Search results for: 'the works'
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VINER, Jacob. The Customs Union Issue.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing. This work "contained the distinction between trade creation and trade diversion, the starting point of later discussion of the matter" (The New Palgrave IV, p. 813). Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 128552
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class.New York : 1899
First edition of the Norwegian-American professor's first published book, his most successful work. Veblen's thesis was a serious economic analysis of contemporary America, but after William Dean Howells gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best-seller. "Into it he poured all the acidulous ideas and fantastic terminology that... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 129325
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VINER, Jacob. The Customs Union Issue.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing. This work "contained the distinction between trade creation and trade diversion, the starting point of later discussion of the matter" (The New Palgrave IV, p. 813). Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 124781
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VAN VOGT, A. E. The House that Stood Still.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the author's fifth book; one of van Vogt's more elusive titles: not listed in Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy, despite his "large holding" of the author's work. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 100477
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Isaac A. Hourwich and days of auld lang syne. Thorstein Veblen." Hourwich (1860-1924) was a Lithuanian scholar, activist and Debsian socialist who participated in various radical Socialist movements in Russia and Belarus before emigrating to the U.S. in 1890 to... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113346
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition of Veblen's most caustic work, a discussion of the need for advertising and salesmanship in modern business, with a sly dig at Christianity, where he describes Propaganda of the Faith as"quite the largest, oldest, most magnificent, most unabashed, and most lucrative enterprise in sales-publicity in all Christendom" (p. 319). This copy... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 88082
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VON NEUMANN, John. Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata.Urbana : 1966
First edition, first printing. The contents of this volume stem from two unfinished manuscripts, edited by Burks, and present Neumann's final conception of the theory of automata. Divided into two parts, the work covers complicated automata in general, comparing artificial and natural automata, as well as the logical design of a self-reproducing cellular... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 91541
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VOLTAIRE. A Treatise on Toleration;London : 1779
Later English-language editions of two of Voltaire's best known works, with the latter book including his commentary on Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments. The Treatise on Toleration was first published in English in 1764, The Ignorant Philosopher and the Commentary on Beccaria in 1767. David Williams (1738-1816) translated various works... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 124071
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VINCENT, William (ed.) Voyage de Nearque, des bouches de l'Indus jusqu'a l'Euphrate,Paris : 1800
First edition in French of Vincent's important commentary on Nearchus's voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 BC, as recorded by Arrian of Nicomedia, originally published at London in 1797. The expedition, ordered by Alexander the Great, marked the Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf (Retsö, p. 267), and the entire fourth chapter is dedicated... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139117
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VALDES, Ramon. Metodo de llevar y uniformar la cuenta y razon en las contadurias principales del reino, y tratado teorico-practico para las casas de comercio: Ordenado por Don Ramon Valdés, Oficial del Real Giro de la Tesorería general de S. M.Madrid : 1817
First edition of a scarce work introducing a standard method of accounting for use by the main Comptrollers of the kingdom of Spain, with a theoretical and practical treatise for business houses, illustrated with examples, complete with the 4-page Adicion. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 111621
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VERNE, Jules. Five Weeks In A Balloon;New York : 1869
First edition in English, first printing, of this African balloon adventure, which marked Verne's first English-language book publication. Verne's highly successful "fantastical tale meshes together aspects of early science fiction with a highly individualised mode of colonial discourse" (McLaughlan, p. 109). The work was originally published in Paris... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 137272
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VIETNAM WAR. Anti Guerilla Operations in South East Asia.[Singapore?] : 1963
First edition, the back cover states: "Printed by RAOC Royal Army Ordnance Corps Printing Press, FARELF Far Eastern Land Forces 8211 - 2,500 print run. 12 / 62". Scarce: WorldCat records just one copy (Australian War Memorial); no copy located by Library Hub in British and Irish institutional libraries.
A fascinating manual, classified as "Restricted".... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 113553
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VON NEUMANN, John - BARGMANN, Valentine, Deane Montgomery, & John von Neumann. Solution of Linear Systems of High Order.[Washington, D.C.] : 1946
First edition of this report on computer-oriented numerical analysis, a key document in charting the early development of von Neumann's understanding of the work of Carl Friedrich Gauss. The statistician Harold Hotelling had discredited Gauss's approach to numerical analysis and "advocated using an iterative method to eliminate numerical instability... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 118844
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VOLTAIRE - DUPLESSIS, Alexandre. Le Triomphe de Voltaire.[1778-9]
An allegorical engraving from the oil painting of the same name (1774-5) by Duplessis.
"The French philosopher, playwright, and satirist Voltaire frequently deployed allegories touching on antiquity in his writings. In this epic print, Melpomene, Muse of tragedy, leads Voltaire to Apollo to receive the crown of immortality, while his detractors... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 118024
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VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount. Voyages and TravelsLondon : 1809
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies. "This work contains much information of a novel and important kind It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and Draughtsman to Lord Valentia" (Lowndes). Henry Salt supplied all the drawings upon which the plates are based and in the same year, 1809, published a series of hand-coloured... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 46982
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VALDA, Salvator & Henry Hunt, R.N. Naval Sketches.London : 1908
First edition. Some very Edwardian naval humour from Valda, an illustrator who worked in Australia for the Sydney Mail for some time; and more literal views of naval life from Hunt, who was a naval surgeon. An attractively, if weakly, produced book. Inevitably uncommon in jacket. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 84581
