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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. 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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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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SOROS, George. The Crisis of Global Capitalism.New York : 1998
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "To Debbie's Brother Mike with best wishes George Soros". In the present book Soros dissects the origins of the ongoing economic downturn, which had started in 1997 with the Asian financial crisis, and argues that the economic woes may get far worse if reforms based on his open... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 135573
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FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose. Free to Choose.New York & London : 1980
Signed by the author on the half-title. Free to Choose is the companion book to Friedman's ten-part PBS series of the same title, which investigated various regions, historical events, and social issues from the perspective that Laissez-faire economics is the most effective and fair way to manage societies. The series and book were a response to John... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 131458
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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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VEBLEN, Thorstein. Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution.New York : 1915
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed from the author in ink on the front free endpaper, "Mr W. C. Curtis with the compliments of Mr. Veblen". Published shortly after the outbreak of the first World War, Veblen's fourth book aimed to account for why and how Germany had so successfully dominated the modern industrial market, basing... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122230
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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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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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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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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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ROGERS, Edward. An essay on some general principles of political economy, on taxes upon raw produce, and on commutation of tithes.London : 1822
First edition of Rogers's mathematical economics pamphlet, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, "To Charles Wetherell Esq. MP. with the Author's Compliments", underneath the crossed-out inscription, "To the Earl of Liverpool". At the time of the inscription the English politician and judge Charles Wetherell represented Oxford... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 120724
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TINBERGEN, Jan. Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en de ekonomie.Amsterdam : 1929
Tinbergen's copy of his doctoral thesis, with his initials to the front free endpaper and first blank, two leaves of manuscript inserts, and several neat pencil annotations, including the correction made to formula 10 on p. 7 listed as the single erratum of the first trade edition, and mistakes on pp. 15, 25. This copy with a Dedication leaf ("to my... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 123617
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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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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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(HARSANYI, John C.) SELTEN, Reinhard (ed.) Rational Interaction.Berlin : 1992
First edition, affectionately inscribed by Horace "Woody" Brock, the founder and president of Strategic Economic Decisions and the only contributor to this volume of essays personally thanked in the preface by editor Reinhard Selten: "I am deeply indebted to Horace W. Brock. His active support was extremely valuable. The results of my editorial efforts... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 126450
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EVERETT, Alexander Hill. Autograph letter signed, to Henry Charles Carey.Boston : October 21 1835
A choice letter between two of the leading American economists of the day, testimony to the emergence of an American school of economics that was explicitly conceived as an alternative to the orthodoxy of British classical economics.
The letter was initiated through the recent publication of Carey's first book, Theory of Wages (1835), which he... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 116816
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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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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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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
