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BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, Jacques-Pierre; CLAVIÈRE, Étienne; CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (eds.) Le Moniteur. Numéro I-IV.[No place : 1788
First edition, the first four numbers of Le Moniteur, a political journal edited by Brissot de Warville, Clavière, and Condorcet, all published. Issues two and four consider taxation, proposing the abolition of all existing taxes and their replacement by equally distributed voluntary subsidies.
In this volume, the fourth number is the 50-page... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 51530
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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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BURLAMAQUI, Jean Jacques. Principes du droit naturel.Geneva : 1747
First edition of the Swiss legal and political theorist's principal work, an important influence on the American Founding Fathers. A natural law professor at the University of Geneva, Burlamaqui (1694-1748) conceived of his treatise as a general introduction to his subject intended for students, but its success and influence far exceeded his expectations.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 113546
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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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[QUESNAY, François.] Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement le plus avantageux au genre humain. Publié par Du Pont, des Sociétés Royales d'Agriculture de Soissons & d'Orléans, & Correspondant de la Société d'Émulation de Londres.Pékin, and sold in Paris : 1767
First edition, the extremely rare first issue with the fictitious Pékin imprint on the title pages of both parts, in the corrected state. Issued thus to avoid French censorship, but in fact printed in Paris, the Pékin issue was printed in very small numbers and swiftly withdrawn because of a reference made by the editor, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours,... Learn More£110,000.00Stock Code: 124093
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BRISSOT, Jacques Pierre. J. P. Brissot, Deputy of Eure and Loire, to his Constituents, on the Situation of the National Convention;London : 1794 & 1789
First edition in English of Brissot's tract, first edition of Mémoires Secrets. Brissot, a key figure in the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, originally published this work in France in 1793, a few months before he was guillotined. Taking the form of an open letter his constituents, it warns of the "anarchism" of the Jacobin faction, and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 125491
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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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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) STEAD, William T. (ed). Coming Men on Coming Questions.London : 1905
First editions, pamphlet issues, of this series intended "when completed as a handy encyclopaedia of facts and figures - political, social, and biographical - covering most of the important questions to be dealt with in the new parliament" (Prefatory Notice). Churchill's contribution represents the first published statement of his stance on the free... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134724
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[HORTON, R. Wilmot.] The West India Question Practically Considered.London : 1826
First edition, written in response to James Stephen's England Enslaved by her Own Slave Colonies, published the same year, which argued that England should end the privileges of the West Indian planters. Instead, Horton supports a full investigation of the state of the slaves before any anti-slavery legislation is undertaken, and argues that the planters... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 129895
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CARTER, Jimmy. Our Endangered Values.New York : 2005
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the 39th President on the front free endpaper to the young Democrats of his home state: "Best wishes to the Georgia Young Democratic Club Jimmy Carter". Our Endangered Values opposes what Carter saw as the weakening of the separation of Church and State under the Bush presidency. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 142678
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HUME, David. Discours politiques.Amsterdam : 1754-7
First edition of this important series of economic publications, published in view of the increasing interest in works of political economy appearing in France, England, and Holland. In 1754 Schreuder and Mortier published the first volume, Hume's Political Discourses. Owing to the growing interest and the relative scarcity of earlier publications,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 132008
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "Probably Jacques Soustelle in disguise."[1960s]
Commuters on the underground, reading the newspaper headline "Clarissa Believed Seen in Paris", remark that it is probably just Jacques Soustelle in disguise. Soustelle was an anthropologist and had been Governor General of Algeria, then Minister of State, but had disagreed with De Gaulle's turn for Algerian Independence. He was dismissed from parliament... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 100804
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(ELECTIONS). Questions to be asked by the Poll Clerks, who are to enter the Answers given by Voters in the books.[Northampton?] : [1767?]
A remarkable survival, being a sheet of instructions given to poll clerks in the 18th century, probably for the Northampton Borough Election of 1767-8. The instructions instruct the clerk to ask the voters name, where they live, where their freehold lies, and what is consists of; then, who is the occupier of the lands if they own it, and who they rent... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 120704
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HOBSON, John Atkinson. The Crisis of Liberalism: New Issues of Democracy.London : 1909
First edition, first impression, of Hobson's "most important work of political theory" (ODNB), in which "he explored the idea of society as an organism. It was a system of interdependent individuals, whose free individuality was essential to the health of the whole, yet who could also develop rational and collective aims embodied in an impartial, benevolent,... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 129395
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[GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.] Réflexions de M. de L********, adressées aux notables sur la question proposée par un grand roi.[Place and publisher not stated] : 1787
One of two editions published in 1787, one under the present title, the other under Reflexions d'un citoyen..., without established priority. The work was Gosselin's contribution to one of the many philosophical essay contests held in 18th-century France. The book is scarce, with WorldCat locating five copies of this edition. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 132505
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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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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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[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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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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[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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HOBBES, Thomas. Œuvres philosophiques et politiques.Neufchatel : 1787
First collected edition in French. It includes the young Huguenot intellectual Samuel Sorbière's popular translation of "De cive" (first 1649); a translation of "De corpore politico", long attributed to Sorbière but now thought to have been by prolific translator John Davies (Malcolm, pp. 464-5); and "Human Nature" translated by the prominent French... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 120538
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(GILL, Eric.) TEGETMEIER, Denis. The Seven Deadly Virtues.London : [1934]
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both Tegetmeier and Gill on the limitation leaf. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74601
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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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[HILLIARD D'AUBERTEUIL, Michel-René.] Des mœurs, de la puissance, du courage et des loix, considérés relativement à l'education d'un prince.Brussels : 1784
First edition of this interesting work, styling itself in the venerable mirror-for-princes genre. The author Hilliard (17511789) went to Saint-Domingue aged only 14 and found work as a legal clerk. He became known in colonial circles for his fiery temperament, often finding himself in trouble because of his provocative rhetoric and radical critiques... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 130592
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HILTON, John, and others (eds.) Are Trade Unions Obstructive?London : 1935
First edition, first impression. From the publisher's archive, although unmarked as such. A variety of commentators and academics contributed articles to this volume, including Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, the industrialist and social reformer. Though the collection purports to offer multiple perspectives on the question at hand, there is a clear lean... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 124570
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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria. Letters on the events which have passed in France since the Restoration in 1815.London : 1819
First edition of the celebrated bluestocking's evaluation of the Bourbon Restoration, her last completed book on current French conditions. Williams (1759-1827) was both much admired and much maligned by her contemporaries: her works were favoured by Wordsworth and her literary salon in Paris was attended by the likes of Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 130544
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HILTON, John, and others (eds.) Are Trade Unions Obstructive?London : 1935
First edition, first impression. From the publisher's archive, with their stamp on the dust jacket and pastedown. A variety of commentators and academics contributed articles to this volume, including Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, the industrialist and social reformer. Though the collection purports to offer multiple perspectives on the question at hand,... Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 124571
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(SLAVERY.) An Address to the Members of the New Parliament, on the Proceedings of the Colonial Department,London : 1826
First edition. The anonymous work, pro-slavery and fearful of abolition, advocates a parliamentary resolution declaring that further investigations be made before any changes affecting the planters' interests are made, and that their current rights be protected. It argues that the slaves would cease to work if freed and that the properties would fall... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129894
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[MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de.] Two Chapters of A celebrated French Work, intitled, De L'Esprit des Loix, Translated into English.Edinburgh : 1750
First and only edition of this printing of two chapters of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws relating to the British system of government, identified as the earliest publication in English of the Spirit of the Laws, preceding the publication of Thomas Nugent's translation by several months (Courtney, p. 31). Despite its importance as the first English... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 117453
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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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ARGENSON, René-Louis de Voyer. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France,Amsterdam : 1784
Second and substantially improved edition, issued by Argenson's son, Paulmy, and incorporating further material from his unpublished manuscripts. René-Louis de Voyer Argenson (1694-1757), the French writer on economic and political subjects, "is better known by his celebrated mot 'pas trop gouverner' (not too much government)-lineal ancestor in spirit... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 120546
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SENIOR, Nassau William. [Five pamphlets on political economy.]London : 1830-2
A collection of five pamphlets on political economy by Senior, whom Marx called "the bel-esprit of English economists, well-known, alike for his economical 'science' and for his beautiful style" (Kapital, B.1, section 3: Senior's "Last Hour"). The works, here in mixed editions, set forth his theories on wages, the Irish poverty problem, and population,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122283
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WALSH, Edmund A. The Last Stand:Boston : 1931
First edition, first printing. The Jesuit priest Edmund A. Walsh (1885-1956), whose fierce anti-communism had been reinforced by his work for the Vatican's Russian famine relief mission in 1922, had already achieved success with his account of Russian Revolution in 1928. The present work, an account of the Five-Year Plan, at that point in its third... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 125561
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LEMAIRE DE BELGES, Jean. La legende des Venitiens.Paris : [c.1512]
Early edition of Lemaire's pamphlet defending Louis XII's ambitions of Venetian conquest.
First published at Lyons in 1509 by Jehan de Vingle, La legend des Venitiens was composed at the behest of Louis XII, and "adroitly devised to influence public opinion" (Spaak) as to the legitimacy of the War of the League of Cambrai against the... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 140221
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[WISHART, William.] The Principles of Liberty of Conscience Stated and Defended: In a Letter to a Friend.Edinburgh : 1739
First edition. Writing under the odd pseudonym Gwitmarpscheldon, William Wishart (1691-1753), a liberal Church of Scotland Minister, provides a defence of religious toleration and liberty of conscience. Arguing from a religious rather than secular basis, Wishart argues that toleration is in the spirit of Christian ethics, that freedom of conscience... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 117451
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JUNIUS. Junius.London : 1801
A handsomely bound early edition of the letters of the notorious and enigmatic political polemicist "Junius", which were first published in authorised book-form by Henry Sampson Woodfall in March 1772, and first printed in the Public Advertiser between 21 January 1769 and 21 January 1772. This edition prints Junius's "Dedication to the English Nation",... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 125952
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THATCHER, Margaret. Christmas cards received from various individuals.1984-98
A collection of Christmas cards sent to Margaret Thatcher, from various individuals and institutions.
i) John Stapylton Habgood, Archbishop of York (1983-95), 1985. With a reproduction of a portrait of himself on the front cover, and the printed message on the interior "With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year from The Archbishop of... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 123848
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STRACHEY, Ray. Women's Suffrage and Women's Service.London : 1927
First edition, first impression. Ray (Rachel) Strachey (1887-1940), was a feminist activist, politician and writer. During the First World War her activism shifted its focus from suffrage to the question of women's employment, leading her to organise the Women's Service, the history of which is detailed in this work. "She fought particularly for women's... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 128641
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FERNANDEZ NAVARETTE, Pedro. Conservacion de Monarquias y Discursos Politicos sobre la gran Consulta que el Consejo hizo al Señor Rey Don Filipe Tercero, al Presidente y Consejo Supremo de Castilla.Madrid : 1626
First complete edition, following publication of some discourses in 1621. Pedro Fernandez Navarette (1564-1632) was chaplain to the Spanish royal family, and an officer of the Inquisition. "The miserable state of Spain had led the supreme council of Castile to submit to King Philip III a Great Report (Gran Consulta) on the remedies to be applied; this... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 122893
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TOYNBEE, Arnold J.; C. A. Macartney et al. Survey of International Affairs 1920 - … 1926London : 1926-8
First editions. An interesting run of the BIIA's annual volumes, offering a comprehensive survey of the global political situation in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Compiled by Toynbee in his capacity as Research Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, and Director of Studies at the British Institute of... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 143860
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DODINGTON, George Bubb. The Diary, From March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761.Salisbury : 1784
First English edition of this important and much-celebrated record of political intrigue in 18th-century England, originally published in Dublin earlier the same year. Dodington (1691-1762), an immensely wealthy landowner, was elected member for Bridgwater in 1722, a post he held until 1754. He insinuated himself into the highest circles of Georgian... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 120255
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Emancipate your Colonies!London : 1830
First edition of what Bentham described afterwards as "one of his Jacobinisms" (cited by Atkinson, p. 108). In 1793, Bentham, availing himself of his privileges as a French citizen, a title conferred upon him the previous year by the National Assembly, privately printed a pamphlet entitled Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France. It concerned... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 101357
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Jeremy Bentham to his Fellow-Citizens of France, on Houses of Peers and Senates.London : 1830
First edition of Bentham's paper on the question of whether or not France should have a Chamber of Peers. A French translation appeared in 1831. An introductory letter from Bentham addressed to Lafayette prefaces the work. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 101403
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Three Tracts relative to Spanish and Portugueze Affairs;London : 1821
First edition. "In the stormy years between 1815 and 1825 Bentham was glad to publish with anyone prepared to take a risk of prosecution, and in consequence favoured the radical and atheistic publishers like the Hunts and William Hone... It is not surprising to find the courageous Hone sponsoring a Tract on Liberty and three more Tracts relative to... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 101565
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COLE, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole. A Guide to Modern Politics.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. "Understand the questions which have meant life or death in Germany, Russia, Italy, and which may very soon mean life or death for us" proclaims the front of the dust jacket - a good example of eye-catching Gollancz design and typography.
Provenance: from the publisher's archive of Victor Gollancz (1893-1967),... Learn More£25.00Stock Code: 96230
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ENGELS, Friedrich. Das Fest der Nationen in London. (Zur Feier der Errichtung der franzözischen Republik, 22. Sept. 1792.)Belle-Vue, bei Constanz : 1846
First edition of Engels's article, which fills pages 1-19 of the second volume of Püttmann's Rheinischer Jahrbücher zur gesellschaftlichen Reform, a true socialist periodical which ceased publication with volume two; this copy from the library of Friedrich Ludwig Tenge, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper in the year of publication,... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 138807
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FÉNELON, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe. The Fundamental Maxims of Civil Government.Edinburgh : 1722
First edition of the Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, and poet's collection of aphorisms, published posthumously. It is likely to be a translation of "Maximes morales et politiques" from Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fénelon's hugely popular didactic novel first published anonymously in 1699 and reissued under his name in 1717. Télémaque,... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 102358
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[MARCET, Jane.] Conversations on Political Economy;London : 1817
Second edition of Marcet's popular work on economics, designed for the use of schools. Taking the format of a dialogue between a female teacher and pupil, the two explore the concepts of capital, labour, property, commerce and money, in a casual conversational style readily understandable by the book's youthful audience. At a time when the discipline... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 126553
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(KENNEDY, John F.) The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts.c.1945-63
The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts spans the statesman's political career up to the presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as president in the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice presidency.
David... Learn More£375,000.00Stock Code: 120955
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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,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 129275
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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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COLE, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole. A Guide to Modern Politics.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. The publisher's archive copy with their stamp on the title page. "Understand the questions which have meant life or death in Germany, Russia, Italy, and which may very soon mean life or death for us" proclaims the front of the dust jacket - a good example of eye-catching Gollancz design and typography. Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 96228
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. Definitions in Political Economy,London : 1827
First edition of "a valiant attempt to resolve differences of opinion in political economy by codifying its terminology and establishing rules for the definition of terms. It could be regarded as one of the earliest works on the methodology of economics" (ODNB). Malthus devotes separate chapters to, among others, the French economists, Adam Smith, Say,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 127338
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THATCHER, Margaret. George III-style mahogany twin pedestal partners desk.A large partners desk from the estate of Margaret Thatcher. In 1991, Baroness Thatcher established an office in 35 Chesham Place, London. As part of the extensive refurbishment of the offices she acquired this desk and worked on it over the coming years, including while writing her memoirs. After the closure of the Chesham Place office in 2003, the... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 134438
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MOREAU-CHRISTOPHE, L.-M. (trans.) De l'état actuel et de la réforme des prisons de Grande-Bretagne.Paris : 1838
First edition in French of the official reports on the state of the prisons made in Great Britain in the 1830s, covering prisons in England, Ireland and Scotland, with preliminary observations by Messrs Crawford and Russell on the silent system and the separate system. A survey of the various prisons is followed by an 80-page part concerning reforms... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 91107
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FERNANDEZ NAVAERETTE, Pedro. Conservacion de Monarquias y Discursos Politicos sobre la gran Consulta que el Consejo hizo al Señor Rey Don Filipe Tercero, al Presidente y Consejo Supremo de Castilla.Madrid : 1626
First complete edition, following publication of some discourses in 1621. Pedro Fernandez Navarrette (1564-1632) was chaplain to the Spanish royal family, and an officer of the Inquisition. "The miserable state of Spain had led the supreme council of Castile to submit to King Philip III a Great Report (Gran Consulta) on the remedies to be applied; this... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 139132
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AGRICULTURE. Reflections on the present High Price of Provisions; and The Complaints and Disturbances arising therefrom.London : 1766
First edition. The harvest of 1766 had been a poor one, leading to a rise in food prices and over 40 riots, by the count of that year's Annual Register. With much debate as to the appropriate response, the author of this anonymous tract argues against any form of price controls and interference with the free market, and criticises those who bow to mob... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117474
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BURKE, Edmund. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of some later Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.London : 1791
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in a secretarial hand to Thomas Costello (1744-1831), bishop of Clonfert: "The Bishop of Clonfert From the Author".
Burke published his appeal following his public split from Charles James Fox and his faction; "Burke's separation from his party is frequently portrayed as a personal... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143745
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MARX, Karl. Advance announcements of the publication of Das Kapital.Geneva : 1867
First edition of Marx's formal announcements, both signed and unsigned, of the publication of the first volume of his magnum opus, Das Kapital, in the uncommon revolutionary socialist journal Der Vorbote, with an exceptional provenance, being from the library of the German radical journalist and agitator Johann Most, who played a part in Capital's publication... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 120907
