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(EUGENICS & CRIME.) Research Studies of Crime as related to Heredity.1925
First edition of this collection of papers emphasising the eugenic aspects of crime: Harry Olson's presidential address, "Crime and Heredity," to the 1923 Annual Meeting of the Eugenic Research Association, 1923 - Olson was Chief Justice of the Municipal Court; the 1925 presidential address, "Crime from the Psychiatrist's Point of View," Charles W.... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 63619
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ORWELL, George. Original autograph lecture notes for "Culture and Democracy", together with related correspondence between himself, the Fabian Society, and Routledge, the publishers.1941-42
A remarkable survival, the original manuscript notes for Orwell's lecture on "Culture and Democracy", the lecture which was published, much to Orwell's disgust, with unauthorized alterations in the volume Victory or Vested Interest (1942). Orwell's lectures were not usually recordedBernard Crick describes the published version as "the only record of... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 120664
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PENN, Irving. Platinum Prints.New Haven : 2005
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Nicholas, Irving Penn". Loosely inserted are two pieces of related ephemera: an envelope on Penn's studio stationary, addressed to "Nicholas Rosser", and a clipped printed postage label, addressed from Penn's New York studio to Rosser's home in Kent, England. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 131518
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CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood.New York : 1965
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the initial blank, as part of the signed issue of the book for members of the First Edition Circle Society, with related ephemera laid in. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 138835
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ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. In the thirteen essays collected here Robinson applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 136432
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ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of Robinson's collection of essays in which she applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment. Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 124176
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WHITE, T. H. The Godstone and the Blackymor.London : 1959
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the illustrator, "Signed for Bridget by Edward Ardizzone, Feb 1968", on the front free endpaper, with a typed letter from the Book Trade Group referring to Ardizzone's visit to Melbourne, a related newspaper clipping and a prospectus from Jonathan Cape for their journal Now and Then, all laid in. A lovely... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108471
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![The Hotel New Hampshire [with uncorrected proof].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/102228comp.jpg)
IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire [with uncorrected proof].New York : 1981
First edition, first printing, advance review copy signed by the author on the half-title. Together with uncorrected proof, the author's black and white publicity shot, publisher's review slip, letter and other related material. Loosely inserted in the proof is an additional proof-sheet of the first page (1A), the first proof being substantially different... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 102228
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ZABRISKIE, George Albert. Fishermen's Philosophy."The Doldrums", Ormond Beach, Florida : 1935
First edition, first impression. This is the author's own copy, bound by him, with a collection of related ephemera, including a signed letter by Herbet Hoover, thanking Zabriskie for sending him a copy of this work. Additionally with two newspaper articles pasted to the front free endpaper relating Zabriskie's fishing exploits. George Albert Zabriskie... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130039
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ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Robinson was a prominent Keynesian economist known for her work on Marx and also the economic development of China. In the thirteen essays collected here she applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment.... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129146
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[BERTOLINI, Stefano.] Les suffrages unanimes sur les moyens de rétablir une contrée inculte.[Florence] : 1764
First edition of the Italian lawyer, senator, and scholar's anthology of mercantilist writings, published anonymously. Bertolini (1711-1782) studied at the university in Pisa and trained at the Pisa Law School where he graduated in 1734. He set up a legal practice in Florence before beginning his career as an official of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 118046
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RUGGLES, J., Major-General. Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran 1845-1876.London : 1906
First edition of this uncommon memoir. "Ruggles wrote this some 60 years after the Mutiny and relies on Martin Gubbins's work An Account of the Mutinies in Oude 1858 together with Ruggles's own notes. When the book was written there were still at least 25 survivors at the Lucknow Dinner" (Sorsky). Ruggles served with the 19th Punjabis, originally raised... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 139224
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MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred. An Artist's Life; The Second Burst; The Finish [together with] Ballads and Poems or, A Rhyming succession of Rhyming digression.London : 1950-57
First editions, first impressions. Volumes I and III of The Autobiography and Ballads and Poems signed by Alfred and Violet Munnings. With a manuscript letter by Violet Munnings, dated 30 January 1962, giving opening times for Beldon House and studio, alongside other ephemera related to the book and Alfred Munnings, constituting newspaper clippings,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121829
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EDEN, Rob. Loot.New York : 1932
First edition, first printing, of a mystery which takes its heroine away from her life of luxury and throws her into the dark underworld of Chicago gangs as she sets out to find her long-lost brother. The striking jacket features the film star Louise Brooks, her first cover appearance on a book not related to her work as an actress. Rob Eden was the... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 91921
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COMMONS, John Rogers. Institutional Economics, its Place in Political Economy.New York : 1934
First edition. Commons, together with Thorstein Veblen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, was one of the three founders of American Institutionalism, "an analysis of collective action by the state, and a wide range of other institutions, which he saw as essential to understanding economic life. This institutional theory was closely related to his remarkable... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 112529
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BUTLER, Josephine (ed.) Woman's Work and Woman's Culture.London : 1869
First edition of this cornerstone work in women's history, edited and introduced by the English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler, her contribution to this volume praised as "her most comprehensive, theoretical statement about the woman question and her first public effort to integrate the discussion of prostitution and the double standard... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129299
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BRADLEY, John. A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula.London : 1876
First edition. Extremely uncommon. "An interesting work combining travel, observation and big game hunting. Near the Sittang River in Burma, the author hunted numerous tigers, including an episode of tiger shooting related by his companion Captain Lacy. Near the River Thungyen, an elephant was bagged, with additional notes on hunting leopard, deer,... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 71504
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, the copy of the British economist Lionel Robbins, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper, and a few of his annotations in the form of underlining and marginal exclamation marks. Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist of the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140229
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.New York : 1913
First edition in English, first printing, US issue, an unusually nice copy. Originally published as Die Traumdeutung (Lepizig & Vienna, 1900 1899). This important translation, by the Austrian-born psychiatrist, and the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States, Abraham Brill, was published simultaneously in London and New York and was Freud's... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 140894
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139422
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HANLEY, James. Boy.New York : 1932
First US edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed to the publisher and editor Alan Steele, and his wife, on the front free endpaper: "To Alan & Phyllis with best wishes James Hanley". Originally published at London in 1931 in an edition of 145 copies for subscribers only, Boy is "an appalling story of sexual violence on... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 106904
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HOLDEN, William Clifford. History of the Colony of Natal, South Africa.London : 1855
First edition of "one of the most valuable books on the early history of Natal. At the time of its publication the Colony had only been recognised as a British dependency for ten years Much is related as to the doings of the early pioneers The settlement of the Dutch in the Colony, and the eventual occupation by the British are carefully gone into... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 119300
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(MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels.) DIXON, Richard, & others. Collected Works.London : 1975-2005
First edition, first impressions, all with the London imprint except for vol. 5 and 22 (New York), and vol. 26 (Moscow). It was published in conjunction with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, both Moscow, and International Publishers Inc., New York. "This edition will provide for the first time to the English-speaking world... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 119043
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.London : 1835
An attractive set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. "This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced in his 1831 edition" (Pottle). "Boswell's Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140500
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-76
First complete collected edition, number 853 of 1,750 sets. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137778
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(SMITH, Adam.) SARTORIUS, Georg. ZNOSKO, Jan, translator. 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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(MATISSE, Henri.) ROUVEYRE, André. Apollinaire.Paris : 1952
First edition thus, first printing, number 233 of 300 on vélin d'arches, from a total edition of 350, with the chemise and slipcase in unusually nice condition.
The friendship between the caricaturist and writer André Rouveyre (1879-1962) and the artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) left a trail of art works and a correspondence of over 1 100 letters.... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132731
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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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FORESTER, C. S. The Happy Return.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of the first Hornblower book; "with the publication of The Happy Return, Forester created his best-known character, Horatio Hornblower, a sensitive and gifted individual, the flowering of whose talents within the chain of naval command revealed the author's understanding of Nelson's navy, and of sea power" (ODNB).... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 136286
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(CRIMINOLOGY.) Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.Chicago : 1910-11
A complete run of the first two years of this important journal: the first periodical "in the English language devoted to the science of criminology" (founder James Wigmore, quoted by Jennifer Devroye in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 100, Winter 2010).; it was "an attempt to help American thinking and policy catch up with European... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 114946
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JENKINS, Charles Francis. Picture Ribbons.Washington DC : 1897
First edition of the author's book on chronophotography and proto-film reels. Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934) was a prolific inventor (over 400 patents were issued to his name) and an important pioneer of cinema and television. He devised a "motion picture projecting box", which, on 6 June 1894, became the first apparatus to project a film in front... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 102230
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![Yamato-ryu Kyudo Kyokun no maki. [Precepts for Archery of the Yamato School].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/107836.jpg)
MORIKAWA, Kozan. Yamato-ryu Kyudo Kyokun no maki. [Precepts for Archery of the Yamato School].Tokyo : 1928
First facsimile edition of a work first published in 1652, and untraceable thus, no copy on OCLC. The text lays out the philosophical precepts underlying Mokikawa Kozan's (1631-1701) style of Kyudo, created essentially as a fusion between the two most prominent schools of the time, Heki-ryu and Ogasawara-ryu. Morikawa was the first to define the martial... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107836
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TOWNSHEND, Chauncy Hare. Poems.London : 1821
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper (probably in a secretarial hand): "From the Author". Townshend (1798-1868, originally Townsend, he added the "H" in 1828) was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, winning the chancellor's medal for his poem "Jerusalem" (published 1817) and thereafter "was determined to be... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 124878
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LONG, Frank Belknap. The Hounds of Tindalos.Sauk City : 1946
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Richard Hughes, With great admiration for the high excellence and artistry of his stories in a related medium. Frank Belknap Long, New York, February 24, 1946".
The recipient of this work is believed to be American Comic Group writer and editor... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119634
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WINKLER, Hans A. Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt II.London : 1939
First edition. A handsomely produced survey of sites found on the west bank of the Nile from Qena to Aswan, Jebel Uweinat and the road leading from the Nile Valley to Dakhla through the Kharga Oasis; volume I related the previous season's expedition, to the Eastern desert. "The recognition of Egyptian rock art as something that could be closely linked... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 99991
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LARDNER, Dionysius. Railway Economy: a treatise on the new art of transport, its management, prospects, and relations, commercial, financial, and social. With an exposition of the practical results of the railways in operation in the United Kingdom, on the Continent and inLondon : 1850
First edition of the first book collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell (18491936), whose extensive collections now form the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard.
In his article "Herbert Somerton Foxwell" (Economic Journal, Dec. 1936), J. M. Keynes documents... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135495
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WILLSON, Hugh Bowlby. Currency, or the fundamental principles of monetary science, postulated, explained, and applied.New York : 1882
First edition of the author's major work on monetary policy. Published posthumously with a prefatory memoir by the author's brother, Currency is a confident treatise on monetary theory, conversant with the best of contemporary economic thought, written by the Canadian-born Hugh Bowlby Willson (1813-1880), proposing a plan for monetary union between... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 114854
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LAUREL, Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson.) A collection of original Laurel and Hardy scenarios and scripts from the files of the Hal Roach studio.[Los Angeles] : 1927-35
A superb collection of original script material from the golden age of the most successful comic partnership in film history. In 1926, under contract to Hal Roach Studios for the third time, the English-born comedian Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) reworked an old sketch of his father's into a two-reel comedy, Home from the Honeymoon, featuring... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 65988
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) DORFMAN, Robert, Paul A. Samuelson, & Robert M. Solow. Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, with the publisher's typed presentation letter signed loosely inserted: "Dear Professor Robbins, I am sending you a copy of Linear Programming and Economic Analysis by Dorfman, Samuelson and Solow, at the request of Professor Dorfman, who is, as you probably know,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140578
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VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Micromegas: a Comic Romance.London : 1753
First edition in English of Voltaire's Micromegas, a significant work of proto-science fiction, detailing the visit of giants from Saturn and Sirius to earth, and their derision at mankind's wars, religions, and pretensions. The novella was first published in French the previous year, and is probably the first instance of aliens visiting Earth... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139036
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SCHETKY, John Christian. Reminiscences of the Veterans of the Sea.London : 1867
First and only edition. Decidedly uncommon, Copac cites copies at five British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, NMM, RA, V&A, National Trust - Wimpole Hall); OCLC adds just three further locations, all in the United States (Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, Newberry, and New York Historical Society). No copies recorded at auction.
"In... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 116744
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(ARABIAN NIGHTS.) Les mille & une nuits.Paris : 1881
Limited edition, from a stated issue of 10 copies printed on japon (this copy unnumbered); a further 170 copies were issued printed on Holland paper, 20 on China paper, and 20 on Whatman paper. The publishing company Librairie des bibliophiles was founded by Damase Jouast (1834-1893) to publish exceptional editions of the great works of French and world... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130843
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STAPLEDON, Olaf. The Opening of the Eyes.London : 1954
First edition, first impression, published posthumously. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's wife Agnes Stapledon, "Edward Frick, from Agnes Z. Stapledon, in memory of Olaf. January 1954". Edward Frick was an American architect based in Paris whom the Stapledons had visited in Paris, in August 1950, less than a month before Stapledon's death.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 118812
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SLATIN, Rudolf C. Fire and Sword in the Sudan.London : 1896
Presentation copy of the third edition, the same year as the first, inscribed by author on the half-title: "To General George W. Wingate, with best compliments from the author, R. Slatin. Merano 4/III 1928". This is almost certainly George Wood Wingate (1840-1928), an American lawyer who served in a New York regiment during the Civil War and later as... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99777
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(MOZAMBIQUE.) I. D. 1189. A Manual of Portugese East Africa.London : 1920
First and only edition, rare: not in Copac (British and Irish institutional libraries) or OCLC (institutional libraries worldwide); KVK locates one copy of the volume only (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) and there is a complete set of the maps only in the National Library of Australia. A fascinating record of Mozambique drawn up by the Naval Intelligence... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 107217
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(JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE.) Go Fusuma Mi Hon. [Fusuma handmade samples.]Kyoto : c.1910
Meiji-era salesman's sample catalogue with a selection of superb hand-stencilled paper and paper-backed silks for use on Japanese fusuma room dividing screens, some of them showing clear Arts & Crafts influence. The selection begins with two plain heavily textured papers, followed by three where designs are printed onto a bark-texured paper similar... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 103576
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GURNEY, Ivor. Severn & Somme.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book, scarce in commerce. This is one of only two works published in Gurney's lifetime, this collection inspired by the poet's beloved Gloucestershire and written in large part while he was serving as a private with the 2nd/5th Gloucesters from May 1916. Wounded and gassed in September 1917 during... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 135974
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LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. Lehr-Sätze über die Monadologie…Frankfurt & Leipzig : 1720
Exceedingly scarce first appearance in print of the Monadology, Leibniz's most mature philosophical work, considered one of the most important philosophical texts of the 18th century. Written in 1714 and published in the original French as late as 1814, it first appeared in print in this very rare German translation in 1720, then in a Latin translation... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 127048
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ROBERTSON, Dennis Holme. A Study of Industrial Fluctuation. An enquiry into the character and causes of the so-called cyclical movements of trade.London : 1915
First edition of Robertson's dissertation, published after research and a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge; from the library of William Beveridge.
Robertson is known chiefly for his contributions to the study of the relationship between money, the trade cycle, and economic growth. 'In the Study of Industrial Fluctuation, he used historical... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133656
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ADAMS, Bernard. Nothing of Importance.New York : 1918
First US edition, first printing, originally published by Methuen in the UK in 1917. Classic account of "everyday life and work in the trenches from the point of view of a fighting pacifist" (Falls). John Bernard Pye Adams (1890-1916), was a classics scholar educated Malvern and St. John's, Cambridge, who had spent time as assistant to the Educational... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 140719
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Autograph letter signed relating to the clandestine publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.Kesselmatte, Gsteig b. Gstaad (Bern) : 1928
Autograph letter signed from Lawrence to Allen W. Steele of the book wholesalers William Jackson Ltd, requesting that they return to the bearer of the letter, Enid Hilton, over 70 copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover which they had ordered and subsequently rejected. Privately printed in Florence in 1928 with the help of the Florentine bookseller Pino Orioli,... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 137216
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GALIANI, Ferdinando. Della moneta.Naples : 1750 [but 1751]
First edition of this "groundbreaking work in monetary economics, a masterpiece of analysis of value and prices" (Books That Made Europe). This copy is in the second state with "vivere. Qual cosa adunque piu' giusta" on p. 31, later issue with six unnumbered pages at the rear, the last three dated 10 May, August, and September 1751.
Della moneta... Learn More£8,250.00Stock Code: 127762
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BLIGH, Lieutenant William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty;London : 1790
First edition of Bligh's (1754-1817) personal account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history" (Hill), published two years before his full official version of the voyage and the mutiny, in an effort to influence opinion in his favour and absolving him "from any blame that might be levelled against him because of the... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 121735
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(BEATTIE, James.) FORBES, Sir William. An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D.Edinburgh : 1806
First edition of Forbes's principal work, an excellent association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to the author's son, "William Forbes Esqr. from the author"; together with a group of related contemporary autograph material laid in which reflects the strong ties between the Forbes and Beattie families.
Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118450
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CLARKE, Hewson. An Impartial History of the Naval Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies in Paris,Bungay : 1815
First edition. A truly remarkable survival, a full set of this compendious popular history retaining throughout the flimsy wraps from the original part issue. The work covers the period from the decay and collapse of the Ancien Régime to the Fall of Bonaparte, well-illustrated with portraits from drawings by the skilled copyist Matthew Shepperson and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130348
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JAMES, Henry. The Ambassadors.New York & London : 1904
First US edition, second printing (dated a year after the first), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mary Jameson Judah in remembrance of March 16th and 17th 1905. Henry James".
Mary Jameson Judah (1851-1930) was an accomplished hostess, giving dinners with monumental menus in both Memphis - where her husband... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131659
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JAMES, William. Autograph letter signed from James to his friendly critic, the American philosopher John Edward Russell;Rome : 1900
An affectionate autograph letter signed from James to John Edward Russell, professor of philosophy at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with the letter from Russell to James, in his wife's hand, which prompted the aforementioned response, plus related correspondence from Alice James dated from their time spent abroad in Europe.
Russell... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126088
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GALTON, Francis. Hereditary Genius:London : 1869
First edition of the author's most significant work. This copy has an interesting association linking Galton to his almost exact contemporary and fellow statistics pioneer Florence Nightingale, being from the estate of the author and politician Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885), Nightingale's favourite, persistent, but ultimately... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 139155
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LEWIS, C. S. Collection of autograph letters signed to the dedicatees of The Magician's Nephew.1963
A remarkable and rich archive of 29 autograph letters from C. S. Lewis to the Kilmer children, dedicatees of The Magician's Nephew. This highly desirable archive is the most extensive collection of letters by Lewis to have come to market in recent years.
The letters, three of which are unpublished, were written over nine years from... Learn More£200,000.00Stock Code: 134030
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MALCOLM, John, Sir. Sketch of the Sikhs;London : 1812
First edition of this scarce account of Sikhism, the cornerstone of later publications on the topic, annotated over four pages by a British Officer who interacted with the Sikhs during his service. This "preliminary effort" (Khurana, p. 22) on the subject sheds some light on the history of the Sikhs, their countries and government, and their religion.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 135209
