History of Economic Thought

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1 ASHWORTH, William. A Short History of the International Economy, 1850-1950. London, Longmans, Green, 1952.

Octavo. Pp. 256. Index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. In fine condition (small ownership stamp).

- - First edition.
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2 BAGIOTTI, Tullio (Editor). Studi in onore di Marco Fanno. Essay in Honour of Marco Fanno. I: Ricerche di metodologia e di teoria economica. II: Investigations in Economic Theory and Methodology. [TWO VOLUMES]. Padova, Cedam, 1966.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xlvii, 596; xliv, 782. Frontispiece portrait, protected by tissue guard, to the first volume. Tables, figures. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s green leatherette, gilt printed spines. In a very fine internal condition. Bound in decorative but rather fragile binding, both spines broke along sides, though one is neatly restored. That said, a desirable set with excellent, unblemished interiors.

- - First edition. Marco Fanno, 1878-1965. Was a professor at the University of Padua. In his writings he analyzed the proportions of factors of production and emphasized the relation between direct and capital goods in a given economic system. He was highly respected as a teacher. Among his books are “L’Espansione Commerciale e Coloniale Degli Stati Moderni ” (1906); “Le Banche e il Mercato Monetario (1912); and “Principii di Scienza Economica” (1938). OCLC 2049551.
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3 BAGIOTTI, Tullio (Editor). Studi in onore di Marco Fanno. Essay in Honour of Marco Fanno. I: Ricerche di metodologia e di teoria economica. II: Investigations in Economic Theory and Methodology. [TWO VOLUMES]. Padova, Cedam, 1966.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xlvii, 596; xliv, 782. Frontispiece portrait, protected by tissue guard, to the first volume. Tables, figures. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s green leatherette, gilt printed spines, a touch of wear to spine ends. In fine condition.

- - First edition. Marco Fanno, 1878-1965. Was a professor at the University of Padua. In his writings he analyzed the proportions of factors of production and emphasized the relation between direct and capital goods in a given economic system. He was highly respected as a teacher. Among his books are “L’Espansione Commerciale e Coloniale Degli Stati Moderni ” (1906); “Le Banche e il Mercato Monetario (1912); and “Principii di Scienza Economica” (1938). OCLC 2049551.
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4 BASTIAT, [Claude] Frédéric. Capital et rente. [BOUND WITH:] Protectionisme et communisme. [BOUND WITH:] Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas ou l’économie politique en une leçon. [THREE BOOKS BOUND IN ONE]. Paris, Guillaumin, 1849-50.

Three books bound in one. Small octavo. Pp. 60; 64; 79. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half red cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, short split at head of joint. Handsome copy in overall very good condition.

- - First edition. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French writer and Gentleman farmer, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). A scarce collection of three of his works.
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5 BASTIAT, [Claude] Frédéric. Harmonies économiques. Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1850.

Crown octavo. Pp. 388. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine richly decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker, corner-tips bit rubbed. Handsome copy in a very good condition.

- - First Belgian edition, published in the same year as the French edition. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French writer and Gentleman farmer, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). Einaudi 326 (listing the French edition). OCLC 309833. English translation was published in 1860 by John Murray, London. From the library of Mr [Master of Laws] H. C. Hintzen with his handsome bookplate.
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6 BASTIAT, [Claude] Frédéric; [Pierre] [Joseph] Proudhon. Gratuité du crédit. Discussion entre M. Fr. Bastiat et M. Proudhon. [BOUND WITH:] L’état. Maudit argent. [BOUND WITH:] Baccalauréat et socialisme. [THREE BOOKS BOUND IN ONE]. Paris, Guillaumin, 1849-50.

Three books bound in one. Small octavo. Pp. 292; 93, (2). Hardcover, bound in contemporary half red cloth and marbled boards, recased, spine gilt, paper on boards lightly rubbed along edges. Handsome copy in overall very good condition (sporadic foxing).

- - First edition. A rare collection of three works, the first in a form of 14 letters between these two canons of economic thought, Bastiat and Proudhon. The letters, save the last, first appeared in the magazine “La Voix du Peuple”. Exceedingly scacre. OCLC 4078594 locates just 2 copies of the “Discussion” in the UK (Cambridge and Edinburgh), and about 20 in the USA; only 4 copies of “L’état” in the USA and only 3 in the UK (13515775); ten copies of “Baccalauréat et socialisme” in the USA (1870421) and just one copy in the UK (Cambridge).
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7 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Cobden et la ligue ou l’agitation anglaise pour la liberté du commerce. Paris, Guillaumin, 1845.

Octavo. Pp. Half-title, title, xcvi, 426. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf and attractive marbled boards, spine gilt ruled, with gilt morocco label, all edges sprinkled green. In about fine internal condition (light foxing to prelims), and just good binding (spine rubbed, small part missing at top; front inner hinge split but holding firmly; corner-tips bit rubbed, bumped; endpapers marked). A rather desirable copy with excellent interior, in handsome, though not perfect binding.

- - First edition of Claude Frédéric Bastiat’s (1801-1850) first book. Bastiat, a friend of Richard Cobden, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). “Political economy has been indebted to him, both during his short life and after it, for some of its worthiest followers.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). A throat-and-lung disease forced this brilliant mind and excellent speaker to restrict himself to writing during the last six years of his life. Kress C.6535. Goldsmith 34133. Einaudi 324. Italian translation, “Cobden e la Lega; ossia, L’agitazione inglese per la libertà del commercio” appeared in Napoli, in 1849. Scarce. Only one copy of this edition in French Union Catalog. KVK lists National Library of Australia; British Union Catalog (2 copies); Union Catalog of Canada (2 copies); and Union Catalog Italy. Few copies are in microform. Further 3 copies are located in Germany (Union Catalogs Bavaria, Southwest Germany, Northern Germany). OCLC 4291767.
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8 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Harmonies économiques. Paris, Guillaumin, 1850.

Octavo. Pp. Half-title, title (Errata on verso), 463, (1). Hardcover, contemporary half dark-green calf and matching foliage-patterned marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, spine ends and corner-tips bit rubbed. All edges sprinkled green. In about fine internal condition, foxed but otherwise surprisingly well preserved. A very desirable copy.

- - First edition. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French writer and Gentleman farmer, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). “Political economy has been indebted to him, both during his short life and after it, for some of its worthiest followers.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). Goldsmith 36728. Einaudi 325. First edition. “Harmonies économiques” was published posthumously, but few parts had already appeared as articles in 1848 and 1849. English translation was published in 1860 by John Murray, London. No copy of this edition on OCLC worldwide (OCLC 309833 locates only the Bruxelles edition.) KVK locates only 9 copies of this edition, few in microform only.
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9 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Harmonies économiques. Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1850.

Crown octavo. Pp. 388. Half title present. Hardcover, contemporary half calf and matching foliage-patterned marbled boards, spine gilt ruled, with gilt morocco label. All edges sprinkled. In about fine internal condition (a touch of foxing to prelims). Spine rubbed, mended, top part missing; corner-tips bit rubbed. A rather desirable copy with a brightly preserved interior, in a handsome, if faulty, binding.

- - First Belgian edition, published in the same year as the French edition. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French writer and Gentleman farmer, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). Einaudi 326 (listing the French edition). OCLC 309833. English translation was published in 1860 by John Murray, London.
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10 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat. Mises en ordre, revues et annotées d’après les manuscrits de l’auteur. I: Correspondance mélanges; II: Le libre-échange; III: Cobden et la Ligue; IV: Sophismes économiques, petits pamphlets I; V: Sophismes économiques, petits pamphlets II; VI: Harmonies économiques. [SIX VOLUMES]. Paris, Guillaumin, 1854.

Six volumes. Small octavo. Pp. xxxv, 512; 485; 521; 548; 564; 594. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original olive-green pebbled cloth, decorative spines lettered in gilt, ornaments in relief, with blank paper label. All edges marbled in snake skin motif. Silken ribbon markers. In a very good condition (old institutional stamp and pencil inscription to each volume). A lovely set, very nicely preserved.

- - First collected edition. Volume II is 2nd edition (1862); volume VI is 4th edition (1860). Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French writer and Gentleman farmer, has been called “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16). He was the “spokesman for the liberal, optimistic school of French economics.” (Sills. IESS. 1972). “Political economy has been indebted to him, both during his short life and after it, for some of its worthiest followers.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). A throat-and-lung disease forced this brilliant mind and excellent speaker to restrict himself to writing during the last six years of his life. OCLC 756555. Scarce.
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11 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat. Mises en ordre, revues et annotées d’après les manuscrits de l’auteur. Tome I: Correspondance mélanges. Paris, Guillaumin, 1855.

Royal octavo. Pp. 8 publisher’s catalogue, 510, (2) errata. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, bit dusty, tiny chip at foot of spine. In about fine internal condition (some foxing at the beginning). Overall an excellent copy, practically unused. Still entirely unopened!

- - First volume of the first collected edition. The correspondence of Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), “the most ardent Continental exponent of economic liberalism.” (Mai, p.16).
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12 BASTIAT, Frédéric; Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Krediet om niet. Redetwist tusschen Fr. Bastiat en P. J. Proudhon. Leeuwarden, Borgrink, 1852.

Octavo. Pp. (ii), 318. Hardcover, untrimmed copy bound in contemporary full buckram, spine gilt, original printed wrappers laid-down. In fine condition.

- - First Dutch edition, translated from the French (1850) by C.M.A. Simon van der Aa. Written in a form of 14 letters between these two canons of economic thought, Bastiat and Proudhon. Scarce.
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13 BASTIAT, Frédéric. Textes présentés par Florin Aftalion. Frédéric Bastiat: Oeuvres économiques. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1983.

Royal octavo. Pp. 217. Original stiff wrappers with flaps. In fine internal condition (perforated stamp to cover).

- - First edition.
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14 BENDIXEN, Friedrich. Das Wesen des Geldes. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Reform der Reichsbankgesetzgebung. Zweite Auflage mit Anmerkungen und Ergänzungen (1918). [BOUND WITH:] Geld und Kapital. Gesammelte Aufsätze (1912). [BOUND WITH:] Währungspolitik und Geldtheorie im Lichte des Weltkriegs. Neue Folge von “Geld und Kapital”. Zweite, durchgesehene und vermehrte Auflage (1919). [THREE BOOKS BOUND IN ONE]. München & Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1912-19.

Three books bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. 88; 187; 182, (2). Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, cloth French corners, gilt lettering to spine. A very good set (small abrasion at foot of spine).

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15 BENTHAM, Jeremy. Edited by John Hill Burton. Benthamiana: or, Select Extracts From the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With An Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works. Edinburgh, William Tait; London, Simpkin, Marshall; Dublin, John Cumming, 1843.

Octavo. Pp. xxiii, (i) blank, 419, (1) blank. Plus lithograph frontispiece portrait, from an engraving made by C. Fox after H. W. Pickersgill, printed by the lithographer S. Leith of Edinburgh, with tissue-guard. Half-title present. Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, both boards decoratively embossed, spine gilt, this restored, with light wear at ends, first inner hinge cracking but very firm. In about fine internal condition. A very bright, untrimmed interior.

- - First edition. Republished in 1844, and recently in 1998. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English social philosopher whose influence on the development of economic thought and theory was very great. Burton was an Edinburgh lawyer and a professional writer for literary journals. He established his name as an author with the “Life and Correspondence of David Hume” (1846), in which he threw light for the first time on Hume as an economist. Before editing “Benthamiana” he played an important role in assisting Sir John Bowring in editing the works of Bentham. “The more the matter is investigated the clearer it becomes that Burton, not Bowring, was the effectively responsible editor.” -- J. H. Burns, Emeritus Professor of History, University College London, in “Bentham and the Scots” (The Bentham Project, 2004). This edition remains much sought after. While OCLC 1866322 locates 50 copies worldwide, it lists (OCLC 9868685) over 60 others in microform only.
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16 BLANQUI, Adolphe. Histoire de l’économie politique en Europe, depuis les anciens jusqu’à nos jours, suivie d’une bibliographie raisonnée des principaux ouvrages d’économie politique, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Guillaumin, 1837.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxviii, 432; 480. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter medium red calf and matching marbled boards, French corners, gilt lettering to spines, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, corner-tips rubbed. Lovely set in handsome binding, overall in fine condition.

- - First edition. Jerome Adolphe Blanqui (1798-1854), French economist. Studied philosophy and political economy under Say, and became his successor. For the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques he studies the economic and cultural conditions of most of the European countries, and reported about his observations first in the Journal des économistes, of which he was chief editor. He was the first to write on the history of political economy. It has been said that Blanqui was the first to use the term “industrial revolution”. Provenance: from the library of Professor L. J. Zimmerman with his signature to first free endpaper of each volume.
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17 BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Kapital und Kapitalzins. Erste Abteilung: Geschichte und kritik der Kapitalzins-theorien. Zweite Abteilung: I. Positive Theorie des Kapitales. II: Exkurse zur Positiven Theorie des Kapitales. Dritte durchgesehene und vermehrte Auflage. [TWO VOLUMES IN THREE]. Innsbruck, Wagner’schen Univeristäts-Buchhandlung, 1909-14.

Two volumes bound in 3. Royal octavo. Pp. xxxv, 747; xxiii, 652; viii, 477, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Serial- and volume title to first 2 volumes, only half-title to the 3rd. Indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in half green cloth and matching marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. In about fine condition. Excellent set.

- - Third, best edition. In many respects the present edition represents the preferred “Kapital und Kapitalzins”, being thoroughly revised, corrected and enlarged. Previous editions appeared unchanged, and the 4th edition, which was published in 1921, is merely a reprint, reset in smaller type. Provenance: From the library of E. E. Harmsen, with his bookplate. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914), Austrian economist. Full professor at the age of 37, he alternated university teaching with government service; became three times finance minister. KVK locates copies of this edition in Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries, Union Catalog of Canada, and IDS Bale/Berne only. Just four copies are located in Germany (Complete Catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Union Catalog Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria). OCLC 17695772.
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18 BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Kapital und Kapitalzins. Volume I: Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien. Volumes IIa-IIb: Positive Theorie des Kapitales. Vierte unveränderte Auflage. [TWO VOLUMES IN THREE]. Jena, Fischer, 1921.

Two volumes bound in 3. Royal octavo. Pp. xxvi, 546; xxi, 488; viii, 350. Footnotes, indices. The first volume is in original printed wrappers, still entirely unopened! The two volumes of the 2nd part are hardcover, bound in the original cloth. In a very fine condition. Excellent set, practically unused (bookplate, signature to half-title of 1st volume).

- - Fourth edition, unchanged. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914), Austrian economist. Full professor at the age of 37, he alternated university teaching with government service; became three times finance minister. OCLC 11486214.
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19 BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Kapital und Kapitalzins. Zweite Abteilung: I. Positive Theorie des Kapitales. II: Exkurse zur Positiven Theorie des Kapitales. Vierte, unveränderte Auflage. [ONE VOLUME IN TWO]. Jena, Fischer, 1921.

One volume in two. Royal octavo. Pp. xxiv, 488; viii, 350, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Index. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s printed cloth and boards. In a very good condition (signature to one title).

- - Fourth edition, Part II only (in 2 volumes). This unchanged edition is a reprint, set in smaller type, of the third and best edition, which in many respects represents the preferred “Kapital und Kapitalzins”, being thoroughly revised, corrected and enlarged. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914), Austrian economist. Full professor at the age of 37, he alternated university teaching with government service; became three times finance minister.
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20 BOUNIATIAN, Mentor. Wirtschaftskrisen und Ueberkapitalisation. Eine Untersuchung über die Erscheinungsformen und Ursachen der periodischen Wirtschaftskrisen. Müchen, Ernst Reinhardt, 1908.

Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 188. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, spine frayed, upper corner of title-page torn. In a very good condition (heavily annotated throughout in neat, contemporary hand).

- - First edition. Studien zur Theorie und Geschichte der Wirtschaftskrisen I. A reprint appeared in 1976 (Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). OCLC 8966799. Very scarce.
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21 BRANTS, Victor. L’économie sociale au moyen-âge. Coup d’oeil sur les débuts de la science économique dans les écoles françaises aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles. Louvain, Peeters; Paris, Champion, 1881.

Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 87. Hardcover, recased in contemporary half cloth over matching marbled boards, spine gilt, with paper label; old institutional stamps. In about fine condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition thus. Appeared originally in the form of articles in the “Revue Catholique of Louvain”. Victor Léopold Jacques Louis Brants (1856-1917), Belgian economist and historian. At the age of 22 he earned the degree of Ph.D. and Doctor of Law at Leyden University. Was a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His “La Législation comparée et internationale du travail (1903) brought him to international reputation. “L’économie sociale au moyen-âge” is among his important historical works. Uncommon. OCLC 35822872 lists only 8 copies worldwide. Bodleian adds another copy.
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22 BRIGHT, John. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. London, Macmillan, 1869.

Duodecimo. Pp. xii, 582. Set in double columns. Plus 56-page publisher’s catalogue. Extended index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt, green chalked endpapers, inner hinges cracked but firm. In fine internal condition. Nice copy.

- - First author’s popular edition. John Bright (1811-1899), English statesman. Son of a Quaker cotton miller, Bright had only elementary education but developed himself into an eminent orator. From the library of C. V. Gerritsen with his neat stamp to title.
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23 BÜCHER, Karl. Die Entstehung der Volkswirtschaft. Vorträge und Aufsätze. Erste und Zweite Sammlung. [TWO VOLUMES]. Tübingen, Laupp, 1918-19.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. viii, 475; 403. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering, spines decorated in gilt, all edges red. In fine condition (few annotations to one volume). A handsome set.

- - First volume is 12th & 13th edition; second volume is first edition.
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24 BUFNOIR, Claude. Propriété et contrat. Théorie des Modes d’acquisition des droits réels et des Sources des Obligations. Leçons recueillies et publiées, par MM. Bartin, Deschamps, Deslandres, Pillet, Saleilles, Timbal. Paris, Rousseau, 1924.

Thick royal octavo. Pp. xxviii, 840. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, these a little worn. Internally in about fine condition (old signature to half title).

- - Second, unchanged edition. [Deuxième édition conforme à la 1re édition.] Introduction by L. Guillouard; preface by E. Bartin. Claude Bufnoir (1832-1898). First published in 1900, recently reprinted in 2005. OCLC 15074163. KVK lists copies in French Union Catalog, British Union Catalog, Union Catalog of Canada, Library Network of Western Switzerland. Uncommon.
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25 CAIRNES, John Elliot. Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded. [THREE PARTS IN ONE]. London, Macmillan, 1874.

Three parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 506, (4), 28, (4) publisher’s catalogue and ads. Footnotes. Hardcover, original brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, chalked forest-green endpapers, some abrasion to cloth on upper board, spine ends and corner-tips bit worn. In a very good condition (some spots on prelims). Overall a nice, very clean copy in strong binding.

- - A first issue of the first edition. Later issues were published with an enlarged, 54-page publisher’s catalogue. The present copy contains the original 28-page catalogue. The American edition was published only later that year (New York, Harper and Brothers). John Elliot Cairnes (1824-1875), Irish economist. At the time of his death he was generally regarded as the leading British economist and the last defender of the classical school. “Some Leading Principles of Political Economy” is considered one of his most important writings. OCLC 6006124; 4923708.
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26 CELLIER, F. du. Histoire des classes laborieuses en France depuis la conquète de la Gaule par Jules César jusqu’a nos jours. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Didier, 1866.

Royal octavo. Pp. viii, (i) errata, 479. Hardcover, quarter cloth and marbled boards, cloth French corners, original calf spine, gilt, laid-down. In a very good condition (some sporadic foxing). A handsome copy.

- - New edition.
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27 CERNUSCHI, Henri. Le pair bimétallique. (Notes soumises à la Gold and Silver Commission). Paris, Guillaumin, 1887.

Octavo. Pp. 85. Printed on thick paper. In the original stiff printed wrappers, bit dust-soiled, thumbed; faint dampmark in lower margin. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. In the same year, an English translation, “The Bimetallic Par: Notes Submitted to the Gold and Silver Commission” was published in London by P. S. King; and a German translation, “Das bimetallische Pari. Der Gold- und Silver-Commission in London unterbreitete Bemerkungen” appeared in Köln by J. P. Bachem. Henri Cernuschi (1821-1896), Italian politician and economist, best known for his publications on financial questions, more especially bimetallism. Of the latter he was an ardent champion, and the word itself is commonly supposed to have originated with him - at least in its English form it is first found in his “Silver Vindicated” (1876). Scarce. OCLC 27803254 locates just 7 copies worldwide. KVK adds copies in the National Libraries of Spain, the Netherlands, and France; and in Union Catalogs of Canada, Britain, Italy, and Northern Germany.
€ 750 --



28 CERNUSCHI, Henri. M. Michel Chevalier et le bimétallisme. Articles publiés dans le Siècle en avril et mai 1876 . Paris, Guillaumin, 1876.

Octavo. Pp. 135. Printed on thick paper. In the original stiff printed wrappers, bit thumbed, old decorative paper label on front; very small chip to blank lower corner of one leaf with no loss. In about fine condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. Michel Chevalier (1806-1879) a French economist. In 1840 he was appointed professor of political economy at the Collège de France and subsequently became one of the most eminent economists of his time and a great influence on the economic policies of France. He negotiated and successfully concluded the French-English commercial agreement in 1860, followed by similar treaties with other countries. He predicted, as early as 1857, the decline in the value of gold. Henri Cernuschi (1821-1896), Italian politician and economist. Cernuschi is best known for his publications on financial questions, more especially bimetallism. Of the latter he was an ardent champion, and the word itself is commonly supposed to have originated with him - at least in its English form it is first found in his Silver Vindicated (1876). Scarce. OCLC lists only 3 copies worldwide (University of Alberta, Cambridge University, Dibam Biblioteca Nacional de Chile). KVK lists copies in Union Catalog Italy, National Library of France, Union Catalog of Canada, British Union Catalog (4 copies), Library Network of Western Switzerland, Union Catalog Austria, and an incomplete copy in Union Catalog North Rhine-Westphalia.
€ 450 --



29 CERNUSCHI, Henri. Mécanique de l’échange. Paris, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven, Juin 1865.

Royal octavo. Pp. 244. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter crimson calf and marbled boards, cloth French corners rubbed, spine with raised band, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. A wide-margined copy with excellent interior in handsome binding.

- - First edition. Henri Cernuschi (1821-1896), Italian politician and economist. Cernuschi is best known for his publications on financial questions, more especially bimetallism. Of the latter he was an ardent champion, and the word itself is commonly supposed to have originated with him - at least in its English form it is first found in his Silver Vindicated (1876).
€ 180 --



30 CHANG, [Zhang] Pei-kang. Agriculture and Industrialization: The Adjustments That Take Place as an Agricultural Country Is Industrialized. [FIRST EDITION]. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1949.

Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 270. Footnotes, bibliography, appendices, index. With 29 tables. Hardcover, original cherry cloth, spine gilt, with blurb from dust-jacket tipped-in onto first free endpaper. In fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Professor Pei-kang Chang (1913), a pioneer of Development Economics. Obtained a B.A. in Economics from Wuhan University in 1934, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1945. His doctoral dissertation “Agriculture and Industrialization” won the prestigious David A. Wells Prize as the best dissertation in economics for the year 1946-1947 at Harvard. Chang is now Honorary Dean of School of Economics and Director of Research Center for Economic Development in HUST and Honorary Chairman of China’s Society for Study of Western Economic Doctrines.
€ 225 --



31 CHEVALIER, Michel. Translated from the French, With Preface, by Richard Cobden. On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences Which May Ensue, and the Measures Which It Invites. Manchester, Ireland; London, Smith; Edinburgh, Black, 1859.

Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 196. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full pebbled cloth, decoration embossed in blind on both sides, spine gilt (faded), chalked yellow endpapers. A good copy.

- - Third edition. From the library and Literary Association of the Bank of England with contemporary note pasted onto first paste-down. Michel Chevalier (1806-1879) predicted as early as 1857 the decline in the value of gold. Among his many other important publications are “Cours d’économie politique” (1842-44), and “Monnaie” (1850).
€ 90 --



32 CORBIÈRE, l’Abbé [Prosper Honoré]. L’économie sociale au point de vue chrétien, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, A. Jouby, 1863.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. iv, 507; 508. Plus a suite of blank leaves at the end of each volume, apparently for notations. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and matching foliage paper over boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered and decorated direct, corners abraded, rubbed at extremities, handsome marbled endpapers, red ribbon markers, a small dampmark at foot margin of first few leaves of one volume. A nice set in handsome binding, overall in a very good condition.

- - First edition. A German translation, “Die Volkswirthschaftslehre vom Standpunkte des Christenthums” appeared in 1867. Only little is known about the Abbot Corbière. He was born in 1803 in Saint Lieux Lafenasse and at the age of 25 joined the “Societas Presbyterorum a S. Sulpitio”, a move which had a great influence on his life thereafter. In 1945 he published “Le Guide de la conscience. Ouvrage contenant les divers traités de la morale chrétienne et des sacraments, à l’usage des simples fidèles.” He died in 1865. For more on Corbière’s life, and comments on his contribution to economic thought, see “Corbière und die soziale Theorie in der katholischen Kirche des 19. Jahrhunderts” by Gerhard Merk (Die Neue Ordnung” Vol. 20, 1966). Rare. OCLC 36957989 locates only 6 copies worldwide. KVK locates just one copy, that in the British Library.
€ 750 --



33 COSSA, Luigi. Histoire des doctrines économiques. Paris, Giard & Brière, 1899.

Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xii, 124, (2), 127-574. Divisional title to each part. Bibliography, extended index of authors cited. Hardcover, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments between gilt raised bands, direct gilt lettering, cloth inner hinges; leather rubbed, chafed, corner-tips exposed. Else overall an excellent copy in fine internal condition (old signature to title, small stamps to last free endpaper).

- - First French edition. A volume in the Bibliothèque Internationale d’Economie Politique Series, edited by Alfred Bonnet. Luigi Cossa (1831-1896), Italian economist. Became a professor of political economy at the University of Pavia and was responsible for the revival of the scientific study of economy in Italy. He made Pavia the centre of economic research, and was the first modern Italian economist to gain international recognition. As a brilliant scholar and excellent teacher, Cossa exercised great influenced. His “Guida allo studio dell’economia politica” (1876) was a remarkable achievement for its time. It was translated into many languages and appeared in English under the title “Introduction to the Study of Political Economy” (1880). “Histoire des doctrines économiques” was translated from the revised manuscript of the 3d Italian edition (1892) “Introduzione allo studio dell’economia politica”. Rare. KVK lists 9 copies only. Three other copies are in Germany (Union Catalogs Northern Germany, Bavaria, Southwest Germany). OCLC 4406724.
€ 350 --



34 [COYER, Gabriel François, abbé]. La noblesse commerçante. Londres et se trouve à Paris, Duchesne, 1756.

Small octavo. Pp. 151, (1) publisher’s ad. Plus engraved frontispiece. handsome device to title, decorative head-pieces. Includes the “Explication du frontispice”. Hardcover, bound in contemporary marbled boards, spine with crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, date gilt stamped on foot. Fine, handsome copy.

- - First edition. Later editions followed, among them those printed in Amsterdam. Gabriel François, abbé Coyer, was a French man of letters and worldly cleric born in 1707. He entered the Society of Jesus, studying humanities and philosophy until he left the order in 1736. In 1741 he became private tutor to the young Duke of Bouillon (Prince of Turenne at the time). There followed public functions that saw him in attendance at some battles of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). His many works include a history of the Polish king Jan Sobieski, travel accounts of Holland and Italy, a study of ancient religions, belles-lettres, and a popular attack on the guild system, Chinki. He became a member of the Royal Academy of England and the Academy of Nancy. It is said that when he visited Voltaire at Ferney and announced his desire to return each year for three months, Voltaire replied that whereas Don Quixote had mistaken inns for castles, Coyer was mistaking castles for inns. He died in 1782. (See Henry C. Clarke: “Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith”, Indianapolis, 2003.)
€ 420 --



35 CRUMP, Arthur. An Investigation into the Causes of the Great Fall in Prices which Took Place Coincidently with the Demonetisation of Silver by Germany. London, Longmans, Green, 1889.

Royal octavo. Pp. (ii), 198. With a beautifully engraved coat-of-arms of the Author on the leaf preceding title. With a list of works by the Author. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, blind ruled sides, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering to upper cover, yellow chalked endpapers, old institutional stamps and shelf label to first free endpaper, one to title-page, spine bit faded, sunned patch to board. Overall an excellent copy in fine condition.

- - First edition. The Author’s coat-of-arms is most unusual both by its charming design and presence on the leaf usually reserved for half-title. It incorporates a central design, showing a cat in attack position and a knight’s helmet. Under this, a ribbon bears the words “sine labore nihil” (Nothing without work). The outer ring bears the words “Arthur Crump Sigill”. Rare. British Union Catalog COPAC locates just 3 copies in the United Kingdom. KVK locates copies in Library of Congress, Union Catalog of Canada, and Union Catalog Northern Germany. Provenance: From the library of the Second Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands.
€ 1200 --



36 DAIRE, Eugène. (Vauban, Boisguillebert, Jean Law, Mélon, Dutot). Économistes financiers du XVIIIe siècle. VAUBAN, projet d’une dime royale. BOISGUILLEBERT, détail de la France, factum de la France, et opuscules divers. JEAN LAW, considérations sur le numéraire et le commerce, mémoires et lettres sur les banques, opuscules divers. MÉLON, essai politiques sur le commerce. DUTOT, réflexions politiques sur le commerce et les finances. Précédés de notices historiques sur chaque auteur, et accompagnés de commentaires et de notes explicatives. Paris, Guillaumin, 1843.

Thick crown quarto. Pp. 1008. Handsome, steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Vauban. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter forest-green morocco, bit rubbed, and marbled boards, spine gilt tooled and lettered, marbled endpapers. A very good, handsome copy, foxed.

- - First edition. Eugène Daire (1789-1847).
€ 300 --



37 [DARIGRAND, Edme-François (Jean-Baptiste?)]; Thomas, [Antoine Léonard]. L’anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les fermiers généraux, & des vexations qu’ils commettent dans les provinces: Servant de réfutation d’un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux Remontrances du Parlement de Bordeaux; précédée d’une epitre au parlement de France, Accompagnée de Notes Historiques. [BOUND AFTER:] Oeuvres diverses: Poesie; Eloge de Maurice Comte de Saxe; Eloge de Henri-François Daguesseau; Eloge de René Duguay-Trouin. [TWO WORKS IN ONE]. Amsterdam, n.p., 1763.

- - COMPLETE TITLE: L’anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les fermiers généraux, & des vexations qu’ils commettent dans les provinces: Servant de réfutation d’un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux Remontrances du Parlement de Bordeaux; précédée d’une epitre au parlement de France, Accompagnée de Notes Historiques. [BOUND AFTER:] Oeuvres diverses: Poesie; Eloge de Maurice Comte de Saxe; Eloge de Henri-François Daguesseau; Eloge de René Duguay-Trouin. [TWO WORKS IN ONE]. Two works in 6 parts bound in one. Octavo. Oeuvres diverses: Two books in 4 parts. Pp. (ii) blank, half-title, (iv), 70; 175, (1) blank. Charming engraved illustration to title, title printed in red and black. L’anti-financier: Two parts in one. Pp. (ii) half-title (Explication de l’estampe on verso), 60; 107, (3) blank. Plus handsome allegorical frontispiece. Decorative head-pieces, footnotes. Hardcover, bound in full speckled calf, spine gilt extra in compartments between raised band, 2 gilt lettered crimson morocco labels, gilt French fillet to sides, gilt inside dentelles and boards’ edges, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, neat contemporary manuscript inscription to first blank prelim, green ribbon marker, leather bit chafed and blemished in places, corner-tips worn. Overall a nice copy in a very good condition (old oval stamp to title).

- - First issue of the first edition of “L’anti-financier”. The exceptional collation of 2 books in one should be notes. See Conlon 63:751, Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; Higgs 3017; INED 1276. Attributed to Edme-François Darigrand (Cf. NUC pre-1956) (ca. 1735-1771). Occassionally attributed to Jean-Baptiste Darigrand (Cf. London School of Economics). Of this edition, without specifying the issue, KVK lists only Union Catalog Southwest Germany with one copy, and British Union Catalog COPAC with 6 copies, all but one (National Library of Wales) with 104 pp. only. “Oeuvres diverses” was published in Amsterdam, E. van Harrevelt, 1762. Antoine Léonard Thomas (1732-1785).
€ 600 --



38 DENIS, Hector. L’impôt. Leçons données aux cours publics de la ville de Bruxelles. Première série. Bruxelles, Veuve Monnom, 1889.

Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 309. Large folding graph bound in. Tables. Hardcover, contemporary calf, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettering. Marbled sides, cloth corners, handsome marbled endpapers; first and last leaves bit foxed, old neat ownership signature. With a portrait of the author tipped-in onto title-leaf. In fine condition. An excellent copy.

- - First edition. Hector Denis (1842-1913), Belgian economist and philosopher. Was professor of ethics and political economy at the University of Brussels. Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for 20 years. His work on the history of economic ideas was probably his most significant contribution. In his “L’impôt” he offered a public finance and taxation theory. Before this, in his “L’impôt sur la revenue” (1881) he provided interesting data on the collection of taxes. Wrote also “La dépression économique et sociale et l’histoire des prix” (1895); “Histoire des systèmes économiques et socialistes” (1897. Reprinted 1904, 1907). KVK locates just a single copy, that in Union Catalog Italy. OCLC 3636535.
€ 185 --



39 DESTUTT DE TRACY, [Antoine Louis Claude, Comte]. Traité d’économie politique. Paris, Bouguet et Lévi, 1823.

Small octavo. Pp. 365 (i.e. 356). Page 356 incorrectly numbered 365. Half-title present. Hardcover, handsomely bound in full brown-and-black patterned cloth, spine lettered. In fine condition (odd foxing spot, brown patch between 2 leaves where old newspaper clipping is inserted). An excellent copy.

- - First separate edition. Originally published in 1804 as part of “Eléments d’idéologie”, the work was titled “Traité de la volonté”. (Palgrave 1894-1901). Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836), French senator, philosopher, and economist. An important intellectual leader during the time of Napoleon, he had been a member of the States-General (1789) and the Senate. Besides philosophical works influenced by Condillac, he wrote “Traité d’économie politique”, his only major work on economics. Production meant for him a change in form or place. Value, he said, must be expressed in units of value, but he himself did not recommend a specific unit of measurement. (Mai, p. 70). Thomas Jefferson made the American people acquainted with Destutt de Tracy’s work through his translation of the unpublished French original. Revised and corrected by himself, it was published as “A Treatise on Political Economy” (Georgetown, Joseph Milligan, 1817). Goldsmith 23731. Kress C.1051. Einaudi 1547. Very scarce. KVK locates just a single copy, that in British Library. Bodleian lists only a copy of the second, 1825 edition. OCLC 2842815.
€ 975 --



40 DOUGLAS, Paul H. Wages and the Family. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1925.

Octavo. Pp. xiv, 290. Tables. Bibliographical note, footnotes, index. Hardcover, original leaf green cloth, gilt. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. A second edition was published in 1934, and a reprint, by Arno Press, in 1976. Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976), a prominent Quaker and Unitarian United States Senator and economist, fought for civil rights, truth in lending, and conservation. Douglas’s was a prolific writer. Among his other books are “The Problem of Unemployment” (1931), with Aaron Director, (also offered by Librarium) and “The Theory of Wages” (1934). A recent biography of Douglas is “Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois” (2002). The archives of Douglas are in the Chicago Historical Society. OCLC 2721788.
€ 75 --



41 DOUGLAS, Paul H., and Aaron Director. Preface by Frank Aydelotte. The Problem of Unemployment. New York, Macmillan, 1931.

Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 505. With 39 tables. Bibliographical note, footnotes, index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, gilt; prelims faintly browned. In about fine condition. With a lovely, hand-printed wood- or linoleum-cut bookplate to front free endpaper. An excellent copy.

- - First edition. A second edition was published in 1934 and a reprint, by Arno Press, in 1976. Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976), a prominent Quaker and Unitarian United States Senator and economist, fought for civil rights, truth in lending, and conservation. Douglas’s was a prolific writer. Among his other books are “Wages and the Family” (1925) (also offered by Librarium) and “The Theory of Wages” (1934). A recent biography of Douglas is “Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas of Illinois” (2002). The archives of Douglas are in the Chicago Historical Society. Aaron Director was a distinguished University of Chicago economist. He greatly influenced the modern course of economics and legal thought through his founding of the field of Law and Economics and his mentoring of generations of scholars. He died in 2004 at the age of 102. While having a tremendous popularity within the academia (OLIS 300725 lists 360 major institutional libraries who hold the book), “The Problem of Unemployment” is exceedingly scarce elsewhere.
€ 325 --



42 DROZ, Joseph. Économie politique ou principes de la science des richesses. Paris, Jules Renouard, 1829.

Four books in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 391 (but 387, as pagination skips numbers 257-260 which are nevertheless counted in the total). Nice Publisher’s device to title. Hardcover, original half calf and marbled boards, untrimmed; leather on spine and corners chafed, very short splits at head of spine. In overall very good condition (foxed, spotted). A rather attractive copy.

- - First edition. A Bruxelles edition (Le Charlier) appeared at the same year. Later editions appeared in 1837, 1841, 1846, 1854, and 1874. Francois Xavier Joseph Droz (1773-1850), French economist and historian. His “Économie politique” contains the widely-quoted remarks, “Certain economists seem to think that products are not made for men, but that men are made for products” and “Capital left to itself is an idle toll.” Of his historical writings, “Histoire du regne de Louis XVI” (1839) is well known. Palgrave 1894-1901. Goldsmith 25751. Kress C.2268. Not in Einaudi. KVK lists copies in British Union Catalog, Union Catalog of Canada, National Library of Australia, and Library Network of Western Switzerland only. Four other copies are located in Germany (Union Catalogs Hesse, Northern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria). OCLC 10574462.
€ 400 --



43 DROZ, Joseph. Économie politique ou principes de la science des richesses. Bruxelles, Librairie Le Charlier, 1829.

Four books in one volume. Small octavo. Pp. xvi, 365. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full leather, spine gilt, with the original printed wrappers laid-down. Handsome, untrimmed copy in general fine condition (light sporadic foxing).

- - First Bruxelles edition. The Paris edition (Jules Renouard) appeared earlier that year. Later editions appeared in 1837, 1841, 1846, 1854, and 1874. Francois Xavier Joseph Droz (1773-1850), French economist and historian. His “Économie politique” contains the widely-quoted remarks, “Certain economists seem to think that products are not made for men, but that men are made for products” and “Capital left to itself is an idle toll.” Of his historical writings, “Histoire du regne de Louis XVI” (1839) is well known. Palgrave 1894-1901. Goldsmith 25751. Kress C.2268. Not in Einaudi. KVK lists copies in British Union Catalog, Union Catalog of Canada, National Library of Australia, and Library Network of Western Switzerland only. Four other copies are located in Germany (Union Catalogs Hesse, Northern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria), OCLC 10574462 (all with reference to the French edition).
€ 220 --



44 DUPIN, Baron [Francois Pierre] Charles. Forces productives et commerciales de la France, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Bruxelles, Lithographie Royale de Jobard Frères, 1828.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xcviii, 454, (2); 472, (2). Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter black morocco, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled and lettered, marbled boards, cloth French corners, a joint starting, inner hinges cracked. Overall a very good set (old institutional stamps to title of each, foxed).

- - First Brussels edition. Charles Dupin (1784-1873).
€ 550 --



45 ELSTER, Ludwig (Hrsg.) Wörterbuch der Volkswirtschaft in zwei Bänden. I: Abbau, Hypotheken- und Grundbuchwesen, Nachträge. II: Jagd, Zwangsvollstreckung, Nachträge, Sachregister. [TWO VOLUMES]. Jena, Fischer, 1898.

Two volumes. Thick crown quarto. Pp. x, 1092; x, 1018. Set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original half calf and pebbled leaf-green cloth, each spine in compartments, decorated in gilt, with contrasting gilt morocco labels. Fine marbled endpapers, cloth inner hinges, marbled edges, ribbon markers. In a very good condition, a very fine interior; abrasion to leather extremities of one volume. Overall a very handsome set with an exemplary fine interior.

- - First edition.
€ 275 --



46 ELSTER, Ludwig (Hrsg.) Wörterbuch der Volkswirtschaft. Volume II: Jagd, Zwangsvollstreckung, Nachträge, Sachregister. Jena, Fischer, 1898.

Volume II (of 2). Thick crown quarto. Pp. x, 1018. Set in double columns. Hardcover, original half calf and pebbled cloth, spine in compartments, decorated in gilt, with gilt morocco labels. Cloth inner hinges. In good condition; leather is poor but binding still strong. Interior is fine and very clean (old institutional stamps).

- - First edition.
€ 40 --



47 ELY, Richard T. Outlines of Economics. New York, Flood & Vincent, Chautauqua-Century Press, 1893.

Three books in one volume. Paginated consecutively. Crown octavo. Pp. xi, 347. Illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), American economist, one of the most influential economists of his time. Founder of the American Economic Association. “Outlines of economics” and “An Introduction to Political Economy” are among his successful academic textbooks. “Ely was a stimulating teacher who exerted a profoundly liberating influence on his students, many of whom became distinguished scholars or public figures.” (Sills. IESS 1972). “Property and Contract” (also offered by Librarium) was Ely’s main published contribution.
€ 75 --



48 ELY, Richard T. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth. Volume I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Macmillan, 1914.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xlvii, 474; vii, 475-995. Appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original crimson cloth, spines gilt; endpapers lightly browned. In fine condition. Overall an excellent set.

- - First edition, published simultaneously in New York and London. Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), American economist, one of the most influential economists of his time. Founder of the American Economic Association. He wrote successful academic textbooks, such as “Outlines of economics” and “An Introduction to Political Economy” (both offered by Librarium). “Ely was a stimulating teacher who exerted a profoundly liberating influence on his students, many of whom became distinguished scholars or public figures.” (Sills. IESS 1972). “Property and Contract”, though part of a massive output of articles and editorial work, was Ely’s main published contribution. Enjoying a huge popularity in the academia (OCLC lists several hundreds academic institutions worldwide, each holding a copy), “Property and Contract” is exceedingly scarce elsewhere.
€ 1475 --



49 ELY, Richard T. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth. Volume II. New York, Macmillan, 1914.

Octavo. Pp. vii, 475-995, (10) publisher’s catalogue. Appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original dark blue cloth, spine gilt, spine-ends very lightly bumped. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - Second volume of two. First edition, published simultaneously in New York and London. Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), American economist, one of the most influential economists of his time. Founder of the American Economic Association. He wrote successful academic textbooks, such as “Outlines of economics” and “An Introduction to Political Economy” (both offered by Librarium). “Ely was a stimulating teacher who exerted a profoundly liberating influence on his students, many of whom became distinguished scholars or public figures.” (Sills. IESS 1972.) “Property and Contract”, though part of a massive output of articles and editorial work, was Ely’s main published contribution. Enjoying a huge popularity in the academia (OCLC lists several hundreds academic institutions worldwide, each holding a copy), “Property and Contract” is exceedingly scarce elsewhere.
€ 675 --



50 ELY, Richard T. Socialism. An Examination of its Nature, its Strength and its Weakness, with Suggestions for Social Reform. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1894.

Crown octavo. Pp. xiii, 449. With folding chart as frontispiece (browned due to stock quality). Eleven appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine gilt. Clean, tight copy in a very good condition.

- - First British edition. Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), American economist, one of the most influential economists of his time. Founder of the American Economic Association. “Outlines of economics” and “An Introduction to Political Economy” are among his successful academic textbooks. “Ely was a stimulating teacher who exerted a profoundly liberating influence on his students, many of whom became distinguished scholars or public figures.” (Sills. IESS 1972). “Property and Contract” (also offered by Librarium) was Ely’s main published contribution.
€ 55 --



51 ELY, Richard T. With a Preface by John K. Ingram. An Introduction to Political Economy. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1891.

Crown octavo. Pp. 358. Appendix, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s burgundy cloth, black lettering, spine gilt; endpapers toned, some foxing to first and last leaves. In a very good condition (old ownership inscription to first free endpaper). Nice, tight copy.

- - First British edition. Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), American economist, one of the most influential economists of his time. Founder of the American Economic Association. “Outlines of economics” and “An Introduction to Political Economy” are among his successful academic textbooks. “Ely was a stimulating teacher who exerted a profoundly liberating influence on his students, many of whom became distinguished scholars or public figures.” (Sills. IESS 1972). “Property and Contract” (also offered by Librarium) was Ely’s main published contribution.
€ 55 --



52 ESPINAS, A. Histoire des doctrines économiques. Paris, Colin, (1891).

Duodecimo. Pp. 359. Footnotes, index. Armorial device to verso of half-title, ornamental device to title. Hardcover, contemporary burgundy quarter morocco and matching pebble-grained cloth, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettering in second, remainder each with a lovely gilt fleuron. Blind panelled boards, all edges sprinkled, cloth ribbon marker; boards bit faded, little rubbing to leather. In fine condition. A very handsome copy.

- - First edition. Alfred Victor Espinas (1844-1922), French philosopher, one of the founders of French sociology. Wrote also: “Étude sociologique: les origines de la technologie” (Paris, 1897) - also offered by Librarium.
€ 165 --



53 ESPINAS, Alfred. Étude sociologique: Les origines de la technologie. Paris, Ancienne librairie Germer Baillière; Félix Alcan, 1897.

Octavo. Pp. 295. Footnotes. Hardcover, half cloth and marbled boards, paper label (faded) to spine, marbled edges; underlining in faint coloured pencil, inscriptions to first leaves. In about fine condition.

- - First edition. Alfred Victor Espinas (1844-1922), French philosopher, one of the founders of French sociology. “This early work by Espinas on primitive invention (technology), a work not sufficiently appreciated in English-speaking countries, traced the origin and development of practical discovery and invention, emphasising the social and religious motives in the practical life of early societies. This direction has been pursued by the later French investigators, who have formulated the principle of ‘collective representation’ (‘représentation collective’). According to this principle, primitive life is dominated by a body of essentially collective thought, usage, and authority, which replaces the individual types of thought and association reached by the analysis of the British school.” - James Mark Baldwin, “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation” (1913). Espinas wrote also “Histoire des doctrines économiques” (Paris, 1891) - also offered by Librarium. Very scarce. OCLC lists only 3 copies worldwide, at Stanford University Library and l’University Charles de Gaulle (2 copies). KVK adds 2 copies (British Library and Library Network of Western Switzerland).
€ 320 --



54 [FABRE DE CHARRIN]. TABLEAU DU MINISTÈRE DE COLBERT. AMSTERDAM ET SE TROUVE À PARIS, Lejay, Bastien, Petit Lyon, Angot, 1774.

Octavo. Pp. 152. Half-title present. Nice publisher’s device to title, large decorative head-piece. Foot- and shoulder notes. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and handsome marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, green morocco label lettered in gilt, all edges sprinkled blue. Overall a fine, handsome copy (some browning to endpapers).

- - First edition. Attributed to Fabre de Charrin (Barbier, Dict. des ouvrages anonymes, v. 4, col. 644). KVK lists only 5 copies: Union Catalog Italy; Austrian National Library; British Union Catalog; and French and German Union Catalogs. Union Catalog of Canada lists a copy in microform.
€ 480 --



55 FAWCETT, Henry. Manual of Political Economy. London, Macmillan, 1876.

Octavo. Pp. xxxii, 631, 36 publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, green chalked endpapers, light foxing at end, inner hinges cracking. Overall a very good copy with nice and neat interior (name clipped off half-title).

- - Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Henry Fawcett (1833-1884), English statesman and economist. He became totally blind after an accident but nevertheless decided to study economics. Was professor of political economy at Cambridge, and a member of Parliament. His “Manual...” was intended to make the work of Mill briefer and more accessible. It was a text in British and American colleges for many years. An abridgement was later published by his wife.
€ 95 --



56 FEIG, Irmgard. Unternehmertum und Sozialismus. Eine dogmen- und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Betrachtung. Abhandlungen des staatswissenschaftlichen Seminars zu Jena. Jena, Fischer, 1932.

Royal octavo. Pp. 66, (3) publisher’s ads. Original wrappers (bit soiled). In a very good condition (stamp).

- - First edition.
€ 25 --



57 FISHER, Irving. Assisted by Hans R. L. Cohrssen. Stable Money: A History of the Movement. New York, Adelphi, 1934.

Octavo. Pp. xxiii, 442. Six appendices, including enlarged selected bibliography. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, bound in later half green cloth and marbled boards, a quire re-sewn, sprinkled edges; very small institutional stamp to verso of title-page. In about fine condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. Fisher (1867-1947) wrote 13 books on monetary stabilization, of which “Stable Money” is perhaps the most important: OCLC lists almost 200 major academic libraries worldwide, each holding a copy of this book. Outside the academia, though, the book is rather scarce.
€ 320 --



58 FISHER, Irving. Assisted by Hans R. L. Cohrssen. Stable Money: A History of the Movement. New York, Adelphi, 1934.

Octavo. Pp. xxiii, 442. Six appendices, including enlarged selected bibliography. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, bound in decorated green cloth; some pencil underlining, few dog-eared leaves. Excellent ex-lib copy, with the usual marks, in fine condition. Overall a very nice, very neat copy, brightly preserved.

- - First edition. Fisher (1867-1947) wrote 13 books on monetary stabilization, of which “Stable Money” is perhaps the most important: OCLC lists almost 200 major academic libraries worldwide, each holding a copy of this book. Outside the academia, though, the book is rather scarce.
€ 290 --



59 FORSTER, Peter. [Jürgen Kuczynski]. Wohin steuert die deutsche Wirtschaft? Strasbourg, Éditions Prométhée, 1937.

Royal octavo. Pp. 78, (2). Bound in the original publisher’s decorated stiff wrappers, minor chips to spine ends. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. Jürgen Peter Kuczynski, using here the pseudonym Peter Forster, was professor of economic history at the Humboldt University, Berlin, German Democratic Republic. He published the 40-volume “History of Labour Conditions in Germany, Great Britain and the British Empire, France and the United States” (1960-80).
€ 80 --



60 FRÉZOULS, Paul. La théorie de la rente, et son extension récente dans la science économique. Montpellier, Firmin, Montane et Sicardi, 1908.

Two parts in one volume, paginated consecutively. Royal octavo. Pp. 237 verso blank; 239-318, (1) errata. Footnotes, index, bibliography. Hardcover, handsomely bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled raised bands, cloth inner hinges. Decorative endpapers, sprinkled edges. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - Sole edition. Doctoral dissertation, Université de Montpellier, Faculté de Droit. Paul Frézouls, French lawyer, Avocat a la Cour d’Appel, took interest in labor laws and legislation. In 1909 he published “Les ouvriers étrangers en France devant les lois du travail”. Scarce. OCLC locates only 4 copies worldwide, in Chicago, Kansas, Princeton, and Texas University Libraries. Another copy, in microform, is at Columbia. KVK lists just 6 copies worldwide, in National Library of France, British Union Catalog, Union Catalog Southwest Germany, Union Catalog Northern Germany, Library Network of Western Switzerland, and French Union Catalog.
€ 175 --



61 GAËTE, Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin, duc de. Mémoires, souvenirs, opinions et écrits, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Baudouin Frères, 1926.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 336; 599, (1) errata. Plus folding table. Appendix, tables to the text. Hardcover, custom bound in uniform contemporary speckled boards, spines gilt-stamped. A handsome set in about fine condition (light sporadic foxing).

- - First edition. Complete work in itself upon publication, a supplementary volume was published in 1834. - - Provenance: from the library of Comte de Schönborn Buchheim, with a handsome armorial bookplate pasted onto each volume’s first paste-down, and an armorial shelf label, printed in red, with a manuscript shelf number, to each cover. The Schönborn family is first noted as a feudal Rhenish house in the 15th century. Barons and, later, Counts, the family added the name, arms, and lands of the last Count of Buchheim by inheritance in the early 1700s. Later in that century the family divided into 3 branches: the eldest of 3 brothers, Franz Philipp (1768-1841) headed the Schönborn-Buchheim branch, based in lower Austria and Vienna. The Count of Schönborn-Buchheim was the father of Francis George (Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim, 1682-1756), the Archbishop of Trier, later the Bishop of Worms, later Provost of Ellwangen. The Schönborn-Buchheim coat of arms incorporates a central shield (“escutcheon”) showing a crowned lion seen from the side with one foot in the air, as if walking (“passant”), its 3 grounded feet each standing on a triangular peak (as of a mountain range), and the whole surmounted by a crown. The lion motif is repeated on the cover labels. Our set bears the same indications of previous ownership as the Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ copy of Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky “Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum” (1795 [1801 issue]), from the same library, as follows: foot of the spine with gilt-stamped shelf number; front board with an armorial paper label in the upper left-hand corner: below the heraldic image of a crowned lion passant standing on 3 peaks, is a shelf-number hand-written in ink; the front paste-down with the armorial bookplate of the Schönborn library: in a central circle a crowned lion passant standing on 3 peaks, the circle surmounted by a crown, under the circle a ribbon bearing the word “BIBLIOTHEQUE”, and below that the words “De Monsieur le Comte Schönborn Buchheim” (“des Herrn Grafen von Schönborn Buchheim” in the Smithonian’s copy). A lovely set with superb provenance.

€ 950 --



62 [GAITTE, Jacques]. Dissertatio de vsuraria trium contractuum prauitate [Dissertatio de usuraria trium contractuum pravitate. Dissertatio de vsvraria trivm contractvvm prauitate]. Vbi vsurarij contractus variis Scripturae locis, diversisque Conciliorum, summorum pontificum, SS. Patrum, & regum Decretis interdicuntur, ac prohibentur. Cum elencho capitum. Cum Approb. & Privilegio Regis. Editio prima. Lugduni, Apud Ioannem Certe ad insigne sanctissimae Trinitatis [Lyon, Jean Certe], 1673.

Small octavo. Pp. (ii) blank, title (verso blank), (iv) Approbation, table of contents, 231 (verso blank). Small ornaments to title and to recto and verso of the Approbation, head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full mottled calf, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettering direct in second compartments, remainder each gilt ornamented. Marbled paste-downs, all edges sprinkled in light red and brown. Handsome copy in fine condition, beautifully well preserved.

- - First edition. Very early work on money lending and Usury Laws (Canon Laws). Published anonymously. Attributed to Jacques Gaitte (Cf. Barbier, V. 4, col. 1238). Very rare. OCLC 57746174 locates only 2 copies worldwide (Oxford and University of Pennsylvania). KVK locates a single copy, that in Union Catalog Italy.
€ 2200 --



63 GANS-LUDASSY, Julius von. Die wirtschaftliche Energie. Erster Theil [all published]: System der ökonomistischen Methodologie. Jena, Fischer, 1893.

Thick crown quarto. Pp. xl, 1056. In the original printed wrappers; tear to one leaf, crease to few others. Untrimmed. Else in about fine condition. Still entirely unopened!

- - First edition. All published. Scarce. KVK lists copies in the National Library of the Netherlands and in British Library. Five other copies are located in Germany. OCLC 32615163 locates 7 other copies in the US, 2 in Japan; one in the Netherlands.
€ 175 --



64 GEORGE, Henry. The Condition of Labour: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII. With an Appendix Containing the Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labour. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1891.

Duodecimo. Pp. (iv) publisher’s ads, 195. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red decorated cloth, spine gilt, bit faded. Internally a bright copy in a very fine condition, still entirely unopened! Excellent copy, practically unused.

- - First edition. The American edition appeared only two years later. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “Social problems” (1884); “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “A Perplexed Philosopher” (1892); “The Land Question” (1893); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium). OCLC 606802; 51351988.
€ 125 --



65 GEORGE, Henry. The Land Question: What it Involves, and How Alone it Can be Settled. [BOUND WITH:] Property in Land: A Passage-at-Arms Between the Duke of Argyil and Henry George. [BOUND WITH:] The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII. With Appendix: Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labor. [THREE VOLUMES IN ONE]. New York, Charles L. Webster, 1893.

Three volumes bound in one. Duodecimo. Pp. 87; 77; 118, 121-157. Frontispiece portrait. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt, patterned endpapers; old inscription to half-title. A bright copy in a very fine condition. Excellent.

- - “The Land Question” was first published in 1881 as “The Irish Land Question”. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “Social problems” (1884); “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “A Perplexed Philosopher” (1892); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 95 --



66 GEORGE, Henry. A Perplexed Philosopher, Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Various Utterances on the Land question, With Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy. New York, Charles L. Webster, 1892.

Duodecimo. Pp. 319, (8)publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s polished brown cloth, spine gilt, cloth on spine a little bubbled with some wear at spine ends. In a very good condition, fine interior.

- - First edition. The British edition appeared a year later. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “The Land Question” (1881); “Social problems” (1884); “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “The Condition of Labour” (1891); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 55 --



67 GEORGE, Henry. A Perplexed Philosopher, Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Various Utterances on the Land question, With Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, 1893.

Duodecimo. Pp. 319. Plus 80-page publisher’s catalogue, dated 1892. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt with little wear at head and small repair for tear; green chalked endpapers, first inner hinge cracked. In overall fine internal condition.

- - First British edition. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “The Land Question” (1881); “Social problems” (1884); “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “The Condition of Labour” (1891); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 45 --



68 GEORGE, Henry. Protection or Free Trade: An Examination of the Tariff Question With Special Regard to the Interests of Labour. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, 1886.

Octavo. Pp. vi, 359. Plus 44-page publisher’s catalogue. Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, spine gilt, green chalked endpapers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, for the most still unopened!

- - First British edition, published simultaneously with the New York edition. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “The Land Question” (1881); “Social problems” (1884); “The Condition of Labour” (1891); “A Perplexed Philosopher” (1892); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 85 --



69 GEORGE, Henry. The Science of Political Economy. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxxix, 545. Fine aquatint heliogravure frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s maroon cloth, spine gilt, lower inner hinge cracked but solid. In a very good condition. Nice, clean copy.

- - Second edition. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “Social problems” (1884); “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “The Condition of Labour” (1891); “A Perplexed Philosopher” (1892); “The Land Question” (1893) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 65 --



70 GEORGE, Henry. Social Problems. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, 1884.

Duodecimo. Pp. viii, 240. Half-title with publisher’s ad on verso. Appendix. Hardcover, quarter black calf, rubbed, and brown pebble-grained cloth; gilt fleuron on spine, gilt morocco label, rubbed. Marbled edges. In fine internal condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. From the library of Wittersham House with a lovely bookplate to first paste-down. Henry George (1839-1897), American writer and social reformer. His best known work, “Progress and Poverty” (1879), brought international fame and sold millions of copies. While his arguments at first received some academic acceptance in Europe, later his enormously successful speaking tours in Britain caused Fawcett, Marshall, and others to reject his ideas. Wrote also “Protection or Free Trade” (1886); “The Condition of Labour” (1891); “A Perplexed Philosopher” (1892); “The Land Question” (1893); “The Science of Political Economy” (1898) (all are offered by Librarium).
€ 75 --



71 GESELL, Silvio. Die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung durch Freiland und Freigeld. Rehbrücke bei Berlin, Freiland-Freigeldverlag, 1920.

Five parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 392. Divisional title to each part. With full-page illustrations, some in colour, and text illustrations, tables. Index, publisher’s catalogue. Set in Gothic type. Bound in later stiff wrappers with flaps, typed title-labels to cover and spine. In about fine condition (light coloured pencil annotation to 2-3 pages). Excellent copy.

- - Fourth edition. Published originally as two separate works, part I, II, III, and IV under the title “Die Verwirklichung des Rechtes auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag ...” (1906); and part V under the title “Die neue Lehre vom Geld und Zins ...” (1911). It appeared later as second edition in one volume with the title “Die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung”. English version, “The Natural Economic Order” translated from the 6th German edition by Philip Pye, appeared in 1929. Silvio Gesell (1862-1930), German businessman. Born in Belgium, Gesell emigrated to Buenos Aires, where he successfully engaged in business. In 1914 he returned to Germany and became, five years later, finance minister in the short-lived government of Bavaria. His ideas in “Die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung” are a reaction against Marxian socialism. Keynes, in his “General Theory”, gives much space to the book, and expresses his belief that the future would learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx. (Mai, P. 95). Very scarce. OCLC 17933564 records just 5 copies of this edition worldwide. KVK lists 2 other copies in the United Kingdom, 2 copies in Switzerland, one copy in Austria, and 4 copies in Germany.
€ 650 --



72 GIDE, Charles. Cours d’économie politique. Paris, Sirey, 1909.

Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 795, (1) errata, (8) publisher’s catalogue. Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s burgundy limp cloth, gilt lettering within embossed frame, repeated on spine, top edge red. In fine condition.

- - First edition. Charles Gide (1847-1932), French economist. Professor of political economy. Devoted great efforts to international understanding and to cooperation among intellectuals of different countries. He was also a pioneer in stressing the importance of the consumer. Wrote “Histoire des doctrines économiques”. In 1914 appeared in London (George G. Harrap) “Political economy: authorized translation from the third edition (1913) of the ‘Cours d’économie politique’ under the direction of Professor William Sharp by Constance H. M. Archibald”.
€ 175 --



73 GIDE, Charles, and Charles Rist. Histoire des doctrines économiques depuis les physiocrates jusqu’a nos jours. Paris, Sirey, 1909.

Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 766. Index. Hardcover, original burgundy limp cloth, gilt lettering within embossed frame, repeated on spine. Top edge red. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Charles Gide (1847-1932), French economist. Professor of political economy. Devoted great efforts to international understanding and to cooperation among intellectuals of different countries. He was also a pioneer in stressing the importance of the consumer. “Histoire des doctrines économiques” is his best-known work. In 1913 it was translated into English. Charles Rist (1873-1955) was a Swiss economist, subgovernor of the Bank of France and financial advisor to the national banks of Rumania and Austria.
€ 75 --



74 GILBART, James William. Gilbart’s Works. I-II: A Practical Treatise on Banking; III: The Logic of Banking; IV: The History and Principles of Banking. V: Lectures and Essays. VI: Logic for the Million. [The works of James William Gilbart] [SIX VOLUMES]. London, Bell & Daldy, 1865.

Six volumes. Complete set. Royal octavo. Pp. xvij, 364; xii, 365-682; xii, 580; 471; xv, 524; viii, 388. Engraved frontispiece (foxed) to the first volume. Half-titles present. Indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original brown publisher’s cloth, both boards embossed with the anchor-and-bell publisher’s device, spines lettered in gilt with general- and volume title and number, bevelled edges. Chalked forest-green endpapers. Untrimmed, partly unopened. In a very good condition. A very good, clean interior, with some volumes still entirely unopened! Binding with some faults (wear to spines’ extremities and to corners; here and there some other blemishes to cloth, more to vol. III). One volume nicely rebacked, retaining original spine, with new endpapers.

- - Overall a very good set in the original binding, which displays the general title: “Gilbart’s Works”. This title does not repeat inside the volumes. James William Gilbart (1794-1863), the “father of modern banking”. Was the first General Manager of the London and Westminster Bank (1833-59). Wrote “Practical Treatise on Banking” in 1827, and “History and Principles of Banking” in 1834. Buried in Norwood Cemetery, London. “Gilbart’s Works” was not published in its entirety in 1865: volume IV was published for the first time in 1866. Scarce. OCLC 36331542 lists only 3 complete sets of “Gilbart’s Works” worldwide, 2 of which are in the United Kingdom (Cambridge and University of London). KVK lists just 3 sets, in Union Catalog Southwest Germany, Union Catalog of Canada, and Union Catalog Italy. OCLC 7632840 identifies the work as “The works of James William Gilbart” and lists 15 North American university libraries with a complete set. OLIS lists another set. Not in the British Library.
€ 975 --



75 GOODFELLOW, D. M. Principles of Economic Sociology: The Economics of Primitive Life as Illustrated from the Bantu Peoples of South and East Africa. London, Routledge, 1939.

Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 289. Index. Hardcover, original mid-brown cloth, spine gilt, with blurb from dust-jacket tipped-in onto first free endpaper. In fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent copy.

- - First edition.
€ 60 --



76 GRUNZEL, Joseph. System der Industriepolitik. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1905.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 393. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, nicely bound in contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Patterned endpapers, all edges dyed. Silken ribbon marker. In about fine condition (some scratches to leather).

- - First edition.
€ 75 --



77 GUTH, Franz. Die Lehre vom Einkommen in dessen Gesammtzweigen. Aus dem Standpunkte der Nationalöconomie nach einer selbstständigen theoretisch-practischen Anschauung. Prag, Friedrich Tempsky, 1869.

Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xxii, (ii), 411, (1). Hardcover, original quarter red cloth and printed paper over boards, spine gilt; boards bit finger-soiled, lightly rubbed along edges, very small chip at blank corner of one preliminary leaf, well away from text. In a very good condition (sporadic foxing, browning, small private stamp to blank endpaper). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. The second edition appeared in 1878. Rare. OCLC 17563587 locates only 4 copies worldwide. KVK adds copies in London School of Economics and British Library only; 3 copies are in Germany (TIB Hannover, Union Catalog Southwest Germany, Union Catalog Northern Germany). Not in the Czech National Library.
€ 550 --



78 HABERLER, Gottfried. Der internationale Handel. Theorie der weltwirtschaftlichen Zusammenhänge sowie Darstellung und Analyse der Aussenhandelspolitik. (Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft). Berlin, Julius Springer, 1933.

Crown quarto. Pp. xi, 298, (2) publisher’s ads. index. With 35 illustrations. Serial title, title. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers, lightly browned. In a very good condition (some pencil annotations). Overall an excellent copy with most leaves still unopened!

- - First edition. Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft. Begründet Von F. Von Liszt und W. Kaskel. Abteilung Staatswissenschaft XLI. Herausgeber A. Spiethoff. Gottfried Haberler, born 1900 in Vienna, was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and held teaching and research posts in numerous universities and international institutions. Published also “The Theory of International Trade” (1936) and “Prosperity and Depression” (1937).
€ 120 --



79 HABERLER, Gottfried; Elizabeth B. Schumpeter. Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950. AND: Bibliography of Schumpeter’s Writings. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1950.

Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. 333-384. Frontispiece, and other photo-plate. Footnotes. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition (inscription inside cover). Excellent copy.

- - First edition thus. Offprint from “The Quarterly Journal of Economics”, August 1950.
€ 60 --



80 HAENISCH, Konrad (Hrsg.) Ferdinand Lassalle. Der Mensch und Politiker in Selbstzeugnissen. Leipzig, Kröner, 1925.

Small octavo. Pp. 214, (16) publisher’s catalogue. Frontispiece portrait. Hardcover, original cloth; some old underlining and annotations in ink. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. From the library of Ericus G. Verkade, with his handsome bookplate to first free endpaper.
€ 20 --



81 HÄNEL, Christian Friedrich. Anweisung zu Handlungsrechnungen, als Erklärung der Kettenregel, Wechselcommissionen, Wechsel- und Arbitragenrechnungen, Waarencalculationen, gemeiner Waaren- als Arbitragentabellen und Universalregeln, nebst einer Abhandlung von den Zahlenverhältnissen, Proportion und den fünf Species in Brüchen. Chemnitz, Joh. Dav. Stötzels Erben & Putschern, 1780

Small octavo. Pp. 148. Handsome decorative head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in contemporary sprinkled boards, bit rubbed at extremities, all edges sprinkled red, old stamp to verso of title, lightly age toned. In a very good condition.

- - Very rare. KVK locates only 2 copies (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, and Bibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) in 46 major European catalogues. Not in German National Library. Not in OCLC worldwide. Not in Einaudi, Goldsmiths, Kress, Higgs, etc. Hänel wrote also “Gedanken über die Handlung und Münzwesen als worinnen gezeiget wird...” which was published in 1777 by Stötzels, followed by “Fortsetzung der Gedanken über die Handlung und Münzwesen enthält Erstlich...” published a year later by the same publisher. Of these two titles, OCLC locates holdings in microform only.

€ 980 --



82 HAYEK, F. A. The Road to Serfdom. London, Routledge, 1946.

Octavo. Pp. 184. Bibliographical note, index. Hardcover, original light blue cloth; spine faded, endpapers browned. In a very good condition (small ownership stamp, old inscription on blank leaf). Excellent interior.

- - First published in 1944.
€ 28 --



83 HECKEL, Max von. Lehrbuch der Finanzwissenschaft. Volumes I-II. Leipzig, Hirschfeld, 1907-11.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. (ii) publisher’s ads, xix, 506; (ii) publisher’s ads, xvii, 540. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, bound in matching half calf and half cloth, uniform marbled boards, spines with identical gilt decoration, faded, bit rubbed, all edges red. In about fine condition (old signature to first free endpaper of each volume). A very good set with excellent interior.

- - First edition.
€ 180 --



84 HELLER, Wolfgang. Theoretische Volkswirtschaftslehre. Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer, 1927.

Crown quarto. Pp. 294, 2 publisher’s ads. Indices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s printed cloth, small stain to endpapers, some foxing. In a very good condition (some annotations, signature). Nice, tight copy.

- - First edition. First volume, all published.
€ 25 --



85 HERSKOVITS, Melville J. Economic Anthropology: A Study in Comparative Economics. [The Economic Life of Primitive People]. New York, Knopf, 1952.

Octavo. Pp. xiii, 547, (5), xxiii. With text figures; full-page maps. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original green cloth, spine gilt, with blurb from dust-jacket tipped-in onto first endpapers. In fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent copy.

- - First edition.
€ 28 --



86 HESSE, Albert. Einführung in das wirtschaftliche und soziale Verständnis der Gegenwart. Betrachtungen zur Weltkrise. Jena, Fischer, 1932.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 144, (2) publisher’s ads. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, discount voucher (1932) tipped-in. In a very good condition. Fine interior.

- - First edition.
€ 25 --



87 HILFERDING, Rudolf. Das Finanzkapital. Eine Studie über die jüngste Entwicklung des Kapitalismus. Wien, Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Ignaz Brand, 1910.

Royal octavo. Pp. xi, (i), 477. Untrimmed, bound in the original publisher’s printed brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in black, repeated on title-page, publisher’s ads printed inside wraps, a catalogue on back cover. Interior in bright, fine condition (small shelf number inscribed on title). Wraps are well preserved, with minute chip to one corner, minor age blemishes. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. With the wording “Separatabdruck aus den Marx-Studien, III. Band” printed on upper wrap, not repeated on title-page. Rudolf Hilferding (1877-1943), German socialist. Born in Vienna, received an M.D. from the University of Vienna and practised as doctor. Later, became editor of “Vorwärt”, the German Socialist party daily. Was twice finance minister in the Weimar Republic. When Hitler came to power, Hilferding thought refuge in Switzerland and France. He was arrested by the French police and handed over to the Nazis. He ended his life immediately. Though he was deprived of success in most of his practical endeavours, Hilferding was a brilliant man of great vision and optimism. He has been called the ablest of the Marxian economists. Most of his economic writings, though, are in journals only and “Das Finanzkapital” is the only book which represents so well his ideas. The book is a classic of Marxist economics; Bukharin and Lenin were both influenced by his analysis of imperialism. Rare first edition. OCLC 1950467.
€ 850 --



88 HOBSON, C. K. The Export of Capital. Studies in Economic and Political Science. London, Constable, 1914.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxv, 264, (4) publisher’s catalogue. Tables, graphs. Appendices, index. Hardcover, original dark blue cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition (light pencil marginalia).

- - First edition. Thesis approved for the degree of Doctor of Science (Economics) in the University of London.
€ 75 --



89 HOFFMANN, Johann Adolf. Zwey Bücher von der Zufriedenheit. Nach Anleitung der Vernunfft und Glaubens-Gründe verfasset und in dieser dritten Auflage vermehret. Hamburg, Theodor Christoph Felginern, 1725.

Small octavo. Pp. (iv) blank, (ii) title (verso blank), (viii), 437, (iv), (iii) blank. Handsome engraved allegorical illustration to title, title printed in red and black, large decorative initials and head-pieces, large tail-piece illustration, shoulder notes. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full calf, gilt ruled sides, gilt ruled raised bands to spine, leather worn and blemished in places. That said, overall a fine copy (free endpapers bit edge brittle, contemporary manuscript inscription to first).

- - Third, enlarged edition. Johann Adolf Hoffmann (1676-1731) studied theology in Hamburg before entering the jewellery trade. Throughout his life he sought to find theological guidance to economics. In his “Zwey Bücher...” he draws extensively on the Old and New Testament. This book brought him to international reputation. Numerous editions followed, and it was translated into various languages. He wrote also “Politische Anmerkungen von der wahren und falschen Staatskunst” (1740); Das Leben des ehemaligen roemischen Buergermeisters Marcus Tullius Cicero (1742); and “Von der menschlichen Pflicht” (1758) in which he continued his exploration of Cicero’s thought. Scarce. KVK locates only few copies of this edition i.e. in Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries, British Library, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, and Union Catalogs Germany. Copies in microform only are located in Union Catalog of Canada and Union Catalog Hesse.
€ 600 --



90 JOHNSON, Alvin Saunders. Rent in Modern Economic Theory: An Essay in Distribution. November, 1902. New York, Macmillan, 1902.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 128, (2) verso blank, (14) publisher’s catalogue. Index. Hardcover, full cloth with original printed wrapper laid-down, shelf number to spine. Ex-lib copy in fine condition, label to each paste-down, perforation stamp to title. A very bright interior, neatly bound. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. This is the first appearance in a book form of Johnson’s doctoral dissertation. Columbia University Press’ book at the same name was published only afterwards. The American Economic Association Publications, Third Series, Volume III, No. 4 (1902). Alvin Saunders Johnson (1874-1971), doctor of philosophy. Scarce.
€ 200 --



91 JOHNSON, Alvin Saunders. Rent in Modern Economic Theory: An Essay in Distribution. November, 1902. New York, Columbia University, 1903.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 128, (2) verso blank. Index. Hardcover, rebound in full dark-blue cloth with matching printed label to spine. In fine condition (title-leaf loose at foot). A very bright interior, neat binding. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition thus. The first appearance in a book form of Johnson’s doctoral dissertation was in the American Economic Association Publication, Third Series, Volume III, No. 4, published by Macmillan in 1902. Scarce. OCLC 24149386 lists just 7 copies worldwide.
€ 200 --



92 JOHNSON, Alvin Saunders; Frank A. Fetter. Rent in Modern Economic Theory: An Essay in Distribution. November, 1902. [BOUND WITH:] The Relations Between Rent and Interest. [TWO BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME]. New York, Macmillan, 1902.

Two books in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 128, (2) verso blank; (iv), 68. Indices. Hardcover, handsomely bound in contemporary half crimson cloth, matching marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges sprinkled. In about fine condition (pencil underlining, brown spots to 3-4 leaves). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition of both books. This is the first appearance in a book form of Johnson’s doctoral dissertation. Columbia University Press’ book at the same name was published only afterwards. Equally, this is (1904) the first appearance in a book form of Fetter’s Paper. The American Economic Association Publications, Third Series, Volume III, No. 4 (1902), and Volume V, No. 1 (1903), respectively. Alvin Saunders Johnson (1874-1971); Frank Albert Fetter (1863-1949). Scarce. OCLC 8837675 locates only 7 copies worldwide of “The Relations Between Rent and Interest”. OCLC 816827 (Johnson).
€ 225 --



93 KAUTZ, Julius. Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung der National-Oekonomik und ihrer Literatur. (Theorie und Geschichte der National-Oekonomie 2. Teil). Wien, Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1860.

Royal octavo. Pp. xv, (i), 792. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, later three-quarter light green cloth and marbled boards, gilt morocco label (bit rubbed) to spine; vague dampmark and sporadic foxing to first few leaves. In about fine condition (old ownership stamp to endpaper, some pencil marking to title). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. “During the last generation, American readers of German appear to have relied, as a rule, for information about early phases of German economic thought, chiefly upon two writers, Kautz (“Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung der National-Oekonomik und ihrer Literatur”) and Roscher. Of Kautz, it is enough to say that he was of the rear guard of the rhetoricians. His book is wonderfully plausible, if not lucid, reading. Its early pages appear to express methodological conclusions which the maturest scholarship has not superseded.” - Albion W. Small, “The Cameralists: The Pioneers of German Social Polity” (1909). Rare. OCLC 64744129 locates just 8 copies worldwide. KVK adds 5 copies (Polish National Library, Union Catalog of Canada, Die Österreichischen Landesbibliotheken, KOBV Berlin-Brandenburg, Library Network of Western Switzerland).
€ 975 --



94 KEYNES, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. London, Macmillan, 1920.

Octavo. Pp. 279. footnotes. Hardcover, original blue cloth. Very good condition.

Second reprint (both January 1920) of the December, 1919 first edition.
€ 120 --



95 KIEHL, Ernestus Justus. Eerste beginselen van staathuishoudkunde. Middelburg, De gebroeders Abrahams, 1868.

Royal octavo. Pp. iv, 92. Hardcover, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, spine gilt, 2 shelf labels. In a very good condition (old institutional stamps and marks).

- - First edition. Very scarce. KVK locates just a single copy, that in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. OCLC 64492380 adds 2 copies (Stadsarchief en Athenaeumbibliotheek Deventer, and Amsterdam University). Another copy, but that of the 1871 second edition, is located in the British Library. Ernestus Justus Kiehl (1827-1873).
€ 145 --



96 KNAPP, Georg Friedrich. Staatliche Theorie des Geldes. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1905.

Royal octavo. Pp. x, 397, (1). Tables, index. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, handsomely bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments between gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettering to second compartment, decorative gilt tooling to remainder, inner cloth hinges, foliage endpapers, marbled edges. Overall a fine copy.

- - First edition. Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842-1926), director of the Statistical Bureau of Leipzig, professor at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. As a distinguished member of the younger historical school in Germany, he specialized in agricultural and monetary studies. His “Staatliche Theorie des Geldes” was translated into English and appeared in 1924 as “State Theory of Money”. This, and his “Die Bauernbefreiung und der Ursprung der Landarbeiter” (1887, reprint 1973) have been recognized as firs-rank contributions to systematical studies. From the library of W. Romijn with his handsome bookplate.
€ 450 --



97 LA SALLE DE L’ETANG, [Simon Philibert de]. Manuel d’agriculture pour le laboureur, pour le propriétaire, et pour le gouvernement: contenant les vrais et seuls moyens de faire prospérer l’Agriculture, tant en France que dans les autres États où l’on cultive; avec la Réfutation de la Nouvelle Méthode de M. Thull. Paris, Lottin l’Aîné & Dessain Junior, 1764.

Three parts, in six, bound in one volume. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xviii, (ii) (Explication de l’estampe, Fautes), 584 (erratically numbered 608), (ii) blank. The “Manuel...” comprises of the first 3 parts; the “Réfutation...” comprises of the next 2 parts; the volume concludes with the Supplément. With a charming engraved frontispiece (Cochin Filius 1764, engraved by Prevost). Half-title present. Decorative head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full tree calf (polish on leather cracked & blemished as often is the case with old, acid-molted tree calf), spine gilt extra in compartments between raised band, matching gilt morocco label, gilt French fillet on sides, gilt inside dentelles and boards’ edges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green ribbon marker, corners and extremities somewhat rubbed. Fine, handsome wide margined copy with bright interior, free of foxing.

- - First edition. Simon Philibert de La Salle de l’Etang (1700-1765). KVK locates 6 copies only: in British Library, National Library of France (2, with a 3rd in microform only), and Union Catalogs Germany (3).
€ 850 --



98 LAIDLER, Harry W. Social-Economic Movements: An Historical and Comparative Survey of Socialism, Communism, Co-operation, Utopianism; and Other Systems of Reforms and Reconstruction. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948.

Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 828, 12 publisher’s catalogue. Plus two suites of photographs, printed on different paper, bound-in. Other illustration. Footnotes, selected references, indices. Hardcover, original leaf-green cloth, spine gilt, with blurb from dust-jacket tipped-in onto first free endpaper. In fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent copy.

- - First English edition. In practice, owing to production delays, it was not published until 1949. With the Publisher’s notice to that effect tipped-in. Harry Wellington Laidler (1884-1970), American socialist.
€ 45 --



99 LANGE, Friedrich Albert. J. St. Mill’s Ansichten über die sociale Frage und die angebliche Umwälzung der Socialwissenschaft durch Carey. Duisburg, Falk & Lange, 1866.

Duodecimo. Pp. viii, 256. Illustration. Set in Gothic type. Contemporary plain sea-green wrappers (small chip or two), with neatly calligraphed title-label to spine, shelf label, marbled edges, vague ornamental stamp to first blank prelim; foxing. In a very good condition. A rather handsome, if simply bound, copy.

- - First and only edition. Not in Einaudi. Stammhammer I, 125. Friedrich Albert Lange (1828-1875). In 1866 he published “Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart” (Iserlohn, J. Baedeker) which was successful and went through several editions and translations. It was published in English as “History of Materialism and Criticism of its Present Importance” (London, Trübner, 1877-1881). Noteworthy, a Hebrew edition, “Toldot ha-materyalismus”, was published in New York by A. Y. Shtibl (1922). OCLC 12852223.
€ 285 --



100 LASSALLE, Ferdinand. Herr Bastiat-Schulze von Delitzsch, der ökonomische Julian, oder: Capital und Arbeit. Berlin, Reinhold Schlingmann, 1864.

Crown octavo. Pp. ix, (i), 269. Appendices. Set in Gothic type. Untrimmed copy in the original printed wrappers; upper wrapper chipped, worn, leaves loose, some underlining in very light coloured pencil. Good copy.

- - First edition. Copies in the original state and in the original publisher’s binding, as the copy presented here, are most uncommon. Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883), was a German jurist, member of the Prussian National Assembly, Chamber of Deputies, and the German Reichstag. He advocated free-trade, unrestricted competition, and self-help rather than state-help. In 1863 he wrote “Capitel zu einem deutschen Arbeiterkatechismus”, borrowing his fundamental principles in the main from Bastiat. Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864), a German socialist, was the architect of the German labour movement and founder the German Workers’ Association. He was the first to speak about “the iron law of wages”, defining it as the minimum subsistence pay permitting survival and the raising of children. But the more his revolutionary hopes were disappointed, the more sharply he turned against the middle classes (and Schulze’s theories), whose capacity to solve the social question he denied. “Herr Bastiat- Schulze” was Lassalle’s rather assailing reply to Schulze’s “Capitel...” Lassalle was mortally wounded in a duel fought over a lady he intended to marry. In 1866, only after Lassalle’s death, Schulze finally answered with his “Die Abschaffung des geschäftlichen Risico durch Herrn Lassalle. Ein neues Kapitel zum ‘Deutschen Arbeiterkatechismus’” (also offered by Librarium). OCLC 2989053.
€ 220 --



101 LAUTERBACH, Albert. Man, Motives, and Money: Psychological Frontiers of Economics. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1954.

Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 366. Appendices, notes, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, original green cloth, spine gilt, with blurb from dust-jacket tipped-in onto first free endpaper. In fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent copy.

- - First edition.
€ 25 --



102 LEVAE, Adolphe. Essai historique sur les négociations de la trêve de vingt ans, conclue à Ratisbonne en 1684. Bruxelles, Wouters, 1844.

Royal octavo. Pp. xi, 280, (1) errata. Hardcover, contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards, gilt label to spine, marbled endpapers stuck together. Good.

- - First edition.
€ 75 --



103 LEVASSEUR, E. Histoire du commerce de la France. I: Avant 1789; II: De 1789 a nos jours. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Rousseau, 1911-12.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxxiii, 610; xlv, 869, plus a set of 13 (double-page) diagrams, printed on different paper. Tables. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed edges bit dusty, small chip at foot of one spine. In about fine condition and crisp interiors (old institutional stamps). A practically unused set with both volumes still entirely unopened!

- - First edition. Reprint was published in 1980 (Vaduz , Topos). Emile Levasseur (1828-1911), French historical economist; made an outstanding contribution to economic and social history. OCLC 3133610.
€ 250 --



104 LIEFMANN, Robert. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Volume I: Grundlagen der Wirtschaft. Stuttgart & Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1917.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxiv, 688. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s burgundy cloth gilt, spine faded, else bright copy in fine condition.

- - First edition. Volume I of two.
€ 20 --



105 LIST, Friedrich. Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, William Notz, Edgar Salin, Artur Sommer (Editors). Schriften/Reden/Briefe. Werke Friedrich List. Volumes I-IX. COMPLETE. [NINE VOLUMES IN ELEVEN]. Berlin, Hobbing, 1927-35.

Nine volumes bound in 11. Crown quarto. Pp. xxii, 485; viii, 491-1133; xiv, 530; xiv, 527; xi, 531-1046; xiv, 643; xiii, 699; xiii, 664; xiii, 686; xxxix, 990; xviii, 426. Plus full-page, double-page, and fold-out plates with facsimiles, (helio)gravures, and other illustrative material. Indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, lettering embossed in black and orange-red, spines (faded) similar, top-edges red. In a very good condition indeed (last volume with old institutional stamps). Overall an excellent set.

- - First collected edition. Complete: “Mit dem Erscheinen dieses Bandes (IX) ist die List-Ausgabe abgeschlossen.” Comprises of the following volumes: I: Der Kampf um die politische und ökonomische Reform 1815-1825 (2 volumes); II: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie und andere Beiträge der amerikanischen Zeit 1825-1832; III: Schriften zum Verkehrswesen (2 volumes); IV: Das natürliche System der politischen Ökonomie, nach der französischen Urschrift; V: Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus den Jahren 1831-1844; VI: Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie, Ausgabe letzter Hand vermehrt um einen Anhang; VII: Die politisch-ökonomische Nationaleinheit der Deutschen: Aufsätze aus dem Zollvereinsblatt und andere Schriften der Spätzeit; VIII: Tagebücher und Briefe 1812-1846; IX: Lists Leben in Tag- und Jahresdaten; Bibliographie. [NOTE: total weight over 15Kg; extra postage required for all destinations].
€ 220 --



106 LLOYD, Henry Demarest. Labor Copartnership: Notes of a Visit to Co-operative Workshops, Factories and Farms in Great Britain and Ireland, in which Employer, Employé, and Consumer Share in Ownership, Management and Results. New York, Harper, 1898.

Crown octavo. Pp. 351. Frontispiece and full-page plates. Appendix, index. Hardcover, original olive cloth, spine gilt; spine ends slightly bumped. In about fine condition (old institutional stamp, number). Mostly still unopened. Nice copy.

- - First edition. Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903), American reformer and editor, a supporter of the causes of the underprivileged.
€ 75 --



107 LLOYD, Henry Demarest. Wealth Against Commonwealth. New York, Harper, 1894.

Royal octavo. Pp. 563, x. Appendix, index. Hardcover, original cloth, spine gilt. In about fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Includes the Open Letter “A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners”. Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903), American reformer and editor, a supporter of the causes of the underprivileged.
€ 225 --



108 LYSEN, Florent. Études sur l’histoire de l’économie politique, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’au XVIe siècle. Philosophie, religion, littérature, commerce et industrie chez les peuples qui ont principalement contribué a la civilisation progressive. Bruxelles, Librairie polytechnique d’aug. decq., 1853.

Royal octavo. Pp. 263. In fine internal condition. A very clean copy throughout, in the original chipped, clipped, bit browned printed wrappers.

- - First edition. Provenance: From the library of [Master of Laws] W. C. Baert de Waarde, with his handsome bookplate. Florent Lysen (1825-1872), General Secretary of the Belgian Academy of History and Philosophy. Wrote also “Du mouvement général des esprits au xvie siècle” (1855). Scarce. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (Yale University; University of Chicago; Duke University; and Nihon University, College of Economics). One copy in Bodleian.
€ 125 --



109 MACLEOD, Henry Dunning. The History of Economics. London, Bliss, Sands and Co., 1896.

Two books in one volume. Royal octavo. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xv, 168; 169-690, (8) publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, in the original publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine gilt. Forest-green chalked endpapers. In overall fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened!

- - First edition. The American edition appeared later the same year. Two books in one volume. Book I: On the Nature and History of Economics; Book II: The Fundamental Concepts and Axioms of Economics. Book II is arranged alphabetically under subjects. Henry Dunning MacLeod (1821-1902), Scottish banker. Studied mathematics at Trinity College, later became a lawyer and established the first poor-law union in Scotland. He was appointed director of the Royal British Bank in 1854. In 1855 he published “The Theory and Practice of Banking” which was widely read and went through five editions. He was the first to describe in detail how bank credit is created. He made important contributions to the history of economics, wrote on money and banking, and contributed to the first systematic theory of credit. (Schumpeter 1963. p. 1115). His work, though, found greater acceptance on the Continent than at home. “The History of Economics” is MacLeod’s last major work. OCLC 574131. Scarce, practically unavailable in the original, unopened state.
€ 350 --



110 MACLEOD, Henry Dunning. The Theory and Practice of Banking. Volume II. London, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1876.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxxv, 595. Index. Hardcover, original cloth, printed label to spine; label chipped, spine ends worn, old stamp. Else, in a very good condition.

- - Third edition. Volume II of two. Henry Dunning MacLeod (1821-1902), Scottish banker. In 1855 he published “The Theory and Practice of Banking” which was widely read and went through five editions.
€ 90 --



111 MACLEOD, Henry Dunning. The Theory of Credit. Volume I and Volume II, Part II. London, Longmans, Green, 1889-91.

Two volumes (of 3). Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 336; xxxx, 519-890, 24 publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, half cloth and marbled boards (volume I), full cloth (volume II). Spine labels, one printed, bit chipped; one inked; old institutional stamp and markings to volume I. Overall in about fine condition.

- - First edition. Volume I and Volume II, Part II (of 2) only. “In the first volume I gave a complete exposition of the fundamental concepts of credit ... In volume II, part I, I showed the practical application of these principles in banking and the foreign exchanges. In the concluding part I have given a concise sketch of banking in England, Scotland and Ireland.” Henry Dunning MacLeod (1821-1902), Scottish banker. Studied mathematics at Trinity College, later became a lawyer and established the first poor-law union in Scotland. He was appointed director of the Royal British Bank in 1854, and a year later published “The Theory and Practice of Banking” which was widely read and went through five editions. He was the first to describe in detail how bank credit is created. He made important contributions to the history of economics, wrote on money and banking, and contributed to the first systematic theory of credit. (Schumpeter 1963. p. 1115). Among the subscribers to his “The Theory of Credit” were the German Emperor, the King of the Belgians, and the King of Siam (with 3 copies). OCLC 3912348.
€ 210 --



112 [MARBAULT]. ESSAI SUR LE COMMERCE DE RUSSIE, avec l’histoire de ses découvertes. Amsterdam, n.p., 1777.

Octavo. Pp. 299, (1). Plus large folding engraved map (bit browned, short splits at folds), bound after title. Half-title present; handsome engraved head-piece; numerous tables and calculations. Hardcover, bound in contemporary handsome full speckled calf, occasionally rubbed at extremities, spine gilt ruled, minute chip at head, black morocco label lettered in gilt, old label affixed to first paste-down, endpapers browned. Copy with ample margins, in a very good condition.

- - First edition. Attribued to Marbault (Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints; Barbier). The attractive copperplate map, “Carte des Découvertes des Russes dans la Mer Orientale, et en Amerique Pour Servir à l’essai, Sur le commerce de Russie” is by Gerardin, engraved by Croisey for inclusion in this book. KVK lists 3 holdings only: British Library (with a second copy in microform), National Library of France, Union Catalogs Germany (4).
€ 1100 --



113 [MARCET, Mrs. Jane]. Entretiens sur l’économie politique, ou, éléments d’économie politique, dégagée de ses abstractions, d’apres Adam Smith, Say, Malthus, Mill, etc. Paris, Boulland, 1825.

Small octavo. Pp. 452, no half-title. Index, bibliography. Hardcover, contemporary quarter green calf and matching marbled paper over boards, spine gilt, handsome marbled endpapers, small ex-libris label, all edges marbled; spine worn at extremities, inner first hinge cracked. With a nice school prize plate, dated 1849, onto first paste-down. In fine internal condition (occasional light foxing).

- - First French edition. First published in English as “Conversations on Political Economy” (1816). Mrs. Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858), English writer. She wrote about political economy in the form of tales easily understood by housewives. (Mai, p. 148). Her “Conversations” was a great success and went through 7 editions. It was “the best introduction to the science that has yet appeared.” (McCulloch, Literature of Political Economy). She also published “John Hopkins’ Notions on Political Economy” (1833), “Rich and Poor” (1851), and books on chemistry and philosophy. Goldsmith 24420. Scarce. OCLC lists only 6 copies worldwide (2 in the US, one in Britain, 2 in France, one in Japan), but records over 20 others in microform only. KVK lists just 2 copies worldwide, in National Library of France and in Union Catalog Northern Germany.
€ 250 --



114 MARLO, Karl. [Karl Georg Winkelblech]. Untersuchungen über die Organisation der Arbeit oder System der Weltökonomie. I: Historische Einleitung und die Oekonomie; II: Geschichte und Kritik der Ökonomischen Systeme; III: Allgemeine Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaft; IV: Allgemeiner praktischer Theil der Volkswirtschaft. [FOUR VOLUMES]. Tübingen, Laupp, 1884-86.

Four volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 436; 608 bound without title-page and last 10 leaves; xv, 782; vii, 418. Hardcover, recently bound in uniform handsome full cloth, original front wrappers laid-down. Overall an excellent set in about fine condition.

- - Second edition. Karl Georg Winkelblech (1810-1865), German scientist and social reformer. He studied chemistry and became a professor of natural science at Marburg and Kassel. His socialist views he published under the name of Karl Marlo. His “Untersuchungen...” is arguably his most important publication (Mai, p. 243). He spoke about “panpolism”, the opposition of monopolism, and declared that every man has a right to work and the freedom to dispose his earned income according to his own wishes.
€ 650 --



115 MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume. Eighth (8th) Edition. London, Macmillan, 1949.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxxii, 731. Side- and footnotes, appendices, indices. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt. In about fine condition. (Small ownership stamp.)

- - Eighth edition. First published in 1891. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), professor of political economy at Cambridge (1885-1908). Founder of the Neo-Classical School of economics. His “Principles of Economics” was the book that established his reputation. It was the leading textbook for many decades.
€ 35 --



116 MARSHALL, [William]. The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of Husbandry in that County, the Second Edition, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Printed for Nicol, Robinson, & Debrett, 1795.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xvii, (vii), 400, plus 2 engraved maps, East Norfolk and Sketch of County, on a single folding sheet; xvi, 392, (4), index. Includes Address to the Public, Advertisement to the Second Edition. The 2nd volume with shoulder notes. Hardcover, attractivly bound in contemporary full tree calf, bit rubbed along edges, expertly rebacked in matching style though not uniformly, one volume retaining original richly gilt backstrip with morocco label, the second gilt direct with morocco label, corners bumped, map foxed, crack to lower inner hinge. A handsome set in overall fine condition.

- - Second edition, the first printed in 1787, “the two being literally, verbally, and in page, the same”.
€ 1200 --



117 MAYER, Carl. J[eremy] Bentham (caption title). [ORIGINAL STEEL ENGRAVED PRINT]. N.p. Inst. Bibl., n.d. (ca. 1830).

Portrait. Original steel engraved print of a very fine quality. Image size ca. 13 x 11 cm; overall size 21.5 x 13.5 cm, with ample margins. Bearing at foot the legend “J. Bentham”. Both portrait and caption are set within ornamental frames. Light pencil inscription on verso. In a very fine condition.

- - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English social philosopher whose influence on the development of economic thought and theory was very great. The exquisite bust length portrait, slightly turning to the right, is by the German artist Carl Mayer. It bears his characteristic inscription, engraved in minute letters: “Meyer’s Conv. Lex. No. 102”.
€ 175 --



118 MCCULLOCH, John Ramsey. A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.

Royal octavo. Pp. half-title (publisher’s notice on verso), xv (verso blank), 504, 30 publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s handsome full cloth, expertly rebacked and recased retaining the original endpaper with the manuscript inscription of Thomas Ramsay, Derwent Villa, dated 1845, cloth blind ruled and decorated with central ornament on both sides, spine gilt. Overall an excellent untrimmed copy in fine condition.

- - First edition. John Ramsey McCulloch (1789-1864), Scottish economist. This Treatise is probably McCulloch’s most important contribution to economic theory, an expansion of the wage-fund theory which he relates directly and proportionally to the amount of investments. Goldsmith, 34239; Einaudi, 3574; Kress C, 6658. Among his many noteworthy works is “Principles of Political Economy” (1825), in which he essentially followed Ricardo. Provenance: From the library of Thomas Ramsay with his inscription. Exceedingly scarce in the original publisher’s binding.
€ 1400 --



119 MILL, James. Elements of Political Economy. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824.

Octavo. Pp. viii, 299, (1) publisher’s ad of “The History of British India”. Hardcover, contemporary full smooth calf, rebacked with handsome mottled calf, new endpapers, all edges sprinkled; leather slightly rubbed at extremities. The 3 points in the Errata have been corrected in minute, very handsome contemporary hand in the appropriate places, of which two are on the same page. In overall fine condition. An excellent copy, with surprisingly bright interior, in handsome binding.

- - Second, revised and corrected edition, by the “Author of The History of British India”, an attribution which was removed in later editions. James Mill (1773-1836), British historian, philosopher, and economist. The first edition of “Elements of Political Economy”, “Mill’s masterpiece”, appeared in 1821. According to his son, John Stuart Mill, it originated in 1819 in instructions given to him by his father during their daily walks. The abstracts of these lessons, prepared by the son, served the father as notes from which to write his book. The work is considered as a summary representation of contemporary theories, in particular those of Malthus and Ricardo. It is said that Mill’s principal services to political economy were indirect, among them to have been the father and the teacher of J. S. Mill. Several of the major alterations in Mill’s work were founded on criticisms made by his son. (Palgrave. 1894-1901). Kress C.1295. Goldsmith 24051. Einaudi 3893. OCLC 6783509.
€ 600 --



120 MILL, James. Elements of Political Economy. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826.

Octavo. Pp. viii, 304. Hardcover, contemporary half black smooth calf and matching pebbled cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges sprinkled red; old signature to title, contemporary pencil annotations to endpapers; some rubbing to leather on extremities. In a very good condition. A nice copy.

- - Third, revised and corrected edition. This is the first appearance of the revised edition, the final version of Mill’s classic work and in many respects the best edition. All later editions are reprint of this one. James Mill (1773-1836), British historian, philosopher, and economist. The first edition of “Elements of Political Economy”, “Mill’s masterpiece”, appeared in 1821. According to his son, John Stuart Mill, it originated in 1819 in instructions given to him by his father during their daily walks. The abstracts of these lessons, prepared by the son, served the father as notes from which to write his book. The work is considered as a summary representation of contemporary theories, in particular those of Malthus and Ricardo. It is said that Mill’s principal services to political economy were indirect, among them to have been the father and the teacher of J. S. Mill. Several of the major alterations in Mill’s work were founded on criticisms made by his son. (Palgrave. 1894-1901). Kress C.1729. Goldsmith 24799. Einaudi 3894. OCLC 5507730, 1996106.
€ 600 --



121 MILL, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Parker, 1852.

Five books in two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 604; xv, 571, 4 publisher’s catalogue. Appendix. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original forest-green publisher’s cloth, a lettered paper label to each spine; some wear to spine ends, corner-tips; splits to cloth on one spine neatly restored. In a very good condition (signature to free endpaper of each volume). Overall a very good set with a rather fine interior.

- - Third edition. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English philosopher and economist. Served in the House of Commons in 1865-68. “Principles of Political Economy” was his greatest contribution to economic theory, the most widely-read book on economics in succeeding years. This edition not in OCLC. Bodleian lists an uncomplete set. One set in British Library.
€ 575 --



122 MILL, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. VOLUMES I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Parker, 1857.

Five books in two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 606, (2) publisher’s catalogue; xv, 582, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Appendix. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s cloth, a lettered paper label to each spine, spines marked, discoloured, with light wear to ends; inner hinges cracked or split but binding is firm. In a very good condition (signature to each volume). Overall a very good set with a rather fine interior.

- - Fourth edition. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English philosopher and economist. Served in the House of Commons in 1865-68. “Principles of Political Economy” was his greatest contribution to economic theory, the most widely read book on economics in succeeding years. This edition not in OCLC. One set in British Library, one in Bodleian.
€ 225 --



123 MILNE, Taylor (Editor). [Jeremy Bentham]. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Volume 4, October 1788 to December 1793. London, Althone, 1981.

Royal octavo. Pp. 506. Frontispiece portrait. Index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (this fine). In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Volume 4 of the series.
€ 45 --



124 MOLINARI, Gustave de. La morale économique. Paris, Guillaumin, 1888.

Royal octavo. Pp. Half-title, list of works by the same author on verso, xi, 442. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, cloth corners, spine in compartments between raised bands, two direct gilt labels. Decorative endpapers, cloth inner hinges, sprinkled edges. In about fine condition, foxed. Else, an excellent copy.

- - First edition. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), French journalist and economist. Born in Liège, was professor in Brussels and Antwerp. Was editor of the French “Journal des debats” and “Journal des économistes”. He was a determined advocate of free trade liberalism and opponent of socialism. Wrote also “L’organisation de la liberté industrielle” (1846); “L’economie de l’histoire, théorie du progrès” (1908); and “Notice sur Joseph Garnier” (1881) (also offered by Librarium). Uncommon. Not in Einaudi. Cf. Fundaburk 6529-36 (listing other works by Molinari). OCLC 1867793.
€ 220 --



125 MOLINARI, Gustave de. Notice sur Joseph Garnier. Paris, Guillaumin, 1881.

Royal octavo. Pp. 32. Original printed wrappers (a corner torn off), with two paper labels. Small, handsome heraldic stamp to half-title. In a very good condition, foxed.

- - First edition. Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), French journalist and economist. Born in Liège, was professor in Brussels and Antwerp. Was editor of the French “Journal des debats” and “Journal des économistes”. He was a determined advocate of free trade liberalism and opponent of socialism. Wrote also “L’organisation de la liberté industrielle (1846); “L’economie de l’histoire, théorie du progrès” (1908); and “La morale économique” (1888) (also offered by Librarium). Joseph Clement Garnier (1813-1881) was French economist and writer, professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Athenée, and the École National des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. Though not remarkable for any theoretical contribution, he achieved a position of considerable influence in the French economic community, chiefly through his editorship of the “Journal des économistes”. Wrote “Eléments de l’économie politique” (1845) (later renamed “Traite”); “Eléments des finances” (1858); and “Eléments de statistique”, all highly respected books. Not in Einaudi. Cf. Fundaburk 6529-36 (listing other works by Molinari). Rare. Not in OCLC worldwide. KVK lists just 2 copies, one in the British Library, one in French Union Catalog.
€ 320 --



126 MR. D’. [JACQUES-MATHIEU AUGEARD]. TRAITÉ DE L’OCTROI DE L’IMPÔT EN FRANCE. N.P, n.p, 1797.

Octavo. Pp. 192. Extended chapter of notes, errata. Plain blue wrappers, bit rubbed along spine. Faint old institutional stamp to title. Overall a very good, bit dog-eared copy.

- - First edition. Jacques-Mathieu Augeard (1731-1805), Secretary to the Queen. In 1789 he published his “Mémoire pour M. Augeard, secrétaire des commandemens de la reine”. In 1781 he published “Lettre d’un ami, a m. Necker” and in 1791 “Ma dernière leçon à Mr. Necker”. Rare. Not a single copy listed on OCLC worldwide. KVK lists 2 copies only, both in Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
€ 480 --



127 NAMUR, P. Commentaire du titre VIII, livre Ier, du nouveau code de commerce Belge (loi du 20 mai 1872), relatif aux lettres de change et aux billets a ordre. Bruxelles, Bruylant-Christophe, 1873.

Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 238. Hardcover, bound in handsome contemporary quarter smooth calf, marbled boards, spine in compartments between black-ruled raised bands, gilt morocco label to second compartment, gilt ornament to each remainder, marbled endpapers. Overall a fine copy.

- - First edition.
€ 120 --



128 NECKER, (Jacques). De l’administration des finances de la France. Volumes I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. (Paris), n.p., 1784.

Three volumes. Octavo. Pp. Half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (iii numbered v-vii) Table des chapitres, Errata, (i), clix, (i) blank, 352, plus a large folding table; half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (iii numbered v-vii) Table des chapitres, Errata, (i), 536; half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (iv numbered v-viii) Table des chapitres, Errata, 468. Volume II contains the 4-page Supplément. Head- and tail-pieces. Heraldic printer’s device to each title. Printed on thick, laid paper. Hardcover, uniformly bound in quarter red calf and matching cloth, spines lettered in gilt; cloth on fore-edge of some boards rubbed-off, minor other external blemishes. In fine condition. An excellent set with bright, crisp interior, handsomely bound.

- - First edition, first- or second issue. Several variants, probably seven, were issued in the first year of publication; this very early issue is still uncorrected, still listing the Errata (as called-for in Carpenter) i.e. 12 points in the first volume, 10 in the second volume, 8 in the last volume. (See Krees, Carpenter, Goldsmith, Einaudi.) Copies of this issue are printed on thick paper with wide margins, as the copy presented here. Provenance: From the library of Dr. Mr [Master of Laws] L. P. van der Does, with his handsome bookplate.
€ 975 --



129 NECKER, (Jacques). De l’administration des finances de la France. Volumes I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. (Paris), n.p., 1784.

Three volumes. Octavo. Pp. Half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (ii numbered v-vi) Table des chapitres, clix, (i) blank, 352 [with section 65-112 bound within the introduction]. Plus 2 tables printed on a single folding sheet; half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (ii numbered v-vi) Table des chapitres, 536; half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), (iv) Table des chapitres, 468. Volume II contains the 4-page Supplément. Head- and tail-pieces. Printer’s device to each title. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary full mottled calf, gilt decorated spines in compartments between raised bands, with 2 matching gilt morocco labels to each, boards’ edge rolled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, green ribbon markers; some wear and loss to spine ends and corners, worm trace at foot of one spine, small other blemishes to leather, blank corner of one introductory leaf chipped with no loss, edges bit thumbed. In a very fine internal condition, overall very good exterior. A very desirable set.

- - First edition, corrected. This work again strengthened Necker’s (1732-1804) popularity. It contributed to his return as directeur-général des finances in 1788, after his dismissal in 1781. It is a valuable book “to those who would study how the finances of France were managed in the last days of the old regime.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). “The work was extremely popular (it is said to have sold 80.000 copies, despite being in three volumes) and served to promote the author’s reputation.” (Carpenter, Economic bestsellers, p. 23). See Krees, Carpenter, Goldsmith, Einaudi.
€ 585 --



130 NECKER, (Jacques). De l’importance des opinions religieuses. Londres et se trouve à Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788.

Octavo. Pp. 544. Title printed on verso with a note by Necker; half-title present; errata. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf, spine in gilt-ruled compartments between raised bands, gilt crimson morocco label, silken ribbon marker, wear to upper joint. Overall a very good copy (small stain to fore-edge), rather clean and free from foxing.

€ 120 --



131 NECKER (JACQUES), Directeur général des Finances. Compte rendu au roi. Au mois de Janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de Sa Majesté. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781.

Crown quarto. Pp. (2), 116. Plus large folding table, printed on both sides, and 2 folding, hand-coloured engraved maps, printed on thick, handmade paper. Publisher’s device to title. Unbound sewn gatherings of a large-paper copy; fore-margin of title-page worn and chipped, edges frayed, dog-eared but all are marginal faults, well away from text. A wide-margined copy with overall very clean interior. Folding table and both maps are in exceptionally fine condition.

- - First edition of Jacques Necker’s (1732-1804), Swiss-French Banker and Statesman, famous work.
€ 350 --



132 PARETO, Vilfredo. Trattato di sociologia generale. Volumes I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. Firenze, Barbèra, 1923.

Three volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. cxvii, 431; 540; 673. Frontispiece portrait in the 1st volume. Footnotes, diagrams. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half vellum, decorative paper covered boards, each spine with 2 leather labels (bit rubbed), gilt ruled and lettered. Top edge red. In a very fine condition. Excellent, very handsome set.

- - Second edition. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist and sociologist. “Realizing that there existed many concrete problems that could not be solved by economics, (...) Pareto turned to sociology, publishing in 1916 what he considered his greatest work, ‘Trattato’. (...) he inquired into the nature and basis of individual and social action, the methodology of economics and sociology, and the degree to which physical-science methods are applicable in the study of man’s behaviour. He distinguished ideal or social ends from the individual wants of economics, thereby contributing importantly to the analysis of ‘welfare’.” (Encyclopedia Britannica 1973). - - Provenance: The Henry Ludwell Moore’s copy, authenticated by his ink signature “Henry Ludwell Moore, Cornwall, New York” at head of title-page of each volume. All three volumes with his extensive, characteristic, very neat pencil marginal annotations in English, French, Italian. Custom bound, the foot of each spine has been personalized by adding Moore’s’ name beautifully calligraphed in Gothic type in black ink by professional hand. Moore (1869-1958) was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics, a professor at Smith College and later at Columbia University. Considered the only American (and perhaps the only English-speaking) member of the original Lausanne School. With his contemporaries, Wesley Mitchell and Irving Fisher, Moore pioneered new kinds of quantitative economics in the United States. Unlike them, Moore was not a great public figure. He was a private, sensitive person who suffered from long periods of illness. The Moore Collection on Economics and Econometrics at the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library consists of large number of manuscripts, notebooks, typescripts, and correspondence (until 1940), dealing largely with general economic theory, econometrics, and sociology. This collection is accompanied by Moore’s library of books, pamphlets, and journals, many of them annotated. The other part of Moore’s library was acquired by the well-known collector Abraham C. Myrick of Columbia, whose ink signature “Abraham C. Myrick” and ink stamp: “From The Private Library of Abraham C. Myrick” are repeated on endpapers and title-page of each volume in the present set. With his decorative bookplate “Columbia, Ex Libris Abraham C. Myrick, 1963” in each volume. A very fine set with excellent provenance. Scarce. OCLC 3041535.
€ 825 --



133 PASSOW, Richard. Die Aktiengesellschaft. Eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie. Jena, Fischer, 1922.

Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 579. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers. In a very good condition.

- - Zweite, neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Beiträge zur Lehre von den industriellen, Handels- und Verkehrsunternehmungen, Heft 5.
€ 65 --



134 PÉRIN, Charles. Les doctrines économiques depuis un siècle. Paris & Lyon, Victor Lecoffre, 1880.

Duodecimo. Pp. 350. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers, rebacked; wraps chipped, binding loose. Very good interior.

- - First edition. Charles Périn (1815-1905) was a professor of public law and political economy at the Catholic University of Louvain. A “utopian socialist”, he belonged to the “French Liberal School”, the 19th Century French economists which followed the tradition, both in politics and economics, set by the theorist Jean-Baptiste Say. In his “Les doctrines” Périn criticizes Bastiat’s ideas. Unlike Bastiat, Périn adopted the labour theory of value. Since the return to land was not a return to labour, he maintained that rents sanction an injustice. Périn’s criticisms of Bastiat brought to light the logical link between the labour theory of value and the demands of social justice. Following Périn’s “Les économistes, les socialistes et le christianisme” (1849) (also offered by Librarium), many social Catholics raised the issue of social justice. (See Arnaud Pellissier Tanon, “The Labor Theory of Value and Social Justice: Social Catholic Criticisms of Bastiat’s Doctrine”).
€ 85 --



135 PÉRIN, Charles. Les économistes, les socialistes et le christianisme. [Presentation Copy]. Paris, Jacques Lecoffre, 1849.

Royal octavo. Pp. 177. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers, rebacked; untrimmed copy, fore-edge bit frayed. In a very good condition (small persistent dampmark in gutter margin). Overall fine, wide-margined interior.

- - First edition. Scarce presentation copy, signed. With an elaborate hand-written dedication by the author on half-title. Charles Périn (1815-1905) was a professor of public law and political economy at the Catholic University of Louvain. A “utopian socialist”, he belonged to the “French Liberal School”, the 19th Century French economists which followed the tradition, both in politics and economics, set by the theorist Jean-Baptiste Say. Périn criticizes Bastiat’s ideas in his “Les Doctrines économiques depuis un siècle” (also offered by Librarium). Unlike Bastiat, Périn adopted the labour theory of value. Since the return to land was not a return to labour, he maintained that rents sanction an injustice. Following Périn, many social Catholics raised the issue of social justice. Périn’s criticisms of Bastiat brought to light the logical link between the labour theory of value and the demands of social justice. (See Arnaud Pellissier Tanon, “The Labor Theory of Value and Social Justice: Social Catholic Criticisms of Bastiat’s Doctrine.”) Overall a good copy with fine provenance.
€ 175 --



136 PIERRE ANDRÉ ******. [ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES TURGOT, Baron de l’Aulne]. Sur les finances. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André ******, fils d’un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr.*, curé D*. Londres, 1775.

Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 293. Charming woodcut device to title, end-piece to the Préface, and a large head-piece to the first page. Plus folding engraved grid-map of France, incorporating title within elaborate cartouche, and 4 other folding tables, all printed on deckle-edged rug paper. Hardcover, bound in recent full olive-green calf, gilt-stamped lettering to spine, faint armorial stamp to title. Excellent wide-margined, untrimmed deckle-edged copy, preserved in the original state. Overall in fine condition, crisp folding plates.

- - First edition. Based on a much quoted manuscript note in the Library of Congress’ copy (“...l’on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel [celui de Turgot & Malesherbes]”) the book is often attributed to Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l’Aulne (1727-1781), controller-general of France under Louis XVI. However, the attribution to Turgot is doubtful if not false. (For that matter see: Quérard: La France littéraire. Paris, Bibliothèque National, Catalogue géneral des livres imprimés; and also: Higgs, H. Bibliography of economics, 6403.) Also the imprint is false, and the book was probably printed in Paris or Amsterdam (see British Library Catalogue entry). COPAC lists just 4 copies in the UK (London School of Economics, University of London, National Library of Scotland, and British Library). KVK locates further copies in Library Network of Western Switzerland, National Library of France, and Union Catalogs Northern Germany and Canada. Other holdings are in microform only. Noteworthy, some of the copies listed have 3 plates only in addition the the map. Provenance: Bibliotheca Comitum de Goertz.
€ 1200 --



137 PIGOU, A. C. Income: An Introduction to Economics. London, Macmillan, 1949.

Crown octavo. Pp. vii, 118. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with blurb from dust-jacket laid-down onto first free endpaper. Excellent copy in fine condition (small ownership stamp).

- - First published in 1946.
€ 17 --



138 PONCINS, [Gabriel] Léon de [Montaigne, comte de]. Les cahiers de 89 ou les vrais principes libéraux. Paris, Didier, 1866.

Octavo. Pp. 411. Publisher’s device to title. Hardcover, contemporary quarter red calf and matching cloth over boards, cloth French corners, spine in compartments between gilt roll-tolled raised bands, direct gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. In fine condition.

- - First edition. It was reprinted in 1887. Gabriel-Léon de Montaigne, Comte de Poncins (1879-1896). OCLC 2152520 lists 8 copies worldwide; OCLC 39199953 adds another copy (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
€ 150 --



139 PRION, W. Inflation und Geldentwertung. Finanzielle Maßnahmen zum Abbau der Preise. Gutachten erstattet dem Reichsfinanzministerium. Berlin, Springer, 1919.

Royal octavo. Pp. 126, (2) publisher’s ads. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, a little foxed at top. In a very good condition. Excellent interior (small stamps to title).

- - First edition.
€ 25 --



140 PROTIN, P. O. Les économistes appréciés ou nécessité de la protection, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES IN ONE]. Paris, Dentu, 1862-63.

Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. Pp. 270; 371. Half-title and title-page to each volume. Hardcover, contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with 2 crimson morocco labels, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker; binding defective, spine broken but provided, persistent dampstain, otherwise a very clean, wide-margined interior in good condition.

- - First edition of Protin’s important work on free trade and protectionism. Deals with Cobden, Michel Chevalier, Carey, Du Mesnil, Marigny, De Fontenay, Garnier, Proudhon, De Lavergne, Baron C. Dupin, Baudrillart, Dupuit, Du Puynode, Casimir Perier, Marquis d’Audiffret, Audiganne. Scarce. OCLC lists only 7 copies in the US (Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Purdue, Harvard, Michigan, Duke, and New York State Library); 2 copies in Britain (London and Oxford University libraries); and 2 copies in France, both in the Bibliotheque University de Haute Alsace. Bodleian adds another copy.
€ 270 --



141 PROUDHON, Pierre Joseph. De la création de l’ordre dans l’humanité, ou principes d’organisation politique. Paris, Prévot & Besançon, Bintot imp. successeur de Proudhon, 1843.

Octavo. Pp. (iv) 582. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter calf, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt decorated and lettered, marbled boards and endpapers, sprinkled edges, minute chip at head of spine, corner-tips bit rubbed. In overall fine condition, handsome binding and bright interior.

- - First edition. Proudhon (1809-1865) hoped to eliminate private enterprise through the establishment of a bank that would grant loans to co-operatives of workers. This, in his opinion, would bring justice and equality. Such co-operatives would make any form of government unnecessary and the ideal conditions of anarchy would reign. In the present work, Proudhon he develops and articulates his “dialectique sérielle”. The book was not well received. Proudhon was accused of misappropriating Kant’s “antinomies”, as he was later to be accused by Marx of misappropriating Hegel’s dialectic. Max Stirner, who was soon to publish his classic work of anarchist individualism and nihilistic egoism, “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” (“The Ego and its Own” (London, Rebel Press, 1982, originally published 1844), objected to its moralism. Proudhon himself later dismissed the book as the “summary of a student’s studies or of those of an ignoramous” (Henri de Lubac, The Un-Marxian Socialist: A Study of Proudhon (New York, Sheed & Ward, 1948).
€ 400 --



142 PROUDHON, Pierre Joseph. Idée générale de la révolution au XIXe siècle, choix d’études sur la pratique révolutionnaire et industrielle. Paris, Garnier frères, 1851.

Crown octavo. Pp. vii, 352. Hardcover, recently bound in handsome full peach morocco, spine with false raised bands, gilt lettering, sides gilt ruled, original wrappers bound-in. A lovely copy in fine condition.

- - First edition. Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French anarchist and socialist writer.
€ 250 --



143 PROUDHON, Pierre Joseph. Les confessions d’un révolutionnaire pour servir a l’histoire de la révolution de février. Paris, Garnier frères, 1850.

Duodecimo. Pp. 325 verso blank, (2) verso blank. Half-title present, second title on first leaf of text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s olive-green cloth, spine bit darkened with light wear to ends, gilt lettering, all edges nicely marbled; front paste-down bit marked. In a very good condition indeed. Nice copy.

- - Second edition. First published in 1849. Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French anarchist and socialist writer. His doctrine “Property is theft” is self-explanatory. One of Marx’s earlier publications, “Misère de la philosophie” (1847), was an angry polemic against Proudhon’s “Philosophie de la misère”. Proudhon hoped to eliminate private enterprise through the establishment of a bank that would grant loans to cooperatives of workers. This, in his opinion, would bring justice and equality. Such cooperatives would make any form of government unnecessary and the ideal conditions of anarchy would reign. Proudhon was imprisoned twice. He then left to Belgium, returning to Paris only after amnesty was granted in 1860. “Les confessions d’un révolutionnaire” is “considered to be his best work from the purely literary point of view, and was both a commercial success and a ‘success d’éstime’.” (E. Hyams: “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon”). Goldsmith 37230. Cf. Einaudi 4550, listing the 3rd edition (1851). OCLC 7494299. Other copies are only in microform: OCLC 19548354 lists over 20 such copies worldwide.
€ 220 --



144 PROUDHON, Pierre Joseph. Les démocrates assermentes et les réfractaires. Paris, Dentu, 1863.

Octavo. Pp. 96. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, bit foxed. A very good copy.

- - First edition. Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French anarchist and socialist writer.
€ 100 --



145 RAMBAUD, Joseph. Éléments d’économie politique. Paris, Librairie de la Société du recueil général des lois et des arrêts et du Journal du palais, L. Larose; Lyon, Auguste Cote, 1895.

Octavo. Pp. 796. Hardcover, attractively bound in half mahogany polished morocco and matching cloth, spine in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers, marbled edges. In about fine condition (some pencil annotations). Excellent copy.

- - First edition. First edition. From the Max Montecuccoli’sche Bibliothek, with a handsome armorial bookplate to first paste-down. Joseph Rambaud (1849-1919), professor of political economy. Not in Einaudi which lists (4631) the 1896 second edition only. Scarce. OCLC locates only 4 copies worldwide.
€ 425 --



146 RAMBAUD, Joseph. Éléments d’économie politique. Paris, Librairie de la Société du recueil général des lois et des arrêts et du Journal du palais, L. Larose; Lyon, Auguste Cote, 1895.

Octavo. Pp. 796. Original printed wrappers; wraps bit yellowed, minute chip to a corner. In about fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Joseph Rambaud (1849-1919), professor of political economy. Scarce. Not in Einaudi which lists (4631) the 1896 second edition only. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide.
€ 370 --



147 RAMBAUD, Joseph. Histoire des doctrines économiques. Paris, Librairie de la Société du recueil général des lois et des arrêts et du Journal du palais, L. Larose; Lyon, Auguste Cote, 1899.

Octavo. Pp. 512. Hardcover, half pebble-grained cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, blank shelf label. In about fine condition (old institutional stamps). Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Joseph Rambaud (1849-1919), professor of political economy. Later editions appeared in 1902 and 1909. English translation, by Selden Goodwin Noyes, “Socialism: being book IV of the Histoire des doctrines économiques by Joseph Rambaud”, appeared in 1900. OCLC 7730235; 6497546. Scarce.
€ 325 --



148 REYBAUD, Louis. Études sur les réformateurs contemporains ou socialistes modernes. Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Robert Owen. Paris, Guillaumin, 1840.

Octavo. Pp. xi, 401, (2). Hardcover, contemporary quarter black calf, spine gilt, handsome marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; foxed, some staining at top margin of last leaves. In overall very good condition. A rather handsome copy.

- - First edition. Later editions appeared in 1841 and 1842-1843. Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (1799-1879), a French economist, journalist, and novelist. His works “show an observant mind and an independent character. They are written with intelligence, spirit, and good sense.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). Kress C.5294. Einaudi 4709. Cf. Fundaburk 6844 (listing a later edition). OCLC 7862005 lists only 7 copies worldwide.
€ 175 --



149 REYBAUD, Louis. L’industrie en Europe. Paris, Lévy frères, 1856.

Small octavo. Pp. 296. Hardcover, contemporary quarter forest-green calf and matching boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, sprinkled edges, cloth corners; paper on boards a little rubbed along edges. In fine condition. A lovely copy.

- - First edition. Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (1799-1879), a French economist, journalist, and novelist. His works “show an observant mind and an independent character. They are written with intelligence, spirit, and good sense.” (Palgrave 1894-1901). Einaudi 4713. With a handsome School Prize plate, dated 1856, to first paste-down.
€ 50 --



150 ROBBINS, Lionel. The Economic Causes of War. London, Cape, 1939.

Crown octavo. Pp. 124. Appendix. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with blurb from dust-jacket laid-down onto first free endpaper. Bright copy in fine condition (small ownership stamp). Excellent.

- - First edition.
€ 30 --



151 ROGERS, James E. Thorold. The Economic Interpretation of History: Lectures Delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8. New York, Putnam’s Sons; London, Fisher Unwin, 1889.

Royal octavo. Pp. xvii, 547. Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cherry-red cloth, recased, spine gilt (small label removed). In fine internal condition (old institutional stamps and label), strong binding.

- - First edition. From the Edward D. Neill Library, Macalester College. James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1823-1890), English economist. Distinguished himself by his careful historical and statistical demonstrations. Outstanding were his contributions in the 7-volume “History of Agriculture and Prices in England 1259-1793” (1866-82) and in “The Economic Interpretation of History” in which he took a strong stand against Ricardo and his followers.
€ 65 --



152 ROODE, N. J. W. de. Schulze-Delitzsch (caption title). [ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH PRINT]. ’s-Gravenhage, P. Blommers, n.d. (ca. 1890).

Portrait. Original lithograph print, pulled on fine China paper and laid-down on heavier stock. Image size ca. 12 x 10 cm; overall size 20 x 13 cm, with ample margins. Bearing at foot the legend “Schulze Delitzsch”. Overall fine (margins of mount foxed, print free of foxing). Light pencil inscription on verso.

- - Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883), a German jurist, member of the Prussian National Assembly, Chamber of Deputies, and the German Reichstag. The handsome portrait is by the Dutch artist N. J. W. de Roode, printed from the stone by the lithographers firm P. Blommers of The Hague.
€ 75 --



153 SALIN, Edgar. Geschichte der Volkswirtschaftslehre. (Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft). Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923.

Crown quarto. Pp. 42, (2). Index. Serial title, title. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers. In fine condition.

- - First edition. Inscribed by the author on first blank. Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft. Abteilung Staatswissenschaft XXXIV. Herausgeber Arthur Spiethoff. Edgar Salin (1892-1974), was professor at the Universities of Heidelberg and Basle. In his “Geschichte...”, the entire history of economic thought is depicted as a struggle between collectivism and individualist ideas. Made major contributions to the historical understanding of Greek economics.
€ 28 --



154 SALIN, Edgar. Geschichte der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Zweite neugestaltete Auflage. (Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft). Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929.

Crown quarto. Pp. 106. Index. Serial title, title. In the original publisher’s printed wrappers, lightly browned. In a very good condition.

- - Second, revised edition. Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft. Abteilung Staatswissenschaft XXXIV. Herausgeber Arthur Spiethoff. Edgar Salin (1892-1974), was professor at the Universities of Heidelberg and Basle. In his “Geschichte...”, the entire history of economic thought is depicted as a struggle between collectivism and individualist ideas. Made major contributions to the historical understanding of Greek economics.
€ 25 --



155 SAVARY, Jacques. Le parfait negociant, ou instruction genérale pour ce qui regarde le commerce des marchandises de France, & des pays étrangers; [WITH:] Nouveau traité des changes etrangers; [AND:] Pareres, ou avis et conseils sur les plus importantes matières de commerce (Nouvelle édition). [THREE BOOKS IN TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Freres Estienne, 1770-77.

Three books in two volumes. Crown quarto. Volume I: Two books bound in one, the first book in 3 parts. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xxxii, 344; 345-801; 802-890; (2), 893-965, (2). Plus one engraved plate. Two half-titles present. Privilége du Roi, dated 1669; Préface et Avis; La vie de M. Savary; extended list of contents, index. Divisional title-pages, each with large decorative head-piece; decorative tail-pieces. Volume II: (xliv), 792.
Half-title present. Avis du Librarie; Préface; extended lists of contents; Approbation; Privilége du Roi; index. Divisional titles, decorative head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, uniformly bound in recent black shagreen, spines gilt, all edges red, some dampmarks and browning to volume I. In overall fine condition.

- - First volume 1777; second volume 1770. “Le parfait negociant” first appeared in 1675. Numerous editions followed, and it was translated into various languages. The sequal, “Les Pareres”, was first published in 1688. The present, impressive set contains both titles.
€ 1400 --



156 SAY, Jean Baptiste; Francois Charles Louis Comte. Mélanges et correspondance d’économie politique. Ouvrage posthume. Publié par Charles Comte, son gendre, etc., etc. Paris, Chamerot, 1833.

Octavo. Pp. xxviii, 472. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original green cloth, black title-label to spine; cloth is faded, dull, minute stain at bottom of upper cover, worn corners. In a very good internal condition (few pencil annotations, odd foxing spot).

- - First edition. Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), French economist. Was appointed to a post in Napoleon’s government in 1799, later was a professor of political economy at the Collège de France. Say edited the journal “La Décade”, in which he wrote many articles promoting the ideas of Adam Smith. Say’s Law, the law of markets, whereby supply creates its own demand for goods, went unchallenged for a long time. His extensive writings include his first major book, “Traité d’économie politique” (1803; English translation 1821); “Catéchisme d’économie politique” (1815); and “Course complet d’économie politique pratique” (1828). Francois Charles Louis Comte (1782-1837), co-authored also T. R. Malthus’s “Essai sur le principe de population”. Goldsmith 27875. Kress C.3603. OCLC 6261732. Not in Einaudi. Provenance: from the library of Dr. W. Neurath, with his calligraphed signature to first free endpaper.
€ 425 --



157 SAY, Léon; Louis Foyot, A. Lanjalley. Dictionnaire des finances. Tome I: A-D; Tome II: E-Z. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Berger Levrault, 1889-94.

Two volumes. Thick crown quarto. Pp. xix, 1562; 1571. Text in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, vellum corners, spines with raised bands, 2 gilt labels to each spine, new endpapers. Handsome set in overall very good condition.

- - Léon Say (1826-1896), French statesman and economist, grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say.
€ 450 --



158 SCHNEIDER, Erich. Joseph A. Schumpeter: Leben und Werk eines großen (grossen) Sozialökonomen. Tübingen, Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1970.

Octavo. Pp. 93, (2) publisher’s ads. Frontispiece portrait and one plate, both printed on fine paper. Footnotes, bibliography. Original card wrappers with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. English translation, “Joseph A. Schumpeter: life and work of a great social scientist” appeared in 1975. OCLC 6993756; 47307446.
€ 125 --



159 SCHÖNBERG, Gustav von (Hrsg.). Handbuch der politischen Oekonomie, I-III. I-II: Volkswirtschaftslehre in zwei Bänden, I-II [Two Volumes in Three]; III: Finanzwissenschaft und Verwaltungslehre. [One Volume in Two]. [THREE VOLUMES IN FIVE]. Tübingen, 1896-98.

Three volumes bound in five. Crown quarto. Pp. 885; 731; 592; 864; 609. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and pebbled boards, leather chafed, abraded, sides and corners gilt ruled, gilt spines, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, cloth inner hinges, handsome armorial bookplate to each volume. Overall a very good set with fine interiors in excellent condition.

- - Vierte Auflage.
€ 225 --



160 SCHULZE-DELITZSCH, (Franz Hermann). Die Abschaffung des geschäftlichen Risico durch Herrn Lassalle. Ein neues Kapitel zum Deutschen Arbeiterkatechismus. Berlin, Duncker, 1866.

Small octavo. Pp. 49, (1) publisher’s ad. Full-page table. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, paper label to spine; small chip to paper on upper board, corner of first free endpaper finger-soiled. In fine condition (stamp to title). Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. A very scarce copy of Schulze-Delitzsch’s attack on Lassalle’s “Herr Bastiat-Schulze von Delitzsch, der ökonomische Julian, oder: Capital und Arbeit” (1864) (see here). Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883) was a German jurist, member of the Prussian National Assembly, Chamber of Deputies, and the German Reichstag. He advocated free-trade, unrestricted competition, and self-help rather than state-help. In 1863 he wrote “Capitel zu einem deutschen Arbeiterkatechismus”, borrowing his fundamental principles in the main from Bastiat. Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864), a German socialist, was the architect of the German labour movement and founder the German Workers’ Association. He was the first to speak about “the iron law of wages”, defining it as the minimum subsistence pay permitting survival and the raising of children. But the more his revolutionary hopes were disappointed, the more sharply he turned against the middle classes (and Schulze’s theories), whose capacity to solve the social question he denied. “Herr Bastiat-Schulze” was his rather assailing reaction to Schulze’s book. In 1866, only after Lassalle’s death (he was mortally wounded in a duel fought over a lady he intended to marry), Schulze finally answered with his “Die Abschaffung”. Provenance: From the library of Dr. Max Menger, with his ink stamp and calligraphed name on spine label. Not in Einaudi. Rare. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (University of California Berkeley, University of Kansas, Harvard University, Cornell University); 2 more copies are in microform (University of Chicago, Columbia University). KVK lists only 4 copies in Germany, and only 4 other copies worldwide, in the British Library, London School of Economics, Network of Western Switzerland, and Austrian National Library.
€ 650 --



161 SCHULZE-DELITZSCH, (Franz Hermann); Benjamin Rampal. Cours d’économie politique a l’usage des ouvriers et des artisans, traduit et précédé d’une esquisse biographique et d’un aperçu sur les nouvelles doctrines économiques et leurs application par Benjamin Rampal, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES IN ONE]. Paris, Guillaumin, 1874.

Two volumes in one. Octavo. Pp. cclxxviii, (i) errata; 354, (1) errata. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter polished green calf and matching boards, cloth French corners, gilt spine, split to upper joint restored, inner hinges cracked. Overall a nice copy with excellent interior.

- - Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808-1883).
€ 160 --



162 SCHUMACHER, August. [Frédéric Bastiat]. Frédéric Bastiat’s Staatsfinanzgrundsätze. [Frédéric Bastiat’s Staatsfinanz-Grundsätze]. Basel, Hess, 1929.

Octavo. Pp. 169. Footnotes, bibliography. Bound in the original publisher’s stiff ochre wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. The last five pages bring the English text of “Frédéric Bastiat’s Speech, on August 23rd 1849, at the Second General Peace Congress, Paris”. Very scarce. OCLC locates just a single copy worldwide, in Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
€ 180 --



163 SCHUMPETER, Joseph. Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Eine Untersuchung über Unternehmergewinn, Kapital, Kredit, Zins und den Konjunkturzyklus. Zweite, neubearbeitete Auflage. München & Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1926.

Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 369, (3) publisher’s ads. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, with handsome publisher’s device embossed in gilt, spine with blue dye label, gilt, top-edge dyed; light foxing to fore-edge and to first and last 2-3 leaves. In about fine condition (some pencil underlining in the beginning). Overall an excellent copy.

- - Second, revised edition. Best edition of Schumpeter’s important work, outstanding among his many publications. The work’s subtitle first appeared with this edition. Preface dated Bohn am Rhein, October 1926. (See: E. B. Schumpeter: “Bibliography of Schumpeter’s Writings”, 1950). The book was translated into many languages. The English edition, “The theory of economic development: an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle” appeared in 1934. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) was not only versed in all fields of economic theory, but also in mathematics, social philosophy, statistics, and in the practical problems of the time. OCLC 5521052.
€ 600 --



164 SCHUMPETER, Joseph. Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Eine Untersuchung über Unternehmergewinn, Kapital, Kredit, Zins und den Konjunkturzyklus. Vierte Auflage. München & Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1935.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxi, 369, (6) publisher’s ads. Half-title present. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, these bit chipped, lightly browned, small ownership signature. In a very good condition (some pencil underlining).

- - Fourth edition. An unaltered reprint of the second, best edition (1926) of Schumpeter’s important work, outstanding among his many publications. Unchanged except for a new foreword, dated “Cambridge, Mass. end of 1934”. (See E. B. Schumpeter: Bibliography of Schumpeter’s Writings, 1950). The English edition appeared in 1934. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) was not only versed in all fields of economic theory, but also in mathematics, social philosophy, statistics, and in the practical problems of the time. From the library of B. H. Stockmann, with his handsome bookplate and signatures.
€ 125 --



165 SCHUMPETER, Joseph. Zur Soziologie der Imperialismen. Tübingen, Mohr, 1919.

Royal octavo. Pp. 76. Bound in the original printed wrappers, these worn and chipped, upper wrap detached, adhesive tape imprints. In a very good, clean internal condition (short nick to blank top margin of two leaves).

- - First edition thus. First published as two articles in the “Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik”. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950). Far more than an economist, he was not only versed in all fields of economic theory, but also in mathematics, social philosophy, statistics, and in the practical problems of the time. His basic sociological views have crystallized at an early date. Elaborated later in his major book “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” (1942), Schumpeter gives them here a clear expression, and relates economic ideas to a wider context of social analysis. (See G. Haberler: Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950, 1950; E. B. Schumpeter: Bibliography of Schumpeter’s Writings, 1950). From the library of the Weltwirtschafts-Institut at the University of Leipzig with stamps to that effect on title-page. Not in OCLC.
€ 235 --



166 (SENAC DE MEILHAN, Gabriel). Considérations sur les richesses et le luxe. Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez la veuve Valade, 1787.

Royal octavo. Pp. Half-title (verso blank), title (verso blank), iv (numbered v-viii), 10 Préface, 11- 499, (3) notes, (2) errata (verso blank). With handsome engraved device to title, engraved head-piece and many tail-pieces. Footnotes. Hardcover, quarter calf and marbled boards, spine lettered and dated in gilt; head of spine mended for a tea, a partly split joint neatly restored. An entirely uncut, wide-margined copy, printed on handmade paper; a little dog-eared, worm trace to inner blank margin of 3 consecutive leaves with no loss. Overall an excellent interior in fine condition (contemporary signature to title, small stamp to verso). A very desirable copy.

- - First edition, uncommon in the original, unsophisticated state, and entirely uncut. Gabriel Senac de Meilhan (1736-1803), a French writer. In 1790 he published “Des Principes et des causes de la Révolution en France”. His “Considérations...” was republished in 1789. Kress B.1336. Goldsmith 13327. Cf. Palgrave 1894-1901. Not in Einaudi 5228, which lists the 1789 edition only. OCLC 3962815.
€ 850 --



167 SHEFFIELD, Jean Lord. [John Baker Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield]. Observations sur le commerce des États d’Amérique. Londres et se trouve à Paris, Lejay fils & Et Maradan, 1789.

Octavo. Pp. xvi, 336.
Half-title present. Attractive engraved head-piece; publisher’s device to title. Hardcover, bound in contemporary handsome patterned boards, spine with red morocco label, lettered and decorated in gilt, paper label to upper cover. In fine condition.

- - Second French edition. Includes the Supplément. Translated by H. G. Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, sometime attributed to E. Rumare (Cf. British Library). John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), English politician. Having served in the Army, he entered the House of Commons in 1780. In 1803 he was appointed President of the Board of Agriculture. He was a great authority on farming and a leading economic authority of his time. In 1792, “A brief examination of Lord Sheffield’s observations on the commerce of the United States”, by Tench Coxe, was published as a reaction to Holroyd’s book. Scarce. KVK lists only British Library (2); Union Catalog Northern Germany (a second copy in microform); and Union Catalog Hesse (1788).
€ 650 --



168 SMITH, Adam. [Germain Garnier]. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations; traduction nouvelle, avec des notes et observations par Germain Garnier. Volumes I-V. [FIVE VOLUMES, THE CORRECTED ISSUE]. Paris, Agasse, 1802.

Five volumes. Crown octavo. Pp. cxxvij (Preface), 368; 493; 564; 556; 588. Engraved frontispiece, signed by B. L. Prevost, to the first volume. All half-titles present. Extended comprehensive index, footnotes. Hardcover, uniformly bound in handsome contemporary half polished calf and speckled boards; spines gilt ruled, each with a cherry-red, gilt morocco title-label, and an oval, gilt-and-black morocco volume-number label, set within gilt-embossed wreath. Paper over inner hinges of volume I split, not affecting binding which remains firm and tight. Nice embroidered ribbon marker to each volume. In about fine condition (some annotations in light coloured pencil in one volume). A very handsome set.

- - Adam Smith’s (1723-1790) work is the first major expression of organized study of social wealth. “‘The Wealth of Nations’ is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought.” (PMM 221). The present, much admired French translation of Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”, by the French poet and economist Comte Germain Garnier (1754-1821), became the standard, definitive French text. (Palgrave 1894-1901). Garnier’s elegant Preface to this edition contains a summary of the doctrine of Smith, a comparison between the same and that of French economists, and a parallel between the wealth of France and that of England. - - The present set is the scarce corrected issue, published without the 5 errata slips (one to each volume) and conforms to Einaudi’s 5340 description. KVK locates copies in British Library, Union Catalog of Canada, and National Library of Australia only. Two further copies are located in Germany (Union Catalogs Northern Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia). Some sets are incomplete; the edition is either not identified or is of the uncorrected issue, with the 5 errata slips present. A number of copies are in microform. OCLC 2783852. Not found in French Union Catalog.
€ 1450 --



169 SOMARY, Felix. Die Ursachen der Krise. Tübingen, Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1932.

Octavo. Pp. vii, 122, (6) publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s ochre cloth, lettered and decorated, spine faded. In fine condition.

- - First edition thus. Some of the 12 lectures and essays collected here appeared before in other forms.
€ 65 --



170 SOMBART, Werner. Der moderne Kapitalismus. Erster Band: Die Genesis des Kapitalismus. Zweiter Band: Die Theorie der kapitalistischen Entwicklung. Mit Registern über Band I und II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1902.

Five books in two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxxiv, 669; viii, 646, (2) publisher’s ads. With a divisional title to each book. Indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, dark olive-green pebbled cloth, spines gilt, top of one spine missing, decorative endpapers, cloth inner hinges, marbled edges; leather rubbed off. In a very fine internal condition. A desirable set.

- - First edition of Sombart’s most important work. Provenance: From the library of noted Dutch pediatrician Ph. H. Fiedeldij Dop, with his handsome bookplate to first free endpaper of each volume. Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist. A specialist in Marxian socialism he was not a socialist himself but expressed radical views in many of his books. In “Der moderne Kapitalismus” Sombart offered a systematic historical picture of economic development in Europe from the beginning to 1927. (Sills. IESS. 1972. Schumpeter 1963, p. 816-7). “A history of the economic institutions of modern Europe: An introduction of Der moderne Kapitalismus of Werner Sombart” was published first in 1933 and later in 1935 by F. S. Crofts, New York. Scarce. OCLC locates only 6 copies worldwide. KVK adds 7 copies (Union Catalogs Norway, Britain, France, Sweden; Det Kongelige Bibliotek Denmark, National Library of Finland, Verbundkatalog Öffentlicher Bibliotheken). Only 3 copies are located in Germany (TIB Hannover, Union Catalog Hesse, Complete Catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek).
€ 645 --



171 SPENCER, Herbert. An Autobiography. Volumes I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. London, Williams & Norgate, 1904.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 556; ix, 541. Fine brown-ink aquatint heliogravure portrait to each volume, with tissue-guards. Plus additional plates, some double-page, some extending, printed on different paper, bound-in. Text illustrations. Appendices, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original forest-green cloth, spines gilt. Top edge gilt. Some leaves still unopened. In a very good condition (some spotting, particularly to first and last leaves and to fore-edges). A nice set, practically unused.

- - First edition. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid 19th century, and his reputation at the time rivalled that of Charles Darwin. Spencer was initially best known for developing and applying evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society. Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defence of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism.
€ 85 --



172 STARK, W. Jeremy Bentham’s Economic Writings: Critical Edition Based on His Printed Works and Unprinted Manuscripts. Volumes I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. London, George Allen & Unwin for the Royal Economic Society, 1952-54.

Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 412; 458, plus 2 large folding tables; 600, (1) errata. Appendices, index. Hardcover, original cloth, 2 volumes uniform, with good, bit chipped dust-jackets. In fine condition (one volume spine faded). Overall an excellent set.

- - First edition, 1952-1954. ADDED: “Bentham and Wakefield” by Edward R. Kittrell, University of Alberta, Calgary, a 13-page essay photocopied from “The Western Economic Journal” 1965-66.
€ 95 --



173 TAUSSIG, F. W. Principles of Economics. Third Edition Revised. Volumes I-II. [EIGHT BOOKS IN TWO VOLUMES]. New York, Macmillan, 1930-31.

Eight books in 2 volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxiii, 545; xviii, 576. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original blind-ruled blue cloth, spines gilt. In a very good condition (small ownership stamp; vol. I with annotations). A nice set.

- - Third edition, revised. Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) American economist, enjoyed an international reputation, received four honorary doctorates. In 1904 he was elected president of the American Economic Association.
€ 85 --



174 TESCHEMACHER, Hans (Hrsg.) Festgabe für Georg von Schanz zum 75. Geburtstag 12. März 1928. Beiträge zur Finanzwissenschaft. Erster und zweiter Band. [TWO VOLUMES]. Tübingen, Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1928.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 439; vi, 441. Portrait frontispiece, with facing tissue-guard, to the first volume. Uniformly bound in the original printed yellow wrappers. Excellent set in fine internal condition, both volumes are still entirely unopened!

- - First edition. With contributions by Popitz, Zahn, Homberger, Einaudi, Gerloff, Andreae, and others. It was reprinted in 1989. Unused sets, such as the present set, are practically unavailable. OCLC 6949327.
€ 145 --



175 THIERS, A. De la propriété. Paris, Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848.

Four books in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. 439. Hardcover, contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; foxed at beginning and end, neat repair to gutter margin of few leaves. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), French statesman, journalist, and historian. Became an orator, politician, and prime minister under Louis Philippe. From 1871-73 he was president of the republic. “His historical works are outstanding. Of even greater importance is his ‘De la Propriété’, with which he hoped to correct the errors of the socialists.” (Mai, p. 220). Goldsmith 36120. Einaudi 5585. Stammhammer I, 246.
€ 65 --



176 THORNTON, Henry. An Inquiry [Enquiry] into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain. Philadelphia, James Humphreys, 1807.

Octavo. Pp. 272. Notes, index. Hardcover, contemporary full calf, chafed, joints split but firm, lower corner of last blank torn-off. A very good copy in generally fine internal condition, evenly age toned.

- - First American edition. It was first published in London in 1802 as “An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain and Serious Reflections on Paper Money in General”. Henry Thornton (1760-1815), English merchant and banker. Was director of the Bank of England, and for 30 years member of Parliament. In his “Enquiry...” he systemized ideas on money, circulation, interest, price, and employment. Though very successful in his own day, the “Enquiry...” was gradually forgotten until Hollander, Viner, and others rediscovered it and drew attention to its anticipations of modern monetary theory. (Blaug and Sturges, 1983). Kress B.5270. Old catalogue entry tipped-in onto first paste-down, another loosely inserted. With previous ownership signature, dated 1809, calligraphed onto first free endpaper and title. This edition is not recorded in the British Library, not in OLIS, nor Bodleian.
€ 975 --



177 VILLENEUVE BARGEMONT, Vicomte de [Jean Paul] Alban. Histoire de l’économie politique, ou études historiques, philosophiques et religieuses sur l’économie politique des peuples anciens et modernes. Volumes I-II. Paris, Guillaumin, 1841.

Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 474; 453, (1). Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and handsome hand-marbled paper over boards, all edges sprinkled green, spines gilt; spines worn but partly neatly restored, boards bit rubbed, dampmark to first and last leaves, occasionally very faintly to outer margins elsewhere. In good condition (old inscriptions to first paste-downs). Overall yet a desirable set.

- - First authorized edition. (First published in Bruxelles in 1839 in one volume). Goldsmith 32000. Einaudi 5911 (listing only this edition). Kress C.5689. Vicomte de Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve Bargemont (1784-1850), French social reformer. One of the Catholic critics of economic liberalism, he became a central figure in the movement for social reforms. Very scarce. OCLC 5427306. KVK lists just 2 copies of this edition, one in Union Catalog Italy, one in National Library of France.
€ 525 --



178 WAGNER, Adolph. Finanzwissenschaft. Dritter Theil: Spezielle Steuerlehre. 1. Buch: Steuergeschichte vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart. [AND:] 2. Buch: Die britische Besteuerung im 19. Jahrhundert und bis zur Gegenwart. (Lehr- und Handbuch politischen Oekonomie. Vierte Hauptabtheilung). [TWO VOLUMES]. Leipzig, Winter, 1910-12.

Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 502; viii, 243. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary decorated half cloth and marbled paper over board. In fine internal condition. Overall an excellent set.

- - 1. und 2. Auflage. Adolf Heinrich Gothilf Wagner (1835-1917), German economist. Was professor of economics at the University of Berlin. Appointed to the Prussian House of Lords in 1910. Wagner was an influential teacher and made great contributions in the field of public finance. His 4-volume “Finanzwissenschaft” (1877) became a standard work. This, and “Grundlegung der politischen Ökonomie” (1876) represent his main works.
€ 195 --



179 WAGNER, Adolph. Finanzwissenschaft. Vierter Theil: Die deutsche Besteuerung des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Lehr- und Handbuch politischen Oekonomie. Vierte Hauptabtheilung). Leipzig, Winter, 1901.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxiv, 852. Hardcover, bound in contemporary decorated half cloth and marbled paper over board. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - Adolf Heinrich Gothilf Wagner (1835-1917), German economist. Was professor of economics at the University of Berlin. Appointed to the Prussian House of Lords in 1910. Wagner was an influential teacher and made great contributions in the field of public finance. His 4-volume “Finanzwissenschaft” (1877) became a standard work. This, and “Grundlegung der politischen Ökonomie” (1876) represent his main works. (The 2nd part, Theorie der Besteuerung, Gebührenlehre und allgemeine Steuerlehre; and the 3rd part, Spezielle Steuerlehre, in two volumes: I. Steuergeschichte vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart; II. Die britische Besteuerung im 19. Jahrhundert und bis zur Gegenwart, are also offered by Librarium).
€ 100 --



180 WAGNER, Adolph. Finanzwissenschaft. Zweiter Theil: Theorie der Besteuerung, Gebührenlehre und allgemeine Steuerlehre. (Lehr- und Handbuch politischen Oekonomie. Vierte Hauptabtheilung). Leipzig, Winter, 1890.

Royal octavo. Pp. xxix, 814. Hardcover, bound in contemporary decorated half cloth and marbled paper over board. In fine internal condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - 2. Auflage. Adolf Heinrich Gothilf Wagner (1835-1917), German economist. Was professor of economics at the University of Berlin. Appointed to the Prussian House of Lords in 1910. Wagner was an influential teacher and made great contributions in the field of public finance. His 4-volume “Finanzwissenschaft” (1877) became a standard work. This, and “Grundlegung der politischen Ökonomie” (1876) represent his main works. (The 3rd part, Spezielle Steuerlehre, in two volumes: I. Steuergeschichte vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart; II. Die britische Besteuerung im 19. Jahrhundert und bis zur Gegenwart; and the 4th part, Die deutsche Besteuerung des 19. Jahrhunderts, are also offered by Librarium).
€ 100 --



181 WEBER, Adolf. Hat Schacht recht? Die Abhängigkeit der deutschen Volkswirtschaft vom Ausland. München Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1928.

Octavo. Pp. 28, (4) publisher’s ads. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. Adolf Weber (1876-1963), German economist.
€ 18 --



182 WEBER, Adolf. Unser Wirtschaftsleben als Gegenstand des Universitätsunterrichts. Zur Einführung in die Breslauer Fachkurse für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung. Tübingen, Mohr, 1916.

Octavo. Pp. 88. Set in Gothic type. Original printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy.

- - First edition. Im Auftrage der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Adolf Weber (1876-1963), German economist.
€ 35 --



183 WEBER, Max. Gesammelte aufsätze zur sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Tübingen, Mohr, 1924.

Crown quarto. Pp. 556. Footnotes. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition.

- - First edition. Max Weber (1864-1920), German economist and sociologist.
€ 35 --



184 WIENER, Sam. L’exception de jeu et les opérations de bourse. Bruxelles, Bruylant-Christophe; Paris, A. Marescq, Ainé, 1883.

Royal octavo. Pp. x, 228. Appendices. Hardcover, contemporary three-quarter dark-blue calf, sides and corners gilt ruled, spine in compartments, each with gilt fleuron set within ornamental frame, lettering in the second, roll-tooled raised bands; top-edge gilt. Marbled endpapers, triple-colour cloth ribbon marker; first inner hinge cracked with no effect on binding. Clean, handsome copy in overall fine condition. Overall an excellent copy.

- - First edition. One of 25 numbered copies on fine paper, this copy is number 3. Sam Wiener (1851-1914), “Avocat près la cour d’appel de Bruxelles, juge suppléant au Tribunal de première instance.” Wrote also “L’ancienne plaidoirie en Brabant. Discours prononcé” (Bruxelles, Alliance typographique, 1883); and “Les traités matrimoniaux des princes microform” (Bruxelles, Monnom, 1906). Rare. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (University of Kansas, Harvard University, New York Public Library, Université Libre de Bruxelles).
€ 750 --



185 WIESE, Leopold von. (Editor). Wirtschaft und Recht der Gegenwart. Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der technischen Hochschulen und Bergakademien, sowie für praktische Techniker und Bergleute. Erster Band: Politische Oekonomie. Zweiter Band: Rechtskunde, Fabrikorganisation und Arbeiterkunde, Privatwirtschaftslehre und angrenzende Disziplinen. [TWO VOLUMES]. Tübingen, Mohr, 1912.

Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. x, (ii), 695; 514, (2) publisher’s ads. Diagrams, footnotes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original olive-green cloth and matching boards, printed in red and black. Cloth French corners, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. In a very good condition (annotations on each title page). Nice set.

- - First edition. The present set includes the often-missing 4-page Supplement “Finanzwissenschaft. Von Professor Dr. Arthur Cohen in München: Nachtrag.” OCLC 9692284 (listing copies in the US, Japan, Netherlands); OCLC 58642229 (listing Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen).
€ 125 --



186 WIESER, Friedrich. Das Gesetz der Macht. Wien, Springer, 1926.

Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 562, 2 publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover, half calf and handsome hand-marbled boards, spine in compartments between raised band, gilt ruled, with brown morocco label lettered in gilt, cloth inner hinges; leather along extremities bit rubbed, corner-tips chafed. A very fine, notably well preserved interior. Overall a very desirable copy.

- - First edition. English translation, “The law of power”, was published in 1983 by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (1851-1926), Austrian economist. Appointed in 1917 to the Austrian Upper House and served as minister of commerce in the last two cabinets of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Made original and important contributions to economics, notably in his book “Der natürliche Werth” (1889) - also offered by Librarium - which brought him international recognition. With Menger and Böhm-Bawerk he represents the Austrian School. Not located on OCLC, which lists (OCLC 9685285) the English edition only.
€ 175 --



187 WIESER, Friedrich Freiherr von. Die Theorie der städtischen Grundrente. Wien & Leipzig, Deuticke, 1909.

Royal octavo. Pp. 39. Hardcover, half calf and matching cloth, spine gilt, rubbed; corner-tips rubbed. In a very good condition (pencil underlining and annotations in contemporary hand, occasionally in coloured pencil). Overall a very desirable copy.

- - First separate edition. Offprint from “Wiener staatswissenschaftliche Studien”. Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (1851-1926), Austrian economist. Appointed in 1917 to the Austrian Upper House and served as minister of commerce in the last two cabinets of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Made original and important contributions to economics, notably in his book “Der natürliche Werth” (1889) - also offered by Librarium - which brought him international recognition. With Menger and Böhm-Bawerk he represents the Austrian School. OCLC 6183833 locates only 11 copies worldwide. OCLC 44749430 adds 2 other copies in microform (New York Public Library, New York University).
€ 80 --



188 WIESER, Friedrich von. Der natürliche Werth. Wien, Hölder, 1889.

Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 239. Hardcover, handsomely bound in three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt with small neat restoration; endpapers lightly toned. In about fine condition (underlining and annotations). Overall a very desirable copy.

- - First edition of Wieser’s highly important book. English translation, “Natural Value”, appeared in London in 1893 (edited by W. Smart, translated by C. A. Malloch). Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (1851-1926), Austrian economist. Appointed in 1917 to the Austrian Upper House and served as minister of commerce in the last two cabinets of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In “Der natürliche Werth” he made original and important contributions to economics, which brought him international recognition. With Menger and Böhm-Bawerk he represents the Austrian School. Provenance: from the library of E. G. Hagenbeek, with his stamp to title. He annotated and underlined the text throughout, mostly in pencil but often in faint gray fountain pen ink, almost indistinguishable from the pencilling. Einaudi 6044. OCLC 4084660. KVK locates just 6 copies in Germany, one in Austria, one in Switzerland, one in Denmark, and one in Great Britain.
€ 1450 --



189 WOOLF, Arthur H. With a Bibliography Compiled by Cosmo Alexander Gordon. A Short History of Accountants and Accountancy. London, Gee, 1912.

Octavo. Pp. xxxi, 254. Footnotes, list of works consulted, appendices, extended bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth gilt, lower board embossed with publisher’s device; spine gilt, faded, ends bumped. In about fine condition (some foxing, signature to first free endpaper).

- - First edition thus. First appeared as a series of articles in “The Accountant”. For publication in a book form they were revised, augmented, and in part rewritten. OCLC 3229646.
€ 160 --

 

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