., s.n., 1789?.]
Rare first edition of this entertaining...
£165
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STUART, Gilbert.
Observations concerning the public Law,...
Edinburgh, William Creech and J. Murray,...
First edition. At the time of the publication...
£150
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[SWEDIAUER, Franz Xavier].
The Philosophical dictionary: or the opinions...
London, for G.G.J. and J Robinson, 1786.
First edition of this philosophical dictionary,...
£200
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ŚWIATŁO.
Czasopismo popularno-naukowe. Organ Polskiej...
London, Printers of the Federation of...
The first two complete years (eight consecutive...
£200
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[THORNTON, Robert John].
The Politician’s Creed. Being the Great...
London, printed for T. Cox, and sold by...
First editions of The Politician’s Creed,...
£200
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TOMPSON, John, editor.
English Miscellanies consisting of various...
Gottingen by Abram. Vandenhoeck, Printer...
Second edition, revised, of John Tompson’s...
£300
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[TOYNBEE, Arnold.]
“Progress and poverty,” a criticism...
London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.
First edition of the transcript of two...
£50
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[TREASON TRIALS.]
The Tryals of Robert Charnock, Edward King,...
London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick …...
First editions of the trials of the Jacobite...
£1800
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[TREATIES.]
Volume of tracts on European treaties of...
Vienna and Amsterdam, 1725-1731.
A collection of scarce texts relating to...
£1750
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TUGAN-BARANOSKIĬ, M. I.
Sovremennyĭ sotsializm v svoem istoricheskom...
St. Petersburg, Buduschnost’, 1906.
First edition of Tugan-Baranoskiĭ’s...
£350
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TUGAN-BARANOVSKII, Mikhail Ivanovich.
Russkaia fabrika v proshlom’ i nastoiashchem’...
St Petersburg, L. F. Pantelev, 1898.
First edition thus, originally issued as...
£850
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TUGAN-BARANOVSKII, Mikhail Ivanovich.
Teoreticheskiia osnovyi Marksizma.
St Petersburg, I. N. Skorokhodov, 1905.
First Russian edition of Theoretical...
£750
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TUGAN-BARANOVSKII, Mikhail Ivanovich.
Величайшая въ мірѣ коммунистическая...
Moscow, Vserossiiskii Tsentral’nii Coiuz...
Rare Russian language tract on ‘The Greatest...
£250
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TUGAN-BARANOVSKI, Mikhail Ivanovich.
Obshchestvennoe ekonomicheskie idealyi...
Saint Petersburg, Izdatelstvo ‘Vestniks...
First and only edition of Socio-Economic...
£850
