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1 first edition of this uncommon work – just 13 locations ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character on OCLC – “the most comprehensive pedagogical treatise on women’s education in 18th-century Spain, which pays much of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Delivered at the request of attention to serious intellectual training and takes for granted both houses of the Congress of the United States, before gender equality of reason” (Mónica Bolufer, senior lecturer in them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on early modern history, University of Valencia, in her biographi- the 31st December, 1834. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835 cal essay on Amar y Borbón, Women Writers in History on-line Octavo (215 × 128 mm). Original presentation binding of red morocco- project). grain roan, flat spine decoratively gilt, single-line gilt border on sides, Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833), whose father and yellow edges, pale green endpapers. Spine ends and joints skilfully grandfather were physicians at the royal court, received an restored, a couple of surface scratches to covers, a few leaves toned, extraordinary education for a non-aristocratic woman of her without the tipped-in leaf bearing Adams’s presentation inscription era, learning Latin, Greek, French, Italian and, unusually, found in a number of copies. An attractive copy. English, and being encouraged in her freethinking intellectual first edition, printed on thick paper and in a style of pursuits. She married a like-minded lawyer, Joaquín Fuertes binding that was favoured by the Adams dynasty for decades. Piquer, and moved to Zaragoza, “where he served as a An important speech by a great American honouring the magistrate, [and] where she and her husband joined the memory of a great Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, hero reformist and Enlightened circles”. She read widely; was aware of the Revolutionary War, who had died in May 1834. Adams of, and openly influenced by, other women writers of the and Lafayette had been personally close. period such as Madame de Genlis, the marquise de Lambert, Sabin 295. and the Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi; and made numerous translations “on some of the £1,250 [109025] most pressing interests of her time: agronomic, pedagogical and erudite works by Griselini, Xavier Lampillas, John Locke, 2 some of which were published and earned her considerable AMAR Y BORBÓN, Josepha. Discurso sobre la educa- prestige, and others, never printed, are lost”. cion fisica y moral de las mugeres [sic] (Discourse on She also published her own essays and treatises on the Physical and Moral Education of Women). Madrid: D. science and medicine, literary culture, and eradication of Benito Cano, 1790 superstition, of which the present is the most substantial. Octavo (181 × 107 mm). Contemporary streaked sheep, red moroc- This focus on the essay is typical of Spanish letters of the co label, gilt foliate rolls to spine. Bound with the half-title. A little period and “these writings [were] much maligned by 19th- rubbed, corners slightly soft, label chipped with minor loss, light century Romantics who saw little of value produced during browning, attractive contemporary bookseller’s ticket of Puigrubi, the Spanish ‘enlightenment’” (Tesser, “Amar y Borbón, Josefa” Tarragona to front pastedown, overall a very good copy indeed. in Chevalier, Encyclopaedia of the Essay). However, with her

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3 complex, discursive and fully synthesised style, Amar y Borbón Sir Frank Forbes Adam, first baronet (1846–1926), who had a was a major contributor to the development of the form of the distinguished career in Indian commerce and was President of modern essay. A little-known, but nonetheless important, the Bombay Chamber of Commerce 1884–88. Riddick gives a contribution to the 18th-century debate on women’s rights. potted biography of his Indian career: “[born] in Stirlingshire . . . 1872 went to India and entered firm of Graham & Co., £1,475 [99019] Bombay . . . 1884–90 selected Member, Bombay Legislative Council; for a period was Member, Bombay Port Trust”. 3 A comprehensive report dating from a fascinating point in (ANGLO-INDIAN RELATIONS.) Report of the Bombay Anglo-Indian relations: Victoria became Empress of India on 1 Chamber of Commerce for the Year 1876–77. Presented May 1876 and the Second Anglo–Afghan War began in Novem- to the annual general meeting held on the 30th October ber 1878; it was also the period of the terrible Southern India 1877. Bombay: Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1878 famine of 1876–8 (covered in the current work under the head- Octavo (206 × 127 mm). Contemporary red hard-grain morocco over ing “Financial measure to be adopted providing for the fam- bevelled boards, richly gilt spine, black label, decorative gilt roll tool ine expenditure”). Other subjects covered include the newly border on sides, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing at opened Rajputana–Malwa railway (“Western Rajpootana Rail- extremities, closed-tear to one leaf (pp. 67–8) with an old but neat way”), the fall in the price of silver, the Opium Bill of 1876, the repair. A particularly handsome copy. trade in silk and cotton, “expediency of substituting cocoanut first and only edition, decidedly scarce: no copies cited for colza oil for lighthouses in India”, commercial fishing in in either Copac or OCLC. This attractive copy has an excellent the harbour of Bombay, and the shipment of grain. provenance: bearing, on the front cover, the gilt arms and motto Riddick, Who Was Who in British India, p. 3. (“crux mihi grata quies” – “the cross gives me welcome rest”) of the Adam family. This is almost certainly from the library of £1,500 [111938]

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was sent on a number of diplomatic postings in Europe. In his introduction Segni exalts the Tuscan language and underlines the need for vernacular editions of Greek and Latin texts; he quotes frequently from Dante throughout his commentary. He also draws extensively on the earlier commentary tradition, 4 including the works of Byzantine scholar Eustratius (c.1050– 1121), English scholastic philosopher Walter Burley (c.1275– 4 1344/45) and the 15th-century Florentine, Donato Acciaiuoli ARISTOTLE. L’Ethica. Tradotta in lingua vulgare (1429–1478). Written at the height of the Counter-Reformation, Fiorentina, et comentata per Bernardo Segni. Florence: during the Council of Trent, another notable feature of Segni’s Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550 interpretation is the frequent reference to Catholic doctrine, at Quarto (215 × 140 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title the implied expense of Lutheran teachings. The first vernacular inked to spine. Wood-engraved vignette title page incorporating the edition of the Nicomachean Ethics was a French translation by Medici arms, 12 allegorical initial figures, frequent line diagrams to Nicolas Oresme, printed in 1488. the text. Contemporary Italian ownership inscription, inked annotation and underlining to pp. 301 & 311. Vellum lightly marked, shallow £2,250 [112120] chip to fore edge of front cover, quires t, M and Ff lightly foxed, pale tide-mark to lower outer corner of a few gatherings and very occa- 5 sionally to head of gutter. An excellent copy. ARISTOTLE. [Aristotelous Ethikon Nicomacheion bi- first segni edition, the first “full vernacular interpretation blia deka, in Greek letters.] Aristotelis de moribus ad of Aristotle, including both translation and chapter-by- Nicomachum filium libri decem. Florence: the Giuntas, 1560 chapter commentary” (Lines, “Rethinking Renaissance Small quarto (238 × 175 mm), ff. 69, [5] appendix. Early 19th-century Aristotelianism”, in Renaissance Quarterly, 66.3 (autumn 2013), English brown morocco by Charles Lewis, with the leather ticket of p. 838). “Practically unstudied, Segni’s work represents his shop to front pastedown, spines with small gilt devices between an important moment in the evolution of vernacular low double bands ruled in gilt and black, sides with two panels Aristotelianism (and philosophy more generally) in the formed with a single gilt fillet with a black rule either side, the front Renaissance” (idem, p. 824). panel lettered in gilt at head and foot, large leaf-spray tools at corners, Segni (1504–1558) was a Florentine humanist best known vellum endpapers. Woodcut vignette on title, 7-line historiated open- for his Istorie fiorentine and the Vita de Niccolo Capponi. In 1535 he ing initial, decorative woodcut initials in Greek characters, woodcut entered the service of Cosimo II de Medici, duke of Florence, and head pieces. Text in Greek with second part of title and preliminary material in Latin; final [10] pages in Latin and Greek. Some surface

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5 6 stripping to leather on front cover, headcap gone, paper restoration 6 to upper margin of third leaf not affecting text, some slight marks internally, overall excellent; an untrimmed copy, preserving the original ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual margin width of the harmonious page layout. Values. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; and Chapman & second giunta printing of the Nicomachean Ethics, in Hall, Limited, London, 1951 the edition of the Florentine humanist Piero Vettori (Petrus Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt, with Victorius; 1499–1585), first printed in 1547. Vettori’s was the dust jacket. Ownership stamp of Saul Kasdan to endpapers. Dust the earliest philological treatment of the work. His scholia, jacket with vertical split along spine repaired with Japanese tissue, other folds reinforced, chipped with loss at foot of spine and at head printed as an appendix, were based on his careful collation of front panel, a little dust soiled; a very good copy. of manuscripts, retranslation of older Latin versions back into Greek, and text-critical use of the original Greek first edition of Arrow’s brilliant doctoral thesis, published commentators. His procedure was strongly influential on as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Mono- other 16th-century scholars. graphs. Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, The binding has the small leather ticket of Charles Lew- at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow’s “impossibil- is (1786–1836) – who was “unquestionably London’s lead- ity theorem” states that when voters have three or more dis- ing binder, patronized by all the great collectors of the day” tinct alternatives, no ranked order voting system can convert (ODNB); William Beckford called him “the true Angel of bind- the ranked preferences of individuals into a community-wide ing” – and has the book label of the English lawyer and painter ranking while also meeting a pre-specified set of criteria. The Edwin Wilkins Field (1804–1871), who presumably commis- democratic method of majority choice therefore leads to a sioned it. The binding may therefore not have been executed stalemate that can occur not just under a constitution based by Lewis himself. According to Ramsden, from about 1830 on the principal of majority rule, but under every conceivable Francis Bedford, then Lewis’s foreman, was gaining control constitution except that of dictatorship. Arrow’s paradox has and, after Lewis’s death, Bedford managed the shop for Lew- influenced voting theory ever since. is’s widow, Maria, until 1841. The firm continued under her £650 [107454] ownership at 35 Duke Street, St James’s, until 1854. Adams A1805. £1,850 [113433]

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7 John Parke Young’s copy BAGEHOT, Walter. The English Constitution. Reprinted 8 from the “Fortnightly Review”. London: Chapman and Hall, BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: A Description of the 1867 Money Market. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1873 Octavo (197 × 122 mm). Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled Octavo. Original brick red net-grain cloth, titles to spine and front endpapers, gilt edges. Ownership inscription dated 1908 of Alfred board gilt, abstract decorations in black, pale yellow endpapers. Barratt Brown, the editor of Great Democrats (1934), to the original free Ownership inscription of the monetary expert John Parke Young to endpaper. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy. front free endpaper, with his occasional pencil side-rulings. Spine ends lightly frayed, covers a little faded; a tight, clean copy. first edition in book form, first published in instalments in first us edition, published the same year as the first UK edi- The Fortnightly Review between 1865 and 1866. “Its purpose was tion and bound to the same design except for the publisher’s to show the actual working of the Constitution in the period name in gilt at the foot of the spine. Described by Maynard between the first and second Reform Acts, and in this it was Keynes as “an undying classic”, Lombard Street analyses the op- brilliantly successful. ‘No author of modern times’, wrote eration of the British financial system, focusing on the eco- Dicey, ‘has done so much to elucidate the intricate workings nomic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot’s recommendation of English government as Bagehot. His English Constitution is so that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cycles was full of brightness, originality, and wit, that few students notice highly influential, and the book was considered authoritative how full it is also of knowledge, of wisdom, and of insight into the 20th century. “The wonderful clearness of Bagehot’s . . . The English Constitution is undoubtedly Bagehot’s greatest power of statement, his exact knowledge of the subject treat- work. He never revised it, although he wrote a preface for the ed on, together with his firm grasp of economic theory, have second edition in 1872. It has retained both its freshness and caused this volume to exert an influence which few books on relevance, and rightly ranks as one of the English classics” (St a subject naturally so dry have possessed” (Palgrave I, p. 81). John-Stevas). “This classic account of that most elusive and least codified of provenance: from the library of John Parke Young (1895– entities, the Constitution of England, never lost its popularity, 1988), an authority on the international monetary system and and shows signs of being elevated from the rank of first-class long-time advocate of a single world currency. Former chief handbook to a place with De Tocqueville as one of the most of the State Department’s division of international finance, important texts in political literature . . . Bagehot’s work is Young helped draft the original charters for the International of more than English importance: it is the great defence of Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Chief of the Division of empirical as against theoretical politics” (PMM). International Finance, US Department of State, 1943–65, and a Printing and the Mind of Man 358. member of official delegations to several international confer- ences, Young met Keynes as early as 1929 and also attended the £2,750 [101229] inaugural meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruc-

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9 tion and Development and the International Monetary Fund Sophismes, written in imitation of articles by free-traders such as in Savannah, Georgia (1946). Cobden in the English journal The Globe, are ingenious and witty reductiones ad absurdum of the protectionist position, advocating £3,250 [105357] for instance petitions of candle makers for protection against the unfair competition of the sun. Palgrave says of the Sophismes, 9 “Nothing is more brilliant, nothing more French, in the best (BAGEHOT, Walter.) BARRINGTON, Mrs Russell (ed.) sense of the word, than these amusing pamphlets, in which the The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot. The Works in most delicate irony and the most pitiless logic are combined” Nine Volumes. The Life in One Volume. London: Longmans, (I p. 123), and Schumpeter calls Bastiat “the most brilliant eco- Green, and Co, 1915 nomic journalist who ever lived” (p. 500). 10 volumes, octavo (225 × 145 mm). Contemporary dark green half £875 [112008] morocco by Bickers & Son, titles and decoration to spines gilt, blue- green cloth sides with twin rules in gilt, top edges gilt, blue-grey endpapers. Small nick to head of spine of first volume, the occasional minor mark to boards. An excellent set. first edition of the complete works of Walter Bagehot, edited by his sister-in-law, Emilie Isabel Barrington, the tenth volume being a revised edition of Barrington’s life of Bagehot, which was published the preceding year. £425 [108414]

10 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Popular Fallacies Regarding General Interests; being a Translation of the “Sophismes économ- iques”. With notes by G. R. Porter, F.R.S., author of “The Progress of the Nation.” London: John Murray, 1846 Octavo (160 × 100 mm). Contemporary tan calf, gilt double rule border to covers enclosing a blind roll border, spine decorated gilt, red morocco label, marbled edges. Engraved armorial Belper bookplate to front pastedown. Joints very lightly rubbed. Bound without the half-title; a very attractive copy. first edition in english of Bastiat’s highly popular Sophismes économiques, originally published in French in the same year. The 10

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“Un ouvrage unique en son genre” (En français dans le Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against texte), from the library of Swiss orientalist Antoine Polier religion, tolerance against superstition” (PMM). The work’s elegant typography was designed by Bayle himself. Described 11 by En français dans le texte as no less than superb, it relies innova- BAYLE, Pierre. Dictionnaire historique et critique. tively on an army of shoulder- and footnotes to convey the crux Rotterdam: chez Reinier Leers, 1697 of Bayle’s argument. The dictionary contains some 2,000 entries, including mostly biographies of religious and historical 2 volumes bound in 4, folio (386 × 258 mm). Eighteenth-century tree calf, probably Swiss, red and green morocco labels, spine elaborately figures as well as writers, in the latter case focusing on the 16th tooled in gilt, seven raised bands, Phrygian cap and dagger device and 17th centuries, but also articles on geography. The views to front boards, all edges green, patterned endpapers, pp. 587–90 he expressed in his detailed Life of Mahomet, which, in radical misnumbered 557–60 in Vol. 1, p. 526 misnumbered 510 in Vol. 3, opposition with the opinion of the Church, “stresses the supe- text printed in single and double columns and with shoulder notes rior tolerance and rationality of Islam’s core teaching” (Israel), throughout. Engraved vignette to title pages, historiated capitals and were reasserted more than 60 years later by Voltaire in his Traité tailpieces. Later bookplate to front pastedowns. Boards a little rubbed sur la tolérance (1762). and with a few small scuffs, minor chipping to labels, sporadic light spotting and offsetting to contents, small closed tear to pp. 29–30 of provenance: from the library of Swiss orientalist Antoine Vol. 3. An excellent set. Polier (1741–1795), with his emblem featuring the Phrygian cap first edition of Bayle’s dictionary, one of 2,000 copies of the French Revolution gilt-stamped on each front board and printed, which bore a tremendous influence on the Age of his stamp to each title page: “Antoine Polier an 2”. Polier made Enlightenment and its emblematic Encyclopédie. French Prot- his fortune in India working for the English East India Com- estant Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) wrote his Dictionnaire while in pany. An avid collector of works of arts and books, he acquired self-imposed exile in Rotterdam as an “anti-clerical counter- a large number of manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and blast to Moreri’s [Le Grand Dictionnaire historique, 1674], in order, various Indian languages and famously gave Johnson a Persian as he put it, ‘to rectify Moreri’s mistakes and fill the gaps’. translation of part of the Mahabharata. Polier moved back to Europe the year before the French Revolution and soon be-

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11 12 came a full supporter of the uprising. After spates in England ing reform in many countries, including the nascent United and Switzerland he finally settled near Avignon, where he was States. “Beccaria maintained that the gravity of the crime killed by burglars in 1795. A large part of his expansive collec- should be measured by its injury to society and that the penal- tion of books and manuscripts is now kept in the Fonds Polier ties should be related to this. The prevention of crime he held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. to be of greater importance than its punishment, and the cer- En français dans le texte 129; Jonathan I. Israel, Enlightenment Contested: tainty of punishment of greater effect than its severity. He de- Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man, 1670–1752; Richard nounced the use of torture and secret judicial proceedings. He & Colas, “Le fonds Polier à la Bibliothèque nationale”, Bulletin de l’École opposed capital punishment, which should be replaced by life française d’Extrême-Orient; Printing and the Mind of Man 155. imprisonment; crimes against property should be in the first £7,500 [97234] place punished by fines, political crimes by banishment; and the conditions in prisons should be radically improved. Becca- 12 ria believed that the publication of criminal proceedings, ver- dicts and sentences, as well as furthering general education, [BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di.] Traité des délits et would help to prevent crime. These ideas have now become so des peines, traduit de l’italien, d’après la troisième édi- commonplace that it is difficult to appreciate their revolution- tion, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l’auteur. Avec les ary impact at the time” (PMM). Thomas Jefferson had a copy of additions de l’auteur, qui n’ont pas encore paru en ita- the New York edition of 1809 (Sowerby 2349). lien. Lausanne: [no publisher,] 1766 The French translator André Morellet was an economist who Octavo (164 × 95 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco la- contributed to the Encyclopédie. His translation is based on the bel, raised bands, spine elaborately decorated in gilt with central flo- third edition of Beccaria’s treatise and, according to the title ral tools, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Tiny hole to fore edge of page, includes previously unpublished additions by the author. title, the occasional faint spot to contents. An excellent copy. It was criticised for diverting widely from the original text, first edition in french of undoubtedly the most influen- leading Beccaria to seek out another translator, whom he found tial work on criminal justice in the 18th century, originally pub- in librarian Chaillou de Lisy. Morellet’s translation nevertheless lished in Italian in 1764, first published in English in London in went into several editions and it is this text on which Voltaire 1767. Cesare Beccaria, Marchese Beccaria-Bonesana, a well-to- and Diderot based their commentaries and annotations. do Milanese professor of law and economics, had made many See Printing and the Mind of Man 209. prison visits and was appalled at what he saw. His short book was immediately successful and widely influential in stimulat- £850 [113070]

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Original boards 13 BENTHAM, Jeremy. Defence of Usury; shewing the im- policy of the present legal restraints on the terms of pecuniary bargains; in letters to a friend. To which is added a letter to Adam Smith on the discouragements opposed by the above restraints to the progress of inventive industry. The fourth edition. And to which is also added, third edition, A Protest against Law-Taxes. London: for Payne and Foss, 1818 14 Large duodecimo (185 × 110 mm). Uncut in original blue paper boards, brown paper backstrip, printed paper label to spine. With the individual title pages. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine label very 14 lightly chipped with text unaffected, upper outer corner of rear board BERKELEY, George. A Treatise Concerning the bumped, sig. [B9] with small hole costing one letter either side. An Principles of Human Knowlege [sic]. Part I [all pub- excellent, unsophisticated copy. lished]. Dublin: Aaron Rhames for Jeremy Pepyat, 1710 fourth edition, scarce untrimmed in original boards; first Octavo (207 × 130 mm). Contemporary blind-panelled calf, black published in 1787. A Protest against Law-Taxes was first published morocco label. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase with the gilt arms of alone in 1793 and with Supply without Burthen in 1795. Defence of Lord Kennet to the sides. With the early inscription of G. Williams, Usury was written during Bentham’s stay in Russia and takes his gift to Henry Rowland; corrections and annotations in various the form of letters to a friend from “Crichoff, in White Russia”. hands; bookplate of Lord Kennet of the Dene. Recased, covers The work expounds the characteristic Benthamite economic stained, lower cover with two repaired holes and corner repair, spine principle that no adult of sound mind, acting freely and aware rubbed. Worming, mostly a single hole but occasionally wider, in of the circumstances, should be hindered from making any the fore margin and sometimes into the text, wormholes neatly bargain that he sees fit to make; it is thus “an attempt to out- closed to quires L–M with a few affected letters supplied in pen Smith Smith” in hostility to state intervention in economic life facsimile, spotting to margins of early quires, H1v-H2r rather soiled; nevertheless, a good copy of this scarce book. (Ross Harrison in The New Palgrave I, 228). “The Monthly Review spoke of the book as ‘a gem of the finest water’ while Adam first edition of Berkeley’s Treatise, the classic exposition Smith pronounced it to be the work of a superior man, add- of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to lack of ing that he thought the author was in the right. ‘He has given faith, prefaced with an influential essay on the philosophy of me some hard knocks’, Dr Smith is reported to have said; ‘but language. His most important work, it appeared only three in so handsome a manner that I cannot complain’” (Atkinson, years after his appointment as a junior fellow of Trinity Col- Jeremy Bentham, p. 82). lege, Dublin; part II was never published, the manuscript having been lost in Italy along with other papers. Chuo D4.6; Everett p. 541; Goldsmiths’ 22093; Muirhead, p. 12; Vanderblue, p. 52. Although Berkeley’s Treatise did not initially prompt much reaction, it came to have a profound effect on the intellectual £350 [112138] life of the later 18th century and was not uncontroversial.

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Famously, Dr Johnson was not an admirer: “After we came out of 18th and 19th centuries. Hawkins inherited the family seat at the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Heligan, near St Austell, upon the death of his elder brother. Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of He had been ordained as a deacon but now “combined his matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I landowning, mining, and gardening interests with a close observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, involvement in local politics. He was a tory and his activities it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with may have been influenced by his brother-in-law Charles which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force Rashleigh, a solicitor, who was a fierce opponent of the against a large stone, till he rebounded from it – I refute it political ambitions of Sir Francis Basset and of Cornwall’s thus” (Boswell’s Life of Johnson). whig reformers. During the 1770s and 1780s Tremayne was on Keynes 5; Printing and the Mind of Man 176. several occasions mayor of Penryn, where he openly opposed Basset’s briefly successful attempts to control the borough’s £12,500 [107404] parliamentary representation. He also voted against Basset’s preferred candidate in the hotly contested county election 15 of 1790, being one of the most prominent supporters of the BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of victorious Francis Gregor, a follower of Pitt. Tremayne’s England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1768–9 political opinions were highly respected, and were sought by his fellow tories” (ODNB). 4 volumes, quarto (270 × 210 mm). Early 19th-century roan, attractively rebacked to style, raised bands to spines forming compartments, “Blackstone’s great work on the laws of England is the twin black and grey morocco labels respectively to second and third, extreme example of justification of an existing state of affairs remaining compartments richly gilt with floral designs, marbled by virtue of its history . . . Until the Commentaries, the ordinary endpapers, twin gilt rules to covers and turn-ins. 2 engraved tables Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and (1 folding) in volume 2. Vol. I and II joints skilfully restored, a few unfriendly machine . . . Blackstone’s great achievement was to minor scuffs and marks to covers, craquelure to rear cover vol. 1 (now popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its stabilised), variable pale spotting to prelims and early leaves, else formation . . . He takes a delight in describing and defending internally crisp and fresh. A very good, wide-margined set. as the essence of the constitution the often anomalous first editions of vols. III and IV, third edition of the first complexities which had grown into the laws of England volume, and second edition of the second; with the ownership over the centuries. But he achieves the astonishing feat of inscription of Cornish landowner and tory politician Henry communicating this delight, and this is due to a style which is Hawkins Tremayne (1741–1829) to the title page of the third itself always lucid and graceful” (PMM 212). volume. The Tremaynes were a family of wealthy landowners who were heavily involved in Cornish electoral politics in the £4,500 [101300]

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16 BRADLEY, F. H. Essays on Truth and Reality. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1914 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and publisher’s device gilt to spine, blind frame to boards, bottom edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Upper outer corners bumped, very faint crease to upper outer corner of text-block. An excellent copy in the dust jacket sunned on the spine and along the top edge of the rear panel, and with a short closed tear 17 to the head of the front joint. first edition, first impression, of this collection of essays Malthus confounded: the first British census in which Bradley developed his theory of absolute idealism, previously expounded in Appearance and Reality (1893). Bradley 17 is remembered as one of the last idealists, and his philosophy (BRITISH CENSUS.) Abstract of the Answers and was notably the subject of T. S. Eliot’s unpresented doctoral Returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Forty- thesis at Harvard, eventually published in 1964 under the title first Year of His Majesty King George III. Entitled “An Act Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley. “When for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, reflecting on why Bradley’s writings and personality are prone to fascinate readers, [Eliot] saw one of the reasons as lying in and the Increase or Diminution thereof.” [London: printed what he took to be, for its purposes, his ‘perfect style’” (ODNB). by Luke Hansard,] 1801–2 “The present volume consists mainly of articles which have 2 volumes, folio. Original pale blue-grey boards, 20th-century pale appeared in Mind. I have added a paper first printed in the brown paper spines to style (with typed labels), uncut. The Salisbury Philosophical Review, and there are also some essays which have Cathedral Library copy, with their letterpress statement of ownership on verso of title pages and final leaf of text. Some chips to spines, a not been published . . . The parts of this work have been called little rubbing to boards. A superior copy: tall and clean, scarce in the chapters mainly for convenience in reference, but also because original boards. most of them represent more or less the chapters of a book first edition of the first British census, the first detailed which I once intended to write” (Preface). census of any country ever undertaken. “In 1801, the census £675 [112515] was taken to determine Britain’s overall fighting strength and to assess the agricultural capabilities of the country in relation to the numbers needing to eat. It was clear to the government that fighting the continuing war with France required people. Yet the 1790s had seen failed harvests, food riots, a wartime dislocation of trade, and political unrest. In the midst of such scarcity, the British government was as worried about disorder at home as about the war in Europe; too many hungry bod-

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17 18 ies, the French Revolution had made clear, could easily turn to “Easily the most perverse and the most original American violence” (Kathrin Levitan, A Cultural History of the British Census: political economist before Veblen” Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century, p. 49). The British census was drawn up to give a complete economic 18 picture of the nation, together with a demographic history of CAREY, Henry Charles. Principles of Social Science. In the previous century from Parish Registers. The published three volumes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858–9 returns tabulate houses, giving the number of families in each 3 volumes, octavo (215 × 142 mm). Recent dark red half morocco, mar- and the number uninhabited, gender, and occupations. The bled sides, titles gilt to spines on black ground, edges sprinkled red, tabulations from the Parish registers give baptisms, burials blue endpapers. Drexel Institute (Philadelphia) blind-stamp to title and marriages from 1700 to 1800. and final pages. A few small spots to prelims, contents slightly toned, The principle of the census had been proposed by the statis- small ink-splash to bottom edge of vol. II. An excellent copy. tician and civil servant John Rickman (1771–1840): “Rickman first edition. “Carey’s economic views were sharply at vari- correctly rejected the then modish view that population was ance with those of Ricardo and Malthus, and reflect the op- falling, suggesting that a census would offer government an timistic characteristic of American conditions favourable to invaluable aid to effective military recruitment in the war with economic expansion. The two leading themes of his writings France, and by confirming growing national prosperity would were protectionism and harmony of interests . . . The scope also promote internal stabilization. He demonstrated that it of Carey’s optimistic belief in a harmonious order gradually was possible to derive population estimates from parish regis- widened . . . In the Principles of Social Science Carey expands ters, thus facilitating a back-projection of demographic trends. his vision of a harmonious order to apply to the universe . . . Rickman’s paper was shown to Charles Abbot by George Rose, Carey has been characterized as ‘easily the most perverse and MP for Christchurch, and in March 1801 Abbot steered the the most original American political economist before Veblen’ census bill to the statute book. Rickman had no hesitation (Conkin)” (The New Palgrave I p. 370). in claiming credit; on 27 December 1801 he wrote to Robert £450 [108303] Southey, ‘At my suggestion, they have passed an Act of Parlia- ment for ascertaining the population of Great Britain, and as a compliment (of course) have proposed me to superintend the execution of it’ . . . Rickman’s career and posthumous reputation were thus determined. With considerable skill he con- ducted the first census, which confounded Malthus’s fear of falling population, and then developed tolerably accurate estimates of 18th-century population trends” (ODNB). £1,250 [104274]

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19 A student of theology, then law, Carl was appointed first sec- CARL, Ernst Ludwig. Traité de la richesse des princes et retary to the houses of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Branden- burg-Ansbach in 1708. In 1720 he travelled to Paris, where he de leurs états: et des moyens simples et naturels pour y pursued social and economic studies, examining, among oth- parvenir. Par Mr. C. C. d. P. d. B. allemand. Paris: Theodore er authors, the work of Pierre de Boisguilbert. He became per- Le Gras (vol. II Florentin Delaulne), 1722–3 sonally acquainted with René-Louis Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis 3 volumes, duodecimo (162 × 92 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, d’Argenson, councillor of state, intendant of justice, police and gilt rule border to covers, spines elaborately decorated gilt in com- finance, a reformist and a friend of Voltaire’s, and with the en- partments, morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red edges and green lightened Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre, one of silk ribbon markers, gilt arms centrally stamped to each board (see the first to mention the possibility of a European union made below). Engraved vignettes to each title and another to opening page of text in each volume. Engraved bookplate of L’Olivette and another by independent and autonomous states, author of the Projet of the Swiss collector Sergio Colombi to front pastedowns, small Vi- pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe, his famous proposal of an ennese library stamp to title versos. Joints and spine ends profession- international peace-keeping organisation, and a man whose ally restored, paper lightly toned, with very occasional spotting; a very criticisms of law, politics, and social institutions had a great fine copy. influence on Rousseau and Kant. It was in this environment first and only edition of Carl’s path-breaking work on that Carl wrote the present work, published under the name of economics, and a wonderful association copy, from the library “Mr. C. C. d. P. d. B. allemand” (i.e. Carl, conseiller du Prince of François Eugène de Savoie, general of the Imperial Army and de Brandenburg), a work in which he was “the first to intro- statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of duce the pin factory as an example to illustrate the division of Austria, with his gilt arms on the covers. A major influence on labour, which more than 50 years later was to be made famous Adam Smith, quoted in the Wealth of Nations, the present work by Adam Smith” (Erik S. Reinert, in Jacob Bielfeld’s ‘‘On the ‘‘De- anticipates the socio-economic concepts of François Quesnay cline of States’’(1760) and its Relevance for Today, footnote 24). and the physiocrats, and gives examples repeated in the great “The basic idea of this very remarkable work which, as Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert some thirty years later. the preface says, aims at describing all realities of national This remarkably scarce work has only received proper appraisal economy and all perceptions of national welfare in their es- in recent times, particularly in the pioneering study of the Aus- sential and systematic connection to a uniform method, may trian economist, Anton Tautscher, Ernst Ludwig Carl (1682–1743), be summed up as follows: ‘The natural order of economic life der Begründer der Volkswirtschaftslehre (1939). unites men in a common production founded upon the division of labour and secures the maximum of well-being to all.

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The social economy constituted by the natural economic order is the collaboration of the individual economies connected with one another and bound together by mutual dependence. The goods produced are directed by interchange to the place of their use and consumption. In this interchange the price brings their income to all producers’” (Tautscher 1940, p. 99). “The comparison, for the most part literal, of passages from Carl’s Traité and Smith’s lectures such as the Wealth of Nations shows that Smith was considerably influenced by Carl. The dependence of Smith as regards contents is externally apparent from the similar use of examples, such as that of the smith, the production of pins and the viticulture in Spain and Portugal; internally Smith’s dependence can be proved from the starting-point of the definition of goods and wealth by way of the necessity and the advantages and disadvantages of the division of labour to the definition of the function of money and the theory of foreign trade . . . it is evident then from the above that Smith was undoubtedly influenced by Carl’sTraité ” 20 (Anton Tautscher, JSTOR, abstract, online). provenance: from the library of François Eugène de Savoie his hand. Spine darkened, gilt rubbed, chipped at head and tail, joints (1663–1736), general of the Imperial Army and statesman split (upper board holding on cords), a few scrapes to binding, touch of foxing to prelims. of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria. Having returned from Paris to Germany in 1731, and finding first edition, quickly reprinted and followed by a New York his previous post there occupied, Carl left for Vienna and edition in the same year, of one of the key works of the Scot- entered François Eugène’s services. The prince commissioned tish social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847). “The cri- him to work on a Plan d’académie de l’agriculture, des arts et sis of 1831–2 surrounding the Reform Bill for the expansion of commerce, in continuation of the Leibnizian Academy; this the parliamentary franchise aroused Chalmers’s fears for the work was, however, never completed. condition of the country, and in 1832 he published On Political One of the most successful military commanders in modern Economy, in Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Pros- European history, Eugène de Savoie gained fame with his pects of Society. The work opened on a note of urgency: the victory against the Ottomans at the Battle of Zenta in 1697, economy was unsettled by recurrent crises, the conditions for during the War of the Spanish Succession against the French, the labouring orders were deteriorating, the state was threat- and in the Austro-Turkish War at Petrovardin, and at Belgrade, ened with revolutionary violence. The cause of this unrest, he helping save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest and continued, would be found in the tendency of industrial soci- liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish ety to press beyond the limits of its natural resources. His vi- occupation. Napoleon considered him one of the greatest sion of society was gloomy, haunted by the Malthusian spectre generals of history. A friend of Rousseau and of Montesquieu, of overpopulation. Population was pressing beyond the limits and acquainted with a large number of scholarly men including of agricultural production, driving down wages, and increas- Leibniz, Prince Eugene amassed a library of some 15,000 ing the cost of poor relief. Industry tended to produce more volumes and superb galleries of paintings. He commissioned goods than hard-pressed home consumers could afford, and a number of exquisite baroque buildings, including the underconsumption in the home markets resulted in a glut of Stadtpalais and the Belvedere at Vienna. capital and chronic economic instability. Although he was a free-trader Chalmers did not believe that overseas trade or the Cossa, p. 290 no. 1; INED 4807; Kress 3459; only a very few institutional locations are recorded worldwide. exchange of industrial products for foreign foodstuffs would bring lasting prosperity . . . It was a well-argued exposition, £22,500 [110959] and in its economic aspects one which anticipated many of the ideas of the economist J. A. Hobson on underconsumption 20 and capital glut. In its defence of a stable, largely self-sufficient CHALMERS, Thomas. On Political Economy, in society it also bore many similarities to Chalmers’s Inquiry of Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects 1808. The work, however, was received with considerable dis- of Society. Glasgow: Printed for William Collins [and for 3 dain by leading political economists and Liberal politicians” (ODNB). booksellers in Edinburgh, 2 in Dublin, and 3 in London], 1832 Einaudi 1012 (listing the second edition); Goldsmiths’ 27260. Octavo (213 × 130 mm). Contemporary calf, gilt banded spine, brown morocco label, single-line gilt border on spine, red speckled edges. £350 [104255] Armorial bookplate of Baron Leigh (rather oxidised), probably the poet and literary patron Chandos Leigh (1791–1850), who championed free trade and liberal policies, with some neat marginalia, possibly in

15 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 21 CHERBULIEZ, Antoine Elisée. Riche ou pauvre. Exposition succincte des causes et des effets de la distribution actuelle des richesses sociales. Paris & Geneva: Librairie d’Ab. Cherbuliez et Ce, 1840 Octavo (192 × 125 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, flat roan spine ruled and lettered gilt, sprinkled edges. Library stamp of the VSK library to title and free endpaper. Board edges lightly rubbed; a crisp, clean copy. first edition of a work to which Karl Marx devoted an entire chapter in his Theorien über den Mehrwert (Theories of Surplus Value), writing that this book, together with George Ramsay’s Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, is the only one to have made the distinction – of great importance to Marx – between “constant” and “variable” capital, i.e. wage and non-wage capital. As Marx saw it, “It is an incontrovertible fact that, as capitalist production develops, the portion of capital invested in machinery and raw materials grows, and the portion laid out in wages declines. This is the question with which both Ramsay and Cherbuliez are concerned. For us, however, the main thing is: does this fact explain the decline in the rate of profit?” (Theories of Surplus Value, book III). In 1835 Cherbuliez, a Swiss lawyer, succeeded Rossi as professor of public law and political economy at the University of Ge- neva, in 1848 moving to Paris, later to return to Switzerland, where he held the professorship of economics at the Univer- sity of Lausanne before Walras. In political economy he was 22 a follower of Sismondi, with elements of Ricardo, steadfastly conservative and antisocialist. Admired by Mill, Cossa, and First published in 1690 as A Discourse about Trade; ESTC de- Cairnes, his Précis de la science économique et ses practicales applica- scribes this as a reissue, with a cancel title page, of the edition tions, a masterpiece of erudition, is described by Schumpeter of 1693. It includes Sir Thomas Culpeper’s “A Small Treatise as “one of the best textbooks of ‘classic’ economics” (R. F. against Usury” (pp. 217–36). “In 1690 [Child (c.1631–1699), eco- Hébert in The New Palgrave). nomic writer and merchant] published under his own name the comprehensive Discourse about Trade, which included his Einaudi 1044; Goldsmiths’ 31820. Proposals for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, which had ap- £850 [105364] peared earlier as an undated pamphlet. This work was reprinted in 1693 under the title A New Discourse on Trade to coincide 22 with a new attempt in parliament to reduce the legal maximum rate of interest . . . Child acquired considerable fame as CHILD, Sir Josiah. A New Discourse of Trade, where- an economic writer in his own day and was both widely read in is Recommended several weighty Points relating and frequently quoted. His works were reprinted continuously to Companies of Merchants. The Act of Navigation. during the 18th century and published in French in 1754. He Naturalization of Strangers. And our Woollen exerted influence because of his fluent and persuasive pen, his Manufactures. The Ballance of Trade. And the Nature of debating skills, and his obvious success in and experience of Plantations, and their Consequences in Relation to the business” (ODNB). As Geoffrey Poitras notes “Child is another Kingdom, are seriously Discussed. And some Proposals of the truly remarkable individuals populating the early history for erecting a Court of Merchants for determining of financial economics. Child has some status as a noteworthy, Controversies, relating to Maritine [sic] Affairs, and for pre-Smithian economist . . . His status as Governor of the East a Law for Transferrance of Bills of Debts, are humbly India Company was matched by his stock trading acumen” (The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478–1776, 2000, 322). Offered. London: Sam Crouch, Tho. Horn, & Jos. Hindmarsh, 1694 Goldsmiths’ 3013; Kress 1838; Wing C3861. This edition not in Sabin. Octavo (166 × 94 mm). Recent period style calf, gilt lettered spine, red £1,250 [109212] speckled edges. Housed in a custom-made, silk-lined pale brown calf solander box. With the bookplate (loosely inserted) of the German- British sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009). A very good copy, complete with the terminal blank leaf [S8].

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London as the city of Undone, and the Stock Exchange as the Vortex (“There were very many honourable men in Undone City who had long been sick and tired of the doings in the Vortex . . . Swindlers were prosecuted, but very seldom punished.”). The Stock Exchange, closed to non-members, was seen as 24 the basis for corruption in the City. “Non-members had to stand outside the door and give orders to members, who went 23 inside to buy and sell on their behalf. This meant that non- members had no way of knowing whether the prices they paid CHURCHILL, Winston S. Liberalism and the Social or received were the product of open and fair bargaining, or Problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909 arrived at through the collusion of members who profited at Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile of author’s the expense of outsiders” (Michie, p. 82). signature to front board in gilt. Spine a little dulled, extremities rubbed, slight spotting to endleaves and pastedowns. An excellent Michie, Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, copy. 1815–1914, 2009. first edition, first and only impression, of this uncommon £500 [111052] title which collects speeches by the young Churchill during his Liberal phase, addressing pressing issues such as the concili- 25 ation of South Africa, imperial preference, labour exchanges, CLAPHAM, Sir John Harold. An Economic History of and unemployment insurance. Modern Britain. The Early Railway Age 1820–1850; Free Cohen A29.1.a; Woods A15. Trade and Steel 1850–1886; Machines and National £600 [111706] Rivalries (1887–1914) with an Epilogue (1914–1929). Cambridge: at the University Press, 1926–38 24 3 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt to spines, fore (CITY OF LONDON.) “THE SPECTRE.” Ye Vampyres! and bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jackets. Ownership inscription to front pastedown vol. I. An excellent set in the smart A Legend of the National Betting-Ring, Showing What dust jackets. Became of It. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875 first edition of “the work on which [Clapham’s] reputation Octavo. Original pictorial boards, title to spine black and to front cov- was based . . . The great strength of the three volumes was a er black and red, cream coated endpapers. Small split to head of front combination of carefully used statistics in order to challenge joint, and to ends of rear joint, but text block sound, some rubbing to legends too easily accepted by literary historians. He therefore extremities, mark to fore edge, occasional faint foxing to contents. A very good copy. offered an account which was more quantitative, but he also warned that the statistician’s world was not that of the first edition of this anonymous novel, dressed to resemble historian” (ODNB). a penny dreadful, satirizing corruption in the City in the mid- 1870s. The real settings were easily discerned in the novel, with £325 [108295]

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26 finding and drafting legislation on a wide range of social issues COLWELL, Stephen. The Ways and Means of Payment: A for the State of Wisconsin” (Who’s Who in Economics). full analysis of the credit system, with its various modes £350 [112529] of adjustment. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859 Octavo (230 × 142 mm). Original horizontal-ribbed grey cloth, neatly One of the major documents of secular philosophy rebacked with original spine laid down, new cream endpapers, covers decoratively panel-stamped with foliate cornerpieces in blind. Inked 28 shelfmark to spine, library label to front pastedown, accession stamp COMTE, Auguste. Cours de philosophie positive. Paris: with inked manuscript correction to p. iii, Brandeis University ink- Bachelier, 1830–42 stamp to margin of p. 15 not affecting text. Corners and board-edges rubbed, internally crisp and fresh, an excellent copy. 6 volumes, octavo (200 × 123 mm). Contemporary red roan-backed pebble grain paper covered boards, spines ruled and decorated gilt first edition. “Colwell’s arguments ran counter to the in compartments, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Folding teachings of the classical economists . . . In this work he sup- synoptic table in volume I. Bookplates of W. Bourke Cockran (1854– ported a private national bank, inconvertible paper money, 1923), New York congressman and friend of the Churchills (his the real-bills doctrine, the demonetization of gold, and a na- oratorical skills are said to have influenced the young Winston). tional clearing system, all amidst an economy of high prices Bindings professionally furbished, scattered foxing (heavy in places). . . . He wrote the book from a point of view that considered An attractive set, complete with half-titles. money the handmaiden of commerce” (The New Palgrave I, p. first edition of Comte’s most important work, the canonical 491). statement of positivism. It is in the prodigious Cours that he Sabin 311. lays the foundations of his system, establishing, under the conception of the Law of the Three States, the new sociology £425 [109003] in its historical and formal relations to the other sciences. “The remarkable achievement of Comte, all arguments about the 27 validity of his theories aside, is the construction of a system COMMONS, John Rogers. Institutional Economics, which embraces all human activity and knowledge . . . [it] is still its Place in Political Economy. New York: The Macmillan one of the major documents of secular philosophy” (PMM). Company, 1934 provenance: from the library of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt. Library Blainville (1777–1850), French zoologist and anatomist, mem- stamp and shelfmark of the College of Insurance to first text leaf and leaf ber of the French Académie des Sciences, and from 1830 suc- edges, ex-libris to front pastedown, library pocket to rear pastedown cessor to Lamarck in the chair of natural history at the museum and discard stamp to front free endpaper. Evidence of shelf label having (a note on the front free endpaper of volume I states: “Notes been removed from spine. Internally a very clean copy. manuscrites de Ducrotay de Blainville”); extensively annotated first edition. Commons was, together with Thorstein Ve- throughout with pencilled marginalia and ink annotations to blen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, one of the three founders of paper slips tipped in at various intervals. Some annotations American Institutionalism, “an analysis of collective action by were clearly slightly trimmed upon binding, the notes presum- the state, and a wide range of other institutions, which he saw ably having been made when the work was still in the original as essential to understanding economic life. This institutional wrappers or boards. There is an extended piece on de Blainville theory was closely related to his remarkable successes in fact- in David M. Damkaer’s The Copepodologist’s Cabinet: A Biographical

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29 and Bibliographical History, American Philosophical Society 2002, pp. 241–49), where his work on lernaeids (a type of copepod or small crustacean) is highlighted: “The 1820s yielded one major 30 effort on the peculiar parasitic forms [of copepods]. This was de Blainville’s memoir on lernaeids, the first monograph to review and revise a single, extensive copepod group. De Blainville came 30 the closest yet to recognising these forms as crustaceans”. CORDEMOY, Louis Géraud de. A Philosophicall Brunet VI, 3506; Goldsmiths’ 26077; Kress C.2485; Printing and the Mind of Discourse concerning Speech, conformable to the Man 295. Cartesian Principles. London: Printed for John Martin, Printer £3,500 [110733] to the Royal Society, 1668 Duodecimo (145 × 75 mm). Contemporary calf skilfully rebacked to 29 style. From the distinguished library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, with their embossed armorial stamp on the title CONDORCET, [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat.] page; also with the contemporary ownership inscriptions on front Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the and rear free endpapers of Thomas Arnoll (b. 1662) and Elizabeth Human Mind: being a posthumous work. Translated Arnoll. Closed-tear into A3 (mis-printed as A4) neatly repaired. A very good copy. from the French. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1795 first edition in english. Géraud de Cordemoy (1626– Octavo (205 × 126 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, spine gilt in compartments, titles to spine gilt, edges sprinkled green. Con- 1684), philosopher, historian and lawyer, was one of the temporary ownership signatures to front pastedown and head of title leading Cartesians of his day; his Discours de la parole was first page. Extremities slightly rubbed and worn, joints cracked but firm, published at Paris in the same year, 1668. “In his day, judging endpapers lightly tanned, occasional minor spotting to text block. A from the speed with which his writings were translated into very good copy. Latin and English, Cordemoy was a highly respected, if not an first edition in english of Esquisse d’un tableau historique des overwhelming presence, on the European intellectual scene . . . progrès de l’esprit humain, originally published earlier the same For [him] speech was a sign of humanity, hence unmechanical year in Paris. “In the Esquisse . . . Condorcet traces the history of and, as certain moderns would have it, ‘unbounded’. This is why man through epochs, the first three covering his progress from Cordemoy comes in for such considerable praise in Chomsky’s savagery to pastoral community and thence to the agricultural Cartesian Linguistics [1966]; as Chomsky puts it, Cordemoy has state. The next five span the growth of civilizations, and argued ‘that there can be no mechanistic explanation for the knowledge down to Descartes, and the ninth describes the novelty, coherence, and relevance of normal speech’ . . . The revolution of Condorcet’s own lifetime, from Newton to Discourse of Speech may be profitably read still as an entertaining Rousseau. The prophetic view of the tenth epoch shows and impressive meditation on topics that touch on issues Condorcet at his most original. He forecasts the destruction of debated even today by scholars involved in various ways with inequality between nations and classes, and the improvement, linguistic matters” (R. W. Rieber (ed.), Psychology of Language intellectual, moral and physical, of human nature” (PMM). and Thought: Essays on the Theory and History of Psycholinguistics, 1980, pp. 62–64). Goldsmiths’ 16178; Printing and the Mind of Man 246 (the French edition). Wing C6282. £1,750 [104142] £1,000 [110051]

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31 32 COURNOT, Antoine Augustin. Principes de la théorie [DAVENANT, Charles.] A Discourse Upon Grants des richesses. Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1863 and Resumptions. Showing How Our Ancestors Have Octavo (214 × 130 mm). Contemporary French brown quarter roan, Proceeded with such Ministers As have Procured to gilt lettered and banded spine, marbled sides, speckled edges, Themselves Grants of the Crown-Revenue And that marbled endpapers. A few minor scrapes to binding, inner joints the Fortified Estates Ought to be Applied towards the cracked but sound, some light pencilled marginalia. A very good copy in a period French binding. Payment of the Public Debts. London: Printed for James Knapton, 1700 first edition. Cournot was the first “to visualize the general interdependence of all economic quantities and the necessity Octavo (118 × 188mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with raised bands and new red morocco label, edges sprinkled red. of representing this cosmos by a system of equations” Engraved armorial bookplate “Joliffe” to front pastedown. Joints and (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 1986, p. 467). In 1838 one corner skilfully repaired, short crack at foot of front cover, last he published Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie few leaves a little dog-eared; a very good copy. des richesses. Perhaps because he was primarily a mathematician first edition. Charles Davenant (1656–1714), a government and his work contained technicalities to which economists official and political economist, was from 1678 to 1689 had been previously unaccustomed, it went almost unnoticed Commissioner of Excise. He produced a steady flow of political until its significance was recognized by Marshall, Walras and economic writings dealing with aspects of taxation, and Jevons. The present work restates his theory without public debt, monetary and trade questions, foreign policy, and the mathematics and develops it into a systematic doctrine. criticisms of Whig policy in general. The present work gives a Because in the Recherches he “treated only questions where detailed criticism of the gifting of forfeited land by the crown. mathematical analysis was applicable . . . the product was Davenant provides historical examples from English and not a complete treatise on political economy but a selection Roman history and individual histories of ministers of state of contributions to various specific topics” (Theocharis, Early who were impeached for receiving grants. The last section of Developments in Mathematical Economics, p. 200). In the Principes the book deals with the policy which should be followed in the the results are united. case of the Irish forfeitures, Davenant arguing that the Irish Mattioli 794; Sraffa 1122. land should be used for the public revenue. £2,250 [111948] Goldsmiths’ 4076; Kress 2417; Mattioli 884; Wing D304; not in Einaudi or Sraffa. £800 [103021]

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33 3 volumes, octavo (198 × 123 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, blind roll border to covers, neatly rebacked, spines ruled gilt in compart- DAVENPORT, Herbert Joseph. Outlines of Economic ments, morocco labels. Folding engraved plan of the siege of Colches- Theory. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1896 ter in volume I and 2 folding maps by Moll, complete with the final 2 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, black coated endpa- advertisement leaves in volume III. Inner hinges neatly strengthened, pers, top edge gilt. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. corners lightly rubbed. Natural paper flaw to one leaf with loss of a Spine faded, a little spotting to rear free endpaper; an excellent, fresh couple of characters, short tear to the folding maps professionally re- copy, with a little rubbing to extremities. paired; a very good copy. first edition, first printing, for which Davenport is credited first edition. Defoe’s Tour is the first and best known of a as “one of the first respectable economists to give serious series of respected books written by him on broadly economic attention to unemployment”, suggesting that “the best subjects. It “has been lauded by the most eminent historians ameliorative device was to be found ‘in the postponement of as a prime source of understanding for Britain”, both in the all works of national or municipal improvement to seasons of 18th century and in “the birth of the modern on a global scale” labor stagnation’”. (Pat Rogers, The Text of Great Britain, Newark, 1998, p. 11). Defoe was “simultaneously alive to history, to commercial produce £350 [108304] and possibilities, and to the new tourist industry. The result was that he was the first to compose a book equally useful 34 for those who wanted to view historical antiquities, to tour [DEFOE, Daniel.] A Tour Thro’ the whole Island of stately homes, to study agricultural and estate improvements, Great Britain, Divided into Circuits or Journies. Giving A and to take a picturesque tour (in Rogers’s words, ‘a kind of Particular and Diverting Account of Whatever is Curious aesthetic adventure’ for persons of sensibility; Rogers, 40)” and worth Observation . . . With Useful Observations (ODNB). Defoe characterized the English people, identified upon the Whole. Particularly fitted for the Reading of their strengths and advantages, and charted their course to greatness, believing that trade, not military might, would lead such as desire to Travel over the Island. By a Gentleman. to world domination. London: printed, and sold by G. Strahan; W. Mears; R. Francklin; Furbank & Owens 220, 223 & 230; Goldsmiths’ 6261; Hanson 3262; Kress 3543; S. Chapman; R. Stagg; and J. Graves, 1724–25–27 Moore 459–61. £4,250 [109854]

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35 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed jacket with a couple of nicks DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. Essai sur les probabilités de la to extremities. durée de la vie humaine; d’où l’on déduit la maniere de first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the déterminer les rentes viageres, tant simples qu’en ton- author to the poet and photographer Ira Cohen on the title tines: précédé d’une courte explication sur les rentes à page, “Pour Ira, de tout coeur, J.D.” The book is a collection of terme, ou annuités; et accompagné d’un grand nombre eulogies, essays and condolences on the deaths of 14 writers de tables. Paris: les Freres Guerin, 1746 and thinkers who were Derrida’s friends or colleagues: Roland Quarto (254 × 190 mm). Contemporary sheep, spine decoratively gilt Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt to second, blind Jean-François Lyotard, Paul de Man, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie French fillet border to covers, red speckled edges, marbled endpa- Benoist, Edmond Jabès, Joseph Riddel, Michel Servière, Louis pers. Woodcut vignette to title, similar head- and tailpieces and ini- Marin, Sarah Kofman, and Emmanuel Levinas. Six of the tial figures, engraved arms to dedication, 1 full-page table to the text, pieces are published here in English for the first time. 23 leaves containing 22 individual tables mounted on stubs to rear as issued. Skilful restoration to tips and spine-ends, light craquelure to £1,250 [111353] covers, variable light browning, the occasional mild spot or mark. A very good copy. The rare first impression, with an unpublished English first edition. “After long investigations of tontines, in- translation dividual families, and religious communities, Deparcieux published his results in the famous Essai sur les probabilités de 37 la durée de la vie humaine (Paris, 1746; suppl., 1760), one of the DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. De l’origine first statistical works of its kind. It consists of treatises on an- et des progrès d’une science nouvelle. London and Paris: nuities, mortality, and life annuities. Deparcieux showed a real Desaint, 1768; [bound with:] Manuscript English trans- progress in his theoretical explanation of the properties of the tables of mortality . . . his tables, which were for a long time lation, “Of the Origin and Progress of a New Science”; the only ones on life expectancies in France” (Smith, History of [and:] — Irénée Bonfils, sur la religion de ses pères et de Mathematics II, p. 530). nos pères. Paris: Firmin Didot, Cocheris, Nepveu, Dalnce, 1808 Einaudi 1529; Goldsmiths’ 8233; Kress I 4081. 3 works bound in one volume, octavo (194 × 120 mm). Late 19th or early 20th-century half calf and marbled boards, spine decorated gilt £2,750 [112142] in compartments, morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of 36 Rencourt to front pastedown. Lower portion of the manuscript title to the second work cut away, presumably removing the translator’s DERRIDA, Jacques. The Work of Mourning. Edited by name; a very fine copy. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Chicago & London: first separate edition of undoubtedly one of the scarcest University of Chicago Press, 2001 of du Pont’s works, and probably one of the most successful publications promoting physiocracy, first published in the

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37 37 journal, Ephémérides du citoyen. This copy has leaf B1 in the rare Bound in at the end of the volume is a copy of the first edi- uncancelled state. tion of du Pont’s Irénée Bonfils, sur la religion de ses pères et de nos Schumpeter, in his discussion on the physiocrats, calls du pères, his confession of religious belief free of dogma and sec- Pont “by far the ablest of the lot” (p. 226) and Palgrave notes; tarianism, by way of recalling the fate of many of his most an- “If Quesnay was the father of physiocracy, du Pont was its god- cient ancestors who suffered death as heretics. All religions father, for he gave it its name by the publication of his physi- that devote themselves wholly to the ethical mandates of God ocratie . . . a collection of Quesnay’s articles, which the editor are equal. Sectarianism and the crimes it spawns have no le- introduced by a Discours.” gitimacy. This appeared in an English translation published in Bound with this copy is a previously unrecorded English 1947, made by Pierre S. du Pont, with the assistance of Bessie translation of the work, written most probably by Pierre Samuel Gardner du Pont. du Pont (1870–1954), possibly with the assistance of his cousin- De l’origine: Goldsmiths’ 10390; Higgs 4260; INED 1617; Kress 6547; Mattioli by-marriage Bessie Gardner du Pont. It must date to the end of 1074; Schelle 11; Sraffa 1458. Irénée Bonfils: Schelle 94; Sowerby, Catalogue of the 19th century, or the very beginning of the 20th, since the the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1704. volume contains the bookplate of Alexis du Pont, who died in £15,000 [112212] 1904. It is written in a neat, cursive hand and comprises 251 pages. A recent English translation, published in 2003 by the Liberty Fund, was prepared by Henry H. Clark, who makes no mention of this earlier translation. He describes du Pont’s work as “arguably the clearest, most concise introduction to the full range of physiocratic thinking on the nature of an enlightened, interdependent, exchange-based economy and its moral and political implications.”

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23 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Enlightened economics, and more – admired by Benjamin in natural law, the social equivalent of the Newtonian physical Franklin and Thomas Jefferson universe, principles that properly understood and given force in practical policy will assure a benevolent future for mankind. 38 The Table had its origin in a 51-page pamphlet, Abrégé des DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Table rai- principes de l’économie politique, published in Carlsruhe, Germany sonnée des principes de l’économie politique. Carlsruhe: in 1772. The pamphlet was the work of Charles Frederic, Mar- Michel Maklot, 1775 grave de Bade (1728–1811), a convert to physiocracy both in principle and in practice (Adam Smith declared that physioc- Large printed broadside composed of 13 sheets, total measurements racy was a theory that had never been put to the test; unknown 1230 × 1190 mm, sometime folded. Professional repairs to a couple of short tears on folds; in excellent condition. to Smith, the Margrave did in fact implement the physiocratic theory of taxation in parts of his realm and with notable suc- first edition, of the greatest importance and rarity, present- cess). In the hands of du Pont, who was appointed to the Mar- ing a synoptic view of man, his individual nature, and his re- grave’s court in 1773, the Abrégé was developed, indeed translation to society, schematically arranged as an interconnected formed, into this magisterial Table. whole: a human cosmos governed by fixed principles rooted

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Schelle, whose 1888 classic bio-bibliographic study, Du Pont de Nemours et l’école physiocratique, remains indispensable, argues that, contrary to the authorial credit sometimes given to the Margrave, the Table became an original work in the hands of du Pont, “un travail très personnel.” According to Schelle, who devotes some 19 pages (pp. 161–180) to the Table raisonnée, from which we freely translate and summarize: “No work better demonstrates the physiocratic theories . . . Beginning axi- omatically with the human senses and the human will, du Pont proceeds to derive the concept of personal property, and from there the needs, the rights, and the duties of each and every individual, making the transition from the law of nature to the law of society, all brought together under the general term of political economy but with careful attention always to the bases of the relationship between man and society. Almost every question touched upon by Quesnay is systematically restated.” Schelle (p. 163, note 1) relates that the Table raisonnée was admired by Benjamin Franklin, who, in a letter to Benjamin Vaughan dated 9 November 1779, writes, “I have seen the table of Mr. Du Pont (presumably Franklin is referring to a 1778 Paris reprint). I regard it as an excellent thing, containing in a manner methodical and clear every principle of the new sect here called les Economistes.” Schelle also testifies to its great rarity in his own time. He could find no copy of the original in France, including the Bibliothèque nationale or the Arsenal Library (there is now a copy at the former) and had to use a copy sent to Paris from the University of Heidelberg. The Table was reprinted in a somewhat smaller format (93 × 74 cm. or approximately 3 × 2.5 feet) in Paris in 1778, with 39 significant changes in terminology dictated by Turgot. That edition is found in OCLC in two holdings, one at the American Philo- 39 sophical Society (those dimensions but no imprint), the other at DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Lettre à la the University of Virginia. This original edition is exceedingly rare outside Germany, where OCLC not surprisingly records some 15 chambre du commerce de Normandie; Sur le Mémoire holdings. In America OCLC gives only one location at the Hagley qu’elle a publié relativement au Traité de Commerce avec Museum and Library (which in fact holds several). There is no l’Angleterre. Rouen & Paris: chez Moutard, 1788 copy at the Kress Library (though we found a record for an un- Octavo (196 × 120 mm). Late 19th- or early 20th-century half calf and catalogued copy buried in the Stolberg collection, of princely Ger- marbled boards by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, spine decorated gilt man origin, at the Harvard Law School). There is no copy in the in compartments, morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Einaudi, Goldsmiths’, or Mattioli collections, according to their Engraved armorial bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of Ren- court to front pastedown. Very occasional light spotting; an excellent printed catalogues. Copac locates a single copy in Great Britain, copy. at the British Library; KVK finds a copy in the National Library of Sweden and two copies in France, at the Bibiothèque nationale first and only edition of du Pont’s defence of the free- and Strasbourg University. Via the Union Catalogue of Libraries in trade treaty concluded between France and England in 1786. Japan (Webcat) we found a single copy at Hitotsubashi University, Du Pont had played an important role in its formation and pas- in the Menger Collection. sage. “Du Pont’s Lettre constitutes one of the best justifications We surmise that the Table was not offered for sale, but rather of the Treaty of 1786 ever published. While admitting that cer- was distributed gratis, at the Margrave’s pleasure, to fellow noble- tain interests have been temporarily damaged, it insists upon men (such as Stolberg, mentioned above) who he hoped might the ultimate benefits which will be certain after necessary repeat his practical experiment on their own estates in Germany, changes have been carried out in France. Had these measures where those copies have resided ever since. If not as absolutely been effected, as the King and the Ministry desired according rare as the first edition of the Tableau économique, of which at most to the author, there would have been no ill results” (Saricks, ten copies are said to be known, and if not quite as celebrated, the Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, p. 97). Table raisonnée comes close enough, in our opinion, to be consid- Einaudi 1667; Goldsmiths’ 13576; Kress B1404; Mattioli 1077; Schelle 30; 411; ered among the “black tulips” of economic literature. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 3617. Higgs 6188; INED 1628. £1,250 [113111] £55,000 [111729]

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40 41 DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Philosophie DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Examen du de l’univers. Troisième édition. Augmentée de plusieurs Livre de M. Malthus sur le Principe de Population; au- notes et d’une table des matières. Paris: chez Goujon Fils, quel on a joint la Traduction de quatre Chapitres de ce Fructidor, An VII [1799] Livre supprimés dans l’Edition française; et une lettre à Octavo (196 × 120 mm). Late 19th or early 20th-century half calf and M. Say sur son Traité d’Économie politique. Philadelphia: marbled boards by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, spine decorated gilt P. M. Lafourcade, 1817 in compartments, morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Octavo (196 × 120 mm). Late 19th- or early 20th-century half calf and Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Engraved armorial book- marbled boards by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, spine decorated gilt plate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of Rencourt to front pastedown. in compartments, morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Paper very lightly toned, very occasional spotting; frontispiece a little Engraved armorial bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of frayed at top, image unaffected; a very good copy. Rencourt to front pastedown. Paper lightly toned, occasional light third and final edition of du Pont’s “treatise attempt- spotting and one small marginal stain, margins somewhat trimmed; ing to state a philosophy of life” (Saricks), first published in a very good copy. 1792 and addressed to his long-time friend Lavoisier. “From the dates given at the beginning of the book, the Philosophie de l’univers was apparently written between December 20, 1792, and June 10, 1793. With the Philosophie, du Pont included the ‘Oromasis’, a prose-poem which, according to his statement in the preface, was written while he was concealed in the obser- vatory after August 10. Although of inferior quality, this little work displays the same sublime optimism which Condorcet was able to muster in somewhat similar circumstances while composing his famous essay on human progress . . . The basis of his ‘philosophy of the universe’ is that nothing is done by chance. Providential laws direct the whole universe, as accords with good physiocratic doctrine” (ibid.) Einaudi 1673; Schelle 64. Not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1264, has the second edition, sent to Jefferson in 1798 prior to Du Pont’s departure for America. See Saricks, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, p. 221ff.

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42 43 very rare first edition of du Pont’s final work, published first edition of Dupuit’s important paper on tolls and trans- in America, where he died the same year: among his writings, port charges, which fills pages 170–248 of the 1849 volume of it is, according to Gustave Schelle, “l’un des meilleurs [et] the Annales des ponts et chaussées. In it, he revisits and develops inconnu en France”. The work is remarkable as a commentary his earlier paper of 1844, De la mesure de l’utilité des travaux pub- on the development of political economy in Britain and France lics. “An engineer and mathematician . . . Dupuit was led both since the great ferment of half a century earlier, in which du by his occupations and studies to reflect upon the advantage Pont himself had been a key figure. It includes a translation which the public derive from means of communication, and of the final four chapters of Malthus’s book, which had been on the method of measuring with precision that species of omitted from the original French translation, and a letter to advantage, and utility in general. His profound reflections are Jean-Baptiste Say, whose Traite d’économie politique du Pont had embodied in two articles in the Annales . . . The author of these read aboard the ship Fingal in 1814. See Schelle, Du Pont de Ne- papers ‘must probably be credited with the earliest perfect mours et l’école physiocratique, p. 375ff. comprehension of the theory of utility,’ as Jevons says” (F. Y. Einaudi 1666; INED 1603; Schelle 104; not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress, (but located Edgeworth in Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy). at Kress), not in Mattioli or Sraffa. £1,250 [112887] £7,500 [113024] 43 Marginal utility and cost-benefit analysis EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. [The Works:] Nature, 42 Addresses, and Lectures, and Letters and Social Aims; Essays: First and Second Series; Representative Men, DUPUIT, Jules. “De l’influence des péages sur l’utilité and Miscellanies; English Traits, and Lectures and des voies de communication.” In: Annales des ponts et Biographical Sketches; The Conduct of Life, and chaussées. Mémoires et documents relatifs à l’art des Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers; Society constructions et au service de l’ingénieur; lois, décrets, and Solitude, and Poems. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and arrêtés et autres actes concernant l’administration des Company, 1921 ponts et chaussées. 2e série 1849. 1er semestre. Paris: 6 volumes, octavo (202 × 140 mm). Contemporary blue-green half Carilian-Gœury et Vor Dalmont, 1849 morocco, spines gilt in compartments with titles direct, blue cloth Octavo (203 × 129 mm). Contemporary roan backed marbled boards, sides ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated vellum tips, marbled endpapers. With six folding engraved plates title pages printed in black and red. Engraved portrait frontispiece. at the end of the volume. Flat spine sometime decorated gilt, with First binder’s blank lacking in 4 volumes; partially erased ownership lettering and numbering labels, the labels and gilt now worn away, signature to first binder’s blank of other 2 volumes. Spines evenly spine ends and corners rubbed and worn. Pale dampmark to top faded to green. An excellent set. margin and outer corner, occasional spotting and the odd mark; An attractively bound set of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works. withal a good copy. £300 [111678]

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Presentation copy Demolished by Locke 44 45 EVERETT, Alexander Hill. Nouvelles idées sur la popu- FILMER, Sir Robert. Observations concerning the lation, avec des remarques sur les théories de Malthus et Original and Various Forms of Government, as described, de Godwin. Ouvrage traduit sur l’édition anglaise publiée viz. 1st. Upon Aristotles Politiques. 2d. Mr. Hobbs’s à Boston, en 1823, avec une nouvelle préface de l’auteur; Leviathan. 3d. Mr. Milton against Salmatius. 4th. Hugo par C. J. Ferry. Paris: Jules Renouard, Sautelet, 1826 Grotius, de Jure Bello. 5th. Mr. Hunton’s Treatise of Octavo. Original paper wrappers printed in black. Small Swedish Monarchy, or the Nature of a limited or mixed Monarchy, library stamp and de-accession mark to head of front wrapper. To which is added the Power of Kings. With directions for Presentation inscription to the half-title (see below). Spine partly Obedience to Government in Dangerous and Doubtful split at head, faint spotting to endpapers; an excellent copy. Times. London: printed for R.R.C. and are to be Sold by Samuel first french edition, presentation copy from the Keble and Daniel Brown, 1696; [bound with:] — Patriarcha: author to the Swedish Academy, inscribed on the half-title: or the Natural Power of Kings. London: printed for Ric. “À l’académie suédoise, hommage de l’auteur, par les soins de M. Jullien, de Paris”. The inscription was probably written by Chiswell, Matthew Gillyflower and William Henchman, 1680 Jullien, having been entrusted by the author with the delivery. The book was a major early American response to Malthus. The American diplomat Alexander Hill Everett (1792–1847) served in Europe as chargé d’affaires to The Hague from 1818 to 1824, then minister to Spain from 1825 to 1829. It is known that he visited Sweden at least once, in the summer of 1811. His New Ideas on Population was first published in Boston in 1823 and reprinted at London the same year. A second Boston edition appeared the same year as the first French translation (and the sixth edition of Malthus’s Essay). Schumpeter notes that Everett “was perfectly right to call his book New Ideas on Population (1823). For his main point, viz., that increase in population means increased production of food and is likely to induce improvements in the methods of its production, was new in his day, much more so at any rate than anything Malthus ever said. It introduced one of the two relations that are lacking in Malthus between the increase of population and the increase of subsistence, and in general presented, quite independently of the specifically American elements of its argument, a useful approach to the population problem as a whole” (History of Economic Analysis, Routledge 1994, p. 553). £650 [113397] 45 28 Peter Harrington 126

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2 works bound as one, small octavo (179 × 109 mm). Contemporary 46 panelled calf neatly rebacked (in 1967, according to a pencil note). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II. Discreet book label of (FINANCIAL BOARD GAME.) Stockbroker. The Ideal the historian Peter Laslett (1915–2001), editor of Filmer (Patriarcha and Family Game for Adults and Children for from Three to other Political Writings, 1949). A little wear to corners of binding, bound Seven Players. Stoke-on-Trent: Dimsdale Games, [1936] without the preliminary blank to Patriarcha, neat marginal repair to H3 Black cloth folding board (350 × 463 mm) with game plan printed in Observations. A very good copy. in black, red and orange. 100 game cards (50 Stockbroker Cards; 50 first expanded edition of the Observations (published Treasury Bill, Buy and Sell Cards), 70 money tokens, 7 broker tokens, originally in 1652) and putative first edition of the dice and rules; all housed in the small original card box (140 × 163 Patriarcha, although Johann Sommerville (in his edition of mm). Light toning to board, edges mildly bumped, and minor rub- 1991) notes that the Chiswell edition was “probably published bing to the folds of the game board. Overall in excellent condition. later” as it corrects errors in the edition published by Walter An English board game similar to Monopoly, centred on the Davis, also dated 1680. trading of stock commodities. These are two key works by the English political writer £375 [106915] Robert Filmer (1588?–1653), perhaps best known for being on the receiving end of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government 47 (1690), an “extended attack on the politics of Sir Robert Filmer. Filmer had died in 1653, but his main work, Patriarcha, was not FISHER, Irving. Appreciation and Interest. A Study of the published until 1680. It set out the patriarchal theory of politics Influence of Monetary Appreciation and Depreciation on in its most extreme and most vulnerable form. For Filmer we the Rate of Interest, with Applications to the Bimetallic are not born free, but in a state of subjection to our parents Controversy and the Theory of Interest. New York: The and to the rulers whom God has set over us. Paternal and Macmillan Company, 1896 political power are ultimately the same: both descend from Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. Original front Adam, who had by right of fatherhood royal authority over his printed wrapper loosely inserted. Leaves a little browned, some children, and this authority passed to his successors. Locke set pencil underlining to text, but a very good copy. out to demolish this theory not merely by severing the chain of first edition, first impression, part of a series of argument at its weakest link, but by destroying every part that publications by the American Economic Association, of which appeared vulnerable. He argued that Adam never possessed this is volume 11, no. 4. Ownership inscription on the inserted the kind of power that Filmer supposed, and that even if he had front wrapper and the date inscribed “Sept 18” underneath the done, it could not have been conveyed to his posterity in any publication statement of “August, 1896”. manner that could justify the titles of any of the monarchs now ruling. Filmer’s theory required that Adam’s power descended £475 [110636] either by a form of primogeniture, so that at any time there was a single heir who was rightful monarch of the whole world, or to all his descendants—that is, to everyone” (ODNB). Wing F919 & F923. £1,750 [110036]

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48 The first index-numbers of prices FISHER, Irving. Stabilizing the Dollar. A plan to stabi- 50 lize the general price level without fixing individual pric- FLEETWOOD, William, Bishop of Ely. Chronicon es. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920 Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. A few light marks to back cover, touch of foxing to fore-edge. A very good copy. Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day- first edition, first printing, of “an ingenious scheme for stabilising the purchasing power of money under a convertible labour, etc. in England, for Six hundred Years last past gold standard by varying the official price of gold inversely with . . . To which is added An Historical Account of Coins, an index of prices, a system which could be adopted by one Illustrated with several Plates of Gold and Silver Coins. country combined with a flexible exchange rate for its currency London: for T. Osborne, 1745 or by all countries operating with fixed exchange rates” (Blaug). Octavo (195 × 120 mm). Recent green polished quarter calf, marbled Fisher M-620; IESS 1920; see Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, p. 80. boards, raised bands to spine forming compartments ruled in gilt and blind, earlier red morocco laid down to second, top edge sprinkled £500 [109209] blue, fore and bottom edges sprinkled red. Running-heads in Gothic letter, 12 wood-engraved plates. Extremities faintly rubbed, internally 49 a crisp and excellent copy. FISHER, Irving. The Stock Market Crash – and After. second edition of this landmark in the history of econometrics, first published anonymously in 1707; the New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930 historical account of English coinage and the 12 fine plates Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. With 25 charts in the appear here for the first time. Chronicon Preciosum was the text. Spine slightly rolled, some pale staining to front cover otherwise first major historical survey of prices, wages and income. In a very good copy. answer to a question about an Oxford Fellowship, Fleetwood first edition, first printing, of Fisher’s analysis of the set out to determine historical changes in the value of money. reasons for the 1929 crash, with a detailed discussion of the “But his treatise took a wider range; it brought together all ensuing effects. “When the 1929 slump occurred, Fisher was the information he could find on the value of money and the over 60 years old; yet he tackled the very difficult theory of prices of commodities during the Middle Ages in England; and economic fluctuations. He finally reached the conclusion it is still well worth consulting” (Palgrave II, 89). McCulloch – which contains a large element of truth – that business pronounced the Chronicon “the best account of prices published cycles are due on the one hand to the existence in the banking in England previously to that given by F. M. Eden” (p. 192). system of uncovered demand deposits and on the other to the “Although in his price comparison Fleetwood did not go so opportunities for hoarding offered by the circulating monetary far as to think of weighting his individual items according to media. These views led him to recommend regulation of the their importance in a shopping basket, he did see the need to demand for and supply of money through steadily depreciating have a single magnitude, however approximate, as an index circulating money and 100% coverage of demand deposits as a of change” (Stone). The index worked out by Fleetwood has cure for business cycle ills” (IESS). proved notably accurate: the figures in E. H. Phelps Brown’s Fisher E-1532; IESS 1930b. and S. V. Hopkins’s 1956 assessment of seven centuries of pric- £600 [109211] 30 Peter Harrington 126

51 52 es of consumables revealed a remarkable proximity to Fleet- first serialised in Gujarati in the weekly newspaper Navajivan. wood’s results. Copies in this condition are remarkably scarce. Goldsmiths’ 4403; Hanson 823; Hollander 635; Kress 2553; Massie 3581. £3,750 [110986] £250 [108181] 53 The birth of psychoanalysis GODWIN, William. Of Population. An Enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of 51 Mankind, being an answer to Mr. Malthus’s essay on that FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. subject. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Authorised Translation of Third Edition with Introduction 1820 by A. A. Brill. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913 Octavo (217 × 130 mm). Recent full calf to style, smooth spine ruled Octavo. Original light and dark blue patterned cloth, titles to spine in gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt, two-line border to covers and front board gilt, top edge blue. Spine rolled and toned, tips and in blind. With the half-title. Royal Institution of South Wales ink- spine ends worn, lower hinge repaired, internally clean; a very good stamp to title-page verso and p. 626 (final page), and of University copy. College Swansea to p. 101, none affecting text, faint transverse crease first edition in english, first printing, US issue. This to earlier leaves, upper outer corner of sig. S6 untrimmed and folded important translation was published simultaneously in the over (a binding-shop oversight), pencil annotation to p. 359, very pale UK and the US and introduced Freud to the English-speaking marginal tidemark from p. 511 to end, besides the occasional minor marginal spot. A very good copy. world. first edition. Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population Grinstein 227. (1798) was originally framed as a corrective to the utopian £2,250 [99795] hopes of both Condorcet and Godwin, but by the time the Essay reached its fifth edition in 1817 Godwin was no longer 52 mentioned and in danger of being forgotten. Godwin’s long- meditated answer points to restrictions in the food supply GANDHI, Mahatma K. The Story of My Experiments arising from the accumulation of property in the hands of a with Truth. Translated from the original in Gujarati by few. Among other remedies, Godwin proposes to make more Mahadev Desai [and Pyarelal Nair, volume II]. Ahmedabad: land available for cultivation and to improve agricultural Navajivan Press, 1927–9 methods. 2 volumes, octavo. Original buff cloth (slightly varying shades), spines Kress C535; Sabin 27676. and front panels lettered black. Portrait frontispiece to each volume. Lower outer corner of rear cover of volume 1 with small section of £1,250 [108241] cloth missing. Covers unevenly lightly sunned, volume 1 with a little worm damage to front joint and cover, affecting the gutter and blank inner margin only; a very good copy. first edition in english of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, giving an account of his life up until 1921. The work was

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54 GRAHAM, Benjamin, & David L. Dodd. Security

Analysis. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book 55 Company, Inc., 1934 Octavo. Original black cloth, double blind-rule border to covers, spine book of personal and household expences. Edinburgh: ruled and lettered gilt. Ownership inscription dated 25 December 1934 of Jos. A. Herold of Rye Ridge, Rye, NY to front free endpaper. Printed for the Author by R. Fleming, 1735 Pale damp-mark to foot of rear board, with pale mark to gutter of the Quarto (218 × 172 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ruled and final few leaves, very slight chafing to head of spine; a very good copy. stamped gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco label. Housed in a burgundy cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Ownership in- first edition of perhaps the most famous book written on scription of Thomas Hope dated 1745 on title. Joints cracking, spine the stock market, in which Graham and Dodd “advocate the ends and corners a little rubbed, some very slight surface wear, front fundamental approach to determining investment value and free endpaper loose but still holding. Upper outer corner of title with develop techniques to analyse balance sheets and income name cut away, occasional light spotting; an excellent copy. statements. From the hindsight of later developments, first edition, extremely rare, with ESTC locating only one their primary failings were (1) not to consider the full copy in Britain, at the National Library of Scotland, and two in role of diversification, (2) not to embed the role of risk in America (Harvard and Pennsylvania). determining value in an equilibrium context, and (3) not to give sufficient consideration to the forces that tend to make ICAEW, p. 138; Kress S.3491. Not in Goldsmiths’ or Herwood. markets informationally efficient” (Rubinstein, A History of the £10,000 [105424] Theory of Investments). Graham’s course at Columbia University influenced many well-known fund managers, and his security 56 analysis techniques are still taught in most investment classes. HARNACK, Adolf. Das Wesen des Christentums. Denistoun & Goodman 492. Sechzehn Vorlesungen vor Studierenden aller Facultaten £12,500 [112655] im Wintersemester 1899/1900 an der Universitat Berlin. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1900 55 Octavo (218 × 140 mm). Early 20th-century olive quarter morocco, HAMILTON, William. Book-Keeping New Modelled: vellum tips, spine gilt in compartments with gilt titles direct, or, a Treatise of Merchants Accounts: according to the marbled sides and endpapers, speckled edges. Lacks half- title. With the advertisement leaf at the rear. Contemporary ink True Italian Method of Debitor and Creditor; wherein ownership inscription to title. Binder’s ticket “A. W. Kafemann, that excellent and curious method is clearly laid down, Verlagsbuchhandlung, Buchbinderei & Druckerei, Danzig” to rear in a plain and convincing manner; the whole being alto- pastedown. Sunning to spine and around the edges of boards, very gether new and concise, and illustrated with three set of light rubbing to extremities, hinges sound, a few pencil annotations within, internally very fresh, an excellent copy. books. To which are added a specimen of a factor-book, a ware-house book, and an invoice-book: with directions first edition, first printing, well represented institution- ally but apparently rare in trade, with only one copy recorded how to frame a book of charges of merchandize, and a at auction, of “these lectures on ‘The Essence of Christianity’

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57 by the then professor of church history at Berlin University . . . first edition. “John Harris, clergyman, mathematician, and received with an enthusiasm unparalleled for centuries in the (from 1709) secretary of the Royal Society, produced the first field of religious pamphleteering. They proclaimed the funda- English encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. He was mental concord of the tenet of the early Church as preserved in the earliest lexicographer to distinguish between a word-book the non-Roman Churches with the religious aspirations, the (dictionary, in modern parlance) and a subject-book (ency- intellectual climate and the social and economic morality of clopaedia proper), thereby overcoming the confusion which the 20th century; and innumerable reprints and translations Isidore had introduced a thousand years earlier. His Lexicon broadcast this message of liberal Protestantism all over the Technicum appears to be the first technical dictionary in any lan- world” (PMM). guage. The most famous of his contributors was Isaac New- Printing and the Mind of Man 390. ton” (PMM). “Harris’s encyclopaedia was distinguished not only for £1,250 [112557] its excellent plates, but also for its text line-drawings and diagrams, and for its provision of bibliographies for some of The first English encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical the more important scientific subjects. So far, England had order been translating French encyclopaedias for domestic use: within a few years the leading French encyclopaedia was to 57 be based on the English works of Harris and his successors” HARRIS, John. Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal (Collison, Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, p. 99). English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: explaining not The book was first published by subscription as a single only the terms of Art, but the Arts themselves. London: for stand-alone volume, with Isaac Newton among the subscribers, Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, Tho. Newborough, followed in 1710 by a successful second volume. John Nicholson, Tho. Benskin, Benj. Tooke, Dan. Midwinter, Alston III, 528; Goldsmiths’ 4039; Hanson 342; Horblit 25a; Kennedy 8697; Kress S.2282; Norman 992; O’Neill H-19; Printing and the Mind of Man 171 (a). Tho. Leigh, and Francis Coggan, 1704 Folio (319 × 198 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, two- and three-line £5,750 [112643] blind-rule border to covers, stoutly rebacked, red morocco label. Title page printed in red & black, engraved portrait frontispiece of Harris by George White after his father Robert, 7 engraved plates, wood- engravings in the text; printed in double columns. Boards with some surface erosion, corners and inner hinges strengthened; frontispiece and title lightly toned, shelf marks and small worm hole to upper margin of title; two lower margins with short tears, occasional spotting and the odd stain; withal a very good copy.

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58 Investment” – was published here for the first time. This essay HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Beiträge zur Geldtheorie. extends and refines the main argument that Hayek made in the lecture series published as Prices and Production in 1931, restating Vienna: Julius Springer, 1933 it “on somewhat different and more realistic assumptions and Octavo. Uncut and partly unopened in the original printed paper in less abstract forms”. wrappers. Ownership inscription of (Hans) Staehle dated Geneva September 1933 to front cover, with another pencil ownership Cody & Ostrem B-4. inscription (G. Smith) dated 1984. Lower edge of wrappers a little chipped, front wrapper with small chip to fore edge, small blot on £950 [106328] title; a very good copy. 60 first edition of a collection of papers on monetary theory written by Marco Fanno, Marius W. Holtrop, Johan G. HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Pure Theory of Koopmans, Gunar Myrdal and Knut Wicksell, edited, and with Capital. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1941 a seven page introduction by Hayek. Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket. Cody & Ostrem E-4. Figures in the text. Plain book label of “Elwyn Jones, November 24th 1943, Cambridge”. Jacket spine toned, nicks and chips to extremities, £450 [110003] binding lightly creased at head and tail of spine. An excellent copy in the rare dust jacket. 59 first edition, first impression, of this scarce title, which HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Profits, Interest, and showed “the very complex nature of capital and its importance Investment. And other Essays on the Theory of Industrial in economic booms and slumps, and stands as a classic in the field” (Butler). Hayek “provides lucid expositions of his notions Fluctuations. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1939 of ‘inter-temporal equilibrium’, the ‘physical productivity of Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A investment’, and the ‘vertical or successive division of labor’. small red ink stamp of Katayama’s Library to title page and a couple Although Hayek rejects the concept of a ‘supply of capital’ of acquisition stamps in blue ink to rear free endpaper. Extremities slightly rubbed, inner hinges a touch tender, light foxing throughout. as a measurable quantity, he derives a meaningful ‘marginal A very good copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with toned spine panel, productivity of investment’” (IESS). nicked and creased extremities, and a closed tear to front joint. Cody & Ostrem B-5; IESS 1941b. first edition of this collection of seven essays on industrial £4,750 [106706] fluctuations, the first of which – “Profits, Interest, and

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61 Mayer of the Walter Eucken Institut, and a bibliography of HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Constitution of Hayek’s writings at the end. Liberty. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960 Cody & Ostrem B-14. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground. £625 [110015] With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription of D. R. Tozer to front free endpaper. Dust jacket slightly chipped at extremities, endpapers slightly darkened and a little spotted, a few initial pages with ink 63 underlining. HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Die drei Quellen der first uk edition of Hayek’s “positive statement of the prin- menschlinchen Werte. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), ciples of free society that in scope and breadth is more like a 1979 new Wealth of Nations” (dust jacket blurb), published on the Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Spine lightly sunned, light creas- hundredth anniversary of Mill’s On Liberty in 1960. An Ameri- ing to covers. An excellent copy. can edition was also published by the University of Chicago first edition in german, presentation copy from Press in 1960. the author, inscribed on the front cover: “Mit dem besten Cody & Ostrem B-12. Empfehlung F. A. Hayek”, and with some marginal pencillings £600 [110024] and underlinings. It was originally published as “The Three Sources of Human Values”, The Hobhouse Lecture given at the 62 LSE in May 1978. Cody & Ostrem P-19. HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Freiburger Studien. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), £650 [110198] 1969 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt, with the dust jacket. Dust jacket with two short tears to foot of front panel; a very good copy. first edition, comprising 17 essays written by Hayek during the six years he spent between 1962 and 1968 at the University of Freiburg, with an introductory article by Karl Friedrich

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64 first edition, the first volume published in an edition of HINDE, Robert Aubrey (ed.) Non-Verbal 10,000 copies on 18 July 1925. Not only was Mein Kampf the origin and strength of the National-Socialist programme, Communication. Cambridge: University Press, 1972 transforming Hitler’s status from local agitator to potential Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. national saviour in the process, but it triggered a major turning Black and white frontispiece, diagrams and tables in the text. A bright point in the 20th century by sowing the seeds for the most copy in a price-clipped jacket with a few minor marks and light toning to spine panel. Excellent. destructive war ever fought. The first volume sets out Hitler’s tendentious opinions about first edition, advance review copy with the publisher’s the world he grew up in, and about the 1914–18 war. It presents slip laid in. This report on non-verbal communication in his justification for territorial acquisitiveness – Germany needs humans and animals sets out the findings of a Royal Society more Lebensraum – and airs his anti-Semitism. Entitled “The study group. It is accompanied by essays “written from National Socialist Movement”, volume II (1927) contains most the point of view of a linguist, zoologists, psychologists, of the ideas later fleshed out in his policies. “This programme, anthropologists and a drama critic” (flap blurb), as well as an with a detailed account of what it would entail nationally and art historian as E. H. Gombrich contributes an essay on action internationally, is stated with complete frankness in the two and expression in Western Art. volumes of Mein Kampf. The brazenness of the declaration £225 [112867] was due to naivety and immaturity. Unfortunately Europe was governed by small men at the time and when Hitler came “Political creeds as the basis for new religions have usually to power in 1933 he found that his wildest claims and most spelt danger for humanity. When they are distilled extravagant actions earned but mild and ineffectual rebuke. His enemies accepted the occupation of the Rhineland, from the half-baked prejudices harboured by the more the tearing-up of the Versailles and Locarno Treaties, the reactionary section of a nation not particularly noted for abandonment of the League of Nations and the seizure of political enlightenment, they spell disaster” (PMM) Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler had a right to be surprised at their violent reaction to the attack on Poland. It was all in 65 Mein Kampf, but they just could not believe it” (PMM). HITLER, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Eine Abrechnung. [Vol. II: provenance: Emil Garraux (1854–1951) was a Swiss member Die nationalsozialistische Bewegung.] Munich: Franz Eher, of the Verein für die Deutsche Sprache and co-author of Deut- 1925–7 sches Namenbüchlein für die Westschweiz. Octavo. Original white cloth and red boards (volume I) and original Printing and the Mind of Man 415. red cloth (volume II), spines and front covers lettered in red and white. Preserved in a custom made red morocco slipcase and £10,500 [107856] chemise. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Hitler to volume one. Ownership inscription of Emil Garraux dated August 1925 to front free endpaper of volume one, with his very occasional pencil side ruling and marginal notes in the text and to the rear endpapers. Corners of volume two a little bruised. Cover of volume two with an ink mark. Paper stock lightly toned, gathering 21 in volume one bound in twice; a very good copy.

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in his view, is better than the natural anarchic state. Needless to say, this view elicited a storm of controversy, putting Hobbes at odds with proponents of individual liberties. Through conflict, Leviathan has been the catalyst of much productive thought in succeeding centuries, from Spinoza to the school of Bentham, “who reinstated [Hobbes] in his position as the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM). This book “produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the advent of Darwinism” (op. cit.). John Goode entered Balliol in 1638, obtained his BA in 1642, his fellowship in 1648, and an MA in 1648–9. He held several ecclesiastical livings in Herefordshire and Lincolnshire. Macdonald & Hargreaves 42; Printing and the Mind of Man 138; Wing H2246. £30,000 [113632]

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66 67 HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. London: for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s London: for Andrew Ckooke [sic], at the Green Dragon in St. Church-yard, 1651 Paul’s Church-yard, 1651 [1678] Folio (274 × 180 mm). Contemporary calf, blind rule border to cov- Small folio (295 × 180 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, covers with ers, rebacked, red morocco label. Ornament of winged head on title an elaborate geometrical blindstamp decoration, rebacked, spine page, with engraved title page and folding printed table. Ownership ruled and stamped in blind in compartments, raised bands, red mo- inscription to front pastedown noting the gifting of the book by John rocco label. Ornament of a bear on title page, with engraved title-page Goode of Balliol College, Oxford, dated 1656; “Ex dono Joh. Good Art. and folding printed table. Ownership inscription of J. Watson of the Mri et Coll. Bal: Scii An. Do. 1656.” Corners and board edges very skil- Middle Temple dated 1752 on front free endpaper, with his stencilled fully restored, free endpapers replaced. Occasional light spotting and ownership stamp in red at head of title. Engraved armorial bookplate the odd mark; a very good copy. of one “N. W. M. Brunton” with the motto “Fax mentis incendium true first edition of one of the foundation works in the gloriae”. Neatly rebacked and recornered, inner hinges strengthened. Some surface wear to covers. Small marginal hole to final three field of political theory, with the winged head ornament on leaves, affecting one word on the final leaf. Pale damp mark to gutter the title-leaf. There are three editions with title-pages bearing of the first few leaves, and to the upper outer corner throughout 1651 imprints. The second, with a bear ornament, was printed outside England (probably at Amsterdam), and the third, with second edition, with the Bear ornament on the title, tech- a triangular type ornament, is now considered to date from nically a piracy made up of sheets printed by John Redmayne c.1695–1702. in 1670 and Christoffel Cunradus some time before the end Leviathan details Hobbes’s notion of the origin of the State as of 1678, according to Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, ed. Noel Mal- a product of human reason meeting human need, through to colm, vol. 1, p. 226–58, but which has textual changes made by its destruction as a consequence of human passions. According Hobbes himself. to Hobbes, the State, as an aggregate of individual men (so Macdonald & Hargreaves 43; Wing H2247. well portrayed in the famous engraved title), should always be £3,750 [112717] tendered the obedience of the individual, as any government,

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and sent a lengthy criticism of it to Mersenne (a 56-page letter, now lost) in November 1640, shortly before returning to Paris himself. He also wrote a treatise on optics in Latin, containing several criticisms of Descartes; this work may have been substantially completed before his move to Paris in late 1640, though the surviving manuscript is a fair copy made by a Parisian scribe, probably in 1641 or 1642. According to his verse autobiography, it was in the period 68 1637–40 that Hobbes began to organize his ideas in a tripartite scheme, dealing with ‘body’ (metaphysics and physics), ‘man’ 68 (epistemology—including optics—and psychology), and HOBBES, Thomas. Elementorum philosophiae Sectio ‘citizen’ (politics). The works eventually published under the secunda de Homine. London: Andrew Crooke, 1658 titles De corpore, De homine, and De cive would be described as Quarto (208 × 156). Contemporary calf, double blind rule border the three ‘sections’ of his ‘elements of philosophy’. How fully to covers, spine with gilt rules and a red morocco label added at a worked out this scheme was during the late 1630s is not clear, later date. 8 engraved folding plates. Small private ownership stamp though it may be significant that the Latin optical treatise to title verso. Spine chipped at head and lower corner of front board contains a reference to the preceding section (‘sectione worn, some surface wear and abrasions, free endpapers removed. Antecedente’; Harley MS 6796, fol. 193v). Some manuscript Occasional light spotting and the odd stain, small paper flaw to blank notes on early chapters of De corpore do survive, but their dating margin of the title; a very good copy. is uncertain.” (ODNB). first edition of the second, but last published, part of the Aubrey’s Brief Lives notes that Sir William Petty, who had Elements of Philosophy, very rare. It contains “an account of op- studied anatomy at Paris and read Vesalius with Hobbes, who tics (partly psychological and partly physiological) and . . . a much enjoyed his company, “assisted Mr. Hobbes in draweing condensed psychological introduction to politics” (Laird, his schemes for his book of optiques, for he had a very fine quoted in MacDonald & Hargreaves). hand in those days for draweing, which draughts Mr. Hobbes “When Hobbes returned with Devonshire to England in did much commend” (cited in MacDonald and Hargreaves). October 1636 he was in the grip of a furor philosophicus: ‘the MacDonald & Hargreaves 58; Wing H2231. extreame pleasure I take in study’, he wrote to Newcastle, ‘overcomes in me all other appetites’ (Correspondence, 1.37). £15,000 [109710] Physics, optics, epistemology, psychology, metaphysics, and logic seem to have been his main concerns. In a letter Inscribed to the leader of the American relief mission to to Newcastle in 1635 he had expressed a wish to be the first Bolshevik Russia person to explain ‘the facultyes & passions of the soule’; by late 1636 he had informed Sir Kenelm Digby (who had been with 69 him in Paris) of his plans to write a ‘Logike’ (ibid., 1.29, 42). HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. New York: His interest in optics received a special stimulus in October Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934 1637 when Digby sent him a copy of Descartes’s Discours de la Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. With méthode, the work which also contained an essay on refraction, the dust jacket. Occasional underlining in pencil. Spine a touch faded the ‘Dioptrique’. Hobbes made a careful study of this essay,

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70 71 and rolled, extremities gently scuffed, a few pale markings to front tion to each other . . . Although Kosmos is by no means a book of board. A very good copy in the spine-toned dust jacket, a small tear popular science, it had a great success. The first edition of volume with loss of one letter on rear panel. I was sold out within two months; it was immediately translated first edition, inscribed by the author on the front into most European languages; and by 1852, eighty thousand cop- free endpaper “To Philip D Carroll, with the kind regards of ies had been sold” (PMM). Humboldt was immensely influential Herbert Hoover”. Hoover made a name for himself in the early and was widely regarded as the most famous “natural philoso- years of the First World War by organising aid shipments to pher” in the world at the time Darwin was on the Beagle. Darwin’s mainland Europe, working from an office in London; when copy of the English translation, Cosmos, is today at Down House. the US entered the conflict in 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed From his notebooks, we know that Darwin read volume I of Cos- him to run the United States Food Administration, which mos in 1845. post-war became the American Relief Administration. Veteran Löwenberg 199; Printing and the Mind of Man 320; Sparrow 106. aid worker Carroll was appointed to lead the ARA mission to Russia in 1921. “In his own words, Herbert Hoover viewed the £3,000 [111611] ARA relief efforts as ‘an opportunity to point out to the Russian people themselves that their economic system is hopeless.’ 71 However, to altogether attribute perhaps the greatest famine HUME, David. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of relief operation in the history of mankind to ulterior motives Morals. London: for A. Millar, 1751 would be unfair to the man who on his own initiative ultimately Duodecimo (162 × 96 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, double gilt saved ten million Russian lives” (Asgarov, Reporting from the rule border to covers, spine ruled gilt in compartments, red morocco Frontlines of the First Cold War, pp. 135–38). label, sprinkled edges, new endpapers. Contemporary bookplate of £875 [106166] Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park. With half-title, errata and final advert leaf, leaf L3 in cancelled state. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents and errata leaves trimmed slightly shorter, errata corrected 70 in a contemporary hand; a very good copy. HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. Kosmos. Entwurf einer first edition, second issue with the additional paragraph at physischen Weltbeschreibung. Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta the end of Appendix II, of Hume’s seminal essay, a reworking (Atlas by Krais & Hoffman), 1845–62 of part III of his Treatise of Human Nature. “No work, it seems, 5 text volumes, octavo, and atlas volume, landscape folio. Text vol- gave Hume himself more pleasure: ‘in my own opinion (who umes in contemporary red half morocco, spines attractively gilt, ought not to judge on that subject), [it] is of all my writings, black pebble-grain paper sides, marbled edges; atlas volume in pub- historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best’ lisher’s blindstamped cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Atlas with 42 (‘My own life’, in Essays, xxxvi). Instead of abridging the coloured maps and charts. Bookplates of Dr Hanns Vetter; small ink- Treatise, he redesigned his treatment of morals to concentrate stamps of John Proessl. Light rubbing, some scattered foxing, but a on the virtues of benevolence and justice, and on the argument very handsome set. that the standard of moral judgement is to be found in the first edition of the publication that Humboldt really consid- principles of utility and agreeableness” (ODNB). ered as his life work, together with the posthumously published Jessop, p. 22; Todd, pp. 193–4 (b). Atlas in the Volksausgabe (people’s edition). “The last of the five volumes was published posthumously from his notes . . . The book £2,500 [111393] contains a complete survey of the physical sciences and their rela-

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72 HUME, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. London: for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, 1753 4 volumes, duodecimo (163 × 100 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt double-rule border to covers, spines ruled gilt, contrasting morocco labels. Joints lightly rubbed and partly cracked but sound, spine ends and corners a little worn, split to leather on front cover of 73 volume one, first and last leaves with offset from the leather turn ins, some occasional spotting and the odd pencil note; a fine set. Includes Cantillon’s Essai in the edition read by Karl Marx first collected edition of Hume’s Essays. It was with this publication, Andrew Millar’s initiative, that Hume achieved 73 wide commercial success. The effect of this edition was to HUME, David. Discours politiques. Traduits de l’an- make his philosophy available “in a format which for the first glois par Mr. de M***. Amsterdam: Chez J. Schreuder & Pierre time was both accessible and calculated to encourage sales” Mortier le Jeune, 1754–7 (ODNB). Sets of the Essays and Treatises are invariably composed 5 volumes, octavo (150 × 92 mm). Late 19th-century ribbed cloth and of varying Todd issues, which “involves the resetting of all marbled boards, cloth tips, spines lettered gilt, sprinkled edges. separate volumes previously issued, the reissue of the earlier Titles printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, woodcut volumes with cancel titles and, where the cancels were not head and tail pieces and initials. Ownership inscription U. Celsing prepared in sufficient numbers, the further reissue of certain (slightly trimmed) at foot of first title. Margins trimmed fairly close, volumes with original titles still intact” (Todd). This quite occasional light spotting and a few pencil marginalia; a very good set. unsophisticated set consists of Todd’s earliest issue of each first edition of this important series of economic volume, with the exception of vol. III, which is a reissue of publications, published in view of the increasing interest in the first edition sheets, with a cancel title page. A former works of political economy appearing in France, England, owner has made pencil notes to the margins concerning the and Holland. In 1754 Schreuder and Mortier published the bibliographical points mentioned by Todd. The set comprises: first volume, Hume’s Political Discourses. Owing to the growing I. Essays Moral and Political. The fourth edition corrected, with interest and the relative scarcity of earlier publications, the additions. publishers decided to continue the series, issuing each volume with two title-pages, one a general title-page to the series II. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding. The Discours politiques, the other a title-page for the first work of the second edition, with additions and corrections. relevant volume. A sixth volume was published in 1758, rarely III. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. found with the set, without a general title-page, but the preface to that volume clearly shows that volume to be an addition to IV. Political Discourses. The second edition. the series in the view of the publishers. Chuo I.A.1; Fieser 12; Jessop p. 5; Todd, pp. 194–96. Details of the collection are as follows: £4,000 [113431] Volume I: HUME, David. Discours politiques de Mr. David Hume. Amsterdam, 1754.

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Volume II: O’HEGUERTY, Comte de Magnières. Essai sur les Intérêts du Commerce maritime. FORBONNAIS, François Véron de. Considérations sur les finances d’Espagne. FORBONNAIS, François Véron de. Réflexions sur la nécessité de comprendre l’étude du commerce et des finances dans celle de la politique. BOLINGBROKE, Lord. Réflexions politiques sur l’état present de l’Angleterre, principalement à l’égard de ses taxes et de ses dettes, et sur leurs causes et leurs conséquences. LE BLANC. Ouvrages sur le commerce, les finances, etc., qui ont paru depuis deux à trois ans. Amsterdam, 1756. Volume III: Discours prononcés au parlement d’Angleterre, dans la chambre des pairs, pour et contre la liberté du commerce au Levant, avec le bill, ou loi intervenue à ce sujet.

CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la nature du commerce en géné- 74 ral. Amsterdam, 1756. Volumes IV and V: GOUDAR, Ange. Les Intérêts de la France that the account is an authentic self-portrait of one whom mal entendus dans la branche de l’agriculture. Amsterdam, 1757. his friend Adam Smith, whose letter to the publisher William Strahan recounting Hume’s last days is printed at the end of Takumi Tsuda, in his Cantillon, Essai de la Nature du Commerce en the Life, described as approaching “as nearly to the idea of a général, (1979), stresses the rarity of these volumes: “Les Dis- perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of hu- cours politiques édités par Mauvillon sont devenus si rares au- man frailty will admit”. Smith also contributed the preface (cf. jourd’hui, que les renseignements sur cette collection sont Strahan’s letter to John Home of 3 March 1777, in G. Birkbeck souvent confus et contradictoires”. He gives a detailed list of Hill, Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, 1888, p. 362, n. 1). the collection (pp. 417–18), and a list of locations of various Samuel Pratt, a one-time priest and failed actor, depended volumes. The British Library has only the first five volumes; largely, as of 1774, upon his pen for support. Often writing interestingly, it was this edition of Cantillon that Karl Marx read under the name of Courtney Melmoth, he “possessed while researching in the British Museum for Das Kapital. considerable talents, but his necessities left him little time for Chuo 74; Higgs 694; Jessop, p. 24. reflection or revision” (DNB). This would seem to be true of £3,750 [113450] his Supplement to the Life, written in the same year as his Apology for the Life and writings of David Hume, which in places seems to 74 aim at a condemnation of Hume but ends emphasising his importance and talent. The anecdotal elements are valuable HUME, David. The Life, Written by Himself. London: for in giving an insight into the public concern for and interest W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777; [together with:] PRATT, in Hume’s atheism and whether or not this would lead to the Samuel Jackson. Supplement to the Life of David Hume, condemnation of his soul: “It is hardly to be credited, that Esq. Containing genuine Anecdotes, and a circumstan- the grave-diggers, digging with pick axes Mr. Hume’s grave, tial Account of his Death and Funeral. To which is added, should have attracted the gaping curiosity of the multitude. a certified Copy of his last Will and Testament. London: That, notwithstanding a heavy rain, which fell during the for J. Bew, 1777 internment, multitudes of all ranks gazed at the funeral procession, as if they had expected the hearse to have been 2 works bound in one volume, octavo (151 × 91 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, spine ruled gilt, red morocco label. En- consumed in livid flames, or encircled with a ray of glory”. graved frontispiece portrait to the first work. Corners worn, with loss Hume: Chuo 84; Jessop, p. 39; Todd 1777 (1); Vanderblue, p. 46; not in Tribe. of leather, some surface wear to covers, notably along the fore-edges, Pratt: sub Chuo 84; Jessop, p. 44. offset from the frontispiece onto the title, as usual; some light spotting and toning; still very good copies. £4,250 [108919] first edition, second issue (with the misprint “himself ” for “myself ”, line 3, p. 29), of the most endearing of autobiogra- phies, bound with a related contemporary work. Hume was aware that, owing to his views on religious questions, the manner of his death would be a matter of public curiosity. So when, in My Own Life, he set out to describe his feelings as he ap- proached his end, he was as much writing a manifesto for his philosophy as a piece of autobiography. It is generally agreed

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75 (HUME, David.) BURTON, John Hill. Life and Correspondence of David Hume. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846 2 volumes, octavo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, raised bands, brown morocco labels, compartments richly gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait to each volume. Boards lightly rubbed, extremities slightly worn and bumped, light 76 spotting to prelims and endmatter; front inner hinge of Volume I cracked but firm. A very good set. mize Huskisson’s economic philosophy and were even cited first edition of this monograph on David Hume, written by approvingly by Marx” (Roy Green in The New Palgrave). the historian and political economist John Hill Burton (1809– Goldsmiths’ 26120. 1881), who took into consideration not only Hume’s published works but “also drawing for the first time on the unpublished £1,250 [111977] manuscripts” (ODNB). Jessop, p. 46. 77 £300 [106560] HUTCHESON, Francis. System of Moral Philosophy. London: A. Millar, T. Longman, 1755 Cited approvingly by Marx 2 volumes, quarto (264 × 204 mm). Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked with brown calf spine in compartments ruled in gilt, with gilt- 76 lettered green morocco labels to spines, top edges black. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. Ownership signature to front free endpa- [HUSKISSON, William.] Essays on Political Economy: in per Vol. I. Spines neatly rebacked to style, tips restored, some scuff- which are illustrated the principal causes of the present ing to spine ends and stripping to boards, light foxing to endleaves, national distress; with appropriate remedies. London: for front free endpapers partially split at head, contents slightly foxed Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 with some occasional marks, a few faint inked lines underlining or highlighting portions of text. An excellent set. Octavo (222 × 141 mm). Original pebble grain cloth and grey boards, printed paper spine label. Ownership inscriptions dated 1834 and first edition. Widely acknowledged as the “father” of the 1864 to front endpapers. Spine ends and corners a little worn, spine Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) here darkened; an excellent, partly unopened copy. synthesises ideas that he had formulated as a minister and as the first edition, sometimes attributed to George Robertson, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1729– of these essays written by Huskisson after his resignation from 46). Organised into three books that were divided between two Wellington’s government in 1828. Basically Smithian in ap- volumes, A System of Moral Philosophy was the most voluminous proach, the Essays “propose some important financial reforms, and ambitious of Hutcheson’s writings: “it contains his most repudiate the landowners’ monopoly, and most notably, antic- comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good ipate J. S. Mill’s concept of a ‘general glut’. Overall, they epito- and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. His design in the System appears to have been to delineate a theodicy, in which God or providence is

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77 78 shown to have made provision for the happiness of the human . . . Now corrected and greatly enlarged by Owen Ruffhead race. It is curious that after taking the time and trouble to com- and J. Morgan. London: by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for J. pose so large a work Hutcheson should have decided not to Beecroft [and 27 others], 1772 publish it . . . His textbooks on logic, metaphysics, and moral Folio (347 × 220 mm). Contemporary polished calf, recently rebacked philosophy were reprinted in successive editions through the with raised bands and red morocco label, blind rolled borders to 18th century. These texts, together with A System of Moral Philos- covers incorporating a star tool along joints. Housed in a custom ophy, published by subscription in 1755, and his Inquiries, Essay, black cloth slipcase. Contemporary ownership inscription to title. and Illustrations, were widely used in Scottish and American uni- Restoration to tips and rear board, inner hinges reinforced with cloth versities in the 18th century. The interpretation and relevance tape, light foxing to title and a few later leaves, overall internally clean of his moral philosophy remains a subject of active scholarly and fresh. A very good copy. interest and controversy” (ODNB). There are several passages Revised edition of Jacob’s “most enduring and successful in this work “which foreshadow the theories subsequently de- work” (ODNB), possibly prompted by competition from the veloped by his great successor in the Wealth of the Nations” (Pal- rival dictionary of Timothy Cunningham, published 1764–5. grave). The book was published posthumously by his son, and First printed in 1729, A New Law Dictionary took Jacob nine years is prefaced by an account of his life; it is the only treatise by to write, and broke new ground in combining an abridgement Hutcheson for which a manuscript is known to have survived. of statute law with a dictionary of legal terminology. Jessop, p. 145. This copy has the contemporary armorial bookplate of John Rutherford, with the Rutherford clan’s motto “nec sorte nec £3,500 [107607] fato” to the front pastedown: this is probably the noted Scottish physician best remembered as founder of the clinical teaching 78 of medicine at Edinburgh University, where he was professor. JACOB, Giles. A New Law Dictionary. Containing the He died in 1779. The poet Walter Scott was his grandson. interpretation and definition of words and terms used in £750 [111403] the law; as also the law and practice, under the proper heads and titles. Together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law; our manners, customs, and original government . . . The ninth edition

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“An economist of major importance” (Schumpeter) (in 1954) summarized Jenkin as ‘an economist of major importance, whose main papers . . . form an obvious stepping stone 79 between J. S. Mill and Marshall’” (ODNB). JENKIN, Fleeming. Papers Literary, Scientific, &c. CBEL 3 1006. Edited by Sidney Colvin and J. A. Ewing. With a Memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Longmans, Green, and £650 [107944] Co., 1887 An early utility theorist 2 volumes, octavo. Original dark red cloth, gilt lettered spines, brown coated endpapers. Autotype portrait frontispiece of Jenkin 80 from a photograph by John Moffat (with tissue guard), 6 autotype plates of portraits, 54 diagrams in the text (8 folding). Contemporary JENNINGS, Richard. Natural Elements of Political ownership inscription of “W. H. Vardon” at head of volume I title Economy. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page; spines sunned, a few marks to covers and spines, abrasion at 1855 head of back cover of volume II, bindings a little shaken (but inner Octavo (191 × 118 mm). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, joints not split), nevertheless a good set with the publisher’s 24pp. spine decorated gilt in compartments, morocco label. Extremities catalogue at the end of volume II dated July 1887. lightly rubbed, the leather surface a little worn in places, light spotting first edition of these collected papers of the economist, to first and last few leaves; a very good copy. pioneer of electrical engineering and the telegraph, Fleeming first edition. The author of two works which are “notable as Jenkin (1883–1885), with a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson, early attempts to relate the study of psychology and physiology who had been an engineering student under Jenkin at Edin- to political economy. In his Natural Elements, Jennings defined burgh University. The works are divided into six sections re- political economy as investigating ‘the relations of human na- flecting Jenkin’s versatility: Literature and Drama, Speculative Sci- ture and exchangeable objects’. Consumption he defined as ence, Political Economy, Scientific and Technical Education, Applied Sci- concerned with the contemplated effect of external objects ence, Abstracts of Fleeming Jenkin’s Scientific Papers, and concluding upon man, and Production with the contemplated effect of with a list of the 35 British patents Jenkins filed for during his man upon external objects. Jennings’s treatment of the sen- lifetime. Jenkin also wrote several influential papers on eco- sations attending consumption led Jevons to describe him as nomics, including “The graphic representation of the laws of ‘the writer who appears to me to have most clearly appreciated supply and demand, and their application to labour”, “On the the nature and importance of the law of utility’. Hence it is as principles which regulate the incidence of taxes”, and “Trade an early utility theorist that Jennings has been remembered . . . unions: how far legitimate?”, initially published in the North He forecast the use of mathematical methods, without himself British Review in 1868, which “began his distinguished five- employing them” (R. D. Collison Black in The New Palgrave). paper contribution to political economy. He advanced modern The New Palgrave 2, p. 1008. wage theory and introduced the graphical method into Brit- ish economic literature. Observing that contemporary econo- £2,750 [108997] mists failed to acknowledge Jenkin’s priority, J. A. Schumpeter

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The history of early American advertising mist Max Sering, with his ink-stamp to the front free endpaper. In the late 19th century Sering (1857–1939) anticipated 81 Nazi expansionism with his theory of “inner colonisation”, ad- JENNY, Adele. Early American Trade Cards, from the vocating, by analogy with the American West, the settlement collection of Bella C. Landauer. New York: William Edwin of small-scale farmers in the predominantly Polish regions of Rudge, 1927 West Prussia and Posen, partly in response to concerns over Quarto. Original red boards patterned with overlapping-square pat- Germany’s growing population and consequent dependence tern in black and gilt, japon backstrip lettered in gilt, fore and bot- on foreign agriculture, though also to stem to tide of “Poloni- tom edges untrimmed. With the plain dust jacket lettered in black on zation”, a sentiment “infamously expressed in [Max] Weber’s spine. Double-page colour frontispiece, vignette title-page printed in 1895 inaugural address at the University of Freiburg” (Guettel, red and black, 44 plates. Spine a little faded, else an excellent copy al- German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United most entirely unopened in the attractive original boards, retaining the States, 1776–1945). dust jacket with a hint of damp-staining and light chipping to spine. Johannsen (1844–1928) “was a brilliant outsider with first edition, deluxe issue of 50 copies printed on rag-paper insights into theoretical economics that were ahead of his time and specially bound, this copy inscribed by Landauer on the . . . His work in economics illustrates that important advances front free endpaper in pencil. A selective catalogue of trade are often made by outsiders who do not suffer from the cards from the famous Landauer collection, which is reputed limitations of the export” (The New Palgrave). Born in Germany to have numbered over 100,000 individual specimens, and but spending much of his life in New York where he worked which the owner eventually donated to the New York Historical in the import-export business, he often used pseudonyms Society. to hide his unorthodox opinions from his employers. In Der Kreislauf des Geldes he “developed a view of the economy in terms £575 [105746] of circular flows of money and economic activities portrayed in the form of a wheel-of-wealth diagram. This was not the An unsung influence on Keynes; Max Sering’s copy first attempt of this kind, but was perhaps the first to provide 82 a complete statistical underpinning” (idem). Though Keynes wrote dismissively of him in the Treatise on Money, referring [JOHANNSEN, Nicolas August Ludwig Jacob.] J. J. O. to him as a “crank” in a footnote, and did not mention him Lahn. Der Kreislauf des Geldes und Mechanismus des at all in his General Theory, Johannsen in fact anticipated many Sozial-Lebens. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1903 of Keynes’s ideas, notably in his discussion of the saving- Octavo. Original red diagonally-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and deco- investment relationship and of fluctuations in investment as rated in gilt, triple frame to covers in blind, floral endpapers. Folding the strategic factor in business cycles. colour chart including the “Wheel-of-wealth” diagram tipped in to The New Palgrave II, pp. 1019–20. front pastedown as issued. Spine rolled and sunned with effaced library label to foot, extremities lightly rubbed, front cover very lightly £2,250 [112154] marked, contents tanned, red pencil mark to front pastedown and underlining to title, ink-stamp of the Volkwirtschaftliches Seminar, University of Freiburg to the title verso. A very good copy. first edition, rare, with no copies traced in auction records, this copy from the library of noted German agricultural econo-

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83 impossible for an error of the most trifling amount to JONES, Edward Thomas. An Address to bankers, be passed unnoticed; calculated effectually to prevent Merchants, Tradesmen, &c. Intended as an Introduction the evils attendant on the methods so long established; to a new system of Book-Keeping, in which it is and adapted to every species of trade . . . Bristol: Printed impossible for an Error of the most trifling amount to by R. Edwards, and sold by the author; by Grosvenor and Chater, be passed unnoticed; and that is calculated effectually to London; and all the principal booksellers in Great Britain and prevent the Evils attendant on the present Methods by Ireland, 1796 Single and Double Entry. London: Printed by H. Fry, and sold Quarto (263 × 212 mm), pp. [viii], 29, [3], 8, [5], 7, 7, [17]. Contempo- by W. Richardson, and T. Longman; also by R. Edwards, Bristol, rary full tree-calf, flat spine decorated in gilt with gilt lettering-piece. Joints strengthened, spine ends and corners restored, label slightly and all other Booksellers in Town and Country, 1795 chipped; occasional light spotting; a very good copy. Duodecimo in sixes (143 × 86 mm), pp. 33. Stab sewn as issued. Housed first edition of perhaps the most famous and influential of in a black cloth flat back box. Complete with the final blank leaf. Pen trial to first leaf, contemporary ownership inscription to final blank all English books on accountancy, copy number 1,933, licensed leaves. Closed tear to penultimate leaf just entering text but without to Mr David Bowen of Carmarthen. loss. Upper outer corner of final blank leaf torn away; a very good copy. “Jones patented a hybrid system that attempted to combine the simplicity of single entry book-keeping with the arithmetic An unrecorded issue of the prospectus for E. T. Jones’s work checks on accuracy provided by the double-entry system. His on book-keeping, one of three printings in 1795, the other claim that the system was infallible was contested however, two printed in Bristol, which is where Jones practised as an and he was the object of several attacks by contemporary pro- accountant. This Address, the half-title to which reads “Twenty ponents of the Italian system. Although his system was never Minutes useful Consideration for the Man of Business”, is adopted, his 1796 work was undoubtedly the first English work actually a lengthy prospectus for the longer work on book- on accounting to achieve international renown; it was imme- keeping that Jones planned for the following year (see following diately republished in America, and translated into German, item), for which he would attract more than 4,000 subscribers. Dutch, Danish, French, Italian and Russian. Jones made im- Extremely rare; the ESTC lists two Bristol printings of portant contributions to book-keeping, advocating the use of 32 pages and 24 pages (five copies and two copies located tabular account books, subsidiary ledgers, control accounts, respectively), but this London printing is not recorded there. and other devices designed to save labour and to adapt Pacio- OCLC locates a single copy, at the University of Mississippi. li’s 15th-century Italian system to the demands of the 19th cen- Cf. ICAEW, p. 85 (24-page Bristol printing). See also B. S. Yamey, “Edward tury” (Michael Chatfield, in History of accounting: an international Jones and the reform of book-keeping,” in Studies in the history of accounting, 1978, Ananias Charles Littleton & Basil Selig Yamey (eds.), pp. 313–24. encyclopaedia). “The [19th] century opened with the continuing reverbera- £1,750 [105272] tions of the publication in 1796 of Edward Thomas Jones’s English System of book-keeping . . . This book was translated into A landmark in the history of book-keeping several European languages, and gave rise to much controversy and provoked the publication of various ‘national’ systems of 84 book-keeping. The passions inspired by Jones’s book are with- JONES, Edward Thomas. Jones’s English System of out equal in the history of book-keeping and accountancy. The book-keeping, by single or double entry, in which it is bitter wrangling, in print and in public debate, which resolved

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85 86 around the figure of Geestevelt in Amsterdam in the 1660s, and was able to produce the same total profit figure as Förtsch was insignificant in comparison: it was local not international, had found, using the traditional double-entry system” (Bywa- and left no trace on subsequent developments. ter and Yamey, p. 222). A major element in Jones’s book, and in some of his later ICAEW, p. 62. This edition not in Goldsmiths’, Herwood, or Kress. publications, was a sharp and intemperate attack on the double-entry system . . . but the attack misfired, and Jones’s £4,500 [105569] attempt to replace the double entry by a modified form of single entry failed . . . Jones nevertheless made several fruitful 86 suggestions for improving the design and organization of KANT, Immanuel. Critik der practischen Vernunft.Riga: accounting records and the checks on the accuracy of the Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788 records.” (Yamey, Introduction to ICAEW catalogue). Octavo (200 × 120 mm). Contemporary paper boards with simulated Herwood 299; ICAEW, p. 85; Kress B.321. Not in Goldsmiths’. For a full tree-calf pattern, manuscript paper label to spine, red edges. Wood- discussion of Jones and his work, see B. S. Yamey’s chapter “Edward Jones and cut device to title; woodcut headpiece. Printed in Gothic type. Recent the reform of book-keeping”, pp. 313–324 in Littleton and Yamey, Studies in bookplate of F. Scriba to front pastedown, 2 laid-in leaves each ex- the History of Accounting (1956), and Bywater & Yamey, Historic Accounting tensively annotated in a distinct contemporary hand, one dated 1790 Literature: a companion guide, p. 196ff. and with scholarly notes, the other transcribing the text of Johann £7,500 [105519] Gottfried Herder’s poem Die verschiedene Weise der Moral, published in Friedrich Schiller’s Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1797; 20th-century 85 newspaper clipping on Kant also laid in. Extremities and spine lightly rubbed, pale marking to cover, contents browned as usual, contem- (JONES, Edward Thomas.) VESTIEU, N. A. (trans.) porary pencilled annotation to p. 266. A very good copy in a pleasing Nieuwe Methode van Boekhouden, zo wel Enkel als contemporary binding. Dubbel; Gevolgd Naar Het Engelsch Systema van E. T. first edition of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, the sec- Jones, Te Bristol . . . Welk Systema veel duidelyker en zee- ond of his critical works, in which he develops the concept of kerer dan de voorigen, veel geschikter om abuizen van al- categorical imperative. This work established Kant’s moral lerleijen aart te ontdekken, en in alle vakken van affaire, thinking as a cardinal reference in the successive development even nuttig is. Amsterdam: Johannes van der Hey, 1801 of ethics. “The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able Quarto (257 × 206 mm), pp. [12], 28, [2], 22, [10], [2], 16. 20th-century to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative decorative paper wrappers, spine perished. Housed in a blue flat-back cloth box. 3 folding plates. Library stamp of the Royal Library in the and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements Hague, with duplicate and release stamp to title. Spine perished, but involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which sewing intact, corners a little chipped; internally a crisp, clean copy. these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, first edition, very rare, of the Dutch translation of Edward demonstrated the operation of ‘pure reason’; and the simplic- Jones’s English System of Book-Keeping (1796). “Jones’s Dutch ity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame” translator and adapter, N. A. Vestieu, took as his illustrative (PMM). material the transactions recorded in N. F. Fortsch’s Instructie Warda 112; see Printing and the Mind of Man 226. . . . over het Italiaans Boekhouden, Amsterdam, 1801. He reworked £2,750 [111918] these transactions according to a modified English system,

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87 matters from Harry Dexter White. Negotiations to finalise KANT, Immanuel. Der Streit der Facultäten in drey the American loan agreement began on 13 September 1945 and were finally concluded on 6 December, when Halifax and Abschnitten. Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798 Vinson signed the Anglo-American Financial Agreement. Octavo (192 × 111 mm). Recent half calf and marbled boards, spine Keynes writes to update Vinson on the progress of the Bretton decorated gilt in compartments, morocco label, title label missing, Woods plan: “The Chancellor’s present intention is to present marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed. A little light spotting, as usual; a very good copy. the Bretton Woods Agreement to Parliament for approval as soon as possible … But the Chancellor of the Exchequer asks first edition of Kant’s three essays on the dispute between me to let you know that he must expect considerable criticism the faculties of Philosophy, Medicine, Law and Theology, in which and opposition from both sides of the House . . . Except in he tries to reconcile these last three with philosophy, while the event of our present financial talks breaking down, the simultaneously examining the relationship of each to govern- Chancellor assumes, of course, that signature will be given mental policies and human affairs. before the operative date of the 31st December. It would only Warda 193. be in the event of a break-down in the financial talks that this £375 [109858] programme would be interfered with. That, as I remember, was your understanding, namely, that whilst you hoped we would not wait for Congress, you were not expecting any action until The Bretton Woods agreement goes to Parliament our present talks had reached a successful conclusion. The 88 Chancellor also asks me to emphasise to you that in any case the period in which we could hope to bring the Final Act into KEYNES, John Maynard. Typed letter signed, to Fred. M. operation must depend, among other things, on the scale and Vinson, Secretary of the US Treasury. Washington, DC: 16 terms of the assistance we receive from the U.S.” November 1945 Two pages (280 × 216 mm), 29 lines, double spaced, approximately £5,000 [110071] 350 words, signed Keynes. Staple removed from top left corner, folded for mailing, one or two light creases; in excellent condition. A typed letter signed, on headed notepaper of the United Kingdom Treasury Delegation, Washington DC, written to Judge Frederic Vinson, who had taken over British financial

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ence treatises of the century. It “subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM), quickly and permanently changing the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society. 90 Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. £9,750 [113654] “One of the most influential books of the 20th century” (Skidelsky) 91 89 LAW, John. Oeuvres. Contenant les principes sur le nu- KEYNES, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences méraire, le commerce, le crédit et les banques. Avec des of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919 notes. Paris: Buisson, 1790 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, Octavo. Original marbled paper wrappers stitched as issued, paper titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins, spine label with manuscript titling, uncut. Occasional light spotting. burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. A remarkably well preserved copy. first edition, first impression of what Skidelsky calls “one first collected edition of Law’s works, edited by Gabriel- of the most influential books of the 20th century”. “The Eco- Étienne de Sénovert, who “made a point of highlighting its nomic Consequences of the Peace has a claim to be regarded as current relevance. ‘Credit,’ he wrote at the beginning of his Keynes’s best book. In none of his others did he succeed so [lengthy] introduction to the edition, citing [Sir James] Steuart well in bringing all his gifts to bear on the subject in hand.” for corroboration, ‘plays so considerable a role in the political economy of modern nations, and is connected so intimately Moggridge A2.1.1. to their prosperity, and even to their existence, that it could be £1,750 [106259] said that the science of government is nothing but the science of credit itself.’ Sénovert’s assessment of Law was, however, 90 judiciously neutral. As he went on to emphasise, both in the rest of his introduction and in the notes that he added KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of to Law’s own works, it was difficult to decide whether Law’s Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and system was a real example or a dreadful warning” (Michael Co., Limited, 1936 Sonenscher, Sans-Culottes: an Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, double rules French Revolution, Princeton UP 2008, pp. 314–15). Decidedly to spine gilt and to boards in blind. With the dust jacket. Ownership uncommon in commerce and thinly represented in British and inscription of Winifred M. Cassidy to front free endpaper. Very light Irish institutional libraries: Copac locates only Cambridge, wear to the spine ends of the dust jacket; one or two short marginal Leeds, and Senate House; OCLC adds a little over two dozen tears; an excellent copy. locations worldwide. first edition, first impression, of this key work. Written in Goldsmiths’ 14361; Kress B.1919. the aftermath of the great depression, Keynes’ masterpiece is generally regarded as one of the most influential social sci- £2,000 [111753]

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92 LAW, John. Oeuvres complètes publiées pour la première 93 fois par Paul Harsin. Paris: Librairie du recueil Sirey, 1934 94 3 volumes, octavo. Original printed wrappers, uncut and largely unopened. 1 plate in volume one. Short tear at foot of spine to volume LENIN. [In Cyrillic:] Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii (The 1; an excellent set. Development of Capitalism in Russia). St Petersburg: A. first edition of this important and scholarly edition of Leifert, 1899 Law’s works, the first modern attempt to include all of Law’s Octavo (214 × 143 mm). Recent blue half morocco and marbled writings and correspondence, preceded only by the collected paper boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt, edges decorated with a edition published in 1790 by Sénovert. More recent scholarship floral motif. 3 plates (2 folding). Ownership signature at head of title. has discounted some of the works included here as Law’s, but Extremities lightly rubbed, title page strengthened in the gutter; a it remains a very useful edition. very good copy. INED 2693 bis; Mattioli 1949. first edition of Lenin’s most important and substantial work, his only genuine contribution to economics, in the £1,250 [105281] original Russian language. “The Development of Capitalism in Russia is an example of Lenin’s acute observation of all facets 93 of the Russian economy. Its detailed documentation of the (LAW, John.) [MACKWORTH, Sir Humphrey, attrib.] peculiarities of Russian capitalism – peculiarities stemming Observations on the Scheme of Mr. Law, in France, from the ‘simultaneous existence of the most advanced forms of industry and semi-medieval forms of agriculture’ – provides and of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, in Great-Britain: And a concrete answer to the questions of how it was possible for Concerning the Establishing Paper-Money, and Forcing the October revolution to succeed twenty years later and to Credit. London: for W. Boreham, [1720] what it owed its specific features” (Walicki). Folio (302 × 202 mm). Sometime folded for insertion into a smaller “On the industrial side, Russia’s late arrival entailed an active volume, now disbound. Margins unevenly trimmed as part of the pre- role for the Tsarist state in fostering industrialization and vious binding process, lightly creased in places, still very good. an influx of foreign capital to finance the development. This first and only edition of a very scarce work comparing the meant that Russia, although a newly industrializing country financial schemes of John Law and Sir Humphrey Mackworth, in the 1890s, had a larger proportion of its industrial labour two figures infamous in financial history for their activities in force in large factories than older industrialized countries like paper credit and speculation, apparently written by Mackworth Britain. Lenin saw these as predictable consequences of rapid himself in defence of his own projects and schemes, as outlined capitalist growth which made any going back to pre-capitalist in his 1720 pamphlet A Proposal for Payment of the Publick Debts by communal forms of village organization impossible. The Appropriated Funds. In defending his own proposals, Mackworth growth of large factories also meant concentration of workers criticises those of John Law, saying that his monetary system in a few places, facilitating their combination in trade union was without any form of security or underlying value. activities. These economic circumstances – the growth of Goldsmiths’ 5845; Hanson 2749; Sperling 222. ESTC lists only five copies commercial relations in the countryside and of concentration worldwide. of the urban proletariat – dictated for Lenin, the political strategy of a socialist party which hoped to win power by mass £2,750 [109322] 50 Peter Harrington 126

94 95 96 organization. In this sense he can be said to have developed 4 volumes, large octavo. Original red crushed half morocco by the an economic framework for a Marxist political theory. The Riverside Press bindery (ink-stamp to front free endpapers), flat bands Development of Capitalism in Russia is even to this day the only to spines forming compartments, titles direct to second and third within comprehensive economic history of a country from a Marxist one-line frames gilt, two-line frames to remaining compartments gilt, red cloth sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, brown endpapers, perspective” (Meghnad Desai in The New Palgrave). bound red silk page-markers. 4 tissue-guarded hand-coloured IESS (1899a); see The New Palgrave 3, pp. 162-64 and Walicki, A History of photographic views of the Lincoln Memorial, 4 photogravure portrait Russian Thought, p. 440ff. frontispieces with captioned tissue-guards, 32 further plates and maps. A few mild spots to cloth, light toning, partly unopened. An excellent set. £4,250 [107821] the “manuscript edition”, number 75 of 1,000 sets, each 95 containing a leaf of Beveridge’s original working manuscript. Beveridge retired from politics in 1922 and dedicated his last LESLIE, T. E. Cliffe. Essays in Political and Moral few years to writing what has come to be regarded as “the Philosophy. Dublin: Hodges, Foster, & Figgis; and Longmans, first Lincoln biography to meet modern scholarly standards” Green, & Co., London, 1879 (ANB). He had a horror of mistakes and would “work over his Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers with border material again and again, rewriting the entire chapter many and central publisher’s device blocked in blind, yellow surface-paper times – a single chapter in the second volume was rewritten endpapers. Binder’s ticket (Cavenagh, Dublin) to rear pastedown; fifteen times – until it had taken a shape which appeared to contemporary ownership inscription and partially obliterated later him fairly complete . . . in that form he submitted it to recog- gift inscription to front free endpaper. Extremities lightly rubbed and nized experts in the different phases of the history, asking, or bumped, spine darkened, a few portions of mild cockling to cloth, short split to head of front joint, superficial cracking to front inner rather urging them to correct misstatements of fact, or wrong hinge. A better than good copy. inferences, or an unconscious bias of treatment” (Preface). This scrupulous treatment of the facts of Lincoln’s life almost first edition. Leslie’s friend and contemporary John Kells certainly prevented Beveridge from completing the biography Ingram summarised Leslie’s work as “distributed under two before his death in 1927. In order to ensure that the project was heads, that of applied political economy, and that of discussion finished, his wife handed his research over to Carl Sandburg, on the philosophical method of the science” (ODNB). He was one whose hagiographical account of Lincoln’s later career con- of the few Victorian economists to consider the consequences trasted strongly with Beveridge’s: “so thorough and profes- of growing militarism and made valuable contributions to the sionalized a biography that he might have incorporated more debate on the economic condition of Ireland. of Lincoln’s Whiggish political roots into his work; but Bev- Sraffa 3419. eridge, a Republican progressive and former senator from In- £225 [109525] diana, had become so disillusioned with his own party that he actually found very little to admire in Lincoln as a politician” The first Lincoln biography to meet modern scholarly standards (Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln, p. 456). 96 £2,500 [111415] (LINCOLN, Abraham.) BEVERIDGE, Albert J. Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928

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“The basis of the principles of democracy” (PMM) elaborating a very much longer reply. A Third Letter for Tolera- tion was completed in June 1692, and appeared in November” 97 (ODNB). The controversy ceased for the moment, but a fourth [LOCKE, John.] A Letter Concerning Toleration. The letter was left in manuscript at Locke’s death in 1702; it was Second Edition Corrected. London: for Awnsham Churchill, first published in the Posthumous Works (1706). 1690; [bound with] — A Second Letter Concerning Together with Locke’s Treatises on Government, these Letters on Toleration. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1690; Toleration “provide a classic example of the empirical approach [and] — A Third Letter for Toleration, to the Author to social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy” (PMM 163). of the Third Letter concerning Toleration. London: for Yolton 10, 25, 27; Wing L2748, L2755, L2765. Christopherson, 13-19; 99-100. See Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692 Sowerby 1338. 3 works bound in one volume, the first Letter duodecimo (137 x 70 mm), the others quarto (201 x 142 mm). Contemporary plain calf, £18,750 [110712] sides with single rule blind border with fleurons at corners, neatly rebacked to style. Housed in a brown morocco-backed bookform fold- 98 ing case, spine lettered in gilt. First Letter complete with final integral advert leaves; Second Letter bound without half-title; Third Letter LOCKE, John. Two Treatises of Government: in the complete with half-title and final errata leaf, publisher’s adverts ver- former, the false principles and foundation of Sir Robert so. Ex-libris the Charles Holbrook Library, Pacific School of Religion, Filmer, and his followers, are detected and overthrown. with bookplate (with deaccession stamp) and oval inkstamps to front The latter, is an Essay concerning the true original, free endpaper and Second Letter title page. Corners neatly repaired, clean and fresh internally, very good copies. extent, and end of Civil Government. The fifth edition. London: A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton and E. Symon, 1728 first editions of the Second and Third Letters, second edition in English of the first Letter; collecting in one volume Octavo (196 × 118 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label, two-line blind ruled border on sides enclosing floriate roll tool Locke’s three Letters on Toleration. border, floriate corner pieces, red speckled edges. Contemporary Locke’s original Epistola de tolerantia (Gouda, 1689) was trans- armorial bookplate of Basil Beridge. An excellent copy, clean and lated into English by a friend of Locke’s, William Popple, a crisp, with the terminal advertisement leaf. merchant of Unitarian views and a convinced advocate of re- A lovely copy of one of Locke’s principal works, first published ligious toleration. “In April 1690 an Oxford clergyman, Jonas in December 1689 (the title page is dated 1690), and conceived Proast, published a vigorous attack, The Argument of the Letter as a vindication of the Revolution of 1688–9, which had “saved Concerning Toleration Consider’d and Answer’d. Locke replied later the Nation when it was on the very brink of Slavery and Ruine” in the summer with a short Second Letter Concerning Toleration; he (Locke’s preface). This was the only edition to appear “during chose not to reveal his identity and wrote as a third party tak- the half-century from the death of Queen Anne (1714) to the ing the side of the author of the original Letter. The Second Letter failed to satisfy Proast: a further attack, A Third Letter Concerning Toleration, appeared in February 1691, and provoked Locke into

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98 99 100 end of the Seven Years’ War (1763) . . . except in editions of the malevolent – he thought the cruelty they frequently displayed collected works” (ODNB). as having been learned by bad example – but he did see them Yolton 33c. as naturally wilful and selfish” (ODNB). Yolton 171. £1,750 [111952] £750 [111312] 99 LOCKE, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. 100 London: for a Society of Stationers, and sold by J. Baker, 1710 (MACHIAVELLI.) GENTILLET, Innocent. A Discourse Duodecimo (159 × 92 mm). Nineteenth-century marbled boards, upon the meanes of wel governing and maintaining in recently rebacked to style with speckled calf, raised bands to spine good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie. Divided forming compartments ruled with ropework fillets gilt, red morocco into three parts, namely, the counsell, the religion, and the label to second, vellum tips, red speckled edges. Browning, running policie, which a prince ought to hold and follow. Against heads just trimmed at pp. 286–7. A very good copy. Nicholas Machiavell the Florentine. Translated into English An interesting piracy, the first edition not printed by A. and by Simon Patericke. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1608 J. Churchill and the seventh overall. Baker, a neighbour of the Churchills on Paternoster Row, had previously limited himself Folio (255 × 180 mm). Contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked and recornered. Without initial and final blanks, but textually complete, to printing such texts as the pornographic Secret Memoirs of the with two final leaves bearing “A table of the maximes”. Bookplate of Duke and Dutchess of O (1708) and Bess O’Bedlam’s Love to her Wittersham House. Worn in places, outer leaves somewhat darkened, Brother Tom (1709). He appears not to have repeated his foray small paper restorations at head and foot of title affecting the frame into piracy, at least for the present text: the next edition, in two small places but not the text, trimmed a little closely at head published in 1712, again bore the imprint of the Churchill shaving the frame in places and very occasionally just touching the brothers; the following year Baker printed a number of headline, a good copy. pamphlets on commerce by Daniel Defoe. second edition in english of the work popularly known Some Thoughts Concerning Education, first published in 1693, as Antimachievel, a translation of Discours sur les moyens de bien occupies an important place in the history of educational gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre principau- theory. The ideas in the book originated from a series of letters té (1576). Despite being widely discussed in Elizabethan and which Locke wrote in 1684 from the Netherlands to advise Jacobean England, Machiavelli’s Il principe was not published in a friend, Edward Clarke, on his son’s education. Locke put a complete English translation until 1640, a remarkable delay forward the idea of the pupil as a malleable entity, as a person perhaps partly explained by the existence of Patericke’s trans- who could be improved by a good education, but also corrupted lation, first published in 1602, which cited enough of Machi- by a bad one. He held that “the minds of children [are] as easily avelli’s original to serve as a substitute for it. turned, this way or that, as water itself.” “For Locke the central STC 11744. purpose of education was education into virtue, and this meant training in self-control: ‘The Principle of all Vertue and £2,750 [111921] Excellency lies in a power of denying our selves the satisfaction of our own Desires, where Reason does not authorize them’ (section 38). Locke did not regard children as innately cruel or

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101 extremities slightly rubbed and worn, inner hinges cracked but firm, light spotting to prelims and endmatter. A very good set. MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Illustrated second edition of this work by the Scottish economist Hen- ry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902). “Macleod, who agreed in the with numerous engravings. London: Office of the National main with Richard Whately’s views, regarded value as consist- Illustrated Library, 1852 ing in exchangeability, not as dependent on utility or cost of 2 volumes, octavo (183 × 125 mm). Bound by Bayntun in near- production. He quoted Whately’s dictum that the diver was contemporary dark blue half calf, blue cloth sides, twin labels to employed because the pearl was desired and thus valuable: the spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Wood- pearl was not valuable on account of the cost of the diver. He engraved frontispieces with tissue guards, vignette half-titles, 116 vignettes in text. Spines darkened and rubbed, joints cracked at spine was the first writer to give due stress to the power of interest ends but text block tight, front hinge of Vol. II cracked but holding, rates to lure the world’s gold across national boundaries; and tips a little worn, a little light foxing to contents. A very good set. the first to give a detailed account of the process by which bank second edition, and the first thoroughly illustrated one, credit is created. His insistence that the quantity of credit, not following Bentley’s 1841 first edition, which had only four the quantity of notes and coin, was the driving force in the plates over three volumes. An attractive copy in the original economy was common enough for his time; but unlike most cloth of this important early work on popular delusions of all of those who held it, Macleod remained a stern opponent of types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for inflationary finance” (ODNB). phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, £500 [104233] urban myths, as well as economic events such as the tulip bub- ble. Still in print, Mackay’s book has had a profound influence 103 on economics and sociology, with many modern economists MAILLET, Benoît de. Telliamed ou entretiens d’un phi- referring to his work when analysing the stock market bubbles of our own age. “Charles Mackay’s passionate erudition and losophe indien avec un missionaire françois sur la di- urbane, unaffected prose style contributed to make him one of minution de la mer, la formation de la terre, l’origine de the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian journalism l’homme, &c. Mis en ordre sur les mémoires de feu M. de as a dignified profession” (ODNB). Maillet par J. A. G[uers]. Amsterdam: chez L’Honoré & Fils, 1748 £1,750 [102539] 2 volumes bound in one, octavo (195 × 120 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, raised bands, spine elaborately gilt in 102 compartments with central floral tools, woodcut device on each title. MACLEOD, Henry Dunning. The Theory and Practice of Late 19th- or early 20th-century ownership stamp to bottom margin Banking. Second Edition. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, of title page of Volume 1. Two or three small worm holes to joints. Oc- & Dyer, 1866 casional light spotting or toning; an excellent copy. 2 volumes, octavo (209 × 133 mm). Contemporary dark red-brown first edition of the author’s fundamental work, dedicated to half calf, marbled sides, raised bands, dark green and tan morocco “l’illustre Cyrano de Bergerac”, in which he expounds his un- labels, compartments richly gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol- biblical theories on the formation of the earth. “Great fame was ume I with bookplate of Archibald Spens to front pastedown and a achieved by de Maillet in Telliamed [published in] 1748, 1749, 1755 contemporary gift inscription to front flyleaf. Spines lightly sunned, (translated into English and published in London in 1750 and in

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Baltimore in 1797). He introduced the concept of slow changes Quarto (280 × 220 mm). Contemporary black quarter calf, marbled over a great period of time and that of a diminishing universal boards, smooth spine in compartments separated by double rules ocean as well as the evolution of marine life into terrestrial life. gilt, titles gilt on red ground to second. Everybody read Telliamed, which had circulated before in manu- first quarto edition and second edition overall; script form among the forbidden literature in France” (Dederick first published in 1798. “In 1803 Malthus published a greatly Ward and Albert Carozzi, Geology Emerging, Introduction). expanded second edition of the Essay, incorporating details Benoît de Maillet (1656–1738), a well-travelled diplomat, of the population checks that had been in operation in many based his ultraneptunian theory on observations made in Eu- different countries and periods. Although nominally a second rope, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region. “Maillet edition, it was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new must have taken full advantage of his fluency in Arabic to gain work. He did not claim originality for the idea that population access to the manuscripts of many ancient Arabic authors, such tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to the second as al-Khayyami, from whom he may have borrowed the original edition he stated that in writing the first edition he had deduced idea of the diminution of the sea. For the publication of his sys- the principle of population from the writings of David Hume, tem Maillet relied on the Abbé J. B. Le Mascrier, who had previ- Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, and Richard Price, but that in the ously edited the Description de l’Égypte. Only ten years after Mail- intervening period he had become aware that much more had let’s death did Le Mascrier reluctantly agree to the publication been published on the subject. He nevertheless believed that of the first edition (Amsterdam, 1748), which was followed by a even more remained to be done, especially in describing the second and third. Two English translations were also published. means by which populations are checked and in drawing out the This unusual delay in publication resulted from the failure of Le practical implications of the principle of population. Mascrier’s editorial work to reduce the dangerous nature of the In the second edition, he made clear what was only implicit in system; actually, he was willing to be acknowledged only as edi- the first, that prudential restraint should, if humanly possible, tor of the third edition. Indeed, even when presented under the be ‘moral restraint’—that is, delayed marriage accompanied by name of a fictitious Indian philosopher (his own name spelled strictly moral pre-marital behaviour, although he admitted that backward), Maillet’s concepts were unorthodox and highly ma- moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be oc- terialistic. The proposed system did not admit God as an omnif- casional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that icent ruler, postulating instead an eternal universe undergoing all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice, natural changes at random” (Carozzi in DSB). in the second edition he attempted to lighten this ‘melancholy Barbier Vol. 4, p. 673; Sabin 43891; Ward and Carozzi 1457. hue’ (Essay on the Principle of Population, 1st edn, 1798, iv) and ‘to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay’ (2nd £850 [113357] edn, 1803, vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into 104 the world without the means of supporting them, would tend MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of to increase rather than diminish individual happiness” (ODNB). Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths’ 18640; Kress B4701; see Printing and the Mind of Man Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects 251 (1798 Essay). Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils £6,000 [102082] which it Occasions. A New Edition, very much Enlarged. London: J. Johnson, 1803

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105 MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. The Works. London: William Pickering, 1986 107 8 volumes, octavo. Original red buckram, spines lettered gilt on a black background. Advertising flyer for the publication loosely Wales to front pastedown, with their stamp and release stamp to head inserted. In excellent condition. of first title. Several 18th-century ownership inscriptions to front free first collected edition of Malthus’s works, published endpaper. Extremities rubbed, corners a little worn. Without the as part of the Pickering Masters series, edited by Professor E. initial and divisional blank leaves. Some spotting and embrowning throughout; a very good copy in a well preserved contemporary A. Wrigley and Dr David Souden, with a bibliography of the binding. author’s works. “Each Pickering Masters edition comprises an author’s complete published works and in some cases works third edition of this assemblage of texts, including a valu- directly influenced by him as well. Translations into English able anthology of works on accounting etc., all seldom avail- are given in parallel with foreign language originals” (flyer). able individually. The annexed tracts, following the first work of [xvi], 340 pages, are: £350 [112211] 1. [Drop-head title:] The Collection of Sea Laws, gathered for the 106 use and benefit of all sea-faring men. Folio, pp. 43–78. MALYNES, Gerard. Consuetudo, vel Lex Mercatoria: or, 2. MARIUS, John. Advice concerning bills of exchange . . . with the ancient law-merchant. In three parts, according to two exact tables of the New Stile and Old stile . . . The fourth edition, very much enlarged and corrected by the author. London, Horne, the essentials of traffick. Necessary for statesmen, judg- 1684. Pp. [iv], 42. es, magistrates, temporal and civil lawyers, mint-men, merchants, mariners, and all others negotiating in any 3. DAFFORNE, Richard. The merchant’s mirrour or, directions for parts of the world. Whereunto are Annexed the follow- the perfect ordering and keeping of his accounts: framed by way of ing Tracts, . . . The third edition, wherein are inserted the debitor and creditor. London, Flesher for Horne, 1684. Pp. [xx], 54, [250, sample accounts]. three tracts following, never before printed in any former impression. I. The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of 4. COLLINS, John. An introduction to merchants-accompts; England asserted. By Richard Zouch . . . II. The ancient containing seven distinct questions or accompts. London, Godbid sea laws of Oleron, Wisby, and the Hanse-towns, still in for Horne, 1675. Pp. [128]. force. Rendered into English for the use of navigators. By 5. LISET, Abraham. Amphitalami, or, the Accountants closet, be- G. Miege. III. The Sovereignty of the British Seas, proved ing an abridgement of Merchants-accounts. London, Flesher for by records, history, and the municipal laws of this king- Horne, 1684. Pagination erratic but text complete. dom. By Sir John Buroughs. London: T. Basset, R. Chiswell, 6. The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted. London, T. Horne and E. Smith, 1686 Tho. Basset and Rich. Chiswell, 1686. Pp. [8], 87–130. Folio (345 × 220 mm), various paginations. Contemporary calf, spine 7. The Ancient Sea-Laws of Oleron, Wisby, and the Hanse-Towns, blind ruled in compartments, direct lettered gilt. Ex-libris of the still in Force. London, J. Redmayne, T. Basset, and Eliz. Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Smith, 1686. Pp. 28.

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Goldsmiths’ 2639; ICAEW, p. 73; Kress 1639. Wing M365. This edition not in 109 Herwood. £1,750 [105549] first edition, first impression. The third volume in a planned four book series exploring “the direction of man’s 107 efforts for the attainment of material ends: and to search for MANDELA, Nelson. The Illustrated Long Walk to possibilities of improvements”. The first volume was Principles Freedom: The Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown and of Economics, published in 1890; the second, Industry and Trade, appeared in 1919. Marshall had intended to finish with a fourth Company, 1996 volume entitled Progress – its Economic Conditions, but old age pre- Quarto. Original black quarter Wassa Goatskin, brown cloth sides, vented him. gilt rules to boards, blue textured endpapers, all edges gilt. Laid-in is the photograph of Nelson Mandela by Benny Gool, as issued. Housed Batson, p. 41; Keynes 82. in the publisher’s presentation box lined with blue moiré silk and the £850 [111779] original packaging. Illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions. A fine copy. 109 first us edition, signed limited issue. Number 76 of 425 copies quarter bound by hand in Wassa goatskin from South MARX, Karl, & Vilfredo Pareto. Le Capital. Extraits faits Africa. It includes a specially commissioned portrait of Nelson par M. Paul Lafargue. Paris: Guillaumiin & Cie., 1893 Mandela, taken by Benny Gool, and is individually signed and Small octavo (144 × 90 mm). Original light brown ribbed cloth, spine dated by Mandela. This illustrated and abridged edition of and front cover lettered in black. Frontispiece portrait of Marx. Lower Mandela’s biography was first published in the UK earlier the corner of front cover bumped. Paper stock lightly browned through- same year; the unabridged edition was first published in the out as usual, portrait lightly foxed; a very good copy. UK in 1994. first edition of this selection from Marx’s Capital, published in the series Petite bibliothèque économique française et étrangère, the £2,875 [109687] product of a surprising collaboration. Lafargue, a founder of the French socialist party and later Marx’s son-in-law, of all the 108 French Marxist writers closest to German orthodoxy, made the MARSHALL, Alfred. Money Credit & Commerce. London: selection of the extracts. Pareto, whose economic and socio- Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1923 logical views by no means coincided with those of Marx, pro- Octavo. Original blue-green boards, titles to spine gilt, two-line rules vided the lengthy introduction. stamped in blind to head and tail of boards continued in gilt to spine, Einaudi 3771; Mattioli 2285; Sraffa 3881. with the dust jacket. Clipped signature from a letter “Yours very truly, Alfred Marshall” pasted to front pastedown. Spine very slightly frayed £450 [105286] at foot. Dust jacket with loss to head and centre of spine, neatly repaired, the ‘f ’ of Marshall’s signature just trimmed; a very good copy.

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110 MASCALL, Edward James. A Statement of the Duties of Customs, and those of Excise, payable upon all foreign articles imported into or exported from Great Britain. Also, the duties outwards; the bounties and allowances on British goods, and those on the fisheries; the duties coastwise; the quarantine and tonnage duties; together with tables of scavage, baillage, Levant and Russia dues. 111 The whole brought up to the 5th September 1808. London: by permission of the proprietors of the Encyclopaedia by Edward James Mascall, and sold by Samuel Tipper, 1808 . . . Not for sale. London: J. Innes, 1825 Octavo in half-sheets (211 × 130 mm). Contemporary diced russia, rebacked with original spine laid down, blind-rolled foliate, single- Octavo (217 × 130 mm). Contemporary vellum spine and sprinkled fillet and hatched borders to covers incorporating a single-fillet rule boards, covers incorporating the engraved armorial bookplate of the gilt, raised bands to spine forming compartments, titles direct to sec- Rev. James Edward Gambier M.A. of Langley, Kent, within a black ond and ship motifs to remaining compartments gilt, marbled edges rule border, and with his ownership inscription dated 1824 to title; and endpapers, turn-ins tooled in gilt. Bookseller’s ticket of Samuel presumably his annotation to front free endpaper: “Of these essays, Tipper and armorial bookplate of M. Sainsbury to front pastedown. that on government is by much the most valuable. To me it appears far Extremities rubbed, a few small markings to covers, small section to superior to anything I ever read on that subject”, and another note to loss to lower outer corner f. D2 to no loss of text, the very occasional rear endpaper. In very good condition. marginal spot. A very good copy, internally crisp and fresh. first collected edition, printed hors commerce in an first edition, decidedly uncommon handbook of edition of only 50 copies (NCBEL III, col. 1549). Macvey maritime commerce, with just two copies in British and Irish Napier’s invitation to contribute to his Supplement to the sixth institutional libraries (Senate House and Manchester), OCLC edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1816–24) provided Mill adds two in the Netherlands. Mascall was a prolific publisher with an excellent opportunity for propagating Utilitarianism. of commercial handbooks, and this iteration was compiled in For all the personal fame Mill earned by the History of British light of the opening of trade with the Portuguese colonies of India and Elements of Political Economy, “philosophic Radicalism” South America and the expiry of agreements governing trade as a movement still lacked a house journal of the sort which with the United States. the Westminster Review (begun in 1824) was to become. The essay on Government – regarded, wrote John Stuart Mill in £375 [109576] his Autobiography, as a “masterpiece of political wisdom” by the philosophic Radicals – became a sort of authorised A “masterpiece of political wisdom” (J. S. Mill) Benthamite primer on political theory; and when it was issued again, in 1828, attracted Macaulay’s well-known attack in the 111 Edinburgh Review, marking a notable juncture in the history of MILL, James. Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, British liberalism. Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the However, “Government” must not simply be viewed (or Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and printed feted) in splendid isolation. “To place it in the context of Mill’s thought, one must relate it not only to his philosophy and

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111 112 113 educational theory, but as well and equally importantly, to the to produce: a small set of general principles derived from an other eleven essays written for the Supplement . . . This point examination of the structure of the human mind, a set that we would not be so important if these essays were duplications of can then use to formulate practical measures for the improve- material found elsewhere. But they are not. With the exception ment of human welfare” (Mander & Sell, 790–91). of three minor and early essays [‘Banks for Savings’, ‘Beggar’, and ‘Benefit Societies’], the rest are products of his mature £1,500 [107491] thought, and are also considered statements on the subjects concerned. Despite Mill’s statement that they were ‘all of them 113 written against time,’ they represent, in total, a text book on [MILL, James.] A Fragment on Mackintosh: being stric- government, as Mill recognized. The selective reprinting of tures on some passages in the dissertation by Sir James them illustrates this awareness. In both reprints, he made Mackintosh, prefixed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. changes to the texts, and to “Government” in particular, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835 extensive changes” (Fenn, James Mill’s Political Thought, 1987, p. Octavo (217 × 131 mm). Recent quarter calf, red morocco label, mar- 115). bled sides and edges. General light foxing. A very good tall copy. The bibliography of Mill’s contributions is complicated. first edition of the last published work of James Mill (1773– Government was printed separately in 1821 (London, Traveller 1836), Scottish political philosopher, staunch Benthamite, a Office, 5 May 1821), “not for sale, but for gratis distribution” key influence on David Ricardo, and father of John Stuart Mill. (Bain, p. 191), and separate reprints of other articles followed. The Fragment is a stinging attack on Sir James Mackintosh’s Dis- According to Bain, the first collected edition (four essays) was sertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830), in which both printed in 1825, and the second (seven essays) in 1828. Bentham’s radicalism and Mill’s Essays on Government (1820) Goldsmiths’ 25458 (incorrectly dating this collection 1828); McCoy, Freedom were assailed by the Whig polemicist. “With its withering sar- of the Press M 336. casm and unremitting ridicule, Mill’s Fragment is a disagree- £1,250 [107560] able and intemperate book. But it makes an effective case for utilitarian politics and moral philosophy” (ODNB). John Stuart 112 Mill’s biographer Michael St. John Packe writes amusingly that “‘Old Mill’ was in a gingery mood, having just effectively satis- MILL, James. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human fied his long-felt desire to ‘touch up Mackintosh before I die’. Mind. London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1829 He had touched him up to such effect that, out of common de- 2 volumes, octavo. Recent half calf, marbled sides, titles to spines gilt cency to the dead, he had been forced to hold up publication of with gilt raised bands, red sprinkled sides. Occasional spotting or the book until the old philosopher had mouldered in his grave browning to contents. An excellent set, attractively bound. a year or two” (The Life of John Stuart Mill, 1954, p. 197). first edition of Mill’s chief philosophical work. “Mill tries to show how all mental activity can be explained by the ways in £500 [110080] which the sensations obtained through sense receptors, such as ears, eyes and nose, associate with each other in an organized way, and form more complex emotions, ideas and capaci- ties. It is largely an exercise in logical construction rather than a psychological account . . . The result is what Mill intended

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114 first edition of the work that “perhaps more than any other MILL, John Stuart. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and of his works, has been viewed by posterity as the kernel of his social philosophy” (ODNB). “Many of Mill’s ideas are now the Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. every kind of thought and speech have never been improved London: John W. Parker, 1843 on. He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democrati- 2 volumes, octavo (256 × 135 mm). Contemporary brown diced calf, cally elected majority to tyrannize over a minority” (PMM). twin black morocco labels to spine lettered gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Housed in a custom red slipcase. Endleaves mildly foxed, MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 92; Printing and the Mind of Man 345. tips worn, spine ends slightly worn, board edges rubbed, minor loss £3,000 [111910] to upper tip of Vol. II. A very good set, internally fresh. first edition of the author’s philosophical work, outlining 116 the five principles of inductive reasoning, now known as Mill’s MILL, John Stuart. Autograph letter signed, to W. C. methods. Often considered as Mill’s best work, A System of Logic was twelve years in the making. “Mill began his book with Sidgwick, discussing Mill’s forthcoming edition of his the assertion that he was not concerned with the contested father’s Analysis of the Human Mind. Blackheath Park: no pub- territory of epistemology, but only with the structure of logical lisher, 3 November, 1868 argument. This austere agenda proved, however, impossible to 3 pages, octavo (156 × 99 mm), autograph written in black ink on observe at every point, and the text frequently spilt over into paper with Mill’s embossed initials and the address of Blackheath deep questions of human understanding . . . In Mill’s view the Park Kent, folded for mailing. Light evidence of glue to the gutter, study of the phenomenal world was a self-contained process of presumably where once tipped into an album; in very fine condition. inference between induction and deduction, the latter being A letter written by Mill to William Carr Sidgwick, elder brother the formulation of general laws out of conjunctions of the more of the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, who, together with Mill particular ‘empirical’ laws derived from the former” (ODNB). With the bookplate of Dr Sydney Ross, scientist, teacher and bibliophile, and Professor of Colloid Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 56. £3,750 [107489]

115 MILL, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859 Octavo (187 × 120 mm). Near contemporary half morocco and cloth boards, spine lettered gilt. Gift inscription “Blanch Leppington with love from H.E.P. ” to front free endpaper. Bookseller’s ticket (T. & M. Kennard of Leamington Spa) to rear pastedown. Cloth a little marked, pale dampmark to leaf edges; a very good copy. 116

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117 118 would be a founding member of the Radical Club in 1870, in 118 which Mill announces the forthcoming publication of his new MILLAR, John. Observations concerning the Distinction edition of his father’s work, The Analysis of the Phenomena of the of Ranks in Society. London: Printed by W. and J. Richardson, Human Mind, originally published in 1829. This new edition, with notes illustrative and critical by Alexander Bain, Andrew for John Murray, 1771 Findlater and George Grote, edited and with additional notes Quarto (259 × 203 mm). Recently rebound to style in speckled half calf by John Stuart Mill, was published in two volumes in 1869. and marbled boards, spine ruled gilt in compartments, red morocco label, endpapers renewed to style. Ownership inscription on title £3,750 [108158] page of “William Sergeant, August 20 1800”, possibly an attorney of that name practising in the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylva- 117 nia from 1796. Old stains to fore-edge (affecting the blank margins of a number of gatherings) otherwise a good tall copy with the half-title MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: and terminal advertisement leaf. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 first edition. Observations concerning the distinction Octavo (197 × 121mm). Original dark yellow cloth, title to spine gilt, of ranks in society, Millar’s most important work, is one of boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers, recased. Spine the earliest and finest examples of an empirical approach ends and inner hinges very skilfully restored, corners lightly rubbed, to sociology. “Of a remarkably liberal tone, Millar’s study of covers a little darkened; a clean, crisp copy. social rank covers class distinction, the history and condition first edition, “the last of [Mill’s] great political tracts” and his of women, primitive society, and the relationship between “most unpopular and bitterly contested” work (ODNB). Mill had parent and child, and master and servant” (J. S. German, long been a women’s rights advocate, having been influenced Voices of Scotland: A catalogue of an exhibition of Scottish books and by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th centuries, The Grolier Club Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, 1992, p. 67). The influence of Montesquieu and, particularly, of the philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), a passionate Hume’s The Populousness of Ancient Nations is evident. Millar was advocate for equality. Indeed, the freedom of women can be a supporter of the American cause and an opponent of slavery; seen as a microcosm of Mill’s general philosophy of freedom, both feature in the final chapter, “Of the condition of servants in which “the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable in different parts of the world”. from the liberty of the individual” and the definition of tyranny Born in Lanarkshire the son of the local minister, Millar is expanded to include the domination of minorities by a (1735–1801) “studied law at Glasgow, where he was an intimate democratically elected majority (PMM 345). The Subjection of of James Watt (1736–1819), the inventor of the steam engine, Women was the only one of Mills’ works “on which he made a and where he attended the lectures of Adam Smith. After financial loss, even though pirated popular editions soon began completion of his studies, Millar spent two years with Lord to circulate widely in Europe and America. Among campaigners Kames’s family (through whom he met David Hume). Millar for women’s suffrage, however, it rapidly became a sacred text became a proponent of Hume’s metaphysical doctrine and, and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority though they were politically opposed, Hume placed his nephew within the nascent women’s movement” (ODNB). under Millar’s charge. Adam Smith also showed his esteem by See Printing and the Mind of Man 345 & 398. Not in MacMinn, Hainds & sending his cousin to study under Millar” (ibid.). McCrimmon. Goldsmiths’ 10712; Kress 6805; this edition not in Chuo or Jessop. £2,250 [108992] £2,750 [110426] 61 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

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119 tuted the a priori foundation of all valid economic reasoning” MISES, Ludwig von. Epistemological Problems of (Blaug, Great Economists since Keynes). Economics. Translated by George Reisman. Princeton, Greaves and McGee B-22. New Jersey, Toronto, London, and New York: D. Van Nostrand £500 [112912] Company, Inc., 1960 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. 121 Ownership inscription of Harold L. Spain to front free endpaper. Spine lightly sunned, short tear to front panel; a very good copy. MISES, Ludwig von. A Critique of Interventionism. Inquiries into the Economic Policy and the Economic first edition in english of von Mises’s Grundprobleme Ideology of the Present. Translated and with an der Nationalökonomie, originally published in 1933. “During the 1920s, von Mises became very much interested in Introduction by Hans. F. Sennholz. New Rochelle, NY: epistemology. In opposition to the increasingly fashionable Arlington House, 1977 methodology of positivism, he set forth a methodology of Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered gilt, with the dust purely logical deduction from self-evident and a priori axioms, jacket. Slight wear to spine ends of dust jacket, stain to the gutter of based on the approach of Nassau Senior and of other classical the endpapers from the board lining; a very good copy. and Austrian economists. He developed his methodological first edition in english of six essays, the first five approach – which he was later to call ‘praxeology’ – in a series of which were originally published in German in 1929 as of essays, Grundprobleme der Nationökonomie (1933). Praxeology, Kritik des Interventionismus, republished in 1976 with the with its stress on individual human action, on the individual’s final essay, originally published as Die Verstaatlichung des purposive choice of means to arrive at preferred ends, heavily Kredits: Mutualisierung des Kredits in 1926. Included here are influenced Robbins’s methodological work, which English- “Interventionism,” “The Hampered Market Economy,” Social speaking economists came to regard as outstanding” (IESS). Liberalism,” Anti-Marxism,” “Theory of Price Controls,” and Greaves and McGee B-10. “The Nationalization of Credit?”. £450 [112918] £350 [112907]

120 122 MISES, Ludwig von. The Ultimate Foundation of MITCHELL, Wesley Clair. A History of the Greenbacks Economic Science. An Essay on Method. Princeton, with Special Reference to the Economic Consequences of New Jersey, Toronto, London and New York: D. Van Nostrand Their Issue: 1862–65. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1903 Company, Inc., 1962 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Extremities slightly worn, faint scratches to boards, occasional minor Octavo. Original cloth, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. blemish to contents. An excellent copy. Dust jacket slightly faded along spine and front joint, minimally rubbed at foot, with a small chip to the rear panel; an excellent copy. first edition, first printing, of the author’s acclaimed study of the impact of inflation on the economy of the Union. “From first edition, in which von Mises developed “his own meth- 1860 to 1864, textiles quadrupled in price as a result of the dearth odology of economics, known as ‘praxeology’, which argued of cotton. In general, wholesale prices rose more than did retail that individual choices, being essentially purposive, consti-

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122 prices. The inflation imposed a heavy tax on working men, estimated by Mitchell at one-fifth or one-sixth of real income” (Don Parrlberg, An Analysis and History of Inflation, 1993, p. 64). £375 [112868]

123 123 MONCADA, Sancho de. Restauracion politica de España, primera parte, de eos publicos Al rey Don Filipe Tercero state of Spain: ‘the misfortune of Spain flows from the trade with nuestro señor. Madrid: for Luis Sanchez, 1619 foreigners, who carry away our raw material and our silver.’ . . . Quarto (200 × 148 mm), pp. [xii], ff. 42, 16, [9]-14. Contemporary limp His only remedy is the prohibition of exports of raw materials vellum, manuscript title to spine, remains of doeskin ties. Housed in and precious metals, and of the imports of manufactured a brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wood- articles, enforced by the penalty of death pronounced against cut royal coat of arms on title and each of the eight discourses. Spine smuggling, and the delivering to the Inquisition of all persons split at foot, rear cover with vertical split at the head, ties defective, accused of exporting money” (Palgrave II, p. 783). front free endpaper removed; lower outer corner of title page soiled “Moncada follows scholastic doctrine in attributing the and a little worn, intermittent spotting and occasional staining, some rise in Spanish prices to the influx of gold and silver from early underlining and marginalia in ink, and some more recent pencil America – ‘the abundance of silver and gold has caused a fall marginal notes; withal a very good copy in a well preserved contem- in their value . . . and consequently a rise in the things that are porary binding. bought with them’ – but thinks that the main reason for the first edition, very rare; each discourse with a special title- poverty of Spain lies in the fact that her commerce has fallen page and continuous pagination and signatures, except for into the hands of foreigners . . . [He] held that there was a the seventh (in two parts) and eighth which have separate science of government whose laws should be learned by every pagination and signatures. Moncada’s importance as a political administrator and suggests that a chair of ‘politics’ should economist was assured by this work, which was probably be founded in all universities, and that an entire university presented to Philip III in 1618. In it, Moncada, who was strongly devoted to the arts of government should be established in influenced by the Italian writer Giovanni Botero (1544–1617), Madrid” (Grice-Hutchinson, p. 141). outlines a strong protectionist policy. A rich apparatus of “Quesnay and George were preceded in their advocacy of a citations, which includes the names of Covarrubias, Vitoria, single tax on land or on agricultural produce by [Moncada], Soto and Azpilcueta Navarro, accompanies the text. who thought it right to ‘tax Nature, who is never weary, and Sancho de Moncada (fl. early 17th century) “lectured on not human industry’, and who therefore proposed to remove theology in the university of Toledo, and published, in 1619, all taxes on industry and commerce, and to tax grain instead, eight Discursos on various economic subjects, which were the raising its minimum fixed price proportionately” (ibid. p. 147). uncompromising expression of the prohibitive tendencies then prevalent in Spain, and, consequently, obtained a wide celebrity Colmeiro 283; Palau 175744; not in Einaudi, Goldsmiths’, Mattioli or Sraffa; see Grice-Hutchinson, Early Economic thought in Spain, passim. Very rare: OCLC among his countrymen . . . Moncada does not admit for a locates 12 copies worldwide (5 in the U.S., 4 in Spain, and 1 each in the U.K., moment that the wars abroad, the system of laws, the excessive France, and Germany). number of idle persons, the debasement of the currency, etc., could fairly be looked upon as responsible for the depressed £35,000 [111853]

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125 MOORE, Henry Ludwell. Laws of Wages. An Essay in Statistical Economics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911 Octavo. Original red cloth, covers blocked in blind, titles to spine gilt. Ownership stamp to rear free endpaper, pencilled inscription to half- title, a few pencil markings and notes to the introduction only. Spine 124 faded and gently rolled, minor wear to extremities, split at title page, but without loss of leaves, some pages dog-eared, a very good copy. 124 first edition of the author’s first book. Henry Moore MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de. The taught economics at Johns Hopkins, Smith College and finally Columbia University. He is most famous for his pioneering Spirit of Laws. Translated from the French . . . With work in econometrics. Corrections and Additions communicated by the Author. London: for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, 1750 £450 [111315] 2 volumes, octavo (203 × 123 mm). Contemporary calf, spines with raised bands, morocco labels renewed, sprinkled edges. Contempo- 126 rary ownership inscription Thomas Preston to front free endpaper of MORE, Thomas. Utopia. London: for Richard Chiswell, 1684 each volume, engraved armorial bookplate of Mansfield Price LLD to Octavo (173 × 106 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, unlettered, each title verso. Spine ends and joints professionally repaired, some gilt rules to spine, rules in blind to boards, edges sprinkled red. Head surface wear, spine labels renewed to style; occasional light spotting of spine chipped, some minor abrasions and worming to covers, fore and the odd mark; a very fine set. edge initialled in manuscript. An excellent copy. first english edition. One of the central texts in the history first edition of Gilbert Burnet’s translation of More’s Uto- of 18th-century thought, L’Esprit des Loix was a huge influence both pia. Utopia tells of the best order of society, the ideal common- on English law, especially as mediated by William Blackstone, and wealth, which is to be found on the island of Utopia. Its pro- on those who framed the American Constitution. Blackstone’s tagonist is the Portuguese traveller Raphael Hythlodaye, who Commentaries, Hamilton’s Federalist Papers and Tocqueville’s Democ- relates that he accompanied Amerigo Vespucci on three of his racy in America are all thoroughly imbued with Montesquieu’s theo- four journeys to the New World, including one on which he re- ries. In particular, Montesquieu is credited with the idea that the mained behind in order to explore further. Hythlodaye (whose powers of government should be separated and balanced in order name means “one who is cunning in nonsense”) then relates to guarantee the freedom of the individual, a key concept in the his experiences of the distant island (Utopia means “nowhere creation of the US Constitution. No English language edition was land”; More and Erasmus also referred to it merely as Nus- published in America until 1802. The translation is by the prolific quam, or “nowhere”), where all property is held in common Irish-born author and skilful translator of works mostly from the ownership, where six hours a day are devoted to work and the French Thomas Nugent (c.1700–1772). rest to recreation, where gold and silver are used not as curren- Goldsmiths’ 8571; Kress 5057. cy but as the material for making shackles and chamber pots, £12,500 [111777] and slaves (criminals and prisoners of war) are treated fairly.

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The island bears a remarkable resemblance to England, pro- first edition of Gueudeville’s translation of Utopia, one of a very viding a source of satire on contemporary life and government. few copies with a cancel title printed entirely in black, unseen by Gibson 30; Pforzheimer 742; Sabin 50546. Gibson. This copy also contains the often removed plate on K4 verso by Bleyswick, which depicts future spouses in a state of undress £2,250 [113038] as they inspect each other before marriage. Nicolas Gueudeville (1652–1721) was an unfrocked Benedictine 127 monk turned author, journalist, translator, and historian, a precur- MORE, Thomas. L’Utopie de Thomas Morus, Chancelier sor of Rousseau’s socialist ideas who is sometimes referred to as d’Angleterre; Idée ingenieuse pour remedier au malheur the “unknown soldier of Enlightenment”. A large part of his writing des Hommes; & pour leur procurer une félicité com- (published anonymously) consists of unbridled criticism of absolute monarchy and Catholicism. Utopia was his second translation, plette. Cet Ouvrage contient le plan d’une république his first having been of the Moriae encomium of Erasmus. According dont les Lois, les Usages, & les Coutumes tendent uni- to Gueudeville, More had succeeded in identifying the true causes quement à faire faire aux Societez Humaines le passage of human misery: “la Propriété, l’Avarice, l’Ambition, ces trois de la Vie dans toute la douceur imaginable. République, pestes de la Société Civile, ces trois monstres qui ravagent le Genre qui deviendra infalliblement réelle, des que lès Mortels Humain, ne se trouvent point en Utopie” (translator’s preface, p. se conduiront par la Raison. Traduite nouvellement en **2). More’s great satire was first published in Latin in 1516; its first François Par Mr. Gueudeville, & ornée de tres belles fi- French translation appeared in 1550. gures. Leiden: chez Pierre Vander Aa, 1715 Gibson 22b; Rosenberg G1(b). Duodecimo (160 × 95 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, raised bands, decoration to compartments with central flower £700 [113046] tool gilt, boards panelled in gilt, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Extra engraved title and 16 full-page engravings included in the register, woodcut title device, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Bound without the blank leaves 6*12 and 7*4; some misbinding in the final gathering of the text; with two publisher’s catalogues bound in at the end, one apparently lacking a leaf. Spine chipped at head exposing headband, still an excellent copy.

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128 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Board edges faintly rubbed, contents mildly toned; an excellent, MORTIMER, Thomas. Lectures on the Elements of bright copy in the toned jacket with some shallow chips and nicks to Commerce, Politics, and Finances; intended as a compan- extremities. ion to Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England; first edition, first printing, one-volume issue. Myrdal and peculiarly calculated to qualify young noblemen and shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Friedrich gentlemen for situations in any of the public offices -un Hayek in 1974, for “pioneering work in the theory of money der government, and for parliamentary business. London: and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis Printed by A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801 of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional Octavo (225 × 141 mm). Original drab yellow paper spine, blue paper phenomena.” However, the present study of race relations in sides, paper spine label, uncut. Front joint cracked and a little tender, America is possibly his best-known and most influential work. a few nicks and chips to spine, paper creased or awkwardly folded in Commissioned by the Carnegie Institute, the project drew places (during production). An excellent copy, tall, clean and crisp. on sociological, economic, anthropological and legal data, first octavo edition, originally published in quarto as The to enquire into the “American Dilemma,” the sharp contrast Elements of Commerce, Politics and Finances (London 1772). Thom- between high ideals and the failure to deliver basic human as Mortimer (1730–1810) was a prolific writer on trade and fi- rights in the 80 years since the Civil War. Myrdal was also a nance, perhaps best known for Every Man His Own Broker: or a signatory of UNESCO’s 1950 statement The Race Question. Guide to the Stock Exchange (1761). In his introduction to the pre- £850 [107445] sent edition, Mortimer notes that the idea for “a cheaper edition, and a new form of compiling it, [was] suggested by some 130 respectable gentlemen of the University of Oxford, to whom the author paid a visit in the year 1798, as likely to be more use- NECKER, Jacques. De l’administration des finances de ful to young students”. The subscriber’s list runs to around 170 la France. Paris: n.p. , 1784 names, headed by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and includes Sir 3 volumes, octavo (195 × 115 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, gilt William Hamilton, Lord Nelson, and John Horne Tooke. banded spines, red morocco labels, yellow edges. Vol. I with a folding Scarce: Copac cites copies at seven British and Irish insti- table, errata on p. vii with 12 points listed (p. 266 mispaginated); vol. tutional libraries (BL, Chetham’s Library, Glasgow, LSE, Scot- II errata on p. vii with 10 points listed; vol. III errata on p. viii with 8 land, Edinburgh, Senate House); well-represented in OCLC points listed, (p. 255 not mispaginated). Armorial bookplates of the Earls of Macclesfield (also with their neat embossed stamp on half- but most uncommon in commerce. titles and titles). Volume II with slight chip at foot of spine, front joint Goldsmiths’ 18140; Kress B.4422. of volume III just split at head, a lovely set. £875 [111966] first edition, described by the great Scottish political economist John Ramsay McCulloch as “the only authentic 129 account of the finances of France previously to the Revolution. Owing to the popularity of its author, and the peculiar MYRDAL, Gunnar, assisted by Richard Sterner & Arnold circumstances of the country at the time when it was Rose. An American Dilemma. The Negro Problem and published, the Revolution having all but commenced, the Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, demand for the work was so very great that 80,000 were sold 1944 in the course of a few days!” (The Literature of Political Economy:

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130 131 132 a Classified Catalogue, 1845, p. 347). For this reason there were that “it is a cliché of Nietzscheana that that when it came time many print runs of the first edition and it is, bibliographically, to distribute copies of Zarathustra IV to his friends, the philoso- a difficult book to get to grips with. However, as this set has pher could find only seven qualified people” (Schaberg, p. 105). the correct number of errata listed in each volume (as called for Schaberg pp. 128–35; 36, 37, 38, 39. in the scarce first issue) this indicates that it is at least an early issue. In 1776 Necker was appointed finance minister of Louis £8,500 [109704] XVI, where he proved to be a popular and capable reformer. However enemies at court, led by Marie-Antoinette, plotted 132 his dismissal in 1781, and Necker subsequently wrote this, his [NORTH, Roger.] “A Person of Honour.” The Gentleman most influential and important work, before being reinstated Accomptant, or, An essay to unfold the mystery of as finance minister in 1788. accompts: by way of debtor and creditor, commonly Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers before 1850, XXIX (1); Einaudi A.582; called merchants accompts, and applying the same to Goldsmiths’ 12732; Kress B.752. the concerns of the nobility and gentry of England . . . £2,250 [109029] London: E. Curll, 1714 Octavo (175 × 108 mm). Contemporary blind panelled calf, paper 131 spine label. Folding table at p. 72. Ownership inscription “E. Barber” NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Also Sprach Zarathustra. Ein and “John Barber” to free endpaper. Joints cracked, spine ends and corners worn, paper label chipped; small printing flaw to page 261 Buch fur Alle und Keinen. Leipzig: Verlag von E. W. Fritzsch; where a loose piece of paper pulp carrying letterpress has separated Verlag von C. G. Naumann, [1886] & 1891 from the leaf below, still present and now pasted down without any 4 parts in 2 volumes, octavo. Vol I: bound in near-contemporary green loss of text; a crisp, clean copy in original state. crushed morocco, title gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge first edition, written by the youngest son of Sir Dudley gilt. Vol II: bound in near-contemporary brown crushed morocco, ti- North. The style of North’s discourse sets it apart from other tle gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the original literature of the period, being amusing and entertaining but grey front wrapper (with editor’s note and errata) bound in. Vol. II from the library of Max Dreger, with his gilt monogram to the spine. nevertheless intelligent and informative. “North begins his Small inkstamp to verso of rear free endpapers. Spines faded, some work by explaining that through accidents he had discovered minor scuffs to covers. A superb set. ‘the wonderful virtue of a Regular Accompt’ and as a result first collected edition, with the first volume containing fallen in love with accounts . . . . North does not present the 1886 reissue of the first three parts with the new undated bookkeeping as an easy subject to master and he stresses that title page, and the second volume containing the first trade it is practice rather than learning rules that is the guide to edition of the fourth part. The first three parts were origi- understanding” (Bywater and Yamey). nally printed and published separately by Ernst Schmeitzner Goldsmiths’ 5155; Hanson 2085; Herwood 37; ICAEW, p. 76; Kress 2916. See between 1883 and 1884, but in 1886 he went bankrupt, and Bywater & Yamey, p. 148ff. Fritzsch bought the entire Nietzsche catalogue and stock. The £3,250 [109959] publisher then issued the first three parts of Nietzsche’s magnum opus together in late 1886. The fourth part was originally published in 1885 as a privately printed edition of 45 copies for circulation among his most trusted friends: Schaberg notes

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133 first separate edition, first impression; originally pub- ORWELL, George. The Lion and the Unicorn. Socialism lished under the title, “Second Thoughts on James Burnham” in Polemic 3. and the English Genius. London: Secker and Warburg, 1941 Octavo. Original off-white cloth, titles to spine green. With the dust Fenwick C.762. jacket. Spine a little rolled. An excellent copy in a price-clipped jacket £475 [88965] with partial split along rear joint, toning to spine panel and small chip to rear panel. 135 first edition, first impression, of the author’s collection of essays, including “England Your England”, “Shopkeepers at OWEN, Robert. The Book of the New Moral World: War”, and “The English Revolution”. Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Fenwick A.9a. Laws of Human Nature and of Society. London: Effingham £275 [111796] Wilson, 1836 Octavo (223 × 142 mm). Original green cloth, edges partly uncut. 134 Cloth rubbed, covers a little stained and discoloured, title lightly ORWELL, George. James Burnham and the Managerial soiled, contents toned, marginal notes in pencil. A good copy. Revolution. London: Socialist Book Centre, 1946 first edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page: Octavo. 16 page pamphlet. Original red and white spotted wrappers “With the author’s kind regards”. printed in black. 2 vertical creases from folding, spine and edges of Goldsmiths’ 29742; Kress C.4213; NLW 47. wrappers faded, contents tanned, closed tears to upper wrapper and pages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 that were previously repaired with tape, with some £2,250 [87776] residue still visible, and that have been more recently repaired with tissue. A good copy. 136 PAINE, Thomas. Dissertation on First-Principles of Government. Paris: Printed at the English Press, 1795; [bound after:] The Age of Reason; being an investigation of true

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136 137 and of fabulous theology. Part the Second. New-York: re- braries (some impressions have the Speech separately paginat- printed by Mott & Lyon, for Fellows & Adam and J. Reid, 1796 ed, not the case here). 2 works bound as one, octavo (161 × 98 mm). Contemporary tree sheep Dissertation: Goldsmiths’ 16488. skilfully rebacked with the original gilt banded spine laid down, red and green morocco twin labels (lettered “Part II”), gilt roll tool border £1,500 [100126] on sides. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Paine by Scoles. General light foxing, a couple of leaves in the Dissertation shaved at the fore- 137 edge by the binder (but without loss of legibility) otherwise a very PATERSON, Isabel. The God of the Machine. New York: good copy. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1943 first edition of the Dissertation, first US edition ofThe Age Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered on a pale blue ground. With of Reason (Part Two only). “Dissertation on the First Principles of the dust jacket. Author’s inscription to front free endpaper. Ex-libris Government (1795) is essentially an epitome of his case in Rights of DeWitt M. Emery to front pastedown. Printed Review copy slip of Man and provides an extremely clear and uncluttered state- loosely inserted. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. Dust jacket ment of his mature views on government. The case for univer- chipped along folds, with some tape repairs to verso, ring mark from sal manhood suffrage was not, however, obvious to a conven- a glass or bottle to front panel, short tear to front panel with tape re- tion which had been driven by the fury of the Parisian mob over pair to verso; a very good copy. much of the preceding two years, and the new constitution first edition, review copy, inscribed by the author: survived Paine’s prose to be inaugurated in October 1795. Paine “To DeWitt M. Emery at the request of Ayn Rand – with pleas- was not elected to it and his official role in France now ended” ure Isabel Paterson.” The recipient, DeWitt Emery, was found- (ODNB). Included here is Paine’s speech to the Convention of 7 er of the National Small Business Men’s Association, and a July 1995. The Age of Reason is “a trenchant and uncompromising friend of Ayn Rand. Isabel Paterson, for many years literary attack on Christianity and all formal religions together with a critic of the New York Tribune, was one of the leading promoters brief statement of Paine’s religious beliefs” (ibid). of American Liberalism. The God of the Machine is a treatise on Of the Dissertation Copac locates copies with this imprint at political philosophy, economics and history, that had a great only four British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Oxford, influence on America. Manchester, Scotland), otherwise well-represented in US li- £2,750 [110969]

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138 rest of the book have been reset line-by-line including the Er- PETTY, William. Political Arithmetick, Or A Discourse rata, though some of them have been corrected” (Keynes). Concerning The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Goldsmiths’ 2869; Keynes 35; Kress 1770; Wing P1933. Buildings; Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, £3,750 [107417] Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks; 139 Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia’s, [PINTO, Isaac de.] Traité de la circulation et du crédit. Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the Contenant une analyse raisonnée des fonds d’Angle- same relates to every Country in general, but more par- terre, & de ce qu’on appelle commerce ou jeu d’actions; ticularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, un examen critique de plusiers traités sur les impôts, les and his Neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France. finances, l’agriculture, la population, le commerce &c. London: for Robert Clavel, and Hen. Mortlock, 1691 précédé de l’extrait d’un ouvrage intitulé bilan général Octavo (166 × 106 mm), with imprimatur leaf and final adverts. Con- & raisonné de l’Angleterre depuis 1600 jusqu’en 1761; & temporary sprinkled sheep, double rule blind stamped border to covers, paper label. Engraved armorial bookplate to inside of front board, suivi d’une lettre sur la Jalousie du Commerce, où l’on later small private library stamp to title verso. Acquisition note “Cost prouve que l’intérêt des puissances commerçantes ne 5 pence at an auction Lond. July 1705” to front endpaper. Spine faded se croise point, &c. avec un tableau de ce qu’on appelle and chipped at head, corners slightly worn, a little surface abrasion, commerce, ou plutôt jeu d’actions, en Hollande. Par still a very attractive copy. l’auteur de l’essai sur le luxe, & de la lettre sur le jeu des second edition, first published the previous year, of what cartes, qu’on a ajoutés à la fin; [bound with:] Addition is by title at least Petty’s key work, posthumously published. au traité de la circulation et du crédit. Mémoire pour la After training as a doctor and being admitted to the College supression du Belasting, ou impôt sue les actions de la of Physicians, Petty worked for many years as an administrator Compagnie des Indes Orientales, en y substituant un im- in Ireland, and was a founding member of the Royal Society. He has gone down in history as the originator of statistical pôt sure les epiceries des Isles Moluques & de celle de analysis under the name of political arithmetic. He established Ceylan. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1771 important themes and methods for classical economists, and Octavo (202 × 122 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated his works provide abundant detail of the physical and human gilt in compartments, red morocco label, edges sprinkled red, mar- geography of 17th-century Ireland and England. The work was bled endpapers. With the additional 8-page note on the state of Eng- originally published with the date 1690 (the initial licence leaf lish finances in 1770 (interim half-sheet H*) and the 16-page Addition bound in at the end. Paper slip “S. Ed. Blackett” tipped in after the is dated 7 November 1690). “Apart from dropping a comma title-page, probably a descendant of the Gateshead born Sir William in the fourth line in some copies and the change of date, the Blackett, mine owner and member of the Newcastle Merchant Ad- title-page is identical with that of [the edition of 1690] and is venturers Company. Front joint cracked but still very firm; occasional printed from the same setting of type. The imprimatur and the light spotting; a very attractive copy. first edition of this “sound and ingenious” (McCulloch) work on revenue and stock exchange transactions. The main premise of Pinto’s argument is that the national debt, instead

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140 of being a burden, has been the principal source of the wealth black, spines decorated gilt in compartments, direct lettered and and power of England. The work excited much controversy on numbered gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, blue silk ribbon place publication: it was translated into English by Rev. S. Baggs, markers. Engraved plate of geometrical figures in volume one, errata and published with notes, in 1774. leaf in volume three. Occasional light spotting and the odd marginal stain, short tear to one leaf in volumes two and five; an excellent set. Pinto (1715–1787) was born in Amsterdam. He was descended from a Portuguese family and lived for some time at first edition of the philosopher Thomas Taylor’s masterful Bordeaux. “He then settled in Holland, where he soon made a translation, the first complete Plato in English, revising and large fortune and an equally great reputation. The Statholder completing the work begun by Floyer Sydenham, together with William IV (1747–51) had a very high opinion of his advice, his extensive notes on contemporary Greek manuscript com- both on administration and finance. He was as tolerant as he mentaries. “It was through Taylor’s translations that the Ro- was high-minded, and his benevolence won him popularity” mantic poets had access to Platonism: they are probably one of (Palgrave). the sources of Blake’s mythology, as well as his repudiation of the natural science of Bacon and Newton, and his late tempera Einaudi 4447; Goldsmiths’ 10791; Higgs 5282; INED 3603; Kress 6811; Mattioli 2851; McCulloch, p. 347; Quérard VII, 183. painting The Arlington Court Picture was almost certainly inspired by Taylor’s translation of Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs; £5,250 [111967] there is no doubt that Coleridge’s acquaintance with Proclus was assisted by Taylor’s translation and commentary, though 140 Coleridge’s appreciation of Taylor is invariably laced with acid PLATO. The Works, viz. his fifty-five Dialogues, and criticism. Taylor’s immediate influence in England was short- twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of lived; only at the end of the century did those with an enthu- the Dialogues by the late Floyer Sydenham, and the siasm for ancient Gnosticism, such as G. R. S. Mead, revive his memory. His fate in America was very different. R. W. Em- Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with occasional annota- erson read Taylor’s translations enthusiastically, and Taylor’s tions on the nine dialogues translated by Sydenham, and influence was felt among Emerson’s disciples, adepts of ‘tran- copious notes, by the latter translator, in which is given scendental philosophy’ such as Amos Bronson Alcott, William the substance of nearly all the existing Greek Ms. com- T. Harris, Thomas M. Johnson, Hiram K. Jones, and Thomas mentaries on the philosophy of Plato, and a considerable Wentworth Higginson, though that influence had waned by portion of such as are already published, In five volumes. the end of the century. Emily Dickinson, who was a friend of London: printed for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks, and sold by E. Higginson, therefore probably owed her Platonism ultimately Jeffery and R. H. Evans, 1804 to Thomas Taylor” (ODNB). 5 volumes, quarto (295 × 230 mm). Recent full speckled calf, boards Lowndes 1877. with two double-line gilt rule borders and a single line border in £11,000 [109979]

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141 Offprint from Popper’s contribution to the six Herbert Spencer (POLITICAL SCIENCE.) An Essay on Civil Government. Lectures given at Linacre College, Oxford in 1973. Inscribed by Popper on the first leaf, “With all good wishes from the au- In Two Parts: Part I. An enquiry into the Ends of thor”. In his lecture, Popper makes the distinction between Government, and the Means of attaining them. Part II. scientific revolutions, “which are subject to rational criteria of On the Government and Commerce of England; with progress”, and ideological revolutions, “which are only rarely Reflections on Liberty, and the Method of Preserving the rationally defensible”, and discusses “progress in science Present Constitution. London: printed for R. Willock, 1743 largely from an evolutionary point of view – more precisely, Octavo (200 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, manuscript title from the point of view of natural selection”. label to spine, raised bands ruled in gilt, double fillet to boards gilt, edges speckled red. Woodcut device to title page and tailpiece at end. £450 [112648] Boards and spine rubbed, joints starting to split but still holding firm, edges of endpapers tanned, front free endpaper a little loose, tiny hole 143 to rear free endpaper. An internally fresh copy in excellent condition. POPPER, Karl R. Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre first edition of this anonymous essay by a follower of John Feinde. Bern: Francke Verlag, 1957–8 Locke. “The Essay argued that the end of civil government was 2 volumes, octavo. Original cloth, spines decorated and lettered gilt, the protection of property, and took a whiggish turn in allying with the dustjackets. Dustjackets very lightly rubbed along folds; an property with liberty. More novel, but characteristic of the pe- excellent copy. riod, was the expansive conception of property, both national first edition in german of Popper’s The Open Society and its and personal, that the author expounded” (Armitage). The es- Enemies, originally published in English in 1945. Popper’s clas- say contains sections on the East India and South Sea compa- sic debut contains within its analysis the seeds of his ground- nies, the plantation trade and the interest and value of money. breaking, if somewhat idiosyncratic, new methodology of in- A scarce title. ductive reasoning. In The Open Society and Its Enemies he traces, David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, pp. 187–8. analyses, and refutes theories of historicism, or the idea that £1,250 [93442] history progresses inexorably according to a series of laws. Be- ginning with Plato, he proceeds to Hegel and Marx, ultimately arguing that historicism is founded on a misunderstanding of Inscribed offprint scientific principles and that it usually forms the philosophical 142 foundations of totalitarian regimes. POPPER, Karl R. “The Rationality of Scientific £350 [111840] Revolutions.” Offprint from Rom Harré (ed.) Problems of Scientific Revolution: Scientific Progress and Obstacles to Progress 144 in the Sciences. The Herbert Spencer Lectures 1973. Oxford: PRIESTLEY, Joseph. The Doctrine of Philosophical Clarendon Press, 1975 Necessity Illustrated; being an Appendix to the 31 photocopied leaves, stapled at top left corner. Some light finger- Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is marking to first and final leaves; in excellent condition overall. added An Answer to the Letters on Materialism, and on

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Hartley’s Theory of the Mind. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1777 Octavo. Uncut in original boards, buff paper backstrip lettered by hand. Complete with half-title, errata leaf, and final advert leaf. Small circular Broxbourne Library ink stamp on title verso. Spine browned, chipped at foot and over cords, a few light spots; an excellent copy in original state. first edition. Priestley’s mechanistic determinism largely endorsed Hume’s view of necessity (in the Preface here Priest- ley recommends “some things very well written on it by Mr. Hume, and Lord Kaims”) so successfully that it can be said to have overshadowed Hume in the free will and determinism debate of the late 18th century. 145 £875 [111553] sovereignty derived from Pufendorf a century earlier” (Lee Ward, The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America, 145 CUP 2004, p. 16). PUFENDORF, Samuel, Freiherr von. The Whole Duty of £625 [111953] Man according to the Law of Nature. Now made English. The fifth edition with the notes of Mr. Barbeyrac, and many other additions and amendments; and also an index of the matters. By Andrew Tooke, M.A. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham-College. London: R. Gosling, J. Pemberton, and B. Motte, 1735 Octavo (201 × 119 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, gilt ruled spine, red morocco label, two line gilt border on sides, red speckled edges. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper: “E. Lib: Caroli Beridge 1736”. A few scrapes to binding, old dark stain at head of covers. An excellent copy, crisp and clean, complete with the half-title. A very appealing copy of Andrew Tooke’s translation, first published in 1691; originally issued as De officio hominis et civis (Lund, Sweden: 1673), Pufendorf ’s text was a major influence on Blackstone and Montesquieu, and by them to such American political writers as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. “When the British public and political leaders confronted colonial resistance to parliamentary sovereignty in the 1760s and 1770s, they understood the dispute in terms of the conservative principles of rights and 145

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The most important and famous work of physiocracy first edition in english of Quesnay’s Tableau économique, originally published in French in 1758, “a most remarkable 146 analysis of the economic condition of his country” (Palgrave). MIRABEAU, Victor Riquetti de, & François Quesnay. The Tableau économique “is the most important and famous work The Oeconomical Table, an Attempt towards ascertain- of physiocracy and has often been regarded as a summary of the ing and exhibiting the Source, Progress, and Employment entire corpus of physiocratic economics . . . The Tableau has also of Riches, With Explanations, by the Friend of Mankind, been regarded as the analytical synthesis of the logical struc- the celebrated Marquis de Mirabeau. Translated from the ture of Quesnay’s economics, or at least as its most relevant aspect . . . The Tableau économique is one of those works in the French. London: for W. Owen, 1766 history of economics which have often been regarded as an Octavo (201 × 125 mm). Contemporary tree sheep, flat spine very anticipation of modern theories. The Tableau has been consid- elaborately tooled gilt, red morocco label. Housed in a brown moroc- ered a first rough presentation of Keynes’s multiplier and as a co-backed solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. 6 folding tables. En- graved armorial Frankland bookplate to front pastedown. Front joint sort of general equilibrium system of a Walrasian type . . . For cracked and rear joint cracking, but cords sound. Some surface worm- others, the Tableau is an input-output table . . . Because of the ing to the covers; a very fine copy. Tableau, Quesnay has been regarded as an early econometri- cian. The Tableau has also been interpreted as the first classical system of price determination, thus anticipating Marx’s repro-

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147 147 duction schemes and Sraffa’s price system” (Giovanni Vaggi in one of the scarcest of du Pont’s works, and probably one of the The New Palgrave). most successful publications promoting physiocracy, first pub- The anonymous translator dedicates the translation to the lished in the journal, Ephémérides du Citoyen. The work is partly farmers of England, stating that it was “undertaken chiefly based on Le Mercier de la Rivière’s L’Ordre naturel et essentiel des with a view of setting the superior use and advantages of agri- sociétés politiques, which Adam Smith referred to as “the most culture to their country in a clear light, as the original was to distinct and best connected account of this doctrine”. Schum- prove the absolute necessity of it to France”. A very fine copy peter, in his discussion on the physiocrats, calls du Pont“by far of a work that is surprisingly scarce in commerce; this is the the ablest of the lot” (p. 226) and Palgrave notes; “If Quesnay second copy we have handled in 30 years. was the father of physiocracy, du Pontwas its godfather, for Goldsmiths’ 10154; Higgs 3624; Kress 6367; Sraffa 4149. Not in Mattioli. he gave it its name by the publication of his physiocratie . . . a collection of Quesnay’s articles, which the editor introduced £35,000 [110946] by a Discours”. Quesnay presented a copy of his book to Adam Smith, who described him as “ingenious and profound, a man of the greatest simplicity and modesty”, while pronouncing 147 Quesnay’s system to be “with all its imperfections, perhaps [QUESNAY, François.] Physiocratie, ou constitution na- the nearest approximation to the truth that has yet been pub- turelle de gouvernement le plus avantageux au genre hu- lished upon the subject of political economy”. François Ques- main. Recueil publié par Du Pont, des Sociétés Royales nay (1694–1774) was the court physician to Louis XV, and his d’Agriculture de Soissons & d’Orleans, & Correspondant notion of a circular flow of income throughout the economy de la Société d’Émulation de Londres. Leiden: and sold in was influenced by the contemporary discovery of blood cir- Paris by Merlin, 1768; culation through the human body. He believed that trade and industry were not sources of wealth, and instead argued that [bound with:] DU PONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. the real economic movers were agricultural surpluses flow- De l’origine et des progrès d’une science nouvelle. ing through the economy in the form of rent, wages and pur- London: sold in Paris by Desaint, 1768 chases. Quesnay argued that regulation impedes the flow of 2 works bound in 1 volume, octavo (188 × 114 mm). Contemporary income throughout all social classes and therefore economic marbled paper boards, mottled calf spine, red morocco label. physi- development; and that taxes on the productive classes, such as ocratie in two parts, as issued, with divisional title (Discussions et dével- farmers, should be reduced in favour of rises for unproductive oppemens sur quelques-unes des notions de l’économie politique) but continu- classes, such as landowners, since their luxurious way of life ous pagination and register. With all the usual cancels. Corners light- distorts the income flow. ly rubbed; a beautiful copy. Quesnay: Einaudi 4431; Goldsmiths’ 10391; Kress 6548; Matttioli 2809. Du first edition (“Leyde” issue) of the book that gave the physi- Pont: Goldsmiths’ 10390; Higgs 4260; INED 1617; Kress 6547; Mattioli 1074; ocrats their name, one of the most important and original Schelle 11; Sraffa 1458. works on political economy to be published before the Wealth of Nations, bound together with its important companion piece, £55,000 [111401]

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148 The first of these two portraits, engraved by J. G. Will after a (QUESNAY, François.) Will, J. G., & Jean-Charles painting by J. Chevallier in 1745, depicts Quesnay seated, sur- rounded by books and papers. That of François, engraved in François. Pair of engraved portraits of Quesnay. Paris: 1767 after a painting by Frédoux, is particularly interesting, 1747 & 1767 employing a variety of artistic styles. Two framed engraved portraits (496 × 360 & 460 × 270 mm). Framed and glazed. Short tear to the bottom corner of the Will portrait, small £10,000 [110063] wormhole at foot of François engraving, just affecting engraved legend. A fine pair of portraits.

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149 (QUESNAY, François.) ALBON, C. C. F., comte de. Éloge historique de M. Quesnay. [Bound last with three other works.] Paris: Didot, 1775 Octavo (200 × 120 mm). Contemporary French mottled calf, spine decorated gilt, with two red morocco lettering-pieces, edges red, marbled endpapers. Contemporary manuscript table of contents to front free endpaper. Extremities a little worn, four small wormholes 150 to rear joint, printed paper shelf labels to foot of spine. very rare first edition in book form of this obituary of c) [NAIGEON, Jacques André.] Éloge de La Fontaine, qui a Quesnay, which first appeared in the Nouvelles ephémérides concouru pour le prix de l’Académie de Marseille en 1774. économiques, in May 1775. Another edition, by Cailleau, appeared Bouillon: for the Societé Typographique, 1775. later the same year. Albon here gives an outline of physiocratic INED 24; see Wellcome II, 26 for the Cailleau edition; not in Goldsmiths’ or teaching, and points out Quesnay’s influential distinction be- Kress; OCLC locates 2 copies: at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Cornell. tween the natural and the legal right, something that had been confounded by earlier writers, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, and £2,500 [107291] Vattel. Pages 84 to 100 contain Albon’s Lettre . . . sur le commerce, les fabrications, & la consommation des objets de luxe, an article that 150 had been published the previous year in the Journal d’agriculture. RAE, John. Statement of some new Principles on the Camille d’Albon (1753–1789) was the very model of a liberal Subject of Political Economy exposing the Fallacies of aristocrat of the pre-revolutionary period in France – philan- the System of Free Trade, and of some other Doctrines thropist, agricultural improver, town planner, pamphleteer, maintained in the “Wealth of Nations.” Boston: Hilliard, minor politician, even lesser littérateur, and patron of the arts. Gray, and Co., 1834 He associated with the physiocrats, was an editor of Baudeau’s Nouvelles Éphémérides (1775–6), and wrote studies of Chamous- Octavo (250 × 150 mm). Original pebble grain cloth-backed drab boards, neatly rebacked, new printed spine label, fore and lower set and his close friend Court de Gebelin, as well as a num- edges uncut, preserved in a custom made green morocco backed ber of pamphlets on agrarian reform, and the Discours politiques cloth box. Printed exlibris of Amos Lawrence of Boston and the (a work on the economy and politics of several European library of Maryville College, Tennessee, to front pastedown. Corners countries). worn, one or two splash marks to boards, inner hinges strengthened. Bound before the Albon are three works of literary criticism, Occasional light spotting and one short marginal tear; a very good all in first edition: copy of a scarce book. a) FERRI, Giovanni, Conte di S. Constant. Mélanges litté- first edition, scarce and often overlooked, of “one of the raires et philosophiques. Avignon, ‘et se trouve à Paris chez les highlights of classical economic theory” (K. H. Hennings in Marchands de Nouvautés’, 1775; The New Palgrave). A native of Scotland, Rae (1796–1872) emi- grated to Canada, and thence to America, where this, his only b) [AQUIN DE CHÂTEAU-LYON, Pierre-Louis d’.] Éloge de publication, was written. Originally intended as an appendix Molière en vers avec notes curieuses. Par le petit-cousin de to a larger work on the Natural History and Statistics of Canada, Rabelais. London [but Paris]: 1775; Rae “succeeded in creating a theory of capital to which Böhm-

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Bawerk and others were indebted; in his lifetime some small Lower East Side that were home to boatloads of immigrants recognition from J. S. Mill was almost the only notice he ob- who had come to the United States to seek a better life. It is tained” (Who’s Who in Economics), although Fisher, Wicksell and a book about the American Dream, its flipside at least. Riis Åkerman were all subsequently familiar with his work, Fisher charts the rise of the tenement and the slum landlord, and dedicating one of his main works to Rae. His work “also influ- takes us by means of colourful and highly charged language enced Schumpeter’s (1911) concept of economic development, into the various ethnic communities that inhabited the Lower and Veblen’s (1899) notion of conspicuous consumption” east Side – Italian, Chinese, Jewish, Black . . . it is one of the (Hennings, ibid.). most important photobooks ever published. It represents the Einaudi 4618; Goldsmiths’ 28450; Kress C.3838; Mattioli 2949; Schumpeter, first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in pp. 468–69; Sraffa 4834. a book. These reproductions are rough, to say the least, but it is the beginning, not of a photographic genre, but a photo- £10,000 [107939] graphic attitude, an ethos – humanist documentary photography – in which the photographic social document is employed One of the most important photobooks ever published to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world” (Parr 151 & Badger). RIIS, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among Parr & Badger I 53. the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner’s £3,250 [100736] Sons, 1890 Octavo. Original blue-grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt and dark blue, front cover in dark blue, drab brown endpapers. 43 illustrations (18 halftones from photographs by the author). Spine sunned but an excellent copy. first edition, a variant binding to that illustrated in Parr & Badger (The Photobook: A History) with no priority assigned. How the Other Half Lives is the most important work of the Danish- American social reformer and pioneering documentary photographer Jacob August Riis (1849–1914). “His book is about the tenements of New York: the overcrowded slums of the

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endpaper and flyleaf. Spine sunned, corners slightly worn, endpapers tanned, edges foxed, occasional foxing throughout, rear inner hinge partially cracked to gauze lining. A very good copy. first edition of Russell’s first book, in the second issue blue cloth without publisher’s ads, one of fewer than 1,000 copies. Russell spent his honeymoon with his first wife in Berlin, and though he was sympathetic to the reformist aims of the Ger- man Social Democratic Party, then the most influential Marx- ist movement in Europe, he made in this volume some trenchant and far-sighted criticisms of Marxist dogmas. This copy includes a gift inscription from the literary critic John Dover Wilson to his brother Michael. Blackwell & Ruja A2.1a, fourth binding variant. £500 [90723]

R. B. Braithwaite’s copy 152 154 RUSSELL, Bertrand. An Essay on the Foundations of 152 Geometry. Cambridge: University Press, 1897 ROSCHER, William. Principles of Political Economy. Octavo. Original blue cloth, neatly rebacked with the original gilt- From the thirteenth (1877) German edition. With ad- lettered spine laid down, boards ruled in blind, all edges untrimmed. ditional chapters furnished by the author, for this first Mild cockling to front board, tips lightly rubbed and bumped, page- English and American edition, on paper money, inter- edges tanned, contents toned, inner hinges reinforced. A very good national slave trade, and the protective system; and a copy. preliminary essay on the historical in political economy. first edition, first impression, an excellent association (From the French by L. Wolowski, the whole translated copy of Russell’s first published book of philosophy, with the by John J. Lalor. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1882 pencilled ownership inscription of noted Cambridge philosopher R. B. Braithwaite, dated 1923, to the front free endpaper. 2 volumes, octavo (225 × 145 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, flat Braithwaite (1900–1990), then a scholar at King’s College, bands to spines forming compartments, twin red and black letter- pieces to second and fourth, remaining compartments with floral de- originally studied mathematics before switching to the moral sign gilt, comb-marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Slightly rubbed, sciences tripos for his final year, the year of the inscription. He small nick to head of vol. I front joint. A very good copy. was subsequently elected to a fellowship at the college, which second chicago edition; originally published in New York he retained through a long career in which he founded the fac- and Chicago in 1878. “The importance of Roscher lies rather ulty of the history and philosophy of science with Herbert But- in the field of method than in dogma. He is sometimes con- terfield, and worked “in the Cambridge tradition of scientifi- sidered as the founder in Germany of the historical method in cally informed philosophy exemplified by Bertrand Russell, J. political economy. This cannot be admitted without reserva- M. Keynes, Frank Ramsey, and C. D. Broad” (ODNB). tion . . . But in one respect Roscher stands out far above all Based on Russell’s Trinity College fellowship dissertation, his successors. While these almost exclusively go to historical An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry “provides a partial de- sources, and, broadly speaking, neglect the economic litera- fence of Kant’s theory that the truth of geometry is a neces- ture of the past, Roscher’s principal strength is shown in the sary condition of all possible experience . . . Russell later opposite direction. He did not fall into the neglect of the older dismissed the book as a foolish and immature work, and its systems, especially of classical political economy so strikingly central claims have not been accepted by either mathemati- prominent among later writers” (Palgrave). cians or philosophers. None the less, principally through being reviewed at length and with great respect by the eminent Palgrave, Dictionary of Political Economy III pp. 323–26 (1899). French mathematician Henri Poincaré, it served to establish £225 [108281] Russell’s professional reputation and led to his being invited to deliver a paper at the prestigious International Congress of 153 Philosophy held in Paris in 1900, an event that profoundly affected his career” (idem). RUSSELL, Bertrand. German Social Democracy. Six Lectures With an appendix on social democracy and Blackwell & Ruja A3.1a, first binding variant. the woman question in Germany, by Alys Russell, B.A. £1,250 [112003] London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. With bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, owner signatures to front free

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155 instrument of popularization” (David Todd, Free Trade and its SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Cours complet d’économie politique Enemies in France, 1814–1851, Cambridge 2015). pratique. Paris: Rapilly, 1828–9 Goldsmiths’ 25468. 6 volumes, octavo (200 × 121 mm). Contemporary French calf, spines £1,500 [107508] decoratively tooled in gilt and black (labels renewed), single-line gilt border on sides enclosing blind roll-tool border, marbled edges and 156 endpapers. Sides a little rubbed, spine of volume VI chipped at head. An attractive set in a period binding. SCHABACKER, Richard Wallace. Stock Market Theory first edition of Say’s lectures. Though Say ranks with Sis- and Practice. New York: B. C. Forbes, 1930 mondi and Cournot in the originality of his contributions Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, decoration to to economics, his reputation has suffered from his being boards in blind, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. With 105 il- put down primarily as an exponent of Adam Smith. Schum- lustrations, charts and diagrams, 3 of which are folding. A fine copy peter, who calls his work “the most important of the links in the slightly faded jacket, with extremities rubbed and some shallow in the chain that leads from Cantillon and Turgot to Walras” chips to extremities. offers convincing arguments to prove that Say does indeed first edition, first printing, with the scarce jacket. This belong to the French tradition. “Jean-Baptiste Say’s Cours com- is the first of Schabacker’s three major works on the stock plet d’économie politique pratique was designed to ‘place these market. The youngest financial editor of Forbes magazine, [economic] abstractions within the reach of everyone’ and Schabacker writes, “so long as he plays courageously fair with teemed with practical illustrations of how trade restrictions his sincere study . . . there seems no reason why the average increased the cost of items such as Jamaican rum, ploughs, student should not reap the rewards of successful stock mar- bed sheets or curtains . . . Another notable feature of the ket operation”. The book aims to give a complete background Cours complet was the confirmation of Say’s reappraisal of the of basic knowledge with which to pursue market activities, British model since his condemnation of Britain’s colonial documenting important charting patterns and discussing and economic policies in De l’Angleterre et des anglais (1815). trends, support, and resistance. “Schabacker was the first to The book reproduced nearly in extenso Say’s 1824 article in de- make technical analysis and charting an organized discipline” fence of British rule in India . . . The print run of the first four (Linda Raschke). With over a hundred charts and illustrations, volumes of the Cours complet was 2,300, and the first volume and a frontispiece featuring a detailed map of the New York sold 700 copies in three months. These figures were respect- financial district. able. But Say was disappointed, and it is noteworthy that a Dennistoun & Goodman 258; Larson 1598. second edition had to wait until 1840. Despite the lucidity of Say’s prose, the price – nearly 40 francs for the six volumes – £5,750 [107467] and the length – nearly 3,000 pages – limited its impact as an

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157 SCHULTZ, Henry. The Theory and Measurement of Demand. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1938 Tall octavo. Original blue cloth, front board and spine lettered gilt. With the scarce dust jacket. With 106 figures in the text. Spine of dust jacket a little darkened, one or two small chips; an excellent copy. first edition, first printing, of Schultz’s magnum opus, a masterful work of econometrics. “The student wishing to get a good introduction to mathematical economics as formulated by Cournot, Walras and Pareto, and to the fundamentals of Gaussian curve-fitting analysis, will find clear and lucid pres- entations of these subjects in Schultz’s book. At the same time he will not fail to be impressed by the extraordinary concern for statistical accuracy and precision demonstrated in the em- 158 pirical analysis throughout the book” (Jacob L. Mosak in The New Palgrave). tal. Distinguishing between ‘inventions’ and ‘innovations’, The New Palgrave 4, pp. 261–62. he stressed the fact that scientific and technical inventions amount to nothing unless they are adopted, which calls for as £450 [107450] much daring and imagination as the original act of discovery by the scientist or engineer. Furthermore, the ‘innovations’ 158 that count for economic progress consist of much more than SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Theorie der wirtschaftli- the new machines that capture popular attention: they take the chen Entwicklung. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1912 form of new products, new sources of supply, new forms of industrial and financial organisation just as much as of new Octavo (217 × 136 mm). Contemporary dark grey half cloth by Jarchow of Hamburg (with his ticket), brown calf label, marbled sides, speck- methods of production. The entrepreneur is frequently also led edges. Stamp on title page of the “Seminar für Nationalökonomie the capitalist; nevertheless, in principle there is a world of dif- Hamburg” and another stating “Eingetragen in die Kataloge” [reference between doing things in a new way and providing the corded in the catalogues], contemporary note reading “2/5/1914”. Old capital required to finance a new venture. The capitalist earns library label on spine, a number of contemporary pencilled marginal ‘interest’, but the entrepreneur earns ‘profit’ and without the annotations and underlinings (in German). A very good copy. dynamic change created by the entrepreneur, the rate of profit first edition, scarce, of the first statement of what was to would soon fall to zero . . . His theory of the entrepreneur has become known as the “Schumpeterian system”. In this work ever since been the starting point for every subsequent discus- Schumpeter “replaced Marx’s greedy, bloodsucking capital- sion of entrepreneurship” (Blaug). ist by the dynamic innovating entrepreneur as the linchpin of Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 215–16; IESS (1912); Swedberg the capitalist system, responsible not just for technical pro- S.003. Not in Mattioli. gress but the very existence of a positive rate of profit on capi- £3,500 [109215]

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159 Folio (307 × 197 mm), pp. [4], 8. Sometime overcast sewn, now disbound, preserved in a blue cloth folder, spine lettered gilt. Complete SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Vergangenheit und with the initial blank leaf. Stab marks from sewing in the gutter, light- Zukunft der Sozialwissenschaften. Munich & Leipzig: ly browned throughout; a very good copy. Duncker & Humblot, 1915 first london edition of this important act “for a Company Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers, spine and front panel let- trading to Africa and the Indies”, the document creating the tered black. Uncut and unopened. Vertical split to spine professional- Company of Scotland, later to become the Darien Company. ly restored, short tear to lower wrapper without loss; occasional light “The originator of this disastrous enterprise was William Pat- spotting; an excellent copy. erson, the founder of the Bank of England . . . Without divulg- first edition of an analytical history of the modern social ing the details of his scheme, he succeeded in exciting the sciences, seeing their germination during the Renaissance and speculative interest of his countrymen, and a bill to establish Reformation, and flowering in the 18th-century development the new company was carried through the Scotch Parliament of the natural law tradition. “According to Schumpeter, the and received the sanction of the Lord High Commissioner on social sciences do not constitute an organic unity, where each 26th June 1695. The ‘Company of Scotland trading to Africa social science has its own, determined place. The situation is and the Indies,’ was authorised to seize unoccupied territories rather one of chaos, and the different social sciences have often in Asia, Africa, and America, to plant colonies, construct forts, developed by historical accident. Sometimes the development wage war and conclude treaties; while the king was pledged to of a social science has been determined by its method and obtain reparation from any foreign state which molested the sometimes by its object. The result is that the same problem is company. The company received a monopoly of the trade with often analyzed by several different social sciences. As Schum- Asia, Africa, and America for thirty-one years, and for twenty- peter put it: ‘There basically does not exist one social science one years their imports, except sugar and tobacco, were to be – only different social sciences, whose circles often intersect’” free of all duties. Scotchmen hastened to invest their scanty (Swedberg). The work was issued as volume VII in the series savings in the new venture, and £220,000 was actually contrib- of publications by the Academic Social Science Association in uted towards a nominal capital of £400,000” (Palgrave). Eng- Czernowitz, in which Schumpeter was a very active member. lish opposition to the company and Scottish determination to Swedberg S.005. establish a colony at Darien, (with some 1200 colonists including Paterson and his wife departing Leith for Darien in 1698), £1,250 [110648] resulted in the collapse of the company in 1700, ultimately leading to the Act of Union of 1707 and the payment by Eng- The Darien Company land to Scotland of £398,000 (the Equivalent) in compensation 160 for the losses. (SCOTLAND.) An Act of the Parliament of Scotland Sabin 18545; Wing S 1145; See Palgrave I, p. 481. for Erecting an East-India Company in that Kingdom. £2,250 [109293] London: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to His Most Excellent Majesty, Edinburgh, 1695, and reprinted at London, for Sam. Manship, and Hugh Newman, 1695

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161 Locke unpicked SCROPE, George Poulett. Principles of political econo- 162 my, deduced from the natural laws of social welfare, and S[ERGEANT], J[ohn]. The Method to Science. London: applied to the present state of Britain. London: Longman, Printed by W. Redmayne for the Author, and are to be Sold by Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 Thomas Metcalf, 1696 Duodecimo (150 × 92 mm). Later smooth tan calf, blind triple rule border to covers, spine decorated gilt in compartments, morocco Octavo (171 × 108 mm). Contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked. label. Engraved frontispiece map of the world. Library stamp of Tiny ownership inscription on front pastedown of Leonard J. Eslick Queen’s College, Oxford to title and final leaf, armorial bookplate of of St Louis University. General light paper toning and foxing. A very Robert Mason to front pastedown. Extremities lightly rubbed, boards good copy. with a little surface wear; a very good copy. first edition of one of the principal works of the Roman first edition. Scrope wrote numerous pamphlets on eco- Catholic controversialist and philosopher John Sergeant nomical questions; he opposed the Malthusian theory of pop- (1623–1707). “A more thoroughgoing Aristotelian critique of ulation, defended the Poor laws, advocated unemployment in- Locke came from . . . John Sergeant, who, as a Catholic, stood surance and criticised the gold standard. In Principles of Political outside the clerical assaults emanating from the established Economy, called by McCulloch “a work of considerable talent church. Sergeant’s critique of Locke was part of a more wide- and acuteness”, Scrope “proposed to correct the legal stand- ranging critique of what he called ‘ideists’, a category which ard of value, (or at least, to afford to individuals the means yokes Descartes and Locke together. He targets Locke in his of ascertaining its errors) by the periodical publication of an The Method to Science (1696) and Solid Philosophy Asserted, authentic price-current, containing a list of a large number of against the Fancies of the Ideists (1697) . . . His principal objec- articles in general use, arranged in quantities corresponding tion to Locke’s epistemology was its implicit scepticism. He to their relative consumption, so as to give the rise or fall, from charged Locke that his natural philosophy failed to provide time to time, of the mean of prices; which will indicate, with universal conclusions or maxims” (Sarah Hutton, British Phi- all the exactness desirable for commercial purposes, the vari- losophy in the Seventeenth Century, OUP 2015, p. 202). ations in the value of money; and to enable individuals, if they provenance: contemporary ownership inscription at head shall think fit, to regulate their pecuniary engagements by ref- of title page of Thomas Sandys (and one or two neat marginal erence to this Tabular Standard” (pp. 406-7). corrections), possibly the “interloper” or private trader, who, Einaudi 5198; Goldsmiths’ 27877; Kress C.3610; McCulloch, p. 19; Palgrave III, in 1689, was at the centre of a court case against the East In- p. 369; Schumpeter pp. 489–90; Sraffa 5332; Sturges 58. dia Company. With a later ownership inscription on the front £1,500 [107194] free endpaper verso: “The property of Shaderick Penn, Bought at Harpers Ferry, Sept the 4 1819 price $1.00”; this may be an alternate spelling of Shadrak Penn Jr, editor of the Louisville

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Public Advertiser and “the dominant editorial voice in the state gilt, marbled endpapers. Contemporary prize-plate to front past- for a number of years” (John E. Kleber ed., The Encyclopaedia of edown. Extremities rubbed, front joint tender and starting at foot. A Louisville, 2001, p. 569). very good copy in a handsome binding. Wing S2579. first edition. It is one of two works, the other being The Elements of Politics (1891), that represent “Sidgwick’s attempt £2,000 [110050] to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of 163 Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work SHAW, Nellie. Whiteway. A Colony on the Cotswolds. in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method signalled London: the C. W. Daniel Company, 1935 its adherence to the style of classical political economy, rather than adopting the more historical or more mathematical Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Facsimile frontispiece of a letter from H. G. Wells, 5 photo- approaches then in vogue; and second, it included within the graphic plates. 4 laid-in newspaper clippings regarding a radio play scope of the subject not just the ‘science’ of economic analysis, about Whiteway, with accompanying annotated leaves. Small hole to but also the ‘art’ of political economy, that is, an examination front joint not reaching text-block, spotting to edges. An excellent, of the (limited) role of state action in economic life. Implicitly, bright copy in the dust jacket with a few markings to front panel and the work attempted to fend off the twin challenges to the status two portions of tape-repair to verso. of traditional political economy posed by the late 19th-century first edition, first impression. Whiteway was a Tolstoyan enthusiasm for socialism and sociology” (ODNB). anarchist community established by Quaker journalist Samuel Mattioli 3375; Sraffa 5405. Ramsden, London Book Binders 1780–1840, p. 99 for Veale Bracher near the Gloucestershire village of Miserden one John Low (of 14 Little Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, rather than in 1898. “Vegetarianism was obligatory, nudism optional . . . Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, as on the ticket in this copy). [An early visitor remarked that] prosperity . . . sapped some £375 [108268] of the primitive rigour from the venture. However, the sexual permissiveness that had been one of the founding tenets 165 remained . . . In the 1920s the Colony was infiltrated by the Home Office, anxious about revolutionary tendencies” (Aslet, SIMONDE DE SISMONDI, Jean Charles L. De la richesse Villages of Britain, online). Shaw was one of the first members of commerciale, ou principes d’économie politique, appli- the community, which survives to the present day. qués à la législation de commerce. Geneva: J. J. Paschoud, 1803 £850 [113477] 2 volumes, octavo (202 × 120 mm). Modern quarter calf, brown cloth sides, red morocco labels, top edges brown. A few light scuff marks 164 to boards, faint spotting to half-titles and occasionally to text block. SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy. An excellent set. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 first edition of the first work on political economy by the Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Contemporary prize binding of black roan Swiss historian and economist. by J. Low for the Law Society, flat bands tooled in gilt to spine form- Einaudi 5298; Goldsmiths’ 18617; Kress B4734. ing compartments, second and fourth gilt-lettered direct, remaining compartments richly gilt with floral design, foliate border-roll to cov- £1,750 [104313] ers gilt, Law Society crest to front gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles

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166 (SLAVERY.) An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791; on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade. London: James Phillips, 1791 Octavo (224 × 148 mm). Uncut in original boards, printed paper spine label. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Large folding plan of a slave ship and folding engraved map of the western coast of Africa. Ownership inscription in pencil to front pastedown of one R. Newman, dated 1952. Paper spine label a little chipped with partial loss of characters. Plate with short tear repaired. An excellent, uncut copy. first edition of this abstract on the slave trade and colonial slavery, which was bought about, “in consequence of the numerous petitions which were sent to Parliament from different counties, cities, and towns of Great Britain” (preface). The campaign to abolish the slave trade, up until 1790, had been channelled through pamphlet or pulpit: “a third and more novel method was the mass petition campaign aimed at the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Initiated by ad- vocates of limited parliamentary reform and then employed by merchants and manufacturers of Manchester in their campaign against a tax on cloth, the abolitionists transformed petitioning into the central instrument of extra-parliamentary politics. For many subsequent decades the petition campaign became the pivot for rallying popular support not only for abolitionist aims, but for all middle- and lower-class reforms and radical movements that sought to alter the course of Parliament. The abolitionist petition campaign reached an apex during 1791–2 where an unprecedented 519 abolitionist petitions, coming from all over Britain, were delivered to Parliament. Some 400,000 persons signed these petitions (1 out of every 11 adults), with Man- chester alone contributing 20,000 names from an adult population of about 30,000” (Fogel). Goldsmiths’ 14984; Hogg 11; Kress B.2011. See Fogel, Without Consent or Contract, p. 212. £6,500 [109208]

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167 167 167 (SLAVERY.) The Female Society for the Relief of British bourhoods, for the relief of British Negro Slaves. Established Negro Slaves. Publicity album produced by the society. 1825. (Birmingham: Printed by B. Hudson, [1826]) Birmingham: Printed by B. Hudson, 1827 • Extracts from the Royal Jamaica Gazette, Volume XLVIII, Quarto (259 × 204 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, No. 40. From Saturday, September 30, to Saturday, raised bands, titles to compartment and decorations to bands gilt, October 7, 1826 (Jamaica: Alex. Aikman, 1826) decorations to compartments in blind, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. With 5 engravings printed by the society, as well as 19 • CLARKSON, Thomas. Negro Slavery: Argument, That the sketches, 10 in pencil and 9 in water colour. Birmingham Bookbind- Colonial Slaves are better off than the British Peasantry, An- er’s ticket to front pastedown. Joints skilfully repaired, extremities swered, from the Royal Jamaica Gazette (1824) slightly bumped, boards lightly rubbed, occasional spotting to text • In the Jamaica Gazette of July 3, 1824 is contained the block. A very good copy. following Advertisement . . . Here we have a negro a rare publicity album produced by the Female Society for man, claimed as a slave by no one, accused of no the Relief of British Negro Slaves in Birmingham for fund rais- crime, but who is seized as a runaway, put in jail, and ing and an early example of shock publicity tactics. Active be- at last sold for the payment of his jail fees . . . tween 1825 and 1919, the Society sought to “waken attention, circulate information, and introduce to the notice of the afflu- • Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Card Explana- ent and influential classes . . . acknowledge of the real state tory of the Contents of the Society’s Work Bags and Albums of suffering and humiliation under which British Slaves yet (Birmingham, [c.1826]) groan” (Annual Report 1825). Subscriptions were collected from • Twenty-Six Points of Comparison between Hebrew Slavery, members of the Society as well as donations from other inter- under the Mosaic Dispensation . . . ; fifteen centuries anterior ested parties, and the monies then forwarded to anti-slavery to the light of Christianity, and British Colonial & American groups in Britain or overseas. The monies received by the so- Slavery, under the Christian Dispensation, in the early part of ciety were also responsible for funding specific projects, two the Nineteenth Century after Christ . . . (Bristol: J. Taylor, of which involved Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) who was Printer, Bristol Mirror Office, [1823]). responsible for founding the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and Amanda Smith (1837–1915). Produced to promote their ideas, • Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in the Slave-Trade with albums such as this consist of a mixture of anti-slavery items Some Reflections on That Traffic. (London: Harvey Dar- especially printed for the society. ton, 1826). This album includes: • The Worn-Out Negro Slave. • “An Extract from Colonel Arthur’s Letter.” This leaf Also included are five engravings depicting slaves, as well as 19 describes the state of “the slave Kitty at the post of pencil and water colour sketches by a previous owner depict- a bed, with chain was bound round so close that she ing Cornish countryside. could not stand or move. I saw a cut upon her left ear, OCLC lists only three other copies of such albums, two at Princeton and one and many stripes upon her back: her face bore visible in Birmingham; most likely many of the albums have been broken up for their marks of whipping . . . ” contents. The contents in this album are consistent with the copies held at Princeton. • The Second Report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West £7,500 [103614] Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and their respective neigh-

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it above the Wealth of Nations . . . . Its central idea is the concept, closely related to conscience, of the impartial spectator who helps man to distinguish right from wrong. For the same purpose, Immanuel Kant invented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the superego” (Niehans, 62). Goldsmiths’ 9537; Higgs 1890; Kress 5815; Tribe 1; Vanderblue, p. 38. £45,000 [105230]

168 169 SMITH, Adam. Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle. 168 Uebersetzt, vorgeredet, und hin und wieder kommen- SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: tirt von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. [. . . Zweyter Band, for A. Millar, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759 welcher die Zussäzze zur sechsten Ausgabe enthält.] Octavo (201 × 120 mm). Rebound in full calf to style, incorporating the Leipzig: In der Gräffschen Buchhandlung, 1791–5 original front and rear calf panels, spine ruled gilt in compartments, 2 parts bound in one octavo volume (197 × 120 mm). Contemporary red morocco label, new endpapers. Complete with the half-title, with half sheep and sprinkled boards, spine ruled gilt in compartments, the errata on final leaf. The page numbers 317–36 omitted from the morocco spine label, edges stained red. Corners and extremities pagination but text complete, as issued. First and last leaf tanned slightly rubbed, occasional light spotting; an excellent copy. around the edges from the original leather turn-ins and strengthened with archival tissue. Five 18th and early 19th-century ownership first complete german translation of Smith’s Theory inscriptions to the title, two crossed through and one extensively of Moral Sentiments, the second German translation overall, blocked out. Water stain to the upper margin, more extensive towards volume II providing a translation of the additional material the end, some spotting and staining, but still a good copy. contained in the English 6th edition, published shortly before first edition, published in April 1759 with a recorded “print Smith’s death in 1790. The first German translation of 1770 was run of 1,000 copies” (Sher, Early Editions of Adam’s Smith’s Books, made from the third edition of 1767. “The Kosegarten transla- 13). Smith’s first book and his later Wealth of Nations demon- tion of 1791 had more impact [than the 1770] partly because of strate “a great unifying principle . . . Smith’s ethics and his eco- its timing and also because it did provide some contextualisa- nomics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, tion for work and author” (Tribe). or self-reliance, which manifests itself in economics in laissez Tribe 40 & 54; Vanderblue, p. 42 (listed but not apparently held, although faire” (Spiegel). Smith’s famous phrase is first used here that Harvard locates 3 copies in its various libraries). would be repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are £3,750 [104689] often “led by an invisible hand . . . without knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society” (Part IV, Chapter 1). “The fruit of his Glasgow years . . . The Theory of Moral Senti- ments would be enough to assure the author a respected place among Scottish moral philosophers, and Smith himself ranked

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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer 171 or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of regard to their own interest” the Wealth of Nations. The third edition, with additions, in three volumes. London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784 170 3 volumes, octavo (216 × 128 mm). Contemporary tree calf, red mo- SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes rocco labels lettered gilt to spines, all edges blue. Housed in a custom of the Wealth of Nations. In two Volumes. London: for W. red cloth slipcase. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Templer and Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776 bookseller’s ticket to front pastedowns. Extremities professionally restored; a most attractive set. 2 volumes, quarto (283 × 225 mm). Nineteenth-century French quarter calf, marbled paper sides, spines ruled and stamped gilt in compart- first octavo edition, the third overall. This uncommon ments, red leather labels. Head of spine to volume II chipped, inner edition contains several additions including a new chapter ti- hinges split but joints very firm, corners slightly bumped. Without tled “The Conclusion of the Mercantile System”. the half-title to volume II and final blank in volume I. Marginal pale With the bookplate of James Templer (1751–1832), the sec- semi-circular oil stain (presumably from a lamp) to the first 40 pages ond son of James Templer, the builder of Stover House. In 1760 in volume two, diminishing from 6 to 1 cm. A few leaves in volume II his father and partners John Line and Thomas Parlby won the bound in unevenly with slightly shorter fore-margins. Leaf P2 verso contract to build the new naval dockyard in Plymouth, neces- (page 107) in volume II lightly inked, affecting 14 lines. Occasional light spotting as usual and the odd stain. A very good set. sitating their move from London to Devon. The partner John Line left his estate and Lindridge House to his wife, Jane, upon first edition of “the first and greatest classic of modern eco- his death in 1777, and James Templer married the young widow nomic thought” (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith “begins in 1778, some two years before he was ordained in 1780. with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the Goldsmiths’ 12554; Kress B.789; Tribe 27; Vanderblue, p. [3]. division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies £9,250 [107495] the human propensity to barter and exchange . . . The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a defini- 172 tive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control” (PMM). “The SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published of the Wealth of Nations. The Fifth Edition. London: for A. and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1789 classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet sur- 3 volumes, octavo (210 × 120 mm). Contemporary tree calf some- vived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the time skilfully rebacked with original spines laid down, richly smooth circumstances which prompted it have become the object of spines gilt with two alternating cornucopia motifs, green morocco la- historical enquiry” (ODNB). bels and numbering roundels. Ownership inscription at head of each title page: “Thomas Harison 1834” and with his bookplate in volume Goldsmiths’ 11392; Grolier, English 57; Kress 7621; Printing and the Mind of Man III. Spines rubbed, scattered foxing or paper toning, top corner of 221; Rothschild 1897; Tribe 9. front free endpaper torn or cut away in each volume. £110,000 [111059] fifth edition, the last to be published during Smith’s lifetime. Goldsmiths’ 13794; Kress B.1722; Tribe 33; Vanderblue, p. 3. £4,250 [113616]

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ership inscription to front free endpaper, small inked drawing to rear pastedown, some foxing to contents. first dublin edition, same year as the first London edition; Kress lists the Dublin printing first and calls the London “another issue” while Tribe calls the Dublin edition a piracy. The Essays were published five years after Smith’s death and edited by the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753–1828); his “Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith” is one of the earliest biographical notices of Smith and “until [Stew- art’s] Biographical Memoir of 1811 . . . formed the basis upon which everyone drew for the biographies of Smith that began to appear in the early 19th century” (Tribe). The editors, Joseph Black and James Hutton, state that Smith’s essays were intended as parts of “a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts”, but that Smith “long since . . . found it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive”. The essays range over philosophy, aesthetics and the history of science. Most were probably written before the appearance of the Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759, but were withheld from publication as part of Smith’s “extensive plan”. Scarce: neither Einaudi nor Goldsmiths’ list this Dublin edition. Jessop, p. 172; Kress B.3037; Tribe 56; Vanderblue, p. 43. £2,250 [97132]

173 175 173 SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart. In Five Volumes. London: SMITH, Adam. Investigación de la naturaleza y causas Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies; F. C. and J. Rivington; de la riqueza de las naciones. Valladolid: En la Oficina de la Otridge and Son [and 14 others], 1811–12 Vuida é Hijos de Santander, 1794 5 volumes, octavo (214 × 133 mm). Contemporary tan calf, spines gilt 4 volumes, octavo in half-sheets (197 × 132 mm). Contemporary tree in compartments, red and green morocco labels, gilt rule border to calf, flat spines decorated gilt, contrasting morocco labels. A very fine boards. Portrait frontispiece to volume I. Some light expert repair to set. front joint of vol. 3. Some spotting throughout, darker in places, as of- first edition in spanish of the Wealth of Nations, translated ten; one short marginal tear, the odd stain, generally a very good set. by Josef Alfonso Ortiz, a lawyer attached to the royal councils first edition of the complete works of Adam Smith, with a and chancery in Valladolid and a professor of canon law and biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and math- sacred theology. Ortiz claimed he had translated from the ematician Dugald Stewart. eighth edition, which is clearly an error. According to Tribe, Tribe 11; Vanderblue, p. 45. this is a translation from the third edition of 1784, but R. S. Smith suggests the fifth, of 1789. £5,000 [107885] Goldsmiths’ 15932; Kress 2832; Tribe 53; Vanderblue, p. 31. ; see R.S. Smith’s essay, ‘The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America, 1780–1830’ pp. 176 313–326 in Cheng-chung Lai, Adam Smith across Nations. SMITH, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and £17,500 [104990] Arms. Delivered in the University of Glasgow. Reported by a student in 1763. Edited with an introduction and 174 notes by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896 SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered gilt. which is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of first edition. “Based on a set of student notes from Smith’s the Author; by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. Dublin: Printed for lectures, probably delivered during the session 1763–4, that Messrs. Wogan, Byrne, J. Moore [and 5 others in Dublin], 1795 came into Cannan’s hands in the spring of 1895” (Tribe), the Octavo (211 × 120 mm). Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked re- lectures contain many of the formative ideas behind the Wealth taining portion of original red morocco label. Contemporary owner- of Nations. ship inscriptions on front free endpapers of Cary Barraud and Otway Tribe 245; Vanderblue, p. 48. B. Barraud, both of whom can be located in Maryland and Virginia, the latter studied law at Harvard. Bound without the half-title. Own- £650 [107817]

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177 178 SMITH, Adam. The Glasgow Edition of his Works, with (SMITH, Adam.) RAE, John. Life of Adam Smith. London: supplements. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975–2001 Macmillan & Co., 1895 Together 9 works in 10 volumes, octavo. Original boards, spines let- Octavo (219 × 140 mm). Near contemporary half calf and marbled tered gilt. With the dust jackets. In excellent condition. boards, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco label, top The Glasgow edition of Adam Smith’s works, publication of edge gilt. Title printed in red and black. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Kirkcaldy born floor-cloth and linoleum manufacturer, Sir Mi- which began in 1976 to mark the bicentenary of the Wealth of chael Barker Nairn, Bart to front pastedown; later from the library of Nations, complete with the associated volumes, the Essays on the Nobel prize-winning economist George Stigler, with his book- Adam Smith and the Life by Ian Simpson Ross, and the Index plate loosely inserted. In excellent condition. volume. first edition of one of the major biographies of Adam The set comprises Smith. John Rae (1845–1915) was a Scottish journalist and edi- I: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, eds. D. D. Raphael & A. L. tor whose book replaced Dugald Stewart’s Biographical Memoir of Macfie, 2nd printing, 1979 (1st 1976); Adam Smith (1811) as the standard life. Loosely inserted into this copy is a six-page autograph letter II: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, eds. from the author, dated 11 November 1912, responding to Sir R. H. Campbell & A. S. Skinner, text ed. W. B. Todd, 2v., 3rd Michael Nairn’s correspondence about the book, acknowledg- printing, 1997 (1st 1976); ing an error in the work and answering various queries (“. . . III: Essays on Philosophical Subjects (and Miscellaneous Pieces), ed. W. The ‘noble lord’ mentioned in Smith’s letter to Sinclair could P. D. Wightman, 1st ed., 1980; not have been Lord Rosslyn, because Lord Rosslyn was not a IV: Lectures of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, ed. J. C. Bryce, 1st ed., noble lord at the date of that letter; he became a peer for the 1983; V: Lectures on Jurisprudence, eds. R. L. Meek, D. D. Raphael, first time in 1780 when he was made Baron Loughborough. P. G. Stein, 1st ed., 1978; Who then the ‘noble lord’ of the letter is, I have no idea. You ask who was the owner of the third copy mentioned by Smith VI: Correspondence of Adam Smith, eds. E. C. Mossner & I. S. Ross, . . . I should think that he is the ‘Mr Anstruther M.P.’ who is 1st ed., 1977; said by Bentham to have given his copy to Lord Rosslyn, & Essays on Adam Smith, eds. Andrew S. Skinner & Thomas Wil- whose autograph remains inscribed on the copy in Sir Michael son, 1st ed., 1975; Nairn’s library . . . What came of Adam Smith’s own copy of the book is not known . . . Perhaps Smith may have relented & The Life of Adam Smith, by Ian Simpson Ross, 1st ed., 1995; let the book after all go to Sinclair all the way to Thurso Cas- Index to the Works of Adam Smith, comps. K. Haakonssen & A. S. tle & his fears from ‘the great distance’ proved correct. There Skinner, 1st ed., 2001. is a copy of the book in the British Museum Library, evidently bought secondhand, I think. If I can be of any further use to Sir Tribe 459, 460, 475, 482, 487, 500, 565. Michael Nairn in the matter I shall be most happy . . .” £350 [110596] Vanderblue, p. 61. £750 [112626]

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179 not just to Constantinople but to the universal, divine–human SOLOVIEV, Vladimir. [In Cyrillic:] Tri sily. Publichnoe cultural synthesis of the future” (Paul Valliere, Modern Russian Theology: Orthodox Theology In A New Key, p. 114). chtenie (Three Forces. A public reading). Moscow: M. Katkov, 1877 £7,500 [86058] Octavo (222 × 150 mm), pp. 16. Original printed paper wrappers. Small circular library label to front wrapper, oval library stamp to blank por- 180 tion of first and last leaves. Wrapper largely split along spine, but still STEWART, Dugald. Elements of the Philosophy of the holding, front wrapper and first leaf a little crumpled at head, with a short tear but no loss, trace of library label and shelfmark to front Human Mind. London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell [& 4 others in wrapper; a very good copy. London], 1792; 1814; 1827 first edition, scarce, of the Russian philosopher, theolo- 3 volumes, quarto (262 × 205 mm). Rebound in modern brown half gian, poet, pamphleteer and literary critic Vladimir Soloviev’s calf, with red and green morocco labels, spines lettered in gilt, mar- rousing lecture, “Three Forces”, read to the Society of Ama- bled boards and edges speckled red. A fine set in a handsome binding. teurs of Russian Literature in April 1877. “In the academic year first editions of Stewart’s magnum opus, which was pub- 1876–7 Soloviev returned to teaching and worked on a second lished in three parts over 35 years. Dugald Stewart (1753–1828), book, The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge. Before the Adam Smith’s first biographer and a leading voice of the Scot- year was over, however, he resigned his academic post and tish Enlightenment, was elected professor of mathematics in moved to St Petersburg . . . In the light of his later career So- 1775 at the University of Edinburgh and professor of moral phi- loviev’s move can be seen as a step towards the lifestyle which losophy in 1785. suited him best, that of an independent scholar and publicist. Jessop, p. 177. Soloviev picked a good time to begin his publicistic career. Early in 1877 Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in £1,500 [93478] response to Turkish violence against Orthodox Christians in the Balkans. For the first time since the end of the Crimean 181 War (1856), the Eastern Question returned to the center stage SUN TZU. Sun Tzu on the Art of War. The Oldest Military of European politics and lent new urgency to the issue of Rus- Treatise in the World. Translated from the Chinese with sia’s historical mission . . . Hitching religious philosophy to Introduction and Critical Notes by Lionel Giles. London: Russian messianism . . . his thesis was as simple as it was bold. Luzac & Co., Printed by E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1910 The world is dominated by two opposed, but equally flawed, Tall octavo (246 × 162 mm). Contemporary sand cloth, green morocco religious principles: the Islamic or oriental principle of ‘the in- label to the spine, the original yellow printed wraps bound in front human God,’ a formula justifying universal servitude, and the and back. A little rubbed, corners bumped, slightly stain at the head modern European principle of ‘the godless human individual,’ of the spine, wraps a touch soiled, light browning, a very good copy. a formula validating ‘universal egoism and anarchy.’ The con- first edition thus, arguably the best translation of Sun Tzu flict between these principles can only end in a vicious circle. in the 20th century. At the time of his translation, Giles was Fortunately for humanity there is a country, Russia, where East assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and and West meet and transcend their spiritual division in a high- Manuscripts at the British Museum and was probably the leader religious principle: bogochelovechestvo, the humanity of God. ing Sinologue of his day. It was not until the publication in 1963 As history’s ‘third force’ Russia is destined to blaze the path

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182 183 of Samuel B. Griffith’s translation that Giles met any sort of position at Harvard, his famous 1911 textbook, and his control challenge at all. of the Quarterly Journal of Economics helped spread his version of Cambridge neoclassicism throughout the United States. £4,500 [112160] £575 [110666] 182 TAUSSIG, Frank W. Principles of Economics. New York: 183 The Macmillan Company, 1911 TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, double-line Scientific Management. New York & London: Harper & ruling to boards continued in gilt to spines. Front hinge of Vol. I skil- Brothers Publishers, 1911 fully repaired; an excellent set in bright cloth. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt, pub- first edition, first printing, of Frank W. Taussig’s influen- lisher’s device to front board in blind. Trivial rubbing to tips, a fine tial textbook. Serving as a professor of economics at Harvard copy. University for almost 50 years, Taussig is credited with creat- first trade edition, preceded by the privately distrib- ing the foundations of modern international trade theory. His uted edition of the same year. “F. W. Taylor, an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, was the originator of what he called ‘scientific management’, now known as ‘time and motion study’. His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day’s work and the best means of ensur- ing such a standard of production. He was interested in any factor that hindered or helped in attaining this end, and besides studying factory conditions and methods in great detail he was responsible for fundamental changes in machinery and machine tools. The main lines of approach to increased efficiency were standardising processes and machines, time and motion study, and payment by results, all of which have been welcomed in the USSR, where ‘Stakhanovism’ is virtually ‘Taylorism’ renamed, and in Germany, where the Principles was translated and achieved a wide circulation (thirty-one thousand copies sold by 1922). The adoption of his methods there contributed notably to the speedy recovery of German production after the First World War. His methods were anathema to trade unionists almost everywhere else” (PMM). Downs, Books That Changed America, 17; Norman 2059. See Printing and the Mind of Man 403. £450 [112507]

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184 crease across corner of back panel, a little foxing to top and fore edge. An excellent copy, scarce in the jacket. (THATCHER, Margaret.) MOORE, Sheila. The Conservative Party. The First 150 Years. Foreword by first edition, first impression. Thompson “felt that he had much to learn from the life experiences of his working- Margaret Thatcher. Richmond, Surrey: Country Life Press, class students. The whole tone of his most celebrated work, 1980 The Making of the English Working Class (1963), which made his Folio. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, grey endpapers. reputation, testifies to this. It was fittingly dedicated to one With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from photographs, colour of these students, and for all its international success it is im- and black and white. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. possible not to sense that the audience he felt himself to be first edition, first impression. signed by margaret addressing was a wider one than that of the academy” (ODNB). thatcher and by 24 Conservative politicians on the half-title verso, the signatories comprising the entirety of her first Cabi- £675 [109964] net except Norman St John-Stevas, who was sacked as Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Arts in Janu- One of the classics of early 19th-century feminist literature ary 1981; also present are the signatures of Leon Brittan, who 186 succeeded John Biffen as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the same reshuffle, Michael Havers, Attorney General from 1979 to THOMPSON, William [& Anna Wheeler]. Appeal 1987, Norman Fowler, who became the first Secretary of State of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the for Transport after the post was brought into the Cabinet, and Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain them in Michael Jopling, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from Political, and Thence Civil and Domestic, Slavery; in 1979 to 1983. The author’s husband, John Moore, was Conserv- Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill’s Celebrated “Article on ative Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from 1974 un- Government”. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, til 1992; she also served as his constituency secretary through- and Green, and Wheatley and Adlard, 1825 out his career. A full list of signatories is available on request. Octavo (217 × 135 mm). Original drab green boards neatly rebacked £1,250 [111280] with the original drab brown diaper-grain cloth spine laid down, original printed paper label (rubbed). Old library number on spine, 185 surface wear to boards, title page skilfully repaired at head and gutter, a couple of leaves roughly opened (with small loss from blank mar- THOMPSON, E. P. The Making of the English Working gins), scattered foxing and pale marginal dampstaining. Class. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963 first edition of one of the most important works in the his- Octavo. Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine. With the dust jacket. tory of feminism and “one of the classics of early 19th-century Book label of Denis Gray on front free endpaper. Jacket spine toned, feminist literature” (ODNB). “No book published before his time on this subject, even the famous work of Mary Wollstone-

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187 (TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS.) [Drop-head title:] Copy of all Correspondence between the Colonial Office and the 186 Governor of Australia, touching the Free Pardon, and the Order for the Return of the Dorchester Labourers. craft, is at once so broad and comprehensive and so direct and practical as Thompson’s Appeal” (Richard K. P. Pankhurst, London: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 1837 William Thompson: Britain’s Pioneer Socialist, Feminist, and Co-opera- Single folio sheet (338 × 215 mm). Unbound. Preserved in a cloth port- tor, 1954). Not until John Stuart Mill’s Subjection of Women (1869) folio. Dutch library stamp to outer margin and shelf mark at head. Horizontal crease where folded; a little marginal chipping; a very was the argument again stated with such force. good copy. William Thompson (1775–1833), socialist and economist, was born into an Irish ascendancy family in Cork. His Intro- first edition of the official government paper pardoning the ductory Letter is addressed to his silent collaborator, the phi- Tolpuddle Martyrs (otherwise the Dorchester Labourers, or losopher Anna Wheeler (1785?-1848), a rebel from the Anglo- Six Men of Dorset) and allowing their return to England. Their Irish gentry. “I long hesitated to arrange our common ideas”, sentences of transportation to Australia for forming a trade writes Thompson, “anxious that the hand of a woman should union had caused a public outcry in 1834. In England, agita- have the honour of raising from the dust that neglected ban- tion against the sentences began almost as soon as they were ner which a woman’s hand [i.e., Wollstonecraft’s] nearly thirty pronounced, and the outcry over the injustice of the case won years ago unfolded boldly, in face of the prejudices of thou- the support of high-profile radical figures, including Daniel sands of years, and for which a woman’s heart bled, and her O’Connell, Fergus O’Connor, and William Cobbett. Less than life was all but the sacrifice – I hesitated to write”. a month after the trial the men were already being referred to Their work was provoked by James Mill’s dismissal of politi- as “martyrs”. Under pressure, the home secretary, Lord John cal rights for women in his famous Article on Government. Mill Russell, granted the men conditional pardons in June 1835, fol- argued that almost all women were represented adequately in lowed by full pardons in March 1836, although that news was political matters by their fathers or husbands, and that it was not passed on to the men, who remained in assigned labour therefore quite unnecessary for them to enjoy formal political long after they should have been freed. rights. This statement by one of the leading Benthamites – See Printing and the Mind of Man 305. “among the Utilitarians . . . second only to Bentham himself ” £1,500 [104703] – alarmed and horrified Thompson and Wheeler. Goldsmiths’ 24707; not in Einaudi or Kress. See Jane Rendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism, (1985), pp. 217–18. £5,500 [102519]

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“Humanity and justice demand, that those who thus 189 suffer for the public good should be relieved at the public [TUCKER, George.] ATTERLEY, Joseph, pseud. A expense” Voyage to the Moon: with some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the people of 188 Morosofia, and other Lunarians. New York: Elam Bliss, 1827 TORRENS, Robert. On Wages and Combination. London: Octavo (190 × 106 mm). Contemporary tree sheep, red morocco label. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 Ownership inscription “J. Beatty Jenning” to front free endpaper in Octavo (222 × 138 mm). Original blue boards skilfully rebacked to pencil. Joints cracking and corners lightly worn, intermittent foxing, style. Library labels of Nottingham Free Public Libraries on front cov- more severe in places, but a very fine copy in unrestored condition. er and pastedown, stamp on title page and four other pages. Corners first edition of a scarce lunar imaginary voyage, “regarded worn, a few chips at edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy with the by many as the first genuine work of science fiction to ema- half-title and errata slip. nate from an American author” (Howgego), written by George first edition, presentation copy from the author, Tucker, an American lawyer born in Bermuda, appointed by inscribed at the head of the title page (possibly in a secretarial Thomas Jefferson in 1825 as professor of moral philosophy at hand): “The Right Honorable [sic] T. Spring Rice M.P. , with the University of Virginia. the Author’s Compliments”. An excellent association copy: In A Voyage to the Moon, “the hero and pseudonymous au- the recipient was Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of thor Joseph Atterley, a native of Long Island, takes a voyage to Brandon (1790–1866), a Whig politician who at the time was the Orient in one of his father’s ships. The ship founders off MP for Limerick City and in June 1834 was appointed Secre- the Burmese coast and Atterley is captured and taken inland. tary of State for War and the Colonies. He was Chancellor of While under a sort of house arrest, he meets Gurameer, a Brah- the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839. Robert Torrens (1780?–1864) min who has been to the moon. With the help of some natives “was a first class economist whose economic thought chal- they construct an air-tight vessel made partly of lunarium (a lenged the status quo, and who probably deserves to be ranked metal that repels the earth and is attracted to the moon), and with Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo as one of the great Classical after a three-day voyage the two travellers land in the lunar Economists” (Baylen & Gossman, eds., Biographical Dictionary region of Morosofia. The moon, together with its Mongoloid of Modern British Radicals II, pp. 499–500). In On Wages and Com- population and its flora and fauna, is a dislocated fragment of bination Torrens argued for “a national insurance fund to be the earth. The progress of the two men through the lunar so- applied to the alleviation of misery” caused to workers when ciety, and their meeting with the excessively foolish Glonglins, they are (temporarily) thrown out of employment by the de- becomes a vehicle for satire, prediction and social comment, ployment of “new and Improved machinery” (see Giancarlo many familiar personalities being represented by anagrams de Vivo’s essay “Robert Torrens as a ‘Neglected Economist’” in and puns (e.g. Vindar is Darwin; Lozzi Pozzi is Pestalozzi; and English, Irish and Subversives among the Dismal Scientists, Allington Wighurd is William Godwin). The travellers eventually return & Thompson, eds., 2010, pp. 89–111). to earth, landing in South America where the Brahmin travels Blaug pp. 252–53; Goldsmiths’ 28801; Kress C.3880; Mattioli 3649; Sraffa 5919. the Andes to confirm certain theories about the moon’s origin Not in Einaudi. and Atterley returns by ship to New York” (Howgego). £1,250 [109565] Shoemaker 30846; Howgego T22. £6,250 [110261]

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190 TURGOT, A. R. J. Oeuvres de Mr. Turgot, ministre d’état. 192 Précédées et accompagnées de mémoires et de notes sur sa vie, son administration et ses ouvrages. Paris: A. Belin first us edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on Christmas Day 1984, just a few weeks after he was pre- and Delance, 1808–11 sented with the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning against 9 volumes, octavo (204 × 120 mm). Contemporary sprinkled roan and apartheid in South Africa: “To Donald Cooke, God bless you. boards imitating tree calf, spines ruled gilt, contrasting labels, sprin- Thank you for your concern & support, Desmond Tutu, 25 Dec kled edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Tardieu after Ducreux. 84” (on the front free endpaper). It was originally published in Short worm track (2 cm) to the rear joint of volume 7, very occasional light spotting and one or two contemporary annotations in ink. A South Africa the preceding year. very attractive set. £575 [107053] first edition of the collected works of Turgot, economist, philosopher and administrator, edited by du Pont de Nemours, 192 with his valuable annotations. The first volume comprises Mé- [VAUGHAN, Benjamin.] “A Calm Observer.” Letters, moires sur la vie, l’administration et les ouvrages de M. Turgot, second edition, written by du Pont and first published in 1782. on the Subject of the Concert of Princes, and the Dismemberment of Poland and France. London: Printed for Einaudi 5769; Goldsmiths’ 20226; Kress B.5464. G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1793 £3,750 [93905] Octavo (207 × 128 mm). Contemporary tree calf, red morocco label lettered gilt, spine decorated gilt, boards ruled gilt, inner dentelles gilt, 191 marbled endpapers. Complete with the errata leaf. Armorial bookplate of Edward Lord Suffield to front pastedown. Some wear to tips, short TUTU, Desmond Mpilo. Hope and Suffering. Sermons crack to head of rear joint but still sound, minor loss to head of spine, and Speeches. Compiled by Mothobi Mutloatse and some errata corrected in ink. An excellent copy, internally fresh. edited by John Webster. With a foreword by the Right first edition. Benjamin Vaughan (1751–1835) was diploma- Reverend Trevor Huddleston. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. tist, political reformer, and merchant. He was a mediator in the Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984 Anglo-American peace talks in Paris in 1782–3, and returned Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust to Paris several times following the outbreak of revolution in jacket. A fine copy in a very lightly rubbed jacket with small crease to France in 1790. These letters first appeared in the Morning Chroni- front flap. cle, written between July 1792 and June 1793, criticising William Pitt’s government under his pseudonym A Calm Observer. They were published collectively in this volume and in his 1795 book, Two Papers by the Calm Observer (1795). A pro-French businessman, Vaughan offered a defence of revolutionary rights, condemning the attack by the Northern Powers on Poland and France, and making a case for peace with France, where, fearing arrest, he fled in 1794. He settled in America in 1797. 191 £500 [111841]

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193 194 (VEBLEN, Thorstein, trans.) COHN, Gustav. The Science VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. of Finance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1895 An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, York: The Macmillan Company, 1899 black endpapers. Contemporary ink note to verso of front free endpa- Octavo. Original dark-green vertical grain cloth, spine lettered gilt per. Spine slightly cocked, extremities a touch rubbed and bumped, and gilt bands at head and foot, covers with four blind rules at head mild spotting to edges, front joint tender, rear joint cracked but hold- and three blind rules at foot, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a ing. A very good copy. grey cloth solander box. Spine slightly darkened, minor wear to spine first edition in english of the German economist Gus- ends, a couple of small stains to cloth. An excellent copy. tav Cohn’s System der Finanzwissenschaft, originally published in first edition, review copy sent to the American journalist Stuttgart in 1889. This translation was the first book to bear Ve- and suffragist Florence Finch Kelly (1858–1939), with her owner- blen’s name, preceding his first original workThe Theory of the ship signature to the front free endpaper and her pencil margi- Leisure Class by four years (see next item). After being awarded nalia throughout, particularly extensive to the final few leaves. a fellowship in the Political Economy Department at the Uni- Kelly was on the staff of various American newspapers, includ- versity of Chicago in 1892, Veblen’s translation of Cohn’s work ing the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. helped launch the Economic Studies of the University of Chi- At the time of the publication of the present work, Kelly wrote cago book series, of which the present work forms the first vol- articles, columns, and book reviews for the Los Angeles Times. ume. Cohn “was regarded as someone who chartered a middle Norwegian-American professor Thorstein Veblen’s first and way between the descriptivism of some historicists and the de- most successful work was written as a serious economic analy- ductivism of English economics” (Rutherford, The Institutional sis of contemporary America, but after William Dean Howells Movement in American Economics, p. 40). gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best- seller. “Into it he poured all the acidulous ideas and fantastic £850 [113331] terminology that had been simmering in his mind for years. It was a savage attack upon the business class and their pecuniary values, half concealed behind an elaborate screenwork of irony, mystification and polysyllabic learning” (DAB). “The treatise is essentially an analysis of the latent functions of ‘conspicuous consumption’ and ‘conspicuous waste’ as symbols of upper-

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195, 196 class status and as competitive methods of enhancing individual 196 prestige. Veblen’s term ‘conspicuous consumption’ has become VEBLEN, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business part of everyday language” (IESS) and in modern economy Ve- Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America. New blen goods are those whose demand increases in proportion to their price, in contradiction with the law of demand. York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1923 Octavo. Original green ribbed cloth, titles to spine gilt, border and Einaudi 5851; Grolier, 100 American, 100. publisher’s imprint blocked in blind to front board. Spine slightly £4,500 [113353] darkened, a couple of small stains to rear board, minor wear to corners and spine ends, mild soiling to edges and final few leaves, small nick to top margin of half-title, front inner hinge cracked, rear hinge 195 neatly repaired. A very good copy. VEBLEN, Thorstein. An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Veblen and the Terms of its Perpetuation. New York: The Macmillan on the front free endpaper: “To Isaac A. Hourwich and days Company, 1917 of auld lang syne. Thorstein Veblen.” Hourwich (1860–1924) Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, double frames was a Lithuanian scholar, activist and Debsian socialist who to boards in blind. Pencil underlining throughout. Spine slightly participated in various radical Socialist movements in Russia darkened, extremities a touch rubbed. An excellent copy. and Belarus before emigrating to the US in 1890 to avoid Rus- first edition, first printing, of Veblen’s treatise on peace, how sian imprisonment. Between 1892 and 1893, Hourwich taught it may be achieved and retained, as well as the possible effects statistics at the University of Chicago and throughout the re- of perpetual peace on society. Presentation copy inscribed by mainder of his life he engaged in various socialist parties and Veblen on the front free endpaper: “To Bror Julius Olsson Nor- labour unions. Absentee Ownership is Veblen’s most caustic work, dfeldt, Thorstein Veblen.” Nordfeldt (1878–1955) was a Swedish- a discussion of the need for advertising and salesmanship in American artist who painted two portraits of Veblen, both now modern business, with a sly dig at Christianity, where he de- lost. Nordfeldt studied art in the U.S. and Europe. Between 1903 scribes Propaganda of the Faith as “quite the largest, oldest, and 1907 he lived in Chicago, depicting Chicago landmarks and most magnificent, most unabashed, and most lucrative enter- scenes, and it was most likely during this period that he also prise in sales-publicity in all Christendom” (p. 319). painted Veblen’s likeness (Tilman, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, C. IESS (1923). Wright Mills and the Generic Ends of Life, p. 142). £2,250 [113346] £4,750 [113384]

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197 will lead to exchange. And this desire, together with the stocks WALRAS, Léon. Éléments d’économie politique pure ou of goods possessed by each individual, will give a determinate demand or supply for each individual. This can be represented théorie de la richesse sociale. Lausanne: L. Corbaz & Cie; by a functional equation or by a curve. Guillaumin & Cie, Paris; & H. Georg, Basel, 1874 Walras was influenced by Cournot, and it was probably this Octavo (220 × 143 mm). Uncut in the original green printed paper influence which enabled him to combine a utility theory of wrappers. With 2 folding plates comprising 9 figures. Partly erased value with a mathematically precise theory of market equilib- library stamp to front wrapper and title, ownership stamp of Sam Bla- rium. In spite, or because, of the difficulties which he expe- sey, cand. jur. to front wrapper and half-title, Lausanne bookseller’s stamp to rear wrapper. Spine neatly restored at head, chipped at cen- rienced in this task, Walras was increasingly led to enunciate tre and at foot, rear wrapper with two small chips along fore edge, a general, non-utilitarian theory of economic equilibrium, ex- lower outer corner of front wrapper with slight loss; some light spot- pressed in terms of functional equations. He is, therefore, es- ting; a very well preserved copy of a fragile book. sentially the economist’s economist, rather than of the general first edition of part one, written by one of the leading math- reader or the politician. ematical economists. Three years after Jevons and Menger, but Batson, p. 34; Cossa 279 (171); Einaudi 5965; Mattioli 3796; Walker 95, 113. independently of them, Walras here enunciates the theory of marginal utility. In this work he continued and refined the £13,750 [112640] work inherited from his father and was successful in developing the law of general equilibrium which made him famous. 198 The work falls into two parts: one dealing with the theory of WANINGEN, Hendrick. ‘Recht Gebruyck van’t Italiaens exchange (pp. 1–208), the second part, first published in 1877, Boeck-Houden, Waer in begrepen staet, Een Memoriael, (continuously paginated, pp. 209–377) with the theory of pro- Journael, ende Schult-Boeck: Inhoudende Hondert duction. “The book regards exchange as the central economic schoone Partyen, noch 530 Vragen ende Antwoorden, phenomenon and treats all other branches of economic study verçiert met schoone Verklaringen . . . Vermeerdert met in relation to this central fact” (Batson). het Italiaens Boeck-Houden van Johannes Buingha. Walras operates with essentially the same concepts as Je- Amsterdam: M. Doornick, 1672. [together with:] BUINGHA, vons, but he searches continuously for solutions of the most general character. Like Jevons and Menger, he bases exchange- J. Oprecht fondament ende principalen inhoudt van het value on utility and limitation of quantity. Following his fa- italiaens boeck-houden. Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1672 ther, he uses the term rareté, which he defines as the “dérivée 2 works issued as one, quarto (203 × 158 mm), pp. [200]. Contem- de l’utilité effective par rapport à la quantité possédée”. In porary stiff unlettered vellum. Large engraved vignette on the first other words, rareté is the same as marginal utility. The desire to title-page illustrating accountants at work, woodcut initials and large equalize marginal utilities (according to Gossen’s second law) woodcuts in the accounting book specimens. Bookplate of the Li- brary of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

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Octavo (194 × 119 mm). Contemporary sprinkled lozenge panelled calf, spine with blind rules in compartments, sides with double-rule border and corner decoration in blind, red morocco label, sprinkled edges. Engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Beridge to front past- 198 edown, with contemporary note in ink to rear endpaper. Slight surface wear to rear cover; pale damp mark to outer corner of final sixty pages; a very good copy. to front pastedown, with their small stamp to title and deaccession stamp to front pastedown. Small shelfmark label to spine. Pale damp- first edition of Warburton’s “controversial defence of the mark to lower margin of the final leaves; a crisp, clean copy. established church and the Test Acts . . . Warburton argued first edition thus, rare. Wanigen’s work on book-keep- that religion alone can supply the rewards necessary to en- ing, originally entitled Tresor van het Italiaens boeck-houden, first sure that individual virtue continues to underpin the proper appeared in 1607. His pupil, Johannes Buingha, was responsi- function of civil government. The magistrate was to oversee ble for publishing further editions of it, until this one, which the government of the body, the church that of the soul. Fun- is the first to include Buingha’s own work. “As is stated on the damental to the alliance so formed was the influence that the title-page, Waninghen’s book contains a set of account books church could give to the service of the state, and the support (memorial, journal and ledger) in which are entered 100 trans- and protection that the state could in turn give to the church. actions, and also 530 ‘questions and answers, adorned with Above all the church was to oversee that popular measure of clear explanations’. The 530 questions and answers are divided the early and mid-18th-century Church of England, the ‘ref- into 23 chapters according to the type of transaction or occur- ormation of manners’. Warburton argued that an established rence. The consecutively numbered entries in the journal – denomination provided moral security for the state, and that some simple and some compound – are also clearly identified it should therefore be composed by the majority confession of by a short title . . . The success of the chosen combination of the nation, thereby standing clear of any multiplication and catechism followed by illustration is attested by the numerous fragmentation into sectarianism. Sectarianism he identified issues of the work, including two editions of a French transla- as the source of contention and internal wars. Reflection on tion” (Bywater and Yamey, pp. 120–22). the legacy of the civil war, a subject on which he had planned to write a history, comprised a major part of his thinking on ICAEW, p. 58. This edition not in Goldsmith’s, Herwood, or Kress. such matters. He read most of the political pamphlets pro- £4,500 [105571] duced between 1640 and 1660, and his very full annotations to Clarendon’s History were finally published by the Clarendon 199 Press in 1826. While he argued that the civil magistrate could not coerce opinions he also declared that such opinions should WARBURTON, William. The Alliance between Church always give way to civil peace. Utility was absolutely central to and State, or, the Necessity and Equity of an Established his argument, but it was a utility that led to knowledge of di- Religion and a Test-Law Demonstrated, from the essence vine truth through the proper, tolerant practice of Christianity and end of civil society, upon the fundamental principles as a revealed religion. Hobbes and Roman Catholicism repre- of the law of nature and nations. In three parts. The first, sented the two extremes to be avoided; Hooker and Locke were treating of a civil and a religious society: the second, lauded as the defenders of a tolerant church” (ODNB). of an established church: and the third, of a test-law. £750 [113461] London: Printed for Fletcher Gyles, 1736

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200 trine by logical deduction from the basis of a small number of WAYLAND, Francis. The Elements of Political Economy. primitive ideas and a small number of primitive principles of logical inference” (DSB, XII, p. 14). The belief that mathemat- New York: Leavitt, Lord & Company, 1837 ics can be derived from logic is not only one of the principal Octavo (230 × 137 mm). Original publisher’s embossed cloth, spine philosophical theories of the foundation of mathematics, it lettered gilt. Ownership inscription of Charles Hammond in pencil has also provided some of the most important results in the on pastedown and free endpaper dated 1838. A tiny bit of wear to spine ends and corner; some light spotting, as usual; an excellent formal analysis of mathematical concepts (cf. Frege, Peano). copy in very fine condition. This belief found its fullest expression in Principia Mathematica. From the library of Dolf Mootham (1933–2015), with his first edition of Wayland’s Elements of political economy, which ownership inscription pencilled to the front free endpaper. “promptly displaced Jean Baptiste Say’s Treatise on political econ- Mootham was chief financial officer of merchant bank Hill omy as the principal economics text in American colleges. De- Samuel in 1977, and became the finance director of Trustee signed to be useful to the layperson, Wayland’s book inveighed Savings Bank in 1988. against the statism of the French Revolution, the backward- The first volume found only a small readership, so the pub- ness of the Indians, the ‘tyranny’ of labor unions, and the lishers reduced the printings of the two subsequent volumes, evils of helping the undeserving poor. His notions of political published in 1912 and 1913 respectively, to 500 copies each. The economy and philanthropy dictated that the most important episodic publication and unequal edition sizes had the result obligations of the state were to foster education and promote that complete three-volume sets are now notably rare. morality. Political economy dealt forthrightly with too many controversial issues to be universally popular; his unquali- Blackwell & Ruja A9.1a; Church, Bibliography of Symbolic Logic, 194.1 (one fied support of free trade, for example, distressed many in of a handful of works marked by Church as being “of especial interest or importance”); Martin 101.01; see Kneebone, Mathematical Logic (1963), p. the northern business community” (ANB). Teacher and cler- 161ff. gyman, Francis Wayland (1796–1865) was president of Brown University for 28 years. £8,500 [111914] Amex 486; Goldsmiths’ 29814; Hollander 3026; Kress C.4531; Sabin 102186. 202 £650 [112164] WHITWORTH, Sir Charles. Commerce de la Grande- Bretagne, et tableaux de ses importations et exporta- 201 tions progressives, Depuis l’année 1697 jusqu’à la fin de WHITEHEAD, Alfred North, & Bertrand Russell. l’année 1773. Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1777 Principia Mathematica. Volume I. Cambridge: at the Folio (365 × 238 mm). Contemporary full catspaw calf, spine richly University Press, 1910 decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpa- Large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream pers and edges. Large folding table at the end. Engraved Dampierre endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Minor rubbing to extremities, a cou- bookplate of the Ducs de Luynes to front pastedown. Slight worm ple of tiny marks to front pastedown, internally fresh. A superb copy. damage to foot of the front joint, rear joint neatly repaired at foot. A crisp, clean copy in excellent condition. first edition, first impression, one of 750 copies printed of the first volume of Whitehead and Russell’s hugely ambitious first edition in French, translated from the English edition attempt to construct “the whole body of mathematical doc- of the previous year, originally titled State of the trade of Great Britain in its imports and exports, progressively from the year 1697: also

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202 of the Trade to each particular Country, during the above Period, distinguishing each Year. In two parts. With a preface and introduction, Setting forth the Articles whereof each Trade consists. The compiler 203 of this important compendium of British public expenditure, Charles Whitworth (c.1721–1778), was, from 1768, chairman of at the approaching anniversary & will with pleasure consent the Commons committee of ways and means. if you wish it after hearing that most probably I shall not be Kress B.93. able to have the pleasure of being present – my advancing years & indifferent health compel me to decline attending at public £1,000 [83901] dinners, except extremely seldom . . . ” He reassures the secretary in a postscript: “No man is a warmer friend to the Institu- 203 tion than myself.” WILBERFORCE, William. Autograph letter signed to Richard Harley, secretary of the Seaman’s Hospital £1,500 [103217] Society. Marden Park: 25 February 1822 Three pages, octavo (185 × 115 mm), docketed on the final blank leaf “W. Wilberforce Esq. Marden Park 25 Feby; 1822. Intimating a conditional wish to become Steward”. Inlaid into an album leaf, 280 × 230 mm. In a very good state of preservation. A letter written by William Wilberforce, the great philanthro- pist, politician and campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade, to the secretary of the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS), a charitable foundation that officially came into being on 8 March 1821. The charity’s secretary, Richard Harley, had written to Wilberforce about plans for the first annual celebration of Founder’s Day. Wilberforce had been a central figure in the Society’s foundation, and had chaired several early meetings, but his health was now failing, as he spells out in the letter: “I am honoured by the wish that I should be one of the stewards

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204 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Notebooks 1914–1916. Edited By G. H. Von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe. With an English translation By G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Extremities lightly rubbed. A bright copy in a jacket with a couple of tiny closed tears and mild toning to spine panel. Excellent. first edition, first impression, of this testimony to the thought processes of the brilliant Austrian philosopher, with parallel English and German texts. A number of Wittgenstein’s notebooks were destroyed on his orders in 1950, including most from the period of the Tractatus. However, three of the last survived by chance, and were issued thus as Vol. IV of Blackwell’s Collected Wittgenstein. £350 [110123]

Wittgenstein and Manchester – a biographical enquiry 205 (WITTGENSTEIN.) MAYS, Wolfe, F. A. von Hayek, and others. Small archive relating to Ludwig Wittgenstein and his time in Manchester in the period 1908–1912, with a copy of Hayek’s unfinished draft of a sketch of a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Papers, correspondence and photographs from the library of the philosopher and phenomenologist Wolfe Mays, relating to the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, with reference to his time spent at Manchester. Manchester and elsewhere: 1950s A very interesting archive of biographical research material, as detailed below, housed in acid-free folders in an archival box. In excellent condition. Wittgenstein’s attendance at Manchester University in the Material from the library of Wolfe Mays (1912–2005), period 1908–12, including correspondence with Friedrich von philosopher and phenomenologist, student of Wittgenstein Hayek, and with a copy of Hayek’s draft sketch of a biography at Cambridge in the 1940s, subsequently professor of of Wittgenstein, comprising: Philosophy at Manchester, focussing on his investigation into

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1. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed air letter signed, Chicago, 3 Feb. Russell) and Wittgenstein’s surviving brother remember 1953, to The Registrar, University of Manchester, request- that L. Wittgenstein came to Cambridge in 1912 from Man- ing help “to fill a gap in the account of the life of my kins- chester, where he had been studying engineering. He had man, the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein of Cambridge, been studying engineering before in Berlin, but for some which I am trying to write. Both Lord Russell (Bertrand unknown reason and at an unknown date, left the Technis-

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che Hochschule there to continue his studies in Manches- he had seen a letter of yours concerning L. Wittgenstein’s ter. Practically nothing is known both of the periods in Ber- early years in Manchester in the Manchester Guardian. I am lin and Manchester . . . What I wonder is whether there is interested in this partly because I wonder whether your in- any possibility to find out from the records of Manchester quiries are perhaps a result of Professor von Wright’s and University whether between 1910 and 1912 Ludwig Wittgen- mine inquiries to the Registrar of the University of Man- stein was a student there”. One page, signed in ink, with chester, which in the first instance had brought up conflict- pencil notes added. ing replies . . . and partly because I wonder whether you may be working on a biographical sketch of W. I had my- 2. Retained carbon typed letter, 10 Feb. 1953, from the Assis- self commenced such a sketch a little while ago and a first tant Registrar of Manchester University, to F. A. von Hayek, draft had been half finished for some time, when I put it acknowledging his letter and noting that “a student named aside on learning that I would not get permission to quote Ludwig Wittgenstein came here in the autumn of 1908 and at length from W.’s letters to Br. Russell until W’s literary registered as a research student in Engineering . . . We have executors had themselves published them . . . I have failed been unable to trace any reference to Professor Wittgenstein to get any real information on the Manchester period . . . I after 1910”, mentioning C. M. Mason, assistant Director of wonder whether you have been more successful and what the Engineering Laboratories, and Emeritus Professor A. H. you propose to do with the information you have obtained. Gibson. One page. My original plan, which I still hope to carry out some day, 3. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed letter signed, Helsingfors, is to have a fairly full factual sketch of W’s mimeographed Finland. 14 Nov. 1953, to the Registrar of the University of for circulation among all his friends for comments and ad- Manchester, enquiring on behalf of Wittgenstein’s literary ditions with the intention of later rewriting it in an appro- executors about the dates of Wittgenstein’s registration priate form. But I have no idea now when I will actually do at and departure from the University of Manchester. One this.” page, signed in ink. 11. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed air letter signed, Chicago, 5 4. Retained carbon typed letter, from the Assistant Regis- May 1954, to Wolfe Mays, thanking Mays for his letter of 1 trar of Manchester University, to G. H. von Wright, 30 Nov. May, and noting that he will be “most grateful for a copy of 1953, confirming Wittgenstein’s attendance at Manchester, your article whenever it is completed since I am most anx- with added information. One page. ious not to miss it when it appears.” 5. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed letter signed, Helsingfors, 12. HAYEK, F. A. von. Copy of a 58-page typescript by Hayek 7 Dec. 1953, to the Registrar of Manchester University, entitled “Unfinished Draft of a Sketch of a Biography of Lud- confirming receipt of his letter, with thanks. One page, wig Wittgenstein written in 1953 for private circulation by signed in ink. F. A. Hayek, with some later corrections and insertions”. A footnote, dated Chicago, Nov. 1959, remarks: “At this point 6. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed letter signed, Helsingfors, I broke off six years ago when Wittgenstein’s literary execu- 28 Dec. 1953, to the Registrar of Manchester University, re- tors refused me permission to quote from Wittgenstein’s ferring to correspondence between F. A. von Hayek and the letters until they had themselves published them. They have Registrar, requesting a further check on the dates of Witt- still not done so, but I am not now likely to return to a task genstein’s registration and attendance at the University of which I undertook largely to collect the available informa- Manchester. One page, signed in ink. tion while Wittgenstein’s friends were still alive. Some of 7. Retained carbon typed letter, from the Assistant Registrar them have since died and I can no longer submit to their of Manchester University, to G. H. von Wright, 22 Jan. approval what I have written. Beyond this point I have only 1954, apologising for previous confusion, and confirming disconnected notes which would be of little use to anybody the dates of Wittgenstein’s attendance at the University of else. Moreover, the greater part of the remaining years of Manchester. One page. Wittgenstein’s life are now fully covered by the recently pub- 8. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, 27 Jan. 1954, lished Memoir by Norman Malcolm.” Pages 7–11 of this ver- to the Editor of the Manchester Guardian, requesting publica- sion incorporate Mays and Eccles’s paper on the Manchester tion of a letter appealing to readers for information regard- Years, quoting verbatim from it, but omitting part – see item ing Wittgenstein’s time in Manchester. One page. 19. Hayek’s biography was never published, though typescript versions were distributed. Copy with tears and tape 9. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, to G. H. von repairs to the first and last leaves. Wright, 3 Feb. 1954, informing him that following the suggestion of Mr Walton, the Assistant Registrar of Manchester 13. ECCLES, William. Typed letter signed (with additional University, Mays is hoping to write a paper on Wittgenstein’s copy initialled), to Wolfe Mays, Altrincham, 5 May 1954, time in Manchester, and seeking permission for publication sending “all the information I have about Ludwig Wittgen- of it in the Manchester Guardian. One page. stein which I understand you intend to deposit in the Uni- versity. The information is in duplicate and I am retaining 10. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed air letter signed, Chicago, 28 the originals at least for the time being, but will hand them Apr. 1954, to Wolfe Mays: “Somebody told me recently that

108 Peter Harrington 126 over should this be considered desirable at some future 16. BAMBER, J. Typed copy of a note addressed to C. M. date.” The enclosures, all present with the typed letter are: Mason offering recollections of Wittgenstein at Manches- ter, dated 8 Mar. 1954. Bamber was an assistant in the En- a) 5-page typed document signed by Eccles; “Ludwig gineering Department and Wittgenstein’s contemporary Wittgenstein – Some memories of him.” With ink there, and according to Mason “it would be to Mr. Bamber corrections in Eccles’s hand; that Wittgenstein would turn for any practical help and ad- b) Typewritten transcripts of 8 letters and 2 postcards vice while he was working in the Department.” One page, from Wittgenstein to Eccles, together with the typed with second copy. transcript of a letter from Wittgenstein’s sister, Hermi- 17. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, to Professor one, to Eccles, together 10 pages, July 1912 to Mar. 1939; Gilbert Ryle, 11 May 1954, recounting his recent research on c) Oval portrait photograph in black and white of a youth- Wittgenstein’s Manchester period, listing the various docu- ful Wittgenstein, roughly 150 × 190 mm, somewhat worn ments in his and Eccles’s possession, and offering a brief and a little creased, annotated on reverse in pencil, taken article on the subject for publication in the journal Mind. c.1910; Two pages. d) Black and white photograph of Eccles and Wittgen- 18. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed article, “Note on stein holding a large kite on Glossop Moor, roughly 180 Wittgenstein’s Manchester Period”. 3 pages, with manu- × 140 mm, taken c.1908, annotated on the verso in ink by script additions in blue ink, stapled, together with a copy of Eccles, with a key to the image, signed and dated April the original offprint of the article, as published in Mind, vol. 1954; LXIV., N.S., No. 254, Apr. 1955. e) Typewritten copy of a letter from the Secretary to the 19. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter to G. H. von Royal Aeronautical Society, written to Eccles’s son, H. H. Wright, 24 May 1954, thanking von Wright for his letter (not Eccles, 4 Feb. 1954, enclosing a description of three pic- present here), informing him of his discoveries, enclosing tures of early balloons, given to Eccles by Wittgenstein, a copy of his and Eccles’s article, “Wittgenstein in Man- and sent by his son to the Society. Two pages; chester” (no longer present), advising von Wright that the f ) University of Manchester envelope, 150 × 90 mm, con- Manchester Guardian “tells us that it is too long for them” and taining 9 black and white photographs of the exterior and that he hopes to publish it elsewhere, and offering to send interior of the house designed by Engelmann and Witt- copies of all the documents in their possession. One page. genstein in Vienna for Wittgenstein’s sister; 20. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, to G. H. von g) Four black and white photostat reproductions of archi- Wright, 1 June 1954, thanking him for his letter (not present tects’ drawings of the house designed by Engelmann and here), and offering to deal with points raised by von Wright Wittgenstein, roughly 420 × 330 to 350 × 300 mm in size; one by one, with reference to Wittgenstein in Norway and in Manchester in 1911, Eccles’s retirement, and confirming h) Three black and white photostats, roughly 420 × 330 that he will send copies of the documents to von Wright. mm, of drawings of the variable volume experimental Two pages. combustion chamber. 21. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed letter signed, Helsingfors, 14. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, 10 May 1954, 3 June 1954, to Wolfe Mays, thanking him for his letter of to the Editor of the Manchester Guardian, advising that May’s 1 June, referring to various points of that letter, and men- earlier enquiry through the pages of the Manchester Guardian tioning Wittgenstein’s earlier time spent at the Technische had resulted in his meeting with William Eccles, who was Hochschule in Berlin. One page. able to supply “a good deal of information not previously known”, announcing their decision to write an article (en- 22. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained carbon typed letter, to G. H. von closed with the letter, but not present here), and enquir- Wright, 4 June 1954, confirming the sending of the afore- ing whether the Manchester Guardian would be interested in mentioned documents. One page. publishing it. May further encloses copies of the two photo- 23. MAYS, Wolfe. Working typescript draft of an article, graphs (items c & d), offering them for illustration purposes “Wittgenstein in Manchester”. 18 pages plus one supple- and requesting their return. One page. mentary half page numbered 10, typed with double spacing, 15. MASON, C. M. Typed letter (with carbon copy) to Wolfe with numerous corrections in pencil and in ballpoint, cor- Mays. Department of Engineering, University of Manches- recting, deleting and adding to the typescript, held together ter, 6 May 1954, enclosing copy of a note received from J. with a rusty paperclip. Published under the same title in Pro- Bamber, Wittgenstein’s supervisor at Manchester, together ceedings of the 4th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirch- with his own recollections of assisting Wittgenstein to “in- berg am Wechsel [Austria], 28 Aug. to 2 Sept. 1979 (eds. stall and erect some heavy apparatus which he had removed Rudolf Heller and Wolfgang Grassl), pp. 171–177 (Hölder, from the Physics Department to the new research labora- Pilcher, Tempsky, Vienna, 1980) – an ex-library copy of tory in the Engineering Department” and remarks on his which is included here. character and personality. One page. £5,500 [110032]

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206 once, and seeing the principles she had so unhesitatingly tak- (WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.) A Vindication of the en up as her own under attack, and a smear set upon the good name of her beloved benefactor and teacher Dr Price, she was Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable in a fury of indignation” (Tomalin, pp. 93-4). Wollstonecraft’s Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) was the first of many re- Revolution in France. London: for J. Johnson, 1790; plies disputing Burke’s conservative assumptions. “The tone [bound with:] (MACAULAY, Catherine). Observations was impatient, the arguments sketchy. But it was redeemed by on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on its dominant emotion, a humanitarian sympathy for the poor, the Revolution in France. In a Letter to the Right Hon. and a passionate contempt for the wilful blindness of the priv- the Earl of Stanhope. London: for C. Dilly, 1790; ileged to what kept their system going” (Tomalin, p. 95). “It denied that all was well with the British constitution and state [and with:] (ANON.) Thoughts on Government: occa- and urged the need for much reform; at the same time it drew sioned by Mr. Burke’s Reflections, &c. in a Letter to a attention to the trivialization of women in British society, the Friend. London: for G. Kearsley, 1790 main topic of her next work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3 works bound in one volume, octavo (203 × 122 mm). Recent sprin- (1792)” (Todd, p. 728). kled calf to style, spine ruled gilt, red morocco label. Without the Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791), historian and political po- half-titles to the second and third works and the final advertisement lemicist, “also published an impassioned response to Burke’s leaf to the first and third works. A very attractive volume. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). This gave rise first edition of each work, a highly interesting assemblage to a brief correspondence between her and Mary Wollstone- of three works relating to Burke’s controversial Reflections on the craft, in which both praised the other’s work. Her answer to Revolution in France, also published in 1790. “Mary’s fervour for Burke raised once again their very different interpretations of the principles of the Revolution developed rapidly and was un- the revolution of 1688 and what, if anything, it had achieved” mixed with any doubts; having learnt her politics from the Dis- (ODNB). senters, she continued to adopt their attitudes and followed Wollstonecraft: Windle 4a. See Todd, Dictionary of British Women Writers their particular struggles sympathetically. On the 4 November, and Tomalin, The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. the anniversary of the 1688 revolution in England, Dr Price delivered a sermon at the Old Jewry meeting house in which he £12,500 [110724] defined the nature of civil liberty. This speech sparked Burke’s infuriation and led to his Reflections . . . Mary read them at

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207 the American Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to the American (WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.) A Collection section of the International chamber of commerce, an account of the arrival of the representatives of 66 nations, the opening of press cuttings and ephemera relating to the London speech by the king, George V, at the opening of the conference Economic Conference held at the Geological Museum, on June 12th and continues with almost daily reporting on the London. New York & London: various newspapers, 1933 events of the conference, thrown into disarray by President 3 quarto Everform Scrap Books (290 × 230 mm), assembled by an un- Roosevelt’s refusal to commit to a currency freeze. recorded press agency or individual. Calf spines over marbled boards, cloth tips, spines direct lettered gilt. Spine ends a little chipped; oc- Keynes contributed to the reporting, with articles in the Daily casional tape repairs or minor loss, generally in excellent condition. Mail. A carefully assembled collection of press cuttings, primarily £1,250 [111979] from London newspapers and European editions of American papers, giving a thorough insight into the London Economic Conference, a meeting of representatives of 66 nations between June 12 and July 27, 1933, united to try to foster greater international co-operation and to win agreement on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and to stabilise currency exchange rates. Initiated by Herbert Hoover in 1931, a meeting of the six leading nations gathered in Geneva in 1932 to prepare an agenda. There are four typewritten reports on these meetings from October and November 1932 bound in at the end of the third volume. The first volume opens with a 24-page pamphlet giving the speeches made at a dinner hosted by The Pilgrims of the Unit- ed States in honour of the visit to New York in April, 1933, of James Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister and first lord of the treasury. There then follows a sequence of newspaper cuttings beginning on May 2, 1933 with a report of an address given by 207

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lication of about two hundred and fifty books and pamphlets setting out his ideas and theories” (PMM). A very attractive copy of this key text. Einaudi 6097; Goldsmiths’ 10407; Higgs 4283; Printing and the Mind of Man 214. £950 [109008]

209 ZAMBELLI, Andrea. Mercantesche dichiarationi della scrittura doppia, conti de cambii, comissioni, e rag- guagli di piazze. Con una tariffa per li pesi, e misure di Brescia con Venetia, & altre città d’Italia. Opera utile, e necessaria per qual si voglia negotiante. Consacrata al insigne merito del M. Ill. & Eccellentiss. Sig. Don Angelo Faglia. Brescia: Rizzardi, 1681. Quarto (209 × 152 mm), pp. [8], 164. Contemporary interim boards 208 (carta rustica), spine titled in ink by hand. Woodcut vignettes and initials. Covers lightly soiled, with some wear to the rear board, spine Scientific agriculture lightly rubbed, with lettering partly erased; first four leaves with pale marginal dampmark; an excellent copy. 208 rare first edition of Zambelli’s second work on account- [YOUNG, Arthur.] A Six Weeks Tour, through the ing, double-entry book-keeping and exchange, published ten Southern Counties of England and Wales. Describing years after his Il ragionato, o sia trattato della scrittura universale particularly, I. The present State of Agriculture and (1671). In the present work he devotes the first part (pages 1–67) Manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the to all aspects of double-entry book-keeping; of debit, credit, Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments use of the journal, of the master book, how to keep notes of on various Grasses, &c. IV. The various Prices of Labour contracts, how to trade in goods both on one’s own account and Provisions. V. The State of the Working Poor in those and on the behalf of others, of cash, advances, securities, bal- Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With ances and errors. The second part deals with exchanges, fairs in Venice, Rome, Milan and Genoa, as well as the Bisenzone Descriptions and Models of such invented Implements fairs. Zambelli further gives information on the weights and of Husbandry as deserve to be generally known: inter- measures used in Brescia, Venice, and other Italian cities, with spersed with Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and their equivalents. Melis, in his Storia della ragioneria, underlines Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In several the excellence of the instruction contained in the chapters on Letters to a Friend. By the Author of the Farmer’s Letters. the registering of insurance to the security account, on the ver- London: W. Nicoll, 1768 ification of balances, and on the correction of errors. Octavo (199 × 121 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, decorative gilt ICAEW, p. 4; Stevelinck 76; not in Herwood; OCLC finds seven copies only. spine, red morocco label, red speckled edges. Wood-engraved illustrations of farm machinery in the text. 19th-century engraved ar- £6,000 [110962] morial bookplate of James FitzGerald Bannatyne (1833–1915) JP and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, of Haldon House, Devon (demolished 210 1925). Bound without the half-title, corners a little worn, short split at head of joints but a most appealing copy. ZINCKEN, C. F. W. Rechtliche Wirthschaftssätze und Cautelen bey Contracten, Kaufen, Verkaufen, first edition of Young’s second book, following The Farmer’s Letters to the People of England (also 1768). “Arthur Young, like Verpachten und Verwalten öffentlicher oder Privatgüter, Jethro Tull, was a great agricultural reformer whose influence so weit sich ein Wirth und Cammeralist davon Kenntniss reached far beyond his own country. England, however, with erwerben muss. Nebst einer Vorrede, welche das Leben its increased acreage of cultivated land resulting from the en- des weiland H. B. L. Hofs und Cammerraths u. D. Georg closure system, and the consequent rise of great landowners Heinrich Zincken enthält. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartnoch, and farmers in the 18th century, especially welcomed innova- 1772 tions in agricultural methods. Arthur Young applied statistical Octavo (167 × 97 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine deco- methods to the study of agriculture, investigating both the sta- rated gilt in compartments, decorative endpapers, edges stained red, tistics of production and the costs of this particular industry. contemporary ink annotation to rear board. Ownership inscription He obtained his information from a series of extensive tours to front pastedown and annotation in ink to the free endpaper verso, in England, Ireland and France, where he studied the state of dated 1830, stating that this copy of the book had been rescued from agriculture at first hand. These journeys resulted in the pub- Braunschweig castle during a fire. Joints neatly restored at foot, paper stock lightly toned, as usual; a very good copy.

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209 first edition, scarce, of a legal guide for estate and land managers, written by the son of the German jurist Georg Zincke, with an introductory biography of his father at the beginning of the work. In a series of 305 paragraphs, the author explains all the legal ins and outs of contracts, obligations, buying, selling, brokering, etc. including advice on how to deal with deaf and dumb, and blind people, with additional advice on how to document and keep records of transactions. OCLC gives a record for this title, but no locations; KVK locates copies only in Germany. £500 [110668]

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