Recent Acquisitions

  1. [ALMANACK.]

    ...

    [Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin,...

    A literary almanack for 1927 with stories...

    £175

  2. [ALMANACK.]

    Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга...

    St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of the second...

    £200

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...

    £300

  4. [ALMANACK.]

    étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...

    Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

    Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...

    £1950

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  6. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...

    London, R. Baldwin, 1761.

    An interesting and extremely rare account...

    £850

  8. MILL, John Stuart.

    A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive,...

    London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,...

    Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph...

    £1000

  9. LE PLAY, Frédéric.

    Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].

    Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879. 

    Second, greatly enlarged edition. This...

    £750

  10. KEYNES, John Maynard.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest...

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 

    First American edition (includes the Erratum...

    £300

  11. MURDOCH, Iris.

    Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

    Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

    First edition, the first published book...

    £200

  12. [BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

    Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in...

    Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...

    Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...

    £650

  13. LAUDERDALE, James Maitland.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of...

    and London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804.

    First edition. Lauderdale ‘was the first...

    £900

  14. MANDEVILLE, Bernard.

    The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices,...

    London, Wishart and Co., 1934.

    First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable...

    £190

  15. HICKS, J. R.

    The Theory of Wages.

    London, MacMillan and Co, 1932.

    First edition, scarce on the market, of...

    £200

  16. CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

    La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.

    Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.

    Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s...

    £500

  17. CARNEGIE, Andrew.

    The Empire of Business.

    New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.

    First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement...

    £600

  18. [CATHERINE the Great of Russia]. BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

    Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

    Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

    First edition in French, translated from...

    £4000

  19. MALTHUS, T. R.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

    London, John Murray, 1817.

    Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’,...

    £2200

  20. MALTHUS, T. R.

    Principles of political Economy considered...

    London, John Murray, 1820.

    First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

    £5000