TATE, William.

The modern cambist; forming a manual of foreign exchanges, in the direct, indirect, and cross operations of bills...

London, Effingham Wilson, 1836.

Third edition, corrected and expanded to reflect changes in the monetary systems of Portugal and Geneva, a new coinage introduced by the East India Company and the opening of trade with China. There is also a new appendix which discusses the mintage regulations for the coins of the United States, reflecting...

£125

SWOBODA, Hermann.

Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus: in ihrer psychologischen und biologischen Bedeutung.

Leipzig, Deuticke, 1904.

First editions, all rare, the first two being foundational works in the formation of the theory of biorhythm. Swoboda’s early studies on the recurrence or periodicity in phenomena acquired a psychological character and application in his work since his encounter and brief experience of analysis with...

£200

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 model....

£850

SCIALOJA, Antonio.

I Principî della economia sociale esposti in ordine ideologico … II. edizione riveduta, corretta ed aumentata.

Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846.

Second edition, enlarged. Antonio Scialoja (1817–1877) studied at Naples, publishing the Principi della economia sociale (1840) there when he was only 22. It proved a great success in Italy and elsewhere, receiving many editions in Italian and a translation into French in 1843. In 1846, the year of...

£75

[SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe, contenant les réductions des argents dont ils...

Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel Flon, 1774.

£100

[ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]

A Collection of Advertisements, Advices, and Directions, relating to the Royal Fishery within the British...

London, printed for H.M. and sold by J. Whitlock, 1695.

First edition. The Royal Fishery Company, incorporated in 1662, had great trouble finding subscribers. Initially, Charles II offered £9000 as an incentive to investors but on these only raising £3680 he withdrew his undertaking, instead allowing a lottery to aid the Company’s fortunes. After attempts...

£200

RIPLEY, Percy.

A short history of investment.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1934.

First edition of this work aimed at a British audience of bankers, members of the Stock Exchange and City workers, charting the history of investment from early times and the Elizabethans through to 1933, passing both prosperity, and tragedy and national debt. The work is dedicated to the financial journalist...

£50

RHOADS, James Evans.

Autograph letter signed (‘James E. Rhoads’) to Henry Horniman.

Philadelphia, 22 July 1869.

A letter from the first president of Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia. Rhoads (1828–1895) helped establish the college as a nondenominational, internationally respected school, and the first higher education institution to offer graduate degrees to women.

£100

RENTSCH, Carl, Edler von Ehrenthal.

Die Staatswirtschaft nach Naturgesetzen.

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1819.

First edition. Rentsch’s political economy offers an in-depth analysis of concepts such as income and expenditure, value and cost, market value, and competition; particular attention is paid to coin, notes, circulation, public and private credit, and exchange.

£150

POPE, Alexander.

An essay on man… with illustrations, and notes, by S. R. Wells.

New York, Wells, 1867.

First edition thus: Pope’s Essay on man edited, with many notes, by the phrenologist Samuel Wells. ‘Looked at from a phrenological stand-point, this Poem exhibits rare beauties not seen, or rather not fully appreciated, by other eyes’ (preface). Phrenological thinking was influential in 19th-century...

£120

PINDER, Richard.

The Spirit of error, found, and discovered, in the accounted pastors and teachers of the Island Bermuda, in the...

[London, Robert Wilson, 1660].

First and only edition of this tract by Richard Pinder, a Quaker who, with George Rose, was among the first to take the Society of Friends to Bermuda –and to appear before the Council of Governor William Sayle, charged with disturbing the peace. The most particular object of Pinder’s attacks is the...

£750

[NILE, Battle of the.]

View 1st. of the memorable victory of the Nile, gained in August 1798, over the French by the British fleet...

London, published by G. Riley, 1799.

This view of Nelson’s victory at the Nile illustrates the opening of the action at the point where the Goliath, her captain having realised that the French were at single anchor, daringly sneaked his ship inshore around the head of the French line. It proved to be a decisive point in the battle, the...

£750

[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–5.]

Punitive forces attacking Pyöngyang.

Tokyo, Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, Meiji 27 [1894].

First edition. The battle of Pyöngyang, 15 September 1894, was the second major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. In it, the town of Pyöngyang fell to the attacking Japanese forces who were then able to advance north to the Yalu River without opposition. Although the Chinese suffered heavy...

£850

DITTRICH, Max, and Max HENZE, artist.

Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg 1870 und 1871. Gedenk-Blätter in Wort und Bild an die Ehrentage...

Dresden and New York: ‘Druck & Verlag von H.G. Münchmeyer’, 1895.

Fortieth edition and 25th anniversary ‘Jubel-Ausgabe’. This lavishly-illustrated account of the Franco-Prussian War was published to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of this conflict that was, in retrospect, a harbinger of the political and military turmoil of the following century: ‘the...

£750

[NILE, Battle of the.]

‘View 3d. of the memorable victory of the Nile, gained in August 1798 over the French by the British fleet...

London: Alexander Riley, 1st December 1800.

This engraving depicts the dramatic escape of four French ships from their fleet’s crushing defeat at the Battle of the Nile, and the accompanying text recounts the fortunate circumstances which allowed the French escape. The four ships from the French fleet still flying colours cut their cables and...

£600

FERRI, Giovanni.

Discours sur les principes de l’education lycéenne, prononcé à l’inauguration du Lycée d’Angers, par...

Angers, Frères Mame, 1806.

Only edition, rare, of this speech by the Italian writer and educationalist Giovanni Ferri de St. Constant (1755–1830), on the inauguration of the Lycée at Angers.

£225

[SIDNEY, John and Samuel.]

Sidney’s Australian hand-book. How to settle and succeed in Australia: comprising every information...

London, Pelham Richardson, 1848.

A handsome copy of the ‘fifth thousand’ of this very successful handbook for prospective emigrants to Australia, published only six weeks after the first issue. The handbook was the work of the brothers John (b. 1821) and Samuel Sidney (1813-1883), the former having settled in New South Wales around...

£650

SHAW, Thomas.

Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant, illustrated with cuts, the second edition,...

London, A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757.

‘Second and most valued edition’ (ODNB) of Shaw’s observations of North Africa and the Near East. Serving as Chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733, Thomas Shaw (1694–1751) travelled extensively in Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, and North Africa, gathering extensive observations...

£1200

MAJOR, Richard Henry.

The life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the navigator; and its results: comprising the discovery,...

London, A. Asher & Co., 1868.

First edition (published in 70 large paper copies), presented by the author to the Scottish explorer James Augustus Grant, who accompanied John Hanning Speke on his famous Nile expedition of 1860-63.

£875

MCCULLOCH, John Ramsay.

Principes d’économie politique suivis de quelques recherches relatives à leur application et d’un...

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1851.

First and only complete French translation, an association copy signed by the translator for the historian and member of the Académie française Pierre-François Tissot, and afterwards in the library of the economist and statist Michel Chevalier, who like Tissot held a chair at the Collège de France.

£300