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190958766Lund, C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, 1909 & 1911. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers of volume 1 in one contemporary half blue cloth binding with red leather titel label with gilt lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy. XVI,191, (4), 179 pp.
190958766Lund C. W. K. Gleerups förlag 1909 & 1911. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers of volume 1 in one contemporary half blue cloth binding with red leather titel label with gilt lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy. XVI191 4 179 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first Swedish translation of Adam Smith's ground-breaking main work the "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Smaller parts of the book had previously been translated into Swedish in 1800 1804 and 1869 but the present translation is considered the first actual translation of the work even though some parts have been excluded by translator Emil Sommarin who based his translation the 5th English edition the last edition to be supervised by Adam Smith himself. It is to this date the only Swedish translation of the work which tells us a lot about the history of Swedish economics. Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish it still had a profound influence not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English but upon politics and public opinion in general: "There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. .Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century; and as far as I know nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill." Heckscher A survey of economic thought in Sweden 1875-1950.Translator Emil Sommarin 1874-1955 was a student of Knut Wicksell arguably the most influential Swedish economist and Sommarin succeeded Wicksell's professorship in national economics. Wicksell "came to know his classics very well and became and remained an admirer of Adam Smith. Around 1910 he also assisted his former student and successor as economics professor in Lund Emil Sommarin with the translation of WN still the most complete we have in Sweden. In this connection he wrote to a friend in Uppsala "It is almost unbelievable that we have been denied this masterpiece for 125 years and our economic policy is a result of the omission" Cheng-Chung Lai Adam Smith Across Nations p. 384. </em> hardcover
2014Adhya-9781446267165SAGE PUBLISHING 2014. Hardcover. New. SAGE PUBLISHING hardcover
2014Adhya-9781446267165SAGE PUBLISHING 2014. Hardcover. New. SAGE PUBLISHING hardcover
05380Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. 'Brothers In Arms'<br /> The Italian War of Independence and The Crimean War<br /> The Battles of Magenta Kinburn and Malakoff<br /> <br /> ADAM Victor illustrator & MOREL-FATIO Antoine Léon illustrator. Les Frères d'Armes. Par Th. Midy. Ullustré de six superbes gravures a deux teints par V. Adam et Morel-Fatio. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation A. Courcier Éditeur 1860. <br /> <br /> First edition. Folio 12 x 8 3/4 inches; 305 x 222 mm. 1-2 half-title verso blank 3-4 vignette title verso blank 5-38 1 table des matières 1 advertsisements pp. Six fine hand colored lithograph plates. Plates lithographed by Sarazin.<br /> <br /> Publisher's color pictorial boards head and tail of spine chipped joints slightly cracked but still a remarkable survival of a very fragile pictorial binding. The text and hand colored plates bright and fresh. Feint early ink inscription dated 1876 on front free endpaper.<br /> <br /> The six hand colored lithograph plates include scenes from The Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1959 during the Second Italian War of Independence; the British and French Navy bombarding the Russian coastal fortifications at Kinburn in 1855 after an Anglo-French ground force had besieged them; and the French forces celebrating their attack against the Russian forces and subsequent capture on the Malakoff redoubt on 8 September 1855 as a part of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche zu Berlin Germany <br /> <br /> <br /> Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles amongst which are 'The Entry of the French into Mainz' 'The Battle of Varroux' 'The Taking of Menin 'The Battle of Castiglione' 'The Passage of the Cluse' 'The Battle of Montebello' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV. after the Battle of Coutras' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri' 'The Postillion' 'The Vivandiere' 'The Road to Poissy' 'The Return from the Chase' 'Horse-fair at Caen' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity till 1846 when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album 'Views in the Environs of Paris' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824 a second class medal in 1836 besides several others from Lille Douai and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866.<br /> <br /> Antoine Léon Morel later Morel-Fatio 1810-1871 was a French naval painter Peintre officiel de la Marine curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family.<br /> <br /> The Plates: <br /> <br /> 1. Bataille de Magenta - The Battle of Magenta<br /> 2. Un Marché dans une Petite Ville en Russie - A Market in a small town in Russia<br /> 3. Une Noce en Bretagne - A Wedding in Brittany<br /> 4. La Flotte Devant Kinburn - The Fleet in front of Kinburn<br /> 5. La Flotte Devant Schwaborg - The Fleet in front of Schwaborg<br /> 6. Prise de Malakoff - The taking of Malakoff. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, 1860 unknown
156518945Frankfurt a. M.: Georg Rabe Sigmund Feyerabend & Heirs of Weygand Han 1565. Second edition. Hardcover. Good-. Two volumes the first in two parts bound in one large quarto. Text in German gothic lettering with some Hebrew and Greek. 14 CXXV 1 12 6-177 13 leaves. 4 CCXVI 1 leaves; main titles in red and black; first volume with secondary full title; decorative initials and tailpieces throughout. Folding woodcut map of Palestine repaired on parts of margins wtih minor loss on upper right area; folding woodcut map of Jerusalem lacks 1/2 after fold; illustrated with 76 in-text woodcuts by German draughtsman and printmaker Virgil Solis. Psalms in German version at end of second volume 6 leaves supplied in manuscript copy. Blind-ruled contemporary calf with metal studs and metal clasp settings. Lacking leather clasps. Expertly rebacked retaining original boards; gilt lettering piece at spine. Modern endpapers. Lightly embrowned throughout. A few leaves with closed tears some repairs including at the first title page. A fairly good but defective copy lacking part of the Jerusalem map.<br /> <br /> Second edition of Adam Reissner's important work on Jerusalem. The first edition was published in 1563. Unlike Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrination in Terram Sanctam which was published eighty years earlier Reissner's work paints a more theological and medieval picture of the city. References: Laor 642 map. Georg Rabe, Sigmund Feyerabend, & Heirs of Weygand Han hardcover
1819133843London: Printed for William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair 1819. Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo 3 volumes bound in contemporary full calf gilt titles to the spine red and green spine labels. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of this classic work. 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 William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair unknown
1799137589London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell 1799. Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo 3 volumes bound in full calf gilt titles to the spine morocco spine labels. In near fine condition rebacked. An exceptional set of this classic work. 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. A. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown
179630670Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 412; 430; 387 1 blank 55 pp. Contemporary tree calf some chipping rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down. Toned scattered foxing lightly worn. Good. <br /> <br /> The second American edition the first having issued in 1789 also published by Dobson. 'Printing and the Mind of Man' describes this work as "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." <br /> Evans 31196. PMM 221 London 1776. Kress 3288. Thomas Dobson unknown
170030095Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk 1700. Other. A very skillfull small restauration in the paper at the upper part of the centre fold of the map towards the blank margins and just touching the engraved border of the round celestial map. The map is overall in very good to excellent condition. A very skillfull small restauration in the paper at the upper part of the centre fold of the map towards the blank margins and just touching the engraved border of the round celestial map. The map is overall in very good to excellent condition. 50.3 x 576 cm 19.75 x 2275 inches. Copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash when published. Adam Friedrich Zürner produced this interesting and detailed world map for Petrus Schenk. Depicted is a fine double hemisphere world map which is decorated with landscape in the background and two smaller double hemisphere celestial maps of the southern and northern hemisphere. In the upper section of the map are further 12 small celestial and terrestial circular maps in the lower section a small engravingSystema Copernici and another one with the phases of the moonPhases Lunae at the very bottom another 12 engraved small round astronomical diagrams. The two hemispheres are cartographically up-to-date and show the routes of explorers including Magellan Dampier Tasman Gaetani and Chaumont. Nova Britannia an island separately adjacent from New Guinea is shown with an inscription saying that it was discovered by Dampier in 1700 Shirley. Shirley 639 Petrus Schenk unknown
1860ABC_47913Uppsala 1860. Folio ca. 40 x 25 cm. Edquist & soc. Modern half brown morocco marbled paper sides. With 12 full-page sepia-toned aquatint plates of mushrooms. 6 pp. plus 12 leaves with plates. Scarce mycological work on fungi in Western Africa. The work describes 30 different species which are illustrated by 12 beautiful and highly detailed full-page aquatint plates. The specimen were found in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Fungi from this region were only more widely studied in the second half of the 20th century so the present work was quite early. It is also scarce as we have only been able to trace one other copy in sales records.Adam Afzelius 1750-1837 was a Swedish botanist. He was a so called 'Apostle of Linnaeus' a member of a group of students who carried out botanical and zoological research throughout the world under the guidance of Carl Linnaeus 1707-1778. Afzelius started working for the British Sierra Leone company in 1789 and made two expeditions to Western Africa with them the first in 1793-1793 and the second 1794-1796. He is one of the very first European botanists known to study fungi in Western Africa. Although his notes drawings and specimens survived the journey his findings were only published posthumously. First in 1837 as part of a dissertation by physician Carl Mauritz Nyman 1813-1886. Azfelius' work was then published on its own in 1860 which is the present edition.The text leaves are 3 cm shorter than the plates and are somewhat browned leaf 3 has been restored in the inner margin without loss of text the first plate is stained in the upper and lower margin without affecting the image. Otherwise in good condition.l Krok p. 7 21b; Pritzel 32; Stafleu 34; Uellner 5; Volbracht 6; cf. Piepenbring M. et all Mapping mycological ignorance - checklists and diversity patterns of fungi known for West Africa 2020. unknown
200193369Architectural Press. New. 2001. HARDCOVER. 0750644680 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- HARDCOVER. 768 pages; well-illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Architectural Press hardcover
199193370Architectural Press. New. 1991. HARDCOVER. 075061286X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- HARDCOVER. 447 pages many illustrations including a number in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Architectural Press hardcover
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
1634006-A1634. Radierung, 1634, auf Bütten. 10,8:17,2 cm. Literatur: Robert-Dumesnil 3, I (von III); Blum 8, I (von III); Russell 1982, Nr. 18, I (von III). Prachtvoller und kräftiger Druck vor der Nummer und der Beschädigung der rechten unteren Plattenecke. Mit feinem Rändchen um die Plattenkante. - Bis auf eine dünne Stelle links oben und Reste alter Hinterklebung verso am Oberrand ausgezeichnet und frisch erhalten. Eines der wenigen Nachtstücke im 43 Blatt umfassenden graphischen Werk des Künstlers, das, wie man weiß, von der Landschaftsmalerei A. Elsheimers (1578-1610) beeinflußt ist.
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
