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VOLTAIRE - ZABUESNIG, Johann Christoph von. Historische und kritische Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften des Herrn von VoltaireAugsburg : 1777
First edition. Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 116580
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OLDEKOP, C. A. W. von. Geographie des Russischen Reichs. Nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet.St. Petersburg : 1842
First edition, Saint Petersburg issue (also issued with a Leipzig imprint), of Oldekop's survey of Russia, with information on its geography - its extent, borders, mountains, seas, rivers, canals, plants, minerals and animal life, - with statistical information on its inhabitants, agriculture, industry, trade and manufactures, weights, measures and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133446
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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
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MENGER, Carl. Beiträge zur Währungsfrage in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Abdruck aus den Jahrbüchern für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. Dritte Folge. Bd. 111.Jena : 1892
First separate edition. Responding to requests that Menger's views on the Austo-Hungarian currency question be made accessible to a wider readership, the present work brings together articles previously published in issues of the Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. Menger writes in his foreword that the work pays particular attention to... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 98784
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BLOCH, Ivan Stanislavovich. Der Krieg. Uebersetzung. Des russischen Werkes des Autors: Der zukünftige Krieg in seiner technischen, volkswirtschaftlichen und politischen Bedeutung. Johann von Bloch.Berlin : 1898
First edition in German, first published in Russian the year previously with a French translation issued the same year. This copy inscribed by Bloch on the half-title of volume I; "Herr Oberst Rohr vom Verfasser", and subsequently by the state librarian recording the gift of the set from Rohr's widow just two months after the outbreak of World War I.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 85050
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FISCHER, Heinrich August. Versuch einer historisch-pragmatischen Beschreibung des alten deutschen Oekonomie, und des, in der Folge der Zeit, daraus erwachsenen deutschen fürstlichen Kammerwesens.Leipzig : 1755
First edition of Fischer's history of the old German economy from the earliest times, and of the recent development of Cameralism, comprising a valuable survey of the historical literature from the 17th century onwards. Including treatises on agriculture, arts and manufactures, as well as law and Fischer gives a 126-page bibliography, two colums per... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 135287
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HUME, David. Herrn Hume Vier Philosophen. Quod vitae sectabor iter?Glogau : 1760
Scarce first German language edition of essays 6-9 from the second volume of Hume's Essays, moral and political of 1742. The essays are; "The Epicurean", "The Stoic", "The Platonist" and "The Sceptic". The translation was made from the French Oeuvres philosophiques (1758). Hume's essays are followed by "Apuleius's" Discourse on happiness, translated... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146123
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Aufsätze zur Tagespolitik.Tübingen : 1993
First edition of this collection of essays by Schumpeter, written when he was Bank President in Austria, and from his time at the universities of Bonn and Harvard. The majority are in German, but there are also essays in English. Subjects covered are monetary issues, introductions to other authors' work, obituary notices (Auspitz, Marx and Menger),... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 88486
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BAUER, Bruno. Russland und das Germanenthum.Charlottenburg : 1853
First edition of Bauer's Russia and the Germanic World, one of his major texts on Russia, in which he examines the growing influence of Russian power upon European policy issues and, ultimately, the European philosophical tradition. Written in the wake of the 1848 German revolutions, and inflected with Bauer's disappointment at the results, it originated... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 130780
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BURCKHARDT, Jacob. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien.Basel : 1860
First edition, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Mathilde Wesendonck and friend of Wagner.
Otto Wesendonck's (1815-1896) success as a silk merchant made him a generous patron of the arts and allowed him to provided significant financial support to one of his favourite composers, Richard Wagner, throughout the 1850s. For a period... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 120920
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BÖHM-BAWERK, E. von. Kapital und Kapitalzins.Innsbruck : 1884-1889
Scarce first edition of the chief work of Böhm-Bawerk's life, a copy with a marked provenance. First owned by Philip Wicksteed, with his ownership inscription dated 1886 on the first leaf and with his bookplate. The volume subsequently passed to the British Library of Political Science, from there to the Armstrong College Library in Newcastle, and... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 97505
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BLOCH, Jan Gotlib. Der Krieg. Uebersetzung.Berlin : 1898
First edition in German, first published in Russian the year previously with a French translation issued the same year. Never fully translated into English, an "abridgement," actually a full translation of the final volume, the General Conclusions, was published in 1899 with an introduction by W. T. Stead under the title "Is War Impossible?"
Bloch's... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 46965
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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, "Tenge... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 138807
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TINBERGEN, Jan. Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en die ekonomie.Amsterdam : 1929
First edition, trade issue, of Tinbergen's doctoral thesis, the earliest published application of the author's mathematical theories to economics. Extremely scarce, with no other copies recorded at auction or in commerce. "Tinbergen studied physics and mathematics at the University of Leiden under the supervision of the physicist Paul Ehrenfest, a personal... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 123619
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Aufsätze zur Tagespolitik.Tübingen : 1993
First edition, first impression. A collection of essays by Schumpeter. Written while bank president of Biedermann-Bank in Austria and during his time at the universities of Bonn and Harvard. Predominantly written in German, but with a handful of essays in English. Subjects covered are monetary issues, introductions to other authors' work, obituaries... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 89920
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HEINE, Heinrich. Der Doktor Faust.Hamburg : 1851
First edition of Heine's "dance-poem" based on Goethe's classic tale. "It was during a very dark period in Heine's unhappy life that the notion of producing a Faust of his own once more took hold of his mind. Already more than half-blind and crippled by the stroke which his fearful state of mind about his uncle's will had precipitated in March 1845,... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143688
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.Berlin and Libau : 1790
First edition of the Critique of Judgement, Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason, and the scarcest of the three.
"The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgment or judgment of the purposiveness in Nature; and it is of considerable... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138455
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Aufsätze zur Tagespolitik.Tübingen : 1993
First edition, first impression. A collection of essays by Schumpeter. Written while bank president of Biedermann-Bank in Austria and during his time at the universities of Bonn and Harvard. Predominantly written in German, but with a handful of essays in English. Subjects covered are monetary issues, introductions to other authors' work, obituaries... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 89917
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SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Ilios. Stadt und Land der Trojaner. Forschungen und Entdeckungen in der Troas und Besonderes auf der Baustelle von Troja.Leipzig : 1881.
First edition in German, preceded by the English edition a year earlier. Schliemann's account of his excavations at Hissarlik/Troy. A shameless self-publicist, motivated more perhaps by his desire for glory than his love of historical truth, Schliemann has been criticised for the brutality of his methods, however Carl Blegen, director of the excavations... Learn More£1,150.00Stock Code: 122940
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LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henri. Die Kakomonade, ein Nachlass vom Doktor Panglos, als ein Supplement des Kandide,von Linguet.Berlin : 1786
First edition in German of Linguet's treatise on syphilis, first printed in French in 1766 as La Cacomonade. Linguet chose as his pseudonym Pangloss, the optimistic teacher in Voltaire's Candide who is blighted by syphilis. Linguet presents the book as a supplement to Voltaire's work, although this German edition identifies him as the author. Linguet's... Learn More£725.00Stock Code: 124540
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STACKELBERG, Heinrich von. Grundlagen einer reinen Kostentheorie.Vienna : 1932
First edition, offprinted from the Zeitschrift Fur Nationalokonmie, vol. III issues 3 and 4, of Stackelberg's Ph.D. thesis, which has originally been submitted in 1930 at the University of Cologne. Located by Library Hub in only three British institutions. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 127685
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REINHOLD, Karl Leonhard. Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens.Prague & Jena, : 1789
First edition of the author's chief work, his attempt to simplify and unify Kantian theory. Reinhold (1757- 1823) was a key figure in popularizing Kantian ideas in the late 18th century, and was among the philosopher's earliest and most successful advocates. However he also sought to amend the flaws in Kant's philosophy, and in so doing, his reading... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 138459
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UNZER, Johanna Charlotte. Versuchin sittlichen und zärtlichen Gedichten.[Leipzig : 1754
First edition of a beautifully produced work of verse, printed by the celebrated German typographer Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf.
"The only significant German woman writer of 'anacreontic poetry'", Johanna Charlotte Unzer (1724/25-1782) published two early books of verse: the present, a set of contemplative poems which "include illuminating... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 137490
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig - ENGELMANN, Paul. Briefe von Ludwig Wittgenstein und Errinnerungen an ihn.Tel Aviv : 1965
An original German typescript copy of Engelmann's correspondence from, and memories of, Ludwig Wittgenstein, posthumously prepared for publication and with an introduction by his friend Dr. Josef Schächter. With occasional manuscript corrections and occasional notes for the translator, L. Furtmüller, in blue ballpoint and in pencil. Unpublished before... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133740
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1792
Early edition, first published in 1790, in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored.
The Critique of Judgement is Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason. "The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgement or judgement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143996
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KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung (Metamorphosis).Leipzig : 1915
First edition, first printing, first issue, without the German censor stamp on the title page; here in the less common case-bound issue (also issued in wrappers). This copy is the state with the serif type on the spine and front cover (no priority assigned).
Metamorphosis, the first of Kafka's masterpieces, met with unimpressive sales. After... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 146212
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TAUT, Bruno (ed.) Frühlicht.Magdeburg : 1921-22
First separate editions, first printings, of these four numbers (all published issues) of the Utopian Weimar architecture and civil planning magazine, Frühlicht, the mouthpiece for a group of Utopian architects and artists, headed by the Taut brothers Bruno and Max, and including Hans Scharoun, Max Bruckmann, and Carl Krayl among others.
The... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146678
