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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 treatise 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 particular 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

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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-presidents 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 favoured 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 construction 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. Viennese economists’ important theoretical treatise, “the only Austrian contribution to mathematical economics and one of first edition of Bastiat’s exploration of the concept of har- the outstanding contributions in the last two decades of the mony, published in the year of his death. “In this brilliant work, 19th century” (The New Palgrave III, p. 176). The first part was unhappily never finished, Bastiat shows the contrast between published separately in 1887. Auspitz and Lieben, cousins and the internal weakness of the artificial organisations which are brothers-in-law, were partners in the family bank, Auspitz, founded on constraint, and the prosperity spontaneously arising Lieben & Co, and successful businessmen. Auspitz founded and in an economic condition in which the equilibrium of individ- directed a sugar factory and was elected to parliament in 1873 ual and collective forces results from their free and reciprocal where he fought against cartels; Lieben was the vice-president of balance. This is the fundamental thought (idée mère) on which the Austrian Credit Institute for Commerce and Trade. Largely the Harmonies économiques are based, and granted this as a philo- unrecognised for its brilliance during their lifetime, this is their sophic basis, it could not have been developed with more skill” most significant work, described by Schumpeter as “one of the (Palgrave I, pp. 123–4). outstanding theoretical performances of the age” (p. 849). Einaudi 325; Goldsmiths’ 36728; Mattioli 213. Einaudi 214. See Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (Lon- £1,100 [118684] don: Routledge, 1994). £6,250 [118361] A forefather of the French Enlightenment 8 [BAYLE, Pierre.] Commentaire philosophique sur ces paroles de Jesus-Chrit [sic]. Contrain-les d’entrer; où l’on prouve par plusieurs raisons démonstratives qu’il n’y a

4 Peter Harrington 137 7 8 9 rien de plus abominable que de faire des conversions 2 volumes, octavo in half-sheets (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary polished par la contrainte, & l’on refute tous les Sophismes des tree calf, red morocco labels and roundels to spines, compartments ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Convertisseurs à contrainte, & l’Apologie que s. Augustin Forbes of Pitsligo to front pastedowns. Signed (vol. I) and inscribed (vol. a faite des persécutions. Traduit de l’anglois du Sieur Jean II) by the author to each title verso. Spine ends and corners bumped, Fox de Bruggs par M.J.F. “A Cantorbery: chez Thomas Litwel” small tear to head of spine of vol. I, extremities lightly worn and spines [but Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang(?)], 1686 somewhat faded, a few minor chips to boards, occasional light foxing, upper corners of vol. I, Dd3–4 and Ee3–4 torn, text unaffected, endpapers Duodecimo (128 × 78 mm), in 2 parts with separate title-pages, but contin- browned from turn-ins, a very good set. uous pagination. Contemporary stiff vellum, ink title to spine. With the first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author errata at the end of the table (5*3 verso). Leaf 5*4 (blank) cut away. Wood- cut devices to titles, headpiece and historiated capitals. Fore edges of first to his friend and biographer Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739– 15 or so leaves expertly restored with tissue. Remains of early reference la- 1806) on the verso of both title pages. Sir William Forbes, 6th Bar- bel to spine, small reference number inscription to top corner of first title onet Pitsligo (1739–1806), was a prominent Scottish banker, phi- page. Boards and spine slightly dust-soiled, a very good copy. lanthropist, and writer, and long-time friend of James Beattie. He first edition of Bayle’s brilliant and impassionate defence of was the author of Beattie’s biography, An Account of the Life and Writ- religious tolerance, a Huguenot exile’s response to the Revoca- ings of James Beattie (1806). He was also a friend of James Boswell tion of the Edict of Nantes which had been enacted the previous (who characterized Forbes in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides as “a year, published pseudonymously under a fictitious imprint and man of whom too much good cannot be said”) and through him most probably printed in Amsterdam by Abraham Wolfgang. became a member of Samuel Johnson’s literary dining club. Commentaire philosophique established its author as a defender James Beattie (1735–1803) was a significant figure of the Scottish of free conscience for all believers and for atheists. It detailed Enlightenment, holding the chair of Professor of Moral Philos- Bayle’s notion of errant conscience, scandalous to Protestants, ophy at the University of Aberdeen from 1760. In his philosoph- Catholics and militant atheists alike: that error believed to be ical works, such as An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth truth must be allowed all the privileges of truth. Bayle’s plan, (1770) and Elements of Moral Science (1790), he argued influentially outlined in his title and preface, mentioned a third part, on for the idea of a “Common Sense” to counter the epistemologi- two letters of St Augustine. In fact, a subsequent edition dated cal scepticism inculcated by Hume, and also against the institu- 1686–8 was published in four volumes, the third and fourth tion of slavery. He was in addition well known for his poetry, in parts having come out as Suppléments in 1687 and 1688. particular for The Minstrel (1771–4), which inspired Wordsworth Barbier Vol. 1, p. 644; Conlon 2784; Wing B1469b; for the place of im- and the other Romantics. print see Weller, Die falschen und fingerten Druckorte, II, p. 39; Elisabeth Chuo III, 29; Jessop, p. 99. Labrousse, Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, 2010. £3,750 [118365] £1,750 [114336]

9 BEATTIE, James. Elements of Moral Science. Edinburgh: printed for T. Cadell, and William Creech, 1790–3 9

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July 1979”. This collection of essays, which had been previously 10 published but were in many cases out of print, draws together a body of Berlin’s writings discussing the importance of dissent to 10 the history of ideas. BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di. Opere diverse. Naples: The American philosopher and historian of ideas Morton White (1917–2016) was a close friend of Berlin’s and part of the academic Giovanni Gravier, 1770–1 circle in which Berlin moved during the 1960s. At the time of pres- 3 volumes in 2, octavo (196 × 128 mm). Contemporary stiff vellum, titles entation, White was professor in the School of Historical Studies to spines gilt, twin rules to boards in green, marbled endpapers, red at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. speckled edges. Engraved frontispiece of Justice refusing an offering of severed heads from a man with a sword in Volume 1 (a plate depicting £550 [118192] the same scene was used as the frontispiece of the first edition of Dei delitti e delle pene), 6 folding tables in Volume 2. A few minor marks to 12 boards, overall an excellent set with bright text and plates. first edition of the collected works of the father of modern [BERTOLINI, Stefano.] Les suffrages unanimes sur les penology, including his celebrated Dei delitti e delle pene, first pub- moyens de rétablir une contrée inculte. [Florence:] 1764 lished separately in 1764; this copy from the library of archivist Octavo (225 × 145 mm). Uncut and partly unopened in contemporary and civil servant Henry Hobhouse (1776–1854), with his armorial carta rustica, stab-stitched, spine lettered in black ink, paper label to bookplate to the front free pastedown. Hobhouse was appointed lower spine. Spine a little toned, endpapers cockled, gatherings E and N toned, an excellent copy. permanent under-secretary of state for the home department in 1817. In his later position as keeper of the state papers he super- first edition of the Italian lawyer, senator, and scholar’s vised the editing and publication of the State Papers of Henry VIII. anthology of mercantilist writings, published anonymously. See Printing and the Mind of Man 209. Bertolini (1711–1782) studied at the university in Pisa and trained at the Pisa Law School where he graduated in 1734. He set up a £1,500 [114251] legal practice in Florence before beginning his career as an official of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1740, where he oversaw 11 matters regarding agricultural production and related economic BERLIN, Isaiah. Against the Current. Essays in the issues. He was a fervent admirer of Enlightenment writings, par- History of Ideas. Edited and with a Bibliography by Henry ticularly Montesquieu’s work – he published his Analyse raisonnée de l’esprit des lois in 1771. Hardy. With an Introduction by Roger Hausheer. London: The Hogarth Press, 1979 £4,750 [118046] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. 13 first edition, first impression, presentation copy, BEVERIDGE, William. India Called Them. London: George inscribed by the author, “Morton [White] from Isaiah, Oxford, Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1947

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. 14 A signed Christmas 1960 card featuring a sonnet by Samuel Butler and a photographic portrait of Beveridge, printed by Oxford University Press, BEVERIDGE, William. A Defence of Free Learning. laid-in. Photographic frontispiece, 2 folding tables and 15 photographic London: Oxford University Press, 1959 illustrations to 12 plates. Extremities lightly rubbed, rear board slightly Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With a 19–line auto- bowed, and a few small stains to fore edge of text block, otherwise a graph letter signed on Beveridge’s Oxford letterhead tipped in to front bright copy in the worn dust jacket, with some loss to edges and tape pastedown. Spine lightly rolled, light wear to extremities and boards, repairs to verso. corners bumped, some offsetting from gum of tipped-in letter to facing first edition, first impression, inscribed by the au- page, a small annotation to the first page of text, an excellent copy. thor on the front free endpaper to a member of the Charles first edition, first impression, presentation copy, Skepper House for Sociological Research, accompanied by inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Professor the last Christmas card sent by Beveridge. In his inscription Archibald Vivian Hill, dated 19 June 1959: “To A.V. more respon- Beveridge writes: “I am delighted to autograph this book, as sible than any other one person for my having anything to write I am delighted that any friend should read it, and particularly about, by the tireless incessant work that he gave to Defence of Ursula Thomas who lives and work [sic] for one of my favourite Free Learning”. A. V. Hill is considered to be one of the founders homes. William 19 Sep. 1961”. The card is inscribed, “With of biophysics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology thanks for help at Skepper House, Beveridge”. Though we or Medicine in 1922 for his elucidation of the production of heat have been unable to identify Ursula Thomas, Skepper House and mechanical work in muscles. Beveridge’s facing letter, written in London was a large research facility established by the Lon- on the same day, apologises to Hill for his delay in sending a copy don School of Economics at the bequest of the economist and of the book to him – “I’ve been working anything from 8 to 12 SOE Charles Milne Skepper. In addition to being the home of hours a day on a book about School of Economics 1919–37” – and the British Sociological Association, it became the base from entreats him to “believe every word in the inscription”. The book which research assistants, including Hilard Land and John Ve- mentioned is Beveridge’s history of the LSE, published in 1960. it-Wilson, undertook fieldwork and interviews for surveys on In 1933 Beveridge and Hill, along with Ernest Rutherford, founded poverty and large families. the Academic Assistance Council which became the Society for the Beveridge’s memoir of his parents is an absorbing study of two Protection of Science and Learning three years later. The organi- remarkable Victorians living in India. Henry Beveridge and his sation secured posts for refugee scholars in English and American second wife, Annette Susannah Akroyd, “were rather unusual universities during the war. This book serves as an account of the figures in the Victorian raj, for Henry was a passionate advocate Society’s actions, as well as telling “the story of persecution of free of Indian nationalism and home rule, and Annette had original- thought, at various times in various ways” (Preface). ly travelled to India before her marriage as a pioneer of second- Page 5 lists the 41 academics associated with the Academic ary education for Hindu women. Both parents were deeply at- Assistance Council, and next to each name Hill has recorded tached to Indian culture, and both became distinguished orien- their date of death – except for by his own, against which he has tal scholars and translators of Hindi and Persian texts” (ODNB). placed a question mark in red pen. £325 [120005] £325 [117406]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7 other panel a couple of pigs rooting in earth and wallowing in mire. It was used as the cover illustration for Norman Jones’s book on the usury debate, God and the Moneylenders (1989), as well as for Joyce Appleby’s Economic Thought and Ideology in Seven- teenth-Century England (1978). One of three imprint variants of this edition: the others are for booksellers in Dorchester and Wells – Blaxton was rector of Os- mington in Dorsetshire. Goldsmiths’ 660; Kress 492; Madan I, pp. 175–6; STC 3129. See Appleby, p. 67 et seq. £10,000 [114836]

16 BOETHIUS. Of the Consolation of Philosophy. In five books. Made English and illustrated with notes, by the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston. London: printed by J.D. for Awnsham and John Churchill; and Francis Hildyard bookseller in York, 1695 Octavo (187 × 115 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine titles, blind decoration on spine, red sprinkled edges, contemporary inscription. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Covers scuffed, extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped, joints cracked at spine ends; frontispiece and a few leaves somewhat browned, still a good copy. 15 first edition of this translation which includes “The Life of Boetius” and “The Testimonies of several writers concern- 15 ing Boethius translated” in the preliminaries. The translator, Richard Graham, first Viscount Preston (1648–1695), clearly BLAXTON, John (ed.) The English usurer; or usury identified closely with Boethius, having himself been sentenced condemned, by the most learned and famous divines of to death for his Jacobite activities, although he saved himself the Church of England, and dedicated to all his Maiesties from the scaffold in 1691 (and earned himself opprobrium) by subiects, for the stay of further increase of the same. testifying against his accomplices. The translation was his oc- London: printed by John Norton, and are to bee sold by Francis cupation during his last years in retirement at Nunnington Hall Bowman, in Oxford, 1634 in Yorkshire. The preface contains a number of references to his situation, including the complaint that his judges had been Small quarto (172 × 133 mm). Recent full brown calf, gilt and blind rule borders to boards, red morocco spine label. Woodcut before title more lenient than friends who despised him for giving way un- depicting in one compartment a usurer counting his money, and in the der trials that they had never undergone. other two pigs rooting, with facing explanation leaf. George Goyder Delisle 54; Renouard, Badius Ascensius II, p. 202, no. 11; Wing B3433. bookplate. Woodcut and facing leaf lightly soiled and stained, a few neat repairs to the leaf of verses, trimmed a little close, shaving the rule above £950 [116724] the headline on many leaves, some light spotting, still a very good copy. first edition of this useful anthology of contemporary English writing on usury – Downame, Fenton, Mosse, et al. – designed to show that usury is condemned by all “our most Learned and Orthodoxicall divines”. “For the critics of the new commercial order, usury epitomized a depersonalized age against which they thrust God’s command not to charge interest to the poor, assert- ing as a final proposition that in a loan the borrower by definition is poorer than the lender. ‘The biting worme of usury . . . hath corrupted all England,’ John Blaxton maintained, evoking in turn the neighborly ideal, the role of Christian charity, and the sin of storing up treasure, in an effort to awaken the conscience of those who deluded themselves that usury was acceptable in the eyes of God. Usury turned charity into an act of self-love, he said” (Ap- pleby). There are poetical contributions by, among others, Joshua Sylvester, Francis Quarles, and George Wither. The woodcut frontispiece is the most attractive feature of the book, depicting a moneylender in gown and ruff seated at his desk, a small devil perched jauntily on his chair back, and in the 16

8 Peter Harrington 137 Bohn examines the strengths of each of the major trading cities in Europe and also provides advice and explanations on coinage, measurements, rules of exchange, proper bookkeeping, and commercial correspondence. The engraved frontispiece shows a busy square in Hamburg and includes a detailed depiction of Hamburg’s old crane, weighing scales, and marketplace. The Thun und Hohenstein family were Austro-Hungarian nobil- ity, one branch of which lived in Tetschen, Bohemia, for more than 200 years. The bookplate belonged to Franz Anton von Thun und Hohenstein (1847–1916), who served as the Habsburg governor of Bohemia from 1889 to 1896 and then briefly as Minister-President of Austria from 1898 to 1899. He was made prince in 1911. Humpert 339. £5,250 [118286]

18 BOOTH, William. In Darkest England and the Way Out. London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, [1890] Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, relined. Folding chromolitho- graphic frontispiece. Stamp of Ashton-under-Lyne Public Libraries to top edge, library number to spine. Text block lightly toned, occasional pencilled corrections and underlining to text. Still a presentable copy, very good. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Booth on the half-title: “With faith and hope, William Booth, November 7.90.” Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, had considerable help in the writing of In Darkest England from the campaign- ing journalist W. T. Stead, fellow Salvationist Suzie Forest Swift, and Commissioner Frank Smith. Stead appears to have done most of the writing, but pointed out in a letter to a friend “the sole responsibility and the dominating mind was [Booth’s] and 17 his alone.” “Booth’s colossal self-confidence, his burning sense of injustice coupled with unswerving devotion to his purpose, 17 and his deep sympathy with the unfortunate, made of him an BOHN, Gottfried Christian. Der wolerfahrne evangelist and an organiser of the first order” (PMM). Kaufmann, oder umständliche Nachricht, Was die Printing and the Mind of Man 373. vornehmsten Handels-Plätze in Teutschland, Spanien, £950 [116823] Portugal, Franckreich, England, Holland und Braband, Dennemarck, Pohlen, Schweden, Italien, der Schweitz, Lieffland und Russland, so wol in Waaren als Wechsel- Verkehren mit derselben Wechsel-Cours, Maaß und Gewicht-Vergleichung auch denen Wechsel-Ordnungen derer beruhmten Oerter. Hamburg: Christian Liebezeit and T. C. Felginer, 1719 Duodecimo (162 × 96 mm). Contemporary sheep, brown paper label to spine, compartments and boards ruled in black, paper label to last compartment lettered in black, red patterned edges. Engraved folding frontispiece of Hamburg’s stock market. Armorial bookplate of Prince Franz Anton von Thun und Hohenstein, Tetschen, to front pastedown; ownership inkstamp to title page. Spine ends and extremities lightly worn, boards gently scuffed, front hinge cracked but firm, endpapers browned from turn-ins, contents evenly tanned, a very good copy. scarce first edition of one of the most comprehensive works on trade in German literature of the 18th century. Begin- ning with Hamburg, the cameralist writer Gottfried Christian 18

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19 Quarto (248 × 190 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, red edges. Woodcut device BRAY, John Francis. Labour’s Wrongs and Labour’s to title. Head of spine and front joint skilfully repaired, and extremities Remedy; Or, the Age of Might and the Age of Right. Leeds: refurbished; horizontal tears to rear free endpaper with some loss, re- Published by David Green, 1839 moved bookplate to front pastedown exposing board underneath; still a very good copy. Duodecimo (184 × 109 mm). Contemporary black cloth, paper labels to spine printed in black, partially unopened. Extremities worn and spine rolled, spine first edition of the Swiss legal and political theorist’s prin- ends and corners bumped, cloth split along rear board joint, loss to lower cipal work, an important influence on the American Founding label, boards scuffed, hinges cracked but firm, endpapers foxed, lower corner Fathers. A natural law professor at the University of Geneva, of gathering I partially uncut, otherwise a very good copy. Burlamaqui (1694–1748) conceived of his treatise as a general first edition of Bray’s major contribution to socialist political introduction to his subject intended for students, but its success economy. Bray, who based this book on a series of lectures which and influence far exceeded his expectations. It was “translated he delivered to the Leeds Working Men’s Association in 1837, is of- into English, Latin, Dutch, Danish, Italian, and Spanish and ten considered to be “the most effective of the English pre-Marx- republished in more than sixty different editions. The English ians” (Gray, p. 288). “In Labour’s Wrongs Bray traced the impover- translation became a standard textbook both at Cambridge and ishment of the labouring-classes to the skewed distribution of the at the foremost American colleges” (Petter Korkman, introduc- ownership of the nation’s productive capacity, which permitted tion to The Principles of Natural and Political Law, 2006). the coercive exercise of economic power by the few against the in- Thomas Jefferson possessed a 1756 French edition of the work terests of the many . . . Although influenced by Owenite thinking, (Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1409). “Jefferson’s con- [Bray’s] conception of socialism involved a move away from the cept of moral sense is closest to that of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, idea of self-contained, self-sufficient, cooperative communities one of his favourite authorities on legal studies” (Helo, p. 96). In in the direction of central control over output, pricing, allocation Principes du droit naturel Burlamaqui was the first modern thinker and distribution. In this respect, while bearing many of the hall- to identify the pursuit of happiness as a defining characteristic marks of early 19th-century socialism, Labour’s Wrongs points to of man; hence it has been argued by Ray Forrest Harvey, the the work of late 19th-century socialists where the market is sup- leading authority on Burlamaqui, that he was a major inspira- planted by planning” (The New Palgrave I, p. 274). tion for Jefferson when the latter included the famous assertion See Alexander Gray, The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin (Ludwig von Mis- of the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the es Institute, 1963). Declaration of Independence. Aside from his influence on Jeffer- £3,250 [118738] son in particular, Burlamaqui was more generally a major influence on the American Founding Fathers, especially through his The pursuit of happiness conception of the balance of powers: “Early American thought also drew on ideas circulating on the Continent. The author 20 who played the greatest part in transmitting those ideas over BURLAMAQUI, Jean Jacques. Principes du droit naturel. the Atlantic was the Swiss writer Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, now Geneva: Barrillot & fils, 1747 almost forgotten, but at one time a best-selling author” (Ronald Hamowy, general introduction to The Encyclopaedia of Libertari-

10 Peter Harrington 137 21 anism). Principes du droit naturel was Burlamaqui’s only work to be Williamite confiscations. He honed his financial skills working published during his lifetime. It first appeared in English the for the British army’s paymaster-general during the latter stages year of his death in a translation by Thomas Nugent. of the War of the Spanish Succession. He next proved his under- Wilentz, Liberty and the American Revolution, p. 13. See Ari Helo, Thomas standing of the market by making fortunes speculating against Jefferson’s Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: the Morality of a John Law’s Mississippi Company and by purchasing put options Slaveholder (Cambridge 2014). (the right to sell at a predetermined price) during the height of the South Sea Bubble. His successful speculations reinforced his £3,500 [113546] view that the monetary system must be based on intrinsically valuable metals. 21 The Essai is notable for its model building, its analysis of mar- CANTILLON, Richard. Saggio sulla natura del ket forces and the role of the entrepreneur, its outline of the commercio in generale. Autore Inglese. Venice: Carlo circular flow of income, and its monetary theory. The Essai had Palese, 1767 a significant influence in developing Quesnay’s circular flow of Duodecimo (161 × 94 mm). Uncut in contemporary carta rustica, manu- income and on Adam Smith’s theory of resource allocation in script paper spine label. Printer’s device on title. Head of spine and top the Wealth of Nations (1776). In distinguishing between market edge of rear board skilfully restored, spine label a little chipped; pale price and intrinsic value and showing how resources moved into damp-mark to gutter of lower margin, final 20 leaves with small stain those sectors where the market price was above intrinsic value, to upper margin, occasional light spotting, 2 small wormholes to first 2 and away from those sectors where market price was below leaves: a very good copy, entirely uncut. intrinsic value, Cantillon influenced Adam Smith’s famous dis- first edition in italian of Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du tinction between market price and natural price. Cantillon also commerce en général (1755). This translation, attributed to F. Scot- pre-empted later studies of human population, with a brief but toni who signs the dedication, is extremely scarce, OCLC locat- almost complete anticipation of the principles of Malthus. ing only the British Library copy. Higgs 938; Mattioli 553; Sraffa 683. OCLC locates only the British Library Richard Cantillon (c.1680–1734) was an Irish-born banker and copy. economist, forced to emigrate to continental Europe by the £12,500 [118599]

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22 3 volumes, octavo. Original purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front boards decorated in blind, cream endpapers, top edges brown. 2 plates CAREY, Henry Charles. The Slave Trade, Domestic and to volume I. Book labels and bookseller’s tickets to front pastedowns, Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished. Fraser Institute blindstamp to volume III p. ix, library stamps to rear free Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1853 endpapers, a few pencil annotations to contents. Spines slightly faded, extremities lightly worn, volume I with marginal tear to page 425, tiny Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine and boards chip to corner of rear free endpaper, volume II rear free endpaper lightly stamped in blind. With the errata slip tipped in to page 93. Extremities creased, overall an excellent set. lightly rubbed with a few knocks, head of spine a little crushed and frayed, endpapers browned, contents foxed, overall a very good copy. first edition. Carey is often considered the founder of the first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, American school of economics, notable for his criticism of Brit- “To Signor Giulio with the respects of the author”. Henry Charles ish classical economic theory, his support of Alexander Hamil- Carey (1793–1879) was hailed by his contemporaries as “the po- ton’s idea of protectionism in relation to American industry, and litical economist of the age” (Sartain’s Magazine), and his earlier for his position as Lincoln’s chief economic advisor. This is his work, The Credit System (1838), was considered “the best work on second major work, the first being his treatise Principles of Political the credit system that has ever been published” (Journal des Econo- Economy (1837–40), which was translated into five European lan- mistes). Here he examines global economic policies in relation to guages as well as Japanese. “Carey’s economic views were sharp- slavery. “H. C. Carey was the first to unite with a general knowl- ly at variance with those of Ricardo and Malthus, and reflect the edge of natural science a deep interest in philosophy as well as optimistic characteristic of American conditions favourable to originality in the treatment of economic problems. No American economic expansion . . . In the Principles of Social Science Carey ex- of the 19th century can claim more justly our high regard for pands his vision of a harmonious order to apply to the universe labors well done than this zealous champion of monism. What . . . Carey has been characterized as ‘easily the most perverse [August] Comte was to France and [John Stuart] Mill to England, and the most original American political economist before Ve- Carey, in a way, meant to America” (Boucke, The Development of Eco- blen’ (Conkin)” (The New Palgrave I, p. 370). nomics, 1750–1900). He was later elected to the American Academy £1,250 [117073] of Arts and Sciences as an Associate Fellow in 1863. Hogg 2787. Einaudi has the second edition of 1856 (891). 24 £1,000 [117176] CARLI, Gian Rinaldo. Von der physischen, moralischen und bürgerlichen Ungleichheit der Menschen. Eine “Easily the most perverse and the most original American Abhandlung über die Schrift des Rousseau: Sur l’origine political economist before Veblen” et les fondements de l’inegalité parmi les hommes. 23 Vienna: Rudolph Gräffer und Compagnie, 1793 Octavo (201 × 128 mm). Recent speckled brown paper boards, red paper CAREY, Henry Charles. Principles of Social Science. In label to spine lettered in gilt, spine ruled in gilt. Engraved head- and three volumes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858–9 tailpieces. A few pen and pencil annotations to contents. Spine ends

12 Peter Harrington 137 25 26 and corners lightly rubbed, contents evenly tanned with some light second edition, revised and enlarged, of this major ref- dampstain, a few small tears to lower edge of sig. F1, a very good copy. erence work for book collectors, which was originally published first edition in german of the Italian economist and pol- in 1967, with a new bibliography and introduction by Percy H. itician’s treatise on Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, first pub- Muir. PMM, as it is abbreviated, is regarded as a standard biblio- lished in Padua the previous year. At the age of 24 Carli (1720– graphical reference, and offers a survey of the impact of printed 1795) became the newly established professor of astronomy and books on the development of western civilization. navigation at the University of Padua. After the publication of £75 [111397]

“A book by Professor Cassel is always an event in the world of economics” 26 CASSEL, Gustav. Fundamental Thoughts in Economics. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1925 Octavo. Original green cloth imitating leather, spine and front board lettered in green, front board ruled in blind, fore edges uncut. Spine slightly rolled and ends bumped, endpapers lightly tanned and edges of text block spotted, occasional foxing to contents, overall a very good copy. first edition, first impression, of Cassel’s lecture series 24 on advanced economics, delivered at the University of London, which provide a summary of the leading ideas in his economic several works on history and economics, he was successively works. A contemporary reviewer wrote that “a book by Professor appointed head of the council of public economy, privy council- Cassel is always an event in the world of Economics. Not only lor, and president of the new council of finances by Leopold of is [he] by common consent the most distinguished living expo- Tuscany. nent of analytical economics in Northern Europe, but he enjoys a reputation for successful prophecy during the war stretching Sraffa 707. far beyond the confines of university lecture rooms. He it is, £475 [118262] who, together with Mr. Keynes, has given economists of our generation the right to hold up their heads, even in the very fast- 25 ness of philistinism” (Robbins, p. 223). CARTER, John, & Percy H. Muir (eds.) Printing and the See Lionel Robbins, Economica, no. 17, 1926, pp. 223–5. Mind of Man. Munich: Karl Pressler, 1983 £250 [119644] Quarto. Original brick-red cloth, white lettered labels to both spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text. As new.

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CHAMBERLAIN, Lawrence, & William Wren Hay. 30 Investment and Speculation. Studies of Modern Movements and Basic Principles. New York: Henry Holt and first edition in book form of this important precursor to Company, 1931 Clark’s The Distribution of Wealth (1899), originally serialized in the Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, publisher’s Political Science Quarterly. “Reference should also be made to the device blind-stamped to front board. With the publisher’s order form important series of complementary articles by the author and laid in. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Extremities gently F. H. Giddings on The Modern Distributive Process . . . These four rubbed, boards a little cockled and marked, a couple of spots to con- ‘studies of the process by which the income of modern society is tents, otherwise an excellent copy. divided among its principal claimants’ lead to complementary first edition, first printing, of the best-selling post-De- conclusions which were established independently and before pression common stocks analysis written by two leading finan- joint publication had been decided upon. Clark writes on ‘The cial experts, which includes the often quoted statement, “Com- Limits of Competition’ and on ‘Profits under Modern Condi- mon stocks, as such, are not superior to bonds as long term tions’, and Giddings on ‘The Persistence of Competition’ and on investments, because primarily they are not investments at all. ‘The Natural Rate of Wages’” (Batson). They are speculations” (p. 55). Chamberlain and Hay conclude Batson, p. 70; IESS 1888. that only bonds can be considered stable investments. Cham- berlain, an investment banker, was also the author of the equally £550 [119881] successful book, Principles of Bond Investments (1911). Dennistoun & Goodman 486. 29 £1,250 [119712] CLINTON, Bill. My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title to spine gilt. With the dark blue 28 cloth slipcase. With 32 plates. A fine copy. CLARK, John Bates, & Franklin H. Giddings. The signed limited edition, number 189 of 1,500 specially-bound first printing copies signed by the author. Modern Distributive Process. Studies of competition and its limits, of the nature and amount of profits, and of the £600 [120329] determination of wages, in the industrial society of today. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1888 Octavo (232 × 145 mm). Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Occasional pencil markings to the text. Extremities rubbed, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, boards faintly marked, otherwise a bright, excellent copy.

14 Peter Harrington 137 and to upper margin of p. 83, shelfmark to title in ink. Short tear in the gutter at the head of the title, title a little dust soiled at head, occasional light spotting; a very good copy. first edition of Colquhoun’s major work on the question of poverty and pauperism, its relationship to crime and disorder and the need for a new comprehensive system of police. This valuable work contains plans for a board of education, national savings bank with state guarantee to depositors, a system of reproductive work for the unemployed, a national poor rate uniformly assessed, and the issue of a police gazette, containing statistics of crime and descriptions of the persons of offenders. Colquhoun begins with a clear definition of “poverty” which is to be distinguished from “indigence”. In this he was following the lead of Jeremy Bentham, and his sentiments clearly echo those of Bentham. He states that poverty is “an indispensable and necessary ingredient in civil society”, and is “that state and condition . . . where the individual has no surplus in store, and, consequent- ly, no property but what is derived from the constant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life; or in other words, it is the state of every one who must labour for subsistence. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist 31 in a state of civilization.” “Indigence therefore and not poverty, is the evil. It is that condition in society which implies want, mis- 30 ery, and distress. It is the state of any one who is destitute of the means of subsistence, and is unable to labour to produce it to the COLLIER, Nick Sherlock. Frenological Finance. Being a true extent nature requires. The natural source of subsistence is the la- history of the life and adventures of Mortimer Kensington bour of the individual; while that remains with him he is denomi- Queen. Boston, MA: The C. M. Clark Publishing Company, 1907 nated poor when it fails in whole or in part he becomes indigent.” Octavo in agenda format. Original yellow cloth, boards illustrated in black This definition of indigence precedes a discussion about an “ap- and red. Caricature frontispiece, numerous satirical illustrations printed in red. Library stamp to title page. Spine ends and corners lightly worn, propriate system of police,” “a system of pauper and general po- spine faded, boards a little scuffed and stained, a very good copy. lice,” and “the board a channel of instructions by means of police gazette.” “By the term police we are to understand all those regu- first and only edition of this illustrated Wall Street satire, ded- lations in a country which apply to the comfort, convenience, and icated “to all the suckers and come-ons that make Wall and State safety of the inhabitants, whether it regards their security against Streets thrive and wax fat”. It is scarce in commerce and OCLC lo- the calamity of indigence, or the effects produced by moral and cates six copies only in institutitional holdings worldwide. criminal offences.” Colquhoun makes it clear that by “police” he £225 [118585] means all the modes of control and prevention which society can bring to bear to maintain social order. Once an offence or offenc- The pauper police es have been committed it is no longer a matter of police but a matter for the magistrates. Colquhoun regrets that at the time of 31 writing “the whole system of the national police is without that COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A Treatise on Indigence; exhibiting watchful and superintending agency which is indispensably nec- a general view of the national resources for productive essary to produce a preventive effect; and to this cause is chiefly labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of attributed the great increase of indigence, vagrancy, and crimes.” the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing From these arguments it is possible to see that for Colquhoun, police and poor law are one and the same; in fact poor-law is sub- the comforts of the labouring people, particularly the rising sumed within and becomes an aspect of Police in its original wid- generation; by regulations of political economy, calculated er sense. Colquhoun’s concept, therefore, of a system of police, is to prevent poverty from descending into indigence, to of a central office of social policy, working under the aegis of the produce sobriety and industry, to reduce the Parochial Rates Home Department, whose function is essentially preventive and of the Kingdom, and generally to promote the Happiness whose object apart from the narrow ones of preventing crime and and Security of the community at large, by the diminution securing the property of the individual, is social amelioration in of moral and penal offences, and the future prevention of the widest sense especially including all that tends to the better crimes. London: J. Hatchard, 1806 education and employment of the poor. Octavo (209 × 136 mm). Recent quarter calf and marbled boards, spine Goldsmiths’ 19292; McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy, p. 286. lettered gilt, green laid paper endpapers. Complete with folding table £1,875 [119913] at p. 23 and final advertisement leaf. Ownership stamp of the Women’s University Settlement, Nelson Square, Southwark to front free endpaper

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32 first edition, first printing, inscribed by the au- CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis thor on the front free endpaper “Cordially Calvin Coolidge, September 1924”. The inscription dates from the run-up to the de. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de 35th quadrennial United States presidential election, held on 4 l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume. Paris: chez Agasse, l’an November 1924, at which Coolidge, the Republican candidate III de la République [1795] and incumbent, was elected to a second term. “As America’s Octavo (199 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, green morocco 30th President (1923–1929), Calvin Coolidge demonstrated his spine label, compartments decorated in gilt, red edges. Minor wear determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts to extremities, boards and spine a little scuffed, endpapers slightly of frugality amid the material prosperity which many Americans browned, an excellent copy. were enjoying during the 1920s era” (White House website). first edition of the finest and most durable expression of the £1,000 [116826] ultimate perfectibility of man. “The prophetic view of the tenth epoch shows Condorcet at his most original. He forecasts the destruction of inequality between nations and classes, and the improvement, intellectual, moral and physical, of human nature. Unlike Godwin, he does not preach absolute equality, but equality of opportunity” (PMM). “The aim of the Esquisse was to demonstrate man’s progressive emancipation, first from the arbitrary domination of his physical environment and then from the historical bondage of his own making” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy II, 184). By linking the question of human progress with that of population, Condorcet also anticipated the work of Malthus (see Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus). En français dans le texte 196; Martin & Walter, 1, 8083; Printing and the Mind of Man 246; Quérard, II, p. 269. £2,250 [117790]

33 COOLIDGE, Calvin. The Price of Freedom. Speeches and Addresses. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, March 1924 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine slightly sunned, small nick to head of spine. An excellent copy.

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34 superior account of the British constitution, comparable with the COURT, Pieter de la. Interest van Holland, ofte gronden eleventh book of Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des loix and William Black- stone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England” (ODNB). It was originally van Hollands-welvaren. Aangewezen door V.D.H. written in French and published in the Netherlands in 1771. Amsterdam: Joan. Cyprianus vander Gracht, 1662 £750 [116715] Octavo (152 × 95 mm). Contemporary vellum covered boards. Small private ownership stamp to front free endpaper, early ownership inscription to title. Vellum a little soiled, small diminishing pale ink stain to the upper 36 margin through most of the book; a crisp, clean copy. [DEFOE, Daniel.] An Essay Upon Publick Credit; Being first edition, the octavo issue. “The only Dutch bestseller, this An Enquiry How the Publick Credit comes to depend work is mainly an argument for industrial freedom plus moderate upon the Change of the Ministry, or the Dissolutions duties” (Carpenter), comparable and in some respects superior to of Parliaments; and whether it does so or no. With an Roger Coke’s of 1670 and 1675, the merit of which consists chiefly in its freedom from errors of reasoning. De la Court “would have Argument, Proving that the Publick Credit may be upheld to be ranked very high in a history of economic thought or policy” and maintain’d in this Nation; and perhaps brought to (Schumpeter). The work had been circulated in manuscript and a greater Height that it ever yet arriv’d at; Tho’ all the was published, without de la Court’s permission, by De Witt, who Changes or Dissolutions already Made, Pretended to, made alterations and added two important chapters. and now Discours’d of, shou’d come to pass in the World. Carpenter III, (1); Economisch-Historische Bibliotheek 1205 (8vo edition); London: printed, and sold by the Book-sellers, 1710 Kress 1092 (12mo edition). Octavo (210 × 130 mm), pp. [3]–28, without the half-title. Disbound. Pale £2,250 [113943] dampstain at head of title, a very good copy, with fore and lower edges uncut. first edition of Defoe’s well-received essay on the symbiotic 35 relationship between public and private credit and their depend- ence on the institutional apparatus in which they operate. It was DE LOLME, Jean-Louis. The Constitution of England; published on 23 August in support of Robert Harley’s return to or, An Account of the English Government; in which office as Chancellor of the Exchequer earlier that month. it is Compared, both with the Republican Form of “This tract, one of the best he ever wrote, quickly went through Government, and the Other Monarchies in Europe. three editions. It is a tightly unified, eloquently written argu- London: printed by T. Spilsbury, and sold by G. Kearsley, 1775 ment demonstrating that credit is the expression of English Octavo in half-sheets (208 × 130 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, history, principles, and ingenuity; in other words, credit is by rebacked preserving the original spine, gilt rules, red morocco label. definition and by manifestation ‘national’ rather than the prod- Ownership inscription of John Parkhurst dated 1776 to front free endpa- uct of time, party or particular event. Credit is not ‘pinn’d to the per, recent ownership stamp to front pastedown. Spine ends somewhat darkened, corners restored, first and last leaves browned from the leath- Girdle’ of one man, not even Godolphin” (Backscheider, p. 60). er turn-ins, some spotting and the odd mark; a good copy. Furbank & Owens 108; Goldsmiths’ 4619; Hanson 1165; Kress 2658; Moore 187. See Paula R. Backscheider, Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innova- first edition in english of Swiss-English political theorist tion (University Press of Kentucky, 1986). Jean-Louis de Lolme’s favourable assessment of the liberties la- tent in the British constitution. The book “was widely praised as a £3,500 [117981]

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37 couched in his usual high-flown, lapidary prose. A far more sig- DERRIDA, Jacques. Signéponge. Paris: Seuil, 1988 nificant though private venture, however, was the diary which he had begun to keep in 1749. Recording day to day the intrigues of Octavo. Original white card wrappers printed in black and red. With an apparently compulsive, self-seeking place-hunter who seemed glassine jacket. An excellent copy. equally attached to the sentiments of virtue and poetry, Doding- first french edition, first impression, inscribed ton’s diary, first published in 1784, has subsequently anchored by the author on the half-title: “Pour Serge et Michele [?] his reputation as the archetypal 18th-century man of politics” fidèlement, J. Derrida”. Derrida’s tribute to the poetry of Francis (ODNB). After his death part of his estate went to his nephew Ponge was originally published in the US in 1984, in a bilingual Henry Wyndham, editor of his diary. edition entitled Signésponge – Signsponge. £325 [120255] £650 [115229] 39 38 DORFMAN, Robert, Paul A. Samuelson, & Robert M. DODINGTON, George Bubb. The Diary, From March 8, Solow. Linear Programming and Economic Analysis. New 1749, to February 6, 1761. With an Appendix containing York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958 some Curious and Interesting Papers, which are either Octavo. Original grey buckram cloth, spine and boards lettered in blue referred to, or alluded to, in the Diary. A New Edition. By and red. With the dust jacket. Numerous diagrams. Ownership inscrip- Henry Penruddocke Wyndham. Salisbury: E. Easton, 1784 tion to front free endpaper. Dust jacket extremities worn with some Octavo (205 × 128 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red morocco spine la- closed tears, loss to foot of jacket spine and a few of the joints, other- bel, raised bands with gilt rules either side, red sprinkled edges. Margin- wise a fine copy in the very good jacket. al browning to endpapers, half-title, and very faintly to title page from first edition, first printing, of this book, “the first to em- adhesive used in binding, p. 244 browned, else an excellent, crisp copy, phasise the econometric basis of linear programming and its ap- complete with the half-title and advertisement leaf. plication to a wide range of related topics” (Gass & Assad). It re- first english edition of this important and much-celebrated mains one of the best texts for teaching the subject, and strives record of political intrigue in 18th-century England, originally to “give the economist, who knows existing economic theory published in Dublin earlier the same year. Dodington (1691–1762), but who does not pretend to be an accomplished mathemati- an immensely wealthy landowner, was elected member for Bridg- cian, a broad introduction to the theory of linear programming, water in 1722, a post he held until 1754. He insinuated himself into or, as it is sometimes called, activity analysis” (Preface, p. vii). the highest circles of Georgian society as a boon-companion of Both Samuelson and Solow received Nobel Prizes (1970, 1987) Frederick, Prince of Wales, holding various posts under Walpole for their contributions to the theory of economic growth. (whom he alienated and eventually broke from in 1740) and Pel- Gass & Assad, An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal Histo- ham before becoming drawn into the leadership struggle between ry (Springer US, 2005), p. 122. Pitt and Fox in the summer of 1755 after a period in the wilder- £225 [118810] ness. His “literary endeavours were nondescript occasional pieces

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40 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: wherein are contained, many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the 40 new husbandry, collected during a series of years. Also, the most approved practice of the best English farmers, 41 in the old method of husbandry. With copper-plates of several new and useful instruments. London: for J. Whiston DURKHEIM, Émile. Les Formes élémentaires de la vie and B. White, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, P. Davey and B. Law, religieuse. Le système totémique en Australie. Paris: 1759 Librairie Félix Alcan, 1912 Quarto (262 × 205 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label, Octavo. Contemporary dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge twin gilt rules to raised bands and borders of boards, edges speckled speckled red, green endpapers. One folding map. A few marginal notes red, title page in red and black. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and his- in pencil, possibly Steven Lukes’s. Spine lightly darkened, extremities toriated capitals. With 6 engraved plates, of which 4 are folding; folding rubbed, neat repair to two short closed tears on half-title and title, half-ti- table. Small wormhole to bottom edge of front board and bottom mar- tle a little darkened, scattered spotting to contents. An excellent copy. gin of first half of text block neatly repaired; contemporary or early refer- first edition, first impression, of one of the author’s most ence number inscription to front free endpaper. Light scuffing and some influential works, his sociological study of religion. “In his last superficial insect damage to boards, joints faintly worn, the occasional great work, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Durkheim isolated spot to contents. A very good copy. gave his most compelling demonstration of the structuralist first edition in english. The first part of Duhamel du method, tracing relationships between social organization, Monceau’s treatise was published in France in 1750 as Traité religious beliefs, and such fundamental categories of thought as de la culture des terres; five other parts followed, the last one space, time, and causation. He seemed to have brought about published in 1760. Quesnay’s entry on agriculture, “which ap- the ‘sociologization of everything’” (Ken Thompson, Émile peared in the first volume of the Encyclopédie in 1751, was influ- Durkheim, 2002, p. 23). enced by the work of Duhamel du Monceau. See Weulersse, Le From the library of Steven Lukes, Durkheim’s biographer, with Mouvement physiocratique, 1:29–30, 108–11” (Amy S. Wyngaard, his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper, binder’s blank From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French En- and title page. Steven Lukes is professor of politics and sociol- lightenment, 2004, p. 210). The English edition was translated ogy at New York University and the author of several titles on and edited by John Mills. Durkheim, including the acclaimed Émile Durkheim, His Life and Kress B.5778. Work: A Historical and Critical Study (1973). Lukes was quoted in a £550 [114569] 2015 interview as considering The Elementary Forms of Religious Life as Durkheim’s masterpiece. Lukes 1912a. £1,250 [114093]

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42 thinkers who have created the discipline, by such experts as K. J. EATWELL, John; Murray Milgate; Peter Newman (eds). Arrow, G. Debreu, M. Friedman, W. Leontief, P. Samuelson, and G. Stigler. The New Palgrave. A Dictionary of Economics. London: Macmillan, 1987 £450 [119217] 4 volumes, octavo. Original skiver-backed cloth, spines ruled gilt, titles gilt on a red blocked panel, numbered and lettered gilt. Occasional figures 43 in the text. Small Gift Aid sticker to rear board of vol. I. An excellent copy. [EINAUDI, Luigi.] I problemi economici della first edition of this “indispensible reference tool” (Kenneth federazione europea. Lausanne: Nuove Edizioni di Capolago, J. Arrow). The New Palgrave was inspired by its predecessor R. H. 1944 Inglis Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy (Macmillan, 1894– Octavo, pp. 60, [4]. Wire-stitched in original printed paper wrappers, 9). The modern version contains 2,000 signed entries, including front wrapper lettered in black. Lower outer corner a little dog eared; a 700 biographical entries describing the lives and works of the very good copy. rare first edition of Einaudi’s paper on economic problems of the European Federation, written under the pseudonym Junius. £1,350 [119085]

44 EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841 Duodecimo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, sides blocked in blind, yellow coated endpapers (BAL’s binding E). Spine caps worn, endpapers oxidised, still a very good copy. first edition, published in March 1841. BAL notes six different bindings: “The sequence has not been determined and the order of presentation is almost purely arbitrary”. BAL 5189; Grolier, American, 47; Myerson A10.1.a. £1,500 [116103] 42

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Erasmus’s Mirror for Princes here for the first time. Further added are his Panegyricus to Philip the Fair, composed at the occasion of his return to Brussels in 45 1504 and already containing the same ideas as postulated in ERASMUS. Institutio principis christiani saluberrimis the Institutio, together with his letters in defence of this work to refererta praeceptis, per Erasmum Roterodamum, cum Paludanus and Nicolas Ruter. At the end of this part an extra alijs nonnullis eodem pertinentibus, quorum catalogum printer’s colophon is present, dated April 1516. in proxima reperies pagella [bound with 2 other works – The dedication, according to Allen, must date from March 1516 see below.] Basel: Johann Froben, May 1516 and the whole work at the end is dated May 1516. The second part then contains Erasmus’s translations of Plutarch’s treatises 3 works bound together, quarto (209 × 153 mm). Institutio: collates a–p4 q6 A–Z4 AA–BB4: 166 leaves, complete. Contemporary blind-stamped on true friendship, on the use to be made of enemies, on gov- pigskin backing beech boards, clasps and catches, title in contemporary ernment by the Prince’s personal qualities rather than by fear, manuscript to fore edge, spine lettered and dated in ink at a much later and on the value of philosopher-friends to the Prince. The first date. Title pages within woodcut borders, woodcut initials. Early Greek two are respectively dedicated to Henry VIII, king of England, quotation from Hesiod to front free endpaper; contemporary inscrip- and to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. tion “Isatt”[?] at head of first title and misdated 1516 below the place of publication, struck through and corrected in a later hand; early margina- The Institutio principis christiani is bound first in the volume with lia and underlining in at least two distinct hands. Backstrip very slightly two other works. At the end of the volume is the second edition soiled, but an excellent copy in an unrestored contemporary binding. of a collection of Erasmian texts headed by Enchiridion militis first edition of Erasmus’s famous treatise Institutio principis christiani (Handbook of a Christian Knight), Strasbourg: Matthias christiani, published at about the same time as Machiavelli’s Schürer, September 1515. In the same month Enchiridion was Il principe. Written as advice for Prince Charles of Spain (later published as a separate work at Leipzig by Valentin Schumann, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), Erasmus’s work goes far at Hieronymus Emser’s urging, as it was then in short supply in beyond the education of the Prince, and is in fact, like Machia- Saxony. A similar collection was first published at Antwerp, Th. velli’s, a general treatise on the state, its structure, the art of gov- Martens, November 1509. ernment and the conduct of the Prince; Erasmus, however, aims Bound between the two is an incomplete copy of Erasmus’s at harmony and peace, recognizing the rights and duties both translations from Plutarch (Basel: J. Froben, August 1514), lack- of the Prince and the people. Other pieces treating the same ing the title leaf. subject were added, a list of which is given on verso of the title. Institutio: VD 16, E 3133; IA 161.467; Adams E 380; Bezzel 1245. Of these Erasmus’s translation of a letter by Isocrates to King Enchiridion: II. VD 16, E 2745; IA 161.462; Adams E 689; Bezzel 846. Nicocles on the importance of education for a king is published £48,000 [117306]

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Small octavo (116 × 81 mm). Contemporary calf, green morocco label, spine and boards ruled and decorated in gilt. Dalton Hall Library bookplate to front pastedown. Some very minor surface abrasion; a very good copy. first london edition of the French Constitution of the year 46 III (1795), adopted by the Convention on 5 Fructidor (22 August 1795) and approved by plebiscite on 6 September. 46 ESTC and OCLC locate eight copies: the British Library and seven in FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb. Der geschloßne Handelsstaat. North America. Ein philosophischer Entwurf als Anhang zur Rechtslehre, £1,750 [120043] und Probe einer künftig zu liefernden Politik. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1800 48 Octavo (178 × 107 mm). Contemporary blue paper boards, spine hand (FRANCE: REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR.) Unité, lettered in black ink. Spine very gently rolled and ends bumped, spine indivisibilité de la république. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and board edges sunned, some light spotting to contents, small tear to lower edge of sig. H2, an excellent copy. ou la mort. Calendrier pour l’an 3eme de la république first edition of Fichte’s principal work on state intervention française. Paris: chez Basset, 1794 in the national economy, considered “the best historical exam- Hand-coloured engraved broadside (742 × 522 mm) of the Revolution- ple of implementing Kant’s idea of a hypothetical contract in ary calendar for the third year of the Republican calendar (1794/5), the Revolutionary motto in large font, flanked by obelisks and fasces, the terrain of modern political economy” (Hunt, p. 170). Fichte surmounted by female allegories sitting on either side of the Eye of Prov- was one of the founders of German idealism, and “through his idence, and placing a wreath above the portraits of, left, Lepelletier and, philosophy he has indirectly exercised great influence on econ- right, Marat; in the lower part, a trophy consisting of a Gallic rooster, a omists, his system giving in outline the theory of development cannon, a staff; below, the calendar flanked by circular portraits of, left, worked out by Hegel, and applied by certain of Hegel’s followers Barra and, right, Chalier. Light surface wear to the calendar, affecting to economic history and theory” (New Palgrave II, p. 317). legibility, and some letters of the imprint with loss of ink; professionally cleaned, slight crease to the lower left-hand corner and a short marginal Goldsmiths’ 17957; Kress B.4130; Mattioli 1265. See Istvan Hunt, “Adam tear repaired to the right, without loss; a rare survival. Smith’s history of law and government as political theory”, in Richard Bourke & Raymond Geuss (eds.), Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn A magnificent example of printing by the Paris publisher, (Cambridge University Press, 2009). print-seller, and wallpaper manufacturer Paul André Basset, £3,000 [118695] based in the rue Saint Jacques. The British Museum department of prints and drawings has the calendar of the previous year. 47 £18,750 [116735] (FRANCE: CONSTITUTION.) Constitution de la république française. London: de l’Imprimerie de Baylis; Imprimé aux frais de A. Dulau & Co., 1796

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49 The book contains Frankfurter’s contribution to the Weil lec- FRANKFURTER, Felix. The Commerce Clause Under tures on American citizenship, “a clear exposition of the various interpretations of the commerce clause – the power conferred Marshall, Taney and Waite. Chapel Hill: University of North upon Congress ‘to regulate commerce with foreign nations Carolina Press, 1937 and among the several states – under three great chief justices” Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in silver. With (jacket). A Harvard professor of law from 1914 to 1939, Frank- the dust jacket. Lengthy presentation inscription dated 18 December furter was “a strong advocate of civil liberties but favoured judi- 1936 to front free endpaper. Dust jacket rubbed along joints with slight cial self-restraint and non-intervention by the court in political chipping to top and bottom edges, pale damp mark to foot of front panel and joint of rear panel, and a little soiling; a very good copy with a fine issues” (Walker, Oxford Companion to Law, p. 488). presentation inscription. £1,750 [116810] first edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author probably for Robert H. Jackson, assistant From the library of Matthew Boulton, Franklin’s collaborative attorney general heading the tax division of the Department of experimenter and friend Justice in 1936, attorney general from 1937 to 1941, and one of Frankfurter’s closest friends: “Dear Bob, This is not a Roland 50 for an Oliver – but Law, at least in my poor hands, is only on the FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Complete Works in river of Philosophy. But ‘we live by symbols’, and this brings you Philosophy, Politics, and Morals. Now first collected my gay devotion & ardent hopes. Yrs Felix.” and arranged: with Memoirs of his Early Life, written by himself. In three volumes. London: printed for J. Johnson, and Longman Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806 3 volumes, octavo (215 × 132 mm). Near-contemporary half russia, buff paper boards, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, buff endpapers, marbled edges. 2 additional engraved vignette title pages to volumes I and III, 12 engraved plates as issued, some folding, including an additional plate (VIII*), and 1 folding table. Sale labels of Matthew Boulton’s library, Christie’s, December 1986, to front pastedowns. Extremities lightly worn, joints a little creased, otherwise a bright and clean set. first edition, an excellent association copy, from the library of english engineer matthew boulton, Franklin’s collaborative experimenter and friend. Matthew Boul- ton is perhaps best known as the business partner of James Watt and as an active member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a set of key figures in the Midlands Enlightenment led by Erasmus 49 Darwin. During his time spent in England in the 1750s Franklin

24 Peter Harrington 137 51 52 travelled to Birmingham where he met Boulton and his circle, first edition, first printing, of the classic work in which and “the two carried out electrical experiments together. Within the author argues against the Keynesian use of government policy a few years they were corresponding on the subject of Boulton’s to regulate the economy. This work resolved several paradoxes re- experiments on developing a steam engine, which were under- garding the relationship between the wealth and spending habits way prior to him meeting James Watt” (McLean, p. 34). Both of consumers and it remains a foundational work in economics. Franklin and Boulton were working on Leyden jar experiments £2,750 [119404] in particular, and when the former required more scientific glassware, Boulton procured it for him. Franklin thanked him 52 in a letter, adding: “If any thing new in Magnetism or Electricity or any other Branch of natural Knowledge, has occurr’d to your (FRIEDMAN, Milton.) (GREAT BRITAIN: ROYAL fruitful Genius since I last had the Pleasure of seeing you, you COMMISSION.) East Africa Royal Commission Report will by communicating it, greatly oblige” (22 May 1765). 1953–1955. Presented by the Secretary of State for the The Complete Works details Franklin’s ground-breaking experiments Colonies to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. in electricity as well as his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1955 including astrological phenomena, magnetism, naval navigation Octavo. Original blue paper wrappers printed in black. 4 colour folding techniques, the structure of education, the slave trade, economy, maps to rear pocket. Ownership inscription to front wrappers. Spine and his account of the American Revolution. Franklin’s reputation slightly sunned, a few creases and nicks to contents, otherwise a very as the first great American scientist rests on his work on electrici- good copy. ty; his accounts of experiments using Leyden jars, lightning rods, first edition, from the library of Nobel Prize-winning Amer- and charged clouds are extensively recorded in his papers, many ican economist Milton Friedman. The commission’s important of which were published in this edition for the first time. examination of the economic development, living conditions, Ford 550. See Leonard W. Labaree (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Frank- industrial activities, agricultural advances, and social issues lin, vol. 12, 1765, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 140; Rita across British East Africa – Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, now McLean, “Matthew and the Soho Enterprises”, West Midlands History: The part of modern day Tanzania – was completed in two tours. “Its West Midlands Enlightenment, issue 1, spring 2013. central thesis was that restrictions to free competition of the races £2,500 [119536] as to goods, services and land must be done away with, notably as regards rights of African landholders outside tribal areas. The 51 commissioners recommended that barriers to the free exchange of land be progressively removed, and called for establishment of FRIEDMAN, Milton. A Theory of the Consumption development boards to plan the use of land and the rehabilitation Function. A Study by the National Bureau of Economic of overcrowded areas” (Duignan & Gann 1032). Research, New York. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957 Peter Duignan & L. H. Gann, Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960, vol. 5, Cam- Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. bridge University Press, 1974. Graphs and charts throughout. Ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Spine and extremities of dust jacket a little darkened, with a £750 [119535] few small chips to rear panel; a very good copy.

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53 problems of economic science, opening the way to its future GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Boston: progress” (Palgrave II, p. 178). Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958 Einaudi 2328; Sraffa 1939; not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress. Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, silver lettered on spine and front cov- £3,750 [114995] er. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with small chips to ends and corners, a few small closed tears to upper edge, and only 55 slight fading to the fugitive yellow on the spine panel. GALTON, Francis. Inquiries into Human Faculty and its first edition, first printing, of Galbraith’s famous book, Development. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 in which he “broke new ground by introducing the idea that public policy could counter the excesses of affluence. He called Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in on the federal government to play a key role in addressing what blind, black endpapers, partially unopened. Mounted photographic frontispiece with tissue guard, 4 plates, of which one is double-page and he saw as the imbalance between the prosperity of private coloured, and numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations to the text. households and the poverty of the financially strapped public Ownership signature in pencil to half-title. Spine ends and corners gen- sector” (Horowitz, The Anxieties Of Affluence: Critiques of American tly rubbed and bumped, spine sunned, hinges gently cracked but firm, Consumer Culture 1939–1979, 2004, p. 101). overall an excellent copy. £325 [113785] first edition. Galton, first cousin of Charles Darwin, is regarded as the founder of eugenics and the word finds its first ap- 54 pearance in this work. “Most of his practical eugenic suggestions were for forms of what might be called positive eugenics: research [GALIANI, Ferdinando.] De’ doveri de’ principi neutrali programmes for discovering which diseases were hereditary; tax verso i principi guerreggianti e di questi verso i neutrali schemes for encouraging intelligent people to marry each other libri due. [Naples:] 1782 Quarto (231 × 160 mm). Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth, double rule blind stamped border to covers, spine ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. One or two tiny nicks to the cloth, corners lightly rubbed, with a little surface marking; paper stock lightly browned, more severely in places, as usual; a very good copy. first edition of this scarce work, which earned Galiani the chair of first assessor in the council of finances in Naples. The book was written during the war between England and France in 1778, during which the Kingdom of Naples stood neutral. It points out the rights and duties of neutral and war-faring powers. Several chapters discuss aspects of trade and economics. “He investigated, with much originality, the fundamental 55

26 Peter Harrington 137 56 57 and to have large families. However, many of the people who took Theory “has a different reason for existence. The field of game theo- up the eugenic cause (and there were thousands of such people in ry is now well established and widely diffused through the mathe- many countries) were more interested in negative eugenic meas- matical world, thanks in part to the success of the earlier volumes; ures (for example the sterilization of persons deemed ‘unfit’). papers on game theory regularly appear in many scientific journals. Particularly after the lengths to which the Nazi regime in Germa- But with no single, specialised journal as focal point, there remains ny took eugenic practice the word developed ugly connotations a serious problem of communication within the field . . . Accord- and was subsequently dropped from the title of all the institutions ingly, this study was conceived as a one-volume cross section of that Galton had helped to found” (ODNB). current activity in the theory of games” (Preface). Hook & Norman I.866. Gass & Assad, An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal Histo- £825 [119389] ry (Springer US, 2005), p. 77. £3,750 [118782] Works instrumental in shaping the field of game theory 57 56 GANDHI, Mahatma K. Women and Social Injustice. (GAME THEORY.) KUHN, H. W.; A. W. Tucker; M. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1942 Dresher; P. Wolfe; R. D. Luce (eds.) Contributions to the Octavo. Original cloth-backed blue-grey boards, title to spine black and Theory of Games. Volumes I–IV; [offered together with:] front cover blue, pale yellow endpapers. Boards unevenly faded, a little Advances in Game Theory, edited by M. Dresher, L. S. faint foxing to endleaves; a very good copy. Shapley and A. W. Tucker. Princeton: Princeton University first edition, one of 2,000 copies, of this collection of Gan- Press, 1950–53–57–59 & 1964 dhi’s writings aimed at women, discussing the status of Indian Together, 5 volumes, large octavo and octavo. Original orange paper women in society and championing equal rights: “he is of the wrappers printed in black. Ownership inscription of R. S. Weinberg to opinion that subservience to man or any power on earth need front wrappers. Some light creasing to sunned spines, spine ends very not be if we realise our inner strength” (p. v). “While empha- gently rubbed, overall an excellent set. sising the complementary roles of men and women, Gandhi first editions of the complete run of this important Game The- made it absolutely clear that women were in no way inferior to ory journal, together with the follow up study, Advances in Game The- men. The very idea of calling woman the weaker sex was not ory, issued as volumes 24, 28, 39, 40 and 52 of the periodical Annals acceptable to Gandhi. He asserted that women were blessed of Mathematics Studies. Contributors include Melvin Dresher, David with immense spiritual strength and they were not weak . . . Gale, John Nash, and John von Neumann, among others; Volume II though men were stronger at a physical level” (Anup Taneja, includes Lloyd Shapley’s ground-breaking 1953 paper, “A Value for Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920–47, New Delhi, n-person Games”, which gave rise to the solution concept dubbed Har-Anand, 2005, p. 65). the “Shapley value”. While Contributions aimed to provide an initial £375 [113991] response to von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern’s pioneering work, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944), Advances in Game

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58 GODWIN, William. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. The Second Edition, Corrected. In two volumes. London: printed for C. G. and J. Robinson, 1796; [together with:] —The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a series of Essays. London: printed for C. G. and J. Robinson, 1797 59 2 works in 3 volumes, octavo (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary diced half calf, spines gilt in compartments with titles direct, sun tools, and King Octavo (213 × 133 mm). Contemporary pebble-grain half calf and mar- family monogram in gilt, marbled boards, green silk bookmarkers. With bled boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt, sprinkled edges. Numerous the half-titles in each volume. Spines somewhat sunned, light rubbing figures and tables in the text. Zürich bookbinder’s ticket to front paste- to extremities and some scuffs and marks to sides, otherwise a notably down. Joints lightly rubbed, preliminary leaves slightly toned, very occa- fresh set in excellent condition. sional pale spotting; an excellent copy. first octavo edition of Political Justice, the second overall and re-issue of the first edition sheets, originally published revised by the author, together with the first edition of The En- in Brunswick in 1854 at the author’s own expense, here with new quirer; this set from the library of William King, 8th Baron King, half-title and title page and a leaf of prefatory text by the publisher. 1st Earl of Lovelace, 1st Viscount Ockham (1805–1893), with his “Gossen, though perhaps not quite a genius, had a brilliant, orig- monogram to the spines, his ownership inscription (“Ockham inal, and precise mind. With his one book, he moved constrained King”) to the title page of The Enquirer, and his acerbic manuscript optimization into the centre of the theory of value and allocation, emendations to the title of Political Justice, so that it reads: “An En- where it has since remained. With respect to economic content, quiry concerning Political & Jacobinical Justice, and its influence his was probably the greatest single contribution to this theory on Morals and Misery by Citizen William Godwin”. The front free in the 19th century. He failed, however, to develop the basic prin- endpaper in each volume has the ink library stamp of Ben Damph ciple into a usable analytical engine. As a consequence, the so- Forest, King’s sporting lodge. King is most notable for being the called ‘founders’ of the modern theory of value had to rediscover husband of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron those principles before they could proceed with their engineering and the first ever computer programmer, who worked closely with work” (Jürg Niehans in The New Palgrave II). Charles Babbage. The front free endpaper and first blank of The The work is an attempt to found economics on a mathematical Enquirer each bear a pencil portrait sketch of a woman, perhaps a basis, and the author regarded his services in the reform of the family member, though not Ada. method of the science as similar to those of Copernicus in astron- £2,750 [118888] omy. The work, which had generally been overlooked even in Ger- many (it is not mentioned in Roscher’s History), was only brought 59 to public attention when Jevons gave an account of it in the pref- GOSSEN, Hermann Heinrich. Entwickelung der Gesetze ace to the second edition of his Theory of Political Economy (1872). des menschlichen Verkehrs, und der darau fliessenden Cossa 213 (25); Einaudi 2657. Fewer than 20 copies of the 1854 edition are located. Regeln für menschliches Handeln. Berlin: R. L. Prager, 1889 £3,500 [115549]

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60 first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for so- GROTIUS, Hugo. His Three Books Treating of the Rights ciety and government, outside Church or Scripture” (PMM). of War & Peace. In the First is handled, Whether any War Goldsmiths’ 2491; Kress 1557; Ter Meulen & Diermanse 630. See Printing and the Mind of Man 125; Donal Nolan & Andrew Robertson, Rights and Private Law be Just. In the Second is shewed, The Causes of War, both (London: Bloomsbury, 2011). Just and Uujust [sic]. In the Third is declared, What in War £3,750 [114662] is Lawful; that is, Unpunishable. With the Annotations digested into the Body of every Chapter. Translated into 61 English by William Evats, B.D. London: for Thomas Basset and Ralph Smith, 1682 HARPER, Henry Howard. The Psychology of Quarto (310 × 203 mm). Contemporary calf, raised bands, frame to boards Speculation. The Human Element in Stock Market in blind, gilt roll to board edges, marbled edges. With the additional en- Transactions. With Illustrations by Haydon Jones. Boston: graved vignette title page with portraits of Grotius and Evats by Thomas Privately Printed, 1926 Cross facing the title page, the latter printed in black and red. Very light rub- Octavo. Original green paper boards, paper label to spine printed in red, bing to extremities, professional repairs to spine ends and joints, lower cor- top edge gilt, others uncut. With a typed letter signed by the author on ner of front board and board edges, small nick to p. 485, an excellent copy. Boston, Massachusetts, letterhead, dated 15 November 1926, laid in. En- first complete english edition of the Dutch philosopher, graved frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous illustrations to con- jurist, and theologian’s legal masterpiece, De jure belli ac pacis, tents, all by Jones. Extremities slightly rubbed and with a few knocks, first published in Paris in 1625, here in the English translation of corners bumped, paper label lightly browned, overall an excellent copy. William Evats (c.1606–1677). There had been one previous Eng- first edition, sole printing, presentation copy from the lish translation prepared by Clement Barksdale (1654) which was author to “Mr. Strauss”, of this pre-Crash character study of stock considered by later translators a “small and worthless abridg- brokers and speculators. In the accompanying letter Harper writes, ment” (Nolan & Robertson, p. 190). “It has afforded me a pleasant diversion to write this book for com- Considered to be the first expression of the “droit naturel”, the plimentary distribution among my friends and fellow-booklovers, first theorisation of “just war”, and the foundation of modern and I trust you may not find an hour ill-spent in reading it. A friend international law, De jure belli ac pacis had a profound influence once told me that the nearest he ever came to conceiving a great on 18th-century political theorists such as Locke as well as on book was while in the delirium of a terrible sickness; and although the arguments which supported the Glorious Revolution and I claim no such distinction for this work, it was mostly written the American Revolution. In his treatise Grotius puts forth his during a period of convalescence, while attending nurses and phy- definitions of war and natural law (Book I), then argues for the sicians were anxiously wondering if I should survive the ordeal – of identification of three just causes for war (Book II), and finally the book, not the illness”. In 1930 Harper privately published a sup- examines whether war and its combatants are bound by rules plementary chapter to address the recent market crash. (Book III). “The questions which he put forward have come to Zerden, pp. 45–6. be the basis of the ultimate view of law and society. This was the £875 [118597]

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62 Octavo (200 × 120 mm). Contemporary polished speckled calf, red morocco spine label, compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red HARRINGTON, James. A Discourse upon This Saying: sprinkled edges. Extremities a little rubbed with some very minor wear, The Spirit of the Nation is not yet to be trusted with boards slightly marked, front hinge gently cracked but firm, some light Liberty; lest it introduce Monarchy, or invade the Liberty of spotting to lower corners of front pastedown and front free endpaper, Conscience. London: printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, [1659] an excellent copy. Small quarto (189 × 144 mm), pp. [2], 14. Uncut and unopened pamphlet, first edition of the arts patron’s first major work. Harris stab sewn. Engraved headpiece and initial. Early manuscript inscription to (1709–80), or “Hermes Harris” as he was latterly known, was a title page identifying author. Leaves browned with some creasing and a few philosophical grammarian, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a ink stains to rear, fore edges a little nicked, otherwise a very good copy. trustee of the British Museum. He was in particular a passionate first edition of the political theorist’s tract on the role of leg- admirer of Handel and by the end of his life had amassed an im- islation in representing a nation’s rights, written as a response portant manuscript collection of Handel’s works. Harris’s corre- to the Humble Petition and Address of the Officers of the Army (1659), spondence and diaries are rich with otherwise unknown details and published three years after the appearance of his most fa- about the composer. mous and controversial work, The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656). £625 [118033] “In the last year of the Commonwealth Harrington [1611–1677] issued numerous pamphlets, now expressly addressed to Eng- 64 land, describing the new order he was advocating in the precise detail crucial to a political theory which relied heavily on the HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Preise und Produktion. apt ordering of institutions to secure the well-being and perma- Vienna: Julius Springer, 1931 nence of the polity, but now without any of the prolixity, allego- Octavo. Original buff paper wrappers printed in black, uncut edges. ries, or ‘fancy’ of his magnum opus” (ODNB). J. G. A. Pocock, Contemporary ownership inscription to title page, a few light pencil the editor of the first modern edition of Harrington’s writings, annotations to wrappers. Some very occasional spotting to contents, has called him “England’s premier civic humanist and Machia- otherwise a bright and clean, excellent copy. vellian” (The Political Works, p. 15). first edition in german, in which Hayek argues “against the J. G. A. Pocock (ed.), The Political Works of James Harrington, pt. 1 (Cam- then-dominant (and still-prevalent) idea that the appropriate bridge University Press, 1977). focus of monetary theory is on the relationship between the quantity of money and the general level of prices” (The New Pal- £2,250 [120341] grave, p. 612). The first English edition, Prices and Production, was published the same year in London by G. Routledge. 63 Cody & Ostrem B-2. HARRIS, James. Three Treatises. The First Concerning £1,750 [119557] Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness. London: printed by H. Woodfall, 1744

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65 restrictions still make it impossible fully to meet the demand HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Profits, Interest, and for the complete version and by cutting the length of the book by about one-half, twice the number of copies can be produced Investment. And other Essays on the Theory of Industrial from a given stock of paper. When, finally, a friend even offered Fluctuations. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1939 to prepare for me the abridgement. . . I accepted . . . I hope that Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the dust jacket. Con- by the process of condensation the book has also become easier temporary inscription, contemporary bookseller ticket on front jacket to read, though the problems with which it deals are inevitably flap and front pastedown. Spine rubbed, minor scuffing to top spine difficult and for their adequate treatment the original book end, browning to front and rear free endpapers, still a very good copy. would have to be made much longer rather than shorter” (p. 8). first edition of this collection of seven essays on industrial Cody & Ostrem B-6. Copac locates three copies, at the universities of fluctuations, the first of which, “Profits, Interest, and Invest- Oxford and Cambridge, and at the National Library of Wales. ment”, was published here for the first time. This essay extends and refines the main argument that Hayek made in the lecture £500 [118804] series published as Prices and Production in 1931, restating it “on somewhat different and more realistic assumptions and in less 67 abstract forms”. HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Sensory Order. An Cody & Ostrem B-4. Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology. £1,500 [116886] With an Introduction by Heinrich Klüver. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1952 66 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription of P. Nicholson dated 1968 to front free HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Road to Serfdom endpaper. Dust jacket with neat tape repairs to head and tail of spine; a (Abridged Edition). London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, very good copy. 1946 first uk edition, first impression, published in Chicago Octavo. Original white paper wrappers lettered in blue. Re-pricing in the same year. The Sensory Order, Hayek’s second book after his sticker (3/6 rather than 2/6 net) to front wrapper. Rear wrapper a little move to Chicago, is the final form of a thesis Hayek had devel- chipped at foot, spine very lightly rubbed. Light spotting and paper a oped in Vienna in the 1920s on philosophical psychology. Hayek little browned; a very good copy. argues that there are inherent limits to the human mind’s ca- first abridged edition. “To this Preface of the original pacity to understand itself, and that human beings know much edition, published in March 1944, only a few words need be more than they can ever explicitly explain. added in explanation of the present abridged edition. Although Cody & Ostyrem B-10. a cheap edition of the complete book has already been issued . . . many friends have urged on me the desirability of a shorter £475 [113949] and still cheaper edition for those who can spare neither the time nor the money for the longer book. In addition, war-time

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31 68 HILBERT, David. The Foundations of Geometry. Authorised Translation by E. J. Townsend, Ph.D. University of Illinois. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. 1902 Octavo. Original red ribbed cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With many figures in the text. Front cover with damp-mark, contents unaffected; very short tear to initial leaf with publisher’s advertisement; a very good copy. first edition in english, the UK issue, co-published with the Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago, of one of the most influential mathematics publications of the 20th century. Hilbert’s classical investigation of the logical foundations of geometry was first published in German in 1899. “Until this publication, all geometry, including such recent and sophisticated developments as hyperbolic and elliptic geometry, implied an intuitive idea of the concepts ‘point’, ‘line’, ‘plane’, ‘between’, ‘lies on’, etc. Hilbert’s Foundations was to satisfy the relatively new intellectual necessity of formally defining the status of pure geometry, as a branch of mathematics. Points, lines and planes are mere symbols, and relations between them are no more than formally defined relations between symbols, as stated in the early pages of his essay: ‘We think of . . . points, straight lines, and planes as having certain mutual relations, which we indicate by means of such words as “are situated”, “between”, “parallel”, “congruent”, “continuous”, etc. The complete and exact description of these relations follows as a consequence of the axioms of geometry’” (DSB). £750 [115519]

69 69 HOUGHTON, John (ed.) Husbandry and Trade Improv’d: der the title A Collection for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade. being a collection of many valuable materials relating The fourth is a new edition of the periodical published in 1681–3. to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a complete Houghton (1645–1705) kept an apothecary’s shop and dealt in catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper such exotic overseas produce as coffee, chocolate, and spices. product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the Elected to the Royal Society under the patronage of Robert art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and Hooke, he was the editor and principal contributor to this exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c., the collection of essays on farming, money and trade, commodity description and structure of instruments for husbandry, prices, and notices of books relating to agriculture. “Each issue and carriages, with the manner of their improvement. consisted of Houghton’s lengthy editorial, plus one or more An account of the rivers of England &c. and how far they letters, covering all aspects of agriculture and land improvement and occasionally venturing into matters of commerce or may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of popular science and technology; they dealt with matters then woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage, under active discussion by progressive agriculturalists. Hought- the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful on was the first to remark on the cultivation of the potato as a particulars, communicated by several eminent members of field crop, just beginning at the time . . . His correspondents the Royal Society, to the collector. Now revised, corrected, included many small farmers, countrywomen, rural merchants, and published, with a preface and useful indexes by and husbandmen such as John Worlidge, besides his fellow Richard Bradley. London: for Woo[d]man and Lyon, 1727–8 members of the Royal Society, among them John Evelyn, John 4 volumes, octavo (196 × 107 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, brown Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, and Robert Plot” (ODNB). Included morocco labels, raised bands and boards with twin rules gilt, edges are letters on the wine trade and wine making as well as curing speckled red. Early reference markings to spines and front pastedowns; decayed wines and helping defective wines. 20th-century library stamp of Augsburg College, Minnesota, to front Goldsmiths’ 6509; Kress 3705. pastedowns; clipping from an old bookseller’s catalogue pasted onto front pastedown of Volume 1. Most joints cracked but still holding firm, £1,250 [115122] a few small chips to tips of spines, the occasional minor blemish to contents. A very good copy. 70 first collected edition, revised and corrected. The first HOYNE, Thomas Temple. Wall Street Remodeling the three volumes are a new edition of the periodical published in World. Chicago: Economic Feature Service, 1930 1692–1703, also issued under in 1727 by Woodman and Lyon un-

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The first great book in general linguistics 71 HUMBOLDT, Karl Wilhelm von. Über die 70 Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluß auf die geistige Entwickelung des Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front board lettered and illus- Menschengeschlechts. Berlin: Druckerei des königlichen trated in brown, diagram endpapers, edges uncut. With the order form Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1836 tipped in to rear. Extremities lightly worn, a few closed tears to spine Quarto (254 × 213 mm). Modern black pebbled quarter cloth, marbled ends, cloth a little faded and marked, hinges gently cracked but firm, boards, green paper label to spine hand lettered. A few neat pencil some minor tears to fore edges of pp. 11–14, overall a very good copy. annotations to contents. Light wear to extremities, corners very gently first edition, first printing, presentation copy, in- bumped, contents browned with some foxing, creasing, and dampstain, scribed by the author to Edward P. McKenna, dated 31 October small paper repair to title verso, trimmed in the binding process, overall 1930. “The purpose of this book is practical. Its object is to assist a very good copy. the individual in efforts to make money in the market . . . Based first edition of the diplomat, statesman, and linguist’s major not upon hearsay and untested theories, it draws its authority philological testament, “the first great book in general linguistics” from first hand experience that records most of the vicissitudes (Bloomfield, p. 133), published posthumously. “Humboldt attempts encountered in playing the market with sufficient intensity to the classification of peoples according to language. More important make them memorable” (Introduction, p. 8). Beginning his than the classification itself was the corollary to it, which seemed business career as a grain broker for the Chicago Board of Trade, to Humboldt to imply that the development of individual languages Edward P. McKenna was trading in his own name by the age of is affected by physiology, ethnography, history, geography, political 19. He became the Managing Director of CBOT and later served and religious relationships, and that stages in cultural development on the Board of Directors. of peoples leave strongly marked traces in their languages” (PMM). £500 [118592] Humboldt (1767–1835) travelled extensively as he studied the Basque language and, later, the ancient courtly Kawi language of Java. Much of his work was never completed or published but remained in draft form. He was also renowned for his work as an education reformer, his most notable achievements being the founding of Berlin’s Humboldt University in 1811 and as the originator of the highly influential holistic academic system now known as the Humboldtian model. Printing and the Mind of Man 301. See L. Bloomfield,Language (New York: Henry Holt, 1933). £3,500 [118880] 70

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72 red and green morocco labels, yellow edges. Titles printed in red and black, woodcut vignette head- and tailpieces. Neat repair to head of HUME, David. Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History spine of volume I, small chip at foot, very occasional light spotting, one of Religion. II. Of the Passions. III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the leaf with short closed tear; a very attractive set. Standard of Taste. London: for A. Millar, 1757 most complete edition, by virtue of the inclusion of Hume’s Duodecimo (165 × 98 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly re- writings on economics, being the third, enlarged edition of the backed preserving most of the original spine, new red morocco label, second French collected works, first published in 1759–64. “The raised bands with double gilt rules, edges speckled red. Half-title and contents are differently ordered and vol. 7 . . . is an addition, first divisional title bound in reverse order. Armorial bookplate to front containing seven of the Political Discourses of 1752 trans[lated] by pastedown, extremities worn, tiny hole to initial blank, sporadic light Mlle. de la Chaux” in 1767 (Jessop). The other volumes contain foxing. A very good copy. the Treatise concerning Human Understanding (vols. I–II), Four Disser- first edition, with the scarce half-title and dedication. The tations (vol. II), Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (vol. III), the first word on p. 9 is “ative” instead of the corrected “lative” essays on the passions, tragedy, and taste (vol. IV), Enquiry con- (the first copies printed correctly, but the “l” fell out and was cerning the Principles of Morals (vol. V), and Essays Moral and Political reinserted in later copies). The first word on p. 131 is corrected (vol. VI). to “lancing” (the “l” was initially misprinted as an “I”). Cancels C12 and D1 and the omission of K5–K8 agree with the descrip- The first collected edition in French was published in five vol- tion of Todd, p. 200. These essays were offered by Hume to his umes in 1758–60. It was preceded by a German edition in four publisher in June 1755 for 50 guineas. “After publication Hume volumes in 1754–6, the first collected works in English, Hume’s withdrew the dedication to John Home or Hume (author of the own edition, having appeared in 1753–6. The speed with which tragedy Douglas), but cancelled the withdrawal four days later: in Hume’s works were translated into French reflected the high the interval 800 copies were sold without it. He never reprinted regard in which he was held by a considerable number of French it” (Jessop, p. 34). philosophes. Early enthusiasm more generally in France for Hume’s writings had rested on his political and ethical thought Chuo I, 45; Jessop, pp. 33–5; Rothschild 1176; Todd, pp. 200–1. (and later the History); the Political Discourses (1752) were acknowl- £1,500 [114558] edged in the Bibliotèque raisonnée to be “greatly esteemed”, and received two editions in French in 1754. But the irreligious ten- 73 dency of his philosophical scepticism greatly affected Hume’s HUME, David. Œuvres philosophiques. Traduites de reception in France, and even restricted scope for publication there. By 1761, all his works were included in the Index librorum l’anglois. Tome premier [– septième]. Nouvelle édition. prohibitorum (see Mossner, Life, p. 225ff). London: 1788 Chuo I, 29; Jessop, p. 11. 7 volumes bound in 5, octavo (160 × 98 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, triple rule gilt border to covers, spines elaborately decorated gilt, £2,250 [113403]

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74 knowledge of the law, necessary in their studies. London: HUME, David. The Philosophical Works. Including all printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for T. Corbett, 1725 the essays, and exhibiting the more important alterations Octavo (193 × 114 mm). Contemporary blind-ruled calf, recent red label to and corrections in the successive editions published by style. Ownership inscription of the physician Ambrose Dawson (1707–1794), with his note of purchase from Dr Hodson’s library; 20th-century bookplate the author. Boston: for Little, Brown and Company, & Adam and of Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and bibliophile, whose Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1854 main library of naval history was complemented by a subsidiary collection 4 volumes, octavo (226 × 143 mm). Contemporary half calf and marbled of 18th-century literature in well-preserved contemporary bindings. Ex- boards, spines elaborately decorated and ruled in gilt, red and green tremities of spine and corners worn, front joint cracked but sound, back morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece joint partially cracked, dampstain to front endpapers, some foxing but over- to vol. 1. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few small areas of wear to corners all an appealing copy in period calf. and boards, particularly the lower edges, a little dampstain to frontis- first edition. Giles Jacob (bap. 1686–1744), “the leading legal piece recto and some offsetting to title page of vol. 1, endpapers lightly writer of his age, was less notable for his style. . . than for the browned and foxed, otherwise a bright and excellent set. variety of his work. Jacob was prolific, and some of his efforts first u.s. edition, reprinted from the 1826 Edinburgh edition. aimed to reach relatively new markets. The Student’s Companion, It includes the letter from Adam Smith, material relating to the or, Reason of the Law. . . like Jacob’s The Common Law Common-Placed Rousseau controversy, Hume’s influential list of Scotticisms and (1726), were among a growing number of printed books intend- their preferred English equivalents, and all the major works by ed to help law students with their studies. The Student’s Companion “the foremost British philosopher” (ODNB). organized and digested statutes and cases, while The Common Chuo I, 25; Jessop, p. 8. Law Common-Placed served as a ready commonplace book and ref- £650 [118074] erence guide for legal terms. The latter also attracted critics who felt that printed study aids took away the useful work of manual notetaking” (Yale Law School, Taussig Collection online). Jacob Pope’s “blunderbuss of law” had a notable spat with Alexander Pope and the law writer’s 75 stylistic shortcomings were highlighted in The Dunciad Variorum (1729): “Jacob, the scourge of Grammar, mark with awe, / Nor JACOB, Giles. The Student’s Companion: or, the Reason less revere him, blunderbuss of Law”. of the Laws of England. Shewing, the principal reasons Decidedly uncommon: ESTC locates copies at four British and and motives whereon our laws and statutes are grounded, Irish institutional libraries (BL, Scotland, Cambridge, Ireland) in the most essential and capital points, not only in civil and OCLC adds another six locations worldwide. but criminal cases; Together with the law it self. So as See Julia Rudolph, Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689–1750 (2013). to convey to all students, and others, the fundamental £625 [116783]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 35 “The famous lecture . . . in which ‘pragmatism’ was first proclaimed to the world” 77 JAMES, William. Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results. The Annual Public Address before the Union. August 26, 1898. Berkeley: The University Press, 1898 Octavo, 24 pp. Original light green wrappers, front wrapper printed in black. Wrappers lightly foxed and browned, an excellent copy. first edition thus of James’s lecture in which he first pledged his commitment to pragmatism, delivered before the Philosophical Union in August 1898, considered the “opening gun in James’s discourses on pragmatism” (Burkhardt, et al., p. 264) and laying the groundwork for his influential 1907 master- work. There are two known variant states of the printed wrapper and title page. One accredits James as “Professor of Psychology in Harvard University”, and the other as “M.D., Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D, Corresponding Member of the French Institute, Professor of Psychology in Harvard University”. Our copy shows the latter. Neither state holds priority at present. The lecture was originally published as the lead piece in The Uni- versity Chronicle in September 1898, and this pamphlet was printed from the standing type in a very small run. In 1904 James remarked in a letter to F. J. E. Woodbridge, editor of the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, that the “address of mine was printed in the Cal. University Magazine which had absolutely no circulation outside. I had 30 reprints which I dis- tributed. Apart from that it can hardly be said to be published” (Burkhardt, et al., p. 266). At the time of writing, James owned two of the remaining 30 copies. Woodbridge would reprint James’s slightly revised lecture in his journal later that year under the title “The Pragmatic Method”. 76 McDermott 1898–3. See Frederick Burckhardt, Fredson Bowers, & Ignas K. Skrupkelis (eds.), “William James: Essays in Philosophy”, vol. 5 of The 76 Works of William James (Harvard University Press, 1978); Ralph Barton Per- JAKOB, Ludwig Heinrich. Grundsätze der ry, The Thought and Character of William James, vol. 2 (Boston: Little Brown, 1935), p. 129. Policeygesetzgebung und der Policeyanstalten. Kharkoff: for the author, 1809 £2,500 [117949] 2 volumes in 1, octavo (199 × 117 mm). Contemporary half calf, flat spine with gilt ornaments, red morocco spine label, marbled boards, yellow 78 edges. Extremities worn, spine ends frayed, hinges gently cracked but JAMES, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. firm, some discoloration to edges, contents browned with a little foxing, a very good copy. A Study in Human Nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902. first edition of the distinguished German economist and philosopher’s work on law enforcement. First a professor of phi- London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902 losophy in Halle, Jakob (1759–1827) accepted the Russian gov- Octavo. Original green cloth, paper label to spine printed in black and ruled ernment’s invitation in 1807 to become a professor of economic in red, black endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the publisher’s catalogue to the rear. Very minor rubbing to extremities, spine rolled and science at Kharkoff University after the University of Halle was ends lightly bumped, rear board a little scuffed, an excellent copy. suppressed. His quick mastery of the Russian language made him a favourite of the minister Speransky, who appointed him first edition, first impression, of one of James’s master- as a member of the government’s finance commission in 1809 works. He focuses on four central topics: the “experiential ap- and then as the president of the commission for the revision proach and the generic meaning of religion; the sick soul, the divid- of criminal law in 1810. He returned to Germany in 1816. In his ed self, and the process of regeneration; saintliness, or the concrete economic works “he closely followed Adam Smith, whilst at the fruits of religion and their value; and the bearing of mysticism on same time seeking to place in a clearer light the fundamental the truth of religion” (Smith, p. xxiii). It was published on the day of conceptions of the science” (Palgrave II, p. 471). his final lecture (9 June 1902) and, though there is some uncertainty over the publication date of the American edition of the same year, Kress B.5522. it is widely agreed to be later than this UK edition. “Few books £1,250 [118691] written in this century on the subject of religion have had an initial

36 Peter Harrington 137 77, 78, 79, 80 impact and a continuing influence equal to that of William James’s 80 Varieties of Religious Experience” (Smith, p. xi). JAMES, William. The Letters. Edited by his son Henry McDermott 1902–1. See John E. Smith (ed.), The Works of William James, James. In two volumes. Illustrated. Boston: The Atlantic vol. 5 (Harvard University Press, 1985). Monthly Press, 1920 £3,000 [117858] 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, paper label to spines lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the dust jackets. 79 Photographic frontispieces with tissue guards, 13 plates and tailpiece illustrations. Small bookplate to front pastedowns and contemporary JAMES, William. Collected Essays and Reviews. New York: ownership inscription of Josephine B. Crane to front free endpapers. Longmans, Green and Co., 1920 Spines of dust jackets a little faded and a few minor nicks to spine ends, Octavo. Original dark green cloth, paper label to spine printed in black, one small archival repair to jacket spine of vol. II; a fine set in excellent top edge gilt, others uncut. Bookplate of John Haynes Holmes to front dust jackets. pastedown and his ownership signature dated March 1921 to front free first edition, first printing, of a selection of James’s cor- endpaper, bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine a little rolled, respondence, published to “throw the strongest light” on the extremities lightly rubbed, short tear to upper edge of first two leaves, a very good copy. celebrated philosopher’s life and writings. A contemporary reviewer for the North American Review judged that the letters were first edition, first printing, of this varied collection of “rich in their concise and accessible condensations of James’s 39 works by James spanning his entire career, published post- profounder convictions” (Gilman, p. 415). humously. Although the essays and reviews were first published between 1869 and 1910, none had previously appeared in book This set was given as a Christmas gift in 1920 to American form; this volume aimed, as the editor Ralph Barton Perry ex- socialite and patron of the arts, Josephine B. Crane. Crane is plains, to “render easily accessible nearly all of the author’s sig- remembered primarily as a co-founder and original trustee of nificant writings” for students (Preface). It was the final volume the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was also a key of James’s works to be published. benefactress of the elite Dalton School, which derived its name from the Crane family estate located in Sugar Hill, Dalton (the This copy belonged to the Unitarian minister and prominent address which appears on the bookplates). American pacifist John Haynes Holmes (1879–1964), who McDermott 1920–1. See Lawrence Gilman, “The Book of the Month: The co-founded the NAACP and the ACLU. In 1929 Holmes published Letters of William James”, The North American Review, vol. 213, no. 784, his controversial article, “A Humanistic Interpretation of Prayer”, 1921, pp. 411–416. which urged readers to consider praying as a psychological and not a theological phenomenon. Academics have drawn parallels £500 [117951] between James’s conception of truth and religion in works such as Pragmatism and Holmes’s expression of the same (McGarvie). McDermott 1920–2. See Mark Douglas McGarvie, Law and Religion in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2016). £250 [117945]

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Inscribed by the author first edition of the economist, logician, and philosopher’s most popular and accessible work. “At the end of 1866 Jevons 81 had begun ‘thinking about logic again seriously’ and consid- JASPERS, Karl. Existenzphilosophie. Drei Vorlesungen ered grafting some developments on to the modified version of gehalten am Freien Deutschen Hochstift in Frankfurt Boole’s system that he had published in 1863. In the next two a.M. / September 1937. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1938 months the idea that ‘the great and universal principle of all reasoning’ was the substitution of similars became central to Octavo. Original buff card wrappers printed in black. Housed in a green card flat-back box, spine lettered in black. With a laid-in obituary for his thinking. With this in mind he decided to ‘produce a work Jaspers clipped from the Daily Telegraph, 27 February 1969. Some neat ink which will not only embody a new and luminous system but will annotations in English. Wrappers lightly browned with a couple of light be readable and read by many’ (Papers, 1.209–10) . . . in 1869 he marks, extremities a little creased and rubbed with a few short splits to published The Substitution of Similars, a short work presenting the spine, otherwise a bright, excellent copy. essence of his system of logic as he now saw it ‘to the judgement first edition, inscribed by the author on the front wrap- of those interested in logical science’” (ODNB). per, “mit besten Empfehlungen [with best regards], K. Jaspers”. £2,250 [118323] Existenzphilosophie is Jaspers’s discussion of the history of philosophy and exposition of his own philosophical system, explain- 83 ing his understanding of “Dasein”, which contrasts sharply with Heidegger’s understanding of the same concept, and “Existenz”, JEVONS, William Stanley. Studies in Deductive Logic. A a state of authentic and limitless true being. The work estab- Manual for Students. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880 lished him as one of the most influential philosophers of the Octavo. Original red pebbled cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, 20th century. boards panelled in blind, black endpapers, partially unopened. With publisher’s advertisements dated December 1879. Diagram frontis- £525 [119598] piece. Spine a little rolled and faded, contents infrequently foxed, a very good copy. 82 first edition of Jevons’s student textbook, one of his most JEVONS, William Stanley. The Substitution of Similars, popular and accessible works. It was the final work written while The True Principle of Reasoning, Derived from a Jevons was the chair of political economy at University College, Modification of Aristotle’s Dictum. London: Macmillan and London; after five years of teaching he resigned in October 1880. Co., 1869 OCLC locates four copies in institutions worldwide: British Library, Oxford University, Aberdeen University, and Queen’s Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind, University Library in Kingston, Canada. red sprinkled edges. Diagram frontispiece. Ownership inscription of American lawyer and politician William Travers Jerome dated 24 May £500 [118580] 1882 to front free endpaper. Spine faded, extremities worn, corners bumped, lower front board creased and a few marks to rear board, hinges cracked but firm, endpapers lightly foxed, a very good copy.

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84 so important in shaping his character. The book includes chap- (JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines.) MAGUIRE, Jack (ed.) A ters on the region’s geology, plant and wildlife, architecture, indigenous peoples, and settlers written by experts on the topics, President’s Country. A Guide to the Hill Country of Texas. including Henry Shuffler, W. W. Newcomb, Jr. and Peter Flawn. With drawings by Mac Tatchell. Austin: Alcade Press, 1964 Uncommon inscribed in the leather presentation binding, with Octavo. Original red leather presentation binding, titles to spine gilt, four copies traced at auction, none with such an important saddle vignette to front cover gilt, turn-ins gilt, pictorial endpapers. Custom red cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout in black and white. association. Negligible rubbing to extremities; an excellent, bright copy. £1,250 [119150] first edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the johnsons on the title page, “To Clark and Marney Clifford with appreciation of a pleasant few days here together. Lady Bird & Lyndon B. Johnson, July 7, 1966.” Clark Clifford (1906–1998) was a hugely influential Democratic advisor, holding the role of Counsel to the President during Tru- man’s presidency. Having left this role in 1950 to practice law, Clifford remained a trusted advisor to subsequent Democratic presidents. In July 1966 the Johnsons were staying on their ranch in Texas, where, on 4 July 1966, Johnson had signed the influential Freedom of Information Act. Johnson announced in a press conference the following day that Clifford would be joining him there “to review intelligence matters with me, and will stay over- night here at the ranch”. They were joined on 6 July by Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara (1916–2009), whom Clifford succeeded as Secretary of Defence in 1968. Clifford was crucial in halting what he described as the runaway train of Johnson’s war in Vietnam and convinced the President to deny Pentagon requests for still more troops and to instead seek a negotiated settlement of the conflict. When asked, with regards to Viet- nam, whether he was a hawk or a dove, he remarked, “I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions”. Jack Maguire, a journalist for Texas Parade magazine and executive director of the Ex-Student’s Association of University of Texas, was commissioned by Johnson to give readers a sense of the Texas Hill Country where Johnson grew up and which he felt 84

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Kant’s first book 86 85 KANT, Immanuel. Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781 KANT, Immanuel. Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung Octavo (197 × 120 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled black paper der lebendigen Kräfte und Beurtheilung der Beweise boards, brown paper label to spine lettered in gilt, compartments deco- derer sich Herr von Leibnitz und andere Mechaniker rated in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges. Brown cloth flat-back box, in dieser Streitsache bedienet haben, nebst einigen spine lettered in gilt, by the Chelsea Bindery. Woodcut title vignette, vorhergehenden Betrachtungen welche die Kraft der decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces, and initials. Berlin bookseller’s ticket to front free endpaper, contemporary inscription to front blank Körper überhaupt betreffen, durch Immanuel Kant. and a couple of neat pencil annotations to title page. Joints skilfully re- Königsberg: Martin Eberhard Dorn, 1746 [recte 1749] paired, wear to extremities, contents bright, a very good copy. Octavo (195 × 117 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep and speckled first edition of one of the most influential philosophy books boards, spine decorated with gilt rules and floral device in compart- ever published, the first version of the Critique of Pure Reason. ments, morocco label, all edges sprinkled. With 2 folding plates at the end. Lower edge and corners very lightly rubbed; an excellent copy. “Kant’s great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the 18th very rare first edition of kant’s first book. “In his century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system early years Kant pondered the nature of space and time first of dealing with the problems of philosophy. Of the two main from the point of view of Leibniz and then of Newton, but even- systems which preceded his own, Kant had little or no sympa- tually he found both positions unsatisfactory. In his Thoughts thy with the metaphysical categorization of the Cartesians, and on the True Estimation of Living Forces [the present work] he took inclined more to the empirical methods of Locke and Leibniz Leibniz’s view and tried to explain the nature of space by means . . . The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of of the forces of unextended substances (monads) that cause modern philosophy” (PMM). such substances to interact. He attempted to account for the Adickes 46; Norman 1197; Printing and the Mind of Man 226; Warda 59. threefold dimensionality of space by appealing to the laws that govern such interactions; but he was not very successful, as he £22,500 [117771] himself admitted” (DSB). Adickes 17; Warda 1. £22,500 [115611]

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87 some minor splitting to spine joints, contents infrequently spotted, overall a very good set. KANT, Immanuel. Critik der practischen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788 first edition. Die Metaphysik der Sitten is a detailed application of the rational principles of morality established in the Grundle- Octavo (230 × 135 mm). Contemporary interim decorated paper wrap- gung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (1785) and the second Critik (1788). pers printed in black and white, uncut edges. Woodcut device to title, Published when he was 73, it is the last of Kant’s major ethical woodcut headpiece. Printed in Gothic type. A couple of small ink marks to lower edge of title page. Wrappers slightly discoloured, some wear to works and presents his own theory of law and the political state. spine ends with one exposed cord, lower edges of covers ueneven, end- A second, enlarged edition of the Rechtslehre was published in papers shortened along fore edge, contents browned and lightly foxed, 1798; a second edition of the Tugendlehre appeared in 1803. overall a very good, wide-margined copy. Adickes 90; Warda 171, 176. first edition of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, the second of £1,250 [118658] his critical works, in which he develops the concept of categorical imperative. This work established Kant’s moral thinking as a 89 cardinal reference in the successive development of ethics. “No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the bal- KANT, Immanuel. Logik. Ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen. ance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1800 analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective Octavo (188 × 118 mm). Contemporary drab paper over boards, paper process by which these elements are realized in the individual spine label lettered by hand. Gothic type; occasional diagrams to the text. consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ‘pure reason’; Ownership label to rear pastedown. Spine ends and joints lightly rubbed and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved im- with partial loss of paper covering, boards a little marked, offset to rear mediate fame” (PMM). endpapers, occasional pencil underlining and marginalia; a good copy. Warda 112. See Printing and the Mind of Man 226. first edition, second issue, with the full stop after Nicolovius on the title page and without the errata leaf. Compiled from £3,750 [120455] lecture notes by his student G. B. Jäsche, Kant’s Logik “treats topics such as the so-called laws of thinking (including the laws 88 of identity, contradiction, and tertium non datur) and ‘the logical KANT, Immanuel. Die Metaphysik der Sitten. Erster perfection of cognition’,” and was a major influence on Hegel, Theil. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre; whose own Wissenschaft der Logik was published between 1812 and [together with] — Zweyter Theil. Metaphysische 1816 (De Laurentiis & Edwards (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre. Königsberg: Friedrich to Hegel, p. 74). Nicolovius, 1797 Warda 207. 2 volumes, octavo (199 × 120 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, calf £650 [119205] label to spines, spines and boards ruled in gilt, blue edges. Ownership inscription of Carl Joseph von Hopffgarten to front free endpaper. Spines rolled, ends and corners bumped, extremities lightly worn and

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 41 ding, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leon Trotsky. His continued close friendship with Engels led to the latter appointing him as editor of Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value in 1888, by which time Kautsky was well established as a key proponent of orthodox Marxism. He was, along with Eduard Bernstein, an executor of the Marx– Engels literary archive. Kautsky and Lafargue, Marx’s son-in-law, were in close contact throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Lafargue contributed several chapters to Die Vorläufer des neueren Sozialis- mus (1895), the Marxist survey of the history of communist and socialist ideas edited by Kautsky. They regularly corresponded, though their relationship suffered after a disagreement regarding the Millerand controversy in the French Socialist Party; as a result, Lafargue refused to continue his contributions to Die Neue Zeit and the two did not make amends until 1903 when Kautsky acceded to Lafargue’s opinion on the matter. Die Agrarfrage is “a classic oeuvre of Engels’s junior collaborator who became the centrist leader of the social democratic movement in Germany and in German-speaking Austria. [It] at first had no influence at all on anthropology anywhere, and certainly not on folklore studies in his time, although both dealt with peasants and farmers in Europe. Yet by the 1920s and, to an extent, through Chayanov’s work in Russia, its intellectual radiation gradually reached academia. After 1945 a whole generation of anthropologists dealing with peasants worldwide and in Europe, ranging from Theodore Shanin to Eric Wolf to James Scott, were inspired by it in direct and indirect ways” (Barth, p. 103). See Fredrik Barth, One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology (University of Chicago Press, 2005); V. I. Lenin, Col- lected Works (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964), pp. 94–99. 90 £11,000 [118919] “The most important event in present-day economic literature “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can since the third volume of Capital” (Lenin) do for your country”: one of the most famous speeches of the 20th 90 century, the first printing, inscribed to Jackie’s secretary KAUTSKY, Karl. Die Agrarfrage: eine Uebersicht über 91 die Tendenzen der modernen Landwirthschaft und die KENNEDY, John F. Inaugural Address. [Washington, DC: Agrarpolitik der Sozialdemokratie. Stuttgart: J. K. W. United States Government Publishing Office,] 1961 Dietz, 1899 Octavo. Original cream cloth, gilt-lettered spine, presidential seal gilt Octavo. Contemporary blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, to front board. In the original matching slipcase. With a small wire- green endpapers. With a manuscript envelope address leaf to “Monsieur stitched booklet containing Kennedy’s State of the Union Message, 30 Lafargue” trimmed and laid in. Spine rolled, corners and ends bumped, January 1961, laid in. Title page printed in blue and black, date printed extremities rubbed with some minor wear, boards marked, hinges in blue, presidential seal and calligraphic initial gilt. The faintest of cracked but firm, contents browned, overall a very good copy. markings to boards, faint toning to pastedowns from adhesive used in first edition, presentation copy from the author to the binding. A superb copy. important French communist Paul Lafargue, inscribed by him, first edition, presentation copy of one of the most “A son cher Lafargue, K. Kautsky, Berlin 3/1/99”. The Marxist famous speeches of the 20th century, inscribed by the theorist’s analysis of capitalism in agriculture is a book that president “To Mary and Ray Gallagher, with warm regards Lenin declared “the most important event in present-day eco- from their friend! John Kennedy” on the front free endpaper; nomic literature since the third volume of Capital”. one of an unknown number of copies printed for private distri- Kautsky (1854–1938) is one of the leading figures in the history bution among Kennedy’s friends and associates. With an auto- of German social democracy. While a student of history, phi- graph letter signed by John Connally as chairman of the Texas losophy, and economics at the University of Vienna he became Democratic Executive Committee, presenting Mary Gallagher a member of Austria’s Social Democratic Party and, after a trip with this “specially prepared, embossed copy of this inspiring to England in 1881 to meet Marx and Engels, he founded the message”, the letter dated 17 February 1961 and also enclosing monthly socialist journal Die Neue Zeit. In addition to Marx and a copy of Kennedy’s first State of the Union Message, which is Engels, contributors included Eduard Bernstein, Rudolf Hilfer-

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91 91 laid in; also included is a detailed letter of authenticity, signed Kennedy’s inaugural address is considered “one of the finest by Gallagher. speeches in American history. By invoking the American dream An extraordinarily intimate presidential association copy. and extending its promise to the rest of the world, Kennedy’s Mary Gallagher (née Barelli) was sworn in as Kennedy’s sen- speech was an inspirational call to action that resonates even atorial aide in 1953, and served as Jackie Kennedy’s personal today . . . The power of Kennedy’s inaugural speech lies in its secretary from 1956 to 1964, when Kennedy left Washington brevity and lyrical succinctness — qualities common among for Manhattan. Connally was elected governor of Texas in 1963, Wilson’s, Lincoln’s and Churchill’s most remembered speeches. and was sitting in front of Kennedy in the presidential car at Like the times reflected in these previous speeches, the late the moment of his assassination, and was himself seriously 1950s and early 1960s were fraught with crisis. The cold war wounded by the same bullet that killed JFK. Gallagher was rid- had been escalating since the mid-1940s, and the US civil rights ing a few cars behind, and in her 1969 memoir, My Life with Jac- movement was reaching a fever pitch. Marked by an idealis- queline Kennedy, recalled how she had waited outside the oper- tic tone that elevated the speech above pessimistic Cold War ating theatre with the first lady, who had refused to change out rhetoric, Kennedy’s inaugural address relied on the hope and of her blood-soaked clothes. Gallagher’s memoir was viewed optimism of a new generation” (Gale, A Study Guide for John F. by many as an often scurrilous piece of self-justification, a Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, pp. 1–2). It is best remembered for the reviewer for the Chicago Tribune remarking that “The author line, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you may not be aware of it but the reader comes away convinced can do for your country”. Judging by the number of copies extant she was herself in love with JFK and resentful of Jacqueline . . . it would appear that no more than 100 were printed. She was outrageously underpaid, undoubtedly overworked, £35,000 [117821] and obviously a competent and efficient secretary. What is incredible is that she suffered all this for eleven years without exercising the logical option of quitting”. Details included Jackie’s exceptional stinginess toward others, in contrast to the extravagance of her personal expenditure, which JFK allegedly requested Gallagher to monitor on his behalf.

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92 94 KEYNES, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of KEYNES, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919 London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. Visiting card of Grefve Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered and double-ruled in gilt, Herman Wrangel sometime clipped to the front free endpaper leaving double ruling continued along boards in blind. With a colour printed rust mark. Ownership inscription to half-title “Ovyrbeck”. Light wear to British Dominions Fire Office bookmark with details about the “All- spine ends; a very good copy. In” policy laid in. Extremities gently rubbed, spine ends and corners first edition, first impression, of Keynes’s second book, bumped, endpapers tanned, overall a very good copy. which established his reputation as a political economist. first edition, first impression, publisher’s presenta- Keynes resigned from his position as principal representative tion copy, with their blind stamp to the title page. Keynes’s of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 in Tract was written against the monetary disorders which the First protest of the heavy reparations demanded from Germany. The World War had left in its wake, and contained his controversial Economic Consequences of the Peace was written directly afterwards attack on the gold standard. as a condemnation of Allied policy. Mattioli 1845; Moggridge A 5.1. Fundaburk 9981; Mattioli 1807; Moggridge A 2.1.1. £425 [119544] £1,100 [113664] 95 93 KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on Money. In Two KEYNES, John Maynard. A Revision of the Treaty. Being Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1930 a Sequel to The Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1922 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continuing along boards in blind. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A bright, fresh copy in the well-preserved dust jacket with only a little rubbing to extremities and some light tanning to endpapers. first edition, first impression, very rare in such excellent condition, of Keynes’s second work on the German reparations, arguing for a reduction in payments demanded from Germany. Fundaburk 9996; Mattioli 1840; Moggridge A 4.1.1; The New Palgrave III, pp. 19–39. £950 [119410] 95

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2 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to 97 spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Tables and diagrams throughout. An excellent set. (KEYNES, John Maynard.) SKIDELSKY, R. John Maynard first edition, first impression, of the first of Keynes’s two Keynes. Hopes Betrayed 1883–1920; The Economist as major contributions to economic theory and his most compre- Saviour 1920–1937; Fighting for Britain 1937–1946. London: hensive work on monetary theory. It anticipates many of the Macmillan, 1983–2000 ideas of the General Theory, which it immediately preceded and by 3 volumes, octavo. Original orange and black cloth, spines lettered gilt or which it has been, perhaps unfairly, overshadowed. white. With the dust jackets. 16 photographic plates in each volume, portrait frontispiece in vol. 3. Front free endpaper of vol. 3 partially adhered to Moggridge A7.1. front pastedown. A very good set in jackets with a few minor marks. £1,750 [116179] first editions, first impressions, of Skidelsky’s excellent three-volume biography. 96 £250 [116225] KEYNES, John Maynard. Essays in Persuasion. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine lightly rolled, very minor foxing to contents; a few nicks and a little loss to dust jacket extremities and a neat split to the spine, professionally reinforced using Japanese paper; a very good copy. first edition, first impression, of Keynes’s first collection of essays. “Keynes’s intensive public activity with respect to the policy discussions of the inter-war period was reflected in the more than three-hundred articles he wrote for the ‘highbrow’ news magazines of the time (particularly the Nation and Athenae- um – of whose board Keynes was chairman in the 1920s – and its successor The New Statesman and Nation) as well as for the popular press. Many of the latter articles were syndicated in newspapers all over the world. A selection from these and similar writings were reissued by Keynes in 1931 under the title Essays in Persua- sion. They are marked by a brilliant style, truly the work of a literary craftsman” (Patinkin in The New Palgrave). Mattioli 1810; Moggridge A 8.1.1; The New Palgrave III, pp. 19–39. £1,275 [117807] 97

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98 “Like other 18th-century writers Law adopted a disequilibrium [LAW, John.] Money and Trade considered. With a theory of money, viewing it as a stimulant to trade. In a state of unemployment, Law maintained that an increase in the nation’s Proposal For Supplying the Nation with Money. Edinburgh: money supply would stimulate employment and output without Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1705 raising prices since the demand for money would rise with the Quarto (211 × 164 mm). Bound third in a contemporary pamphlet vol- increase in output. Moreover, once full employment was attained ume of 16 works on commerce and Scottish poor laws (see below) in the monetary expansion would attract factors of production from contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine titled “Miscella- abroad, so output would continue to increase” (The New Palgrave nies” and numbered 35 in gilt in the third compartment. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Forbes Bart of Pitsligo to front pastedown, III, p. 143). Law put this theory into practice with the establish- with his manuscript listing of the contents of the volume on the front ment of the Banque Générale in Paris in 1716 and then again with free endpaper. Woodcut printer’s vignette of a coastline and its reflec- the Compagnie d’Occident, established a year later. Although tion to title. Spine and boards worn, spine ends and corners bumped, both ventures were immediately successful – leading to his ap- joints cracked but holding firm. Money and Trade Considered dampstained pointment as France’s Finance Minister in 1720 – the speculative throughout, a small hole to page 29 with loss of 2 characters; some of mania which they prompted eventually caused the bubble to the other pamphlets with pages trimmed close in the binding process burst; by December 1720, Law’s banking system had collapsed, not affecting text, first item in the volume with one damaged leaf touch- with disastrous repercussions for France’s economy and society. ing the first line of text (sense recoverable); some browning and the odd mark; overall a very attractive volume. Bound up with Money and Trade Considered are these additional texts: first edition of the major work of the famous Scottish finan- a)[ARMOUR, James.] Proposals For Restoring Credit; For cial adventurer John Law (1671–1729), which presents his theo- Making the Bank of England More Useful and Profitable; For ries on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. Relieving the Sufferers of the South-Sea Company; for the Ben- The title exists in three states; one with an ornament of an eagle efit of that of the East-India; And for Raising the Value of the and vines, the present with a coastline and its reflection, and a Land-Interest of Great Britain. Humbly Offered to the Consider- third state with a tree stump. Textually they are all the same. Of ation of Both Houses of Parliament. London: 1721. Pp. 74. first the few copies we have handled in the past, we have only had the edition. Goldsmiths’ 5954. eagle and vine ornament.

46 Peter Harrington 137 i)[WILLIAMSON, Jos.] Memorial for The Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh, containing A short Account of the Erection of the Charity Work-house, the Reasons for applying to the Legislature, in order to procure the Establishment of a certain and equal Fund for the Maintenance and Employment of the Poor belonging to this City and Royalty: With Answers to the Objections, against applying to Parliament for a Poors Rate. [Edinburgh: 1749?] Pp. 34, xx. first edition. Goldsmiths’ 8449. j)(SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET.) Observations by The Committees of the Writers to the Signet, and of the Heritors and Householders of Edinburgh, upon a Memorial for the Mag- istrates and Council, concerning the Affair of the Poors-Rate, &c. Pp. 31, [1]. [Edinburgh: 1749.] first edition. k)(EDINBURGH TOWN COUNCIL.) Remarks for The Magis- trates and Council of the City of Edinburgh, upon a Pamphlet, signed by Ten Gentlemen, entituled, Observations by the Com- mittees of the Writers to the Signet, and of the Heritors and Householders of Edinburgh, upon a Memorial for the Magis- trates and Council, concerning the Affair of the Poors Rate, &c. [Edinburgh: 1749.] Pp. 24. 98 l)[ANON.] Letter from a Gentleman in Edinburgh to a Friend at London; in relation to the Proposals for establishing by Law b)[ARMOUR, James.] Proposals For Making the Bank of Scot- an equal and certain Fund, for Maintenance and Support of the land More Useful and Profitable: And for raising the Value of the Begging Poor, and Out-Pensioners of the City of Edinburgh. [Ed- Land-Interest of North-Britain. Edinburgh: printed by John Mosman and inburgh: 1749.] Pp. 22. first edition, the issue not dated at the Company, 1722. Pp. [2], 20, 4, [2]. first edition. Goldsmiths’ 6121. end “Edinburgh, Feb. 11th, 1749” (neither given precedence), of this reply to the author of Alarm to the Housholders and Heritors of the c)[HUTCHESON, Archibald.] Abstracts of the Number and City of Edinburgh, published the same year. Goldsmiths’ 8445. Yearly Pay of the Land-Forces of Horse, Foot and Dragoons in Great Britain, for the Year 1718 . . . With Some Remarks relat- m)[ANON.] A Short View of the Frauds, Abuses, and Imposi- ing to the same. London: 1718. Pp. [2], iii, [2], 25, [3], 5. first tions of Parish Officers, with some Considerations on the Laws edition, the issue with “8 regiments of foot” at the end of the relating to the Poor . . . London, printed: Edinburgh, reprinted, and tenth line of the title (neither given precedence). sold at the Printing-House in the Fish-market, 1749. Pp. 45, [1]. Second edition, first published in London by J. Stagg in 1744. d)(SCOTS HOSPITAL OF KING CHARLES II.) The Original Design, Progress, and Present State of the Scots Corporation At n)[LOVE, John.] A Letter to A Gentleman in Edinburgh, where- London, Of the Foundation of K. Charles II. To which is Added, in The Proposal made to the late General Assembly, for having A List of the Masters and Treasurers, as also of the Benefactors. Doctor Johnston’s Paraphrase of the Psalms taught in the London: 1714. Pp. 14, 10. first edition. Schools, as a proper Sacred Lesson betwixt Castalio’s Dialogues and Buchanan, is considered: Buchanan is vindicated, And criti- e)[ANON.] Unto the Right Honourable, The Lords of Council cal Remarks upon the Doctor’s Paraphrase are offer’d. Edinburgh: and Session, The Petition of the several Brewars in and about Hamilton and Balfour, J. Trail, A. Kincaid, and others, 1740. Pp. 22. Edinburgh under subscribing . . . [Edinburgh:] 1725. Pp. 8. first first edition of the pamphlet signed “Philo-Buch”. edition of the petition concerning the Act of sederunt restrict- ing the work of brewers. o)[LOVE, John.] A Second Letter to a Gentleman in Edinburgh, wherein The Proposal made to the late General Assembly, for f)[PHILASTHENES.] A Letter from A Gentleman in Town To his having Doctor Johnston’s Paraphrase of the Psalms taught in Friend in the Country, Relating to the Royal Infirmary of Edin- the Schools, as a proper Sacred Lesson betwixt Castalio’s Dia- burgh. Edinburgh: 1739. Pp. [8], 14. second edition (first 1738), logues and Buchanan, is considered: Buchanan’s Paraphrase is with a engraved plate showing the north front of the Royal Infir- vindicated, And the critical Remarks formerly offered upon the mary and a four-page separate Letter from a Gentleman in London to his Doctor’s Paraphrase are defended and confirmed. Edinburgh: Friend in the Country bound in after the title, discussing the suitability Hamilton and Balfour, J. Trail, A. Kincaid, and others, 1740. Pp. 35, [1]. of Scotland’s society for the propagation of “Christian Knowledge”. first edition of the pamphlet signed “Philo-Buch”. g)[ANON.] Account by A.C. Writer in Edinburgh, of his Conduct Note: It would be a simple matter to have John Law’s work pro- in a certain Particular, concerning the Poors-Rate, ----occasion’d fessionally cleaned, but this would require it to be removed from by a Letter in the Edinburgh Evening Courant. [Edinburgh: 1749.] the volume; we have preferred to leave the pamphlet unrestored Pp. 8. first edition. Goldsmiths’ 8443. in its contemporary binding. h)[ANON.] Memorial containing The Reasons for opposing (by Goldsmiths’ 4224; Hanson 592; Kress 2463; Mattioli 1946; Sraffa 3245. all lawful Means) the Imposition, at this Time of a Poors-Rate on the City of Edinburgh, by Authority of Parliament . . . [Edin- £45,000 [117696] burgh:] 1749. Pp. 29, [1]. Goldsmiths’ 8447.

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Praised by Adam Smith – the second of Schumpeter’s physiocrat publié [par l’abbé Galiani] en forme de dialogues, sur textbooks le commerce des blés. Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris: chez Desaint, 1770 99 Duodecimo (167 × 97 mm). Rebound to style in full calf, red morocco LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIERE, Pierre Paul. L’Ordre label, spine gilt in compartments, blind twin rule to boards, red edges. naturel et essentiel des Sociétés Politiques. London: John Early ownership signature to title. Tiny hole to top edge of title, repair to Nourse, and Paris, de Saint, 1767 short closed tear on sig. C12, intermittent faint dampstaining to bottom margins. A very good copy. Quarto (255 × 195 mm). Contemporary French mottled calf, triple-rule border in blind to covers, spine ruled and decorated gilt in compart- first edition of the author’s defence of physiocracy in general ments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges, green silk rib- and of its position on the grain trade in particular. A promi- bon marker. Joints and corners professionally repaired; occasional light nent physiocrat who was invited by Catherine II to spread the spotting; a very good copy. doctrine to St Petersburg , Mercier “published what many (for first edition by “the ablest expositor of this [physiocratic] sys- example, Smith, 1776, p. 679; Mill, 1824, p. 712) considered to tem” (McCulloch), written following Le Mercier’s retirement from be the most comprehensive exposition of physiocratic doctrine Parliament in 1759. Praised by Adam Smith and Diderot amongst in his L’Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques (1767)” (The others, L’Ordre naturel was, according to Palgrave, considered more New Palgrave III, p. 449). The author wrote L’Intérêt général de l’État highly than L’Esprit des loix by some of Le Mercier’s contempo- as a response to the Neapolitan priest Ferdinando Galiani’s Di- raries. The author argues that there is a natural law of property alogues sur le commerce des bléds, which was written as a reaction to which is based on the physical order of nature and which under- the threefold increase of the price of flour in Paris in 1768 and lies all other laws. Taxation and the use of public revenue by the published with the help of Diderot in 1769. Galiani’s Dialogues, ruler are both governed by the natural law of property. Schumpet- the “strongest attack” (ibid., p. 871) borne on the physiocrats, er lists this work as the second text-book of physiocrat orthodoxy ridiculed the cornerstone of physiocratic thought: the supposed (the first being Mirabeau’s Philosophie rural). superiority of agriculture over industry. Le Mercier de la Rivière Goldsmiths’ 10269; Higgs 3979; Kress 6475; Mattioli 1959; Sraffa 3258. based his contribution to the dispute over grain trade on a political and juridical appraisal of free trade, ending his argument £3,750 [119925] with a denunciation of Galiani’s Dialogues as “l’apologie la plus bouffonne et la plus savante du système mercantile que feront 100 jamais les hommes d’esprit qui n’y croient pas”. Galiani retal- [LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul.] L’Intérêt iated with La Bagarre (1770), which was not to be published but général de l’État, ou, La Liberté du commerce des blés, drew considerable attention from Parisian circles, most notably démontrée conforme au droit naturel; au droit public from saloniste Madame d’Epinay. A well-presented copy of a work described as “exceedingly rare” by Henry Higgs. de la France; aux lois fondamentales du royaume; à Barbier II, p. 953; Goldsmiths’ 10641; Higgs 4959; INED 2791 bis; Kress l’intérêt commun du souverain et de ses sujets dans 6744. tous les temps: avec la réfutation d’un nouveau systême, £4,750 [116346]

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101 The five documents laid-in to Deux are: LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Anthropologie structurale; a) Three-page signed typewritten draft of Firth’s review of D. M. Good- fellow’s Principles of Economic Sociology (1939), published in the Royal [together with :] — Anthropologie structurale deux. Institute of Philosophy’s journal (1941), annotated by Firth; [Paris:] Librairie Plon, 1958 & 1973 b) Four-page printed review of La Pensée sauvage by Nur Yalman from 2 works, octavo. Un: uncut and partly unopened in original paper wrap- the American Anthropologist; pers, spine and wrappers lettered and ruled in black and red; with 6 c) Note card from Lévi-Strauss to Firth, dated 15 May 1968; cuttings stapled and laid in. Deux: original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket and 6 documents laid in. Un: 4 double-sided d) Note card from Firth to unknown recipient, dated 24 May 1977; photographic plates, numerous illustrations to the text. Deux: 13 dia- e) Note on paper, possibly in Firth’s handwriting, discussing the trans- grams to the text. A few neat pencil and ink annotations to contents. Un: lation of the title of Lévi-Strauss’s La Pensée sauvage; spine sunned, wrappers creased, extremities nicked, hinges cracked but f ) Note on yellow paper, possibly in Firth’s handwriting, laid in to firm. Deux: spine ends rubbed, corners gently bumped, a few small nicks p. 139, on the distinction between formalism and structuralism. to dust jacket extremities. Both very good copies. £6,250 [118218] scarce first edition, first impression, presentation copies, inscribed by the author to fellow social anthropologist and ethnologist Sir Raymond Firth on the half-titles, “A 102 Raymond Firth, avec l’amitié de Claude Lévi Strauss” and “To LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Structural Anthropology. Raymond Firth, with warmest regards, Claude Lévi Strauss”. [Volume I.] Translated from the French by Claire Anthropologie structurale and Anthropologie structurale deux present a Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. London: Allen collection of foundational essays written over the course of near- Lane the Penguin Press, 1968; [together with:] Structural ly two decades and which were key to the development of the Anthropology. Volume II. Translated from the French by theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. Monique Layton. London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1968 Firth (1901–2002) was a lecturer at the London School of Eco- 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, green nomics and became particularly well known for his study of top edge to vol. I. With the dust jackets. 13 black and white photographic Maori culture. Lévi-Strauss admired Firth’s work and contribut- plates to vol. I, numerous diagrams to the text of both. Spine ends of vol. ed to the papers read at the celebration of Firth’s life and works I gently bruised, front board of vol. II bumped with some creasing to the in 2004. corner, otherwise an excellent set in the slightly rubbed dust jackets. The six cuttings laid in to Anthropologie structurale contain reviews first uk edition, first impression, of this groundbreaking of ethnographic, economic, and anthropological works by Raoul work, key to the development of structuralism. The two volumes and Laura Makarius, Serge Latouche, and Bernard Delfendahl, were originally published in Paris in 1958 and 1973 respec- as well as the front cover for the 1973 catalogue for Editions tively, the latter being the year Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Anthropos. Académie français. £525 [119877]

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103 104 LIST, Friedrich. Das nationale System der politischen LOCKE, John. Posthumous Works: Viz. I. Of the Oekonomie . . . Erster Band [all published]. Der Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination of P. internationale Handel, die Handelspolitik und der Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing all things in God. III. deutsche Zollverein. Stuttgart & Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1841 A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Octavo (209 × 120 mm). Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, Toleration. V. Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony spine ruled and lettered gilt. Spine ends and corners lightly worn; leaves first Earl of Shaftsbury. To which is added, VI. His New browned, severely in places, as usual due to poor paper stock; pencil un- Method of a Common-Place Book, written originally in derling and marginalia in a contemporary hand; a very good copy. French, and now translated into English. London: printed by first edition of List’s major work. One of the earliest and W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706 most severe critics of the classical school of political economy, List (1789–1846) “denounced Adam Smith and his disciples as Octavo (183 × 116 mm). Recent half calf and pebble grain cloth, spine ruled in gilt and in blind, black morocco label, marbled endpapers, the ‘cosmopolitan school’ and held that universal free trade was sprinkled edges. Printed book label of Mr G. P. Hubbuck to front paste an ideal that could be achieved only in the far distant future. down, gift inscription dated 1913 to front free endpaper. One opening For the time being, he argued, each nation should foster the of the Common-Place Book printed in red and black. Margins trimmed, development of its own manufactures by import duties and even pale damp-mark to upper margin of first few leaves, occasional pencil outright prohibitions. Only by such means could countries like marginalia; a very good copy. Germany, Russia and the United States ever hope to achieve first edition, edited by his literary editors, Anthony Collins the industrial efficiency that would enable them to compete on and Peter King. It includes for the first time part of the Fourth equal terms with Britain. Letter for Toleration (pp. 233–277), first printed in its entirety from “List never used the term ‘infant industry’ but the infant indus- a different manuscript in 1829. try argument is clearly what he had in mind because he specifi- Attig 724; Yolton 299. cally excluded agriculture from all his protectionist arguments £1,250 [115547] and even conceded that global free trade was an ultimate desira- ble goal . . . In recent times, List has been hailed not so much as a spokesman for protectionism as a champion of the ambitions 105 of underdeveloped countries. No doubt he was one of the first to LOCKE, John. Il Governo civile. Tradotto nell’italiano recognise the role of national power in the international division idioma e dedicato a Sua Eccellenza il Sig. Girolamo of labour and present-day advocates of the dependency school Durazzo dell’eccellentissimo Marcello. Amsterdam: no of economic development may legitimately regard him as a fore- printer, 1773 runner” (Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, p. 129f). Octavo (183 × 119 mm). Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, Goldsmiths’ 31957; Humpert 8113; Kress C.5545; Mattioli 2049; Printing spine ruled and lettered gilt. Ownership stamp “G.G.” to title, own- and the Mind of Man 311; not in Einaudi or Menger. ership mark “Peyrot” to front pastedown. Spine ends neatly restored; £11,000 [114167] occasional light spotting; a very good copy.

50 Peter Harrington 137 106 107 first edition in italian of one of the most famous and in- You could not put him out of humour, that is out of the ill-humour fluential works in the history of liberalism, the second of Locke’s which he thought to be fitting for a Head Master.” The recipient Two Treatises on Government (1690). “‘An anonymous translation was the Rev. Charles Thomas Coryndon Luxmoore (1793–1863), from the French text of David Mazel, probably the 1755 ed.” (Yol- who became vicar of Guilsfield, in Powys, Wales. ton). The work did not appear again in Italian until 1925. £975 [118428] Rare: Attig 188; Yolton 59; OCLC locates two copies only (York Universi- ty, Ontario, and University of Texas at Austin), to which we can add the copy at Yale. 107 £2,250 [119924] LUSHINGTON, S. G. & Guy. The Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895. London: Shaw & Sons, 1896 106 Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine and front cover gilt. Spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends. An excellent, fresh copy. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. Birmingham: first edition of this landmark in British legislation for the Johannis Baskerville, 1772 rights of women, protecting married women against physical Quarto (295 × 234 mm). Near-contemporary polished calf, spine gilt- abuse and neglect, and allowing custody of children to deserted tooled in compartments with titles direct, boards bordered with floral wives. Consolidating the 1878 Matrimonial Causes Act and the gilt roll, gilt-ruled board edges, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, 1886 Married Women (Maintenance in the Case of Desertion) red speckled edges. Splitting and a little worming to the joints at spine ends but both boards holding strong, ends and corners a little worn, a Act, it extended the power of magistrates in cases where hus- few other marks and scratches to calf, some very minor spotting to front bands wilfully neglected to maintain their wives and families, and rear leaves, but a very good copy indeed. providing “the basic grounds for maintenance and separation first baskerville edition, finely printing the Latin text of orders that were in force until the 1960 Act introduced modi- Lucretius’s radical work On the Nature of Things, a philosophical fications (Smart, p. 31). Prior to this, “the law tacitly assumed poem written to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audi- that when she married a woman lost some of the right to bodily ence in the 1st century bce. autonomy she had enjoyed when single . . . A married woman remained obliged to cohabit with her abusive husband unless This copy, which is notably unrestored (surviving copies are she could afford to pay for a judicial separation from the Divorce often heavily dilapidated or rebacked), is inscribed, presumably Court. This, combined with the provision of a Divorce Act that as an Eton leaving gift, “Charles Thomas Coryndon Luxmoore, a wife but not a husband could be divorced for adultery alone, St John’s Coll. Camb., ed dono. Dr. Keate. Eton”, and has Lux- constituted virtually a proprietary right by husbands in their moore’s armorial bookplate on the front pastdown. Keate was wives’ bodies (Shanley, p. 176). Uncommon, with twelve copies Eton’s longest-serving headmaster (teacher from c.1797, head- located on OCLC (five in the UK and US respectively). master 1809–34), who numbered Gladstone among his students. See Carol Smart, The Ties That Bind: Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of He was memorably pictured by Kinglake as “little more (if more Patriarchal Relations; Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law at all) than five feet in height, and was not very great in girth, but in Victorian England. within this space was concentrated the pluck of ten battalions. £600 [114011]

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108 this is an excellent example. Bindings a little rubbed, scattered foxing but a very good set. (LUXEMBURG, Rosa.) NETTL, J. P. Rosa Luxemburg. London: Oxford University Press, 1966 third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton’s 2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With the “Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan”, his dust jacket. Frontispieces to both volumes, 24 plates of black and white very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestock- photographs, 12 in each volume. Dust jacket spines a little tanned and minimal rubbing to extremities, spines slightly rolled, an excellent set. ing Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas Lyttelton. first edition, first impression. The definitive biography of revolutionary socialist, Marxist theorist, and philosopher Rosa An attractive set in unassuming contemporary calf, with an en- Luxemburg (1871–1919), who was a key member of the Polish grossing provenance: from the library of the Scottish slave-trad- Social Democratic Party. She also co-founded the Spartacus er, merchant and diplomat Richard Oswald (1705?–1784), with League with Karl Liebknecht, which eventually developed into the simple booklabels of Auchincruive House, his Adam-de- the Communist Party of Germany. Her first full-length book and signed mansion in south Ayrshire, and the ownership inscrip- the only work she published on economics during her lifetime, tions at the head of the text in each volume of his grand-nephew, The Accumulation of Capital, was originally published in 1913 and Richard Alexander Oswald (1771–1841), Liberal MP for Ayrshire translated into English in 1951. Luxemburg’s ideas were initially and author of pamphlets opposing the Corn Laws. met with criticism by her contemporaries but her writings have gained increased critical appreciation in recent years. A project to publish the 14–volume complete works and letters, which Ver- so Books began in 2011, is still underway. £175 [117030]

109 LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works. Formerly printed separately: and now first collected together, with some other pieces never before printed. Published by George Edward Ayscough, Esq., The third edition: to which is added a general index. London: J. Dodsley, 1776 3 volumes, octavo (205 × 125 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco labels, spines gilt ruled either side of raised bands, yellow edges. Portrait frontispiece by Josiah Collyer after Benjamin West. With the 20th-century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, an avid collector of naval history and 18th-century literature in contemporary bindings, of which 109

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Richard Oswald was a major figure in the slave-trade of Georgian The Auchincruive library was broken up in 1922 (Sotheby’s 1 Britain. The distinguished historian Adam Hochschild gives a May) and Seymour de Ricci notes that it included some “very compelling summary of his significance: “Oswald had learned the fine 18th-century French books, in old morocco bindings” (Eng- import-export business in several corners of the empire: Glasgow, lish Collectors of Book & Manuscripts, 1930, p. 190), reflecting Virginia, and Jamaica. In 1746, he settled in London, where, from the exceptional quality of the library as a whole. a modest brick home and office at 17 Philpot Lane, he rapidly built £500 [116436] up an international trade in slaves and in a wide range of goods, from horses to wigs. He sold tar and turpentine to the Royal Navy, 110 and wagons, hay, and more than five million loaves of bread to the army. Before long he came to own shares in ships and in slave (MACHIAVELLI.) GENTILLET, Innocent. A Discourse upon plantations in South Carolina, Jamaica, and Florida. Oswald’s the Meanes of wel governing and maintaining in good Peace, ships could then carry slaves from his depot-fortress at Bance a Kingdome, or other Principalitie. Divided into three parts, Island [Sierra Leone] to his plantations in the Americas, and namely, The Counsell, the Religion, and the Policie, which a return to England loaded with their sugar or tobacco. Although Prince ought to hold and follow. Against Nicholas Machiavell his business ranged as far as India, its core was the triangle trade. the Florentine. Translated into English by Simon Patericke. With lucrative investments in each corner of the triangle and in the ships that sailed among them, he amassed a fortune of some London: printed by Adam Islip, 1602 £500,000, roughly equal to $68 million today . . . His contempo- Folio (269 × 182 mm). Contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked to style, raries saw him as a wise, thoughtful man who embodied the Scot- red morocco spine label, single gilt rules, blind centrepieces to boards, relined, green sprinkled edges. Bound without initial and final blanks, tish virtues of frugality, sobriety, and hard work, and who spent with two final leaves bearing “A table of the Maximes”. Early inscrip- all his spare time reading, often far into the night. He supervised tion to title page. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few chips and marks to the construction of a home library with sliding glass panels that boards, hinges gently cracked but very firm, some infrequent damp- contained more than two thousand books of theology, philoso- staining to upper margins and a small tear to lower margin of leaf G5, phy, literature, and history . . . Among those who shared conver- otherwise a very good copy. sation at his London dinner table, or could hunt pheasants while first edition in english of the work popularly known as visiting his 100,000 acre estate in Auchincruive, Scotland, were Antimachiavel, a translation of Gentillet’s Discours sur les moyens de Benjamin Franklin and the writers Laurence Sterne and James bien gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre princi- Boswell. Oswald played a major role in Scottish road building, pauté (1576). Despite being widely discussed in Elizabethan and gave to charity, and . . . would represent his country on a crucial Jacobean England, Machiavelli’s Il principe was not published in diplomatic mission [as an American Revolution treaty negotia- a complete English translation until 1640, a remarkable delay tor]. Although Bance Island was a cornerstone of his fortune, one perhaps partly explained by the existence of Patericke’s trans- way in which he was typical of the Britons who reaped the greatest lation which cited enough of Machiavelli’s original to serve as a profits from the Atlantic slave economy was that he never set foot substitute for it. in Africa” (Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an STC 11743. Empire’s Slaves, 2005, p. 27). £5,000 [118509]

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111 112 MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular MACPHERSON, David. The History of the European Delusions. London: Richard Bentley, 1841 Commerce with India. To which is subjoined a Review of 3 volumes, octavo (228 × 140 mm). Original brown cloth, spines let- the Arguments for and against the Trade with India, and tered in gilt and ruled in blind, boards elaborately decorated in blind, the Management of it by a Chartered Company; with an yellow endpapers, edges uncut. Frontispieces with tissue guards to Appendix of Authentic Accounts. London: Longman, Hurst, each volume and 2 engraved portrait plates. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown of volume I, bookplates of Sir Robert Peel of Drayton Manor Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1812 to each front pastedown. Cloth sunned, spine rolled, ends and corners Quarto (265 × 208 mm). Contemporary red half morocco-grained skiver, bumped, short split to front joint of vol. 3, inner hinges cracked but marbled boards and edges, title gilt direct to the spine, low flat bands firm, plates a little foxed as usual, overall a very good set. with twined bead and fern leaf roll, rectangular device composed of first edition, from the library of prime minister sir drawer-handle, and foliate scroll tools to the compartments, bead and leaf roll in blind to the spine and corner edges. Folding engraved fron- robert peel. In 1851 Mackay provided the fourth volume for W. tispiece map. Rubbed, some foxing and browning to the map which Cooke Taylor’s biography, Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel, and it is has offset onto the title page, text-block toned and with occasional light possible that Sir Robert acquired this copy at that time. Mackay’s foxing, but overall very good. important early work of social psychology discusses popular first edition, first impression. Macpherson’s most cele- delusions of all types and considers the credulous enthusiasm of brated work was his Annals of Commerce, Fisheries and Navigation, mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the which established him as a leading authority on the history of Crusades, and urban myths, as well as economic events such as Britain’s overseas trade. This, his final work, “opposed Adam the tulip bubble, the Mississippi Bubble, and the South Sea Bub- Smith’s view that the East India Company’s monopoly was ble. Still in print, Mackay’s book has had a profound influence detrimental to the development of trade between India and on economics and sociology, with many modern economists Europe” (ODNB). referring to his work when analysing the stock market bubbles of our own age. “Charles Mackay’s passionate erudition and Goldsmiths’ 20505; Kress B.6019. urbane, unaffected prose style contributed to make him one of £1,250 [118117] the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian journalism as a dignified profession” (ODNB). 113 Denniston and Goodman 58; Kress C.5560; Zerden, pp. 77–78; not in MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. Reply to the chief objections Goldsmiths’ or Mattioli. which have been urged against the Essay on the Principle £22,500 [119524] of Population. Published in an appendix to the third edition. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1806 Quarto (287 × 223 mm), 36 pp. Uncut in 20th-century grey paper wrappers. Bookplate of the Jesus College Cambridge fellow and law lecturer Peter Glazebrook to front wrappers verso, small ink annotation correcting price on title page from “one shilling and sixpence” to “two”. Edges browned

54 Peter Harrington 137 112 113 114 and nicked, contents lightly foxed, dampstain to fore edge of gathering D, omists, Adam Smith, Say, Ricardo, James Mill, McCulloch, and neatly repaired horizontal tears to sig. E1–2, overall a very good copy. Samuel Bailey (although the latter’s name was not known to him). first edition of the scarce-in-commerce Reply, printed sep- Goldsmiths’ 25180; Kress C.1924; Mattioli 2205; Sraffa 3697. arately on quarto sheets for the benefit of those who already £4,250 [113980] possessed the quarto second edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1803) and added to the third edition of 1806 as an appendix. A response to Malthus’s many contemporary critics, 115 who included Coleridge, Southey, and Cobbett, the Reply leads MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. The with: “The first Grand objection that has been made to my prin- Autobiography. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994 ciples is, that they contradict the original command of the Crea- Octavo. Original black morocco-backed green cloth, gilt titles to spine, tor, to increase and multiply and replenish the earth”. map of South Africa as endpapers, top edge gilt. With numerous photo- Einaudi 3682; Goldsmiths’ 19211. graphic illustrations. A fine copy. £2,250 [118714] first uk edition, signed limited issue, number 589 of 1,000 copies signed by Nelson Mandela. It was first published George Stigler’s copy earlier the same year in South Africa. £3,000 [120439] 114 MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. Definitions in Political Economy, preceded by an inquiry into the rules which ought to guide political economists in the definition and use of their terms; with remarks on the deviation from these rules in their writings. London: John Murray, 1827 Octavo (182 × 110 mm). Bound without the half-title in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, red morocco label, marbled edges. With the bookplate of Nobel prize-winning economist George Stigler laid in, together with a leaf of reading notes in his hand. Joints and corners lightly rubbed, label chipped; title and preliminary leaves a little spotted; a very good copy. first edition of “a valiant attempt to resolve differences of opinion in political economy by codifying its terminology and establishing rules for the definition of terms. It could be regarded as one of the earliest works on the methodology of economics” (ODNB). Mal- thus devotes separate chapters, among others, to the French econ-

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116 Earlier in the year, Cavendish (1833–1908), the 8th Duke of De- MARSHALL, Alfred. Autograph letter signed regarding vonshire, had written to his private secretary, Bernard Holland, expressing his displeasure with Drage’s summary of the Com- the Royal Commission on Labour, with another letter by mission’s evidence on mining and quarries. On 15 January 1893 the Duke of Devonshire. Oxford and Chatsworth: 1893 he wrote, “I think it very unsatisfactory in form chiefly because 2 letters. The first, 2 leaves folded twice, double-sided, 5 and a half pp., an attempt has been made to follow the arrangement adopted in on Balliol Croft, Madingley Road, Cambridge headed note paper, from the Schedules of Questions . . . which has had so much overlap- Alfred Marshall to Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devon- ping, repetition, and confusion . . . I very much prefer both the shire. The second, 3 leaves folded twice, double-sided, 10 and a half pp., on Chatsworth, Chesterfield headed note paper, from the Duke of form of and the substance of your address on the same subject”. Devonshire to his secretary Bernard Holland. A few small punctures to Holland published his Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire in 1911. upper corner of second letter, in fine condition. “Preparation of the Final Report by the Commission was a Correspondence concerning the drafting of papers relating to collective affair. Recommendations were prepared after the the Royal Commission on Labour, which issued its Final Report vast amount of evidence the Commission had gathered was in 1894 and for which Marshall drafted a memorandum. On 21 reviewed in stages. This involved sub-division of the material November 1893 he wrote to the Duke of Devonshire: “I was con- into eight topics into which the review part of the Final Re- scious when writing my memorandum that I was straying rather port is divided. These were: conditions of labour, associations far from the evidence, and introducing much speculative matter and organisations of employers and the employed; relations . . . As an academic economist, I am more concerned with the between employers and the employed; conciliation and arbitra- influence which the Report will exert on the ultimate trend of tion; limitations of hours of work by legislation; irregularity of thought and action, than with its immediate practical proposals. employment; a labour department and labour statistics; and the And perhaps you will pardon my saying that some portions of employment of women. Apparently these reviews were initially it seem to me to lend themselves to be used by Socialist writers drafted by Lord Devonshire as Commission Chairman undoubt- and speakers in support of conclusions which neither you nor edly with the assistance of the secretariat and the summaries of the majority of the Commission would condone. I think scant the evidence it had already prepared. These drafts were then, justice is done to the position of those who believe that the so- from time to time, submitted to the Commission as a whole, called ‘Manchester’ doctrines, though grievously exaggerated discussed and amended by the Commissioners, and then re- and misapplied, yet contain some kernel of truth”. He concludes vised ‘to make them as far as possible impartial statements of by mentioning a letter he had recently sent to Geoffrey Drage, the facts, opinions and arguments with which they were intend- the Conservative Party politician who served as secretary to the ed to deal’ (Final Report, p. 7)” (Groenewegen, p.84). Royal Commission, 1891–4, in which he provides suggestions on See Peter Groenewegen (ed.), Official Papers of Alfred Marshall: A Supplement the format of the Report. (Cambridge University Press, 1996). £3,500 [118396]

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117 ing reading, but Marx’s book had both merits. The language is MARX, Karl. Misère de la philosophie. Réponse à la singularly simple and beautiful, the scorn is scathing, the satire keen, and the logic impenetrable. Marx smites Proudhon hip philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon. Paris & Brussels: and thigh and makes his work appear as trivial as a schoolboy’s A. Frank and C. G. Vogler, 1847 essay. For readers of a later generation the brilliance of the book Octavo. Uncut and partly unopened in the original printed paper wrap- has rather tended to obscure its real merit and importance. For pers. Wrappers lightly dust soiled, spine perished and partly missing, us today the importance of the work lies less in its controversial sewing still very firm, corners and edges a little chipped; without the character, the refutation of Proudhon’s theories, than in the errata leaf, as often; a very good copy in unrestored condition, preserved in a custom made box. fact that it contains the first fruits of the immense amount of reading done during the visit to England in the summer of 1845, first edition of Marx’s caustic attack of Proudhon, “the bit- and a full and generous recognition of that brilliant school of terest attack delivered by one thinker upon another since the English Ricardian Socialists, from whom he has been charged celebrated polemics of the Renaissance” (Isaiah Berlin), one of with ‘pillaging’ his ideas. 800 copies. “In 1846 Proudhon published his celebrated book, La Philosophie de la Misère. He and Marx had remained friends, “It has also another and greater merit. In it we get the first though their relation had not been intimate since the departure approach to a comprehensive exposition of the materialistic of the latter from Paris. Shortly before the appearance of the conception of history. Here we find elaborated the theory that book, Proudhon wrote to Marx: ‘I await your critical rod’ (J’at- history must be interpreted in the light of economic develop- tends votre férule critique). He had not long to wait. Marx had ment . . . The Misère de la Philosophie created a sensation in radical no sooner received a copy of the book and read it than he began circles, as might have been expected, and added considerably to write, in French, a reply to it. This was published in Paris and to the fame of the author” (John Spargo, Karl Marx: His Life and Brussels in 1847 . . . and forever shattered the friendship of the Work, p. 92f ). two men . . . Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels, p. 10; Draper M681; Rubel 55; Sraffa 3837. “The book is a masterpiece of polemical writing. Economic criticism does not generally make very fascinating or exhilarat- £25,000 [119971]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 57 “In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of the development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness” (Introduction, p. v., translation taken from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works I, 362–4). Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels, p. 23; Menger, col. 251; Rubel 529; Sraffa 3839; Stammhammer, Bibliographie des Sozialismus I, 145. £37,500 [114931]

119 MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1867 Octavo (208 × 130 mm). Twentieth-century morocco preserving the contemporary red morocco spine label, spine and boards elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, turn-ins gilt, moire endpapers, edges marbled. Housed in the yellow marbled slipcase. Manuscript library label to front pastedown, some neat pencil annotations and underlining. Very infrequent spotting to contents, minor nick to upper edge of sigs. 45.1 and 45.2, otherwise in fine condition. rare first edition of the first volume of Das Kapital, the only one to appear in Marx’s lifetime; one of 1,000 copies printed. Two further volumes were published from his manuscripts by Engels, in 1885 and 1894 respectively. The first volume of Das 118 Kapital was published on 14 September 1867 in Hamburg, issued in printed wrappers. The germ of Das Kapital “Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continua- 118 tion of his Zur Kritik de politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century’s economic stud- MARX, Karl. Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. ies, mostly in the Reading Room of the British Museum. The Erstes Heft [all published]. Berlin: Franz Duncker, 1859 Athenaeum reviewer of the first English translation (1887) later Octavo (223 × 145 mm). Original printed paper wrappers, rebacked. wrote: ‘Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital, Karl Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Marx’s work is principally a polemic against capitalists and Blindstamped ownership to title and several other leaves of the Russian the capitalist mode of production, and it is this polemical tone feminist lawyer A. M. Yevreinova. Front wrapper somewhat damaged and repaired, with partial loss of the printed border, neatly rebacked; oc- which is its chief charm’. The historical-polemical passages, casional light spotting and a little dust soiling, first and last leaves with with their formidable documentation from British official upper outer corner a little dog-eared, still a very good copy. sources, have remained memorable; and, as Marx (a chronic rare first edition – one of 1,000 copies – of the “germ” of furunculosis victim) wrote to Engels while the volume was still Das Kapital. The Kritik was Marx’s first attempt at a general state- in the press, ‘I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbun- ment of his theories, written following several years’ research in cles all the rest of their lives’ . . .” the British Museum. Marx had initially planned a multi-volume “By an odd quirk of history the first foreign translation of Das work, but he was dissatisfied with it, and no further parts were Kapital to appear was the Russian, which Petersburgers found in written or published. The work is, however, of considerable im- their bookshops early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur, the portance: Marx himself described Das Kapital as a continuation censor, one Skuratov, had written ‘few people in Russia will read of his Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (PMM 339). It represents it, and still fewer will understand it’. He was wrong: the edition Marx’s early attempts at the formulation of his economic the- sold out quickly; and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F. A. ories and contains his treatment of the history of value and Sorge that ‘our success is still greater in Russia, where Kapital is monetary theory. The preface outlines his classic formulation of read and appreciated more than anywhere else’” (PMM). historical materialism, and as such is the major Marxist contri- “The history of the 20th century is Marx’s legacy. Stalin, Mao, bution to the interpretation of history and political economy: Che, Castro – the icons and monsters of the modern age have all

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wrappers and backstrip; private ownership stamp to title of vol. 1. Wrap- pers of vol. 1 slightly soiled and dog-eared, boards of vol. 2 rubbed, the occasional faint spot or finger mark to contents. A very good copy. extremely rare second polish edition (first, 1884) of Das Kapital, a new and thorough, though anonymous translation; the planned second volume never appeared, overtaken by events in the middle of the 20th century. This edition reprints the usual prefaces, including that of the first Polish edition, but there is no new preface specific to this edition, which was carefully typeset and printed on high-quality paper. This translation, on which a team of economists and Marxists worked for years, introduced modern Marxist terminology into the Polish language. The unnamed transla- 119 tors and editors were Henryk Lauer, Mieczyslaw Kwiatkowski, Jerzy Heryng, and Lidwig Selen. Henry Lauer, real name Ernest presented themselves as his heirs. Whether he would recognise Brand, had been a member of the Polish Communist Party since them as such is quite another matter . . . Nevertheless, within 1919 and later worked in the Soviet Union, where the Stalinists one hundred years of his death half the world’s population was shot him in 1937. ruled by governments that professed Marxism to be their guid- We can locate a single copy only, at the Polish National Library in War- ing faith. His ideas have transformed the study of economics, saw (identical collation). history, geography, sociology and literature. Not since Jesus £1,250 [115423] Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion – or been so calamitously misinterpreted” (Francis Wheen, in his introduction to Karl Marx, 1999). Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels, p. 32; Printing and the Mind of Man 359; Rubel 633. £67,500 [118734]

120 MARX, Karl. [Das Kapital, in Polish:] Kapital. Krytyka ekonomji politycznej. Tom I. Ksiega pierwsza. Przebieg wytwarzania Kapitalu; Proces wytwarzania kapitalu. Przeklad z niemieckiego wydania ludowego. Zeszyt drugi; Zeszyt III. Warsaw: Nakladem Spóldzielni Ksiegarskiej Ksiazka, 1926–9 3 volumes, octavo. Vol. 1 in original paper wrappers printed in black; vols. 2 and 3 in contemporary half cloth with marbled boards, number 95 printed in black to spine of vol. 2, front wrapper of vol. 2 bound-in. Housed in a black cloth solander box. Vol. 1 with neat repair to edges of

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60 Peter Harrington 137 The complete set 121 (MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels.) DIXON, Richard, & others (eds.) Collected Works. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975–2005 50 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines and front boards lettered in gilt, edition and volume titles printed in black and red. With the dust jackets. Publisher’s slips laid in to vol. 1. Numerous illustrations, some photographic, colour, folding. Dust jacket extremities a little rubbed and creased, dust jacket of vol. 8 price-clipped, front hinge of vol. 14 professionally repaired, a little stripping to front free endpaper of vol. 16, internally bright and clean, overall an excellent set. first edition, first impression, all with the London imprint except for vol. 5 and 22 (New York), and vol. 26 (Mos- cow). It was published in conjunction with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, both Moscow, and International Publishers Inc., New York. “This edition will provide for the first time to the English-speaking world a practically complete, organised and annotated collection of the works of the founders and first teachers of the international communist movement . . . It will embrace all the extant works of Marx and Engels published in their lifetime and a considerable part of their legacy of manuscripts – manuscripts not published in their lifetime and unfinished works, outlines, rough drafts and fragments” (General Introduction, vol. 1, pp. xix–xx). The 50 volumes are organised into three general groups: philosophical, historical, political, economic, and other works (1–27); Marx’s Kapital and its preliminary versions and related writings collec- tively known as Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (28–37); and letters (38–50). 122 £3,250 [119043] An influential work of political science, this work contains the “Œconomie politique” four years before Montchrétien first noted occurrence in any modern language of the phrase “political economy” (“œconomie politique”, p. 558, as first ob- 122 served by James E. King in 1948). The phrase was successively MAYERNE, Louis Turquet de. La monarchie employed by Antoyne de Montchrétien in his Traicté de l’œconomie aristodemocratique, ou le gouvernement compose et politique (1615), and became common currency in the discourse of economists and administrators who, in the 17th and 18th mesle des trois formes de legitimes Republiques. Aux century, endeavoured to extend the Aristotelian oikonomia (the estats generaux des Provinces Confederees des Pays-bas. successful running of a private estate) to the realm of statecraft, Paris: Jean Berjon & Jean Le Bouc, 1611 for the governance of a modern nation state. Quarto (225 × 153 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in black Brunet III, 1558; INED 3117; Matsuda 577 (locating only one copy in on brown ground. With the privilege leaf at the rear. Woodcut device on Japan, at Tokyo Keizai University Library). See J. E. King, “The origin of title page. Spine ends and corners bumped, a few small spots to boards, the term ‘political economy’”, in Journal of Modern History 20 (1948). See some minor splits and chips to lower corners of contents, light damp- also Deutsches Historisches Institut, Francia: Revolution, Empire, 1500–1815: stain to lower edge from sig. Ll3 onwards, rear endpapers toned and Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte, Frühe Neuzeit, vol. 34, part 2 (Sig- marked, otherwise an excellent and clean copy. maringen: Thorbecke, 2007); Bailey Stone, The Genesis of the French Revolu- rare first edition of the Hugenot historian and political tion: A Global Historical Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1994). theorist’s controversial treatise, considered “political dynamite” £22,500 [118042] at the time (Deutsches Historisches Institut, p. 8). In it May- erne proposed an ideal form of government based on a balance between the monarchy, the Estates General, and the legislative branch. Within days of its publication it had been seized and banned, and Mayerne was arrested and imprisoned for several months before being freed on the orders of Marie de Médicis. The privilege appended to the text was obtained from the Chan- cellor at the time, Brulart de Sillery. La monarchie aristodemocratique “set the essential sociopolitical agenda for the entire ancien régime” (Stone, p. 64).

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124 MENGER, Carl. Principles of Economics. Translated and Edited by James Dingwall and Bert F. Hoselitz. With an Introduction by Frank H. Knight. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950 123 Original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in silver, fore edge uncut. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Very 123 minor marks to front free endpaper, a few nicks and light wear to dust jacket extremities with spine slightly faded, overall an excellent copy. MENGER, Carl. Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften, und der Politischen Oekonomie first edition in english, first printing, of the author’s masterpiece, first published in 1871 as Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaft- insbesondere. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1883 slehre. The work was written as an introductory volume in a pro- Octavo (217 × 138 mm). Later half calf, patterned paper boards, red posed multi-volume work which never materialised. This edition morocco spine label, compartments ruled in gilt, red edges. Extremities presents the complete translation of the original 1871 edition, not lightly rubbed, hinges cracked but firm, contents lightly tanned, an excellent copy. the posthumously-published second edition of 1932. Translators Dingwall and Hoselitz state that they “rejected the possibility of first edition of the economic theorist’s second major work; a variorum translation because it was the first edition only that scarce. Carl Menger (1840–1921), founder of the Austrian school influenced the development of economic doctrine” (Preface, p. of marginal analysis, was both the most influential and the least 39). It is commercially scarce; the later printing published by New read of the major figures who gave economic theory the shape York University Press in 1981 is far more common. it preserved from about 1885 to 1935. In the Untersuchungen, his second major work, he “undertook to vindicate the importance The New Palgrave III, pp. 438–44. of theory in the social sciences. This was an effort that seemed £1,100 [117550] necessary to him in view of the complete indifference or even hostility which most of his German colleagues, influenced by 125 the antitheoretical attitude of the ‘younger historical school’ MILL, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and in economics, had shown towards his attempt in the earlier Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (1871) to reconstruct economic Son, 1859 theory” (von Hayek in IESS). Octavo. Original purple cloth, covers with outer border of two thick- and-thin rules, spine lettered gilt and with blind Greek-key roll at head Batson, p. 11; Einaudi 3834; IESS (1883); Mattioli 2369. and tail, orange coated endpapers. 8 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear. £4,750 [118653] From the library of British colonial administrator and Liberal politician William Patrick Adam (1823–1881) of Blairadam House, Kinross-shire, with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Head of spine professionally restored, purple dye faded at spine and board edges as it is

62 Peter Harrington 137 125 126 prone to do; an excellent and unusually nice copy, in far better condition 127 than is typically encountered. MILL, John Stuart. Auguste Comte and Positivism. first edition of the work that “perhaps more than any other Reprinted from the Westminster Review. London: N. of his works, has been viewed by posterity as the kernel of his social philosophy” (ODNB). “Many of Mill’s ideas are now the Trübner & Co., 1865 commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards decorative- every kind of thought and speech have never been improved on. ly ruled in blind. Library bookplate of New College, Edinburgh, and stamp of same to front pastedown and title verso respectively, binder’s He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically stamp to rear pastedown. Spine and front boards sunned, some wear to elected majority to tyrannize over a minority” (PMM). extremities, boards lightly marked, hinges cracked but firm, occasional MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 92; Printing and the Mind of Man 345. spotting to contents, otherwise a very good copy. £6,750 [114139] first edition in book form of Mill’s critical examination of the philosophy of Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism, first 126 published as two articles in the Westmister Review (April–July 1865). Introduced to Comte’s writings in the late 1820s, Mill recognised MILL, John Stuart. Il Governo rappresentativo. many of his own ideas in the older French philosopher’s work and Traduzione fatta sull’ultima edizione Inglese da F. P. was greatly influenced by him (indeed, there are over a hundred Fenili. Turin: Tipografia della Rivista dei Comuni Italiani, 1865 references to Comte in the first edition of System of Logic). “From first edition in italian of Mill’s Considerations on Represen- 1837 he was reading the first five volumes of Comte’s Cours de tative Government (1861). “In his major work on political institu- philosophie positif, and his correspondence with Comte in 1841–2 tions, . . . the decline of individuality and the growing power of (when his own study was far advanced) shows him eagerly await- mass opinions are major reasons for Mill’s advocacy of a number ing the sixth volume and declaring himself Comte’s disciple. The of reforms to protect minorities and to ensure that the influ- differences between them, he assured Comte, stemmed almost ence exerted by educated minds on government is greater than entirely from the fact that public opinion in England was too that to which their numerical strength entitles them. But it is a immature to tolerate a wholly non-religious, explicitly positivist wide-ranging book, and its interest lies as much in the discus- philosophy” (ODNB). It was Mill who raised a subscription for sion of general principles as in the particular recommendations Comte when poor health and political enemies rendered him regarding the ballot, proportional representation, and plural almost destitute in 1857. This philosophical harmony, however, voting, not to mention the treatment of local government, fed- soon gave way to a number of fundamental disagreements, par- eralism, and nationality” (IESS). ticularly in relation to the social status of women, the classifica- OCLC locates one copy only (Yale); see MacMinn, Hainds & McCrim- tion of psychology as a science, and political economy. Not even a mon, p. 93 for the original edition in English. decade later, then, Mill found himself composing the articles for the Westminster Review which form the basis for this edition and £650 [119112] present a direct refutation of Comte’s thought. MacMinn, Hainds, & McCrimmon, p. 95. £300 [119573]

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128 “Essential for a full understanding of [Mill’s] moral theory, MILL, John Stuart. O zasadzie uzytecznósci theory of human well-being, and his approach to social reform” (Utilitarianizm). Przeklad z angielskiego upowazniony 129 przez autora. Warsaw: Przeglad Tygodniowy, 1873 MILL, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion and Duodecimo (137 × 100 mm), pp. 132. Bound with 3 other works in contemporary roan-backed pebbled cloth, spine ruled and lettered in black. Theism. Three Essays on Religion. London: Longmans, Ownership initials M. D. stamped at foot of spine. Last 2 leaves bound in Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874 twice; a very good copy. Octavo. Original green pebbled cloth, spine and boards lettered and first edition in polish of Mill’s Utilitarianism (1863), his ruled in gilt and black, brown endpapers. Contemporary ownership in- important “definition of Utilitarianism, and a defence of the scription to front endpaper. Extremities a little rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, hinges gently cracked but firm, otherwise a very good philosophy expressed by it” (MacMinn, et al.) The translator was copy with some occasional foxing to contents. the positivist philosopher, publicist, and jurist Feliks Bogacki (1847–1916). As stated on the title page, this Polish edition was first edition of Mill’s three striking essays containing his authorized by Mill. Mill had been following closely the events philosophy of religion, posthumously published. “Mill wrote Na- in Poland of the 1860s, as his “Letter on Poland”, published in ture and Utility of Religion between 1850 and 1858, whereas Theism the Penny Newsman for 15 March 1863 demonstrates. It is “a dis- was written between 1868 and 1870, near the end of Mill’s life. cussion of the insurrectionary movement in Poland which, Mill Nature is an analysis, and critique, of the theory of natural moral maintains, is designed to return the lands to the peasants; [it] is law. Utility of Religion is an exploration of the question whether popular in origin; and is, because it is a revolution, indicative of supernatural religions, such as Christianity, are necessary for in- the commencement of a new era in the downtrodden countries dividual and social well-being. And Theism is Mill’s examination of Europe” (MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 94). of the scientific evidence for the main tenets of supernatural religion – the existence and attributes of God, immortality, “Western liberals – particularly English liberals – were extolled by and miracles – and the legitimacy of imaginative supernatural many in Warsaw in the late 1860s and 1870s, but when their work hope . . . Mill’s philosophy of religion, stated in the Three Essays, was translated, it was repositioned within a specifically Polish de- remains regrettably unknown today, and there has been little bate . . . Adam Wislicki, the editor and publisher of the positivist’s scholarly attention devoted to it, which is surprising given that organ, The Weekly Review (Przeglad tygodniowy), hoped to shift atten- his critique of supernatural religion and appropriation of it is tion away from ‘high politics’ (the ‘abstract’ problems of interna- essential for a full understanding of his moral theory, theory of tional diplomacy or the conflicts of ruling elites) and towards ‘little human well-being, and his approach to social reform” (Macleod politics’ (the newest methods of raising sheep, spreading literacy, & Miller, p. 279). financing higher education, and building railroads)’” (Brian A. Por- Einaudi 3904. See Christopher Macleod & Dale E. Miller (ed.), A Compan- ter, “The Social Nation and its Futures: English Liberalism and Pol- ion to Mill (Oxford: Wiley, 2017). ish Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Warsaw”, The American Historical Review, vol. 101, No. 5, December, 1995, pp. 1470–7). £225 [119699] £750 [119395]

64 Peter Harrington 137 130 MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel, comte de. Considérations sur l’ordre de Cincinnatus, ou Imitation d’un Pamphlet Anglo-Américain. Suivies de plusieurs pièces relatives à cette Institution; d’une lettre signée du Général Washington, accompagnée de remarques par l’auteur français; d’une lettre de feu Monsieur Turgot, Ministre d’Etat en France, au Docteur Price, sur les législations Américaines; et de la traduction d’un pamphlet du Docteur Price, intitulé: Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, and the means of making it a benefit to the world; accompagnée de Réflexions & de notes du traducteur. London: J. Johnson, 1784 Octavo (225 × 139 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spine direct lettered gilt. Ownership inscription of Mary Pinck- ney and of E. R. Potter R.I. to title page. Joints and extremities lightly rubbed; final gatherings with a short wormtrack to the gutter, text unaffected, and with a marginal waterstain to the upper margin; leaves lightly toned and a little dust-soiled in places, a few light spots; a very good copy, uncut and unopened. first edition, second issue, including the translation of Price’s work for the first time. In the present work Mirabeau agreed with the argument put forward by Burke, that the Order of Cincinnati was detrimental to the ideals of the new American republic. Based on an anonymous American pamphlet which had criticised the proposed Order of Cincinnati (Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnatus, Philadelphia, 1783; it was signed “Cassius” and is thought to have been written by Aedanus Burke, a lawyer from South Carolina who attended the First Congress), the present work is considered a good example of Mirabeau’s method for re- working arguments using an oratorical style. 131 Joseph Johnson “had evident sympathies for the revolutionaries in America and France. During the 1770s he published a number es” (Murray N. Rothbard in The New Palgrave). Ludwig von Mises of works critical of British actions against the colonists; and in (1881–1973) was a notable economist and a major influence 1779 he published the first English edition of Benjamin Frank- on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the lin’s writings” (ODNB). When Sir Samuel Romilly translated “uncontested dean of the Austrian School of economics” and Mirabeau’s work into English the following year, it was Johnson his theories have influenced economists such as Hayek, Murray who published it. Rothbard, Vernon L. Smith, and George Reisman. Sabin 49393. Batson, p. 194; Greaves & McGee B 1. £750 [115180] £3,750 [118191]

131 132 MISES, Ludwig von. Theorie des Geldes und der (MIZUTA.) NAKAI, Eriko (ed.) The Mizuta Library of Umlaufsmittel. Munich & Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1912 Rare Books in the History of European Social Thought: Octavo (228 × 143 mm). Recent calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled A Catalogue of the Collection Held at Nagoya University in blind, leather label, the original printed wrappers (restored) bound in. Engraved bookplate of Dr G. van der Wal to front pastedown, shelf- Library. Preface by Tatsuya Sakamoto. Tokyo: Edition mark at head of title. Scattered pencil side- and underlining, with the Synapse, 2014 odd pencil marginal note. Complete with the printed errata leaf before Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt. the title. Front printed wrapper backed, upper corner of rear wrapper With the original printed card slipcase lettered in Japanese. Frontis- repaired. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. piece portrait of the collector and 50 plates on 18 leaves, 5 in colour. In first edition of Ludwig von Mises’s principal work, a detailed excellent condition. sophisticated explanation of the quantity theory of money based first edition of the library catalogue of Professor Hiroshi Mi- on the subjective, marginal utility theory, in which he “succeed- zuta, listing more than 1,600 books printed before 1851, with a ed in integrating money into micro-theory, demonstrating how further 32 entries of periodicals. the marginal utility of money interacts with utilities of other £250 [114199] goods and with the supply of money to determine money pric-

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“One of the most remarkable works of the 18th century” (PMM) stock a little browned and with the occasional blemish, small wormhole to rear free endpaper and rear pastedown (vol. 1). A very good set. 133 first edition of this classic in social science which influenced [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de.] the formation of the United States Constitution and was the De l’Esprit des loix. Ou du Rapport que les loix doivent ideological basis of the French Revolution. “The most distinc- avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les tive aspect of this immense syllabus is its moderation: a quality moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c. à quoi not designed to achieve official approval in 1748. It is an always l’auteur a ajouté des recherches nouvelles sur les loix original survey which is neither doctrinaire, visionary, eccentric, nor over-systematic” (PMM). L’Esprit des loix was a huge influence romaines touchant les successions, sur les loix françoises, both on English law, especially as mediated by William Black- & sur les loix féodales. Geneva: chez Barrillot & Fils, [1748] stone, and on those who framed the American Constitution. 2 volumes, quarto (234 × 179 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red Blackstone’s Commentaries, Hamilton’s Federalist Papers, and Toc- morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red queville’s Democracy in America are all thoroughly imbued with edges. Bound without the errata as often. Woodcut tailpieces. Early Montesquieu’s theories. In particular, Montesquieu is credited 20th-century book label of Berlin bookseller and economics and philosophy publisher Dr Hellersberg, two slips of manuscript notes in French with the idea that the powers of government should be separat- tipped in to the fore margins of sigs. B1 and B4 (Vol. 1), another two laid ed and balanced in order to guarantee the freedom of the indi- in between sigs. Mm4 and Nn1, and Oo3 and Oo4 (Vol. 1). vidual, a key concept in the creation of the US Constitution. Joints and extremities expertly refurbished. Tiny hole to sig. K3 (vol. 1) Barbier II, p. 190; En français dans le texte 138; Goldsmiths’ 8375; Kress affecting one letter on each page, early repair to bottom corner of sig. R4 4920; Printing and the Mind of Man 197; Tchemerzine IV, p. 929. (vol. 1), contemporary repair to bottom corner of sig. Ll3 (vol. 1), paper £22,500 [116232]

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134 [and:] Réponse sérieuse à M. L[inguet]., par l’auteur de La MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de. Théorie du paradoxe. Amsterdam [but Paris: no publisher,] 1775 Miscellaneous Pieces. Translated from the new edition of 3 works bound in one, duodecimo (165 × 95 mm). Contemporary mot- his works in quarto printed at Paris. London: printed for D. tled calf, red morocco label, spine gilt in compartments with bee centre tool, boards panelled in gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers. Contem- Wilson and T. Durham, 1759 porary label of the Bibliothèque du Ministère des Manufactures et du Octavo (203 × 118 mm). Contemporary calf, titles to red morocco spine Commerce to both pastedowns. Late 19th-century bookplate to front label, gilt decorated compartments, double rule frame to covers gilt, red pastedown and bibliographical annotation to front free endpaper verso. sprinkled edges. Gathering G (4 leaves) and H (12 leaves) with 6 stubs Two worm holes to rear joint, short closed tear to top margin of sig. Eii present, not affecting pagination. Small chip to head of spine, slight wear (pp. 99–100), not affecting text, slight surface loss to front free endpa- to tops, top edge dust toned, slight scratches to covers, an excellent copy. per. Very good copies. first edition in english. This collection contains: An Essay first edition of each title, often found bound togeth- upon Taste; New Persian Letters; The Temple of Gnidus; a Defence of er, from the library of French physiocrat Louis Paul Abeille the Spirit of Laws: to which are added some explanations, and a (1719–1807), Inspector General of Manufactures and Commerce speech given by Montesquieu in Paris on 24 January 1728. It also in 1765 and secretary of commerce in 1769–83, in a binding contains the Eulogium on Montesquieu and an Analysis of the Spirit with the tools of his homonymous insect. Abeille himself wrote of Laws by Jean le Rond d’Alembert, the French mathematician, several examinations of the grain trade in the 1760s, arguing philosopher and theorist. against government setting artificially low prices during periods This copy with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to the front of scarcity. pastedown, heir to a successful chain of dispensing chemists, These three works, all here in first edition, are central to one based in Nelson, Lancashire: “A collector of books, in a de- of the great controversies of the 18th century. Linguet, in his lightful room at his home, white-painted bookshelves stacked Théorie des loix civiles, first published in 1767 and republished in high on all the available wall space show to advantage the hand- 1774, attacked the principles of Montesquieu. The Théorie du tooled leather bindings of a collection that has been acquired paradoxe, by Morellet, was the philosophes’ main refutation of slowly and with discrimination over the years” (The Chemist and Linguet. It is, however, more than a mere dismissal of the “false Druggist, 7 September 1957). doctrines” established by Linguet, being full of philosophical, £1,000 [118736] political and economic ideas. Linguet replied with the Théorie du libelle, attacking anything he considered modern or enlightened; Morellet in turn replied with the Réponse sérieuse. From the library of Louis Paul Abeille INED 2931, 3316, 3317. 135 £2,250 [116357] [MORELLET, André.] Théorie du paradoxe; [bound with:] Théorie du libelle, ou L’Art de calomnier avec fruit, dialogue philosophique, pour servir de supplément à La Théorie du paradoxe [by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet];

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136 137 MORGENTHAU, Hans J. Scientific Man vs. Power NEILL, Humphrey B. The Inside Story of the Stock Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946 Exchange. A Fascinating Saga of the World’s Greatest Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in yellow, top edge yellow. Money Market Place. New York: B. C. Forbes & Sons Publishing With the dust jacket. Head of spine lightly bumped, endpapers slightly Co., Inc., 1950 toned; some shallow nicks, and a few holes to jacket extremities, minor Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the pictorial tape repair to hinges, spine faded and covers a little marked, a very good dust jacket. Spine ends a little rubbed and bumped, dust jacket extrem- copy. ities rubbed and nicked with a few longer tears to upper edge, a very first edition, first printing, of the German-American good copy. academic’s first book on social realism in international poli- first edition, first printing, of this survey of the history tics. Morgenthau is considered “among the most influential of and significance of Wall Street’s Stock Exchange. “History does American scholars in the field of international relations” (Algo- repeat itself, in the stock market, and it would seem that any saibi). Educated first in Germany at the Universities of Berlin, student or businessman – certainly any investor or speculator – Frankfurt, and Munich, he was admitted to the bar in 1927 and might profit from a perusal of the striking events related in this served as acting president of the Labour Law Court in Frankfurt. book” (Introduction). During the war he taught in Madrid before taking up residence Zerden, pp. 82–4. in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1943. He served on several university faculties, including at the University £225 [118586] of Chicago (1943–71). In Scientific Man vs. Power Politics, Morgen- thau warns against “the belief in the power of science to solve 138 all problems and, more particularly, all political problems which OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. Thoughts confront man in the modern age” (Preface). on Reclaiming the American Dream. New York: Crown With the bookplate of R. Darrell Bock, a professor at the Publishers, 2006 University of Illinois in Chicago’s Center for Heath Statistics, Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, light brown endpa- where he works on quantitative psychology, statistics, and be- pers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. haviour genetics. first edition, first printing, signed by the author See Ghazi A. R. Algosaibi, “The Theory of International Relations: Hans J. Morgenthau and His Critics”, Background, vol. 8, no. 4, 1965, pp. on the title page. This is the second book of the 44th President 221–56. of the United States, the first African American to have served as president. £650 [117818] £1,250 [117123]

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139 liam Tooke. In the first, dated 14 November 1819, Owen speaks OWEN, Robert. Two autograph letters signed, to William of the growing need for reform within the country and of his prior failure to act in full accordance with his beliefs: “to attain Tooke. New Lanark & London: 1819 any great good I must act in complete unison with the principles 2 letters, quarto (leaf size: 227 × 185 mm). 5 pp. total. The first folded which I have patiently advocated, which I [hold] to be true and once, first page crosshatched, with integral address leaf. Loss to edge of which, if carried fairly into execution, cannot fail to give imme- second leaf of first letter from seal as usual, small traces of mount to address leaf of one and to verso of the other, both in excellent condition. diate and permanent relief to the working classes without injury to the higher ranks”. He then explains that he has sent copies of Correspondence from Welsh social reformer Robert Owen to a recently written address to the current prime minister, Lord the politician and soon-to-be President of the Royal Society Wil- Liverpool, several members of parliament, and the Lord Chair- man of the Committee, in the hopes that it might be submitted to the government for serious consideration. In the second, he apologises for his late response to Tooke’s previous letter: “my whole time from early to late has been slowly occupied with members of parliament and the House of Com. respecting two measures in which I feel a deep interest or your two kind and obliging notes should not have been so long unanswered”. This may refer to the Cotton Mills and Factories Act of 1819, which Owen had originally drafted in 1815. The legislation placed restrictions on the working hours of children and ruled that no children under the age of nine were to be employed. At the close of his letter Owen reaffirms his plans to join Tooke later that day at his brother’s house, the economist Thomas Tooke. One year later Owen would compose his most important work, the Report to the County of Lanark, in which he advocated that hours of work become “a superior form of exchange medium. Here Owen first proclaimed at length his belief that labour was the foundation of all value, a principle of immense importance to later socialist thought. The Report also offered a novel account of the relationship between money and the expansion and con- traction of the market” (ODNB).

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140 141 PALUMBO, Margherita, & Eugenio Sidoli (eds.) Books PARETO, Vilfredo. Manuale di economia politica con that Made Europe. Economic Governance and Democracy una introduzione alla scienza sociale. Milan: Società editrice from 15th to 20th Century. Introductions by Marco libraria, 1906 Bianchini and Massimo Paradiso. Photography by Dario Small octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered gilt, pat- Lasagni. Brussels: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2016 terned endpapers, red edges. Spine lightly faded, corners gently rubbed; a very good copy. Folio. Black skiver and grey boards, spine and front cover lettered in grey, black and white, with a protective acetate jacket. With numerous first edition of Pareto’s masterpiece, one of the most impor- colour illustrations throughout, mostly full page, from photographs by tant contributions to economics in the 20th century, published Dario Lasagni. As published. as volume 13 of the series Piccola biblioteca scientifica. It is in the first edition, just published, the companion work to an Manuale di economia politica that Pareto’s changed position in re- exhibition originally shown at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in gard to economic theory and politics is most completely stated. Brussels, one of 750 copies for sale. “The exhibition Books that The Manuale “is better conceived and, more important, much made Europe is a journey through 140 books spanning a period better thought through than the Cours d’Economie Politique (1896– of approx. 600 years, from 1468 to 1950. It investigates into 7). It is basically a work of synthesis in which Pareto presented why 500 million citizens, in 28 countries, speaking 24 official a general theory of economic equilibrium which is considerably languages, and holding a significant share of global wealth, more refined than Walras’s” (IESS). nowadays live in peace in the European Union. The exhibition Mattioli 2724; Roll, p. 408ff; Schumpeter, p. 859ff; Sraffa 4514. anticipates by a few months the 60th anniversary of the Treaty £2,250 [119984] of Rome, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and West Germany. A free trade agreement – including a common market and customs union – establishing, 142 on 25 March 1957, the European Economic Community (EEC); PARETO, Vilfredo. Compendio di sociologia generale. one of the earliest steps, albeit the most important, towards Per cura di Giulio Farina. Florence: G. Barbèra, 1920 the ideal of a federation of States.” Small octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, Each book is fully described and artistically photographed, with decoration to front board in black. Black and white diagrams in the text. collations and references given. The volume is enriched with Contemporary price sticker to rear board. Spine darkened and slightly historical introductions by two specialists in the field. The exhi- rubbed at tips, front and rear inner hinges starting but still holding firm, outer margins a little toned. An excellent copy. bition transferred to the Palazzo Madama in Rome, the home of the Italian Senate, and ran until 20 June 2017. A supplementary first abridged edition of the author’s principal contribu- catalogue has been published for the Rome exhibition, also tion to sociology, Trattato di sociologia generale, originally pub- available from Peter Harrington Ltd. lished in 1916 and first translated into English as The Mind and Society (1935). £85 [115060] £525 [114111]

70 Peter Harrington 137 “Written in the midst of urgent practical tasks, the Treatise was plainly occasioned by another question of great immediate importance – the reorganisation of the Revenue by the Restoration Parliament. However, in contrast to the many economic treatises written in defence of concrete interests, while professing to be unbiased theoretical pronouncements, Petty’s work is even more remarkable for its theoretical digressions than for its acute and important analysis of its immediate subject. So far from making any claim to scientific detachment, it contains a devastating attack on his bêtes noires, the parasites on the body politic, primarily the clergy and the lawyers, but its greatest achievement is his searching treatment of the main problems of scientific economics. The book is brim-full of brilliant ideas, although it inevitably suffers from the defects of its qualities – lack of system, prejudice, and sometimes inconsistency. These blemishes cannot shake its position as one of the hand- ful of first-rate economic treatises and a classic on its subject” (Strauss, Sir William Petty, Portrait of a Genius, p. 176). “The Treatise on Taxes seems to be a straightforward discussion of the sources of public revenue, the forms of public expenditure, and of the best means of raising the one and disbursing the other . . . Petty’s analysis . . . when it is summarized . . . includes a theory of value and wages, a theory of profit or surplus (which is in effect a theory of rent), a discussion of the value of land, and a theory of interest and foreign exchange” (Roll, pp. 102–3). Goldsmiths’ 2302; Keynes 10; Kress 1499; Mattioli 2801; Wing P1940. £6,000 [120248]

143 144 PIGOU, Arthur Cecil. Wealth and Welfare. London: 143 Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912 PETTY, Sir William. A Treatise of Taxes and Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double-line rule to spine in gilt continued to boards in blind, edges uncut. Bookplate and Contributions. Shewing the Nature and Measures of library stamp of Royal Statistical Society to front pastedown and front Crown-Lands, Assessements, Customs, Poll-Moneys, free endpaper, the latter dated 14 November 1912, a couple of neat an- Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, notations to contents. Spine rolled, ends and corners bumped, some Tythes, Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, excize, &c. With faint marks to boards, hinges gently cracked but firm, endpapers lightly spotted, overall a very good copy. several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning first edition, first impression, publisher’s presenta- warres, the Church, universities, rents & purchases, tion copy, with their blind stamp to the title, of Pigou’s early usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for work which established his reputation as a leading economist conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money, and which formed the basis for his major work, The Economics of wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, Welfare (1920), which is considered to have “virtually created the &c. The same being frequently applied to the present subject of welfare economics” (ODNB). state and affairs of Ireland. London: Obadiah Blagrave, 1679 £950 [119418] Quarto (203 × 152 mm). Recent full calf, spine ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco label, double blind-rule to boards with floral corner pieces, sprinkled edges. Title lightly dust soiled with the odd spot, natural paper flaw to margin of final preliminary leaf; a very good copy with generous margins, lower edge entirely uncut. third edition of petty’s first economic treatise, which “followed immediately after the Restoration, when changes in the methods of raising revenue were being discussed. The wide range of his survey is shewn by the headings printed on the title-page” (Keynes). This edition, a reprint of the second of 1667 with minor-corrections in the title-page, was published against Petty’s wishes.

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145 supplementary table, showing the changes since the (PLAYFAIR, William.) JÄGER, Wolfgang, & Jakob commencement of the present war. Illustrated with Gottlieb Boetticher. A Geographical, Historical, and twenty-four plates, and a large three-sheet post map of Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, Germany, Holland, Italy, &c. London: for John Stockdale, 1800 the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Quarto (290 × 230 mm). Recently rebound to style in brown half calf us- Corsica, and Sardinia; with a gazetteer of reference ing contemporary morocco label, smooth spine tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards with blind roll, new endpapers. Map frontispiece and to the principal places in those countries. Compiled 26 other plates, large map of Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 3 folding and translated from the German. To which are added, plates, 23 city plans, 21 tables with separate pagination. Each folding statistical tables of all the states of Europe: with a map with one or two small reinforcements on the verso, small ink stain to top edge of first 15 or so leaves, tiny closed tear to top margin of plan of Ausburg (facing p. 131), slight foxing to last leaves. A very good copy. first edition in english of this French Revolutionary Wars- era gazetteer, compiled and translated almost entirely from Wolfgang Jäger’s Geographisch-historisch-statistisches Zeitungs-Lex- ikon, which was first published in Germany in 1782–4. Boettich- er’s statistical tables have a separate title page and pagination and were originally published anonymously in Germany in 1789 as Statistische Uebersichts-Tabellen aller europäischen Staaten. They are supplemented with a previously unpublished table by the in- ventor of statistical graphs and diagrams, William Playfair. His table, “intended to shew the state of those countries that have undergone changes from the present war; and their position in 1799”, compiles the social, political, economic, and military particulars of the countries of Great Britain, France, Germany, 145

72 Peter Harrington 137 Holland, Switzerland, Savoy, Naples, Papal Territories, Russia, Prussia, Poland, Venice and Malta. Goldsmiths’ 17833; Kress B.4073. £1,250 [115091]

“The object of the game is to win the revolution . . . ultimately” 146 (POLITICAL BOARD GAME.) Class Struggle. To Prepare for Life in Capitalist America – an Educational Game for Kids from 8 to 80. New York: Class Struggle, Inc., 1978 Original 2–part pictorial cardboard box depicting Karl Marx arm-wres- tling Nelson Rockefeller, 1 folding game board, 2 instruction pamphlets of 10 pp. and 26 pp., and assorted game pieces including 2 decks of Chance cards (35 each), 120 Asset coupons and 60 Debit coupons, 6 class and event cards, 6 player pieces, 12 wooden supports, and 3 dice. Extremities of box rubbed with some minor wear repaired, side panels a little cockled, otherwise in very good condition. Bertell Ollman’s Marxist board game for two to six players presents an alternative to Monopoly, pitting the “Major Classes” (workers and capitalists) and the “Minor or Allied Classes” (farmers, small businessmen, professionals, and students) against each other as they deal with elections, strikes, and wars. Chance cards throw alliances and schemes into disarray: “You are caught feeling sorry for the Capitalists. Victory in class struggle comes to people who think about their own class. Miss 2 turns at the dice.” “Paperback edition of Marx/Engels Collect- ed Writings (100 volumes) sweeps the country. Your days are numbered – 2 debits”. The instruction pamphlet also includes a recommended reading list of “good socialist books”. Ollman, a New York University politics professor, was the CEO of Class Struggle, Inc. during the 1970s and 1980s. After being denied 147 the opportunity to chair the University of Maryland’s Government Department due to his reputation as a Marxist scholar, he focused property”, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) argued that – un- on developing Class Struggle. It became an immediate cult classic, like freedom and equality – the right to property was not a natural selling approximately 230,000 copies and being translated into Ital- right. Yet he also opposed collective ownership, “as he was per- ian, German, French, and Spanish. Production costs were too high, suaded that only a society without government is able to establish however, and Ollman eventually sold the game to Avalon Hill. In social harmony. The First International was, indeed, destroyed in 1983 Ollman published a book, Class Struggle is the Name of the Game: the great fight between those who supported a libertarian social- True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman, about his development of the ism of the kind Proudhon had advocated and those who followed game. It had largely disappeared from the market by 1994. the authoritarian pattern, devised by Karl Marx. Kropotkin and £475 [118715] Herzen were all his confessed disciples. Even Tolstoy sought him and borrowed the title and much of the theoretical background of A “diabolical work which frightens even me” (Proudhon) his masterpiece War and Peace from Proudhon’s book, La guerre et la paix . . . One can place Proudhon among the great socialist think- 147 ers of the 19th century” (Simons, pp. 301–2). PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Qu’est-ce que la Proudhon himself referred to Qu’est-ce que la propriété? as a “dia- propriété? Ou recherches sur le principe du droit et du bolical work which frightens even me” (Correspondance I, p. 296), gouvernement. Premier mémoire. Paris: J.-F. Brocard, 1840 and he was called to defend himself against insurrection charges Duodecimo (169 × 106 mm). Modern red quarter morocco, marbled paper at his local court immediately after its publication. Qu’est-ce que la boards to style, spine lettered gilt, marbled edges. Binder’s stamp to front propriété? was followed in 1841 by his Lettre à M. Blanqui sur la pro- pastedown. Paper browned in places, with occasional foxing, closed tear priété. Deuxieme mémoire, and Avertissement aux propriétaires, ou Lettre to fore edge of pp. 201–202 professionally repaired; a very good copy. à M. Considérant sur une défense de la propriété (often referred to as first edition, one of 500 copies and correspondently scarce in the “troisième mémoire”). commerce, of the French anarchist philosopher’s notorious the- Not in Mattioli or Sraffa. See Correspondance de P.-J. Proudhon (Paris: Riv- sis, which caused a scandal by equating all property with theft. In ière, 1960–74); William Bradford Simons, Private and Civil Law in the Rus- the wake of the social turmoil caused by the economic decline in sian Federation (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2009). France in 1839–40 and the July Monarchy’s lapse into a “religion of £12,500 [119745]

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148 pastedown. Spine worn at head, slight surface damage to the boards; the occasional marginal stain; a crisp copy in a very attractive contem- PUFENDORF, Samuel. Of the Law of Nature and Nations. porary binding. Eight Books. Written in Latin. Translated into English, first edition in English of a scarce work by the Italian from the best Edition. With a short Introduction. Oxford: philosopher and radical free thinker count Alberto Radicati, printed by L. Lichfield, for A. and J. Churchil, & 10 others, 1703 mentioned by Berkeley in his Theory of Vision Vindicated, with ref- Folio (313 × 200 mm). Contemporary panelled speckled calf, rebacked to erence to his 1732 work on death. Exiled from Italy, Radicati set- style, red morocco spine label, raised bands, compartments decorated tled first in England, then in the Netherlands, publishing both and ruled in gilt, boards ruled and decorated with fleurons in blind, red in English and in French. sprinkled edges. With the errata leaf bound at the end of the introduction. 19th-century ownership inscription of William Hodges Tylden Pat- ESTC and OCLC locate seven copies only of this first edition. tenson to front pastedown, dated 1857. Some minor wear to extremities £1,250 [115143] and marks to boards, occasional foxing, otherwise a bright, fresh copy in excellent condition. John Plamenatz’s copy first edition in english, first published asDe jure naturae et gentium in 1672. The legal theorist, historian and theologian 150 Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694) was the first professor of RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton. The Foundations of the Law of Nature and of Nations in a German university at Mathematics and other Logical Essays. London: Kegan Paul, Heidelberg. In his works on political science “he attempted to Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1931 strike a middle path between the rationalism of Grotius and the voluntarism of Hobbes. He envisaged the state of nature as a war Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, gilt titles and publisher’s device to spine. With the dust jacket. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front paste- of all against all, from which men would wish to save themselves down. Light spotting to fore edge of text block and endpapers, top edge by joining in a society whose laws were imposed by the ruler’s dusty. An excellent copy in a slightly chipped and dust-soiled jacket. will. But he also argued that such laws must conform to natural first edition, first impression, of this collection of Frank law, whose duties he maintained, unlike Grotius, were imposed P. Ramsey’s essays on mathematics and logic, some of which on man by God’s will . . . In preference to Grotius’s a posteriori are published here for the first time. Ramsey (1903–1930) was method, he adopted a sociological form of inquiry into man’s a Cambridge-based philosopher, a member of the Apostles, condition in society” (The New Palgrave III, p. 1074). who died aged only 26 but contributed pioneering work to the £6,250 [119517] field of logic that had been thrown into disarray by Russell and Wittgenstein. 149 From the library of political philosopher John Plamenatz (1912– RADICATI, Alberto, Conte di Passerano. Discourses 1975), with his ownership signature to the front pastedown. concerning Religion and Government, Inscribed to all “Plamenatz was one of the most respected (and prolific) writers Lovers of Truth and Liberty. London: J. Martin, 1734 on political theory in the English-speaking world. He developed no theoretical system of his own, sought no unifying historical Octavo (195 × 120 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, morocco spine label, sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece by J. Clark of Gray’s Inn, or metaphysical pattern, and neither belonged to nor created woodcut head and tailpieces in the text. Bookplate removed from front a school of political thought. For forty years he was engaged

74 Peter Harrington 137 150 152 in the exposition and criticism of the classical political texts of little foxed, jacket a little soiled with some chips to extremities and a the West, seeking to sift the true from the false, the profound couple of tape repairs, spine browned, but overall a very good copy. from the shallow, substance from rhetoric, in a lifelong effort to first edition of Robinson’s “magnum opus” (ODNB), “her examine the relations of the individual to society” (ODNB). His second major contribution to economic theory . . . the work of most important work, Man and Society, a survey of the major po- her maturity and the one that expresses Joan Robinson’s genius litical thinkers from Machiavelli to Marx, was published in 1963. at her best. Here she has chosen to move on new and controver- £1,500 [114180] sial ground” (The New Palgrave IV, p. 215). Cicarelli & Cicarelli 111. 151 £225 [119412] ROBINSON, Joan. The Accumulation of Capital. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1956 152 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in copper. With the dust jack- ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques. Discours sur l’origine et les et. Card bookmark explaining the tables to pages 107 and 413 laid-in as fondemens de l’inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: issued. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, ends Marc Michel Rey, 1755 and corners bumped, boards a little spotted, endpapers tanned and a Octavo (200 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, blind rule border to covers, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette to title and dedication. An unrelated engraved vignette cut around and pasted to rear pastedown. A little surface abrasion to boards, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed; scattered light spotting; a very good copy. first edition, first issue, with all the points which charac- terize the true first of this work: three cancels (pp. lxvii–lxviii, 111–12, 139–40), signed frontispiece and vignette, the hand- written accent on “conformé” on p. 11, the absence of the “c” in “Jaques” in the signature on p. lii (for all of which see Dufour, no. 55) and the correct spelling of “chez” in the inscription to the frontispiece (see the Pleiade edition of Rousseau). This essay is the second of two that Rousseau wrote for a prize at the Dijon Academy; unlike the first it did not win, but it is today the better known. An attack upon conventional society and a plea for the rights and dignity of the individual, the ideas it presented were developed seven years later in Du contrat social. Dufour I, 55; Goldsmiths’ 9064; Higgs 940; Kress 5470; Tchemerzine V, p. 532. 151 £3,500 [118774]

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153 Troy, NY, and science historian. Extremities a little rubbed, slight bump to top corner of front board, light spotting to fore edge of text block. An (ROYAL BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY.) excellent copy with bright contents. Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c. Selected first edition, first impression, of Russell’s third book, from the Correspondence-Book of the Society instituted based upon his first set of lectures at Cambridge University. at Bath, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Russell wrote this work on Leibniz in the years between his Manufactures, and Commerce, within the Counties of mathematical masterworks, Foundations of Geometry (1897) and Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset, and the City Principles of Mathematics (1903). After the publication ofFounda - and County of Bristol. To which is added an Appendix; tions of Geometry, he was elected to a six-year prize fellowship that containing, a Proposal for the further Improvement enabled him to follow his own research unhindered by teaching of Agriculture; by a Member of the Society; and a obligations. Laid in is Russell’s clipped signature pasted under a Translation of Mons. Hirzel’s Letter to Dr. Tissot, in black and white reproduction of his photographic portrait. Answer to Mons. Linguet’s Treatise on Bread-Corn Blackwell & Ruja A4. and Bread. By another Member of the Society. Bath: R. £2,250 [114185] Cruttwell, 1780 Octavo (202 × 130 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label, 155 raised bands, flower and leaf spray tools to compartments. Early pencil RUSSELL, Bertrand. Introduction to Mathematical annotations to rear endpapers, a few marginal notes and marks in pen- Philosophy. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1919 cil. Top corner of front board scuffed, joints starting but still holding firm, extremities slightly worn. A very good with largely bright contents. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board ruled in blind. Churchill College Cambridge library bookplate to front paste- first edition of the first significant publication of the Royal down. Spine and rear board faded, wear and creasing to head and tail Bath and West of England Society, published three years after of spine, front board slightly cockled, corners curled, adhesive stain to the society was founded. From the library of natural history front free endpaper, creasing to top edges and hinges of pp. 35–45, a collector William Constable (1721–1791), whose Cabinet of Curi- good copy. osities was donated to Hull City Museums in the 1960s, with his first edition, first impression, based on a set of public armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. lectures Russell had delivered in autumn 1917 which were in- ESTC T91280. tended to serve as a popular introduction to the system of Prin- £700 [114554] cipia mathematica. He wrote the book while serving a six-month prison sentence for an article he wrote alleging that American With the author’s clipped signature troops would be employed in Britain as strike-breakers. The print run was 1,430 copies, of which 67 were for review and 260 154 for the American market. RUSSELL, Bertrand. A Critical Exposition of the Blackwell & Ruja A30.1a. Philosophy of Leibniz. With an appendix of leading £325 [117112] passages. Cambridge: University Press, 1900 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind, partially unopened. Front pastedown with book label of Dr Syd- ney Ross, professor of colloid science at Rensselar Polytechnic Institute,

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156 The financial wizard who helped Hitler’s rise to power SAVIGNY, Friedrich Carl von. System des heutigen 157 Römischen Rechts; [together with:] HEUSER, O. L. SCHACHT, Hjalmar. The Stabilization of the Mark. Sachen- und Quellen-Reister zu von Savigny’s System London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927 des heutigen römischen Rechts. Berlin: Veit und Comp., Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front board 1840–9, 1851 ruled in blind. With 2 newspaper obituaries for Schacht laid-in. Photo- 9 volumes, octavo (200 × 122 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, graphic portrait frontispiece. Spine ends and corners bumped and worn, spines ruled gilt, gilt lettered paper labels, red top edges. Ownership in- a few minor marks to boards, hinges gently cracked but firm, endpapers scription of Malikow Michael Weltzien dated 1841 to first free endpaper, tanned, overall a very good copy. with his occasional contemporary underlining and marginalia in ink, first uk edition in english, first impression, pres- bookplate of August Weltzien to front pastedowns. Vol. I neatly rebacked preserving the original spine, two spine labels replaced with gilt lettered entation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Mr Fred B. Bate, cloth labels to style; spine ends, corners and board edges somewhat with kind regards”, dated 17 November 1927, to the front free worn, marbled paper of the last four volumes slightly different. Some endpaper. The recipient is presumably the American broadcast- marginal dampmarking, occasional offset and spotting; withal a very er Frederick Blantford Bate (1886–1970), who was the NBC rep- good set. resentative in London at the time. first edition of Savigny’s massive work – over 4,000 pages The book was originally published in German in Stuttgart by long – which demonstrated the great and living unity of much Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt earlier the same year. The German of the Roman law. His earlier writings, with their emphasis on financial expert is credited with almost single-handedly halting the Volksgeist and their application of the historical method, had the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation crisis of 1922–3 with the expressed his reaction, influenced by romanticism, against the introduction of the Rentenmark – the subject of this book – natural law theories of the French Revolution and of liberalism and thereafter he served as president of the Reichsbank before generally. In his dogmatic teaching, however, he not only af- becoming minister of economics (1934–7) under Hitler’s rule. firmed the doctrines of 18th-century rationalist jurisprudence Although charged in 1945 as a war criminal for his early support but made these doctrines the basis of his system. The System is of Hitler and for his role in enabling Hitler’s armament plans, he “based on fundamental notions of German natural law theory was acquitted at Nuremberg, and went on to establish his own as well as on Kant’s legal philosophy. Within the framework of bank and act as an international financial consultant. these categories, Savigny transcended Roman law in many re- This copy is accompanied by two brief newspaper articles from spects, adapting it to modern requirements or developing new the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times, both dated 5 solutions, many of which have become influential in German June 1970, on Schacht’s life; Schacht had died the day before. and other legal science; for example, his doctrines of contract Both name Schacht as “the financial wizard who helped Hitler’s and corporation, and particularly his system of private inter- rise to power”. national law – which, like the systems of Story and Mancini, counts among the classic theories in this branch of law” (IESS £950 [119511] 14, p. 22). Goedeke VI, 233; Walker, Oxford Companion to Law, p. 1103ff. £3,000 [114911]

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159 SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Epochen der Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte. [In: Grundriss der Sozialokonomik I Abteilung. Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftswissenschaft bearbeitet von K. Bucher, J. Schumpeter, Fr. Freiherrn von Wieser.] Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1914 Large octavo (265 × 180 mm). Publisher’s blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt, patterned endpapers. Corners worn, hinges cracked but holding firm; a very good copy. first edition of Schumpeter’s third work, the work which formed the kernel of his great History of Economic Analysis, written much later, and first published posthumously in 1954. Well-known for his original contributions to economic theory, Joseph Schumpeter is probably best known as an historian of economic thought. This article on “Economic doctrine and method” from the social science compendium Grundriss der So- zialökonomik, edited by among others Max Weber, von Wieser, Schumpeter and Sombart, is the earliest expression of this historical interest. It was not translated into English until 1954. The volume also includes “Volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstufen” by Karl Bücher, and “Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Wirtschaft” by Friedrich von Wieser. Swedberg S.004. £625 [118921] 158 160 One of the most rare and important philosophical works of the SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Business Cycles. A 19th century Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the 158 Capitalist Process. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Company, Inc., 1939 Vorstellung. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819 2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s red cloth, blind-stamped border to covers, spines ruled and lettered gilt. 60 charts in the text. A fresh, bright Octavo (199 × 121 mm). Contemporary green half cloth, spine lettered copy in excellent condition. and ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards. Folding table tipped in opposite page 73 and several diagrams in text. Faint trace of library stamp to title, first edition, first impression, of Schumpeter’s “impres- occasional pencil annotations throughout. Extremities lightly worn, sive work on business cycles” (The New Palgrave). “A prominent spine ends and corners bruised with some minor rubbing and discolour- member of the department of economics at Harvard University ation to spine, upper edge of text block a little crushed, hinges strength- in its golden decade of the 1930s [Schumpeter] published a mas- ened with cloth tape; first two leaves professionally restored in the gut- sive two-volume study of Business Cycles, in which once again the ter, and a few discreet marginal repairs throughout, contents browned entrepreneur was placed at the centre of events” (Blaug, Great with some spotting and nicks to edges, a couple of tears to margins not Economists before Keynes, p. 216). affecting text such as those to leaf 12.4, overall a very good copy. Swedberg S.010. first edition of Schopenhauer’s principal work, The World as Will and Idea, in which he formulates a pessimistic philosophy, £3,750 [116448] that had the greatest influence on modern thinking. This is one of 750 copies printed; as the book had little initial impact, very 161 few copies still exist. “The notions which had been forming in his mind about man’s nature and destiny now found expression, and the conviction that scientific explanation could never do more than systematize and classify the appearances which we call reality led him to assert that it is the will and the passions

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SCOTT, William Robert. The Constitution and Finance eign, and ethical factors which influenced their growth. Scott of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to was the Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at Glasgow 1720. Cambridge: University Press, 1910–12 University from 1915 until his death in 1940. He was an expert on the life and works of Smith, and his edition of Wealth of Nations 3 volumes, large octavo. Original black buckram, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Engraved map of the Somers islands to vol. II, large fold- was published in 1921. Scott served on a variety of government ing chart showing the maximum daily fluctuations of the Stocks of the and editorial committees as an advisor on economics, and he South Sea Company, the East India Company and the Bank of England was the President of both the Royal Philosophical Society and from May to September 1720 in pocket at end of vol. III. Vol. I neatly the Royal Economic Society during his lifetime. rebacked preserving the original spine, minor rubbing to extremities, See The New Palgrave II and IV. spines a little faded, endpapers lightly tanned and with later bookplates removed; a very good set. £1,250 [99906] first edition, presentation copy, with the University Court of the University of St Andrews compliments slip laid-in 162 to vol. I, and “and of the author” added in ink below printed [SEXBY, Edward; Jacques Carpentier de Marigny; text, and with the ownership inscriptions of economist Earl J. Silius Titus; writing as:] ALLEN, William (pseud.) Hamilton to the front free endpapers, with his note recording [French translation of Killing No Murder:] Traicté the gift to the front pastedowns of vols. II and III: “Presented to politique, composé par William Allen, anglois, et traduit me by the author & the University Court St Andrews, Apr. (Sept.) 1911”. Earl Jefferson Hamilton was a major historian of Spanish nouvellement en français, où il est prouvé par exemple de economics and of John Law in particular; “his combination of Moyse, & par d’autres, tirés hors de l’écriture, que tuer un economic and historical erudition is a model of cliometrics” tyran n’est pas un meurtre. Lyon: 1658 [but Paris: 1792] (New Palgrave II, p. 588). Duodecimo (114 × 70 mm). Contemporary marbled green morocco This is Scott’s best known and definitive work on British joint- (attributed to Paris binder Bradel-Jérôme in an inscription on the front free endpaper), red morocco label, smooth spine tooled in gilt, triple stock companies. In the first volume he outlines the beginnings gilt rule to boards with fleuron cornerpieces, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, and the development of the joint-stock system until 1720; the pink endpapers. Woodcut headpiece and historiated capital. Early bib- second and third volumes present a detailed comparison of the liographical inscriptions to front free endpaper verso and first binder’s accounts of the chief companies and the social, economic, for- blank. Extremities lightly worn, mild tanning to outer edges of pastedowns, occasional light spotting. A very good copy of this scarce work. first edition in french of this apology for tyrannicide, originally advocating the assassination of Oliver Cromwell and here repurposed to justify in advance the execution of Louis XVI. The English text was first published as a clandestine pamphlet in 1657 under the title Killing No Murder. From the library of French historian and member of the Académie française, Henry Houssaye (1848–1911), with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Houssaye wrote extensively on Greek antiquity and is best known for his monumental biography of Napoleon. £1,500 [114708]

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All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 79 One of “the intellectual foundations of the Declaration of Independence” (Jefferson) 163 SIDNEY, Algernon. Discourses concerning Government. Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author. London: printed, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698 Folio (314 × 187 mm). Contemporary calf, raised bands to spine, panelled boards decoratively stamped in blind, red sprinkled edges. Contemporary ownership inscription, “Arundell Wastfeild”, to front endpaper, a few neat pencil annotations to contents. Joints, edges, and corners skilfully repaired, contents evenly browned, leaves Ll2–3 heavily so, chip to head of front free endpaper and short tear to upper margin of leaf Z2, otherwise a very good copy. first edition of this major text of republican theory written between 1681 and 1683 and originally circulated as a manuscript. “Although long and sometimes repetitive the Discourses places Sidney alongside Milton as the master of republican eloquence. It is the power of its prose, as much as any aspect of its content, which helps to account for the work’s exceptional subsequent impact in Britain, continental Europe, and America. Polemically a refutation of Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680), the practical purpose of the Discourses is again to argue for armed resistance to oppression . . . For subsequent influence in Enlightenment Britain, America, the United Provinces, Germany, and France, he had no 17th-century rival except John Locke” (ODNB). “Sidney was executed in 1683 for complicity in the Rye House Plot, his papers, including the [unpublished] Discourses, being used against him. The indictment cited sentences saying that the king is subject to law, is responsible to the people, and may be deposed, as a ‘false, seditious, and traitorous libel’. . . Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government was not published until 1698” (Sabine, 512). 164 Thomas Jefferson was one of many influenced by Sidney’s ideas. In 1804, he wrote of the Discourses: “They are in truth a rich treasure of republican principles, supported by copious & cogent first edition, published in April 1759 with a recorded “print arguments, and adorned with the finest flowers of science. It is run of 1,000 copies” (Sher, Early Editions of Adam’s Smith’s Books, probably the best elementary book of the principles of govern- 13). Smith’s first book and his later Wealth of Nations demonstrate ment. . . which has ever been published in any language” (Sow- “a great unifying principle . . . Smith’s ethics and his econom- erby III: J6). “Jefferson identified Sidney as one of four writers ics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or who provided the intellectual foundations of the Declaration of self-reliance, which manifests itself in economics in laissez faire” Independence” (A Covenanted People, 56). (Spiegel). Lowndes, 2394; Marke 953; Sowerby 2330 (edition of 1763); Wing S3761. Smith’s famous phrase is first used here that would be repeated £3,750 [118511] in the later work: that self-seeking men are often “led by an invisible hand. . . without knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society” (Part IV, Chapter 1). 164 “The fruit of his Glasgow years . . ., The Theory of Moral Sentiments SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: would be enough to assure the author a respected place among for A. Millar, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759 Scottish moral philosophers, and Smith himself ranked it above Octavo (203 × 122 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully rebacked the Wealth of Nations . . . Its central idea is the concept, closely re- with original spine compartments laid down, red morocco label to style, lated to conscience, of the impartial spectator who helps man to sides with gilt roll border. Complete with half-title and errata on last distinguish right from wrong. For the same purpose, Immanuel leaf; pp. 317–336 omitted, as issued, text and register complete. Corners Kant invented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the restored, first and last leaves tanned in margins from turn-ins, closed superego” (Niehans, 62). tear repaired to leaf C7 without loss, scattered light foxing and a couple of marginal chips, occasional pencil side-ruling and marginal markings; Goldsmiths’ 9537; Higgs 1890; Kress 5815; Tribe 1; Vanderblue, p. 38. a very good copy. £65,000 [120316]

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165 The founding classic of modern economic thought SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 166 To which is added A Dissertation on the Origin of SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Languages. The Third Edition. London: printed for A. Millar, the Wealth of Nations. London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. A. Kincaid and J. Bell; and sold by T. Cadell, 1767 Cadell, 1776 Octavo (211 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine, red morocco label with double rule border in 2 volumes, quarto (275 × 210mm). Contemporary calf gilt, spine in 7 gilt, compartments double ruled in gilt, raised bands, sprinkled red edg- compartments with raised bands, 2 with green morocco lettering labels es. With the final blank leaf. Neat 20th-century ownership stamp of Swiss With cancels M3, Q1, U3, 2Z3, 3A4 & 3O4 in volume 1, and cancels D1 & librarian Jean-Christophe Curtet, Genève, to title page verso. Extremities 3Z4 in vol. 2, without half-title in vol. 2 (not called for in vol. 1). Vol. 2 lightly bumped and corners gently bruised, front hinge cracked but firm, with a few light pencil markings in margins and a neat early ink annota- endpapers browned from turn-ins, front free endpaper a little loose at gut- tion in margin of p. 488. ter, occasional foxing and offsetting to contents, overall a very good copy. first edition of “the first and greatest classic of modern eco- third edition, the first to contain the “Dissertation on the nomic thought . . . Where the political aspects of human rights Origin of Languages”, one of 750 copies. It contains “some mi- had taken two centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to nor revisions, especially to passages involving comment on re- bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a sin- ligion” (Tribe), which Smith made upon his return from France gle work” (PMM). in 1766. The “Dissertation” had been previously published in The Goldsmiths’ 11392; Grolier English 57; Kress 7621; Printing and the Mind of Philological Miscellany (1761). Man 221; Rothschild 1897. Having been described as “Professor of Moral Philosophy in the £150,000 [117698] University of Glasgow” on the title pages of the first and second editions, Smith wrote to Strahan ahead of the publication of this edition to ask him to “call me simply Adam Smith without any addition either before or behind” (letter 100, Mossner & Ross, p. 122). While his academic title was removed, he was still credited as “LL.D.”, and this remained on the title page of the subsequent editions, thus cementing his reputation as “Dr Smith”. Goldsmiths’ 10384; Higgs 3967; Kress 6496; Jessop, p. 170; Tribe 4. See Mossner & Ross, The Correspondence of Adam Smith (1987). £5,000 [120412]

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167 SOROS, George. Soros on Soros. Staying Ahead of the Curve. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. first edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Denis and Edna Healey on the front free endpaper, 168 dated 25 August 1995. In this book, which comprises a series of ex- panded interviews with the influential investor and business mag- the book attracted little attention at the time, it contained some nate, Soros discusses his political and philosophical approaches to important pointers to the ways in which Spencer’s thought was business and his philanthropic work with the Open Society Founda- developing. The most important of these were his treatment tions. It is possible that the Healeys – he, the former British Labour of human society as governed by immutable natural laws, his Party Chancellor, and she, the writer and film-maker – met Soros vision of the role of the state as confined to the enforcement through the elite Bilderberg Group, of which Denis was a founder of those natural laws, his emphasis on continuous functional and Steering Committee member. It is widely accepted, though not adaptation in both institutions and organisms, and his formula- confirmed, that Soros is a member; others who have been associat- tion of a law of ‘equal freedom’ for each individual, limited only ed with the Bilderberg Group include Bill Clinton, Angela Merkel, by ‘the similar freedoms of all’ (p. 35). The book also reflected Rupert Murdoch, and David Rockefeller. the strain of utopian radicalism in Spencer’s thought inherited from his early background: it denied the legitimacy of private £2,500 [119499] property in land, held out equality of the sexes as a moral ideal, and advocated the training of children by persuasion and ration- 168 al argument rather than discipline and coercion” (ODNB). SPENCER, Herbert. Social Statics: or, the Conditions £1,100 [114223] essential to Human Happiness specified, and the First of them developed. London: John Chapman, 1851 169 Octavo (203 × 125 mm). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, SPENCER, Herbert. The Man versus the State: spine ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, red and black labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Printed book label of C. S. Burman to Containing “The New Toryism,” “The Coming Slavery,” front pastedown. Gilt a little faded, first and last leaves a little spotted, “The Sins of Legislators” and “The Great Political one gathering a little toned due to paper stock; a very good copy. Superstition.” Reprinted from The Contemporary first edition of Spencer’s first book, which “was concerned Review, with a Postscript. London: Williams & Norgate, 1884 with the ‘equilibrium of a perfect society’ in the future, rather Octavo (209 × 134 mm). Bound second in a volume of 3 pamphlets, than the forces (or ‘dynamics’) by which society was struggling near-contemporary red half calf, green morocco spine label, raised towards perfection in the immediate present (p. 229). Although bands decorated in gilt and compartments ruled in blind, purple pebbled cloth, edges speckled red. Bookplate and library label to front past-

82 Peter Harrington 137 edown, library stamp to front free endpaper, some pencil annotations to contents. Light rubbing to extremities, minor wear to corners, boards sunned, hinges cracked but holding, endpapers browned from turn-ins, a very good copy. first edition in book form of Spencer’s most scathing and anti-socialist protest against the dangers of incremental legislative reforms, The Man versus the State, first published as four separate articles between February and July 1884. Spencer’s journalistic writings of the late 1870s and early 1880s culminated “in his famous polemic against ‘the new Toryism’ (that is, the social reformist wing of Gladstonian Liberalism), published in 1884 as The Man versus the State. In this he denounced the Liberals for having lost their raison d’être of defending personal liberty, and engaging instead in a long sequence of paternal- ist social legislation: a sequence that included Irish land reform, compulsory education, safety at work, temperance and licensing laws, free libraries, mitigation of the rigours of the poor law, and a host of other issues. In all these spheres Spencer argued that the substantive content of the measures in question was not at issue; if achieved through altruism and voluntary co-operation, as part of spontaneous adaptation of the social organism, then all of them would have claims to be ‘progressive’. What was objection- able was the use of the coercive powers of the state, the discour- agement given to voluntary self-improvement, and the disregard of the ‘laws of life’ relating to individuation and natural selection; all of this was tantamount to ‘socialism’, which in Spencer’s view meant the same as ‘slavery’. And above all he was horrified by the all-party enthusiasm for annexation of colonies and imperial expansion – the trend for ‘white savages’ to make war on indigenous peoples – which seemed to subvert all he had predicted about evolutionary progress from ‘militant’ to ‘industrial’ societies and states” (ODNB). 170 Bound here with The Man versus the State are two other texts by Spencer: 170 a) Over-Legislation. Reprinted, with additions, from the West- (SPENCER, Herbert.) BARRAUD, Herbert Rose. minster Review, for July, 1853. [London:] John Chapman, 1854. Photographic portrait of Herbert Spencer. [London: Richard Pp. 42. first edition in book form, from the series Chap- Bentley & Son, 1888] man’s Library for the People, of the essay which criticises Original black and white Woodburytype photograph (250 × 183 mm) the government’s overzealous superintendence and its dele- mounted on original blue card (355 × 258 mm), with Barraud’s studio terious effect on the public’s self-confidence and, therefore, stamp to the lower left margin. In fine condition, the card mount lightly its independence. foxed with some wear to left edge verso. b) The Classification of the Sciences. [London: Williams & Nor- A three-quarter length portrait of the philosopher, social gate,] 1871. Pp. 64. 3 plates. Third edition, first published as theorist, and sociologist, by the great Victorian portrait pho- a brochure in 1864, of an essay in which Spencer continues tographer Herbert Rose Barraud, one of his portraits from the his discussion on the genesis of science by suggesting that series Men and Women of the Day, scarce in commerce. “Barraud “subjective” and “objective” psychology should be regarded [1844/5–1896] hit his professional stride with the establishment as two separate subjects. of a studio at 263 Oxford Street in 1882. Warm, well decorated, spacious, and practical, the environment was created with Einaudi 5421. the convenience of his sitters and the spectacle of the portrait £725 [115910] sitting in mind . . . Barraud is best-known for his series Men and Women of the Day – a chronicle, in both photographs and text, of eminent men and women across a range of fields of endeavour published annually between 1888 and 1891. These were often shot simply in front of a mottled or plain backdrop, most commonly head and shoulders or three-quarter length and sometimes employing simple props or furniture” (ODNB). Other famous portraits by Barraud include those of Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Ellen Terry. £300 [119558]

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171 The Ventotene Manifesto – the birth of European federalism SPENGLER, Oswald. Der Metaphysische Grundgedanke 172 der Heraklitischen Philosophie. Inaugural-Dissertation SPINELLI, Altiero, & Ernesto Rossi. Problemi della zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde bei der hohen Federazione Europea. [Rome:] Edizioni del Movimento Italiano Philosophischen Fakultät der Vereinigten Friedrichs- per la Federazione Europea, 1944 Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle: C. A. Kaemmerer & Octavo, pp. 125, [3]. Original printed stiff paper wrappers, spine and Co., 1904 front wrapper lettered in black. Stamp of the Movimento Federalista Eu- Octavo (221 × 144 mm). Unbound, wire-stitched. Housed in a black cloth ropeo of Rome to front wrapper and small ownership stamp to imprint chemise with a black morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt. Library leaf at the end. Horizontal split to spine just affecting the text block, label and mark to upper portion of title page, two neat ink annotations, short tears to fore edge of wrappers, small rust hole to title, leaves light- one to the title page reading “24 Jährig!” (Spengler was 24 at the time) ly browned at edges; a very good copy of a very scarce item. and the second to the Vita page, “*1880!”, (the year of his birth). Spine first published edition of one of the foundation docu- worn, front and rear leaves browned, a few nicks to edge of last leaf, a very good copy. ments of European federalism, known as the Ventotene Mani- festo, after the Italian island on which the authors were held as first edition of the German historian and philosopher’s political prisoners during the Second World War. “A ‘secret’ doc- doctoral thesis, written while a student at the University of Halle ument proposing a solution for Europe’s perpetual state of war under the supervision of the Neo-Kantian philosopher Alois and political violence, [this short essay] was originally circulated Riehl. The dissertation was rejected when it was first presented in mimeographed form with the title ‘Per un’Europa libera e in 1903; Spengler’s professors argued that his account of the unita. Progetto d’un manifesto (For a Free and United Europe. A Greek philosopher Heraclitus was inadequately researched and Draft Manifesto). It was a political statement drawn up, between with insufficient references. “Spengler scholars have argued winter 1941 and spring 1942, by Altiero Spinelli (1907–1986) and many of the themes of his later, sensationally successful book Ernesto Rossi (1897–1967). The Manifesto called for a break with [Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 1918] had been prefigured in this Europe’s past to form a new political system through a restruc- little-noticed doctoral work” (Kojevnikov, p. 278). He was finally turing of politics and extensive social reform. It was presented awarded his degree on 6 April 1904 and proceeded to qualify as not as an ideal, but as the best option for Europe’s post-war con- a teacher. dition” (Books that Made Europe, p. 340). See Alexei Kojevnikov, Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis. £2,750 [119084] World Scientific, 2011. £1,500 [118698]

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173 SRAFFA, Piero. Production of commodities by means of commodities; Prelude to a critique of economic theory. 174 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered gilt. With the dust jacket. An margins of both volumes, occasionally affecting text, foxing to pp. 453– exceptionally bright copy in the jacket with very light toning to spine 50 in vol. 1. A very good copy with an attractive provenance. panel and a few minor nicks and marks. first edition of the masterpiece from this important pro- first edition of Sraffa’s attempt to perfect classical econom- to-economist. “Sir James Steuart had the misfortune to be ics’ theory of value, as originally developed by David Ricardo followed by Adam Smith in less than a decade. Otherwise and others. “Production of Commodities is a peculiarly sparse book. [Steuart’s Inquiry] would probably have served as the standard The argument has been pared to the absolute minimum to sus- English economic text” (Carpenter). Its later influence “proved tain the propositions which Sraffa wishes to advance. Yet, the to be most considerable on the continent. During the 1770s precision and logical elegance of the argument are ‘the work of the text was translated into German (twice), and into French in an artist working in the medium of economic theory’ (P. New- 1789. One authority has noted that ‘until the final decade of the man)” (John Eatwell in The New Palgrave). With the author’s Times 18th century, Sir James Steuart’s Inquiry was better known and obituary laid in. more frequently cited than Smith’s Wealth of Nations’ (Tribe, 133). £1,250 [115115] The admiration of the members of the 19th-century German historical school is now well known. Steuart’s historical and 174 cosmopolitan perspective later attracted the well-documented attention of Marx, while it is known that Hegel spent some three STEUART, Sir James. An Inquiry into the Principles of months studying one of the German editions. But perhaps the Political Oeconomy: Being an essay on the science of most intriguing link is with North America. The Dublin edition Domestic Policy in Free Nations. In which are particularly of the Inquiry (1770) was widely circulated in the colonies. The considered population, agriculture, trade, industry, book also attracted the attention of Alexander Hamilton, whose money, coin, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, protectionist position was adopted with a view to counterbal- public credit, and taxes. In two volumes. London: printed for ancing the competitive advantages of the British economy in the years following the treaty of Paris (1783)” (ODNB). A. Millar, and T. Cadell, 1767 2 volumes, quarto (283 × 220 mm). Contemporary tree calf, contrasting From the library of Sir William Forbes (1739–1806), sixth Bar- red and dark blue morocco labels, smooth spines richly gilt, boards with onet of Pitsligo, an eminent Scottish banker and philanthropist gilt roll border, edges yellow. 2 errata leaves (at end of Preface in vol. 1 mentioned in Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides, with his engraved and at end of vol. 2). Vol. 1 with new pagination from p. 562 onwards bookplate. but text and register continuous. With 2 folding letterpress tables. A few Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 241–2; Einaudi 1527; Goldsmiths’ contemporary or early marginal annotations in pencil. Mild rubbing to 10276; Kress 6498; Palgrave III, pp. 475–6; Sabin 91387 (for the first US boards, repaired tear to sig. a1 in vol. 2, slight dampstaining to bottom edition, 1771); Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 176. £17,500 [115900]

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“It should be put into the hands of all our functionaries, true exposition of our Constitution, as understood at the time authoritatively, as a standing instruction, and true exposition we agreed to it” (Washington, p. 213). of our Constitution, as understood at the time we agreed to it” The provenance of this copy has several ties with contemporary (Jefferson) Virginian politics. It was previously owned by the Virginia senator and lawyer Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781–1849). Leigh’s 175 ownership inscription on the front free endpaper states that TAYLOR, John. Construction construed, and this is “one of the books of my wife’s father given to me by his constitutions vindicated. Richmond: printed by Shepherd & widow”. His father-in-law was the prominent American Loyalist Pollard, 1820 John Wickham (1763–1839), whose reputation as a leading attorney was cemented during his successful defence of Jefferson’s Octavo (214 × 131 mm). Contemporary polished tree calf, red morocco former Vice President, Aaron Burr, in the treason trial of 1807. spine label, compartments ruled in gilt, green sprinkled edges. Bind- er’s ticket of Frederick Mayo of Richmond, VA (at the time Jefferson’s Howes T-59; Sabin 94486. See H. A. Washington (ed.), The Writings of bookbinder), to front pastedown, contemporary ownership label and Thomas Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, 2011). inscription to front pastedown and front free endpaper respectively of £2,000 [119358] Benjamin Watkins Leigh. Extremities somewhat worn with a few marks to boards, joints rubbed, corners gently bumped, front free endpaper a little loose, contents browned and foxed with some ink staining to leaf 176 B3, overall a very good copy. TEMPLE, Frederick, et al. Essays and Reviews. London: first edition of the Virginian politician’s critical response to John W. Parker and Son, 1860 the Supreme Court’s McCulloch v. Maryland ruling, calling for Octavo (216 × 136 mm). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, a return to “the principles of our fathers”. Jefferson, who was a spine ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco label, constant admirer of Taylor’s works, declared it “the most logical marbled edges. Gift inscription dated 1969 to front free endpaper. Head retraction of our governments to the original and true principles of front joint lightly rubbed; a very good copy. of the constitution creating them, which has appeared since the first edition of this groundbreaking collection of theological adoption of that instrument. I may not perhaps concur in all its essays, the first assault on Biblical literalism from within the opinions, great and small; for no two men ever thought alike ranks of British theologians. The edifice of literalism had been on so many points. But on all its important questions, it con- crumbling for several decades, under assault from the science tains the true political faith, to which every catholic republican of Lyell and Darwin and the new Biblical criticism of Baur should steadfastly hold. It should be put into the hands of all and Strauss at the University of Tübingen. “But all these were our functionaries, authoritatively, as a standing instruction, and outside the Church of England, and it was thus with a double

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human mind: understanding, free will, and feeling of pleasures and pains. He stressed the independence of the third faculty from the first two. The three may be reducible to one, but if so, 177 according to Tetens, we cannot know it . . . Tetens discussed with great insight many other extremely complicated problems force that Essays and Reviews, when it generally became known, in metaphysics, ethics, the philosophy of education, and the struck clergy and laity. Not only did the book subscribe to the philosophy of language. His Philosophische Versuche exerted a tre- modern non-literal concept of the Bible text, but, far worse, mendous influence on Kant when he was writing the Critique of the authors were with one exception beneficed clergy, and the Pure Reason, and the many similarities between their doctrines majority came from the sanctuary of Oxford” (PMM 348). Two of are evident” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy VIII, 96). the contributors, Rowland Williams and Henry Bristow Wilson, Tetens (1736–1807) was professor of philosophy and mathemat- were found guilty by the Court of Arches, though the verdict was ics at the University of Kiel from 1776 to 1789. overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and Ziegenfuss II, 687. in the long-term the Church came to accept much of what the essayists advocated. £2,500 [115140] Printing and the Mind of Man 348. £1,500 [114187] 178 THOMPSON, E. P. The Making of the English Working An influence on Kant Class. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963 Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. 177 Spine rolled, ends and corners lightly bumped, a bright and fresh copy TETENS, Johann Nicolaus. Philosophische Versuche in the slightly chipped dust jacket, spine and front panel browned, a few über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung . . . small cuts to spine joints. Erster [– Zweyter] Band. Leipzig: M. G. Weidmann’s heirs & first edition, first impression. Thompson “felt that he Reich, 1777 had much to learn from the life experiences of his working-class students. The whole tone of his most celebrated work, The Mak- 2 volumes, octavo (200 × 116 mm). Contemporary sheep, spines ruled ing of the English Working Class (1963), which made his reputation, gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Woodcut printer’s device to titles. Contemporary own- testifies to this. It was fittingly dedicated to one of these stu- ership inscription (Bibliothecae Collegii Episcus) partly erased on titles, dents, and for all its international success it is impossible not ownership inscription of H. R. Schmitzan on free endpaper. Spine ends to sense that the audience he felt himself to be addressing was a slightly chipped and corners worn, covers a little soiled and abraded in wider one than that of the academy” (ODNB). places, very occasional spotting, the occasional side rule in pencil and in ink; a very good copy. £500 [119673] first edition of Tetens’s “extended inquiry into the origin and structure of knowledge. He distinguished three faculties of the

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Inscribed by Trotsky to a Dewey Commission member “terrorist conspiracy trial”. After being sentenced to death in ab- sentia for conspiracy to assassinate Stalin, Trotsky moved from 179 Norway to the Coyoácan area of Mexico City in January 1937. A TROTSKY, Leon. The Revolution Betrayed. What is the few months later an independent “Commission of Inquiry” into Soviet Union and Where is it Going? Translated by Max the charges made against him and others at the Moscow Trials Eastman; [together with:] The Case of Leon Trotsky. was held in Coyoacán, with the American philosopher John Report of hearings on the charges made against him Dewey as chairman. in the Moscow Trials. By the Preliminary Commission The Revolution Betrayed is accompanied by two Dewey Commis- of Inquiry; [together with:] Not Guilty. Report of the sion reports from Stolberg’s personal library, both dated and inscribed by Stolberg. The first, The Case of Leon Trotsky, was pub- Commission of Inquiry into the charges made against lished in 1937 and is a transcript of the Commission’s 13–session Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials. London & New York: deposition of Trotsky; it is inscribed, “do not remove! Benjamin Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. & Harper & Brothers Stolberg. New York – Sept 16, 1937”. The second, Not Guilty, was Publishers, 1937 & 1938 published in 1938 and is a summary of the Commission’s con- 3 works, octavo. TRB: original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt and clusions; it is inscribed, “Please do not remove this copy. Benja- black on a red ground, top edge red, others uncut. Works 2 and 3: orig- min Stolberg. June 29. 1938”. inal black cloth, red paper label printed in black, fore edges uncut. All with the dust jackets and accompanied by 2 original black and white Two photographs, one of which is inscribed “Coyoacan April photographs. TRB: bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; spine ends 1937” by Stolberg and shows Trotsky and two unidentified Com- slightly bumped, spine a little rubbed, front hinge gently cracked but mission members, are also included. firm, some nicks and chips to dust jacket extremities and spine faded, A cohesive set of materials with significant and rare association an excellent copy. Works 2 and 3: front free endpapers inscribed by history which fully illustrates Trotsky’s connections with the Stolberg, review stamp to front free endpaper of work 2, front endpa- Dewey Commission and with Benjamin Stolberg in particular. pers browned, extremities of dust jackets a little rubbed and chipped, excellent copies. £15,000 [118029] first u.s. edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Trotsky to Benjamin Stolberg on the front free end- 180 paper, “devotedly yours, Leon Trotsky, 21/11 1937, Coyoacan”. TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen. New York: Bernard Geis The American journalist and labour activist Benjamin Stolberg Associates, 1960 (1891–1951) was a member of the Dewey Commission and had Octavo. Original brown leather-backed patterned paper boards, titles strong association links to Trotsky. The Revolution Betrayed is to spine and front cover gilt on black ground, marbled endpapers, top Trotsky’s major critique of Stalinism, and marked the end of the edge pink. Title page in red and black. With 16 plates of black and white American intelligentsia’s romance with Russian communism. photographic reproductions. Minor browning to board edges, a couple It was completed in spring 1936 and sent to the publisher just of faint marks to boards; an excellent copy. before the first of the three Moscow show trials took place in “author’s” edition, one of 100 copies, presentation August the same year. To reference this, Trotsky appended a copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Hon. Clark postscript to the introduction in which he referenced the recent Clifford, from his good friend over many years, with kindest

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The decline of natural law theory 181 VATTEL, Emmerich de. Le droit des gens ou principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite & aux affaires des Nations et des Souverains . . . Leiden: aux depens de la Compagnie, 1758 180 2 volumes bound together, quarto (250 × 193 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red sprinkled edges. regards, Harry S. Truman, Independence, August 27, 1960”, Spine ends and joints skilfully repaired; a very good copy. and with Clifford’s bookplate to the front pastedown. The first first leiden edition, published the same year as the “London” edition of this work was published in 1953; a special edition of (Neufchatel) printing. Vattel, a Swiss jurist, is an important figure 1,000 numbered and signed copies was produced in 1960. This in the history of jurisprudence: his work marks the encroachment extra-limited “author’s” edition was reserved for presentation by of positivism on natural law theory. Influenced by Leibnitz and Truman to his closest friends and associates. Wolf, Vattel took the theory of natural law one step further: he Clark Clifford (1906–1998) was a hugely influential Democratic distinguished between an internal law (law of conscience) and an advisor, holding the role of Counsel to the President during Tru- external law (law of action). Le Droit des gens, his major work, mod- man’s time in office. His purview encompassed both domestic ernized the whole of international law, bringing it down from the and foreign affairs, as well as strategy for the 1948 presidential realms of speculation into the sphere of natural relations and prob- campaign. Clifford first came to Truman’s notice in 1946 when, lems, and became a classic, particularly in England and the United in his role as Naval Aide to the President, he co-authored the States of America. It was frequently reprinted and translated. Clifford-Elsey Report. This brought George Kennan’s scepti- Vattel admits that people’s rights cannot be entirely assimilated cal views of Moscow into the Oval Office, urging a tough line to natural laws, so they should be dealt with as rights pertaining against Russia. Clifford shaped the central message of Truman’s to nations. The only grounds for people’s rights are in the inde- 1948 campaign, attacking the Republican “Do Nothing” Con- pendence of nations, that is in their natural freedom. This congress, sensing that a more aggressive approach would appeal to cept opened the way to modern theories of positive law. How- voters against Truman’s opponent, New York Governor Thomas ever Vattel maintains that states are ruled in their relations with E. Dewey. In May 1948 Clifford urged Truman to recognise the each other by fundamental principles drawn from nature and state of Israel, against the objections of the State Department. their common interests – natural law is preserved but it tends Clifford left the White House in 1950 to practice law in Washing- to be confused with the factual exigencies of situations. In this ton, but remained a trusted advisor to subsequent Democratic way Vattel does not prohibit war but promotes practical ways of presidents; when this book was presented in 1960, he held a achieving peace, which he eulogises in an emotional way. seat on Kennedy’s Committee on the Defense Establishment. In Einaudi 5838; Higgs 1877 (both the Leiden imprint); INED 4391; Marvin, 1968 he was Lyndon B. Johnson’s Secretary of Defense. p. 706. £3,000 [119148] £1,500 [116166]

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seminators of Vichian ideas; and Joyce composed Finnegans Wake using Vico’s four-part cyclical theory of civilisation. Liber primus metaphysicus contains the first printing of Vico’s Latin aphorism “verum esse ipsum factum” (“the true is pre- cisely what is made”) for which he would become famous. The 1710 edition is extremely rare, and there is only one previous auction record from 2008 in which it was sold bound with two other works. 182 David Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980); Lucia M. Palmer, trans., De antiquissima italorum sapientia ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1988). 182 £7,500 [116811] VICO, Giambattista. De antiquissima italorum sapientia ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda libri tres. Liber 183 primus metaphysicus. Naples: Felicis Mosca, 1710 VOLTAIRE. The Ignorant Philosopher. With An Address Duodecimo (163 × 90 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, edges uncut. Contemporary or near-contemporary owner- to the Public upon The Parricides imputed to the Families ship inscription to title page. Tanning and a little spotting to spine and of Calas and Sirven. Translated from the French. London: extremities, slight wear to lower edge of front board, some very minor printed for S. Bladon, 1767 dampstain to front free endpapers, foxing and a few chips to contents, Duodecimo (200 × 125 mm). Contemporary calf, red morocco spine an excellent copy of this scarce edition. label, compartments decorated and ruled in gilt, boards double-ruled first edition of the Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist’s in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges. Bound without the half-title and fullest statement of the verum factum principle, the first book in publisher’s advert. A few pencil annotations to contents. Hinges neatly the unrealised series of three outlining his anti-Cartesian philo- restored. Extremities lightly rubbed, boards scuffed with one knock to sophical system. The second and third books, Liber secundus phys- edge of front board, endpapers browned from turn-ins, front free endpaper slit near margin, adhesive mark from removed bookplate to front icus and Liber tertius moralis, were never completed for unknown free endpaper verso, a very good copy. reasons. Liber primus metaphysicus “remained virtually unknown for over a hundred years, although during Vico’s lifetime it was first edition in english, first published in Geneva the pre- widely read in Neapolitan academic circles” (Palmer p. x). It was vious year, which begins with the famed set of “first doubts”: not translated into Italian until 1816, and it was only reprinted in “Who art thou? From whence dost thou come? What is thy 1828. Vico’s writings gained popularity during the 19th century, employment? What will become of thee?” Voltaire’s list of 56 and his impact on the modern philosophy of history, culture, doubts reformulated his entire philosophy and engaged with the and mythology cannot be understated. Marx cites Vico in Das writings of Newton, Locke, Spinoza, and Hobbes. The translator Kapital and Trotsky quotes him on the first page of his History of remains unknown. the Russian Revolution; Coleridge and Yeats were enthusiastic dis- £1,250 [118078]

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184 “the most widely known and esteemed American economist of (VOLTAIRE.) ZABUESNIG, Johann Christoph von. his generation” (The New Palgrave IV, p. 850), with an excellent academic association. Walker was elected president of MIT in Historische und kritische Nachrichten von dem Leben 1881, at a time when Augustus Lowell was a trustee and member und den Schriften des Herrn von Voltaire und anderer of the institution’s executive committee. Money was first pub- Neuphilosophen unserer Zeiten. Augsburg: bey den lished in 1878; The Wages Question in 1876; and Political Economy in Gebrüdern Veith, 1777 1883. Walker delivered his later lecture on bimetallism at a din- 2 volumes, octavo (175 × 100 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, twin red ner for the Boot and Shoe Club in Boston on 28 March 1894. labels, raised bands, compartments tooled in blind, blue speckled edg- “Walker’s work and influence served as models not only because es. Engraved portrait frontispieces of Voltaire and Rousseau. Armorial he discussed production, labor, and wages with unusual clarity bookplate to each front pastedown; early reference label to foot of vol. I spine. Slight chipping to spine tips, corners of boards worn, intermit- for his time, but also because his interest in monetary issues tent light spotting to contents. A very good set. (influenced by his father, also an economist) enabled him to de- scribe the difference between nominal and real values. His clari- first edition. fications of monetary issues coincided with concurrent national £550 [116580] interests in the gold/silver/bimetallism parity controversies of the late 1800s, and the meaning of money for an economy. Inscribed by the “dean” of American economics to his colleague Walker later wrote a textbook that was used in classrooms till at MIT the publication of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics. Walker became the first President of the American Economic Associa- 185 tion. His professorships at Yale and MIT changed the courses of WALKER, Francis A. Money. New York: Henry Holt and their economics programs. His leadership abilities were evident Company, 1883; [together with:] — The Wages Question. in every realm of his life, including his stint as a General during A treatise on wages and the wages class. New York: Henry the Civil War. His devotion to economics as a profession paved Holt and Company, 1886; [and:] — Political Economy. Third the way for many generations of US economists” (Landsburg). edition, revised and enlarged. New York: Henry Holt and Batson p. 34 (Political Economy) and p. 78 (The Wages Question, 1st ed.) See Lauren F. Landsburg, “Walker, Francis A.”, Library of Economics and Liberty, Company, 1888 2004. 3 works, octavo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half roan, twin £750 [119669] green morocco labels, raised bands, compartments ruled and decorated in brown and gilt, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. Some wear and stripping to leather, otherwise a bright and fresh set in excellent condition. presentation copies, inscribed from the author to the businessman Augustus Lowell, Walker’s colleague at MIT, with an additional leaflet publication of Walker’s lecture on bimetallism laid in. An attractively bound set of three pioneering works by

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187 WALRAS, Leon. Études d’économie sociale. (Théorie de la répartition de la richesse sociale.) Lausanne & Paris: F. Rouge, F. Pichon, 1896 Octavo (208 × 140 mm). Contemporary blue half cloth, titles to spine gilt, dark blue boards. 3 diagrams, one folding. Early Italian library stamp to front pastedown; ownership signature to half-title in light pencil. Spine rubbed, faint stain to front board, contents slightly toned. A very good copy. first edition of one of Walras’s major contributions to his eco- nomico-social doctrine, based on lectures which he held at the University of Lausanne from 1870 to 1892. “As far as pure theory is concerned, Walras is in my opinion the greatest of all economists” (Schumpeter in Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, p. 264). In this work, as well as in his Etudes d’Economie politique ap- pliquée (1898), Walras’s main interest in pure theory (which he had earlier presented in Eléments d’économie politique pure, 1874–7), shifted to issues of applied economics and social economics which actually was a revival of the activity he began when he was young. Einaudi 5970; Masui 537; Mattioli 3800; The New Palgrave III, p. 863; Sraffa 6248; Walker 194. £3,750 [114477] 186 188 186 WALRAS, Leon. “Note sur la réfutation de la théorie WALRAS, Leon. Éléments d’économie politique pure, ou anglaise du fermage de M. Wicksteed”; PARETO, Théorie de la richesse sociale. Lausanne: F. Rouge, 1889 Vilifredo. “La Courbe de la répartition de la richesse”; Octavo. Contemporary library buckram, spine lettered and date in [both papers in:] Recueil publié par la Faculté de Droit à black. 6 folding plates as issued. Spine and boards toned, light wear and rubbing to extremities, mild foxing to contents, a very good copy. From l’occasion de l’exposition nationale suisse Genève 1896. the library of Lindley Fraser, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “L. M. Lausanne: Ch. Viret-Genton, [1896] Fraser, Queen’s, (Oxford, October, 1928)”, with his occasional pencil Quarto. Contemporary paper wrappers printed in black, edges uncut, annotations to the contents shaved by the binder. unopened. With the glassine wrappers. Preserved in a cloth box. A few second edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged, of the nicks and short tears to spine ends of wrappers, front wrappers a little French economist’s major thesis which confirmed his status as marked, some occasional light foxing, otherwise an excellent copy. the father of general equilibrium theory, first published in two first editions of two scarce papers by the two leading figures parts in 1874 and 1877 respectively. Soon after becoming a pro- of the Lausanne School of Economics. The first paper contains fessor of political economy at the University of Lausanne at the Walras’s criticism of Wicksteed’s An Essay on the Coordination of the age of 36, Walras published Éléments. He focused his efforts on Laws of Distribution (1894) and occupies pages 1–11 of the Recueil. significantly revising several successive editions over the course Pareto’s paper, printed on pages 371–87, adds substantial mate- of the next two decades; this second edition, for example, rial to his theory of distribution. The Recueil also includes papers contains an introductory chapter which does not appear in sub- by E. Lehr, A. Schnetzler, E. Roguin, C. Soldan, H. Brocher de la sequent editions. Appreciation for his work has grown steadily Fléchère, A. de Senarclens, J. Berney, and H. Erman. since the 1930s which has prompted Blaug to argue that Walras Walker 191. “may now be the most widely-read 19th century economist after Ricardo and Marx” (p. 262). £2,750 [118574] Lindley Fraser (1904–1963) was a British economist and popular broadcaster. He became a fellow in economics at Queen’s College, Oxford in 1928, where he wrote his first book, Protection and Free Trade (1932) and was recognised as “a man of most acute

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189 Samuel Greene Arnold was a trustee of Brown University during WALRAS, Léon. Théorie critique de l’impôt. Précédé de Wayland’s presidency, and both had strong work and familial ties to Rhode Island. souvenirs du Congrès de Lausanne. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie, 1861 £625 [117226] Octavo. Original green paper wrappers printed in black. Housed in a recent dark green morocco-backed solander box. Pencil marginalia to a couple of pages. Backstrip with three vertical splits, sewing still intact, wrappers slightly dust-soiled and with a few tiny chips, minor marking to title, the occasional faint finger-mark to fore margins. A very good copy. first and only edition of Walras’s second published book on economics, an important early testimonial to his profound admiration for, and intellectual identification with, his father. In the lengthy preface, he reviews the ideas contained in the works of Auguste Walras, including the concept of rareté which was to influence his formulation of marginal utility, and then relates this intellectual patrimony to his own essay on taxation which follows a discussion of the international congress on taxation in Lausanne in 1860. Scarce, especially so in original wrappers. Einaudi 5972; Walker 27. £7,500 [114431]

190 WAYLAND, Francis. The Elements of Moral Science. New York: Cooke and Co., 1835 Octavo. Original marbled purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards with quadruple rule frame in blind, edges uncut. Spine rolled, spine and boards sunned, wear to extremities, endpapers lightly foxed, a very good copy. first edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to “Mrs Arnold”, that is, Frances Arnold, mother of historian Samuel Greene Arnold. Economist and educator Francis Wayland (1796–1865) was president of Brown University for 28 years and a highly regarded author on moral philosophy. 190

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191 ity (product exhausting) theory of distribution shortly ahead of WHITEHEAD, Alfred North. The Function of Reason. Wicksteed” (The New Palgrave). Louis Clark Vanuxen Foundation Lectures delivered at Fisher, p. 198; Knudtzon 1; Mattioli 3837; Menger 394. Princeton University, March 1929. Princeton: Princeton £3,000 [119110] University Press, 1929 Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to front board gilt. With the dust jack- 193 et. Front board lightly bowed. A very good copy in a slightly edge-chipped WICKSTEED, Philip Henry. The Alphabet of Economic jacket with toned spine panel and some dampstaining to rear panel. Science. Part I [all published]. Elements of the theory of first edition, first printing, of the author’s essay which value or worth. London: Macmillan and Co. and New York, 1888 defines speculative reason as the “self-discipline of the origina- Octavo (170 × 114 mm). Original cloth, lettered in black. With 10 folding tive element in history” (Introductory Summary). plates and numerous figures in the text. Ownership inscription of the £225 [116056] noted economist Ronald L. Meek to half-title. Spine ends and corners worn, spine slightly darkened, free endpapers removed; withal a very good copy. 192 first edition of Wicksteed’s first work. Fundamentally a basic WICKSELL, Knut. Über Wert, Kapital und Rente nach textbook of new economics, it did much to popularise the adjec- den neueren nationalökonomischen Theorien. Jena: tive “marginal” and the term “marginal analysis” and received Gustav Fischer, 1893 the approbation of both Edgeworth and Pareto. Batson calls it Tall octavo (245 × 164 mm). Uncut in original orange wrappers printed “a very valuable little work which aims at providing a thorough in black. Ownership stamp of a Stockholm law library to front cover, mathematical explanation of the ‘fundamental propositions of title-page (with its deaccession stamp), and two other pages. Wrappers, the theory of value’” (p. 60). a little soiled, spine nicked at head and foot; a very good copy. Einaudi 6041; Mattioli 3840; Sraffa 6626. first edition, presentation copy of Wicksell’s first book, inscribed by him on the title: “Assessor C. O. Montan, vänskaps- £1,275 [119996] fullt från förf.” An analysis of the theory of distribution, the first English translation, Value, Capital, and Rent, was published in 194 1954. “In Value, Capital, and Rent he performed a remarkable la- WILLSON, Hugh Bowlby. Currency, or the fundamental bour of synthesis. He adopted the marginal utility marginal pro- principles of monetary science, postulated, explained, ductivity theory of value of Jevons, Menger, and Marshall, added and applied. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882 it to the Böhm Bawerk analysis of capital, and fused the result in Octavo. Original brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated a Walrasian comparative static general equilibrium framework. in gilt, boards with two-line blind rule border, dark brown endpapers. In this process he became a founder of the marginal productiv- Minor nicks to spine ends, light dampstaining to outer edges of endpapers, front joint starting but still holding firm. A very good copy of this scarce title.

94 Peter Harrington 137 193 194 first edition of the author’s major work on monetary pol- Octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary pebble-grain cloth and floral deco- icy. Published posthumously with a prefatory memoir by the rated boards, spine ruled and decorated gilt. Spine worn at head, somewhat author’s brother, Currency is a confident treatise on monetary faded, corners rubbed and some edge wear; title with two library stamps theory, conversant with the best of contemporary economic erased; first and last leaves a little toned from endpapers; a very good copy. thought, written by the Canadian-born Hugh Bowlby Willson first edition of Wirth’s (1822–1900) account of commercial (1813–1880), proposing a plan for monetary union between crises, written before his appointment to the Statistical Bureau the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, and of Bern in 1865. “‘In the Geschichte der Handelskrisen Wirth associ- Switzerland, and giving a monetary (as well as an anti-protec- ated the phenomenon of commercial crises with a credit econo- tionist) explanation of the business cycle. In a closely reasoned my and pointed out that the main factor making for booms and analysis, Willson attributes depressions in large measure to crises is the recurring tendency for investment to outrun the bank-financed excessive growth, the creation of “capital, largely existing savings resources of society” (ESS). fictitious, drawn from bills discounted.” Willson was “deeply Humpert 5227; Menger, col. 397. involved in the postwar ‘Greenback’ controversy in the United £750 [114872] States. In a number of pamphlets and in testimony before a congressional committee in 1879, he argued strongly that notes issued by the state should be the permanent and exclusive circulating medium. He suggested the creation of a currency board to control the issue of paper money and proposed that the amount of paper money should be related to the volume of business transactions in the country” (R. Warren James and John S. Moir in Dictionary of Canadian Biography). Willson was a man of wide interests: a railroad builder, ship designer, and newspaper man, founder of the Canadian Independent in 1849 (which, pace its name, proposed annexation of Canada to the United States). Many of Willson’s theories heralded monetary reforms which would take place after his death. Crawfurd Goodwin, Canadian Economic Thought, p. 133ff., noting that Willson was probably a young pupil of the great Canadian-American economist John Rae, author of Statement of Some New Principles of Political Economy (1834). £1,100 [114854]

195 WIRTH, Max. Geschichte der Handelskrisen. Frankfurt: J. D. Sauerländer, 1858 195

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Mr Bertrand Russell’s Introduction will be particularly welcome’”. Wittgenstein replied on 28 November: “‘I must admit I am pleased my stuff is going to be printed’” (Monk, pp. 203–4). Fann p. 405; Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990). £75,000 [117021]

197 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Remarks on the Foundations 196 of Mathematics. Edited by G. H. von Wright, R. Rhees, G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Wittgenstein’s first published work, the earliest iteration of the Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in the extremely rare journal format Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Parallel text in English and German. A bright copy in a jacket with one 196 short closed tear to front panel and light toning to spine panel. Excellent. WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. “Logisch-Philosophische first edition in english, first impression, of the au- Abhandlung.” In: Annalen der Naturphilosophie, XIV 3/4, thor’s major work on the philosophy of mathematics, originally edited by Wilhelm Ostwald. Leipzig: Unesma G.m.b.H., 1921 published under the title Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Octavo. Original orange pictorial paper wrappers printed in black, sewn Mathematik in the same year. Although intended as the second as issued. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box with chemise part of the author’s Philosophical Investigations, this imposing and by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers toned and with very light wear to ex- brilliantly edited work stands by itself. tremities, fore edges of first 4 leaves a little roughly opened, small marks to rear wrapper and rear endpapers, a very good copy. £800 [114183] first edition, first issue, of the extremely rare journal publi- 198 cation of Wittgenstein’s earliest published work. It was published in book form the following year with parallel English translation [WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.] A Vindication of the Rights by C. K. Ogden under the title Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund journal further includes two works by A. Ölzet-Newin, one by Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in Fritz Dehnow, a review of a new book by Joseph Petzold, and the France. London: for J. Johnson, 1790 contents page for the full four-part journal. Octavo (220 × 132 mm). Recently bound in buff cloth-backed blue boards Bertrand Russell’s foreword for the edition secured the publication to period style. Bristol University bookplate to front pastedown, small of Wittgenstein’s work. “‘In any other case I should have declined to blind stamps to title and last page, remnants of small label to lower cor- accept the article’, Ostwald wrote to [Dorothy Wrinch] on 21 Febru- ner of front pastedown, Wollstonecraft named as the author in manu- ary: ‘But I have such an extremely high regard for Mr Bertrand Rus- script on the title page. Extremities lightly rubbed, rear backstrip a little stained, some minor foxing to contents, small nick to fore edge of leaves sell, both for his researches and for his personality, that I will gladly D8 and F7, overall an excellent copy. publish Mr Wittgenstein’s article in my Annalen der Naturphilosophie:

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199 YOUNG, Arthur. A Six Months Tour through the North of England. Containing, An Account of the present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in several Counties of this Kingdom . . . In Four Volumes. London: printed for W. Strahan [& 3 others in London], 1770 4 volumes, octavo (201 × 123 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco labels, compartments and boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, red sprin- 198 kled edges. With 28 engraved plates (many folding) and 6 folding tables. Armorial bookplates of Joseph Pickford and bookseller’s tickets to front pastedowns, bookplates of Robin Shield to front free endpapers, ink owner- first edition, the first of several replies disputing the contro- ship inscription to front pastedown of volume 1. Extremities rubbed, spine versial and conservative assumptions made in Burke’s Reflections ends a little bumped with a few splits to joints, endpapers browned from on the Revolution in France, also published in 1790, and an impor- turn-ins, hinges gently cracked but firm, contents very lightly tanned with tant precursor to A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published occasional spotting, overall a bright set in very good condition. two years later. “Mary’s fervour for the principles of the Rev- first edition of the great agricultural reformer’s survey of the olution developed rapidly and was unmixed with any doubts; northern counties of England. Young’s Tours are “his most val- having learnt her politics from the Dissenters she continued uable publications”, and the English tours in particular contain to adopt their attitudes and followed their particular struggles “the best account of the state of the country, and the condition sympathetically. On 4 November, the anniversary of the 1688 of the agriculturists, between 1760 and 1780” (McCulloch, p. Revolution in England, Dr Price delivered a sermon at the Old 214). England “with its increased acreage of cultivated land Jewry meeting house . . . This speech and action of Price’s set off resulting from the enclosure system, and the consequent rise a chain reaction of events in England. Burke was so infuriated by of great landowners and farmers in the 18th century, especially it that he started work on his Reflections on the Revolution in France welcomed innovations in agricultural methods. Arthur Young . . . Mary read them at once, and seeing the principles she had applied statistical methods to the study of agriculture, inves- so unhesitatingly taken up as her own under attack, and a smear tigating both the statistics of production and the costs of this set upon the good name of her beloved benefactor and teacher particular industry. He obtained his information from a series of Dr Price, she was in a fury of indignation . . . The tone was im- extensive tours in England, Ireland and France, where he stud- patient, the arguments sketchy. But it was redeemed by its dom- ied the state of agriculture at first hand. These journeys resulted inant emotion, a humanitarian sympathy for the poor, and by a in the publication of about two hundred and fifty books and passionate contempt for the wilful blindness of the privileged to pamphlets setting out his ideas and theories” (PMM). what kept their system going” (Tomalin, pp. 93–5). Einaudi 6096; Goldsmiths’ 10612; Higgs 4852; Kress 6767. See McCull- Windle 4a. See Janet Todd, A Dictionary of British Women Writers, 1660–1800 och, p. 213–4; Printing and the Mind of Man 214 (for A Six Weeks Tour through (1987); Claire Tomalin, The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (2004). the Southern Counties of England and Wales). £8,750 [119354] £1,750 [116726]

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