Recent Acquisitions
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SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works … in ten Volumes …
Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904[–1907].
The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare, no. 495 of 1000 copies on Bachelor hand-made paper, edited and with notes by Arthur Henry Bullen (1857–1920).
£1250
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ADDAMS, Jane.
Twenty Years at Hull House with autobiographical Notes.
New York, Macmillan, 1910.
First edition, second printing (issued in the same month and year as the first) of Jane Addams’s bestselling autobiography and account of Hull House, Chicago’s first settlement house for immigrants and the poor (the second in the United States), our copy with two autograph letters from...
£650
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MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the...
London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868.
Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph letter and printed presentation slip.
£1000
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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.
La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.
Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.
Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s great early utopia Civitas solis.
£500
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CARNEGIE, Andrew.
The Empire of Business.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.
First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement printed on the copyright page) of this elegantly printed collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie, one of America’s most notable industrialists and philanthropists.
£600
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[CATHERINE the Great of Russia]. BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].
Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonnés par sa majesté impériale Catherine II. pour l’éducation de la jeunesse, et l’utilité générale...
Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.
First edition in French, translated from the Russian originals of 1764–7, of Catherine the Great’s plans for the Enlightened reform of education in her empire. The large engraved plans, the tables and the allegorical vignettes strike a compelling balance between a utopian and a practical vision...
£4000
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MALTHUS, T. R.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its past and present Effects on human Happiness; with an...
London, John Murray, 1817.
Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’, of one of the most influential works in the history of economic thought, a handsome copy owned and possibly annotated by the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£2200
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MALTHUS, T. R.
Principles of political Economy considered with a View to their practical Application.
London, John Murray, 1820.
First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment of issues in political economy, an attractive copy from the library of the economist and industrialist Robert Hyde Greg, a critic of Malthus’s.
£5000
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KEYNES, John Maynard.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First American edition (includes the Erratum printed on p. 403) of Keynes’ path-breaking work, perhaps the most pervasively influential twentieth-century contribution to the social sciences, responsible for instilling the notion that ‘national budgets are major instruments in a planned...
£300
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MORGAN, Lewis Henry.
Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization.
New York, Holt, 1877.
First edition. Morgan’s influential work was considered by Marx and Engels to be putatively supportive of materialist history. Marx’s notes on this book were reputedly the source for Engels’s Origins of the Family, of private Property and the State, published in German in 1844. Morgan...
£400
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HOWARD, John.
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various Papers relative to the Plague: together with further...
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly and Taylor, 1789.
First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine hospitals for victims of infectious diseases throughout Europe. This work, illustrated with 22 plans and views of hospitals, was the continuation of Howard’s investigative reporting which had begun when he served as High Sheriff, with his State...
£575
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste, 1892–1894.
A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1830–1842, disseminated by the Positivist Society as a fitting memorial to the author, whose original work, as stated by the editor’s preface, was already very difficult to obtain.
£350
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George Combe (1788–1858) was a Scottish lawyer and a leading exponent of phrenology, co-founding in 1820 the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. This is an art historical retrospective using phrenology as the basis for an understanding of beauty and artistic ability,...
£350
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[PRATT, Samuel].
The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made practicable and easie, to the Government and Subject. Humbly submitted...
London, Bonwick, 1696.
First and only edition. William Lowndes had the Treasury pay for this argument for the recoinage of the currency of 1696, and it was supportive of his policy of devaluation. Pratt calls for regulation of the mint and an end to clipping, hoarding and the exportation of coins. He develops the idea...
£575
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879.
Second, greatly enlarged edition. This groundbreaking, comprehensive work of sociology, which examines the working condition, domestic life and psychological aspects of European workers, had appeared in its first form in 1855 a single volume. ‘Since public opinion was not yet ready to accept...
£750
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KÜLPE, Oswald.
Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893.
First edition of this important work in the development of experimental psychology.
£400
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LAWRENCE, William Beach.
Two Lectures on Political Economy delivered at Clinton Hall, before the Mercantile Library Association...
New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832.
First edition, uncommon. The author, an American jurist and politician, was the son of Isaac Lawrence, President of the New York Branch of the Bank of the United States and a Presidential Elector. In his Lectures Lawrence deplored speculation as the mechanism which gives rise to boom-and-bust...
£450
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842.
First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s principal work, the outline of positivism.
£1600
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GILBRETH, Frank B.
Motion Study. A Method for increasing the efficiency of the Workman.
New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911.
First edition, rare, of this pioneering work in scientific management. The field of ‘motion study’ was developed by engineer Frank B. Gilbreth and his wife, psychologist Lillian M. Gilbreth, in order to increase the efficiency of work processes through methods that promoted the welfare of...
£550
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FERGUSON, Adam.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768.
Third edition, corrected: the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson.
£700