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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 : 1793
Seventh edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), which reprints the introductions to the third and fourth editions; a handsomely bound copy in contemporary tree calf gilt.
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.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 144218
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.London : 1784
First octavo edition, third overall (first 1776); a handsome set in an unostentatious but pleasing contemporary binding. This uncommon edition contains several additions including a new chapter titled "The Conclusion of the Mercantile System". This was the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson (Sowerby 3546).
In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144188
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Philadelphia : 1796
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 volumes show evidence of early American ownership, the front free endpapers with the ownership signature and note of purchase... 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.London : 1776
First edition, a superb copy by both binding and association: in its first binding - a beautiful and highly finished gilt contemporary calf - purchased and inscribed within a month of publication by Scottish physician and customs official Thomas Moffatt (c.1702-1787), shortly before emigrating from London to America. The first edition of the Wealth... Learn More£300,000.00Stock Code: 136834
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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.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. The Theory of Moral Sentiments.London : 1759
First edition, published in April 1759 with a recorded "print run of 1,000 copies" (Sher, Early Editions of Adam's Smith's Books, 13). Smith's first book and his later Wealth of Nations demonstrate "a great unifying principle Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself... Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 143924
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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 : 1759
First edition, published in April 1759 with a recorded "print run of 1,000 copies" (Sher, Early Editions of Adam's Smith's Books, 13). Smith's first book and his later Wealth of Nations demonstrate "a great unifying principle Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself... Learn More£62,500.00Stock Code: 136185
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SMITH, Adam. Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle.Leipzig : 1791-1795
First complete German translation of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, the second German translation overall, volume two providing a translation of the additional material contained in the English 6th edition, published shortly before Smith's death in 1790. The first German translation of 1770 was made from the third edition of 1767. "The Kosegarten... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 104689
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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, comprising 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 during 1811-12... 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
