Recent Acquisitions
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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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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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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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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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MURDOCH, Iris.
Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.
Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.
First edition, the first published book of Iris Murdoch, in her capacity as a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
£200
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[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]
Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in Scotland. Edinburgh, July 17 1695.
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695.
Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament establishing Scotland’s first and oldest bank, founded just one year after the Bank of England.
£650
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LAUDERDALE, James Maitland.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase....
and London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804.
First edition. Lauderdale ‘was the first in England to consider systematically the fundamental conceptions on which the science is based. In this respect alone he is in advance of Adam Smith’ (Palgrave II, p. 574). He has been described as a forerunner of Keynes, arguing ‘that over-saving...
£900
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MANDEVILLE, Bernard.
The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, public Benefits. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas Garman.
London, Wishart and Co., 1934.
First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees was first published as a poem in 1705, entitled The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turned Honest, which is printed in this edition as first text, and later expanded into a prose work entitled The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices,...
£190
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HICKS, J. R.
The Theory of Wages.
London, MacMillan and Co, 1932.
First edition, scarce on the market, of a classic microeconomic analysis of wage determination in competitive markets.
£200
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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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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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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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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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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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[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