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SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart.London : 1811-12
First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, with a biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107885
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134298
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776; all the 18th-century editions are rarely found uncut in the original boards. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134295
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. One of 2,000 copies printed according to Keith Tribe. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading,... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 118470
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Glasgow : 1805
An attractive early Scottish edition of Smith's great work, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131415
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1822
An attractively bound set of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 121184
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Philadelphia : 1796
The second American edition, in an unrestored contemporary American binding, of the "greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), following the first American edition of 1789, and its first publication in London in 1776. The books additionally have evidence of early American ownership, the front free endpapers with the ownership signature and... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139123
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Edinburgh : 1817
Second Buchanan edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). Smith's masterpiece was first published in 1776, Buchanan's annotated edition in 1814. David Buchanan (1779-1848) "substantially annotated Wealth of Nations, inserting new chapters and appending an entire volume of commentary, Observations on the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136771
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SMITH, Adam. "Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages." In: The Philological Miscellany;[London] : 1761
Rare first edition of The Philological Miscellany, all published, containing the first appearance in print of Adam Smith's "Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages" (pp. 440-79), originally part of Smith's University Lectures on Rhetoric, a work of which Smith was, according... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 99764
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1789
Fifth edition, one of 1,500 copies printed, the last edition to be published in Smith's lifetime. It was taken from the third edition (1784). "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith's achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work. The Wealth of Nations is not... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 118023
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Tokyo : 1976
Facsimile of the first edition of the Wealth of Nations, number 449 of 1,000 copies, published to commemorate the bicentenary of the work's first publication. Loosely inserted in this copy is a bibliographic history of the Wealth of Nations in Japanese, also published for the bicentenary (a little chipped and creased). Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 129998
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1811
Later London edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). The text of this edition is a reprint of the fifth edition of 1786, which was the final edition to be published in Smith's lifetime. The life and the essay by Germaine Garnier (1754-1821), translator of the Wealth of Nations into French, were first included together... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125010
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SMITH, Adam. The Wealth of Nations.London : 1991
A handsome leather bound volume of this classic work which was first published in 1776. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 121749
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SMITH, Adam - ROUQUET, Jean André. The present State of the Arts in England.London : 1755
First edition in English, originally published in French in 1754, written by the Swiss born artist Jean André Rouquet, friend of Hogarth and David Garrick, who lived in London between 1726 and 1750. A brief preliminary discourse is followed by reviews of the various arts in England, not only dealing with painting, but with sculpture, woodcarving, silk... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 86353
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SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments.London : 1767
Third edition of Smith's first book, the first edition to include the "Dissertation on the Origin of Languages", one of 750 copies, and the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the continent. It contains "some minor revisions, especially to passages involving comment on religion" (Tribe), which Smith made upon... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141981
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SMITH, Adam - SARTORIUS, Georg; ZNOSKO, Jan (trans.) Nauka Ekonomii polityczney podlug ukladu Adama SmithVilnius : 1811
Scarce Polish translation of Georg Sartorius's Von den Elementen des National-Reichthums, und von der Staatswirtschaft, nach Adam Smith, translated from the second German edition of 1806 (first 1796), translated by Jan Znosko, holder of the chair of political economy at the Vilnian University from 1810 to 1823. "Znosko established his credentials with... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 119352
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SMITH, Adam. Compendio da obra da riqueza das nações de Adam Smith.Rio de Janeiro : 1811-12
First edition in Portuguese translation, a selection of passages from books I-IV of Smith's Wealth of Nations, translated from the third English edition of 1784 by Bento da Silva Lisboa.
"Given the strong Brazilian interest in Smith's work one can better understand why the first Portuguese translation of Wealth of Nations appeared... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 137677
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SMITH, Adam. Untersuchung der Natur und Ursachen von Nationalreichthümern.Leipzig : 1776-1778-1792
First edition in German of the Wealth of Nations, constituting the first translation of the work, including both volumes of the text as published in 1776 and 1778, and complete with the third volume of additions and corrections, issued in 1792; preserved in an unrestored contemporary German binding.
The translation was undertaken by Johann Friedrich... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 130228
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SMITH, Adam. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations.The Hague : 1778
Very rare first edition in French of the Wealth of Nations. This is the first complete translation of the text; an extract, Fragment sur les colonies en général, et sur celles des anglois en particulier, translated by Reverdil, had been published in Lausanne and Basel earlier in 1778 to test public demand for the work. "This translation of the 1776... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 94923
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![[Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/9/9/99950_1.jpg)
SMITH, Adam. [Wealth of Nations in Russian:] Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal'tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tiurgo.St Petersburg : 1866
First edition of the much-improved second Russian translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, reproducing the notes and apparatus from the 1843 Blanqui edition. This translation, published following the growing public dissatisfaction with an earlier version, encumbered with obsolete prose and unspecific terminology, appeared in the Library of Classical... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 99950
