Search results for: 'SMITH, Adam'
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(SMITH, Adam.) SARTORIUS, Georg. ZNOSKO, Jan, translator. Nauka Ekonomii polityczney podlug ukladu Adama SmithVilnius : 1811
Scarce Polish translation of Georg Sartorius's Von den Elementen des National-Reichthums, und von der Staatswirtschaft, nach Adam Smith, translated from the second German edition of 1806 (first 1796), translated by Jan Znosko, holder of the chair of political economy at the Vilnian University from 1810 to 1823. "Znosko established his credentials with... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 119352
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SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects.Dublin : 1795
First Dublin edition, same year as the first London edition. The Essays were published five years after Smith's death and edited by the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753-1828). Stewart's "Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith" is one of the earliest biographical notices of Smith, and "until Stewart's Biographical Memoir... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 126439
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SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart.London : 1811-12
First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, with a biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107885
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![[Theory of Moral Sentiments, in Russian:] Teoriia nravstvennykh chuvstv … S pis'mami M. Kondorse k Kabanisu o simpatii. Perevel P. A. Bibikov.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/128700.jpg)
SMITH, Adam. [Theory of Moral Sentiments, in Russian:] Teoriia nravstvennykh chuvstv … S pis'mami M. Kondorse k Kabanisu o simpatii. Perevel P. A. Bibikov.St Petersburg : 1868
First edition in Russian of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, very rare. This landmark translation (it is still the one used in Russia today) was made by Pavel Bibikov, who had brought out a translation of the Wealth of Nations (the edition read by Lenin) two years before. Both were published as part of his series the Library of Classical European Writers.... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 128700
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(SMITH, Adam.) HAMILTON, William. Poems on several Occasions.Glasgow : 1748
First edition of Hamilton's poems, with a preface by Adam Smith, his first appearance in print. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125751
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SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments.London : 1759
First edition, published in April 1759 with a recorded "print run of 1,000 copies" (Sher, Early Editions of Adam's Smith's Books, 13). Smith's first book and his later Wealth of Nations demonstrate "a great unifying principle Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself... Learn More£62,500.00Stock Code: 136185
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SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects.London : 1795
First edition, published five years after Smith's death, edited by Dugald Stewart with his "Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith", originally presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two sessions during 1793. The editor states that the essays were intended as parts of "a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts", but... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 90155
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SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments.London : 1767
Third edition of Smith's first book, the first edition to include the "Dissertation on the Origin of Languages", one of 750 copies, and the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the continent. It contains "some minor revisions, especially to passages involving comment on religion" (Tribe), which Smith made upon... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141981
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![[Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/9/99950_1.jpg)
SMITH, Adam. [Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.St Petersburg : 1866
First edition of the much-improved second Russian translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, reproducing the notes and apparatus from the 1843 Blanqui edition. This translation, published following the growing public dissatisfaction with an earlier version, encumbered with obsolete prose and unspecific terminology, appeared in the Library of Classical... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 99950
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SMITH, Adam. "Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages." In: The Philological Miscellany;[London] : 1761
Rare first edition of The Philological Miscellany, all published, containing the first appearance in print of Adam Smith's "Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages" (pp. 440-79), originally part of Smith's University Lectures on Rhetoric, a work of which Smith was, according... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 99764
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SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects.Dublin : 1795
First Dublin edition, same year as the first London edition; Kress lists the Dublin printing first and calls the London "another issue" while Tribe calls the Dublin edition a piracy. The Essays were published five years after Smith's death and edited by the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753-1828); his "Account of the Life and Writings of Adam... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 97132
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![Läsning i blandade ämnen. Första [– Femte och Sista] Årgången.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/135144.jpg)
(SMITH, Adam.) ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning i blandade ämnen. Första [– Femte och Sista] Årgången.Stockholm : 1797–1801
First edition of all 50 parts of the Swedish literary periodical Läsning i blandade ämnen, containing over 200 pages of passages from various sections of the Wealth of Nations, making it the first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. Georg Sartorius's abridgement of the Wealth of Nations, the Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft , had... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 135144
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1789
Fifth edition, one of 1,500 copies printed, the last edition to be published in Smith's lifetime. It was taken from the third edition (1784). "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith's achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work. The Wealth of Nations is not... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 118023
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1811
Later London edition in the original boards of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). It reprints the text of the fifth edition (1786), the last to be published in Smith's lifetime, and which was itself based on the text of the third edition, the last to which Smith made any significant changes. The Life and the essay by... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 121185
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134298
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Tokyo : 1976
Facsimile of the first edition of the Wealth of Nations, number 449 of 1,000 copies, published to commemorate the bicentenary of the work's first publication. Loosely inserted in this copy is a bibliographic history of the Wealth of Nations in Japanese, also published for the bicentenary (a little chipped and creased). Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 129998
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1802
Tenth edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), which reprints the introductions to the third and fourth editions. Smith's short 'advertisements' to these earlier editions, normally found before the contents of vol. 1, have not been bound into this copy and the half-titles have been discarded. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125040
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1778
Second edition of this classic of economic thought, one of 500 copies, the only other edition to be published in quarto format after the first edition of 1776. Long considered a straight reprint, this edition in fact contains "a number of alterations large and small, some providing new information, some correcting matters of fact, some perfecting the... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 123220
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SMITH, Adam. Ricerche sulla Natura, e le Cagioni della Riccezza delle Nazioni...Naples : 1790-1
Rare first Italian translation of the Wealth of Nations, probably the rarest of the 18th-century complete translations. No copy has appeared at auction since 1963. Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 85981
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1847
A nice single-volume edition of the Wealth of Nations in the original cloth. This edition is an exact reprint of the Edinburgh 1827 edition which would be reprinted 21 times, the last being 1869. This edition includes Garnier's notable introductory essay and separate volume of notes. "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 129211
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Edinburgh : 1817
Second Buchanan edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). Smith's masterpiece was first published in 1776, Buchanan's annotated edition in 1814. David Buchanan (1779-1848) "substantially annotated Wealth of Nations, inserting new chapters and appending an entire volume of commentary, Observations on the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136771
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1786
Fourth edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), in a fine contemporary binding by one of Scotland's best-known binders of the period, William Scott of Edinburgh, using tools from the workshop of James Scott. "The great majority of the tools used by James Scott are not found in use by any other binders of his time;... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 132767
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. One of 2,000 copies printed according to Keith Tribe. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading,... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 118470
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Edinburgh : 1806
First Edinburgh edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), based on the text of Comte Germain Garnier's landmark French translation (first published 1802). Garnier's edition, which included a long introductory essay on Smith and a separate volume of notes, was "perhaps the most influential edition of Wealth of Nations... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120373
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Glasgow : 1805
An attractive early Scottish edition of Smith's great work, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131415
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1822
An attractively bound set of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 121184
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Philadelphia : 1796
The second American edition, in an unrestored contemporary American binding, of the "greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), following the first American edition of 1789, and its first publication in London in 1776. The books additionally have evidence of early American ownership, the front free endpapers with the ownership signature and... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139123
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SMITH, Adam. The Whole Works.London : 1822
An attractive set of Smith's collected works, the first collected edition in duodecimo format, the second overall following the octavo collected edition of 1811-2. The collection includes both the Wealth of Nations and the Theory of Moral Sentiments, among other works. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 139484
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776; all the 18th-century editions are rarely found uncut in the original boards. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134295
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1811
Later London edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). The text of this edition is a reprint of the fifth edition of 1786, which was the final edition to be published in Smith's lifetime. The life and the essay by Germaine Garnier (1754-1821), translator of the Wealth of Nations into French, were first included together... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125010
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SMITH, Adam. Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle.Leipzig : 1791-1795
First complete German translation of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, the second German translation overall, volume two providing a translation of the additional material contained in the English 6th edition, published shortly before Smith's death in 1790. The first German translation of 1770 was made from the third edition of 1767. "The Kosegarten... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 104689
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SMITH, Adam. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations.The Hague : 1778
Very rare first edition in French of the Wealth of Nations. This is the first complete translation of the text; an extract, Fragment sur les colonies en général, et sur celles des anglois en particulier, translated by Reverdil, had been published in Lausanne and Basel earlier in 1778 to test public demand for the work. "This translation of the 1776... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 94923
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SMITH, Adam. The Wealth of Nations.London : 1991
A handsome leather bound volume of this classic work which was first published in 1776. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 121749
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SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments;Dublin : 1777
First and only Dublin edition of Smith's first book, the first to be published outside of London, referred to by Beatty and Jackson as the "sixth edition". "Theory of Moral Sentiments was not reprinted in Dublin until the spring of 1777. Although four editions had appeared in Britain by that time, the Dublin publishers, John Beatty and Christopher Jackson,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139072
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SMITH, Adam. (GROUCHY, Sophie de, trans.) 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 philosopher the Marquis de... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 129378
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(SMITH, Adam.) ROUQUET, Jean André. The present State of the Arts in England.London : 1755
First edition in English, originally published in French in 1754, written by the Swiss born artist Jean André Rouquet, friend of Hogarth and David Garrick, who lived in London between 1726 and 1750. A brief preliminary discourse is followed by reviews of the various arts in England, not only dealing with painting, but with sculpture, woodcarving, silk... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 86353
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SMITH, Charles. Three Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-Laws:London : 1766
Second edition of Smith's three celebrated tracts on the corn trade, praised for their sound reasoning by both Hume and Adam Smith, bound first in a volume of five popular works discussing food scarcity, the pricing of provisions, and magistrate intervention in the market place, published 1766-68.
"The scarcity of corn in 1756-7 and its high prices... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122563
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MYERS, Margaret G; Benjamin Haggott Beckhart; James G. Smith; William Adams Brown. 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 Smith the second, Beckhart the... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 131119
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ADAMS, Richard. Shardik.London : 1974
First edition, first impression of Adams' second book. Inscribed by the author on the title page: 'For Michael Smith with best wishes from Richard Adams, November 1974.' With the original Shardik bookmark loosely inserted. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 91942
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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NAPOLEON I. Autograph manuscript notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.Valence : 1791
Napoleon was in garrison at Valence with the 4th Artillery Regiment from 16 June to 31 August 1791. He used his spare time to read the first volume of the French translation of Smith's Wealth of Nations by the poet Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745-1794), made from the fourth English edition (London, 1786), which had been published in 1790. Napoleon has written... Learn More£250,000.00Stock Code: 136833
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(HUME, David.) HORNE, George. A Letter to Adam Smith, LLD. on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his Friend David Hume, Esq. By one of the People called Christians.London : 1799
Sixth edition. George Horne contended "that a man of Hume's known opinions could not by any possibility be the good and virtuous man Smith represented him to be, for had he been really generous, or compassionate, or good-natured or charitable, or gentle-minded, he could never have thought of erasing from the hearts of mankind the knowledge of God and... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 104700
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![Ueber Nationalindustrie und Staatswirtschaft. Nach Adam Smith bearbeitet … Erster [– Dritter und letzter] Theil.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/135436.jpg)
LUEDER, August Ferdinand. Ueber Nationalindustrie und Staatswirtschaft. Nach Adam Smith bearbeitet … Erster [– Dritter und letzter] Theil.Berlin : 1800-1804
First edition of Lueder's major work. Together with Sartorius and Kraus, Lueder (17601819) was one of the first writers in Germany to renounce mercantilism. In the present work, he elaborated Adam Smith's ideas, illustrating his arguments with numerous examples from history and ethnography. He deviated from Smith in his emphasis of the subjective nature... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135436
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BEATSON, Robert. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain,London : 1804
Second edition, the first, published in 1790, was in three volumes, this continues the account down to the conclusion of the War of Independence, "Particularly useful for the army's campaigns in America" (Bruce). Beatson saw early service at Rochefort in 1758, and at Martinique and Guadeloupe. On his father's death he came into an inheritance and concentrated... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 70850
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DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR, Nicolas-François. Essai sur les monnoies,Paris : 1746
First edition of this account, held in high esteem by Adam Smith, of European coinage and the commodities market from circa 1002 to 1742, written by the economist Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774). Smith called Dupré de Saint-Maur and Bishop Fleetwood "the two authors who seem to have collected, with the greatest diligence and fidelity, the prices of... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123593
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. 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 to, among others, the French economists, Adam Smith, Say,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 127338
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ROBERTSON, John Mackinnon. The Fallacy of Saving.London & New York : 1892
First edition, an expanded version of an essay first read to the Political Economy Circle of the National Liberal Club by the journalist and liberal J. M. Robertson, at this time editor of the National Reformer following Charles Bradlaugh's death. In the first part he studies the views of economists on saving from Adam Smith, Turgot, Lauderdale, Malthus,... Learn More£90.00Stock Code: 139659
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JAKOB, Ludwig Heinrich. Grundsätze der Policeygesetzgebung und der Policeyanstalten.Kharkoff : 1809
First edition of the distinguished German economist and philosopher's work on law enforcement. First a professor of philosophy in Halle, Jakob (1759-1827) accepted the Russian government's invitation in 1807 to become a professor of economic science at Kharkoff University after the University of Halle was suppressed. His quick mastery of the Russian... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 118691
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DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR, Nicolas-François. Essai sur les monnoies,Paris : 1746
First edition, with a manuscript annotation to the front free endpaper noting this to be an authorial presentation copy: "Ex dono Domini Du Pré De Saint Maur, Authoris".
Held in high esteem by Adam Smith, this account of European coinage and the commodities market from circa 1002 to 1742 was written by the economist Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774).... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123616
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PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph, & François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps. Examen du livre intitulé réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1740
First edition. Pâris-Duverney and Deschamps refute Dutot's Réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce (1738) - a favourable consideration of John Law's paper currency system. Pâris-Duverney (the third of the four brothers Pâris, whose financial plans had been accepted under the Regency in 1716) had fallen into disgrace with the rise of... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 93440
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CRAIG, John. Elements of Political Science.Edinburgh : 1814
First edition of the Scottish author's analysis of government rights and constitutional authority, a gift copy inscribed from the Trustees of Manchester College, York, to Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper, "as a Prize for Diligence, Regularity & Proficiency during the Session of 1817-18". Strutt, for whom the title Baron Belper was created in 1856, was... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 111949
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1714
Rare first edition, first issue, of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell). The work originated in 1705 as a poem titled The Grumbling Hive (essentially unobtainable in the market); this is the first edition to contain the 20 "Remarks" which annotate and explain various lines in the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138116
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1724 & 1729
Third edition of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell), together with the first edition, second state of part II of the Fable. In this state gathering O is "figured" (see Kaye for a full explanation). Part II, which matches the length of the first part, comprises six dialogues in which... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 130767
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.Basel : 1803
An attractive set with an interestingly complex continental history, printed by the Swiss piratical publisher J. J. Tourneisen, bound in Italy, and thereafter in the "British Library" in Malaga, with their stamps to endpapers. Tourneisen, free from the restraints of British copyright law, printed numerous British authors including Addison, Adam Smith,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 131574
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1803
The Great Quarto edition, notionally the second edition of the Essay on Population published in 1798, but so substantially enlarged, rewritten, and re-titled as to be a new book.
"In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay, incorporating details of the population checks that had been in operation in many different countries... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 134324
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[QUESNAY, François.] Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement le plus avantageux au genre humain. Publié par Du Pont, des Sociétés Royales d'Agriculture de Soissons & d'Orléans, & Correspondant de la Société d'Émulation de Londres.Pékin, and sold in Paris : 1767
First edition, the extremely rare first issue with the fictitious Pékin imprint on the title pages of both parts, in the corrected state. Issued thus to avoid French censorship, but in fact printed in Paris, the Pékin issue was printed in very small numbers and swiftly withdrawn because of a reference made by the editor, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours,... Learn More£110,000.00Stock Code: 124093
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1803
Second edition, first published in 1798. "In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay, incorporating details of the population checks that had been in operation in many different countries and periods. Although nominally a second edition, it was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work. He did not claim originality... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 121257
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READ, Samuel. Political Economy. An Inquiry into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible Property or Wealth.Edinburgh : 1829
First edition of the anti-Ricardian economist's major work. Uncommon: the title is recorded as having appeared just four times at auction in the past 50 years - one in cloth similarly rebacked, another in contemporary half calf rebacked and recornered, and two in original boards.
Read (fl. 1816-29), of whom very little is known, was a great admirer... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 126586
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.London : 1791 & 1793
First editions, presentation copies, both the Life of Johnson and Principal Corrections with individual autograph presentation inscriptions from the author to Andrew Lumisden (1720-1801), a friend of Boswell's who had assisted in preparing the Life by deciphering Johnson's manuscript notebook of his trip to France in October-November 1775.
This... Learn More£185,000.00Stock Code: 119415
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HUTCHESON, Francis. Considerations on Patronages.Glasgow : 1774
First Scottish edition, the second overall, following the edition printed in London in 1735. The philosopher Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was one of the key figures in the Scottish enlightenment and a major influence on David Hume and Adam Smith. Uncommon, with ESTC locating copies held in nine institutions. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 117465
