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BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Histoire Critique des Théories de l'Intérêt du Capital.Paris : 1902-1903
First edition in French of Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien (1884, this taken from the second German edition of 1900), "an exhaustive survey of the alternative treatments of the phenomenon of interest: use theories, productivity theories, abstinence theories, and many more. Most significant in this early work is his devastating critique... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139981
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HICKS, John. Capital and Growth.Oxford : 1965
First edition, first impression of Hicks's inquiry into growth theory which develops the methods set forth in his previous writings on the subject. It is the second of his three major works on capital, the first being Value and Capital (1939), the third Capital and Time (1973). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 134250
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MARX, Karl. El Capital.Madrid : 1886[-87]
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 stock - the same used for printing Zafrilla's newspaper - and its very small print run, thought to number no more than a thousand copies in total.
Pablo Correa... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 130328
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MARX, Karl. Le Capital.Paris : [1872-5]
First edition in French of the first volume of Das Kapital, the definitive text as authorized by Karl Marx, this being the first issue with Lachâtre's imprint. The book was published in parts from August 1872 to November 1875, here bound on completion. The first volume of Das Kapital was originally published in German in 1867. This French edition was... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135070
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HICKS, John R. Value and Capital.Oxford : 1939
First edition, first impression, of the author's most significant book. Hicks was an eminent 20th-century economist known for presenting his ideas in book form rather than in monographs. He was an "economist's economist" (OED) and, though obscure to the public eye, he introduced many concepts that are still significant in economic theory. Value and... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134623
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HICKS, John. Capital and Growth.Oxford : 1965
First edition, first impression of Hicks's inquiry into growth theory which develops the methods set forth in his previous writings on the subject. It is the second of his three major works on capital, the first being Value and Capital (1939), the third Capital and Time (1973). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 129195
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HICKS, John. Capital and Growth.Oxford : 1965
First edition, first impression, of Hicks's inquiry into growth theory which develops the methods set forth in his previous writings on the subject. It is the second of his three major works on capital, the first being Value and Capital (1939), the third Capital and Time (1973). Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 134246
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KELLOGG, Edward. Labor and Other Capital:New York : 1849
First edition in book form. The work first received publication as a short pamphlet entitled "Currency; The Evil and the Remedy" in around 1843 before being adapted into a book and retitled. Kellogg believed that "commercial disturbances and economic evils in general were due to a lack of credit facilities. He consequently proposed a national currency... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 124816
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WICKSELL, Knut. Value Capital and Rent.London : 1954
First English language edition of Wicksell's first book, originally published in German in 1893. "In Value, Capital, and Rent he performed a remarkable labour of synthesis. He adopted the marginal utility marginal productivity theory of value of Jevons, Menger and Marshall, added it to the Böhm Bawerk analysis of capital, and fused the result in a... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 134302
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Pure Theory of Capital.Chicago : 1950
Second American edition, first printing, following the first of 1941. The Pure Theory of Capital showed "the very complex nature of capital and its importance in economic booms and slumps, and stands as a classic in the field" (Butler). Hayek "provides lucid expositions of his notions of 'inter-temporal equilbrium', the 'physical productivity of investment',... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 132148
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PIGOU, Arthur Cecil. A Capital Levy and a Levy on War Wealth.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, of Pigou's treatise on the question of a levy on capital and war profits, published as part of the series The World of To-day, under the general editorship of Victor Gollancz. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 131602
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PIGOU, Arthur Cecil. A Capital Levy and a Levy on War Wealth.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, of Pigou's treatise on the question of a levy on capital and war profits, published as part of the series The World of To-day, under the general editorship of Victor Gollancz. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141891
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MARX, Karl - PARETO, Vilfredo. Le Capital. Extraits faits par M. Paul Lafargue.Paris : 1893
First edition of this selection from Marx's Capital, published in the series Petite bibliothèque économique française et étrangère, the product of a surprising collaboration. Lafargue, a founder of the French socialist party and later Marx's son-in-law, of all the French Marxist writers closest to German orthodoxy, made the selection of the extracts.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122588
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MAITLAND, James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale. Recherches sur la nature et l'origine de la richesse publique,Paris : 1808
First edition in French, published four years after the first edition in English. Lauderdale "has been hailed as a forerunner of Keynes, in as much as he argued that over-saving was a distinct possibility and that public spending was required to offset private thrift if stagnation was to be asserted" (Blaug). In the present work Lauderdale questioned... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 113498
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MONTAGU, Basil. Some Inquiries respecting the Punishment of DeathLondon : 1818
First edition. In 1809 Basil Montagu (1770-1851), author and legal reformer, "along with the Quaker philanthropist William Allen and others... formed the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death and the Improvement of Prison Discipline (re-established in 1829 as the Society for the Diffusion of Information on the Subject of... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 115242
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MARX, Karl. 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 their cause. He returned... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 128758
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![[In Cyrillic:] Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii (The Development of Capitalism in Russia).](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/121610_1.jpg)
LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, as Nikolai Lenin. [In Cyrillic:] Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii (The Development of Capitalism in Russia).St Petersburg : 1899
First edition of Lenin's most important and substantial work, his only genuine contribution to economics, in the original Russian language. "The Development of Capitalism in Russia is an example of Lenin's acute observation of all facets of the Russian economy. Its detailed documentation of the peculiarities of Russian capitalism - peculiarities stemming... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 121610
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BONNET, Victor. Questions économiques et financières à propos des crises.Paris : 1859
First edition of the financial publicist and editor's work on the role of currency reform in economic crises. Bonnet (1814-1889) "became a counsellor of state and a member of the Institute. He wrote in the Revue des Deux Mondes from 1860 to 1884, in favour of the monopoly of a bank of circulation, a single standard (gold), indirect taxation, and a reduction... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 114786
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WALRAS, Leon. [A single volume containing 10 titles demonstrating Walras's developing theories of economic equilibrium.]Various places : 1874-91
A substantial pamphlet volume, including the first edition of Théorie de la monnaie and the first separate editions of his articles on bimetallism and price variation, from the years of his "second phase of theoretical activity, his period of high creativity and maximum theoretical prolificacy" (Walker, p. 9), when he was in the process of developing... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 116829
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AFTALION, ALbert. Les Crises périodiques de surproduction.Paris : 1913
First edition, very scarce: one of the earliest statements of the acceleration principle "an important concept which has been used successfully in explaining investment behaviour as well as cyclical behaviour in a capitalist economy. It will continue to play an important role in macroeconomic models as well as in models of business cycles." (The New... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135866
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HAWLEY, Frederick B. Capital and Population:New York : 1882
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Hawley on the front flyleaf: "E. N. Morse Esq with the compliments of the author Fred. B. Hawley". The first book by the American business man Frederick Barnard Hawley (18431929). Focusing on the economic aspects of population, the book grew out of a number of articles written by Hawley in the late 1870s.... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 141154
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CALVERT, E. Roy. The Death Penalty Enquiry.London : 1931
First edition in wrappers, first impression. Among their other recommendations, the Committee advocated that capital punishment be suspended for a experimental period of five years, though this was not enacted until 1938. From the publisher's archive. Learn More£25.00Stock Code: 95087
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CALVERT, E. Roy. The Death Penalty Enquiry.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Among their other recommendations, the Committee advocated that capital punishment be suspended for a experimental period of five years, though this was not enacted until 1938. From the publisher's archive with their stamp to the title page. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 95088
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MARX, Karl. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.London : 1887
First edition in English of Das Kapital, first issue, one of 500 copies printed; a remarkably well-preserved copy of a work rarely found without extensive repair. All subsequent English editions were based on this "authorized edition": it remained the standard text for the English-speaking public, and continued to be revised and republished until the... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 142462
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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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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Système des Contradictions Économiques, ou Philosophie de la Misère.Paris : 1846
First edition of Proudhon's magnum opus, his analysis of what he saw to be the economic contradictions of 19th-century capitalism, which he felt would lead in time to an anarchist society. Proudhon sent a copy of the book to Karl Marx, then his friend, for review. Marx read it in two days, and was infuriated. "He therefore determined to destroy it,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129329
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WICKSELL, Knut. Über Wert, Kapital und Rente nach den neueren nationalökonomischen Theorien.Jena : 1893
First edition, presentation copy of Wicksell's first book, inscribed by him on the title: "Assessor C. O. Montan, vänskapsfullt från förf." An analysis of the theory of distribution, the first English translation, Value, Capital, and Rent, was published in 1954. "In Value, Capital, and Rent he performed a remarkable labour of synthesis. He adopted... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 119110
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BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien.Jena : 1921
Fourth edition, from the text of the best edition, the revised third. Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien was the first part of Böhm-Bawerk's extended opus magnus Capital and Interest, which is "an exhaustive survey of the alternative treatments of the phenomenon of interest: use theories, productivity theories, abstinence theories, and... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 83444
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ALLAIS, Maurice. Économie & Intérêt;Paris : 1947
First edition. Économie et Intérêt is Allais's second major publication, a massive work on capital and interest which has formed the basis for the so-called "golden rule of accumulation". This states that to maximise real income, the optimum rate of interest should equal the growth rate of the economy. Allais did not publish in English until late... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 96946
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CHERBULIEZ, Antoine Elisée. Riche ou pauvre. Exposition succincte des causes et des effets de la distribution actuelle des richesses sociales.Paris & Geneva : 1840
First edition of a work to which Karl Marx devoted an entire chapter in his Theorien über den Mehrwert (Theories of surplus value), writing that this book, together with George Ramsay's Essay on the distribution of wealth, is the only one to have made the distinction (of great importance to Marx) between "constant" and "variable" capital (i.e. wage... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 105364
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HAWTREY, Ralph George. A Century of Bank Rate.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Ralph George Hawtrey (1879-1975) was a British economist, close friend of Keynes, and a fellow member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University's intellectual secret society. However, from the latter 1920s Keynes and Hawtrey differed greatly on the bank rate, "Hawtrey holding that changes in bank rate operated through... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 136459
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ALLAIS, Maurice. Économie & Intérêt;Paris : 1947
First edition. Economie et Intérêt is Allais's second major publication, a massive work on capital and interest which has formed the basis for the so-called "golden rule of accumulation". This states that to maximise real income, the optimum rate of interest should equal the growth rate of the economy. Allais did not publish in English until late... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 126465
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POLITICAL ECONOMY. An essay on the political economy of nations:London : 1821
First edition of this anonymously authored work, divided into three sections: "the principles of production, revenue, and consumption", "on the commercial intercourse of nations" and "considerations on the past and present state of international commerce". Subjects dealt with include the formation of wealth, the nature of capital, the extent of demand... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127180
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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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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.
This Act, together with six further acts subsequently obtained, forms the constitution of the Bank of Scotland. Its original capital was 1,200,000 Scotch, or 100,000 sterling. "The Act exempted the capital of the bank from all public burdens, and gave it the exclusive privilege... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145166
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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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RAE, John. Statement of some new Principles on the Subject of Political Economy exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of some other Doctrines maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."Boston : 1834
First edition, scarce and often overlooked, of "one of the highlights of classical economic theory" (K. H. Hennings in The New Palgrave). A native of Scotland, Rae (1796-1872) emigrated to Canada, and thence to America, where this, his only publication, was written. Originally intended as an appendix to a larger work on the Natural History and Statistics... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 107939
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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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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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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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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. The Principles of Political Economy:Edinburgh : 1843
Third edition (first 1825) of the author's first major work. The Principles of Political Economy enjoyed a wave of popularity soon after publication and went through five editions, each being continually revised and updated "to address a widening range of contemporary economic problems" as McCulloch amassed further relevant statistics and data (ODNB).... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 119721
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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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LABORDÈRE, Marcel. Autour de la Crise Américaine de 1907 ou Capitaux-réels et Capitaux-apparents.Paris : 1908
First separate edition, a decidedly rare offprint from the Revue de Paris (February 1908): Library Hub locates just one copy (LSE) in British and Irish institutional libraries, WorldCat addes just 2 (Columbia, ZBW Deutsche Zentralbibliothek), KVK cites one copy (Bibliothèque de Genève). It was reprinted in 1948 along with Sir Denis Robertson's A Study... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 103580
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Autograph note, signed, discussing his manuscripts, together with a card of Hayek's notes.Freiburg : [1985]
Hayek writes to explain, presumably in response to a request for a handwritten sample of his work: "Meine Manuskripte sind gegenwärtig alle in Großbuchstaben geschrieben und darum graphologisch uninterressant. Sie müssen sich darum wohl hiermit begnügen" - "My manuscripts are all currently written in capital letters, and therefore of no graphological... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 85068
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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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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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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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![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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LONGFIELD, Mountifort. Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.Dublin : 1834
First edition, the Curry and Longman issue, the other having the imprint Dublin: Richard Milliken and London: B. Fellowes. Longfield was diverted from his interest in economics by a busy and successful career in law, being transferred from the Whately chair of political economy to that of feudal and English law at Trinity the same year as this publication,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 134652
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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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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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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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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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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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TRISTAN, Flora. L'Émancipation de la femme ou le testament de la paria.Paris : 1846
Scarce first edition of the revolutionary French socialist's final work, her "feminist manifesto" (McDonald, p. 179), which includes her analogy between the position of women in the family and the exploitation of the working classes by the bourgeoisie, an equation later made famous by Friedrich Engels.
L'Émancipation de la Femme was posthumously... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 143309
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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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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Vested Interests and the Common Man.London : 1924
First UK edition, first impression, originally published in the US in 1919, following publication as articles in 1918-1919. Veblen's book continues his witty critique of modern capitalism, started two decades earlier in his Theory of the Leisure Class. In these articles, he argues that big business has subverted government to its own interests, with... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 129275
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LUXEMBURG, Rosa. Nakoplenie Kapitala[Moscow] : 1921
First edition in Russian of Luxemburg's most important work, translated from the original German (Akkumulation des Kapitals, 1913) by one of the few Russian Luxemburgist economists, Sholom Moiseevich Dvolaitskii. Born in Lithuania in 1893, he became a follower of Plekhanov in 1911 and was soon thereafter banished to Tomsk for revolutionary activity.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 127114
