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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this only collection of short stories to be published in Woolf's lifetime, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 138929
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[GALIANI, Ferdinando.] Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds.London [i.e. Paris?], : 1770
First edition of the work that established Galiani's reputation as an economist, a bold attack on the physiocrats and a virulent critique of the royal edict of 1764 liberalising the trade in grain. Galiani was secretary of the Neapolitan embassy in Paris, and was well connected with the leading enlightenment figures of the day. He left the manuscript... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 127440
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MONCADA, Sancho de. Restauracion politica de España, primera parte, de eos publicos Al rey Don Filipe Tercero nuestro señor.Madrid : 1619
Very rare first edition; each discourse with a special title-page and continuous pagination and signatures, except for the seventh (in two parts) and eighth which have separate pagination and signatures. Moncada's importance as a political economist was assured by this work, which was probably presented to Philip III in 1618. In it, Moncada, who was... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 111853
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PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph, & François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps. Examen du livre intitulé réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1740
First edition. Pâris-Duverney and Deschamps refute Dutot's Réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce (1738) - a favourable consideration of John Law's paper currency system. Pâris-Duverney (the third of the four brothers Pâris, whose financial plans had been accepted under the Regency in 1716) had fallen into disgrace with the rise of... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 93440
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BONNET, Victor. Questions économiques et financières à propos des crises.Paris : 1859
First edition of the financial publicist and editor's work on the role of currency reform in economic crises. Bonnet (1814-1889) "became a counsellor of state and a member of the Institute. He wrote in the Revue des Deux Mondes from 1860 to 1884, in favour of the monopoly of a bank of circulation, a single standard (gold), indirect taxation, and a reduction... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 114786
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HUME, David. Discours politiques.Amsterdam : 1754-7
First edition of this important series of economic publications, published in view of the increasing interest in works of political economy appearing in France, England, and Holland. In 1754 Schreuder and Mortier published the first volume, Hume's Political Discourses. Owing to the growing interest and the relative scarcity of earlier publications,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 132008
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PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, Louis-Joseph. Remarques les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Gr. Bretagne, par rapport au commerce, et aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats.Leyden : 1754
Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this popular work comparing the British and French political economies, this copy from the library of André Morellet, a collection which was largely acquired as reading material during the preparation of his Encyclopédie.
Although it claimed to be a translation, Plumard de Dangeul published... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120792
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(WOMEN'S EDUCATION.) The Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford. A run of twenty-three issues of its Report.Oxford : 1894-1919
A set of important reports published by the pioneering Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women (AEW), containing a mass of historical information relating to the state of women's education in Oxford at the height of the suffragette agitation. The earliest is dated 1894-95, the latest 1918-19; each spans from October of one year to the... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 124133
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LUNA, Miguel de. The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors.London : 1687
First edition in English of the first part (all published) of Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo (1592-1600), itself purportedly translated from an Arabic source, but in fact an original composition. Luna's account of the Arab conquest of Spain to the year 761 was considered genuine by Southey, dismissed by George Ticknor and other... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120934
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WEDDERBURN, Alexander. Essay upon the Question What Proportion of the Produce of Arable Land ought to be paid as Rent to the Landlord?Edinburgh : 1776
First edition of Wedderburn's treatise, submitted in response to a question posited by the Edinburgh Society in 1753. Uncommon, with ESTC listing copies in 14 institutions.
Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their shelfmarks to front pastedown and title page, though without direct attribution. The library was assembled in the early... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129258
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OUTRAM, [James]. The Conquest of Scinde.Edinburgh and London : 1846
First edition, presentation copy of Outram's account of the controversial annexation of Sind, inscribed "With the author's Complements" on the half-title of volume 1, probably in a secretarial hand. Having been specifically requested by Napier as commissioner for the treaty terms, Outram came to identify so closely with the position of the amirs and... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120230
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this collection of short stories, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started the Hogarth Press" (Kirkpatrick). Woolf... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 137334
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MEAD, Edward Sherwood, & Julius Grodinsky. The Ebb and Flow of Investment Values.New York & London : 1939
First edition, first printing, with the scarce dust jacket. This is fellow academics Mead and Grodinsky's "net view of investment policy for the post-1929 surplus (versus scarcity) economy. Dividing industries whose profits are increasing from those whose profits are decreasing, the authors offer techniques for both buying and selling securities, as... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 121653
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POCK, Alexander. Six highly-finished pencil drawings in the guest-book for Werzer's Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl".Pörtschach am Wörthersee : 1947
The guest-book for Werzer's famous Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl" at Pörtschach am Wörthersee, now the home of the Brahms Haus Museum, containing six highly-finished pencil drawings by Alexander Pock: 1) Mounted officer, with New Year's wishes for 1947, dated on 26 December 1946; 2) Bust-portrait of a feldmarschal, 23 March 1947; 3) Two sailors, "on... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94476
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "Probably Jacques Soustelle in disguise."[1960s]
Commuters on the underground, reading the newspaper headline "Clarissa Believed Seen in Paris", remark that it is probably just Jacques Soustelle in disguise. Soustelle was an anthropologist and had been Governor General of Algeria, then Minister of State, but had disagreed with De Gaulle's turn for Algerian Independence. He was dismissed from parliament... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 100804
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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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HAUTEFEUILLE, Jean de. Recueil des ouvrages de M. de Haute-Feuille. Contenant plusieurs Decouvertes & Inventions nouvelles dans la Physique & dans les Mechaniques.Paris : 1694
First collected edition of Hautefeuille's works, with some additional pamphlets bound in. The note at the front of the book reads as follows: "Mr Jean de Hautefeuille auteur de ce Recueil, ecclesiastique du Diocese d'Orleans, de l'Academie des Sciences, Belles Lettres, et arts de Bordeaux, Pensionnaire du Roy Louis XIV et Louis XV est mort le mercredi... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133476
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) STEAD, William T. (ed). Coming Men on Coming Questions.London : 1905
First editions, pamphlet issues, of this series intended "when completed as a handy encyclopaedia of facts and figures - political, social, and biographical - covering most of the important questions to be dealt with in the new parliament" (Prefatory Notice). Churchill's contribution represents the first published statement of his stance on the free... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134724
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AFTALION, ALbert. Les Crises périodiques de surproduction.Paris : 1913
First edition, very scarce: one of the earliest statements of the acceleration principle "an important concept which has been used successfully in explaining investment behaviour as well as cyclical behaviour in a capitalist economy. It will continue to play an important role in macroeconomic models as well as in models of business cycles." (The New... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135866
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[MIRABEAU, Victor de Riquetti, marquis de.] Les économiques.Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris : 1769
First duodecimo edition of Mirabeau's Les économiques, also printed in a single quarto volume format the same year. A further volume was published in 1771, also in both quarto and 2-volume duodecimo formats. Complete sets are very scarce.
Mirabeau, who seems to have taken the title of this work from the Économiques of Xenophon, here gives various... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 126597
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PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:London : 1775
First published 1765, this a lovely set of the third edition in which Percy "corrected such Mistakes as he had detected and also inserted such further Illustrations as had either occurred to himself, or been communicated to him" (Advertisement to the Third Edition). The dedication, though signed by Percy, was written by Samuel Johnson. Johnson had... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 75095
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LE TROSNE, Guillaume-François. Recueil de plusieurs morceaux economiques,Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris : 1768
First edition of three of the Physiocrat and lawyer's essays on the freedom of the grain trade and the French economy, written while he was Royal Councillor at the Orléans Presidial Court. The articles are "De l'utilité des discussions économiques", "Lettre a Monsieur B... Une Nation agricole a-t-elle d'autres intérêts dans le Commerce de ses denrées,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120775
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ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values.New York : 1951
First edition of Arrow's brilliant doctoral thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Monographs. Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed to solve a question in politics which no economist and few political scientists had ever posed: suppose all individuals can rank... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 124548
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LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich. Neues OrganonLeipzig : 1764
First edition, scarce in commerce, of the Swiss polymath's principal philosophical treatise, "the most comprehensive theoretical elaboration of the idea of a 'mathesis universalis'" (Arndt) envisaged by Descartes and Leibniz, containing one of the first appearances of the term "phenomenology". We can trace no copies having appeared at auction outside... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 139740
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[DUTOT, Charles.] Reflexions politiques sur les Finances et le Commerce,The Hague : 1740
Second edition of this important work, published two years after the first edition. Reflexions politiques was first written in the form of three letters to Melon in 1735 but not published until three years later. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law, whose system the author examines favourably... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 84114
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[HORTON, R. Wilmot.] The West India Question Practically Considered.London : 1826
First edition, written in response to James Stephen's England Enslaved by her Own Slave Colonies, published the same year, which argued that England should end the privileges of the West Indian planters. Instead, Horton supports a full investigation of the state of the slaves before any anti-slavery legislation is undertaken, and argues that the planters... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 129895
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HUME, David. Œuvres philosophiques de M. D. Hume. Traduites de l'anglois. Tome premier [- septième]. Nouvelle édition.London : 1788
Most complete edition, by virtue of the inclusion of Hume's writings on economics, being the third, enlarged edition of the second French collected works of Hume, first published in 1759-64. "The contents are differently ordered and vol. 7... is an addition, containing seven of the Political Discourses of 1752 translated by Mlle. de la Chaux" in 1767... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113403
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HEILBRONER, Robert L. The Quest for Wealth.New York : 1956
First edition, first printing, in an attractive binding. Heilbroner places the acquisitive instinct as the major driving force in human history. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 129320
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WALPOLE, Robert. Some Considerations concerning The Publick Funds, The Publick Revenues, and The Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.London : 1735
First edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. The Earl of Bath publishing a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. The present work is Walpole's rebuttal, and a defence of his management of the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 117457
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[BAYS, Peter.] A General History of Negro Slavery, collected from the most respectable evidence and unquestionable authorities.Cambridge [England] : 1826
First edition of this text denouncing the slave trade, "founded in iniquity and blood", predominately concerned with the West Indies but with a chapter on slavery in the United States. Bays discusses conditions and treatment aboard slave ships, provides detailed descriptions of sugar plantations, surveys relevant West Indian legislation, and provides... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 120628
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SYMONS, A. J. A. The Quest for Corvo. An Experiment in Biography.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Vincent, a tribute to a long a noble friendship, with the sincere and cordial salutations of his colleague in letters and admirer in life. A.J. Feb 3rd, 1934". The recipient, identified by a pencilled note, was Harold Vincent Marrot (1898-1954),... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 109896
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest.London : 1968
First UK edition, first impression. Preceded by the US edition of 1966. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 98592
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(GILL, Eric.) TEGETMEIER, Denis. The Seven Deadly Virtues.London : [1934]
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both Tegetmeier and Gill on the limitation leaf. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74601
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MESSANCE, Louis. Recherches sur la Population des Généralités d'Auvergne, de Lyon, de Rouen, et de Quelques Provinces et Villes du Royaume,Paris : 1766
First edition of this riposte to Montesquieu's and Mirabeau's claims of depopulation, a classic example of the 18th-century French tradition of political arithmetic. "Messance was secretary to the intendant of the Auvergne, Jean-François de La Michodière, and he published his Recherches sur la population in 1766. Recognizing the impossibility of coming... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 123649
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DUSSAUSOY, Maille. Le citoyen désinteressé, ou diverses idées patriotiques,Paris : 1767-8
First edition of Dussausoy's programme of public works, the main purpose of which was to provide labour for the idle masses and to inspire patriotism by installing honorary monuments of monarchs and men of military and political renown across Paris, with chapters on the causes of depopulation and the degeneration of the French nation (and how to remedy... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122620
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GEARY, Grattan. Burma, after the Conquest,London : 1886
First edition of this "detailed description of Upper Burma at the time of the annexation" (Speake). Grattan Geary (d. 1900) was "editor of the Times of India, and subsequently acquired the Bombay Gazette where the present work was printed, took a prominent part in Bombay municipal affairs and was at one time Chairman of the Corporation. An... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133453
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SCHLEGEL, Gustaaf. Problèmes géographiques.Leiden : 1892-95
First edition under this title of a collection of offprints from T'oung-Pao, the oldest international journal of sinology; scarce: Copac gives just one location in British and Irish institutional libraries (Cambridge), OCLC adds 16 worldwide. Gustaaf Schlegel (1840-1903), was one of the most distinguished sinologists of the 19th-century and co-founder,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 110279
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ROBBINS, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.Boston : 1976
First edition, first printing. An exceptional copy. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 112110
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "Question is, my boy, can you run the 220 yards in the style to which my daughter is accustomed?"1958
The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part of the warp and weft of English popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Never savage, though often waspishly accurate and exuding an urbane air of amusement at the foibles of his fellows, Bentley's work was familiar to the public from a wide variety of publications. Between 1952 and... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 66781
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "When you're asked a Parliamentary question d'you suppose you're given the answer beforehand?"1959
On 2 November 1959, Charles Van Doren admitted to cheating on American quiz show Twenty One by being given the answers in advance. The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part of the warp and weft of English popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Never savage, though often waspishly accurate and exuding an urbane air of amusement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 66934
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[DUTOT, Charles.] Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.The Hague : 1738
First edition of this important work, first written in the form of three letters to Melon in 1735 but not published until three years later. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law, whose system the author examines favourably in the present work in which he also explains the reasons for its collapse... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 87750
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GONZALES, Babs. I paid my dues. Good times - no bread.East Orange, N. J. : 1967
First edition of Babs's self-published life, hipster, bopster, as "Ram Singh" exotic chauffeur to Errol Flynn, self-publicist. This copy inscribed inside the upper wrap, "Hey Gray! Stay La! La! Gonz 75". Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 88231
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GREENE, Graham. Essais catholiques.Paris : 1953
First edition, first impression. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 90992
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(FRENCH LITERATURE.) Fables, lettres, et variétés historiques.Londres : 1777
Second edition (first published by Elmsly alone in 1771) of this compendium of passages for students of French, here handsomely bound in red morocco, an English binding making considerable effort to match the generally higher standards of contemporary French binders. Peter Elmsly, or Elmsley, was principally involved in importing foreign books and was... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 100358
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PULSZKY, Francis. The Tricolor on the Atlas; or Algeria and the French Conquest.1854
First edition. Pulszky was a Hungarian nationalist, Kossuth's ambassador in London, and an exile after 1849, he accompanied Kossuth to America in 1851 as his private secretary. He supported himself by the pen, publishing a number of books in his own right, and undertaking translation work. The present book combines both, "Among the Tourists who have... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 62945
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KEROUAC, Jack. Mexico City Blues.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "242 Choruses", written between 1954 and 1957, in the correct black and white jacket (the bibliographer Charters incorrectly calls for a jacket "printed in red, green and black", these being the colours of the wrappers issue, and later dust jackets), hard to find in collectable condition. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136575
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(HUMBOLDT, Alexandre de.) CIRCOURT, Adolphe de, comte. Aspects de la nature avec des éclaircissements scientifiques.[Paris] : 1856
Review of Humboldt's Aspects de la nature, presentation copy to Alexis de Tocqueville, inscribed by Circourt on the front wrapper, "Monsieur Alexis de Toqueville de l'Académie Française, hommage de l'auteur." Circourt's book reviews are discussed in his extensive correspondence with Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes, vol. 18, 1951). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 122879
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(VINIT, Jeanne.) MARY, André (ed.) Paroles authentiques de Jeanne D'Arc tirees du Proces de 1431 et des Chroniques contemporaines.Paris : 1931
First edition thus, number 430 of 500 copies only. This copy is attractively bound in an art deco style by notable French binder Jeanne P. Vinit. André Mary (1879-1962) was a French poet who specialised in reviving medieval poetic forms. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 139263
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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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GRAVES, Robert. Contemporary Techniques of Poetry.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 141017
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LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile & Xavier Marcel Boulestin. Dans les Flandres britanniques.Paris : 1916
First and only edition limited to 350 copies "dont 300 sur papier vélin numérotés de 51 à 350; 50 sur papier de hollande avec deux suites, dont une en couleurs, des illustrations, numérotés de l à 50", this being numbered 4. "Laboureur had studied at the Sorbonne and had come to know Toulouse-Lautrec during his years in Paris During the war... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 122349
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PRESUHN, Emil. Pompeji: die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 für Kunst-und-Alterhumfreunde.Leipzig : 1881
Second edition, improved and enlarged, of this superbly illustrated and important study; first published in 1878 and again in 1882. Scarce, one copy only among British and Irish institutional libraries (V&A); OCLC adds just three more (Strasbourg, Erlangen, Sachsiche Landesbibliothek).
The German archaeologist Emil Presuhn (1844-1881), described... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 129881
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(BIRRELL, Francis, trans.) DIDEROT, Denis. Dialogues.London : 1927
First edition, first impression, of this translation. Inscribed by Frankie Birrell to the Bloomsbury Group members Ralph and Frances Partridge on the front free endpaper: "To Ralph & Frances from the translator". Frances Partridge née Marshall worked at Birrell and Bunny Garnett's bookshop in her early twenties, and records in her autobiography her... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 131854
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DIDEROT, Denis. Œuvres philosophiques et dramatiques.Amsterdam : 1772
A highly appealing collected edition of Diderot's philosophical and theatrical works, printed in the year that the publication of the Encyclopédie finally finished. There were two editions of Diderot's works published in Amsterdam that year, the other being that of Marc Michel Rey, though this is generally accepted to have priority. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128660
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[GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.] Réflexions de M. de L********, adressées aux notables sur la question proposée par un grand roi.[Place and publisher not stated] : 1787
One of two editions published in 1787, one under the present title, the other under Reflexions d'un citoyen..., without established priority. The work was Gosselin's contribution to one of the many philosophical essay contests held in 18th-century France. The book is scarce, with OCLC locating five copies of this edition. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 132505
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HOBBES, Thomas. Œuvres philosophiques et politiques.Neufchatel : 1787
First collected edition in French. It includes the young Huguenot intellectual Samuel Sorbière's popular translation of "De cive" (first 1649); a translation of "De corpore politico", long attributed to Sorbière but now thought to have been by prolific translator John Davies (Malcolm, pp. 464-5); and "Human Nature" translated by the prominent French... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 120538
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(ELECTIONS). Questions to be asked by the Poll Clerks, who are to enter the Answers given by Voters in the books.[Northampton?] : [1767?]
A remarkable survival, being a sheet of instructions given to poll clerks in the 18th century, probably for the Northampton Borough Election of 1767-8. The instructions instruct the clerk to ask the voters name, where they live, where their freehold lies, and what is consists of; then, who is the occupier of the lands if they own it, and who they rent... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 120704
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AMIS, Kingsley. What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions.London : 1970
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays by Kingsley Amis including "literary criticism, of writers as diverse and Hans Christian Andersen and Dylan Thomas and novels from Sorrell and Son to Portnoy's Complaint; articles on such topics as horror films, the use of language, the National Eisteddfod of Wales and fictional detectives;... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 85374
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(MUIR, Edwin.) MOORE, Edward. We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses.1918
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Moore on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Stobo from Edward Moore in memory of many charming hours. 31st May, 1918". Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 67586
