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71749München Adam Berg 1604. Folio. 7 80 23 blad. Blad 38 felpaginerat som 37. Titel tryckt i rött och svart. Text inom ramtryck. Rikt illustrerad med mynt i träsnitt delvis med äldre handkolorering i gult och rött. Liten fläck blad 34-36. Enstaka samtida bläckannoteringar och rättelser. NÃ¥got senare pergamentband med handtextad ryggtitel och spÃ¥r av ryggetikett nÃ¥got bÃ¥gnande pärmar. Ur Georg Friedrich Niehencks bibliotek med dennes anteckning att den givits som gÃ¥va av assessorn i Göta hovrätt Georg Göran von Knorring daterad Göteborg 1724. Har sedan efter Niehenck kommit till O. Ekebom â€Ex bibliotheca Niehenckiana venit in meam O. Ekbom 1775â€. Ur Ericsbergs bibliotek med Carl Jedvard Bondes exlibris. Saknar ett blankt blad i inledningen. VD17 1:001113W. Lipsius s. 38. Dekesel B89. Strandberg s. 37. Graesse I 339. Carlander II 279f. Fint exemplar med en bra proveniens! Det blanka inledningsbladet finns i enstaka exemplar. Andra upplagan av Adam Bergs 1564-1610 stora myntbok den första utkom 1597. Boken bestÃ¥r av tre delar med tvÃ¥ extra titelblad â€Ein Dialogus oder Gespräch zwichen dem Gelt und der Armut sehr Kurtzweilig zulesen†och â€Ein kurtzer Extract der Müntzsorten deren im Alten und Newen testament gedacht wirdt .â€. Svenska mynt behandlas pÃ¥ blad 71. Friherre Göran von Knorring 1691-1773 frÃ¥n Strömsberg i Jönköping var assessor frÃ¥n 1721 och blev hovrättsrÃ¥d 1733. Han gifte sig 1720 med Gertrud Tham frÃ¥n Göteborg. Pastorn vid tyska församlingen i Göteborg Georg Friedrich Niehenck 1680-1752 ägde en stor myntsamling vilken efter hans död förgäves erbjöds Ã¥t museer i Stockholm och Uppsala för 20000 daler. Den sÃ¥ldes istället pÃ¥ auktion i Hamburg 1759. Hans ansenliga bibliotek sÃ¥ldes efter hans död pÃ¥ auktion i Göteborg 1753. Ekebom har dock daterat sin anteckning 22 Ã¥r senare vilket tyder pÃ¥ att där kan ha funnits ytterligare en ägare mellan. unknown
1806666P26Edinburgh: William Creech 1806. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". None. A smartly rebound three volume set of Adam Smith's influential and popular work on economics 'The Wealth of Nations' a work which went on to shape economics theory. Rebound in a smart quarter crushed morocco binding with paper to the boards with new endpapers. With two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear of Volume III. Complete in three volumes. With a life of the author. 'The Wealth of Nations' was one of the world's first work discussing what builds nation's wealths. The author discusses the division of labour productivity and free markets. The work is divided into five parts titled 'One the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labor' 'Of the Nature Accumulation and Employment of Stock' 'Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations' 'Of Systems of Political Economy' and 'Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth'. The work is still a fundamental reference in classical economics and provided the foundation for future politicians economists thinkers biologist and mathematicians. In fact the work showed the clear shift that was happening in the field of economics. In this work the author aimed to offer a practical application for reformed economic theory. They were intended to replace the prevalent economic theories of the time due to the coming industrial progress. In this work Adam Smith introduced his theory of absolute advantage meaning the ability of a party to produce a greater quantity of goods than competitors. Written by Adam Smith. This work was his magnum opus being the product of seventeen years of notes and works. He is well known for being a pioneer of political economy as well as being a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He is often nicknamed 'The Father of Economics' and also is credited with laying the foundations of the classical free market economical theory. Rebound in a quarter crushed morocco binding with paper to the boards. Externally smart. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some tidemarks and the odd spot. Very Good William Creech hardcover
178358904<p>FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING - PROBABLY BY HENRY WALTHER</p><p>first edition 3 vols. large 4to. 28.3 x 23.5 cms. 12 461 1 blank; 4 548; 8 574pp. 6 engraved maps 4 folding contemporary rich tan lightly-diced russia calf over thick boards gilt fillet border on sides spines panelled by double gilt bands highlighted by gilt fillets and with a twisted gilt roll between them one panel with a dark brown morocco title label and another direct gilt numbered deep turn-ins on the doublures decoratively gilt rolled board edges with a double gilt line and twining frond gilt roll marbled endpapers edges dyed yellow minor paper flaw in the lower marginal corner of vol. 3 L4 slight rubbing to joints and a circa 6 cm. crack at foot of joints of vol. I a few minor scuffs at spine ends else a remarkably well preserved and internally fresh copy.</p><p>Ferguson 1723-1816 Professor at Edinburgh first of Natural Philosophy and later of Moral Philosophy was a significant member of the important eighteenth century Scottish school of enlightenment philosophers. He was a friend of such as David Hume Adam Smith Dugald Stewart and Black.<br />Ferguson's 'An Essay on the History of Civil Society' 1767 established his "reputation as a British and a European historian with a Scottish edge. It enabled him to deal with questions which concerned Enlightenment thinkers throughout Europe: the nature of political society differences between nations reflecting temporal and geographical variations patterns of progress and decline types of government and the tension between the 'private' man involved in commerce and polite conversation and 'public' man the politically active citizen. It made its author famous throughout Europe" O.D.N.B.<br />His "'History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic' narrating the rise and fall of the republic as a story of civic virtue and its corruption appeared in 1783 . It won praise from Edward Gibbon and went through two more English-language editions in 1799 and 1813. In the mid-nineteenth century it was still favourably mentioned by John Stuart Mill and reissued in the United States where Ferguson's spirited discussion of Rome's republican heyday appealed to two generations of readers. Two French translations appeared in Paris in 1784–91 and in 1803–10. A German translation appeared in Leipzig in 1784–6. . Although the fame of his Roman Republic was short-lived . it did more than any of Ferguson's books to determine its author's image as latter-day Roman a worthy if somewhat quaint lover of virtue and liberty in their classical republican sense. Contemporaries and posterity came to view him as a moralist of stout but old-fashioned Stoic convictions" O.D.N.B.<br />The binding is not signed but is certainly a contemporary English one probably the work of Henry Walther fl. 1775-1815 as it has his very characteristic double raised bands on the spines. Walther was one of the group of highly skilled emigré German binders' who worked in Britain at this period. He had in his earlier years in London worked for J. Baumgarten another member of that group before he set up there on his own as a high quality binder. In this binding the boards project about 7 to 8 mm. beyond the text block at the top and bottom to expose the gilt rolled tooling on the turn-ins. The double raised bands themselves are separated by 8 mm. are defined by a gilt fillet above and below the pair have a narrow gilt roll along their tops and have a twisted-pair gilt roll in the space between the two bands. The binding was probably intentionally designed to echo the spirit of its content - serious sombre magisterial and definitely not showy.</p> Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell ,,, and W. Creech in Edinburgh hardcover
65823Glasgow: At the University Press 1805. Economics Complete in three volumes. Octavo 21 x 14cm Vol.I pp.iv; iv; lvi; 360; Vol.II pp.ii; iv; vi; 512; 4 Appendix; Vol.III; pp.11; ii; 448 52 Index. Contemporary brown acid-stained patterned calf boards re-backed to style circa 1890s in brown calf with gilt titles to red and black labels and further gilt decoration to spines. Contents clean free from ownership marks bindings gently aged gilt to spine a little rubbed. An attractive natural set. An important Scottish printing with a Glasgow imprint being the first edition to contain "The Life of the Author" preceding the more familiar Edinburgh edition with The Life printed for William Creech published the following year. Glasgow: At the University Press, 1805 unknown
62149London: Printed by A. Strahan 1802. 3 vols. 8vo. 21 x 13 cm. pp.xii499; vi5185 index; vii46550 index and ads. Contemporary full calf smooth spines ruled and decorated in gilt red morocco label to each blue sprinkled edges. Old ownership inscription of Chris Fisher to each volume. Bindings a bit scuffed partial loss of gilt to spines light browning to endpapers contents clean and crisp save for some very infrequent occasional spotting generally a very good set. The magnum opus of Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith originally published in two volumes in 1775-1776. "The first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" Printing and the Mind of Man. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1802. unknown
1809180832Edinburgh: for Mundell Doig and Stevenson; Lackington Allen and Co. Cradock and Joy and T. Hamilton London; and Wilson and Son York 1809. One of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status Second Edinburgh edition of the "first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" PMM. This edition includes a 66-page Life of Smith and two essays by Germain Garnier 1754-1821 comparing Smithian economics with the contemporary approach of the French school. The British copyright for the Wealth of Nations expired in 1804. The following year William Playfair 1759-1823 brought out in London an edition universally derided for its editorial liberties and for exorcising any suggestion of Smithian radicalism in the aftermath of the French Revolution. The first Edinburgh edition criticized Playfair extensively but by 1809 the debate had moved on and these criticisms have been themselves been exorcised here. Following the first publication of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 Smith moved to Edinburgh to take up a post as commissioner of customs. He remained in the city until his death in 1790. Scotland informed much of his analysis in the Wealth of Nations which was written in Kirkcaldy 11 miles north of the capital. For Donald Winch Smith was "a North Briton who regarded Scotland not merely as his home but as the best place from which to observe the affairs of the capital with the minimum of involvement in party politics" ODNB. 3 vols octavo 207 x 128 mm. Tables in the text. Contemporary sprinkled calf spines ruled and decorated in gilt and with twin red and dark green morocco labels edges sprinkled blue. Light bumping and wear minor worming foxing and offsetting to contents: a very good copy. Tribe 96; Vanderblue p. 14. unknown
1795126439Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wogan Byrne J. Moore and 5 others in Dublin 1795. First Dublin edition same year as the first London edition. The Essays were published five years after Smith's death and edited by the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart 1753-1828. Stewart's "Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith" is one of the earliest biographical notices of Smith and "until Stewart's Biographical Memoir of 1811. formed the basis upon which everyone drew for the biographies of Smith that began to appear in the early 19th century" Tribe. The editors Joseph Black and James Hutton state that Smith's essays were intended as parts of "a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts" but that Smith "long since. found it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive". The essays range over philosophy aesthetics and the history of science. Most were probably written before the appearance of the Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 but were withheld from publication as part of Smith's "extensive plan". Kress lists the Dublin printing first and calls the London "another issue" while Tribe calls the Dublin edition a piracy. Neither is correct. Dublin booksellers at the time had a well-established exemption from the copyright laws and could legally reprint any new publication first published in London without having to pay for copy. The London edition precedes this legal Dublin reprint. Scarce: neither Einaudi nor Goldsmiths' list this Dublin edition. Octavo 205 x 125 mm. Early 19th-century tan calf and marbled boards neatly rebacked using a piece of diced Russia gilt roll decoration to head and tail of spine gilt device stamped around the spine. Ownership stamp of William Brough to rear free endpaper. Somewhat inelegantly rebacked with diced russia salvaged from another binding inner hinges cracked but firm corners worn some toning to leaf edges and a few small spots; overall a good copy. Jessop p. 172; Kress B.3037; Tribe 56; Vanderblue p. 43. hardcover
1782143496London: Printed for J. Murray 1782. First edition of this anonymously published epistolary account in 72 letters written during the course of a trip to India dealing largely with the government and economies of the East Indies and with notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. At the Cape of Good Hope in April 1799 one Daniel Barwell lent the author his copy of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - 'a work of great labour and ingenuity; I had heard of it and anxiously desired to see it because it treated of such commercial and political matters as have long furnished a subject of speculation in my solitude. It is a performance that every statesman and legislator should study and digest. - Yet I have presumed to differ in opinion in a few instances from that great source of knowledge' I 206-7. The 'Observations' written 'on a cursory reading' of Smith are provided in an lengthy two-column appendix in volume II pp. 432-479 which juxtaposes quotations with insightful commentary especially on the relationship of labour and value and real and nominal prices. Macintosh presented a copy of his Travels to Smith 'With Mr. MacIntosh's compliments. Mr. M - having been abroad when these letters were printed had not an opportunity of transmiting sic them in manuscripts'. The Travels' authorship although attributed by DNB Halkett & Laing Kress and Allibone to William Thomson 1746-1817 who was a clergyman in Perthshire until October 1778 and whose role was most probably editorial has also been credited to the Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer Sir Philip Francis 1740-1818 who was also the chief antagonist of the first Governor-General of Bengal Warren Hastings. It is however generally accepted as being William MacIntosh's: "the author was given out to be one Macintosh whose name occurs in Philip Francis's Indian journal. But it runs so minutely into defence of Francis and vituperation of his enemies especially of Hastings. that some assigned the authorship of these portions of it to Francis in person" Parkes. In his Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis 1867 Parkes notes "some people indeed denied the existence of Macintosh altogether. But one of Captain Price's grotesque pamphlets describes him as 'a swarthy and ill-looking man'. of colour born in the West Indies" p. 206. These Travels were translated into German Des Herrn Macintosh's Reisen in 1785 and twice so in French: 1786 and 1792. This copy has the crested bookplate of the banker Thomas Coutts "Strand London" one of the wealthiest men in Britain to the front pastedowns transposed over from an earlier binding. 2 vols octavo 211 x 126 mm. Recent quarter calf red and green morocco labels marbled sides vellum tips. Bindings fine interior remarkably clean and fresh occasionally foxed; a very good copy. ESTC T97734; Goldsmiths' 12256; Kress B.523; Mizuta "Adam Smith's Library" 1660; Joseph Parkes "Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis K.C.B." vol. 2 pp. 205-6; Sowerby E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 3934; Zachs 314; not in Vanderblue. hardcover
198987154Davaco Publishers. New. 1989. Hardcover. 9070288524 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 260 pages; 268 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Davaco Publishers hardcover
200886912H. Schmidt. New. 2008. Hardcover. 3935647409 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 419 pages; well-illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee H. Schmidt hardcover
1748GT1007Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis 1748. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 12mo. iv 148pp. With a preface by Adam Smith. Original speckled full calf and ORIGINAL 18TH CENTURY marbled end-papers. The binding is rubbed with some loss to the surface of the rear cover and mottled to the front. A fine gilt decorated original spine with raised bands and gilt decoration to the compartments A fine original red calf gilt label to the spine with no repairs. A small contemporary paper scrap of a dove has been lightly pasted above the letter E in the title 3cms. The boards are attached and have double-ruled gilt border line front and band. Nice wide margins to the printed sheets. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN UNRESTORED STATE OF A RARE ITEM IN ORIGINAL STATE.158x100mm <br/> <br/> Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover
1716250718001Ulm Germany: Daniel Bartholomew 1716. 2nd Edition. Hardcover Vellum & Calf. Good. <p>TRANSLATED TITLE<br /> <br /> A complete herbal book and artificial representations of trees shrubs hedges herbs crops spices etc. with an accurate description of their names in German Greek Latin French Italian and Spanish as well as their form natural strength and effect; including a detailed account of the art of distilling as well as the construction of gardens and planting of trees; as well as of the most important animals of the earth birds fish and worms; . metals ore precious stones rubber . formerly reviewed by Mr. Petro Uffenbachio . enlarged . and provided with . indexes . With an encore accompanied by Balthasar Ehrhart.<br /> <br /> IMPORTANCE & COLLECTIBILITY</p> <br /> <p>SCARCE 2nd Ulm Edition - earliest of the desirable ULM edition currently available for sale. World-famous herbalist book containing 800 fantastic and beautiful woodcuts of hundreds of plants species but also hundreds of illustrations of land animals aquatic life and birds mythical beasts like unicorns and dragons alcohol distillation a cadaver study genre and Biblical scenes like of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and more. Quite exceptional! 800 woodcuts with thousands of distinct images. By Adam Lonicer<br /> <br /> Overall condition: GOOD <br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1716 in Ulm Germany by Daniel Bartholomew. 2nd Ulm edition. In full contemporary vellum likely original with a slightly later added gilded spine covering of calf over the vellum. Folio 13.25" x 8" x 2.25" thick. Collated and complete: 4 750 24. 800 woodcuts comprising thousands of images. Plentiful decorated initials. Several head- and tail-pieces. Title page with printer device. A richly illustrated work throughout! All edges stained black. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE AUTHOR & BOOK <br /> <br /> Adam Lonicer Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus October 10 1528 -- May 29 1586 was a German mathematics professor and botanist who studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz obtaining his Magister degree at sixteen years of age. After becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 1554 he became the town physician in Frankfurt am Main. His true interest though was herbs and the study of botany. He married into the prominent German printing family Egenolph in 1554 which was famous for printing herbals like the Kr uterbuch. Lonicer first published his important and highly influential work on herbs the Kr uterbuch in 1557. The Kr uterbuch is an early example of a bestsellerthe book remained in print in various forms from 1557 through 1783 which is a testament to its lasting appeal and use. Although the name Kr uterbuch literally translates to herb book and most of it is indeed about plants a great deal of the book is devoted to describing the natures and uses of animals metals gemstones and distillation. In this work Lonicer provides us with one of the early descriptions of local flora as well as being one of the first to differentiate deciduous trees from conifers. It is also noted for its woodcuts and descriptions of mythical beats including unicorns dragons gryphons and phoenixes.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> GOOD for a 300-year-old folio. Collated and complete with all textual pages. Without a few blank flyleaves. <br /> <br /> Exterior and binding - a later spine covering of richly gilded calf covers contemporary possibly original full vellum. Leather spine covering is heavily worn and fraying with much of the spine gilding rubbed away. The vellum is aged shrunken with time discolored in areas and soiled and worn along the edges. Fading to the black stain and an ink spill on top edge. Front hinge cracked binding holding firm. <br /> <br /> Interior: Grubby heavily soiled endpapers. A few words of antique writing on the endpapers and title page. Oxidation of much of the text block. Light foxing overall heavier in a few areas. Signs of handling over the centuries: ink spills marginal thumbing and smudging creases. Raggedy page edges in areas and some paper loss to endpapers. Some larger creases on title page.</p> . Daniel Bartholomew hardcover
166928698London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset 1669 1669. Second edition in English preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox Literature of Travel I page 249. Several of the maps have paper repairs at the folds and in the margins; the third map of the River Volga is a little darkened at the edges and dust-soiled; the two leaves Q4 & R1 adjacent to that map are also a little darkened and dust-soiled; one clean tear to a leaf without loss; very good copy. Folio in fours contemporary mottled calf rebacked red morocco spine label blind rules and gilt lettering. Frontispiece six folding maps two portraits and one engraved Cyrillic alphabet in the text. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp present day Denmark and Germany sent an expedition with Adam Olearus 1603-1671 as its secretary from Hamburg to Moscow in an attempt to establish commercial relations with Russia which failed. Undeterred Frederick sent a similar expedition to Persia in 1636 also with Adam Olearius as secretary The first part of this work is the first English translation by John Davies of Olearius' detailed account of those expeditions in its second edition. The second part contains the account by German adventurer Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo 1616-1644 of his departure from Frederick's mission to Persia and continuation on to India China Japan and Formosa also translated by Davies from Olearius' posthumous editing and publication of that travelogue. Though trade missions generally make for dull reading Olearius' narrative is quite engaging with details and anecdotes about the people and places they encountered. Typical of his observations is one about the Russians: "There is no place in the World where drunkenness is more common than in Muscovy . . . Ecclesiastics and laicks Men and Women Old and Young will drink strong water at any time before at and after their meals . . . will drink of it till they lye down and many times die in the place." From the library of John Evelyn with the Evelyn book label "JE" on the front paste-down. Early marginal notes in Mandelslo's adventures though not in Evelyn's hand alas. London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669 unknown
17831277019Augsburg Bavaria Germany: Joseph Wolffischen 1783. Hardcover. Folio 750 pages 24 pages 136 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in brown leather with blank paneled spine. Front board with metal corner pieces and metal diamond-shaped ornament to center of board. Remnants of clasps present: two metal hooks on fore edge of front board and two torn leather strips affixed to rear board. Boards moderately rubbed. Front free end paper partially detached. Title page shows 1.25 in-long area of damage to lower edge repaired but resulting in loss of publication information. Title page also shows small tear repaired to center of page minimally impacting legibility. Minor repairs to pages 165/166 571/572 633/634 649/650 687/688 701/702 705/706 719/720.<br> <br> Plates preface Parts Two and Three pp. 165 and 567 respectively. Profusely illustrated with over 800 black and white woodcut illustrations including genre scenes individual plants and animals and distilling apparatus. Shelved in Case 4. Adam Lonicer was a German botanist who studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz obtaining his Magister degree at sixteen years of age. After becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 1554 he became the town physician in Frankfurt am Main. His true interest though was herbs and the study of botany. His first important work on herbs the Kräuterbuch was published in 1557 with a large part dealing with distillation. He married Magdalena Egenolff the daughter of Christian Egenolff his Frankfurt publisher and a printer who specialized in herbals. The work that made his name famous is this popular herbal the Kräuterbuch. Lonicer provides us with one of the early descriptions of local flora as well as being one of the first to differentiate deciduous trees from conifers. <br> <br> Complete collation: page 110 misprinted as 100 160 as 142 217 as 21 271 as 217 523 as 532 524 as 534 554 as 454 732 as 571. Pagination consistent with this edition. 1277019. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Joseph Wolffischen hardcover
17751240791775. AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund TUCKER Josiah D.D. An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland Whether a Connection with or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America Be Most for the National Advantage and the Lasting Benefit of these Kingdoms. Gloucester: R. Raikes Sold by T. Cadell 1775. Slim octavo period-style half brown morocco and marbled boards raised bands; pp. 1-3 4-93 3. $3200.First corrected edition second overall issued within days of the same year's first edition of the ""important and influential"" British economist's seminal rebuke of Edmund Burke charging him with a crucial misunderstanding how the political economics of self-interest would best prevent further ""Disturbances and Disputes"" with America urging Britain in 1775 to ""separate totally from the Colonies to enter into Alliances of Friendship and Treaties of Commerce as with any other sovereign independent States"" handsomely bound.""A controversial figure during his lifetime"" particularly in his views on the economics of Britain's stance toward the American colonies Tucker was well known to Adam Smith and Founding Fathers Madison and Jefferson who each owned copies of his writings. ""Increasingly recognized as an important and original 18th-century theorist"" ODNB Tucker was ""espousing the cause of American separation as early as 1766 before the Americans themselves had considered this eventuality with any seriousness"" To key scholars ""Tucker analyzed the American conflict more accurately than his contemporaries yet so different were his views from all those around him that he has been noted as a 'visionary' Trevelyan or a 'fanatic' Clark"" Rashid ""Tucker's Proposal"" in Journal of the History of Ideas V43 No.3 439. His assessment of American independence was not motivated ""by any sympathy for the Americans."" Instead ""their rapid economic growth and dislike of regulation would he believed eventually lead them to separate from Britain through self-interest and the developing American crisis over taxation touched upon all Tucker's major interests: the need to maintain a mutually self-interested and beneficial trade between Britain and her colonies his dislike of war and mock patriotism and his distrust of political radicalism"" ODNB. ""Central to Tucker's philosophy of economy is the concept of 'self-love' which became part of Adam Smith's concept of the 'invisible hand' Tucker regarded trade as Britain's glory and went so far as to suggest that the colonies should be detached from Britain to allow greater freedom of trade a view which brought him into conflict with Edmund Burke"" Dictionary of 18th-Century British Philosophers V2:898.When Burke attacked Tucker in the famed March 22 1775 Speech on Conciliation with America Tucker quickly responded with Humble Address. Here he marshals arguments and evidence to counter claims that Britain would lose its profitable commerce if America broke free. Tucker contended the ""greater part of the colonial trade was motivated by self-interest and it was a simple corollary that neither shipping nor navigation could be hurt by the independence of the colonies."" To further support his position he details ""customs-house figures from 1765-72 to show that it was not Americans but Germany and Holland who purchased more British exports than the Americans"" Rashid 454. To F.P. Lock ""Tucker anticipated one of Adam Smith's shrewdest insights that regulations and restrictions impeded commerce rather than protecting it. For Tucker imperialism was uneconomic Let the Americans be independent and they will continue to trade with Britain as long as British goods are competitive Thus Tucker like Smith denied the economic value conventionally attributed to the possession of colonies. Burke disagreed in the 1770s Burke still held to the mercantilist belief that exclusive or preferential trade with its colonies benefits the home country"" Edmund Burke I:388. Copies of Tucker's works ""including those on the colonies are found to be in Adam Smith's library"" Rashid 456 and works by Tucker in Jefferson's library included Humble Address ""initialed by Jefferson"" Sowerby 3061. ""Second Edition Corrected"" on title page. With folding chart of exports; rear advertisement leaf. Engraved ornamental initials heading and tailpiece. Preceded by the November 1775 first edition. ESTC T36739. Adams American Controversy 75-144b. Sabin 97350. Goldsmith's 11300. Kress 7174. A fine copy. hardcover
198591169Schirmer/Mosel. New. 1985. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 208 pages well-illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Schirmer/Mosel hardcover
198791079Harry N Abrams. New. 1987. Hardcover. 0810909960 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 400 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Harry N Abrams hardcover
200693672Thalia. New. 2006. Paperback. 2352780020 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 196 pages; illustrated mostly in color. Three III Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Thalia paperback
600162005. Original artwork. Signed monogram in marker pen lower right by Neate. One of the best known street artists Neate specializes in painting urban art on recycled cardboard. He has left thousands of works in the street for anyone to collect and held sold out shows. Acrylic and marker pen on medium density fibreboard. Board size: 132 x 56 cm. Presented in a black wooden box frame. unknown
116934Dublin Printed by William Porter for G. Burnet et al. 1793. . Fifth Dublin edition; 2 vols; 8vo 20.5 x 13.5 cm; both titles with ownership inscriptions excised not affecting text lacking half-title vol. I; contemporary half mottled calf buff paper covers gilt spine in 6 compartments contrasting black and green morocco lettering-pieces sprinkled edges loss to upper lettering-piece of vol. II both with some loss to buff paper corners bumped with loss internally clean; iii-xiii 1 498; viii 489 61pp.<br /> A handsome two-volume edition of Smith's masterpiece the 'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' PMM. <br /><br />Wealth of Nations is fundamentally an investigation into what makes certain nations prosperous. Smith's originality lies in locating the roots of this comparative wealth in the specialisation of labour which had occurred in developed economies for the 'annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations' Introduction.<br /> ESTC T95114; Tribe 50. Dublin, Printed by William Porter, for G. Burnet et al., 1793. unknown
1781159019Yverdon: De Felice 1781. An attractive set Second edition in book form of Blavet's translation of The Wealth of Nations the earliest obtainable. Jean-Louis Blavet 1719-c.1809 was librarian for the prince du Conti; he had already published a translation of The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1774-75. Blavet later claimed that Smith personally requested he translate The Wealth of Nations and sent him a copy. Blavet's translation was first published periodically in the Journal de l'agriculture from February 1779 to December 1780 and in book form in Paris earlier in 1781 in an edition of only 20 copies offprinted from the Journal de l'agriculture appearance. Only two copies of that edition are now known Carpenter p. 33. This edition was printed in Switzerland and apparently distributed largely outside France. Blavet claimed to not have been involved but "evidence suggests otherwise" ibid. p. 36. The Wealth of Nations was first published in French in 1778-79 by an unknown translator; Carpenter notes it as full of errors. Blavet's translation marks the second appearance in the language. 6 vols duodecimo 161 x 95 mm. Contemporary mottled calf twin orange and green spine labels marbled endpapers red edges. Contemporary annotation to vol. V p. 240. Slight wear at extremities slight worming to spines still a very attractive set contents clean. Tribe 24. Kenneth E. Carpenter The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France 1776-1843 2002. unknown
181223882London: T. Cadell and W. Davies et al 1812-11. First edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Slightly later tan half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands new twin gilt lettered black labels the armorial bookplates of Frederick Henry Norman to the front pastedown of each volume which are affixed over earlier partially obscured gift inscriptions. Expert repairs to several joints and spine ends with darkening to the leather slight loss of gilt a very good set overall. The final three volumes bear the date 1811 the first two volumes the following year. Volume I comprises "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" volumes II-IV "The Wealth of Nations" and volume V Smith's Essays and Dugald Scott's biography. Frederick Henry Norman 1839-1916 the son of a director of the Bank of England was a notable financier and worked for the merchant bank Brown Shipley & Co. for many years. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, [et al] unknown
1864389821864-1870. Würzburg Staehl 1864-1870; Leipzig Vogel 1871-1931 8° 115 Bde. einheitlich gebundenen Halbleinenbände. Aus den unzähligen wichtigen Beiträge seien hier nur folgende genannt: Lucae August: Ueber eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des Gehörorgans zu physiologischen und diagnostischen Zwecken mit Hülfe des Interferenz Otoscopes 1867: pp.186-229. August Lucae "described an interference otoscope precursur of auditory impedance devices". Wreden R.B.: Sechs Fälle von Myringomykosis Aspergillus glaucus Lk. 1867: pp.1-21. Robert Robertovich Wreden 1837-1893 "otologist to the Czar was the first to call special attention to otomycosis". Schwarzte H.H.R. & Eysell A.: Ueber die künstliche Eröffnung des Warzenfortsatzes 1873: pp.158-187. Hermann Hugo Rudolf Schwartze 1837-1910 & Adolph Eysell 1846- "helped to revive the mastoid operation which had fallen in disuse placing it on a modern basis. They described the method of opening the ear by chiselling "Schwartze's operation"." Bezold Friedrich: Erkrankungen des Warzentheils 1877: pp.26-68. "First clear description of mastoiditis" by Friedrich Bezold 1842-1908. Politzer Adam: Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser 1877: pp.104-109. Adam Politzer 1835-1920 "described an acumeter". Bárány Robert: Ueber die vom Ohrlabyrinth ausgelöste Gegenrollung der Augen bei Normalhörenden 1906: pp.1-30. Robert Bárány's "caloric test for labyrinthine function". Garrison & Morton No.3378.2;3380; 3382; 3386; 3387.1;3398 1.Deutsche Veröffentlichung des "Gradenigo's syndrome"; 3400. unknown
1789149720London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand 1789-1793. Mixed early edition set of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo 3 volumes bound in one quarter modern calf over cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine. Volumes I and III are seventh editions 1793 Vol. II is a fifth edition 1789. In near fine condition. An attractive set. Adam Smith's masterpiece first published in 1776 is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of and the principles behind modern capitalism. "The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory.his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange.Labour represents the three essential elements-wages profit and rent-and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy Smith passes to its matter -'stock'- which encompasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control.The Wealth of Nations is not a system but as a provisional analysis it is complete 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. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, in the Strand hardcover
17931356061Dublin: printed by William Porter for G. Burnet L. White W. Wilson P. Byrne W. McKenzie J. Moore and W. Jones 1793. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in modern brown patterned cloth with green labels gilt titling and gilt tooling to spines. Complete with both half-titles. Some tide-marks Volume 1 with bottom half of text block for the first half of the volume then expanding to cover the entirety of the leaves. Volume 2 the top half of the text block for the first few gatherings then reducing to just the top edge and upper gutter. Removed bookplate to rear pastedowns. Front free end page and rear free end page of Volume 1 bound in upside down. Shelved case 5. Smith's masterpiece being "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" PMM - was first published in 1776 in London with the first Dublin edition published that same year. ESTC: T95114. 1356061. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. printed by William Porter, for G. Burnet, L. White, W. Wilson, P. Byrne, W. McKenzie, J. Moore, and W. Jones hardcover
