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CASTEL DE SAINT PIERRE, Charles Irénée. Projet pour perpetuer la paix et le commerce en Europe.Utrecht : 1713
First edition, very rare, of Castel de Saint Pierre's project for perpetual peace in Europe. The Abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743), wrote on political, economic, and moral topics. Best known for his Projet pour rendre la Paix perpetuelle en Europe (1713-17), "some of his other schemes called for the inauguration of political, economic and demographic... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 144854
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ISNARD, Achylle Nicolas. Traité des richesses,London & Lausanne : 1781
First edition, "extremely rare" (The New Palgrave), of "one of the most important contributions in the history of the development of mathematical economics" (Theocharis, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics, p. 62). "His book is remarkable for its mathematical treatment of production, capital, money and the theory of exchange" (Blaug). Although... Learn More£11,250.00Stock Code: 100452
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![[Drop-head title:] Lettres patentes du Roy,](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/135542.jpg)
LAW, John. [Drop-head title:] Lettres patentes du Roy,Paris : 1716
First edition of the founding act of John Law's Mississippi System (1716-20), the document announcing the creation of the General Bank through a Royal privilege accorded to Law and his company on 2 May 1716. There were some later provincial printings of the Lettres Patentes (Toulouse, "Avec l'arrêt de registre du 4. decembre 1716") and a Parisian printing... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 135542
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig. Engraved by MERIAN, Matthew. Altorff Haupt Flecken des Lands URY.1649
A beautiful view of the town of Altdorf, the capital of the canton of Uri. A coat of arms in the centre of the title shows the head of a fierce bull. In the lake to the left of the scene is a compass, and along the bottom of the map runs a key to the chief landmarks corresponding with numbers marked within the view. Last on this key is "Wilhelm Tellen... Learn More£195.00Stock Code: 54776
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![[In Cyrillic:] Molodaia Rossiia [Young Russia].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/127122.jpg)
BEZOBRAZOV, Vladimir. [In Cyrillic:] Molodaia Rossiia [Young Russia].Stuttgart : 1871
Sole edition of this notably rare and pseudonymously published book by one of the leading Russian economists of the 19th century. It was published in Stuttgart under the pseudonym "Evropeets European" which allowed Bezobrazov (1828-1889), who was in the civil service, to critique the development of the Russian economy, especially agriculture, a decade... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 127122
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BANK OF SCOTLAND. Act of Parliament, for Erecting a Bank in Scotland.Edinburgh : 1695
The Scottish Parliamentary Act which established the Bank of Scotland. One of five editions of 1695, three folio and two quarto, without any apparent way of establishing priority; based on institutional holdings this edition is the rarest, with only the National Library of Scotland copy located by ESTC.
This Act, together with six further acts... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145300
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TORRENS, Robert. An Essay on the external Corn Trade. Fourth edition.London : 1827
Fourth edition (first published in 1815), of Torrens's contribution to the controversy about the Corn Laws which raged after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. This fourth edition, a reprint of the substantially altered third edition of the previous year, has an additional section on the "Effects of free trade on the value of money". "This addition...... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 146617
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LAUNHARDT, Wilhelm. Die Steigungsverhältnisse der Strassen. Separat-Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereins zu Hannover, Band XXVI. Heft 3.Hannover : 1880-1887
Presentation copies, inscribed to Professor Fischer by the author, the first work additionally with the ownership of Erich Schneider to the title. Like Dupuit, Launhardt began his professional life as a civil engineer, working for the public road administration. A professor of roads, railways and bridges at the Technische Hochschule (now the University)... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 93895
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ROBBINS, Lionel - ALLAIS, Maurice. Économie & Intérêt;Paris : 1947
First edition, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the title page of volume I: "A monsieur le professeur Robbins en bien candid Hommage M Allais". An excellent economics provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 140616
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ROBINSON, Joan. Economics is a Serious Subject.Cambridge : 1932
First edition, genuinely rare, of Robinson's first separately published work, her "stunningly ambitious" methodological pamphlet produced, as she described it, in "a trance (it was almost automatic-writing)" (Aslanbeigui & Oakes, pp. 41, 49). It was preceded only by her review of Henry Clay's The Problem of Industrial Relations in the Political Quarterly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133934
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![Arkhitekturnie pamiatniki Samarkanda [i.e. The Architectural Monuments of Samarkand]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/133933.jpg)
POLUPANOV, Stefan Nikolaevich. Arkhitekturnie pamiatniki Samarkanda [i.e. The Architectural Monuments of Samarkand]Moscow : 1948
First edition. "Official" study of the ancient mosques of Samarkand, suggestive of then current developments in Soviet architectural doctrine. The author Stefan Polupanov (1904-1957) was a leading Tashkent-based architect; "A graduate of the Kharkov Artistic-Construction Institute, Polupanov enjoyed a long career in Tashkent city planning " (Stronski,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133933
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WADDINGTON, George, & Rev. Barnard Hanbury. Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia.London : 1822
First edition of this important and engaging travelogue, this copy with a familial presentation inscription to Barnard Hanbury's brother Alfred, as "a token of affection" from members of Waddington's family and dated 1822 (inscription slightly shaved by the binder and the names stubbornly illegible), in a handsome binding by the Cambridge bookbinder... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 145642
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![Litso sovremennogo dzhaza [The Face of the Modern Jazz]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/124913.jpg)
JAZZ/SAMIZDAT - DORUZKA, Lubomir. Litso sovremennogo dzhaza [The Face of the Modern Jazz]Minsk : 1973
First Russian edition. This detailed overview of the trends in jazz current in the late 60s - early 70s was written in Czech by noted jazz critic Lubomír Dorůžka (1924-1970), and published by the state-run record label Supraphone in 1970, and it would appear that a copy was brought to the USSR and translated in Belarus soon after that. At the time... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 124913
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SCAIFE, Alan & Sarah. Arabian Interlude.Pittsburgh, PA : 1951
First and only edition, rare: two copies only traced in libraries (Pittsburgh and Utah). The Scaifes travelled to Yemen in February 1950 at the invitation of maverick archaeologist Wendell Phillips, who was leading "the first American archaeological team to excavate the major ancient cities along the spice routes of South Arabia" (Potts, ed. Araby the... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 117863
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RUSSIA, THE VOLGA, & THE CASPIAN. Album of fourteen original watercolours taken on a trip from the Baltic to Russia and Persia.1869
A excellent group of very well-executed, high quality amateur watercolour views by a mid-nineteenth-century English traveller to Russia, including an unusual series of views of the Volga cities - Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk, Samara and "Ouswan opposite Kazan on Volga" - Verkhny Uslon village, located directly opposite Kazan on banks of the river. Other... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 100738
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THOMPSON, A. Beeby. The Oil Fields of Russia and the Russian Petroleum Industry:London : 1904
First edition of this handsomely produced and important study by Arthur Beeby Thompson (1873-1968), who has been described as the "Father of the Oil Industry" (John Schmidt, Growing up in the Oil Patch, 1989, p. 127). His involvement with various oil projects went hand-in-hand with important hydrogeological work in Gibraltar, Canada and on the Gold... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 120057
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TIMKOVSKI, G. [Egor Fedorovich] Voyage à Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821. <br><br>Paris : 1827
First edition. Since the early 18th century the Russians had by treaty maintained a school and a church in Peking. The terms also allowed them to send a mission once every ten years to change the personnel. At the time no other Western nation had the same opportunities to study the country and its people. "In particular, his description and mapping... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 100540
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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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ROBBINS, Lionel - SRAFFA, Piero. Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities.Cambridge : 1960
First edition, first impression, the copy of the British economist Lionel Robbins, with a presentation letter on Professor E. A. G. Robinson's letterhead dated 3 May 1960: "Dear Professor Robbins, I am sending you with this the review copy of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. This is an advance copy and I am still not... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140614
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TURKEY. Travels in European Turkey.Dublin : 1833
First edition of this scarce little book, presented here in a very nice example of a period trade binding. This is one of several travelogues issued by the Dublin publisher P. Dixon Hardy, either solely or as Bentham & Hardy; using a fictional framework, it gives a panorama of Turkish society, culture, and government.
The narrative centres around... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 141646
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ZENNARO, Silvio. Coup d'œil sur les incendies de Constantinople.Constantinople : 1871
First and only edition, presentation copy of this extremely rare pamphlet written in response to the 1870 Pera fire (the "Harik-i kabir"), inscribed by the author "A Mr. le Profr. Marzolo, hommage" on the front wrapper. This must be Francesco Marzolo (1818-1880), who taught medicine at the University of Padua, rather than his more famous brother, Paolo,... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 120555
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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. The Principles of Political Economy:Edinburgh : 1825
First edition of the author's first major work, expanded from his contribution to the 1824 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the first substantive text on political economy to appear in the encyclopaedia" (ODNB). David Ricardo, with whom McCulloch corresponded since he started taking an interest in political economy as a young man, described... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 115421
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POTTER, Robert. The Tragedies of Aeschylus translated.Norwich : 1777
First edition of the much-feted first complete translation of Aeschylus in English, here in a very pretty contemporary binding,with an excellent noble provenance.
Robert Potter (1721-1804) first gained a literary reputation as a poet among the local gentry, but in time he became celebrated for his Greek translations, and his choice of blank verse... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 141880
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.Hamburg : 1885
First edition of the second volume of Das Kapital, edited from Marx's manuscripts by Friedrich Engels. "Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik de politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century's economic studies, mostly in the Reading Room of the British Museum. The Athenaeum... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 111888
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SCOTLAND: PARLIAMENT. An Act of the Parliament of Scotland for Erecting an East-India Company in that Kingdom.[London] : 1695
First London edition of this important act "for a Company trading to Africa and the Indies", the document creating the Company of Scotland, later to become the Darien Company. "The originator of this disastrous enterprise was William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England... Without divulging the details of his scheme, he succeeded in exciting... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109293
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STEADMAN, Ralph. Scar-Strangled Banner.Massachusetts : 1988
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by Steadman on the title page in golden ink, "For Ian, from Ralph Steadman 4.11.88." with the capital "I" for "Ian" being his signature sad face drawing. The book was originally published in the UK the previous year. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 134565
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[WATSON, H. C. MARRIOTT.] The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, The Witch's Cavern.London : 1890
First edition, second impression, presentation copy from the author, inscribed at the head of the half-title, "To E. W. Wallington, with the author's compliments". The recipient is almost certainly Sir Edward William Walllington (1854-1933), at this time secretary to the Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria, future Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 122191
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(FRANK, Robert.) BURGER-UTZER, Brigitta, & Stefan Grissemann (ed.) Frank Films.Zurich : 2003
First edition, first impression of this introduction to Frank's film work. Signed by Frank on the half title. Published on the occasion of the Diagonal Special "Robert Frank - Retrospektive der Filme und Videos", which was shown between 11 and 21 September 2003 as part of Graz Cultural Capital 2003. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 106182
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MEDOVSHCHIKOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Bakhchysaray. Avtolithografii.Simferopol : 1927
First and only edition of this locally produced, high quality pictorial souvenir of Bakhchysarai, the ancient capital of the Crimean Khanate. A sequence of evocative lithographs drawn direct to the stone by the noted theatrical designer N. N. Medovshchikov (1898-1988). This copy warmly inscribed by the author "to my kinsperson for the good memory"verso... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 143791
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LAL, Mohan. Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul:London : 1846
First edition of perhaps the key source for political and diplomatic background to the first Afghan War. Mohan Lal was "Bokhara" Burnes's most important intelligence operative, travelling extensively in Persia and Afghanistan and running a string of agents for the British. In 1841, as the situation in Kabul became critical, Lal tried to warn Burnes... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 71629
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TRISTAN, Flora. 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. WorldCat locates just six copies in institutional... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 127491
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THIRD AFGHAN WAR. The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account.Calcutta : 1926
First edition, uncommon, produced in a print-run of 1, 500 copies only. "Hostilities began on 4 May 1919, when Afghan troops cut the water supply to Landī Kōtal on the Indian side of the border, and Britain retaliated by closing the Khyber Pass. It appears that the Afghans planned a concerted attack, but the forces of Sāleh Mohammad were prematurely... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 142155
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RUSSIA; Moscow. A'lbom zdaniy, prinadlezhavschih Moskovskomy gorodskomu upravleniyu. (Album of the municipal buildings of Moscow.)Moscow : [1912-13]
Superb and extremely scarce photographic record of pre-Revolution Moscow, captured in a series of quite stunning images by one of the foremost Russian photographers of the period, P. P. Pavlov. An online search of institutional libraries cites 3 locations only - British Library, Harvard, and Columbia - with no copy traced on auction records.
Among... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 131502
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HAYLINGS, D. Martineau. Letters from a Bush Campaign.London : [1902]
First edition of this very scarce eye-witness account of the War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Yaa Asantewaa War, to the British as the Third Ashanti Expedition (March-September 1900). Haylings's book was never intended for general circulation and the list of subscribers is short at 173 individuals. First edition of the rare War Map, located... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139943
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![Turkestanskii krai v 1866 [Travel Notes, Turkestan 1866]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/117849_3.jpg)
PASHINO, Petr Ivanovich. Turkestanskii krai v 1866 [Travel Notes, Turkestan 1866]St Petersburg : 1868
First and only edition, decidedly uncommon, an online search of institutional libraries showing only 9 locations worldwide, and just a single copy at auction in the last 50 years. A keenly observed and highly desirable insider's account of the early days of Russian Turkestan, with a focus on Tashkent - capital of Russian Turkestan and now of Uzbekistan... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 117849
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![Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [-IV].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116257.jpg)
LA JONCHERE, Étienne Lécuyer de. Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [-IV].Amsterdam : 1720
First edition of a very rare work by La Jonchère, one of the most original works of political economy of the 18th century.
Writing after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, La Jonchère puts forward a detailed and comprehensive plan of financial reform. Although he "expressly denies having followed Vauban's Dixme Royale, he starts from the same... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 116257
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DEW, Thomas R. Essay on the Interest of Money, and the Policy of Laws against Usury.Shellbanks : 1834
First edition in book form, presentation copy, inscribed on the rear wrapper "From the Author to Wm Short". The recipient was the American ambassador William Short (1759-1849), who served as US Minister to France from June 1790 to May 1792, to the Netherlands from June to December 1792, and to Spain from 1794 to 1795; he was later a successful Kentucky... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123171
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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BYRON, John. Manuscript order book.1746-56
John Byron (1723-1786), known as "Foulweather Jack" because of his persistent meteorological ill-fortunes, had been midshipman on the store ship Wager, part of Anson's squadron bound for the Pacific. Shipwrecked on the southern coast of Chile, he made his way to Valparaíso and returned to Europe by a French ship, arriving back in England in February... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 100745
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LA JONCHERE, Étienne Lécuyer de. Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [-IV].Amsterdam : 1720
First edition, first issue of a very rare work by La Jonchère, one of the most original works of political economy of the 18th century. In the second issue, the title is extended to read "Le Prix des quatre Volumes est de cent livres en Argent, & de quatre cent livres en Billets de Banque."
Writing after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, La Jonchère... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 145697
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SHLAKMAN, Vera. Economic History of a Factory Town.Northampton, Massachusetts : [1936]
First edition, uncommon in commerce, of the celebrated economist's key analysis of women factory workers in the 1800s, more generally an important microeconomic study of an American industrial town and her first and last book. The small thesis note pasted above the imprint on the title page states that it was entered as part of Shlakman's doctorate... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 140360
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DAVIS, Nathan. Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character,London : 1863
First and sole edition, uncommon; an important record of the Punic stelae unearthed by one of the most remarkable figures in 19th century archaeology, the little known Nathan Davis (1819-1882), "clergyman, adventurer and snake-handler extraordinaire" (Freed), who conducted pioneering excavations at Carthage in the late 1850s, preceding the work of his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138060
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CLAFLIN, Tennessee. Carte-de-visite.[New York : early 1870s]
A striking portrait of Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin who, in partnership with her sister Victoria Woodhull, was America's first female stockbroker; this carte-de-visite, of head-and-shoulders length, depicts her wearing an extravagant ruffled wrap, and gives her profession as "Broker". The photographer remains unidentified. We can trace examples of this... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 134920
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STOKER, Bram. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, P.C. with the love and respect of his old friend Bram Stoker 4.5.09".
A resonant association copy: the radical MP Henry Labouchère was the author of the 1885 Labouchère Amendment (known by its critics as the Blackmailer's Charter), which newly classified... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 144090
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GRIGORYEV, Vasily Vasilyevich. Rossiya i Aziya: Sbornik Issledovaniy i Statey po Istorii, Etnografii i Geografii, Napisannykh v Raznoye Vremya …St Petersburg : 1876
First and only edition, WorldCat locates a single copy at the University of Aberdeen. Collection of ten articles by leading Russian Orientalist and Central Asia specialist Vasily Grigoryev (1816-81). A compilation with much material on the early history of Kazakhstan, one of Grigoryev's key research interests being the Khazars and the Golden Horde,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 121738
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MOIVRE, Abraham de. Annuities upon Lives: or, the Valuation of Annuities upon any Number of Lives; as also, of Reversions. To which is added, an Appendix concerning the Expectations of Life, and Probabilities of Survivorship.London : 1725
First edition, the dedication copy, with 4-page printed dedication to Thomas Parker, first earl of Macclesfield. Along with Halley, de Moivre may be considered the founder of actuarial science and a master of probability theory. He was perhaps the first to develop probability theory extensively and the first to use probability theory to write a comprehensive... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135358
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MARX, Karl. 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 other 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 himself, Engels, and their... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 126478
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HUNTER, F. M. An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia.London : 1877
First and only edition of this important monograph, the rare "presentation issue" with the superb photographic plates; commercial records show two copies only, one with Maggs (1954, catalogue no. 824) and another through Sotheby's (1999). Inscribed on the half-title by the recipient "E. V. Stace a kind present from the Author", his signature repeated... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144018
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LOCKE, John (contrib.) Britannia Rediviva.Oxford : 1660
First edition of this collection of verses by Oxford men celebrating the restoration of Charles II to the throne, written in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, French and English. Oxford, Charles I's capital during the Civil War, had remained a bastion of royalism, and by all accounts the University welcomed the Stuarts' return.
The collection sees... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126794
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.Hamburg : 1867
First edition, advance review copy of the first volume of Das Kapital (stamped "Recensionsexemplar" on the front wrapper), with a printed slip issued by the publisher Otto Meissner, completed in manuscript two days after publication, inviting the editors of Die Grenzboten to publish a review. It is offered here with first editions of volumes 2 and 3,... Learn More£175,000.00Stock Code: 134105
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DIVANOV, Khudaibergen. Eighteen original photographs of Khiva and its people.Khiva : c.1920
Eloquent and atmospheric sequence of images showing the ancient Silk Road city of Khiva during a period of rapid transition, the work of Khudaibergen Divanov, Uzbekistan's first photographer whose life and fate mirrored his times. Proscribed and executed in Stalin's Great Purge, vintage prints from Divanov's studio are exceptionally scarce.
All... Learn More£29,250.00Stock Code: 113773
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FORD, Ford Madox. The Soul of London:London : 1905
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in blue-green ink on the front free endpaper: "Walter Jerrold, affectionately from Ford Madox Hueffer. June 15th 1905" (the book was published on 2 May). An excellent association copy: Walter Jerrold (1865-1929) was a prolific author and a familiar figure on the Edwardian... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 143772
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PRIVATEERING; WEST INDIES. Collection of 35 documents relating to Captain John McIver and the privateer Swallow.c. 1796-97
An outstanding and extraordinarily comprehensive tranche of documents, including impressive original Letters of Marque, relating to the British-built armed brig Swallow, a privateer out of Liverpool operating in the Caribbean under the experienced command of prize-master John McIver. The archive covers in remarkable breadth and detail the purchase,... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 133528
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DUTCH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. Dialogus Ofte t'Samenspreeckinge tusschen Jan Andersorgh ende Govert Eygen-sin,[Amsterdam?] : 1630
First edition of this West Frisian rhymed dialogue against the ongoing peace negotiations between the United Provinces and Spain to conclude the Dutch War of Independence (1568-1648). The United Provinces had gained significant ground in the preceding few years, with the Dutch West India Company occupying Bahia, the capital of Brazil in 1624, and that... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139110
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BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, civill and morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Newly enlarged.London : 1632
Third Haviland edition; the economist Nassau William Senior's copy. In 1625 John Haviland published the first complete, and definitive, edition of Bacon's essays, the last to appear in Bacon's lifetime. Comprising fifty-eight essays, it was greatly expanded from the first edition, published in 1597, which numbered just ten essays within a slim octavo... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132335
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LYON, George Francis. A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, In the Years 1818, 19, and 20;London : 1821
First edition of this account of the British North Africa expedition led by Joseph Ritchie that sought to reach the Niger from the north. 'During the closing years of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth several British expeditions had been sent into the interior of North Africa for the sole purpose of delineating the course... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 91133
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LASSALLE, Ferdinand. Das System der erworbenen Rechte.Leipzig : 1861
First edition of Lassalle's principal work, which Schumpeter describes as "a brilliant piece of legal sociology that dazzled many a professional jurist." (History of economic analysis, p. 454).
"It was Lassalle's great contribution to call into being the first political party of German workers, the Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeitierverein, organized... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 147044
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STENT, George Carter. Scraps from my Sabretasche.London : 1882
First edition of this scarce and colourful memoir, "full of material that would sound familiar to any reader of Kipling's stories set in India" and teeming with detail, this copy skilfully restored in the attractive original cloth.
Stent's book includes a description of "an elephant who plays jokes on his keeper, to Stent's dressing up as a woman... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140276
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : [1920 or later]
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was first published in 1906, in both deluxe and trade editions, with the plates gathered at the end. The "New Edition" of 1912 is in larger format, with new illustrations dated 1912, the colour plates distributed throughout the text, the text entirely reset (readily identifiable by running headlines in a large italic... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 112966
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SLAVE TRADE. A Treatise upon the Trade from Great-Britain to Africa;London : 1772
Rare first edition of this important work, being an early defence of the West African slave trade and part of a "high-profile campaign" against the African Committee, the ruling body of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa operating in the Gold Coast of modern Ghana (Sparks, p. 98).
The Treatise is customarily ascribed to John Peter Demarin,... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 140948
