Search results for: 'the works'
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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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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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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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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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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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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.London : 1832 [but 1833]
Third edition, revised and enlarged, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the initial blank, "Pascoe Grenfel sic Esqre with the Authors Compliments". Shortly after receipt Grenfell has added underneath, "Given to my dear Daughter Charlotte Maria March 1833 Pascoe Grenfell".
The industrialist and politician Pascoe Grenfell (1761-1838)... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140241
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "For Sir William Forbes Bart. from the Author" on the title page verso, complete with both the half-title and addenda pages (pp. 527-34), the former of which is bound in after the errata as issued. Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739-1806) was an eminent Scottish banker and benefactor, and a good friend of... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 118071
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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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FISHER, Irving. The Purchasing Power of Money.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Fred with the compliments of Irving". The Purchasing Power of Money "completely recast the theory of money, giving a full demonstration of the principles that determine the purchasing power of money in the formal framework of the equation of exchange... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131452
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FISHER, Irving. Stabilizing the Dollar.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to his fellow economist John R. Commons, inscribed on the half-title "To Prof. John R. Commons with the compliments and esteem of Irving Fisher. New Years 1920".
Commons, together with Thorstein Veblen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, was one of the three founders of American Institutionalism.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142339
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HARPER, Henry Howard. The Psychology of Speculation.Boston : 1926
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy, from the author to "Mr. Strauss", of this pre-Crash character study of stock brokers and speculators. In the accompanying letter Harper writes, "It has afforded me a pleasant diversion to write this book for complimentary distribution among my friends and fellow-booklovers, and I trust you may not find... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 143827
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HOBSON, John Atkinson. Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper "A. G. Gardiner with the writer's kind regards". The recipient was most probably the journalist and author Alfred George Gardiner (1865-1946), chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, which opposed sweatshops and campaigned for a minimum wage.
"Hobson's... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141867
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WEYLAND, John. Thoughts submitted to the Employers of Labour, in the County of Norfolk, with a few words to the employed.Norwich : 1830
First edition of Weyland's work advocating reform in order to assist the labouring classes in maintaining a decent subsistence in winter. Presentation copy, inscribed "from the author" at the head of the title page. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 126692
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COMMONS, John R. Typed letter signed to businessman Edward Filene, on the foundation of the capitalist system and the responsibility of businessmen.12 June 1922
Typed letter signed from John R. Commons, on his University of Wisconsin letterhead, to the American businessman and philanthropist Edward Albert Filene (1860-1937). Filene founded the eponymous department store and pioneered credit unions across the country.
Commons writes in response to a letter from Filene regarding an article he published:... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 147802
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[MORRIS, Corbyn.] Observations on the Past Growth and Present State of the City of London.London : 1751
First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Captain Bernard ab Authore C.M.", with a three-page manuscript transcription before the title, almost certainly in Morris's hand, of "The Freeholder's Ditty, To The Tune of Moggy Lauder", and a note at the end stating that the printer of the ballad was "Jack Mahon,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120893
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QUETELET, Adolphe. Letters addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, on the Theory of Probabilities,London : 1849
First edition in English, originally published in French at Brussels in 1846, presentation copy from the translator, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "R. Biddulph Esq./ with the Translator's/ Respectful Compliments". A pioneering work on probability and social statistics by the Belgian astronomer and mathematician Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874),... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 96972
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition of Veblen's most caustic work, a discussion of the need for advertising and salesmanship in modern business, with a sly dig at Christianity, where he describes Propaganda of the Faith as"quite the largest, oldest, most magnificent, most unabashed, and most lucrative enterprise in sales-publicity in all Christendom" (p. 319). This copy... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 88082
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RIIS, Jacob A. Children of the People (original manuscript).[New York : 1903]
The original manuscript of Riis's short story "Children of the People", signed by the author at head in pencil, describing the ongoing suffering of children, as published in The Century Magazine for December 1903, and later collected, under the title "The City's Heart", in his 1915 story collection Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half.
The... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 146044
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America.New York : 1923
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Isaac A. Hourwich and days of auld lang syne. Thorstein Veblen." Hourwich (1860-1924) was a Lithuanian scholar, activist and Debsian socialist who participated in various radical Socialist movements in Russia and Belarus before emigrating to the U.S. in 1890 to... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113346
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CAREY, Henry Charles. The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign:Philadelphia : 1853
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To Signor Giulio with the respects of the author". Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) was hailed by his contemporaries as "the political economist of the age" (Sartain's Magazine), and his earlier work, The Credit System (1838), was considered "the best work on the credit system that has ever... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 117176
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FISHER, Irving. The Money Illusion.New York : 1928
First edition, second printing (two months after the first). Inscribed by the author to the Nobel Laureate and economist Frederick Soddy on the front free endpaper: "To Professor Frederick Soddy with the compliments of Irving Fisher January 1929". Soddy had been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1921 for his work on isotopes. The Money Illusion,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125882
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HOROWITZ, David. The Abolition of Poverty.New York : 1969
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. Robert S. McNamara, in friendship and appreciation D Horowitz Jerusalem November 1969". The recipient was Robert McNamara (1916-2009), United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, and a significant figure in the Cold War, having a... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138303
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ROBBINS, Lionel. The Economic Causes of War.London : 1939
First edition, first impression. The author's own copy, used by him to mark up the errata for correction, most likely for the second edition of 1940. He has annotated the relevant passages in the book with his desired changes, and has additionally noted a few page numbers on the front free endpaper. In this endeavour he was assisted by the economist... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 140345
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DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The Logic of Political Economy.Edinburgh & London : 1844
First edition. The Logic of Political Economy, De Quincey's exposition of Ricardian economics, is the author's principal economic work. Rearranged from a series of papers by his publisher and discussing the relative influence of utility and scarcity, the former being described as affirmative or power value, the latter as negative or resistance value,... Learn More£8,250.00Stock Code: 93298
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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 years later. Schumpeter... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141141
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COBDEN, Richard. Autograph letter signed to William Molesworth, proposing a national campaign for the secret ballot.2 September 1837
In the immediate aftermath of the July-August 1837 General Election, where the parliamentary share held by liberals and reformers was weakened, the reformer Richard Cobden (1804-1868) writes at length to the radical Member of Parliament Sir William Molesworth (1810-1855), calling Molesworth to cooperate in a national campaign for the introduction of... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145140
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DESPARD, Edward. [Account sheet, with manuscript docket title:] Account of contingent expences incurred by the Superintendent of His Majesty's affairs in Honduras,(1789)
Account sheet for six months' expenses in Honduras by Edward Marcus Despard (1751-1803), Superintendent of Honduras, later executed for treason, despite the appeals of Nelson, with whom he had worked closely during the San Juan Expedition. On Honduras Despard sought to give the same rights to freed slaves as to white settlers, claiming that British... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 135127
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MARX, Karl. Autograph letter signed to Lucien-Léopold Jottrand.Brussels : [1847]
An unpublished autograph letter signed in French, Marx's earliest known missive to the Belgian radical journalist and politician Lucien-Léopold Jottrand, president of the Democratic Association in Brussels, of which Marx became vice president. Under the influence of Marx and Engels, the Democratic Association would become one of the principal hubs... Learn More£130,000.00Stock Code: 132140
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MARX, Karl. Le Capital.Paris : [1872-5]
First edition in French, first issue, a fine presentation copy, inscribed by Marx to the Frankfurt banker Sigmund Schott, with whom Marx exchanged ideas central to his philosophies and work: "Mr Sigmund Schott, de la part de l'auteur, Londres, 3 Novembre 1877" to the first engraved title page. Presentation copies of Capital are exceptionally rare, with... Learn More£575,000.00Stock Code: 128563
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Abrégé des éléments d'économie politique pure.Paris & Lausanne, : 1938
First abridged edition, presentation copy from the editor to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by Leduc on the half-title: "Au prof. Robbins Hommage respectueux signature". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140621
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MARX, Karl. [Opere.]Rome : 1899-1902
First edition, a bound volume of 12 Italian translations of works by Marx, issued by Luigi Mongini in parts, each work separately paginated, but continuously signed.
"1899 would mark a further qualitative leap in the publication of Marx and Engels's texts in Italy, reaching a particular peak in the years between 1899 and 1902. This was the most... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123720
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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... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 86329
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WALKER, Francis A. Money.New York : 1888
Presentation copies, inscribed from the author to the businessman Augustus Lowell, Walker's colleague at MT, with an additional leaflet publication of Walker's lecture on bimetallism laid in. An attractively bound set of three pioneering works by "the most widely known and esteemed American economist of his generation" (The New Palgrave IV, p. 850).... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119669
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CHRYSLER, Walter P., & Boyden Sparkes. Life of an American Workman.New York : 1937
First and limited edition, number 64 of 500 copies privately printed, presentation copy inscribed by the author, "To W. S. S. Rodgers with my friendship and affection 1/19/38 W. P. Chrysler", on the first blank leaf. The book's foreword describes the printing of this edition, designed as a Christmas remembrance for the Chrysler family to distribute... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 122166
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LAUNHARDT, Wilhelm. Die Steigungsverhältnisse der Strassen. Separat-Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereins zu Hannover, Band XXVI. Heft 3.Hannover : 1880-1887
Presentation copies, inscribed to Professor Fischer by the author, the first work additionally with the ownership of Erich Schneider to the title. Like Dupuit, Launhardt began his professional life as a civil engineer, working for the public road administration. A professor of roads, railways and bridges at the Technische Hochschule (now the University)... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 93895
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DUPUIT, A. J. Etienne-Juvenal. De la mesure de l'utilité des travaux publics;Paris : 1844 & 1849
First edition of Dupuit's two articles, printed in numbers 116 and 207 of the Annales des ponts et chaussées. The copy of the economist Henry Ludwell Moore, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper and his extensive pencilled annotations to the articles, mostly in English with some French. The annotations mostly take the form of summaries... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 127699
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Études d'économie politique appliquée.Lausanne & Paris : 1936
First Leduc edition, inscribed by the editor to the British economist Lionel Robbins on the half-title: "A monsieur le professeur Lionel Robbins Hommage respectueux signature Prof. G. Leduc". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140622
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Études d'économie sociale.Lausanne & Paris : 1936
The copy of the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed to him on the half-title by the editor Gaston Leduc: "A monsieur le professeur Lionel Robbins Hommage respectueux signature Prof. G. Leduc". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140557
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TANNAN, Mohan Lal, & Khushal T. Shah. Indian Currency and Banking Problems.Bombay : 1917
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by Tannan on the front free endpaper, "With the compliments of the author, M L Tannan". This is one of the earliest comprehensive works on Indian currency and banking, written for the educated layman and including sections on general monetary and banking principles, historical and modern... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 82678
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WICKSELL, Knut. Über Wert, Kapital und Rente nach den neueren nationalökonomischen Theorien.Jena : 1893
First edition, presentation copy of Wicksell's first book, inscribed by him on the title: "Assessor C. O. Montan, vänskapsfullt från förf." An analysis of the theory of distribution, the first English translation, Value, Capital, and Rent, was published in 1954. "In Value, Capital, and Rent he performed a remarkable labour of synthesis. He adopted... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 119110
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JACKSON, Franklin Paul. Studies in Market Action and Speculative Technique.Los Angeles : 1947
Rare survival of a correspondence study course created by Franklin Paul Jackson, designed to make every home student into a successful stock market investor, inscribed on the first leaf, "To Roger Bennett, Best Regards Franklin Paul Jackson".
Issued as a series of loose leaf sheets, with graphs, tables, and charts, the course promises to provide... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 135499
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.Hamburg : 1867
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed not quite a year after publication on the verso of the title, "Au citoyen César de Paepe, salut fraternel, Karl Marx, Londres 3 Septembre 1868", and with one small pencil correction to the text, also presumably by Marx. The Belgian César De Paepe (18411890) was the leader of the International Working Men's... Learn More£500,000.00Stock Code: 116802
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KAUTSKY, Karl. Die Agrarfrage: eine Uebersicht über die Tendenzen der modernen Landwirthschaft und die Agrarpolitik der Sozialdemokratie.Stuttgart : 1899
First edition, presentation copy from the author to the important French communist Paul Lafargue, inscribed by him, "A son cher Lafargue, K. Kautsky, Berlin 3/1/99". The Marxist theorist's analysis of capitalism in agriculture is a book that Lenin declared "the most important event in present-day economic literature since the third volume of Capital".
Kautsky... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 118919
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[LAW, John.] Money and Trade considered.Edinburgh : 1705
First edition of the major work of the famous Scottish financial adventurer John Law (1671-1729), which presents his theories on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. The title exists in two states: one with an ornament of an eagle and vines, the present with a coastline and its reflection. Textually they are all the same. Of the few... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 117696
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BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul. De l'esprit du gouvernement économique.Paris : 1775
First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title page: "Le Prieur de Cheverny, Ex dono authoris". This is the principal work of the French economist Paul Boesnier de l'Orme (1724-1793), "one of the most systematic and comprehensive expositions of economics of its period" (Higgs). This copy has the imprint of Delalaine; the Mattioli... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 104258
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PALUMBO, Margherita, & Eugenio Sidoli (eds.) Books that Made Europe. Economic Governance and Democracy from 15th to 20th Century.Brussels : 2016
First edition, the companion work to an exhibition originally shown at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels, 1 of 750 copies for sale. "The exhibition Books that made Europe is a journey through 140 books spanning a period of approx. six hundred years, from 1468 to 1950. It investigates into why 500 million citizens, in 28 countries, speaking 24... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 115060
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ROWNTREE, B. Seebohm, & Bruno Lasker. Unemployment.London : 1911
First edition, first impression, of this collaborative work between sociologist Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (18711954) and writer Bruno Lasker (18801965). Presentation copy inscribed by the authors on the front free endpaper: "Theodore H. Rowntree with kind regards from the authors. 6.xi.1911". Theodore Hotham Rowntree (1867-1949) was Seebohm's cousin.... Learn More£90.00Stock Code: 140983
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STRIGL, Richard von. Kapital und Produktion.Vienna : 1934
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mit hertzlichen Grüssen überreicht vom Verfasser", together with a pencilled note "8/34" possibly the recipient's note of presentation date. Kapital und Produktion, issued as number 7 of the series Beiträge zur Konjunkturforschung, is a major work... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 132830
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RUEFF, Jacques. L'Age de l'inflation.Paris : 1963
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the half-title "à Lionel Robbins, ton amis Jacques Rueff".
A nice provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the economics... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142269
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RUEFF, Jacques. Le lancinant problème des balances de paiements.Paris : 1965
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed on the half-title: "À Lord Robbins, en témoignage de beaucoup d'idées communes et d'une très ancienne amitié". An excellent economics provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141522
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RUEFF, Jacques. Les Dieux et les Rois.Paris : 1967
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Pour Lord Robbins, pour l'économiste, pour l'artiste, pour le philosophe, pour l'ami Jacques Rueff" (translated "For Lord Robbins, for the economist, for the artist, for the philosopher, for the friend").
A nice... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142274
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KNIGHT, Frank H. Risk, Uncertainty and Profit.Boston & New York : [1921]
First edition, the author's copy, presentation copy, inscribed to fellow economist George Stigler, "To George Stigler May 27, 1963, F.H.K.", and additionally signed by Knight on the front pastedown. This copy bears autograph pencil changes to three pages (53, 101, 152): two use proofreading symbols to insert and delete phrases, one corrects a reference... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 122692
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THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von. Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirtschaft und Nationalökonomie,Rostock : 1842
Scarce second edition, revised and expanded, of the first part of Thünen's (1783-1850) key work. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his son on verso of front free endpaper: "Seinem lieben Sohn Heinrich zum dauernden Andenken, vom Verfasser, Tellow der 25. Dec. 1842". A pioneering economic study on agriculture, the second edition contains... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 93435
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WILLIAMS, John L, & Son (comp.) 1889-90. A Manual of Investments.Richmond, Virginia : 1890
First edition of the 6th annual Manual of investments produced by the banking house of John L. Williams of Richmond, Virginia, presentation copy inscribed by the author, "George Wayne Andrew with compliments & regards of the Author & acknowledgements for valuable assistance rendered in the compilation of this work. May 1890".
"Our Manual was... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 93439
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WHEATLEY, John. Remarks on Currency and Commerce.London : 1803
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "from the Author" on the title page. Wheatley's Remarks, along with his Essay on the Theory of Money, "received the most contemporary attention, and best stated his theoretical position on the monetary controversy that followed the suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England in 1797" (Palgrave). Wheatley's... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129427
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PAGE, William, (ed.) Commerce and Industry.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, of the comprehensive history of Britain's economy prior to the First World War as recorded by Parliament, written to "afford some assistance to those interested in the reconstruction which necessarily follows the destructive agency of war". This copy was owned by economic historian Sir William James Ashley, who made... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107045
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FISHER, Irving. 100% Money.New York : 1936
Second edition, first published the previous year, here extensively revised following the passing of the Omnibus Banking Act of 1935. 100 Money was Fisher's proposal to eliminate economic fluctuations by requiring that demand deposits be backed by a corresponding amount of cash, an idea which had its roots in the work of Walras, Mises, and the Chicago... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 97128
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TAMAGNA, Frank M. Chinese Banking.[New Haven, CT] : May 1937
The author's retained copy of his dissertation, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "F. Tamagna 2790 Yale Station New Haven Conn.", some underlining to the foreword, and the occasional correction to the text. This dissertation formed the basis of Tamagna's best-known work, Banking and Finance in China (1942), a comprehensive survey... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 134954
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GRENFELL, Henry R. Banking and Currency.London : 1875
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "from the author" on the title page. Grenfell (1824-1902) was then director at the Bank of England (later serving as governor from 1881 to 1883). "He played an active part in defending the bank from its critics, and in urging (in vain) a consolidating banking act to tidy up the loose ends left by Peel's Bank... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 135129
