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[MOREAN WAR.]
Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under the Conduct of Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark,...
London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.
First edition of an important account of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, which had begun in 1684, in the form of diplomatic letters from the Venetian (and Hanoverian) forces under the command of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice.
£2500
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‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.
An answer to an audacious letter from John Angelo Belloni, dated Rome the 4th of May, 1732. N.S....
London, [s.n.], 1732.
An extremely rare pamphlet of economic and political interest, relating to fraudulent activity in the Charitable Corporation and to one of the chief culprit’s rumoured links to the Old Pretender.
£450
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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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SMITH, Henry.
The Sinful Mans Search: or Seeking of God … published according to a true corrected Copie sent by the Author to...
London, [T. Scarlet for] Cuthbert Burby, [1593].
Second edition, rare, of The Sinful Mans search (1592), issued with ‘Maries Choise’ and a ‘Godley Praier’ (F8), bound with the fourth edition of The Trumpet of the Soule (1591).
£8500
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TONDI, Bonaventura.
Idea Regum ad Reges, sacrata, augustissimo, et immortali nomini, Caroli Secundi, Monarchae Hispaniarum …...
Naples, Salvatore Castaldi, 1681.
Extremely rare first and only edition of this mirror for princes in verse and ‘arithmetical anagrams’ dedicated to Charles II of Spain.
£850
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[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]
Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee” July 1, 1897’.
Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.
An attractive album memorialising a garden party in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria held at Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire under the sponsorship of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833–1905), later Lord Lieutenant of that county. The photographer, Francis Preece (1853–1928),...
£500
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WOOLF, Leonard.
Socialism and Co-Operation.
London, National Labour Press, 1921.
First edition. In the interwar period Woolf was ‘a patient and committed advocate for a cooperative model of participatory, rank-and-file democracy founded on the organization and practices of the Co-operative Movement, whose socialist, transformative aspirations Woolf found most fully realized...
£180
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WEBER, Max.
Der Sozialismus.
Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.
First edition of Weber’s early and influential lecture articulating the author’s sceptical view on socialism.
£300
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WAYLAND, Francis.
The Elements of political Economy.
New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837.
First edition of an important work long held as the leading principal economics text in American colleges. Wayland (1796–1865) was for twenty-eight years president of Brown University. ‘His notions of political economy and philanthropy dictated that the most important obligations of the state...
£500
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WARD, Colin.
Anarchy in Action.
London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973.
First edition. Separating the notion of anarchism from industrial and political struggles, Ward seeks its root in everyday experience. ‘The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the...
£190
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TOALDO, Giuseppe.
Tavole di vitalità.
Padua, Conzatti, 1787.
Sole edition of the first Italian published study on demographic statistics, and the first scientific treatment in Italy of child mortality, conducted by a professor of astronomy at the University of Padua, the editor of Galilei. As a priest, Toaldo had familiarity with, and access to, large sets...
£1500
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THALER, Richard H.
Misbehaving; The making of behavioral economics.
New York, W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2015.
First edition of a landmark work on behavioural economics by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler, professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
£270
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DEAN STIFF [pseud. of Nels ANDERSON].
The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos.
New York, The Vanguard Press, 1930.
First edition, with authorial gift inscription, of a landmark of sociological studies: a classic which blurs genre distinctions blending raw travel storytelling, sharp social insight, and practical know-how, unveiling the hidden network of America’s transient labourers.
£400
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BUQUOY, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Freiherr von Vaux, Graf von.
Anregungen für philosophisch-wissenschaftliche Forschung...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1825.
First edition, rare, of a comprehensive discussion by the author of his personal philosophy, with c. 50 pages of his poetry thrown in at the end for good measure.
£950
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SPINOZA, Baruch.
A Treatise partly theological, and partly political, containing some few Discourses, to prove that the Liberty...
London, s.n., 1689.
First English edition of one of the most important works in the history of modern thought.
£28000
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SISMONDI, J. C. L. Simonde de.
Nouveaux principes d’économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population...
Paris, Delaunay, Treuttel & Wurtz, 1819.
First edition. ‘A number of concepts and theories that later became important in the history of economics first appeared in the writings of the Swiss economist J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi … Sismondi developed the first aggregate equilibrium income theory and the first algebraic growth...
£850
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SCHUMACHER, E.F.
Small is beautiful. A Study of Economics as if People mattered.
London, Blond & Briggs, 1973.
First edition of this collection of essays saluted as an ‘eco-bible’ by Time Magazine.
£280
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[RUSSELL, William].
The History of modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the...
London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and Sewell, 1779.
Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened history’. This first edition was published in the same year as a Dublin imprint. Two further volumes were issued in 1784, and the whole work issued as a five-volume set in 1786.
£1950
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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.
[half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau. Tome neuvieme. Contenant les …] Lettres écrites de...
Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.
Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected edition of Rousseau’s works to be published by Rey (1762–1764), and printed the same year as the first edition, using a reprinted title-page conjugate with the half-title present here, and without the errata leaf.
£1150
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CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de.
Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’espirit humain.
Paris, Agasse, L’an III [1795].
First edition of Condorcet’s epoch-making definition of progress, the summation of the Enlightenment belief in man’s perfectibility, the outline which provided humanity with a view of its own history as a narrative of progress and emancipation.
£2200