Search results for: 'the works'
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MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels - DIXON, Richard, & others. Collected Works.London : 1975-2005
First edition, first impressions, all with the London imprint except for vol. 5 and 22 (New York), and vol. 26 (Moscow). It was published in conjunction with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, both Moscow, and International Publishers Inc., New York. "This edition will provide for the first time to the English-speaking world... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 119043
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THE BANKER'S DAUGHTER. Family archive illustrating the consequences of bankruptcy.London : [c.1803-1871]
A fascinating and varied archive which vividly illustrates the ramifications of bankruptcy upon family life, comprising financial, promotional, and personal documents related to the late Regency-era performer Mary Radcliff Chambers, "the Banker's Daughter", who took up an onstage career to revive her family's fortunes after the collapse of her father's... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 128644
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ESTES, Matthew. A Defence of Negro Slavery, as it exists in the United States.Montgomery : 1846
First edition of the Mississippi anti-abolitionist's work summarising pro-slavery arguments supported by religion and new racial science. The eleven chapters consider the biblical foundations of slavery within early Judaism and Christianity, the history of African slavery, the abolitionist position of England on the topic, the dangers and ineffectuality... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 120624
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(GAME THEORY.) KUHN, H. W.; A. W. Tucker; M. Dresher; P. Wolfe; R. D. Luce (eds.) Contributions to the Theory of Games.Princeton : 1950-53-57-59 & 1964
First editions of the complete run of this important Game Theory journal, together with the follow up study, Advances in Game Theory, issued as volumes 24, 28, 39, 40 and 52 of the periodical Annals of Mathematics Studies. Contributors include Melvin Dresher, David Gale, John Nash, and John von Neumann, among others. Volume II includes Lloyd Shapley's... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 118782
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ZEUTHEN, F. Problems of Monopoly and Economic Warfare.London : 1930
First edition in English, first impression, inscribed by the author "with compliments, F. Zeuthen" in ink on the half-title, translated from works originally published separately in Danish in 1928-9. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 126461
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[MARMONT DU HAUTCHAMP, Barthélemi.] Histoire générale et particuliere du visa fait en France.The Hague : 1743
First edition of one of the rarest texts in economics: the detailed account of the operation of the Visa, which was brought into operation after the downfall of John Law to investigate the profiteers of the Mississippi bubble, to improve the financial position of the state, and to penalise the financier class. The Visa was similar to the Chambre de... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 84108
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MENGER, Carl. The Collected Works.London : 1933-6
First collected edition, with the four volumes printed as part of the London School of Economics series of reprints of scarce tracts in economics and political science (nos. 17-20. The texts are in the original German despite the English title. The preface is by Friedrich von Hayek, who expresses his hope that Menger, who had fallen out of favour in... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 132827
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RICARDO, David. The Works and Correspondence.Cambridge : 1951-73
First edition, first impressions, of the Royal Economic Society's edition of the collected works of Ricardo. The definitive edition of the economist's works, the collection includes many writings which were previously unpublished. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 126160
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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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RICARDO, David. An Essay on The Influence of a low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock;London : 1815, 1819, 1822
Second, third, and fourth editions respectively of these three works by David Ricardo (first editions published 1815, 1816, and 1822), bound together in a contemporary binding, sympathetically rebacked. "Following his involvement in the bullion controversy, Ricardo's next significant publication was his Essay on the influence of a low price of corn... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 129283
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BURNS, Arthur F. (ed.) Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Economic Scientist.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing, comprising a collection of memorial essays discussing the American economist and former director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's contribution to the building of a science of economics. It includes work by Joseph A. Schumpeter and John Maurice Clark, as well as an extensive bibliography of works by and about... Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 119394
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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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![A Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel; [bound with:] A Second Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/127336.jpg)
COPLESTON, Edward. A Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel; [bound with:] A Second Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel.Oxford : 1819
First editions of Copleston's economic treatises on the gold standard and the poor laws. "In his First Letter he attributed the economic dislocation of post-Napoleonic war England to the depreciation of the currency, and urged the government to remove such obstacles as it was able to the self-correcting mechanism of nature. In his Second Letter, although... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127336
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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... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 134300
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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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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.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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(HAYEK, Friedrich von.) THORNTON, Henry. An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802).New York : 1939
First US edition, first printing, part of the Library of Economics series, which reprinted significant economic works of the past. Hayek here edits and introduces Henry Thornton's (1760-1815) treatise on paper credit, as published in 1802; Hayek said of this work that it "deserves to be ranked as one of the few outstanding achievements in the development... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 132318
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DAVENPORT, Herbert Joseph. Outlines of Economic Theory.New York & London : 1896
First edition, first printing, for which Davenport is credited as "one of the first respectable economists to give serious attention to unemployment", suggesting that "the best ameliorative device was to be found 'in the postponement of all works of national or municipal improvement to seasons of labor stagnation'". Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 108304
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(DARIEN SCHEME.) BURTON, John H. Ed. The Darien Papers: being a Selection of original Letters and official Documents relating to the Establishment of a Colony at Darien by the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies. 1695-1700.Edinburgh : 1849
First edition of this printing of the letters and documents relating to the ill-fated Darien Scheme, Scotland's aborted attempt to found a colony, leading to bankruptcy and necessitating the Act of Union with England. The Bannatyne Club was founded by Walter to Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, printing 116 volumes between its founding... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 125768
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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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SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy.London : 1883
First edition, along with The Elements of Politics (1891), one of two works representing "Sidgwick's attempt to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108268
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(ECONOMICS.) CLARKE, Sir Richard William Barnes. The Socialisation of Iron and Steel.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke (1910-1975) journalist and civil servant. At the time of publication Clarke was working at the Financial News, later amalgamated with the Financial Times, where his most lasting achievement was to devise the ordinary share index - still, as the FT index, the principal measure of its... Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 96270
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ROBBINS, Lionel. Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics.London : 1958
First edition of "a perfect example of how to survey the collected works of a writer" (The New Palgrave) with a useful bibliographical index. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 121521
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FLEETWOOD, William. A compleat Collection of the Sermons, Tracts, and Pieces of all Kinds, That were Written by the Right Reverend Dr. William Fleetwood, Late Lord Bishop of Ely.London : 1737
First edition of William Fleetwood's collected works. Fleetwood (1656-1723) is best known for his Chronicon Preciosum, an attempt to provide a price index of major commodities over the last six hundred years, here printed for the second time following the first edition of 1707. Fleetwood's interest in economics influenced his sermons, with the work... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 113916
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OWEN, Robert. A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice.London : 1813-14
First edition, first issue of the four Essays, one of 40 specially bound presentation sets printed on thick paper, parts III & IV "Not published", inscribed "From the Author" on the first blank.
Edouard Dolléans states that just forty copies of A New View of Society were bound for presentation: "En écrivant les Vues nouvelles, Owen a surtout... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 130529
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![Élémens d'idéologie; [together with] Commentaire sur l'esprit des lois de Montesquieu.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/113435.jpg)
DESTUTT DE TRACY, Antoine Louis Claude. Élémens d'idéologie; [together with] Commentaire sur l'esprit des lois de Montesquieu.Paris : 1825-8
Early edition of the author's magnum opus, Élémens d'idéologie, and his commentary on Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) was one of the founding members of the liberal republican group the Idéologues and famously coined the term "ideology" (in the sense of a "science of the formation of ideas"). While in prison for a year... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 113435
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FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.New Haven : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, publisher's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 121008
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FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.New Haven & London : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, author's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131968
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SINCLAIR, Sir John, & Thomas Attwood. The Late Prosperity, and the Present Adversity of the Country, Explained;London : 1826
First edition of the published correspondence between agricultural improver and politician John Sinclair (1754-1835) and currency theorist Thomas Attwood (1783-1856). After he launched the Birmingham Political Union in 1830 Attwood was considered by many to be "'the most influential man in England'" (ODNB), and he was a leading figure in the public... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 117670
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TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. The Life and Writings of Turgot, Comptroller-General of France 1774-6.New York : 1971
A reprint of the first American edition, published in 1895, of W. Walker Stephen's study of French economist, philosopher, and administrator Turgot. The first UK edition was published in the same year. It was reprinted as part of publisher Burt Franklin's Research & Source Works Series. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 124179
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WALRAS, Leon. Théorie de la monnaie.Lausanne : 1886
First edition of this important contribution to Walras's monetary theory, in fine condition, the final text in a contemporary Sammelband of six related works on bimetallism. The ideas in Théorie de la monnaie would be revisited and fully developed in the fourth edition of Walras's Eléments d'économie politique pure, published 14... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141141
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HICKS, J. R. The Theory of Wages.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Hicks, uniquely amongst his LSE peers of the 1920s, was proficient in many European languages and brought his extensive reading in continental theory to bear on his research. A student of Lionel Robbins, Hicks's works influenced most serious economists who followed. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 129407
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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£475.00Stock Code: 115418
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ORWELL, George. The Road To Wigan Pier.New York : 1958
First US edition, first printing, originally published in London in 1937. Orwell's account of poverty in the North of England in the 1930s is firmly established among his best known and most compelling non-fiction works. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 143700
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PALGRAVE, R. H. Inglis. Analysis of the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Banks of Issue, 1875.London : 1876
First edition. "Palgrave's interest in banking led in the early 1870s to his publishing several books, one of which earned him a Swedish knighthood. He became a prominent member of the banking profession, representing the country bankers in parliamentary evidence and in helping to form the Bankers' Institute. By this time the great age of banking debate... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 135411
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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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TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management.New York : 1911
First trade edition, first printing, preceded only by the privately distributed edition in the same year. "F. W. Taylor, an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, was the originator of what he called 'scientific management', now known as 'time and motion study'. His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day's work and the... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 124840
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[WALLACE, Robert.] A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in antient and modern Times:Edinburgh : 1753
First edition. Robert Wallace (1697-1771) was an interesting figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Rankenian Club during his university days and also active in the Philosophical and Select societies. His elaborate history of population was based on the extensive research in ancient history that he had originally presented to... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 127137
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(HARRIS, Walter.) The Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien, Answer'd, Paragraph by Paragraph.London : 1699
First edition of Walter Harris's rebuttal to A Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien, published the same year and variously attributed to Archibald Foyer, George Ridpath, Andrew Fletcher and James Watson. That pamphlet had optimistically attempted, shortly before the Darien Scheme was abandoned, to convince the English to support the project, no... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 135270
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LAWRENCE, Richard. The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth Stated.Dublin : 1682
First edition. Richard Lawrence served in the New Model Army and accompanied Cromwell's expeditionary force to Ireland in 1649, where he was entrusted with important commands of the island as it was reconquered and resettled. He entered into print in the 1650s defending the policy of transplantation, and acquired large estates in the country. In 1664... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127003
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EATWELL, John; Murray Milgate; Peter Newman (eds.) The New Palgrave. A Dictionary of Economics.London : 1987
First edition of this "indispensible reference tool" (Kenneth J. Arrow). The New Palgrave was inspired by its predecessor R. H. Inglis Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy (Macmillan, 1894-9). The modern version contains 2,000 signed entries, including 700 biographical entries describing the lives and works of the thinkers who have created the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 135057
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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. The Principles of Political Economy:Edinburgh : 1830
Second edition, corrected and enlarged, first published in 1825. Presentation copy to the future Prime Minister Robert Peel (1788-1850), inscribed on the front free endpaper "The Right Hon Sir Robert Peel M.P from the author", with Peel's bookplate to front pastedown. McCulloch was an admirer of Peel's reforms, and later editions of the book praised... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129374
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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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FARRER, T. H. The State in its Relation to Trade.London : 1883
First edition; one of the principal works of Thomas Henry, first Baron Farrer (1819-1899), civil servant. "Farrer shared with most of his political masters the view that government should do no more than seek to create the conditions for commerce to flourish - preventing fraud, curbing monopoly, and protecting "as much individual freedom as is consistent... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140148
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CLAVELL, Roger. Tabulae foeneratoriae, or Tables for the Forbearance and Discompt of Money.London : 1669
Second, increased edition of Clavell's tables, first published in 1653. The Appendix, by Thomas Russel, has a separate dated title-page.
"With the advent of the Civil War, there seems to be a gap of some years in the publication of new books on compound interest, although editions of some of the earlier works, e.g. Webster's Tables, continued... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 136523
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. System of Economic Contradictions, or the Philosophy of Misery.New York : [1888?]
First separate edition in English, first published by Tucker himself as the fourth volume in his translated edition of Proudhon's works (1888), here with a cancel half-title and title page, and a variant binding. This reissue is rarely found - WorldCat locates only one copy, at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, with another... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 133006
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CASSEL, Gustav. The Nature and Necessity of Interest.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, of one a few works by the Swedish economist which were first published in English. "Although his theory of interest, showing a close resemblance to that of Senior, was not original, it still merits our attention, because of its vivid illustrations and some striking applications. This is particularly the case for Cassel's... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 114163
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TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management.New York : 1911
First edition, the scarce privately printed issue, of the first and most influential book on business and industrial management. "This special edition was printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the compliments of the author" (title page statement). The first trade... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 134761
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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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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. A Treatise of the Succession to Property vacant after Death:London : 1848
First edition of McCulloch's defence of primogeniture and entails, as reworked from one of the Notes and Dissertations contained in his edition of Wealth of Nations, and briefly outlined in an article for the Edinburgh Review), which is now "for the first time, laid before the reader in a systematic form; with illustrations, corrections and modifications,... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 97356
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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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TAYLOR, John. Essays on Money, and the Standard of Value.London : 1833
First collected edition, the author's own copy with his ownership signature dated 1884 to the front pastedown, and his manuscript additions and corrections apparently intended for a future edition. The book collects Taylor's previously published economic tracts and reissues them with a new general title page and introduction: The Restoration of National... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134900
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1817
First three-volume edition, the fifth overall, with extensive additions compared to the previous editions. Malthus contributed a new preface, rewrote chapters 8 to 13, and provided new chapters on France, England, and the Poor Laws. The additions were so substantial that Malthus also published them in a separate volume, for those who owned earlier editions.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128931
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;London : 1806
Third edition, in an extraordinarily fresh contemporary binding, the first edition to be in two octavo volumes, the format which was to remain the standard in Malthus's lifetime. This third edition has important alterations and additions, particularly the appendix, in which Malthus replied to some of his many critics; it follows the first edition of... Learn More£7,000.00Stock Code: 142661
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KEYNES, John Maynard. The Means to Prosperity.London : 1933
First complete edition, first impression. The Means to Prosperity originally appeared as four articles in The Times between 13 March and 16 March 1933. Keynes wrote these articles, which are here presented in an expanded form, as a result of the decision in 1932 to hold a full-scale international economic conference in London. In these articles we "begin... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 143869
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SCHABACKER, Richard Wallace. Stock Market Theory and Practice.New York : 1930
First edition, first printing, with the scarce jacket. This is the first of Schabacker's three major works on the stock market. The youngest financial editor of Forbes magazine, Schabacker writes, "so long as he plays courageously fair with his sincere study there seems no reason why the average student should not reap the rewards of successful stock... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 107467
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COBBETT, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire:London : 1830
First edition in book form of this masterpiece of description and political journalism, deservedly the best known of Cobbett's works. The Rural Rides were originally a series of letters which began in the Political Register, the weekly periodical Cobbett established in 1802 and conducted until his death in 1835. Cobbett wanted to maintain Britain's... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124549
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ENGELS, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.New York : [1887]
First edition in English of Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England (1845), Engels's masterful survey of Worker's conditions. "In 1842, Engels left for England to work in his father's Manchester firm his father was a textile manufacturer in Westphalia. Already converted by Moses Hess to a belief in 'communism' and the imminence of an English social... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 132006
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ASGILL, John. Several Assertions Proved, In Order to Create another Species of Money than Gold and Silver.[London : 1696]
First edition of Asgill's proposal for the establishment of a paper currency backed up by land, published during the Great Recoinage where the shortage and drawbacks of metal currency was engendering much debate. John Asgill (1659-1738) had founded the first land bank with Nicholas Barbon the previous year, and at this date (1696) it had proved profitable,... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 135210
