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ECONOMICS, POLITICS and PHILOSOPHY We Are Exhibiting at These Fairs Peter Harrington london ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY We are exhibiting at these fairs: 7–8 October 2017 pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo & Paper Fair Pasadena Center, Pasadena, CA www.bustamante-shows.com/book/index-book.asp 14–15 October seattle Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair Seattle Center Exhibition Hall www.seattlebookfair.com 3–5 November chelsea Chelsea Old Town Hall Kings Road, London SW3 www.chelseabookfair.com 10–12 November boston Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair Hynes Convention Center bostonbookfair.com 17–19 November hong kong China in Print Hong Kong Maritime Museum www.chinainprint.com Cover illustration from Atelier Populaire. Mai 68: Début d’une lutte prolongée; item 5. VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Illustration opposite from John Blaxton’s The English usurer; item 15. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents. Photography: Ruth Segarra. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Peter Harrington london catalogue 137 ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY All items from this catalogue are available to view at Dover Street mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 Dover Street 100 Fulham Road London w1s 4ff London sw3 6hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday www.peterharrington.co.uk 1 1 ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland. In a series of letters to a friend. Edinburgh: printed for T. Cadell, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1777 2 Quarto (260 × 205 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, brown morocco spine label, compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt-tooled roll to boards, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Sir William Forbes to front past- 2 edown. Gentle rubbing to spine and extremities, a little wear to corners, front and rear leaves slightly browned from turn-ins, an excellent copy. ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Chapman & Hall, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed “For Sir William Limited, London, 1951 Forbes Bart. from the Author” on the title page verso, complete with both the half-title and addenda pages (pp. 527–34), the for- Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt. With the mer of which is bound in after the errata as issued. Sir William supplied dust jacket. Spine lightly faded at extremities, dust jacket with vertical fractures along spine professionally reinforced with Japanese tis- Forbes of Pitsligo (1739–1806) was an eminent Scottish banker sue, small chip to head of rear panel, evidence of library sticker to spine: and benefactor, and a good friend of James Boswell and, through a very good copy. him, Samuel Johnson. Forbes amassed a large number of highly first edition, first printing, of Arrow’s brilliant doctoral important works and miscellanies at his library at Pitsligo. thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commis- The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James sion Monographs. “Employing the notational system of symbol- Anderson (1739–1808) wrote several influential works on rural ic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed economy as well as regular articles for his two magazines, The to solve a question in politics which no economist and few polit- Bee (1790–4) and Recreations (1799–1803). He was “second to none ical scientists had ever posed: suppose all individuals can rank as a development economist” (The New Palgrave I, p. 93). Obser- all states of the world in order of preference, is it possible to find vations on the Means of Exciting a Spirit of National Industry includes a voting rule that will always select one of those states as ‘most one of the earliest criticisms in print of his contemporary Adam preferred’?” Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The postscript to Letter XIII presents This copy has the ownership stamp of the British economist a prolonged argument, with sustained direct quotation, against Richard Stone (1913–1991) on the front free endpaper. A nice as- Smith’s light treatment of the importance of grain prices “to sociation, pairing two Nobel Prize-winners: Stone was awarded the well-being of almost every individual of the state” (p. 310): the prize in 1984, Arrow in 1972. “since writing the above, I have seen the very ingenious trea- tise of Dr Adam Smith on the nature and causes of the wealth £850 [119399] of nations; and am sorry to find, that I have the misfortune to differ in opinion from an author of such extensive knowledge” (p. 309). Smith never directly addressed these criticisms. In his closing statements on the topic, however, Anderson capitulated by stating that on all other matters Smith’s reasoning is “just, clear, and convincing. To [Wealth of Nations] therefore I refer the curious reader for father [sic] satisfaction:– it deserves in par- ticular the serious attention of every person who is concerned in the legislative council of the nation” (pp. 370–1). Goldsmiths’ 11528; Kress B.6. £6,250 [118071] 2 2 Peter Harrington 137 3 3 (ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS FOR INTELLECTUAL LIBERTY.) In Defence of Freedom: Writers Declare 4 against Fascism. London: Association of Writers for Intellectual Liberty, 8 June 1938 soiled and tanned with a stain to front board. A very good copy of a frag- ile publication, with loss to one corner of the front free endpaper. Quarto, pp. 8. Original white wire-stitched card wrappers printed in blue and black. Cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer. Light foxing to first edition, first printing, of this comprehensive cata- rear cover, slight creasing to edges; an excellent copy. logue of posters produced in staggering numbers by the Atelier The original programme of the meeting held on 8 June 1938 by Populaire between May and July 1968. the Association of Writers for Intellectual Liberty, an interna- £300 [119731] tional organisation founded in early 1936 – notable vice-presi- dents included Ernest Hemingway and E. M. Forster. Speeches were given at this event by many well-regarded intellectuals, including Sir Hugh Walpole, Rosamond Lehmann, and Rose Macaulay, who discovered after the war that her name had been on the German list of writers to be exterminated after the Nazi invasion of Britain. A collection was taken for the Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Fund for Spanish Intellectuals. This brochure includes an explanation of the aims of the Association, a number of excerpts from poems highlighting the need for intellectual freedom, a description of the events, and a letter from the Czechoslovakian branch of the organisation offering their solidarity. Laid in is a membership form for the Association. £525 [118395] 4 ATELIER POPULAIRE. Mai 68: Début d’une lutte prolongée. Texts and Posters. London: Dobson Books Ltd, 1969 Folio. Original stiff pictorial wrappers, titles to spine black, titles to front board black and red, photographic endpapers. With 98 full-page monochrome illustrations in a variety of colours. Spine somewhat worn and cracked, a few creases to top of front wrapper, wrappers lightly 4 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 6 BALDWIN, [Loammi]. Thoughts on the Study of Political Economy, as connected with the population, industry and paper currency of the United States. Cambridge, MA: printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1809 Octavo (214 × 133 mm). Recent buff paper-backed blue boards, paper label to front board printed in black, sprinkled blue edges. Contents browned and foxed with a little offsetting, overall a very good copy. first edition of the eminent civil engineer’s treatise promoting the study of political economy, “a science so eminently conducive to the improvement of all our social and political relations” (p. 71). “Baldwin advocated, as a remedy for the evils of the irregular currency of the time, that the state banks be consolidated, and that the capital of the United States Bank be extended. He fa- voured internal improvements in his country, and displayed more than ordinary appreciation of the use of statistics; he also advised that the United States census of 1810 should include a record of births, deaths, and marriages” (Palgrave I, p. 90). Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1838) was a Harvard graduate who, from his engineering practice in Charleston, Massachusetts, worked on several large-scale public projects, such as the con- struction of Pennsylvania’s Union and Harrisburg canals and the first two naval dry docks built in America. Each presented, in some way, a milestone in American engineering, and many were some of the era’s largest civic works projects. Kress B.5478. 5 £750 [119882] 5 7 AUSPITZ, Rudolf, & Richard Lieben. Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1889 BASTIAT, Claude Frédéric. Harmonies économiques. Large octavo. Uncut and unopened in original brown hard-grain cloth, Paris: Guillaumin et Cie, 1850 spine and boards lettered and ruled in black, patterned endpapers. Octavo (211 × 132 mm). Contemporary quarter roan, spine lettered Spine ends and corners bumped, extremities rubbed, boards marked in gilt, compartments and raised bands ruled in blind and gilt. With and scuffed, faint dampstain to front board, tear to lower margin of the separately paginated publisher’s catalogue to the rear. Ownership pp. 65–8 not affecting text, a very good copy. inscription, partially faded, to title page. Extremities worn, boards scuffed, hinges gently cracked but firm, contents a little foxed, upper first and scarce edition in book form of the eminent edge of half-title shaved, overall a very good copy.
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