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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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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues, in which Éprémesnil stresses the importance of free trade. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 123202
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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French Revolution, and subsequently being guillotined. The book... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 127720
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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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PEUCHET, Jacques. Vocabulaire des termes de commerce,Paris : 1801
First edition, scarce: Library Hub 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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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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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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QUESNAY, François - BELLIAL DES VERTUS, le Sieur de (attrib.) 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... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 118440
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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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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... 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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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, Necker... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137896
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HERBERT, Claude Jacques. Essai sur la police générale des grains.London : 1753
First edition of Herbert's work on the grain trade. McCulloch calls the work "in all respects, an excellent treatise; and may, indeed, be safely placed at the head of the works on commerce that had appeared in France, or anywhere else on the Continent, previously to the era of Quesnay and the Economists. It is clearly and ably written; and contains... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 127715
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TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne (revises); RULIÉ, Pierre. Théorie de l'Intéret de l'Argent,Paris : 1780
First edition. The work is assigned by Barbier to Pierre Rulié, a parish priest of Saint Pierre de Cahors, with the text then revised by J. L. Gouttes and by Turgot. The treatise serves to justify the commercial loaning of money at interest, and instigated various refutations by the clergy, incensed by its defence of usury. Turgot's 1770 paper on lending... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 129392
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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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NECKER, Jacques (subject.) 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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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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[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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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.
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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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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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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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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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GALIANI, Ferdinando. Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds.London [i.e. Paris?], : 1770
First edition of the work that established Galiani's reputation as an economist, a bold attack on the physiocrats and a virulent critique of the royal edict of 1764 liberalising the trade in grain. Galiani was secretary of the Neapolitan embassy in Paris, and was well connected with the leading enlightenment figures of the day. He left the manuscript... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 127440
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ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, of Arrow's brilliant doctoral thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Monographs.
"Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed to solve a question in politics which no economist and few political scientists had ever posed: suppose... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 142548
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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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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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[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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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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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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ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, of Arrow's brilliant doctoral thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Monographs. "Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed to solve a question in politics which no economist and few political scientists had ever posed: suppose all... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 145646
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HUME, David. Discours politiques.Amsterdam : 1754-56
First edition of the first three instalments of an 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... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 146627
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ROBBINS, Lionel - PERROUX, Francois. Les techniques quantitatives de la planification.Paris : 1965
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "Pour Lord L. Robbins en hommage d'admiration et d'amitié également fideles sic François Perroux". 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£125.00Stock Code: 141530
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ROBBINS, Lionel - DUPRIEZ, Léon H. Philosophie des Conjonctures Économiques.Louvain & Paris : 1959
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed on the half-title "A Lionel Robbins en tres cordial hommage Léon Dupriez". 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 economics department... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141531
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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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SIMIAND, Francois. Les Fluctuations économiques à longue période et la crise mondiale.Paris : 1932
First edition, first printing. The leading economist of the Année sociologique school, known for applying a rigorous statistical basis for his models and predictions, Simiand here interprets the ongoing worldwide economic crash as part of his model of long-term economic cycles. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 141859
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ROBBINS, Lionel - PERROUX, Francois. Unités actives et mathématiques nouvelles:Paris : 1975
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, with the signed presentation note on Perroux's card reading: "Pour Lord L. Robbins en hommage d'admiration et j'amite ègaliment fidels Francois Perroux 18.4.76". An excellent economics provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 141523
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BAUDEAU, Nicolas. Principes économiques de Louis XII et du Cardinal d'Amboise,[Paris]; Geneva : 1785
First editions of these two commentaries on Necker. The first upholds the two great finance ministers of France's past, Cardinal d'Amboise and the Duke of Sully, as superior to Necker in their financial administration, and as offering models for France's current financial predicaments. The second seeks to serve as a corrective to the arguments outlined... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127446
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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.
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ROBBINS, Lionel - RIST, Charles. Essais sur quelques problemes economiques et monetaires.Paris : 1933
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed on the front free endpaper "à M. le Professeur Robbins en témoignage de haute estime" (translated "to Professor Robbins as a testimony of high esteem").
A nice provenance: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142279
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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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[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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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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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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PIGOU, Arthur Cecil. Economics in Practice. Six Lectures on Current Issues.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. The lectures, which were originally delivered at the London School of Economics in late 1934, comprise: An Economist's Apologia; Economy and Waste; The Balance of Trade; Inflation, Deflation and Reflation; State Action and Laissez Faire; and The Economics of Restrictions. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 143627
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CHASSEPOL, Francois de. Traité des finances et de la fausse monnoie des Romains, auquel on a joint une dissertation sur la maniere de discerner les médailles antiques d'avec les contrefaites.Paris : 1740
First edition of this study of counterfeit money among the Romans, with advice to contemporary numismatic collectors. An English edition followed in 1741. Library Hub lists copies in four British institutions. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 127721
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GOUDAR, Pierre Ange. Les Intérêts de la France mal entendus,Amsterdam : 1756
One of various 1756 editions. "Of the pre-physiocratic French writers who approached the population problem in terms of agricultural values and reforms, Ange Goudar (1720-1791) was the most important. He looked upon population growth as an index of the soundness of a nation's laws, and shared the mercantilist view that the state must be made strong"... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 132781
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KEYNES, John Maynard (ed.) Manchester Guardian Commercial. La Reconstruction de l'Europe.Manchester : 20 April 20 1922 – 4 January 1923
First edition in French of the scarce complete set of the Manchester Guardian Commercial, "a series of weighty supplements on European Reconstruction, with articles by the most distinguished authorities in each country" (Harrod), published under the general editorship of John Maynard Keynes, with contributions by other notable authorities including... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 138597
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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
