Welcome to Peter Harrington Books

+44 (0)20 7591 0220
 
Advanced Search
Shop By

Shopping Options

Filter Results Close
Category
  1. Books
    1. What's New
    2. Signed & inscribed books
      1. Association copies
      2. Inscribed books, signed or with letter
      3. Signed limited editions
    3. Bindings & Library Sets
      1. Fine Bindings
      2. Leather Bound Books
      3. Library Sets
    4. Letters & manuscripts
      1. Autograph or typed letters
    5. Literary artwork & portraits
      1. Book related artwork
      2. Literary portraits
    6. Architecture & design
      1. Art
    7. Children's
      1. Signed copies
    8. Economics & social sciences
      1. Economics
      2. Law
      3. Philosophy
      4. Politics
      5. Social sciences
    9. History & culture
      1. Americana
      2. Crime
      3. Feminism
      4. History
      5. Religion
      6. Anthropology
    10. Literature
      1. American literature
      2. English literature pre-1900
      3. Literary criticism & biography
      4. Modern literature
      5. Poetry
      6. Private press
      7. World literature
      8. Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias
    11. Naval & Military History
      1. Military
      2. Naval & maritime
      3. World War I
      4. World War II
    12. Photography
      1. Photobooks
      2. Photography, original
    13. Science, Medicine & Natural History
      1. Chemistry & Physics
      2. Mathematics
      3. Medicine
      4. Natural Sciences
      5. Psychology & Psychoanalysis
      6. Technology
      7. Natural History
    14. Sports & Leisure
    15. Travel & Exploration
      1. Africa
      2. Americas
      3. Asia
      4. India
      5. Middle East
      6. Russia
    16. Books not in English
      1. French
      2. German
      3. Italian
      4. Latin
      5. Russian
      6. Spanish
Author
  1. bentham, jeremy. (19)
  2. marx, karl. (14)
  3. smith, adam. (14)
  4. churchill, winston s. (9)
  5. keynes, john maynard. (9)
  6. mill, john stuart. (9)
  7. hayek, friedrich august von. (8)
  8. thatcher, margaret. (8)
  9. bentley, nicolas. (7)
  10. malthus, thomas robert. (7)
  11. pigou, arthur cecil. (7)
  12. dupont de nemours, pierre samuel. (6)
  13. fisher, irving. (6)
  14. lewis, wyndham. (6)
  15. hume, david. (5)
  16. proudhon, pierre-joseph. (5)
  17. shaw, george bernard. (5)
  18. locke, john. (4)
  19. mises, ludwig von. (4)
  20. necker, jacques. (4)
  21. pareto, vilfredo. (4)
  22. schumpeter, joseph alois. (4)
  23. veblen, thorstein. (4)
  24. (crime and punishment.) calvert, e. roy. (3)
  25. allais, maurice. (3)
  26. fawcett, henry. (3)
  27. godwin, william. (3)
  28. kant, immanuel. (3)
  29. law, john. (3)
  30. menger, carl. (3)
  31. owen, robert. (3)
  32. popper, karl r. (3)
  33. quine, willard van orman. (3)
  34. roosevelt, franklin d. (3)
  35. russell, bertrand. (3)
  36. young, arthur. (3)
  37. (economics.) (veblen, thorstein.) dorfman, joseph. (2)
  38. (economics.) brailsford, henry noel. (2)
  39. (economics.) hutchinson, geoffrey. (2)
  40. (industry; economics.) [haldane, thomas graeme nelson.] h.g. (2)
  41. (interwar period.) jackson, j. hampden. (2)
  42. (magna carta.) pine, john. (2)
  43. (palestine.) (2)
  44. (politics.) nathan, h. l., & h. heathcote williams (ed.) (2)
  45. (politics; labour.) mitchison, g. r. (2)
  46. (trade unions.) cole, g. d. h. (2)
  47. (world war ii: blitz.) strachey, john. (2)
  48. [mirabeau, victor riquetti, marquis de.] (2)
  49. [young, arthur.] (2)
  50. ackroyd, peter. (2)
  51. ayer, a. j. (2)
  52. barzun, jacques. (2)
  53. beattie, james. (2)
  54. beerbohm, max. (2)
  55. blake, william. (2)
  56. boesnier de l'orme, paul. (2)
  57. bonar, james. (2)
  58. breytenbach, breyten. (2)
  59. carey, henry charles. (2)
  60. cassel, gustav. (2)
  61. cole, g. d. h. & margaret cole. (2)
  62. davenport, herbert joseph. (2)
  63. derrida, jacques. (2)
  64. fay, c. r. (2)
  65. franklin, benjamin. (2)
  66. galbraith, john kenneth. (2)
  67. hargrave, john. (2)
  68. james, william. (2)
  69. jevons, w. stanley. (2)
  70. kennedy, john f. (2)
  71. malthus, t. r. (2)
  72. marcet, jane. (2)
  73. mitchell, wesley clair. (2)
  74. montesquieu, charles de secondat, baron de. (2)
  75. myrdal, gunnar, assisted by richard sterner & arnold rose. (2)
  76. paton, alan. (2)
  77. petty, sir william. (2)
  78. peuchet, jacques. (2)
  79. playfair, william. (2)
  80. savary, jacques. (2)
  81. say, jean-baptiste. (2)
  82. temple, frederick, et al. (2)
  83. voltaire. (2)
  84. walras, leon. (2)
  85. wayland, francis. (2)
  86. webster, daniel. (2)
  87. wicksteed, philip henry. (2)
  88. wilson, colin. (2)
  89. wittgenstein, ludwig. (2)
  90. (bentham.) burton, john hill, editor. (1)
  91. (beveridge, william.) williams, karel & john williams (eds.) (1)
  92. (book-keeping). jones, edward thomas. (1)
  93. (book-keeping). vernon, john. (1)
  94. (brady, james buchanan) morell, parker. (1)
  95. (churchill, winston s.) (1)
  96. (clark, john bates.) (1)
  97. (conscientious objectors) mason, e. williamson. (1)
  98. (de valera, eamon.) faolin, sen. (1)
  99. (economics.) astor, viscount, & keith a. h. murray. (1)
  100. (economics.) clarke, sir richard william barnes. (1)
  101. (economics.) cole, g. d. h. (1)
  102. (economics.) hiskett, w. r. (1)
  103. (economics.) hutt, allen. (1)
  104. (economics.) pethick-lawrence, f. w. (1)
  105. (economics.) wallace, doreen. (1)
  106. (europe.) davies, david. (1)
  107. (ferguson, adam.) amoh, yasuo, lingley, darren & hiroko aoki, eds. (1)
  108. (gill, eric) tegetmeier, denis. (1)
  109. (hume, david.) brown, iain gordon, ed. (1)
  110. (india: bombay.) (1)
  111. (industrial wales.) massey, philip. (1)
  112. (james, alfred). (1)
  113. (joyce, james) mcluhan, marshall. (1)
  114. (keynes, john maynard.) o'donnell, r. m. (1)
  115. (keynes, john maynard.) thirlwall, a. p. (ed.) (1)
  116. (law, john.) (sir humphrey mackworth, attributed author.) (1)
  117. (law.) proctor, l. b. (1)
  118. (marshall, alfred). (1)
  119. (marshall, alfred.) bagehot, walter. (1)
  120. (muir, edwin.) moore, edward. (1)
  121. (nhs; politics.) carter, [gladys beaumont]. (1)
  122. (pandit, vijaya lakshmi) guthrie, anne. (1)
  123. (photomontage.) evans, david, & sylvia gohl. (1)
  124. (politics.) addison, christopher, and others. (1)
  125. (post-war industrialisation.) meakin, walter. (1)
  126. (rationing.) marrack, john richardson. (1)
  127. (rochester, nathaniel.) chomsky, noam. (1)
  128. (russian military refugees in holland.) (1)
  129. (senhouse, roger.) trilling, lionel. (1)
  130. (shaw, george bernard) wolf, l. s. [leonard]. (1)
  131. (shaw, george bernard.) lloyd, j. henry & r. e. scouller. (1)
  132. (slavery.) the female society for the relief of british negro slaves. (1)
  133. (socialist poetry.) cole, g. d. h. (1)
  134. (socio-economic analysis.) brown, alec. (1)
  135. (south sea company.) (1)
  136. (soviet russia; french politics.) herriot, edouard. (1)
  137. (spanish civil war.) rust, william. (1)
  138. (steinbeck, john) wood, charles erskine scott. (1)
  139. (tasmania.) (1)
  140. (the new deal.) stolberg, benjamin, & warren jay vinton. (1)
  141. (thompson, t. perronet) johnson, l.g. (1)
  142. (tucker, george). atterley, joseph, pseud. (1)
  143. (ussr.) davies, raymond arthur, & andrew j. steiger. (1)
  144. (ussr.) paul, leslie a. (1)
  145. (war effort.) davenport, nicholas e. h. (1)
  146. (wollstonecraft, mary.) (1)
  147. (world war i: conscientious objectors.) wood, r. theodore. (1)
  148. (world war ii.) gore, graham. (1)
  149. (world war ii: south africa.) campbell, alexander. (1)
  150. [canning, george, and others.] (1)
  151. [davies, sir john.] (1)
  152. [defoe, daniel.] (1)
  153. [dutot, charles.] (1)
  154. [dutot]. (1)
  155. [england: parliament.] dorchester labourers. (1)
  156. [great britain: parliament.] (1)
  157. [hale, thomas &] sir william petty. (1)
  158. [hessus, helius eobanus.] (1)
  159. [holbach, paul henri thiry, baron d.] (1)
  160. [hume, david.] (1)
  161. [locke, john.] (1)
  162. [lowndes, william.] (1)
  163. [mably, gabriel bonnot de.] (1)
  164. [moreau de beaumont, jean louis.] (1)
  165. [parker, henry.] (1)
  166. [pattullo, henry.] (1)
  167. [pinto, isaac de.] (1)
  168. [servan, joseph.] (1)
  169. [smollett, tobias, trans.] (1)
  170. [vaughan, benjamin.] calm observer. (1)
  171. [wilson, bill.] (1)
  172. allen, bernard m. (1)
  173. amery, l. s. (1)
  174. arendt, hannah. (1)
  175. arnold, matthew. (1)
  176. astor, viscount, & keith a. h. murray. (1)
  177. atkins, w. e., and others. (1)
  178. ayer, alfred j. (1)
  179. bacon, francis. (1)
  180. baring, alexander. (1)
  181. bartlett, john henry. (1)
  182. beccaria, cesare, marchese di. (1)
  183. bergson, henri. (1)
  184. beveridge, albert j. (1)
  185. beveridge, lord, & a. f. wells (eds.) (1)
  186. blackstone, sir william. (1)
  187. blaug, mark, and others. (1)
  188. breitman, george. (1)
  189. brissot, j. p. (1)
  190. bristol, lee h. (1)
  191. brown, phil. (1)
  192. bryce, james. (1)
  193. budge, sir e.a.wallis. (1)
  194. burgh, james. (1)
  195. burnett, thomas. (1)
  196. cairnes, j. e. (1)
  197. cantillon, richard. (1)
  198. cary, joyce. (1)
  199. champernowne, d. g. (1)
  200. child, sir josiah. (1)
  201. Show More
Signed
  1. no (246)
  2. signed (105)
Price
  1. £ 20
    £ 125000
    20 -  125000
  2.  
  3. -
Close

Economics & social sciences

Rare first editions, signed and inscribed copies, deluxe and collectible editions of books, pamphlets, and ephemera relating to the principal social sciences, incorporating economics, law, philosophy, politics, human geography, demographics, and sociology.


From the blog: Women's Work: Women in Economics, Politics and Philosophy

Collecting Economics

Video: SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759.

Showing items 241-300 of 973

List Grid

Page:
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 6
  6. 7
  1. 131394detail

    Mrs Thatcher's Bag.

    London: 1978

    A humorous take on Thatcher's image and her infamous handbag, produced during her opposition period, the year before she was elected Prime Minister. Thatcher supposedly tells the buyer: "I have gathered together in this stylish handbag a most useful collection of practical tips so that even the most deprived of you who have... Learn More
    £300

    Stock Code: 131394

    Reserve

  2. 131297

    Rights of the People; or, Reasons for a Regicide Peace.

    London: 1796

    First edition of this counterblast to Edmund Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace, which Burke wrote in opposition to William Pitt's attempts to negotiate peace with the French Directorate. The author here defends a peaceful settlement, and indeed, as the long title declares, upholds "the absolute necessity of an immediate... Learn More
    £650

    Stock Code: 131297

    Reserve

  3. 126478

    Herr Vogt.

    London: 1860

    First edition of the work which Marx took the best part of a year away from the writing of Capital to complete, bound first in a volume of two works, the second being the second edition of Marx's Der Achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1869).
    Herr Vogt is an answer to the slanders against... Learn More
    £12,500

    Stock Code: 126478

    Reserve

  4. 87959

    [An Essay on the Principle of Population: in Russian.] Opyt o zakonie narodonaseleniia

    St Petersburg: 1868

    First Russian-language edition of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, first published in English in 1798, one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought. The translation was made by P. A. Bibikov, a historian, philosopher, and literary critic, who had already translated Smith's... Learn More
    £7,500

    Stock Code: 87959

    Reserve

  5. 117696

    Money and Trade considered.

    Edinburgh: 1705

    First edition of the major work of the famous Scottish financial adventurer John Law (1671-1729), which presents his theories on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. The title exists in two states: one with an ornament of an eagle and vines, the present with a coastline and its reflection. Textually they... Learn More
    £45,000

    Stock Code: 117696

    Reserve

  6. 123838

    Mac cartoon.

    London: 1987

    From Margaret Thatcher's personal estate. On Mother's Day, 29 March 1987, Margaret Thatcher started on a five day state visit to the USSR hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev, the first official visit by a British Prime Minister for 12 years. Stanley McMurty, a well known British cartoonist under the pen name Mac, utilised the situation... Learn More
    £5,000

    Stock Code: 123838

    Reserve

  7. 131199

    Wall Street and Washington.

    Princeton: 1929

    First edition, first printing. A remarkable book published in the months preceding the Wall Street Crash, Lawrence condemns those in Washington pushing for tighter financial regulation, and declares the Federal Reserve warnings in February of impending economic instability alarmist and unfounded. Lawrence has consequently... Learn More
    £90

    Stock Code: 131199

    Reserve

  8. 128633

    Women's Fight for the Vote.

    London: 1910

    First edition, first impression, wrappered issue. There is also a casebound issue, with the Press advertisements printed here on the wrappers bound at the rear, and the price of "sixpence net" not included in the front cover illustration. No priority has been assigned between the two. This work is based on a number of articles... Learn More
    £325

    Stock Code: 128633

    Reserve

  9. 131119

    The New York Money Market.

    New York: 1931-2

    First editions, first printings, of the complete series; volume I a presentation copy from Margaret Myers, with her presentation slip pasted to the front free endpaper, and volume II a presentation copy from Benjamin Haggott Beckhart, with his presentation slip loosely inserted. Myers wrote the first volume, Beckhart and... Learn More
    £950

    Stock Code: 131119

    Reserve

  10. 130239

    Painting of Chequers.

    May 1989

    A painting of Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, executed by one of Margaret Thatcher's chief lieutenants, the staunch Thatcherite Nicholas Ridley, and presented to her by the cabinet to mark her tenth anniversary as prime minister. Thatcher adored Chequers, later writing in her memoirs that 'I do not think... Learn More
    £10,000

    Stock Code: 130239

    Reserve

  11. 120914comp

    The Enemy Within.

    New York: 1960

    First edition, first printing (copyright page signed "A-K", later printings are signed "D-K"), presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To my old antagonist Senator Goldwater from his friend Bob Kennedy". This is a great cross-party association for Bobby Kennedy's first book, which concerns the McLellan Committee's... Learn More
    £8,500

    Stock Code: 120914

    signed

    Reserve

  12. 88394

    Election address at Woodford: carbon copy typescript with autograph corrections for his first public speech after his resignation as PM.

    Woodford: 16 May 1955

    Churchill addresses his constituents in the run-up to the 1955 General Election, explaining that he "felt it his duty to resign his office as P.M. at a time and under conditions which would give whoever The Queen summoned to be my successor a fair chance of seeking a mandate from the country. This alone would give him the... Learn More
    £10,000

    Stock Code: 88394

    Reserve

  13. 120686

    The Great Scourge and how to end it.

    London: 1913

    £250

    Stock Code: 120686

    Reserve

  14. 124148comp

    A Statistical Survey of Eminent Women.

    New York: 1913

    First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed to an unknown recipient by the author, "To Nell with the love and compliments of the author", on the front free endpaper. This is the doctoral dissertation of American psychologist and author Cora Sutton Castle (18801966), here published for the first time in... Learn More
    £165

    Stock Code: 124148

    Reserve

  15. 126294

    The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

    London: 1919

    First edition, first impression, of Keynes's second book, which established his reputation as a political economist. Keynes resigned from his position as principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, in protest of the heavy reparations demanded from Germany. The Economic Consequences... Learn More
    £1,250

    Stock Code: 126294

    Reserve

  16. 130935comp

    The Debt and the Deficit.

    New York and London: 1989

    First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by one of the authors on the front free endpaper, on behalf of both: "For Francis Bator - With respect and affection. Peter & Bob". Francis M. Bator (1925-2018) was a Hungarian-American economist, professor emeritus at the Harvard Kennedy School of political economy,... Learn More
    £100

    Stock Code: 130935

    signed

    Reserve

  17. 130932

    The Fourth Great Awakening & The Future of Egalitarianism.

    Chicago and London: 2000

    First edition, first printing. Fogel's "Fourth Great Awakening" refers to the American religious revival of the 1960s and 1970, as mainstream Protestantism weakened and evangelicalism grew. Fogel's interpretation, which proved controversial, places this development as on a par with the previous "Great Awakenings" - the religious... Learn More
    £35

    Stock Code: 130932

    Reserve

  18. 130927comp

    Quiddities.

    Cambridge, MA and London: 1987

    First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes to Gail and Tom". Quiddities gathers Quine's thoughts on more than eighty topics, arranged alphabetically from "Alphabet" to "Zero". Learn More
    £400

    Stock Code: 130927

    signed

    Reserve

  19. 130054

    On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation.

    London: 1817

    First edition of Ricardo's fundamental contribution to the science of economics. Ricardo is credited with the first systematic and scientific approach to economics; his exact mathematical approach and careful deductive methods provided a model for future texts in the field. Ricardo's interest in political economy was aroused... Learn More
    £28,500

    Stock Code: 130054

    Reserve

  20. 108126

    Statement of Policy.

    London: 1939

    The "MacDonald White Paper", in which the British Government declared its support for a power-sharing agreement between Arab and Jewish interests in Palestine, as well as restrictions on Jewish immigration and the sale of land to Jews. Regarded by many in the Zionist movement as a final betrayal of Britain's obligations... Learn More
    £1,250

    Stock Code: 108126

    Reserve

  21. 108129

    Correspondence with the Arab Delegation and the Zionist Organisation.

    London: 1922

    First edition. The first major statement of British policy in Palestine since 1917, the "British White Paper of 1922" sought to addressed Arab and Jewish concerns regarding the content of the Balfour Declaration by including an official interpretation of the declaration by the first British high Commissioner for Palestine,... Learn More
    £825

    Stock Code: 108129

    Reserve

  22. 130297

    A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.

    London: 1774

    Second edition, first published the same year, and one of several editions published in 1774. "After the death of his wife, on 29 September 1761, Gregory wrote A Father's Legacy to his Daughters to relieve his loneliness and to record her opinions about the education of their two surviving daughters... He may have incorporated... Learn More
    £350

    Stock Code: 130297

    Reserve

  23. 130016

    Paved with Gold.

    London: 1858

    First edition in book-form, first published in 13 parts from March 1857 to April 1858. This is considered Mayhew's most significant work, and was the result of a collaborative venture with his brother, the social reformer Henry Mayhew. "Between 1849 and 1852 Augustus assisted Henry in the investigations both for the 'Labour... Learn More
    £300

    Stock Code: 130016

    Reserve

  24. 129260

    Communism and Socialism.

    London: 1939

    First edition, first impression, of Lunn's anti-socialist study. Signed by the author on the title page. Arnold Lunn (1888-1974) was a skier and mountaineer, but his strong Catholicism and anti-socialist beliefs led him to contribute various writings opposing socialism from the 1930s onwards. Learn More
    £150

    Stock Code: 129260

    signed

    Reserve

  25. 128758

    Il Capitale di Carlo Marx brevemente compendiato da Carlo Cafiero.

    Milan: 1879

    First edition, extremely scarce, of Cafiero's abridgment of Marx's Das Kapital, the first appearance of the work in Italian. This was one of the earliest abridgements of Das Kapital, and was much admired by Marx.
    Carlo Cafiero (1846-1892), an Italian socialist, met Marx and Engels in London in 1870 and was recruited to... Learn More
    £22,500

    Stock Code: 128758

    Reserve

  26. 119971

    Misère de la philosophie. Réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon.

    Paris & Brussels: 1847

    First edition of Marx's caustic attack on Proudhon, "the bitterest attack delivered by one thinker upon another since the celebrated polemics of the Renaissance" (Isaiah Berlin), one of 800 copies printed. "In 1846 Proudhon published his celebrated book, La Philosophie de la Misère. He and Marx had remained friends, though... Learn More
    £25,000

    Stock Code: 119971

    Reserve

  27. 130328

    El Capital.

    Madrid: 1886[-7]

    Exceptionally rare first edition in Spanish, an abridged translation of volume one of Marx's Das Kapital (Capital). Its scarcity is explained by the brittle, poor quality of the paper stockthe same used for printing Zafrilla's newspaperand its very small print run, thought to number no more than a thousand copies in total.
    Pablo... Learn More
    £125,000

    Stock Code: 130328

    Reserve

  28. 129814

    [Das Kapital, in Russian:] Kapital. Kritika politicheskoi ekonomii.

    St Petersburg: 1872

    This was the first published translation of the work in any language. Issued in 3,000 copies, with a complacent comment from the censor "few people in Russia will read it, and fewer still will understand it" the book was, however, quite..."> First edition in Russian, the first foreign translation, of "the Bible of Marxism".
    This was the first published translation of the work in any language. Issued in 3,000 copies, with a complacent comment from the censor "few people in Russia will read it, and fewer still will understand it" the book was, however, quite... Learn More
    £27,500

    Stock Code: 129814

    Reserve

  29. 129812

    Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher …

    Paris: 1844

    Very rare first and only issue, of enormous consequence, a double number which contains the first appearance of both Marx's first major work, Zur Kritik der Hegel'schen Rechtsphilosophie (containing his famous remark that religion is "das Opium des Volks"), and Engels's first work on economics, Umrisse zu einer Kritik der... Learn More
    £62,500

    Stock Code: 129812

    Reserve

  30. 129813

    Die heilige Familie, oder Kritik der kritischen Kritik.

    Frankfurt: 1845

    Rare first edition of Marx's first published book, written when he was only 26. It is also the first book written in collaboration with Engels. In 1844, the first year of their friendship, Marx and Engels decided to write a critique of their former associates of the Young Hegelian school, whose views were still very popular... Learn More
    £42,500

    Stock Code: 129813

    Reserve

  31. 129811

    Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.

    Berlin: 1859

    Rare first editionone of 1000 copiesof the "germ" of Das Kapital. The Kritik was Marx's first attempt at a general statement of his theories, written following several years' research in the British Museum. Marx had initially planned a multi-volume work, but he was dissatisfied with it, and no further parts were written... Learn More
    £57,500

    Stock Code: 129811

    Reserve

  32. 128994

    Congrès Ouvrier de l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs tenu à Genève du 3 au 8 septembre 1866.

    Geneva: 1866

    First edition of this account of the 1866 Geneva Congress, the first congress of the International Workingmen's Association, commonly known as the First International. The Association had been founded in 1864 in London by French and British radicals, including the exiled Karl Marx, who delivered the inaugural address at... Learn More
    £20,000

    Stock Code: 128994

    Reserve

  33. 126589

    Anwendungen der Mathematik auf Nationalökonomie.

    Leipzig: 1902

    First edition of this "rich history of pure economy", Pareto's contribution to Klein's encyclopedia for 1902. The entry "contains a valuable autobiographical allusion: Pareto lets the reader understand that as soon as he arrived in Lausanne, he started searching for some statistical invariants regarding distribution, in... Learn More
    £950

    Stock Code: 126589

    Reserve

  34. 127174

    [Das Kapital, in Russian:] Kapital. Kritika politicheskoi ekonomii.

    St Petersburg: 1872 & 1885 & 1896

    First edition in Russian of all three volumes of Das Kapital, extremely rarely found complete. This was the first foreign translation of "the Bible of Marxism". Though the censors viewed its appearance complacently "few people in Russia will read it, and fewer still will understand it" the first volume, issued in 3,000... Learn More
    £32,500

    Stock Code: 127174

    Reserve

  35. 130606

    Cyrus et Milto ou La République.

    Geneva: 1796

    First edition of Clavel d'Ussieres's political fable. Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire, was metamorphosed into a philosopher king by Xenophon in his Cyropaedia of the 4th century BCE. Xenophon's Cyrus was a favourite of the Mirror for Princes genre, from the medieval period through to the Renaissance and... Learn More
    £1,750

    Stock Code: 130606

    Reserve

  36. 130459

    In Darkest England and the Way Out.

    London: [1890]

    First edition of Booth's "classic in the literature of poverty" (ODNB). "Booth's colossal self-confidence, his burning sense of injustice coupled with unswerving devotion to his purpose, and his deep sympathy with the unfortunate, made of him an evangelist and an organiser of the first order" (PMM). Learn More
    £275

    Stock Code: 130459

    Reserve

  37. 122166comp

    Life of an American Workman.

    New York: 1937

    First and limited edition, number 64 of 500 copies privately printed, presentation copy inscribed by the author, "To W. S. S. Rodgers with my friendship and affection 1/19/38 W. P. Chrysler", on the first blank leaf. The book's foreword describes the printing of this edition, designed as a Christmas remembrance for the Chrysler... Learn More
    £975

    Stock Code: 122166

    signed

    Reserve

  38. 128856

    The Debtor's Pocket Guide, in Cases of Arrest;

    London: 1776

    First edition of this fascinating work, described by Joanna Innes, Professor of Modern History at Oxford, as "outstandingly informative" of "those portions of the law of debt of potential interest and advantage to debtors" (Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain, OUP 2009, p.... Learn More
    £3,500

    Stock Code: 128856

    Reserve

  39. 129378

    Théorie des Sentimens Moraux.

    Paris: 1830

    Second edition of Sophie de Grouchy's translation of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith's Theory had originally been published in London in 1759 and was first translated into French in 1764. Sophie de Grouchy was a prominent salon hostess during the early French Revolution and under Napoleon, and was the wife of the... Learn More
    £875

    Stock Code: 129378

    Reserve

  40. 126613comp

    Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines.

    New York: 1977

    First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Shultz on the front free endpaper: "To Russell Long with my admiration - Mr. Chairman - for the sustained high quality of your contribution to economic policy and my thanks for your help and friendship George P. Shultz". The recipient, Russell B. Long, served... Learn More
    £225

    Stock Code: 126613

    signed

    Reserve

  41. 129073

    Magna Carta.

    London: 1733 but later.

    Well preserved copy of this meticulously engraved copy of the Magna Carta, "a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable "fundamental statute" that England has ever had" (Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, I, p. 173). The work of John Pine (1690-1756) engraver, publisher, print- and mapseller, Bluemantle... Learn More
    £6,500

    Stock Code: 129073

    Reserve

  42. 130076comp

    Some Evidence of Things Seen.

    Rivonia, South Africa: 1997

    Signed limited edition, number 48 of 50 copies signed by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Albie Sachs and Paul Alberts. A remarkable collaboration, this is the only limited edition signed by both Mandela and Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize winners in 1993 and 1984 respectively - alongside a third major figure in the anti-Apartheid... Learn More
    £3,750

    Stock Code: 130076

    signed

    Reserve

  43. 129308

    Autograph manuscript.

    [1950s]

    An unpublished fragment from Sartre's unfinished novel, which he intended to title La Dernière Chance, and which would have comprised the fourth volume in his novel cycle Les Chemins de la Liberté. Sartre abandoned the work at some point in the 1950s, although two chapters had appeared in Les Temps Modernes under the title... Learn More
    £15,000

    Stock Code: 129308

    Reserve

  44. 114170

    Constitutional Code; for the Use of all Nations and all Governments professing Liberal Opinions.

    London: 1830

    First edition, all published, of Bentham's Constitutional Code, the only edition published in his lifetime. "The massive, unfinished Constitutional Code, the major work of his final decade, established Bentham as a major theorist of constitutional democracy" (F. Rosen & J. H. Burns, preface to the 1983 Clarendon Press edition,... Learn More
    £1,750

    Stock Code: 114170

    Reserve

  45. 98719

    Théorie des peines et des récompenses.

    London: 1811

    First edition of Bentham's French work on crime and punishment, edited, arranged and translated from his unpublished manuscripts by his Swiss collaborator Étienne Dumont.
    "Samuel Bentham, Jeremy's brother, had long been urging Bentham to translate, or get translated into French, his writings on legislation, in order... Learn More
    £1,750

    Stock Code: 98719

    Reserve

  46. 101521

    The Rationale of Reward.

    London: 1825

    First edition in English, and first separate edition. The work was originally published as part of the Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, of 1811, a compilation made by Dumont from two sets of manuscripts by Bentham, one in English, and the other, the Essai sur les Récompenses, in French. This English translation... Learn More
    £550

    Stock Code: 101521

    Reserve

  47. 101528

    Théorie des peines et des récompenses.

    Paris & London: 1818

    Second edition of Bentham's French work on crime and punishment, edited, arranged and translated from his unpublished manuscripts by his Swiss collaborator Étienne Dumont. This work was first published in English as The Rationale of Reward, (London, J. & H. Hunt, 1825) and The Rationale of Punishment, (London, R. Heward,... Learn More
    £500

    Stock Code: 101528

    Reserve

  48. 101581

    Traités de législation civile et pénale,

    Paris: 1802

    First edition, translated and edited by Étienne Dumont, from Bentham's manuscripts. This work did more than any other to establish Bentham's reputation. It consists partly of papers by Bentham himself, some of which were originally composed in French, and partly of a digest by Dumont of Bentham's ideas.
    "Romilly tells... Learn More
    £1,500

    Stock Code: 101581

    Reserve

  49. 101524

    "Swear not at all:" containing an Exposure of the Needlessness and Mischievousness, as well as Antichristianity, of the Ceremony of an Oath:

    London: 1817

    First published edition, originally printed in 1813 and "written to expose the mischief arising from the laws relating to the administration of oaths" (Atkinson, Jeremy Bentham: his life and work, p. 173). "In some cases, so he declared, the Promissory Oath prevented a man from doing what he knew to be right; in others,... Learn More
    £475

    Stock Code: 101524

    Reserve

  50. 101692

    Essai sur la nomenclature et la classification des principales branches d'art-et-science; ouvrage extrait du Chrestomathia de Jérémie Bentham.

    Paris: 1823

    First edition in French, translated by George Bentham, of extracts from part two of Jeremy Bentham's Chrestomathia, his plan for higher education amongst the middling and higher ranks of life, complete with the very rare large folding plate "Vue synoptique" printed on thick paper. Learn More
    £1,000

    Stock Code: 101692

    signed

    Reserve

  51. 123580

    Oeuvres, jurisconsulte anglais.

    Brussels: 1829-30

    First collected edition of Bentham's works, edited and partly translated into French by Bentham's collaborator and disciple Etienne Dumont, preceding by 8 years the first English collected edition. "Even in the English-speaking world it was largely through Dumont's versions that Bentham came to be read" (Dinwiddy, p. 293).... Learn More
    £1,250

    Stock Code: 123580

    Reserve

  52. 96197

    The Elements of the Art of Packing.

    London: 1821

    First published edition, originally printed in 1810, of Bentham's criticism of English libel law, which he had always detested and which more than once stood in the way of the free publication of his opinions. When the work was written, the law's injustice had recently been made obvious in a series of prosecutions for libelling... Learn More
    £950

    Stock Code: 96197

    Reserve

  53. 97501

    Benthamiana: Or, select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham.

    Edinburgh: 1843

    First edition, comprising "a popular selection in one volume of Bentham's writings" (Muirhead), serving as an introduction to utilitarianism. John Hill Burton had previously edited the works of Bentham in conjunction with Sir John Bowring. Learn More
    £250

    Stock Code: 97501

    Reserve

  54. 120454

    Panopticon; or, The Inspection House: Containing The Idea of a New Principle of Construction applicable to any Sort of Establishment, in which Persons of any Description are to be kept under Inspection: and in particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, M

    Dublin printed, London reprinted, & London: 1791

    First London edition of all three parts of Bentham's famous but abortive Panopticon Penitentiary Scheme. Both the second Postscript and the plates were delayed in being printed and "very few copies of either the London or the Dublin editions have all the engravings According to Bentham, most of the plates were destroyed... Learn More
    £17,500

    Stock Code: 120454

    Reserve

  55. 101415

    Official Aptitude Maximized; Expense Minimized: as shewn in the several papers comprised in this volume.

    London: 1830

    First edition of this collection of papers. The preface states that the reason for publishing these different papers under the same general title is that they belong to one and the same design and, it is believed, aim at one and the same result. The work from which they take their common origin was an all-embracing system... Learn More
    £325

    Stock Code: 101415

    Reserve

  56. 101405

    The King against Edmonds and Others: set down for Trial, at Warwick, On the 29th of March, 1820.

    London: 1820

    First edition, addressed to the Jurymen of Warwickshire. Learn More
    £300

    Stock Code: 101405

    Reserve

  57. 101364

    A Fragment on Government; Or, a Comment on the Commentaries:

    London: 1823

    Second edition, originally published in 1776, and described as "Bentham's first work of any importance" (Atkinson, Jeremy Bentham: His Life and Work, p. 35); "though the word 'enlarged' was used in the title, the addition of substance was a long footnote to Ch. I, pp. 45-48 only" (Chuo). The work is in the form of a commentary... Learn More
    £225

    Stock Code: 101364

    Reserve

  58. 101380

    An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

    London: 1823

    Second edition, revised, with a few additional notes, of Bentham's best-known and perhaps his greatest work, containing the clearest statement of his fundamental views, the principle of utility in particular, originally published in 1789. Apart from the Fragment on Government it is, as Hart notes (Bentham, p. 298), the only... Learn More
    £500

    Stock Code: 101380

    Reserve

  59. Report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce for the Year 1876-77.

    Report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce for the Year 1876-77.

    Bombay: 1878

    First and only edition, decidedly scarce: no copies cited in either Copac or OCLC. This attractive copy has an excellent provenance: bearing, on the front cover, the gilt arms and motto ("crux mihi grata quies" - "the cross gives me welcome rest") of the Adam family. This is almost certainly from the library of Sir Frank... Learn More
    £1,500

    Stock Code: 111938

    Reserve

  60. 129203

    The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow G.C.M.G. A Memoir.

    London: 1933

    First edition, first impression, of this biography of eminent diplomat Ernest Satow (1843-1929). Satow was recruited by the Foreign Office straight out of university as a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service, at the age of 19. Satow had "an almost unprecedented proficiency" for Japanese amongst British... Learn More
    £150

    Stock Code: 129203

    Reserve

Showing items 241-300 of 973

List Grid

Page:
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 6
  6. 7
Our Book Shops
Peter Harrington Chelsea
Chelsea

100 Fulham Road
London SW3 6HS

View a map

Tel: +44 (0)20 7591 0220
Fax: +44 (0)20 7225 7054

10am–6pm, Monday–Saturday

Peter Harrington Mayfair
Mayfair

43 Dover Street
London W1S 4FF

View a map

10am–7pm, Monday–Friday
10am–6pm, Saturday

Tel: +44(0)20 3763 3220

Email: mail@peterharrington.co.uk

Information
Services
Need Help?

Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY.
Registered in England and Wales No:3609982 Copyright © 2018, Peter Harrington. All rights reserved.

credit cards logo