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![[Patch label on front cover:] Matériels & Outils de Sondages pour les mines & les colonies (Materials and Survey Tools for Mines and Colonies).](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/123046_6.jpg)
DRU, Léon & Saint-Just, & Louis-Georges Mulot. [Patch label on front cover:] Matériels & Outils de Sondages pour les mines & les colonies (Materials and Survey Tools for Mines and Colonies).Paris : [c.1890]
A handsomely presented and apparently unique album of 21 striking original albumen prints showing test rigs and drilling machinery, largely for use in artesian exploration, assembled for one of the leading French engineering concerns of the period, Mulot & Dru, described by a contemporary as "acknowledged in France to be masters of the art of boring"... Learn More£12,750.00Stock Code: 123046
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government; Or, a Comment on the Commentaries:London : 1823
Second edition, originally published in 1776, and described as "Bentham's first work of any importance" (Atkinson, Jeremy Bentham: His Life and Work, p. 35); "though the word 'enlarged' was used in the title, the addition of substance was a long footnote to Ch. I, pp. 45-48 only" (Chuo). The work is in the form of a commentary on Blackstone's Commentaries... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 101364
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(UZBEKISTAN.) Khiva, ili geograficheskoe I statisticheskoe opisanie Khivivnskogo hanstva, sostoyachego teper v voyne s RossieiMoscow : 1840
First edition. Extremely uncommon, no copies traced on OCLC. The first attempt to describe khanate of Khiva as an individual entity, without reference to its neighbouring states. Issued at the time of Perovsky's disastrous campaign which was intended to free Russian slaves in the khanate, it was no doubt as a useful reference for officers. Perovsky... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 120924
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BURTON, Richard F. Four autograph Indian recipes:[c.1850]
A brief but fascinating list of Indian recipes attesting to Burton's absorption of the culture of the subcontinent. Burton's father was a colonel in the Indian Army and in 1842 finally "acquiesced to his son's requests and purchased a commission for him in the Bombay army. Burton arrived in India on 28 October 1842 and was posted to the 18th regiment... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 127294
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FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.New Haven & London : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, author's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131968
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JENNINGS, Richard. Social Delusions concerning Wealth and Want.London : 1856
First edition of Jennings's second work. Jenning's works are "notable as early attempts to relate the study of psychology and physiology to political economy" (The New Palgrave II, p. 1008). According to Edgeworth, Jennings "will be remembered as one of those who in Jevons's words first 'clearly appreciated the nature and importance of the law of utility.'"... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 124353
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LONGFIELD, Mountifort. Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.Dublin : 1834
First edition, the Curry and Longman issue, the other having the imprint Dublin: Richard Milliken and London: B. Fellowes. Longfield was diverted from his interest in economics by a busy and successful career in law, being transferred from the Whately chair of political economy to that of feudal and English law at Trinity the same year as this publication,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 134652
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SIDGWICK, Henry. Elements of Politics.London : 1891
First edition, with an autograph postcard from Sidgwick to the Scottish physician Donald MacAlister laid in, postmarked from the year of publication, 15 August 1891, and sent from Zermatt. Mailed to MacAlister at his St John's College, Cambridge address, Sidgwick writes: "It was stupid of me to omit to say that I should be in Switzerland at the launch-time:... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 123669
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BIGOT, Georges. Au Japon: Bain de Famille. Moeurs domestiques.[No place] : c. 1900
An expressive and archetypal cartoon by the celebrated French artist Georges Bigot, heightened in blue crayon, signed lower left and numbered 466 lower right. The domestic bathhouse scene, which offers a touchingly documented snapshot of family life in Meiji Japan, is annotated top right for publication with "Ind au dos" indications to reverse, and... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 123122
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) MAC (Stanley McMurtry). Mac cartoon.London : 1987
From Margaret Thatcher's personal estate. On Mother's Day, 29 March 1987, Margaret Thatcher started on a five day state visit to the USSR hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev, the first official visit by a British Prime Minister for 12 years. Stanley McMurty, a well known British cartoonist under the pen name Mac, utilised the situation to produce the present... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 123838
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JEVONS, W. Stanley. The Theory of Political Economy.London : 1871
First edition of Jevons's foremost contribution to the history of economic thought. "Comparatively short and lucidly written, it sharply attacked the classical theory of value of the 'Ricardo-Mill school', and offered in its place the challenging view that 'value depends entirely upon utility', asserting boldly that 'Economy, if it is to be a science... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 119905
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.New York : [1922]
First US edition in this format, first printing; Doran had also published a large format edition in 1914. The richness of the Danish Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 118558
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JENNINGS, Richard. Natural Elements of Political Economy.London : 1855
First edition. The author of two works which are "notable as early attempts to relate the study of psychology and physiology to political economy. In his Natural Elements, Jennings defined political economy as investigating 'the relations of human nature and exchangeable objects'. Consumption he defined as concerned with the contemplated effect of external... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 86072
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CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution.London : 1837
First edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, this copy without the terminal advert leaf in volume 2, but retaining all the half-titles. "Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular 'tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121513
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WALRAS, Léon. Éléments d'économie politique pure ou théorie de la richesse sociale.Lausanne : 1874
First edition of part I only (pp. 1-208), written by one of the leading mathematical economists. Three years after Jevons and Menger, but independently of them, Walras here enunciated the theory of marginal utility. In this work he continued and refined the work inherited from his father and was successful in developing the law of general equilibrium... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 112640
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DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The Logic of Political Economy.Edinburgh & London : 1844
First edition. The Logic of Political Economy, De Quincey's exposition of Ricardian economics, is the author's principal economic work. Rearranged from a series of papers by his publisher and discussing the relative influence of utility and scarcity, the former being described as affirmative or power value, the latter as negative or resistance value,... Learn More£8,250.00Stock Code: 93298
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LLOYD, Seth. A Potentially Realizable Quantum Computer.Washington D. C. : 1993
First edition of the first paper proposing a technologically feasible quantum computer. Author Seth Lloyd (1960- ) is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a pioneer in the realm of complex information systems. Quantum computers, which utilise quantum phenomena rather than circuits to store and manipulate data, were introduced on a theoretical... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 86340
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MARCHETTI TOMASSI, Gaetamo, conte. Nuovo Trattato sulla vera Rettificazione del Circolo Misurato esattmente con il Diametro, utile alla Trigonometria … Con una Dissertazione sul Modo di navigare sott'Acqua.Foligno : 1817
First edition to include the section on underwater navigation, illustrated with a wonderful etching of a submarine propelled by oars, including a cut-away view. Count Gaetano Marchetti Tomassi (1774-1857), a nobleman born in Foligno near Perugia, was an amateur scientist. He devised one of several methods of squaring the circle, which constitutes the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 43772
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(GREENLAND COMPANY.) To the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England;[London : 1651]
A printed petition signed by English whalers and fishers around Greenland opposing the monopolistic practices of the Greenland Company, addressed to the parliament of the new Commonwealth. The petitioners, led by Richard Warner, claim that the Greenland Company is both abusing its position and under-utilizing it: "the Greenland Company strive to hinder... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 123971
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HADLEY, Arthur Twining. Economics.New York and London : 1896
First edition. "In Economics Hadley went further than Marshall by explicitly developing the interrelations between property rights, economic evolution and economic efficiency. Hadley utilized the real world examples of the fisheries and mining to demonstrate the impact of ill-defined property rights on depletable resources, emphasizing the necessity... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133012
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VERNEUIL, Adélaïde & Maurice Pillard. The original artwork for Kaléidoscope: ornements abstraits …Paris : [1923-6]
The original, highly finished artwork for the complete suite of pochoirs for the Verneuils' Kaléidoscope, "a masterwork of Art Deco design" (V & A website "The Kaleidoscopic Wonder of Art Deco Prints"). A visually spectacular document of what is widely recognised as one of the most brilliant of the art deco pattern books - a genre which Ray considered... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 132529
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MISES, Ludwig von. The Theory of Money and Credit.London : 1934
First edition in English. Mises's Theory of Money and Credit offers "a detailed sophisticated explanation of the quantity theory of money based on the subjective, marginal utility theory. It explains money's origin, the development and nature of banking, the cause and consequences of inflation and credit expansion, the differences in the value of different... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 140178
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(SIKH WARS.) Facts and Reflections by a Subaltern of the Indian ArmyLondon : 1849
First and only edition of this scarce and acidulous eye-witness account of military service in India and the First Sikh War, written by a disaffected officer of the 50th (Queen's Own) Foot, who remarks in his brief preface "if the result of his labours should deter one individual from venturing in to Company's Service under the impression that talent... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127423
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MILL, John Stuart. Ueber Frauenemancipation.Leipzig : 1880
First edition of Freud's translation into German of Mill's Subjection of Women, considered Freud's "only major non-scientific publication" (Norman exhibition catalogue) and his first publication in book form, issued here as volume twelve of Thomas Gompertz's first complete German edition of Mill's works, which began in 1869 and concluded in 1880. It... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 129614
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(BASKERVILLE, John.) The Book of Common Prayer,Cambridge : 1761
Second Baskerville edition (first published the previous year), this the preferred of two impressions, with the lozenge-and-star border framing each page. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the most significant English typographer of the 18th century, and the typeface that carries his name remains widely in use today. Baskerville took considerable care... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 133632
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SMITH, Clark Ashton. Nero and Other Poems.Lakeport, CA : 1937
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, this copy is inscribed by the author to "Claire P. Beck, with the kindest regards and best wishes of Clark Ashton Smith, Auburn, Cal., May 8th, 1938", here with the rare glassine jacket intact, one of 250 copies printed. Tipped-in at the rear is a three-page printing of David Warren Ryder's "The Price... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122426
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SKIDELSKY, Robert. Henry Sidgwick:Cambridge : 1988
Sole edition, first impression, of an address given by economic historian Robert Skidelsky (b.1939) on 31 May 1988 to mark the 150th anniversary of Henry Sidgwick's birth. An English utilitarian philosopher and economist, Sidgwick (1838-1900) founded Newnham College in 1875 with Millicent Garrett Fawcett. A shortened version of the text was published... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 124351
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WARBURTON, William. The Alliance between Church and State,London : 1736
First edition of Warburton's "controversial defence of the established church and the Test Acts... Warburton argued that religion alone can supply the rewards necessary to ensure that individual virtue continues to underpin the proper function of civil government. The magistrate was to oversee the government of the body, the church that of the soul.... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 113461
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PAGE, William, (ed.) Commerce and Industry.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, of the comprehensive history of Britain's economy prior to the First World War as recorded by Parliament, written to "afford some assistance to those interested in the reconstruction which necessarily follows the destructive agency of war". This copy was owned by economic historian Sir William James Ashley, who made... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107045
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MILL, John Stuart. O zasadzie uzytecznósci (Utilitarianizm).Warsaw : 1873
First edition in Polish of Mill's Utilitarianism (first, 1863), his important "definition of Utilitarianism, and a defence of the philosophy expressed by it" (MacMinn, et al.) The translator was the positivist philosopher, publicist, and jurist Feliks Bogacki (1847-1916). As stated on the title page, this Polish edition was authorized by Mill. Mill... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119395
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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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(OLYMPIC GAMES.) RICHTER, Walter. Die Olympischen Spiele 1936Altona-Bahrenfeld [Hamburg] : 1936
First editions, "601. - 700. Tausend", complete with all photoprints mounted in place, a remarkably well preserved set of this handsome production. "In the medals table the Germans won, followed by the Americans and Hungarians. National Socialist leaders interpreted this success as a sign of Aryan superiority. However, the star of the games was the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133689
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OWEN, Wilfred. Poems.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket, of perhaps the greatest collection of First World War poetry. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen's death and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen's best known poems, including "Dulce et decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 136149
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KÉRALIO, Louise-Félicité Guynement de (trans.); GREGORY, John. Essai sur les moyens de rendre les facultés de l'homme plus utiles à son bonheur,Deux-Ponts : 1775
First edition in French of Gregory's Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man (first 1765), here translated by "one of the first recognized French female historians" (Harris), Louise-Félicité Guynement de Kéralio (1757-1821), eighteen years old at the time of publication.
From an early age Kéralio was a prolific woman of letters: she... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 137482
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
First Nielsen edition, trade issue. The richness of the Danish artist Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilized a traditional three-colour... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 138810
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BECCARIA, Cesare An Essay on Crimes and Punishments.Edinburgh : 1788
The third Edinburgh edition of one of the key works of the enlightenment, uncut in the original boards. Following the first Edinburgh edition of 1778, the text restores Beccaria's original format as published in the original Italian of 1764, which was re-organized when translated into French and for many of the following editions. It includes the commentary... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 138861
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(CHIVERS BINDING.) BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer,Oxford : [c.1900]
A lovely example of Chivers's binding style utilising both their elegantly gilt-tooled morocco and hand-painted "vellucent" styles, including choice use of mother of pearl for the crucifix. This handsome copy of the Book of Common Prayer was evidently bound for presentation, with an ink gift inscription from an "Isabel" from her uncle on the binder's... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 139472
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LABORDÈRE, Marcel. Autour de la Crise Américaine de 1907 ou Capitaux-réels et Capitaux-apparents.Paris : 1908
First separate edition, a decidedly rare offprint from the Revue de Paris (February 1908): Copac locates just one copy (LSE) in British and Irish institutional libraries, OCLC addes just 2 (Columbia, ZBW Deutsche Zentralbibliothek), KVK cites one copy (Bibliothèque de Genève). It was reprinted in 1948 along with Sir Denis Robertson's A Study of Industrial... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 103580
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MENGER, Carl. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre.Vienna : 1871
Rare first edition of Menger's masterpiece, a work which "sets forth the views of one of the pioneers of the use of psychological concepts to explain the nature and determinations of value" (Batson). "The results of Menger's studies appeared in his Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, the work on which his fame mainly rests it provided a more thorough... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 140228
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) WICKSTEED, Philip Henry. The Alphabet of Economic Science.London : 1888
First edition, the copy of the British economist Lionel Robbins, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper, and one inked marginal line on p. 43. An excellent economics 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 department... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 140615
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WIESER, Friedrich von. Der natürliche Werth.1889
First edition of a classic of economics, in which the author attempts to apply marginal utility analysis to the determination of cost. Wieser (1851-1926) was one of the leading exponents of the Austrian, or "subjective", school of economics. Together with his fellow-student and brother-in-law Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, he developed the ideas of Carl Menger... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119107
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Emancipate your Colonies!London : 1830
First edition of what Bentham described afterwards as "one of his Jacobinisms" (cited by Atkinson, p. 108). In 1793, Bentham, availing himself of his privileges as a French citizen, a title conferred upon him the previous year by the National Assembly, privately printed a pamphlet entitled Jeremy Bentham to the National Convention of France. It concerned... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 101357
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(APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM.) Spacecraft with Wheels: the Lunar Roving Vehicle.Seattle, WA & Huntsville, AL. : 1971
First and perhaps only edition of this wonderful promotional brochure touting the first manned extraterrestrial automotive vehicle. Extremely uncommon, no other copy traced. Developed by Boeing and General Motors, the LRV was an electric vehicle with four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, a rudimentary navigation system, airless tyres, and a theoretical... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 126329
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(GREAT BRITAIN, Army, Home Guard.) Record of the Technical Companies of the 40th County of London (G.L.C.C.) Battalion, Home Guard. 1942 - 194[London : 1945]
Fascinating mimeographed report on the Home Guard battalion formed by engineers from the Gas Light and Coke Company in 1942, with a volume of fine photographs. Rare, with no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce, except an ambiguous reference in the National Archives at Kew. After repair work from the Blitz eased off in the autumn of 1941, company... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 116865
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FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.New Haven : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, publisher's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 121008
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JENNINGS, Richard. Natural Elements of Political Economy.London : 1855
First edition. The author of two works which are "notable as early attempts to relate the study of psychology and physiology to political economy. In his Natural Elements, Jennings defined political economy as investigating 'the relations of human nature and exchangeable objects'. Consumption he defined as concerned with the contemplated effect of external... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 108997
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MAITLAND, James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale. Recherches sur la nature et l'origine de la richesse publique,Paris : 1808
First edition in French, published four years after the first edition in English. Lauderdale "has been hailed as a forerunner of Keynes, in as much as he argued that over-saving was a distinct possibility and that public spending was required to offset private thrift if stagnation was to be asserted" (Blaug). In the present work Lauderdale questioned... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 113498
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(BASKERVILLE, JOHN.) Sallust & Florus. [Histories.]Birmingham : 1773
First edition. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was perhaps the most important English typographer of the 18th century, whose typeface remains in use today. Preceding the private press movement by over a century, Baskerville took considerable care in every aspect of the design and production of his books, with the aim of creating a beautiful and accessible... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 124662
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WIESER, Friedrich von. Natural Value.London : 1893
First English language edition, first impression of a classic of economics, in which the author attempts to apply marginal utility analysis to the determination of cost. Wieser (1851-1926) was one of the leading exponents of the Austrian, or "subjective", school of economics. In his first book, Über den Ursprung und die Hauptgesetze des wirtschaftlichen... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 124134
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CROFTS, Freeman Wills. The End of Andrew Harrison.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. An Inspector French mystery, published in the US as The Futile Alibi later the same year. Scarce in the dust jacket. The bequest plate, dated August 1938, identifies the donor as Mrs Cole Porter and the institution as the public library at Dark Harbor, Maine, though neither the composer nor his wife Linda Lee Thomas... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 107919
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WILSON, Maria. The Workwoman's Guide,London & Birmingham : 1838
First edition, uncommon, just 4 copies of the first on Copac, together with 4 of the second edition of 1840; only two copies traced at auction. "The Author of the following pages has been encouraged to hope, that, in placing them, after much deliberation, in the hands of a printer, she is tendering an important and acceptable, however humble, service... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 108261
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TYRRELL, James. A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature,London : 1692
First edition, possibly early state as this copy does not include the errata leaf and leaf f1 is not cancelled and replaced with a bifolium, as is the case for the copy collated in ESTC. A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature is an abridged translation by political theorist and historian James Tyrrell of Richard Cumberland's treatise heralding English... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 114483
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MENGER, Carl. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre.Vienna : 1871
Rare first edition of Menger's masterpiece, a work which "sets forth the views of one of the pioneers of the use of psychological concepts to explain the nature and determinations of value" (Batson). "The results of Menger's studies appeared in his Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, the work on which his fame mainly rests it provided a more thorough... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 98691
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(UTILITY.) Utility Furniture and Fashion 1941-1951.London : 1974
First edition. Well-illustrated and highly informative catalogue. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 45597
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[WHEELER, Anna, &] THOMPSON, William. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men,London : 1825
First edition of one of the most important works in the history of feminism and "one of the classics of early nineteenth-century feminist literature" (ODNB). "No book published before his time on this subject, even the famous work of Mary Wollstonecraft, is at once so broad and comprehensive and so direct and practical as Thompson's Appeal" (Richard... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 102519
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MILL, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism.London : 1874
Second edition, published posthumously and the same year as the first, of Mill's three striking essays containing his philosophy of religion. "Mill wrote Nature and Utility of Religion between 1850-58, whereas Theism was written between 1868-70, near the end of Mill's life. Nature is an analysis, and critique, of the theory of natural moral law. Utility... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 120901
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JEVONS, William Stanley. The State in Relation to Labour.London : 1882
First edition of Jevons's final book. An attempt to analyse "the actions of the legislature, and the state of public opinion with reference to the conflict of labour and capital and the regulation of industry" (from the preface), Jevons upholds laissez-faire principles, while displaying "his continuing adherence to Benthamite utilitarianism as a touchstone... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 136408
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) [ASBJØRNSEN, Peter Christen, & Jørgen I. Moe.] East of the Sun and West of the Moon.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 5 of 500 copies signed by the artist. The richness of the Danish Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilised... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 106880
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(NIJINSKY.) COCTEAU, Jean & Paul Iribe. Vaslav Nijinsky. Six Vers de Jean Cocteau. Six Dessins de Paul Iribe.Paris : 1910
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies on Japon, this one of 934 standard copies, inscribed by the illustrator recto of the limitation leaf; "A Madame Suzanne Süe, son admirateur et son ami respecueux, Paul Iribe, Août 1910". Cocteau's pair of Nijinsky-inspired poetic triplets are broken down into single lines as "captions" to Iribe's Beardsleyesque... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136928
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WALRAS, Auguste. De la nature de la richesse, et de l'origine de la valeur.Paris : 1831
Very scarce first edition, the Paris issue; it was also issued with an Evreux imprint. This is the principal work of Auguste Walras (1801-1866), father of Léon, in which can be found the point of departure for Léon's marginal utility theory. "A. A. Walras was one of the first economists who perceived that value was not determined by utility. He was... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 140036
