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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[CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]
Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...
Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).
First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...
£375
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three...
£375
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CHRYSOSTOM, John.
[Opera: Homeliae.] Que in secundo Ioannis...
Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503.
First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera...
£2800
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three Bookes of...
[London, Richard Tottel,] 1583.
Sixth edition of Grimald’s Cicero, first...
£3200
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842.
First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s...
£1600
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste,...
A facsimile reprint of the first edition...
£350
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COMTE, Auguste, and Albert CROMPTON (editor).
Confessions and Testament of August Comte:...
Liverpool, Young, 1910.
First edition in English of Comte’s Confessions,...
£80
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CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de.
Esquisse d’un tableau historique des...
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s epoch-making...
£2200
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CORTÈS, Gioacchino.
Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la...
Rome, Salomoni, 1793.
First edition of this response to and attempted...
£450
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DENISSE, Nicolas.
Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...
Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].
Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...
£1650
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[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]
The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.
Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on...
£450
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DOLCE, Lodovico.
Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...
Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...
First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...
£2500
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DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um]...
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs...
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian...
£3000
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DONI, Anton Francesco.
Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...
Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.
A handsome copy of the second edition of...
£850
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EPICTETUS.
Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον....
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus...
£650
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‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.
Vrai systême du monde physique et moral.
[Switzerland,] 1797.
Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the...
£1500
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[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS.]
Lo Stato Pontificio agli altri incliti...
[S.l.,] 1797.
Anonymous anti-French pamphlet, which saw...
£450
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[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.
Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes...
Venice, Giunta, November 1554.
First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s...
£950
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GEORGE, Henry.
Izbrannyia rechi i stat’i … Perevod...
[Nikolaev]. Moscow, ‘Posrednik’, 1905.
First edition, very rare: Russian translations...
£500
