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  1. 128660

    Oeuvres Philosophiques et Dramatiques.

    Amsterdam: 1772

    A highly appealing collected edition of Diderot's philosophical and theatrical works, printed in the year that the publication of the Encyclopédie finally finished. There were two editions of Diderot's works published in Amsterdam that year, the other being that of Marc Michel Rey, though this is generally accepted to have... Learn More
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  2. 118211comp

    Rahel Varnhagen.

    London: 1957

    First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author, "For Harry Zohn, cordially, Cambridge, April 6, 1967". This is the German-born Jewish political theorist's first commercially published book which she began writing in the late 1920s, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. It was... Learn More
    £4,250

    Stock Code: 118211

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  3. 132151

    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America,

    Philadelphia: 1797

    First edition printed during Adams's presidency. First printed in London from 1787 to 1788, this is the third American edition overall, following two editions of the first volume only, and is consequently the first complete American edition. A highly significant work of American political philosophy, Adams's wide-ranging... Learn More
    £7,500

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  4. 132101

    Verzeichniss von frischen Gartensaamen, welche zu Hunnefeld bey dem Gartner Lorenz, auf das Jahr 1799 um beygesetzte Preise zu finden sind.

    Osnabrück: 1799

    A scarce price current for vegetables offered for sale in Osnabrück by a Gardener called Lorenz. Learn More
    £225

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  5. 131618

    Scrapbook albums from a British Parliamentary Delegation tour of Russia.

    1954

    Two scrapbook albums of photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera, compiled and neatly annotated by Elaine Burton MP (1904-1991) upon her return from the three-week British Parliamentary Delegation tour of Russia starting on 30 September 1954.
    Burton was one of two women selected as a participant, the second being... Learn More
    £3,750

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  6. 130552

    Jipping Street.

    London: 1928

    First UK edition, first impression, in the scarce dust jacket featuring a striking woodcut by John Nash, which also appears tipped-in as a frontispiece, depicting three men rescuing the body of a drowned woman from a river. It was first published in New York by Harper & Brothers earlier the same year. The Harper dust jacket... Learn More
    £250

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    The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences 1911–1918.

    London: 1920

    First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title and dated July 1928, the month in which the Equal Franchise Act was passed, granting equal voting rights to women and men ten years after women were first granted partial suffrage, and with a manuscript correction to the text, most likely in Fawcett's... Learn More
    £1,250

    Stock Code: 130432

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  8. 130408comp

    Fourier et son système.

    Paris: 1838

    First edition, inscribed "A Monsieur Alexandre Dumas, hommage de l'auteur" on the title page. Dumas père and Gamond likely knew each other professionally through their shared publisher, Maurice Lachâtre. The first principle work that Lachâtre published under the "Administration de librairie" imprint (opened in 1839) was... Learn More
    £850

    Stock Code: 130408

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  9. 130071

    A Girl Among the Anarchists.

    London: 1903

    First edition, first impression, of the Rossetti sisters' pseudonymously published semi-autobiographical memoir of their experiences as teenagers in the late 19th-century anarchist underground movement in London. The titular narrator Isabel Meredith shuns her comfortable Victorian home for the life of a revolutionary only... Learn More
    £675

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  10. 130069

    This Slavery.

    London: 1925

    First edition in book form, first impression, a rare survival of Holdsworth's best-known work, "a combination of Marxist-feminist rhetoric and adaptation of the popular rags-to-riches romance" (Goodridge & Keegan, p. 324). It first appeared in print as a serialisation in The Daily Herald (October 1923) and, like all of Holdsworth's... Learn More
    £650

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  11. 129435

    Women's Fight for the Vote.

    London: 1910

    First edition, first impression, casebound issue. There is also a wrappered issue, with the same Press advertisements printed on the rear wrapper and the price of "sixpence net" being the only difference to the front illustration. No priority has been assigned. Though both are relatively scarce in commerce, this is the first... Learn More
    £750

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  12. 128641

    Women's Suffrage and Women's Service.

    London: 1927

    First edition, first impression. Ray (Rachel) Strachey (1887-1940), was a feminist activist, politician and writer. During the First World War her activism shifted its focus from suffrage to the question of women's employment, leading her to organise the Women's Service, the history of which is detailed in this work. "She... Learn More
    £150

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  13. 128528

    Autograph letter signed ("Ludwg Wittgen.") to Moritz Schlick.

    [Cambridge: 1932]

    An affectionate but frustrated autograph letter signed from Wittgenstein to Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, in which Wittgenstein expresses his regrets over appearing to condone the plagiarism apparent in Rudolf Carnap's most recent paper through his own inaction.
    Wittgenstein received Carnap's offprint,... Learn More
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  14. 127491

    Promenades dans Londres.

    Paris: 1840

    First edition, notably rare, of the revolutionary French socialist and feminist's critique of London following her 1839 visit to England, emphasising the city's poverty crisis as a symptom of the English capitalist system, and written in the fluent reportorial style for which Tristan became best known. OCLC locates just... Learn More
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  15. 126479

    Olbie,

    Paris: an VIII de la République [1800]

    First edition of Say's first publication, inscribed "Monsieur Wardin de la part du fils de l'auteur" in ink on the half-title. Olbie (from the Greek word olbios, meaning happy or beatific) is a small utopian work which Say submitted as an entry to a morality prize competition organised by the Institut National in 1798. It... Learn More
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  16. 125466

    Letiyu Sovetskoy Vlasti v Gruzii [For the 15th Anniversary of Soviet Rule in Georgia] - presentation photograph album.

    Tbilisi: 1936

    Superb album produced to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Georgian Soviet Republic (established 1921), one of perhaps a handful put together and presented to leading dignitaries; this copy with the gilt presentation supralibros of Valerian Bakradze (1901-1971), at the time Second Secretary of the Georgian Communist... Learn More
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  17. 124953comp

    Subjekt-Objekt.

    Berlin: 1951

    First edition, Theodor Adorno's copy, inscribed "Theodor W. Adorno, Frankfurt, 1952" on the title page. Bloch and Adorno were good friends and both were heavily influenced by the other; Adorno was particularly fascinated by Bloch's Geist der Utopie (1918), which prompted him to state that "Bloch's was a philosophy that could... Learn More
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  18. 120826

    Mrs Pankhurst's Treatment in Prison.

    London: 1912

    A leaflet produced by the WSPU regarding the conditions of Emmeline Pankhurst's imprisonment after the window-smashing demonstration in Westminster of 1 March 1912. In this leaflet Dr Ethel Smyth's (1858-1944) letter to the Times, dated 17 April 1912, is reprinted. In this letter Dr Smyth provides an account of the conditions... Learn More
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  19. 132126comp

    A Contemporary Guide to Economics, Peace and Laughter.

    Boston: 1971

    First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Theodore Sorensen on the front free endpaper: "For Theo Sorensen with great affection. From John G. 1971". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010) had a significant behind-the-scenes influence on American politics in the 1960s. He served as speechwriter for John... Learn More
    £750

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  20. 132110comp

    Beyond Racism.

    New York: 1969

    First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Ted Sorensen and his wife Gillian on the half-title: "For Ted & Gillian: With appreciation for your support of the cause and gratitude for your personal friendship. Sincerely Whitney". Ted Sorensen (1928-2010) had a significant behind-the-scenes... Learn More
    £750

    Stock Code: 132110

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  21. 131685

    De l'Esprit des loix.

    Geneva: [1748]

    First edition of this classic of social science, "one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century" (PMM). Montesquieu began work on his magnum opus in 1734, and took fifteen years to finish. The book is in six sections: the first dealing with law in general and the different forms of government, the second with... Learn More
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  22. 131149

    Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher.

    London: 1732

    First edition, inscribed "from the author" on the title page. George Berkeley (1685-1753) wrote Alciphron, a set of philosophical dialogues, in an attempted rebuttal of the insurgent secular intellectual trends of the early enlightenment. Countering the views of John Locke, Bernard de Mandeville, and the third Earl of Shaftesbury,... Learn More
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  23. 130780

    Russland und das Germanenthum.

    Charlottenburg: 1853

    First edition of Bauer's Russia and the Germanic World, one of his major texts on Russia, in which he examines the growing influence of Russian power upon European policy issues and, ultimately, the European philosophical tradition. Written in the wake of the 1848 German revolutions, and inflected with Bauer's disappointment... Learn More
    £575

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  24. 130765

    Venere popolare ovvero apologia delle case di piacere.

    Cosmopoli: 1767

    First edition in Italian of Mandeville's A modest Defence of publick stews, or, an essay upon whoring, as it is now practis'd in these kingdoms, a treatise against prostitution, being an expansion of his pragmatic approach to morality, first espoused in the Fable of the Bees. Learn More
    £1,875

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  25. 130684

    The Process of Thought adapted to Words and Language.

    London: 1851

    First edition. Smee (1818-1877) considers the implications of whether difference engines, as invented by Babbage, can be considered to be thinking; as of such, the work ranks as among the earliest treatises on artificial intelligence. "In his Process of Thought, Smee was the first to suggest the possibility of information... Learn More
    £350

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  26. 129614

    Ueber Frauenemancipation.

    Leipzig: 1880

    First edition of Freud's translation into German of Mill's Subjection of Women, considered Freud's "only major non-scientific publication" (Norman exhibition catalogue) and his first publication in book form, issued here as volume twelve of Thomas Gompertz's first complete German edition of Mill's works, which began in 1869... Learn More
    £500

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  27. 129329

    Système des Contradictions Économiques, ou Philosophie de la Misère.

    Paris: 1846

    First edition of Proudhon's magnum opus, his analysis of what he saw to be the economic contradictions of 19th-century capitalism, which he felt would lead in time to an anarchist society. Proudhon sent a copy of the book to Karl Marx, then his friend, for review. Marx read it in two days, and was infuriated. "He therefore... Learn More
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  28. 97220

    Note technique sur les unités de mesures de la tourbe.

    [Paris: 1942

    First edition, first impression, containing pp. 143-164 from the scientific journal Annales de Mines, May 1942. Learn More
    £35

    Stock Code: 97220

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  29. 132095

    The Interest of Princes and States.

    London: 1680

    First edition of Bethel's observations on the commercial and constitutional circumstances of different states, based on his travels around Europe in the 1660s after serving in the Rump Parliament. The section on England is expanded from his The Present Interest of England Stated of 1671. Bethel, a republican, is careful... Learn More
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  30. Eastward from Paris.

    Eastward from Paris.

    London: 1934

    First edition, first impression of the book in which the thrice-elected Premier recounts his visit to Soviet Russia in the summer of 1933. Herriot largely avoids political issues in his narrative, and instead presents himself as an enquiring traveller. The book was first published in Paris earlier the same year under the... Learn More
    £65

    Stock Code: 101479

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  31. 131723comp

    Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

    New York: 1967

    First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Martin Luther King on the front free endpaper: "To William Martin with Best Wishes for peace and Brotherhood Martin Luther King Jr". William Martin was a member of the First Baptist Church, down the street from King's own Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, in Montgomery. In his recollections... Learn More
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    Stock Code: 131723

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  32. 130083

    In Memoriam. Miss Emily Wilding Davison, B.A.

    London: [8-14 June 1913]

    Printed leaflet produced for the memorial service of Emily Wilding Davison, certainly some of the earliest suffragette propaganda to align her death with martyrdom for the cause. Davison died on 8 June 1913 from injuries received after being hit by the King's horse while protesting at the Epsom Derby four days prior; her... Learn More
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  33. 113296

    Études sur les sciences sociales.

    Paris: 1836-8

    First edition of one of the author's last works, an enlarged compilation of most of his writings on economy. "In order to explain, once for all, his entire social philosophy, Sismondi had the happy idea to assemble, and to publish under the title Etudes sur les sciences sociales, an old treatise on political constitutions... Learn More
    £2,250

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  34. 127607

    Capital and Time.

    Oxford: 1973

    First complete edition, first impression, of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's third book on capital theory, a key text in the foundation of the "American Austrian" school of economics. Here Hicks presents a modernisation of Austrian theory, claiming to overcome the school's primary obstacles, with particular reference... Learn More
    £65

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  35. 127435

    Principes de la Législation Universelle.

    Amsterdam: 1776

    First edition of Schmid's magnum opus. A councillor of the Saxe-Weimar ducal court, Schmid (1720-1805) was in contact with many of the leading philosophes, including Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert. His economic writings were heavily influenced by physiocratic ideas, promoting agriculture as the basis of the nation's wealth... Learn More
    £4,250

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  36. 127008

    Foundations of Economic Analysis.

    Cambridge, MA: 1947

    First edition, first impression of this "milestone in the conversion of modern economists to the view that all economic behaviour can be studied as the solution to a maximization problem explicitly or implicitly employing the formulation of differential and integral calculus" (Blaug, Great Economists Since Keynes, p. 214).... Learn More
    £5,750

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  37. 96201

    The Crooked World.

    London: 1933

    First edition, first impression. From the publisher's archive with their stamp on the half-title. A collection of verses by the socialist intellectual, including two entitled "Hail, Hitler!" and "The Nazi Declares His Creed". Learn More
    £40

    Stock Code: 96201

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  38. 131438

    For the Use of the Enemies of England. A Real Statement of the Finances and Resources of Great Britain; illustrated by two copper-plate charts.

    London: 1796

    First edition. The title is ironic - the author holds that the alarmist tracts of his contemporaries, which bemoaned the danger of Britain's ballooning national debt, were bolstering the nation's adversaries by portraying Britain in a weaker economic state than she in fact was. Playfair instead presents the "Enemies of England"... Learn More
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  39. 131452

    The Purchasing Power of Money.

    New York: 1911

    First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Fred with the compliments of Irving". The Purchasing Power of Money "completely recast the theory of money, giving a full demonstration of the principles that determine the purchasing power of money in the formal framework... Learn More
    £2,750

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  40. 130116

    Tractatus theologico-politicus.

    Hamburg: 1670

    First edition of Spinoza's great treatise on political theology, a "crystal-clear exposition of the theory of natural right" (PMM). Spinoza's principal work, and the only work published in his lifetime, it blends the traditions of his Hebraic background with Cartesian rationalism. His ethical views are extended into the... Learn More
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  41. 103937

    A History of the Standard Chartered Bank.

    London: 1981

    Second edition, first issued 1979, of this set of reprints Compton Mackenzie's "Realms of Silver" (1954), Henry and Siepmann's "The First Hundred Years..." (1963) & Fry's "Bankers in West Africa" (1976), completing the history of the SCB to date. Learn More
    £175

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  42. .

    The Marginal Man: A Study in Personality and Culture Conflict.

    New York: 1937

    First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Don McLaren, with deep appreciation of your friendship and collaboration, Everett, December 21, 1948." Learn More
    £225

    Stock Code: 86930

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  43. 131773

    De l'Esprit des loix.

    Geneva: [1748]

    First edition of this classic of social science, "one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century" (PMM). Montesquieu began work on his magnum opus in 1734, and took fifteen years to finish. The book is in six sections: the first dealing with law in general and the different forms of government, the second with... Learn More
    £32,500

    Stock Code: 131773

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  44. 130268detail

    Mémoires et plaidoyers de M. Linguet, avocat à Paris.

    Liège: 1776

    A highly attractive set of Linguet's legal defences. Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (1736-1794) was a French journalist and lawyer "whose delight in taking views opposing everyone else's earned him exiles, imprisonment, and finally the guillotine" (Encyclopaedia Britannica online). Throughout the 1760s and 1770s Linguet was... Learn More
    £975

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  45. 127338

    Definitions in Political Economy,

    London: 1827

    First edition of "a valiant attempt to resolve differences of opinion in political economy by codifying its terminology and establishing rules for the definition of terms. It could be regarded as one of the earliest works on the methodology of economics" (ODNB). Malthus devotes separate chapters, among others, to the French... Learn More
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  46. 124818

    [Collection of Speeches.]

    Pyongyang: 1974-1975

    First editions, first impressions. A collection of sixteen speeches of the North Korean communist leader Kim Il-Sung from the mid-70s, which were published by North Korea's foreign language publishing department. Essentially a foreign propaganda office, the Foreign Languages Publishing House, founded in 1957 in imitation... Learn More
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  47. 115402

    Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.

    Hamburg: 1890; 1903; 1894; 1894

    Uniformly bound set of Marx's masterpiece, comprising the fourth edition of book one, third edition of book two and the first edition of book three. Only the first edition of book one appeared in Marx's lifetime; the other books were published from his manuscripts by Engels, who wrote a preface to each book. The second and... Learn More
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  48. Exposition de la théorie des chances et des probabilités.

    Exposition de la théorie des chances et des probabilités.

    Paris: 1843

    First edition. This is a significant association copy, with the ownership inscription of the logician and philosopher John Venn (1834-1923), the inventor of the eponymous diagram, on the title page: "John Venn. G & C Coll. 1880." Venn entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1853, obtaining his degree in 1857 and... Learn More
    £2,250

    Stock Code: 110741

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  49. 108257

    Papers Relating to Political Economy.

    London: 1925

    First edition, first impression. The three volumes constituting practically all of Edgeworth's work in economic theory. "Edgeworth's contribution to economics left their mark on the theories of monopoly, foreign trade, taxation and production. In production theory, earlier authorities had generally employed the concept of... Learn More
    £325

    Stock Code: 108257

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  50. 96372

    This Gold Crisis.

    London: 1931

    First edition, first impression. Commissioned by Gollancz, who wrote to Pethick-Lawrence (former Financial Secretary to the Treasury under the second Labour government) on 31 August 1931 with an outline of the book, which offers a lucid explanation of the political and financial crisis of that summer. It was swiftly produced... Learn More
    £30

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  51. Principles of Political Economy

    Principles of Political Economy

    London: 1820

    First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he had been having an ongoing debate about the nature of labour, demand and profit. "In his 'Principles of Political... Learn More
    £2,250

    Stock Code: 90470

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  52. 68127comp

    Manuale di logica.

    1960

    First Italian language edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1959. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "a Burt coi migliori vuoti, Van". The recipient was Burton Dreben, an influential Harvard professor and Quine's "closest philosophical ally". Learn More
    £175

    Stock Code: 68127

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  53. 126499

    Manuel élémentaire d'économie politique.

    Lausanne: 1930

    First edition. First his student and then his protégé, Boninsegni eventually succeeded Pareto to the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne; this is the second of two manuals of political economy which he prepared for his university courses. Boninsegni "simplified the form of Paretian choice in a manner... Learn More
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  54. 126555

    Matérialisme, vitalisme, rationalisme.

    Paris: 1875

    First edition of Cournot's study on the use of scientific data in philosophy. Learn More
    £1,100

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  55. 126566

    Système social,

    London [but Amsterdam: 1773

    First complete edition, with the false London imprint, of the atheist and materialist philosopher's treatise in which he develops his concept of "ethocracy", or a just state whose main purpose is the general welfare. Three states of the 1773 edition were executed; Tchemerzine cites a two volume edition (which he had not... Learn More
    £1,750

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  56. 131973

    Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'administration publique et privée des terres chez les Romains;

    Paris: 1779

    First edition, Edward Gibbon's copy, with the earlier, simpler form of his bookplate. Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont (1725-1788) was a great admirer of English political economy. He was one of the first in France to write extensively about the British North American colonies, in his Histoire et commerce des colonies anglaises... Learn More
    £2,750

    Stock Code: 131973

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  57. 128940

    Autograph album, including signatures of a young Winston Churchill, Roger Casement, high ranking British diplomats and their staff.

    1899-1928

    Remarkable album of autographs ranging across nearly three decades and including, among a constellation of men of state, army officers and diplomats, the signatures of Sir Winston Churchill, Roger Casement and Paul Kruger evidently compiled by an individual with access to high diplomatic circles. Churchill's signature ("Winston... Learn More
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  58. 126489

    [Drop-head title:] Analyse de l'Ouvrage qui a pour titre: De l'Esprit du gouvernement économique.

    [Paris: 1775]

    First and only edition of Boesnier's commentary on his principal work, De l'esprit du gouvernement économique (1775), considered "one of the most systematic and comprehensive expositions of economics of its period" (Higgs). The Analyse is notably uncommon: OCLC locates just two copies in institutions worldwide, the first... Learn More
    £1,750

    Stock Code: 126489

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  59. 117986comp

    The Catastrophe.

    New York: 1927

    First edition, published in French and German the following year. Firsthand account of the revolutions of 1917 by the head of the Provisional Government, this copy inscribed verso of the frontispiece "To the Association of Russian Advocates in France", dated Paris 1932. Early signatures of Kerensky are uncommon. Learn More
    £2,750

    Stock Code: 117986

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  60. 117269

    Two autograph letters signed, to William Tooke.

    New Lanark & London: 1819

    Correspondence from Welsh social reformer Robert Owen to the politician and Fellow of the Royal Society William Tooke. In the first, dated 14 November 1819, Owen speaks of the growing need for reform within the country and of his prior failure to act in full accordance with his beliefs: "to attain any great good I must act... Learn More
    £3,750

    Stock Code: 117269

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