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(QUESNAY, François.) Will, J. G., & Jean-Charles François (engrs.) Pair of engraved portraits of François Quesnay.Paris : 1747 & 1767
The first of these two portraits, engraved by J.G. Will after a painting by J. Chevallier in 1745, depicts Quesnay seated, surrounded by books and papers. That of François, engraved in 1767 after a painting by Frédoux, is particularly interesting, employing a variety of artistic styles. Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 110063
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(TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques, trans.) TUCKER, Josiah. Questions importantes sur le commerce,London [i.e Paris?] : 1755
First edition in French of the second part of Tucker's Reflections on the Expediency of a Law for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants (1752), translated by Turgot in his first published piece on economics. Tucker wrote the first part of his tract in 1751 in support of Robert Nugent's bill to relax British naturalisation laws against foreign protestants,... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 127430
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(QUESNAY, Francois.) BELLIAL DES VERTUS, le Sieur de, attributed author, [but see below.] Essai sur l'administration des terres.Paris : 1759
First edition of a work which has been attributed to Quesnay since it expresses many Physiocratic beliefs, in particular those relating to agriculture and its importance to the country's economy.
Scholarship, both past and present, remains divided on its authorship. Higgs refused to acknowledge the work to be Quesnay's (he lists it as by le Sieur... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 118440
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NECKER, Jacques. State of the Finances of France, laid before the King.London : 1781
First edition in English, originally printed in France the same year under the title Compte Rendu au Roi. Jacques Necker (1732-1804) was the finance minister to Louis XVI, popular among the people for his commoner background and perceived financial acumen. Published as the French involvement in the American Revolutionary War was still ongoing,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137896
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SAVARY, Jacques. Pareres, ou Avis et Conseils sur les plus importantes Matières de Commerce.Paris : 1688
First edition of the author's continuation of his manual on mercantile trade, Le Parfait Négociant (1675). Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet (1661), who was his patron, but he later made good his name... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 116183
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PEUCHET, Jacques. Vocabulaire des termes de commerce,Paris : 1801
First edition, scarce: Copac lists only three copies in British institutional libraries (British Library, Manchester and National Library of Scotland). Jacques Peuchet (1758-1830), was a French jurist and economist, whose important works on population were drawn upon by Malthus. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 97378
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NECKER, Jacques. Sur le compte rendu au roi en 1781.Lyon : 1788
The octavo Lyon-Bernuset issue. This is Necker's vehement defence against accusations made by his successor, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who claimed that Necker's tenure as comptroller-general of finances was not the success it was generally perceived as, and that Necker's celebrated Compte rendu - a balance sheet of his administration which gave... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 126503
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QUESNAY, Francois. Magnificent autograph letter signed, to François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais.[Versailles] : 1758
One of two known letters of Quesnay's correspondence with Forbonnais, giving a valuable insight into Quesnay's working methods. The letter concerns two works, one by Quesnay, the other by Forbonnais.
The first part of the letter deals with Forbonnais' Recherches et Considerations sur Ies Finances de la France, which was anonymously published in Basel... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 86329
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NECKER, Jacques. Collection complette de tous les ouvrages …Utrecht : 1781
First edition of this collection of works by and about Jacques Necker, presenting a variety of contemporary opinions, both positive and negative, on his time and influence as finance minister for Louis XVI (1777-81). Despite proving to be a popular and capable reformer he had enemies at court who, led by Marie-Antoinette, plotted his dismissal in 1781.... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 126500
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SAVARY, Jacques. Dictionnaire universel de commerce:Paris : 1723-30
First edition, complete with the supplementary volume, of the first commercial dictionary, produced by the two sons of Jacques Savary, author of Le Parfait Négociant. Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 89895
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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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NECKER, Jacques. De l'administration des finances de la France.Paris : 1784
First edition, described by the great Scottish political economist John Ramsay McCulloch as "the only authentic account of the finances of France previously to the Revolution. Owing to the popularity of its author, and the peculiar circumstances of the country at the time when it was published, the Revolution having all but commenced, the demand for... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109029
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(NECKER, Jacques.) GUERINEAU DE SAINT-PERAVI, attributed author. Examen impartial du systême de M. Necker sur les administrations provinciales,[Paris] : 1785
First edition of this critique of Necker's financial administration, variously attributed to Guerineau de Saint-Peravi, Du Buat-Nançay and Le Gros. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 127682
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[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.] TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Œuvres posthumes,Lausanne : 1787
First edition, published by Honoré Gabriel Mirabeau, son of Victor de Riquetti. The work was originally drawn up by Du Pont de Nemours in 1776 under the title Mémoire sur les municipalités after a draft left by Turgot. The Lettre which begins on page 99 was written by Du Pont de Nemours and the Observations (p. 113ff.) by Brissot de Warville. The... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 114588
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MONCADA, Sancho de. Restauracion politica de España, primera parte, de eos publicos Al rey Don Filipe Tercero nuestro señor.Madrid : 1619
Very rare first edition; each discourse with a special title-page and continuous pagination and signatures, except for the seventh (in two parts) and eighth which have separate pagination and signatures. Moncada's importance as a political economist was assured by this work, which was probably presented to Philip III in 1618. In it, Moncada, who was... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 111853
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WEDDERBURN, Alexander. Essay upon the Question What Proportion of the Produce of Arable Land ought to be paid as Rent to the Landlord?Edinburgh : 1776
First edition of Wedderburn's treatise, submitted in response to a question posited by the Edinburgh Society in 1753. Uncommon, with ESTC listing copies in 14 institutions.
Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their shelfmarks to front pastedown and title page, though without direct attribution. The library was assembled in the early... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129258
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MEAD, Edward Sherwood, & Julius Grodinsky. The Ebb and Flow of Investment Values.New York & London : 1939
First edition, first printing, with the scarce dust jacket. This is fellow academics Mead and Grodinsky's "net view of investment policy for the post-1929 surplus (versus scarcity) economy. Dividing industries whose profits are increasing from those whose profits are decreasing, the authors offer techniques for both buying and selling securities, as... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 121653
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[DUTOT, Charles.] Reflexions politiques sur les Finances et le Commerce,The Hague : 1740
Second edition of this important work, published two years after the first edition. Reflexions politiques was first written in the form of three letters to Melon in 1735 but not published until three years later. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law, whose system the author examines favourably... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 84114
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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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JEVONS, William Stanley. The Coal Question;London : 1866
Second, revised edition. Presentation copy from the author to the library of the Royal Institution of South Wales, with their presentation bookplate reading "Presented to the Library by W. S. Jevons Esq. the Author May 23 A.D. 1871", and with the inscription on verso of front free endpaper "from the author", the latter in Jevons's hand. The Coal Question,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127186
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PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, Louis-Joseph. Remarques les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Gr. Bretagne, par rapport au commerce, et aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats.Leyden : 1754
Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this popular work comparing the British and French political economies, this copy from the library of André Morellet, a collection which was largely acquired as reading material during the preparation of his Encyclopédie.
Although it claimed to be a translation, Plumard de Dangeul published... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120792
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HUSKISSON, William. The Question concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined.London : 1810
The third edition, corrected from the first and second editions of the same year, of this important work which drew praise from Ricardo. "Huskisson emerged as a leading bullionist, attacking the evils of depreciation of the currency following the wartime resort to paper money in 1797 and advocating the speedy resumption of cash payments. Huskisson believed... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 135120
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LE TROSNE, Guillaume-François. Recueil de plusieurs morceaux economiques,Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris : 1768
First edition of three of the Physiocrat and lawyer's essays on the freedom of the grain trade and the French economy, written while he was Royal Councillor at the Orléans Presidial Court. The articles are "De l'utilité des discussions économiques", "Lettre a Monsieur B... Une Nation agricole a-t-elle d'autres intérêts dans le Commerce de ses denrées,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120775
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[MIRABEAU, Victor de Riquetti, marquis de.] Les économiques.Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris : 1769
First duodecimo edition of Mirabeau's Les économiques, also printed in a single quarto volume format the same year. A further volume was published in 1771, also in both quarto and 2-volume duodecimo formats. Complete sets are very scarce.
Mirabeau, who seems to have taken the title of this work from the Économiques of Xenophon, here gives various... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 126597
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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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LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIERE, Pierre Paul. L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des Sociétés Politiques.London : 1767
First edition by "the ablest expositor of this i.e. physiocratic system" (McCulloch), written following Le Mercier's retirement from Parliament in 1759. Praised by Adam Smith and Diderot amongst others, L'Ordre naturel was, according to Palgrave, considered more highly than L'Esprit des loix by some of Le Mercier's contemporaries. The author argues... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 119925
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PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph, & François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps. Examen du livre intitulé réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1740
First edition. Pâris-Duverney and Deschamps refute Dutot's Réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce (1738) - a favourable consideration of John Law's paper currency system. Pâris-Duverney (the third of the four brothers Pâris, whose financial plans had been accepted under the Regency in 1716) had fallen into disgrace with the rise of... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 93440
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AFTALION, Albert. Les Crises périodiques de surproduction.Paris : 1913
First edition of the author's best-known work, 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... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 137739
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WALPOLE, Robert. Some Considerations concerning The Publick Funds, The Publick Revenues, and The Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.London : 1735
Second edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. The Earl of Bath publishing a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. The present work is Walpole's rebuttal, and a defence of his management of the... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 117470
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MESSANCE, Louis. Recherches sur la Population des Généralités d'Auvergne, de Lyon, de Rouen, et de Quelques Provinces et Villes du Royaume,Paris : 1766
First edition of this riposte to Montesquieu's and Mirabeau's claims of depopulation, a classic example of the 18th-century French tradition of political arithmetic. "Messance was secretary to the intendant of the Auvergne, Jean-François de La Michodière, and he published his Recherches sur la population in 1766. Recognizing the impossibility of coming... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 123649
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[DUTOT, Charles.] Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1738
First edition of this important work, first written in the form of three letters to Melon in 1735 but not published until three years later. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law, whose system the author examines favourably in the present work in which he also explains the reasons for its collapse... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 87750
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[GALIANI, Ferdinando.] De' Doveri de' principi neutrali verso i principi guerreggianti e di questi verso i neutrali libri due.[Naples] : 1782
First edition of this scarce work, which earned Galiani the chair of first assessor in the council of finances in Naples. The book was written during the war between England and France in 1778, during which the Kingdom of Naples stood neutral. It points out the rights and duties of neutral and warfaring powers. Several chapters discuss aspects of trade... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114995
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CERBONI, Giuseppe. Sur l'importance d'unifier les études de la comptabilité mémoire réimprimé avec d'autres travaux statistiques et présenté à l'institut International de Statistique réuni à Rome en avril 1887.Rome : 1887
A rare and fine edition, first published in 1882 (only one institutional copy traced of that first appearance: Harvard). Contains (pages 119-165), a Catalogue of works on accountancy published in Italian from 1202 (Fibonacci) to 1882. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 105405
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WALPOLE, Robert. Some Considerations concerning The Publick Funds, The Publick Revenues, and The Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.London : 1735
First edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. The Earl of Bath publishing a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. The present work is Walpole's rebuttal, and a defence of his management of the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 117457
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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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[PATERSON, William.] An Enquiry into The State of the Union of Great Britain, and The Past and Present State of the Trade and Publick Revenues thereof.London : 1717
First edition, written by William Paterson (1658-1719), founder of the Bank of England and projector of the Darien scheme. In An Enquiry into the State of the Union, Paterson using the fictional "Mr May" as his mouthpiece considers the effects of the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 on English trade and commerce, as well as the best means of paying off... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 122176
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[PATERSON, William.] An Enquiry into The State of the Union of Great Britain, and The Past and Present State of the Trade and Publick Revenues thereof.London : 1717
First edition, written by William Paterson (1658-1719), founder of the Bank of England and projector of the Darien scheme. In An Enquiry into the State of the Union, Paterson - using the fictional "Mr May" as his mouthpiece - considers the effects of the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 on English trade and commerce, as well as the best means of paying... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 124125
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HEILBRONER, Robert L. The Quest for Wealth.New York : 1956
First edition, first printing, in an attractive binding. Heilbroner places the acquisitive instinct as the major driving force in human history. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 129320
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DUSSAUSOY, Maille. Le citoyen désinteressé, ou diverses idées patriotiques,Paris : 1767-8
First edition of Dussausoy's programme of public works, the main purpose of which was to provide labour for the idle masses and to inspire patriotism by installing honorary monuments of monarchs and men of military and political renown across Paris, with chapters on the causes of depopulation and the degeneration of the French nation (and how to remedy... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122620
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DAVENANT, Charles. Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England. In two Parts.London : 1697-8
First edition of this important early work on economics. Sir Charles Davenant (1656-1714), MP and, at the end of his life, Inspector-General of Exports and Imports, took many years to become recognized as an economist of the first rank, a fact explained by the sophistication of his thought. Part I of the present Discourses contains five essays, on "Political... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 114857
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GRAY, Simon. Remarks on the Production of Wealth,London : 1820
First edition, extracted from The Pamphleteer, volume XVII, no XXXIV. In 1815 Simon Gray had published his treatise on population, The Happiness of States, as an open rejection of many of Malthus's principles. Previously Malthus's theories has been broadly accepted without major opposition, but Gray's attack was rapidly followed by other critiques,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140851
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(BANK OF VALLETTA.) Regulations for the Anglo-Maltese bank.[1809?]
The founding regulations for the Anglo-Maltese Bank, Malta's longest established bank, now the Bank of Valletta. The Anglo-Maltese Bank was established on 23 June 1809 by British merchants, nine years after the conquest of Malta by the British in the Napoleonic Wars.
Beginning "We the undersigned proprietors of the Anglo-Maltese Bank, hereby adopt... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135389
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(HARSANYI, John C.) SELTEN, Reinhard (ed.) Rational Interaction.Berlin : 1992
First edition, affectionately inscribed by Horace "Woody" Brock, the founder and president of Strategic Economic Decisions and the only contributor to this volume of essays personally thanked in the preface by editor Reinhard Selten: "I am deeply indebted to Horace W. Brock. His active support was extremely valuable. The results of my editorial efforts... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 126450
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(SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.) Collection of ten pamphlets, eight regarding the South Sea Bubble.1720-21
Eight pamphlets relating to the South Sea Company and its collapse, six from 1720, the year in which the bubble burst, and two from the following year. The volume also includes two other pamphlets, one on the military importance of Gibraltar, the other on the need to trim the Civil List. This volume was formerly part of the Dropmore House collection... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 134909
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) HUTT, William H. A Rehabilitation of Say's Law.Athens, Ohio : 1974
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Lord Robbins with W. H. Hutt's compliments May, 1975". Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the economics department... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 140543
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COMMONS, John Rogers. Institutional Economics, its Place in Political Economy.New York : 1934
First edition. Commons, together with Thorstein Veblen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, was one of the three founders of American Institutionalism, "an analysis of collective action by the state, and a wide range of other institutions, which he saw as essential to understanding economic life. This institutional theory was closely related to his remarkable... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 112529
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(MORELLET, André.) Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de Feu M. l'Abbé Morellet, de l'Académie Francaise;Paris : 1819
First and only edition of the catalogue for the sale of the library of the French economist André Morellet, here occasionally marked in a contemporary hand in both pencil and ink, presumably by a potential buyer. These markings take the form of marginal lines and occasionally short notations next to certain items ("nous l'avons").
Morellet's library... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 129357
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SILVA LISBOA, José da. Principios de Economia Politica,Lisbon : 1804
First edition of the most significant treatise of the Brazilian economist and politician José da Silva Lisboa (1756-1835), and what can readily be claimed as the first important Portuguese-language work inspired by Adam Smith. The author had an important role in promoting the study of political economy in Brazil, and was active in ending the mercantilist... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 129558
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1724 & 1729
Third edition of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell), together with the first edition, second state of part II of the Fable. In this state gathering O is "figured" (see Kaye for a full explanation). Part II, which matches the length of the first part, comprises six dialogues in which... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 130767
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(BANK OF ENGLAND.) Report of the Committee of Secrecy on the Bank of England Charter;London : 1832
First edition. The report of the committee appointed to consider whether to renew the Bank of England's Charter, which would be done in the Bank Charter Act of the following year. The spokesmen for the Bank, including the Bank's Director John Palmer, expound sound principles for the Bank, but their adherence to these principles can be questioned given... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 135415
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McCULLOCH, [John Ramsay, & Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães (trans.)] Principios de economia politica.London : [1830?]
Scarce first edition in Portuguese of the author's first major work, first published in English in 1825. OCLC and Jisc locate just three copies, at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, British Library, and Baker Library at Harvard.
The translator, Fonseca Magalhães (1787-1858), served in the Peninsular War with the unit of Coimbra students but, implicated... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 129611
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ARNALL, William. A Letter to a Freeholder on the Late Reduction of the Land Tax to One Shilling in the Pound.London : 1732
First edition. William Arnall (died 1736) was an extensive political pamphleteer, who took up writing for the government at Robert Walpole's personal request. At a government pension of 400 - making him the best paid government journalist in London - "Arnall provided a series of papers which challenged country whig allegations of a supposedly corrupt,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 129252
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GRAY, Simon. Remarks on the Production of Wealth,London : 1820
First edition, extracted from The Pamphleteer, volume XVII, no XXXIV. In 1815 Simon Gray had published his treatise on population, The Happiness of States, as an open rejection of many of Malthus's principles. Previously Malthus's theories has been broadly accepted without major opposition, but Gray's attack was rapidly followed by other critiques,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 127189
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RUSKIN, John. "Unto This Last:"London : 1862
First edition. "Ruskin's first two attempts to convey his moral principles in political economic terms initially were failures, much derided in the establishment press, but they laid the foundations for the creation of a much wider constituency for Ruskin's ideas that was to keep his values in circulation even when he himself had fallen silent. The... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140444
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FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose. Free to Choose. A Personal Statement.London : 1980
First UK edition, published the same year as the US original. Free to Choose is the companion book to Friedman's ten-part PBS series of the same title, which investigated various regions, historical events, and social issues from the perspective that Laissez-faire economics is the most effective and fair way to manage societies. The series... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 140911
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KARSTEN, Karl. Scientific Forecasting.New York : 1931
First edition, first impression, in the rare dust jacket. The statistician Karl Karsten (1891-1968) believed that the stock market can be approached scientifically and accurately forecast, using a series of market 'barometers': volume of trade, interest rates, wholesale price-level, and so on. Karsten and his colleagues founded a fund to invest on these... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 135572
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JEVONS, William Stanley. The State in Relation to Labour.London : 1882
First edition of Jevons's final book. An attempt to analyse "the actions of the legislature, and the state of public opinion with reference to the conflict of labour and capital and the regulation of industry" (from the preface), Jevons upholds laissez-faire principles, while displaying "his continuing adherence to Benthamite utilitarianism as a touchstone... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 136408
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MALESTROIT, Jean Cherruyt de. Les paradoxes du seigneur de Malestroit, conseiller du Roy, et Maistre ordinaire des ses comptes, sur le faict des Mõnoyes, presentez à sa Maiesté, au mois de Mars, M.D.LXVI.Paris : 1566
First edition of Malestroit's controversial treatise demonstrating, against the contemporary popular opinion in France, the constancy of prices over the past three centuries. Malestroit sought to prove that, despite the nominal raising of prices, the goods had in fact been exchanged for the same quantity of gold or silver, because the lowering quantity... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 126005
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(JEVONS.) INOUE, Takutoshi. W. Stanley Jevons. Selected Works in Variorum Editions.Tokyo and London : 2018
First variorum edition of Jevons's The Coal Question and The Theory of Political Economy, with editorial introduction, notes and appendices by the leading Jevons scholar Takutoshi Inoue. Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 131387
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(SIDGWICK, Henry.) VENN, John. The Logic of Chance.London : 1876
Second edition, revised. The copy of Venn's associate, the economist and utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900), with his bequest bookplate to Newnham College - which he founded in 1875 with Millicent Garrett Fawcett - to the front pastedown. Sidgwick donated many of his own books to the college library, some of which were later deaccessioned,... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 135356
