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CALVERT, George.
Introduction to social science, a discourse in three parts.
New York, Redfield, 1856.
First edition. The first to hold the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of arts and sciences at the University of Baltimore, Calvert went on to be elected major of Newport, Rhode Island; he keenly translated and wrote essays on many pieces of European literature. In his Introduction...
£195
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
Essay on the rate of wages, with an examination of the cause of the differences in the condition of the labouring...
Philadelphia, Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835.
First edition. In this, his first work, Carey (1793–1879) opposed trade restrictions as running counter to the providential order, and postulated harmony between capitalists and workers, the former benefitting from rising profits and the latter from wages that rose as a result of the accumulation of...
£275
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
The Past, the present and the future.
Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.
First edition. Carey vigorously appeals for tariff protection and attacks the Ricardian theory of rent. He argues that ‘the historical sequence of cultivation at least in the United States was the exact reverse of the one proposed by Ricardo, namely, from inferior to superior land, apparently because...
£375
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CAREY, H.
C. The British Treaties of 1871 & 1874: letters to the President of the United States.
Philadelphia, Collins, 1875.
First edition of a pamphlet which marks the completion of the arc in Carey’s thinking regarding bilateral trade deals, described in his time as ‘reciprocity’ arrangements. Having endorsed such deals early in his career as acts that promoted free trade, in the 1840s and 1850s Carey came to believe...
£195
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CAREY,
H.C. Commerce, Christianity, and civilization, versus British free trade. Letters in reply to the London times.
Collins, Printer, Philadelphia [PA], 1876.
Throughout his political economy, Carey asserted that there was a harmony of interests among men and nations in their economic relationships. Unfortunately, the British system of free trade was not in keeping with this harmony. It was his opinion that countries like India, for example, that were in trade-dependent...
£195
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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. In the course of six volumes Comte sets out the terms of a new sociology and its status in relations to the other fields of knowledge. In fact it is in the forty-seventh lesson that the neologism ‘sociologie’...
£1600
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COMTE, Auguste.
Systeme de politique positive ou Traite de sociologie, instituant le religion de l’humanite.
Paris, L. Mathias, 1851-4.
First edition. ‘Comte’s sociology was overly intertwined with his conception of the right polity. In Comte’s view, society had broken down with the French Revolution. The Revolution had been necessary because the old order, based on outdated “theological” – Catholic – knowledge, no longer...
£1175
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COUSIN, Victor.
Elements of psychology, included in a critical examination of Locke’s Essay on the human understanding ... translated...
Hartford, CT, Cooke and Company, 1834.
First edition in English, and first American edition, translated from the French with an introduction, notes and additions by the Transcendentalist C.S. Henry. This is the first work in English with ‘psychology’ in the title. Cousin’s stress on the importance of method in philosophy led him to...
£250
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DEL GIUDICE, Odoardo.
Psychologiae eclecticae elementa ad usum studiosae juventutis.
Perugia, Constantiniana, 1793.
First edition, very rare: OCLC records a single copy, and a few of the second edition, published in altered circumstances in 1825. A Franciscan, Del Giudice writes a compendium on the theory of the human mind for students. His account tackles contemporary philosophies, such as materialism, in ample footnotes,...
£295
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FECHNER, Gustav Theodor.
In Sachen der Psychophysik.
Leipzig, Breitkopf und Hartel, 1877.
First edition. ‘Fechner for the first time clearly states the problem of a scientific psychology: how can the subjective realm be made the object of an exact and experimental science? … Fechner’s answer is, only by [psychology] becoming psychophysics’ (A. Kim, in The Routledge companion to...
£295
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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 the worker...
£550
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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. Külpe’s Outlines of Psychology was published at the suggestion of his mentor Wilhelm Wundt, to whom the work is dedicated. However, it reflects Külpe’s divergence from Wundt’s views on the scope of their discipline....
£350
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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 cycles,...
£450
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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 his conclusions,...
£750
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MACKENZIE, George.
The moral history of frugality with its opposite vices, covetousness, niggardliness and prodigality, luxury.
London, Hindmarsh, 1691.
First edition, rare; an Edinburgh edition followed in the same year. Mackenzie settled in Oxford before dying in 1691, and this posthumous work opens with his paean to the University and the Bodleian. It concludes with Thomas Glegg’s Latin epitaph.
£250
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness;...
London, Murray, 1817.
Fifth edition, ‘with important additions’. This is a significant edition, containing the new chapters that had appeared in the Additions of the same year. These included those on the Poor Laws, which were revised after 1815, and the harsh but prescient critique of Robert Owen’s utopian community...
£650
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MILL, James.
Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind.
London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.
First edition of Mill’s work of empiricist philosophy, largely an exercise in logical thought rather than a careful study of psychology. Mill describes the body’s interconnected system of sensual receptors through which the mind forms complex ideas, which in turn inform the passions and the will....
£800
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PATTEN, Simon Nelson.
The principles of political economy; being a reexamination of certain fundamental principles of economic science.
Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1885.
First edition. Patten was one of a group of ‘new school’ American economists who had gained their doctorates in Germany, and subscribed to the German Historical School by rejecting classical Ricardian and Malthusian theories of rent, wages and population. Here Patten addresses each of these subjects...
£200
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PIGOU, Arthur Cecil.
Industrial fluctuations.
New York, Macmillan, 1927.
First edition. This work was ‘hived off’ from the larger and monumental Wealth and welfare (1912), the work that had been in hand when Pigou succeeded Alfred Marshall as Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge in 1908: ‘to the end of his life he remained steeped in the Marshallian system. What...
£200
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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 of a...
£600