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(EMIN PASHA.) SCHWEINFURTH, G.; F. Ratzel; R. W. Felkin; G. Hartlaub (eds.) Emin Pasha in Central Africa.London : 1888
First edition in English, others copies noted in plain cloth lacking gilt decoration. Appointed Ottoman governor of Equatoria in 1878, the German-born scientist Eduard Schnitzer, known as Emin Pasha, was largely unknown in Europe outside specialist circles in Europe until 1886, when Scottish explorer Robert Felkin (author of the introduction to the... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 119328
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EVERETT, Alexander Hill. Autograph letter signed, to Henry Charles Carey.Boston : October 21 1835
A choice letter between two of the leading American economists of the day, testimony to the emergence of an American school of economics that was explicitly conceived as an alternative to the orthodoxy of British classical economics.
The letter was initiated through the recent publication of Carey's first book, Theory of Wages (1835), which he had... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 116816
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EINSTEIN, Albert. A fine collection of eleven offprints, including two distinguished as some of his major works: Zur affinen Feldtheorie and Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.Berlin : 1921-31
First separate editions, rare, comprising eleven of Einstein's papers written for the Prussian Academy of Sciences journal, Sitzungsberichte, including two distinguished as some of his major worksZur affinen Feldtheorie (1923) and Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität (1931), both asterisked in Weil and included in the Norman Librarythree... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 130099
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe.Garden City, NY : 1948
Personal presentation "issue", one of just a few copies bound up for Eisenhower from the limited edition sheets, with the signed leaf of the D-Day message to the troops, but without the limitation leaf. This copy warmly inscribed on the half-title to the Dr. Hal Johnson, Ike's primary physician when he retired to Gettysburg in 1961, and who, with his... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 140866
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(ECONOMICS.) Large collection of economics books.1757-2008
A vast collection of economic literature, overwhelmingly first editions, and generally in very good condition. The collection, with a focus on 20th century works, represents almost every major economist, in predominantly English, with some foreign language works. It illustrates the development of the discipline over many decades, with all strands of... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 140714
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ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India.London : 1815
First edition of this superbly detailed regional study, compiled by the ambassador, and which continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s, well-illustrated by a series of costume plates, which are closer to individuated portraits than the "types" usually encountered in such works.
Elphinstone stands out as... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 105235
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EVANS, Walker. American Photographs.New York : [1962]
Second edition. An important association copy bearing Evans's signed presentation inscription to the photographer Arnold Crane and with the recipient's ownership signature to the front pastedown. Crane was best known as a portrait photographer but his most important work was in the documentation of everyday life in America in the 1950s. In his later... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 77394
