COMTE, Auguste.

Cours de philosophie positive.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s...

£1600

[PRATT, Samuel].

The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made...

London, Bonwick, 1696. 

First and only edition. William Lowndes...

£575

COMBE, George.

Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.

First edition, scarce in commerce. George...

£350

COMTE, Auguste.

Appel aux conservateurs. Prix: trois francs.

Paris, Chez l’Auteur et chez Dalmont,...

First edition of Comte’s ‘appeal to...

£500

HOWARD, John.

An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...

Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly...

First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine...

£575

MORGAN, Lewis Henry.

Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines...

New York, Holt, 1877. 

First edition. Morgan’s influential work...

£400

MALTHUS, T. R.

Principles of political Economy considered...

London, John Murray, 1820.

First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

£5000

MALTHUS, T. R.

An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

London, John Murray, 1817.

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

£2200

KANT, Immanuel.

Immanuelis Kantii opera ad philosophiam...

Leipzig, for Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert,...

First Latin translation of Kant’s Critique...

£2500

[QUESNAY, François.] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, editor.

Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle...

Leiden and Paris, Merlin, 1768.

First edition of the ‘Bible’ of the...

£27000

ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques.

[half-title: Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau....

Amsterdam, Rey, 1764.

Rare. The ninth volume of the first collected...

£1150

[RUSSELL, William].

The History of modern Europe. With an Account...

London, Robinson, Robson, Walter, and...

Extremely rare first appearance of an ‘Enlightened...

£1950

WAYLAND, Francis.

The Elements of political Economy.

New York, Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837. 

First edition of an important work long...

£500

WEBER, Max.

Der Sozialismus.

Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.

First edition of Weber’s early and influential...

£300

[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.]

De l’esprit des loix, ou du rapport que...

Geneva, Barrillot [sic], [1748].

First edition, first issue of Montesquieu’s...

£25750

[WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]

[芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The...

[China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin...

A handsome set comprising the third and...

£10000

[MILDMAY, William, Sir.]

The Laws and Policy of England, relating...

London, printed and sold by T. Harrison...

First edition, an unjustly neglected study...

£350

PAXTON, P[eter].

A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage,...

London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin...

First edition of this important but little-studied...

£900

[LINCOLN, Abraham, and Stephen DOUGLAS.]

Political Debates between Hon. Abraham...

Columbus, Follet, Foster, and Company, 1860.

First edition, later issue, with a rule...

£950

FISHER, Irving.

Mathematical Investigations in the Theory...

New Haven, by the Academy, 1892.

First appearance of Fisher’s ‘startlingly...

£5500