Adam SmithBiblio.com
37 325 résultats
179250300<p>This 1792 Neuchatel edition of Adam Smith's "Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations" is an early French translation by Jean-Antoine Roucher a poet and political writer associated with Enlightenment thought who later died during the French Revolution. Issued in five volumes this edition contributed to the spread of Smith's economic ideas across continental Europe. It is noted that the volume containing Condorcet's commentary was likely never published adding bibliographic interest. The work examines labor trade and national wealth and remains a landmark in economic literature. Near Fine. Full leather bindings remain tight and secure with gilt retained on the spines pages clean and free of tears or stains and corners showing minimal wear. 12mo 5 volumes. Collation: each volume separately paged. Illustrations: none stated. Edition: French edition 1792. References: PMM 221; Goldsmith 14106. Item Number SKU: 50300. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Jean-Antoine Roucher hardcover
1885151234New York: D. Appleton and Company 1885. Finely bound editions of Badeau’s important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war†a continuation of Grant's Personal Memoirs. Octavo Vols. II and III of three volumes original publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and black. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Vol. III in the year of publication "James C. Hunter Esq with compliments of A Badeau Xmas 1885." In very good. Rare signed by Badeau. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant by Union Brigadier General Adam Badeau—Grant’s aide-de-camp close associate and later literary collaborator—constitutes a substantial posthumous extension of Grant’s own narrative. Having served on Grant’s staff for much of the Civil War Badeau had sustained access to official correspondence operational planning and internal military deliberations. Although Grant’s Personal Memoirs 1885–1886 were completed shortly before his death Badeau assisted in their preparation and subsequently undertook a multi-volume study that expanded the documentary and analytical framework of Grant’s campaigns. Drawing upon wartime dispatches reports and private papers the work presents a detailed operational history while also engaging contemporary debates concerning command decisions and strategic coherence. As a result Military History of Ulysses S. Grant occupies an important position within late nineteenth-century Civil War historiography combining firsthand administrative proximity with retrospective analysis grounded in documentary sources. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1678780961678. LITTLETON Adam. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts. I. An English-Latine. II. A Latine-Classical. III. A Latine-Proper. IV. A Latine-Barbarous. London T. Basset J. Wright and R. Chiswell 1677 and 1678. Folio. Unpaginated. Second edition the first was 1673 much enlarged. The English-Latin portion is as much thesaurus as dictionary. The "Latine-Classical" is a Latin-English dictionary with etymology including Hebrew; the "Latine-Proper" is a dictionary of personal and place names; the "Latine-Barbarous" dated 1677 contains erroneous and foreign words. A legal dictionary and tables of weights measures coinage chronology etc. crown the work. In 1670 Littleton was made chaplain to Charles II. His dedication to the King explains that he has rejected much of former dictionaries which would not be of use to students. His dictionary remained in print until 1735. An engraved frontispiece rebacked shows the Palatine Library established by Augustus. The engraved map of Ancient Italy and the engraved plan of Rome showing all its monuments and buildings are both present. In an unsophisticated calf binding of the period with plain boards and spine in six compartments with elaborate floral tooling. Hinges cracked externally. Bookplate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw Denbigh probably the Welsh schoolmaster-poet who won the Eisteddfod at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with a poem in Welsh on George Washington. Cordell 220. BL 612.1.13. unknown
1857408581857. <p>Sedgwick Adam 1785-1873. Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall. Dent Yorkshire Oct. 7 1857; Trinity College Cambridge Oct. 31 1857. 8pp. total. 186 x 113 mm. Light soiling along folds but very good.</p> <p>Letters with excellent scientific content from one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick was responsible for defining the Devonian and Cambrian ages in the geological time scale and his immensely popular lecture courses on geology delivered annually at Cambridge between 1819 and 1870 had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of English geologists. One of his students was Charles Darwin who began attending Sedgwick's lectures in January 1831 and accompanied Sedgwick on a geological field tour of Wales the following summer. The two men remained friends until Sedgwick's death even though Sedgwick was never able to accept Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.</p> <p>IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District:</p> <p>"I mean D.V. to work my way to Ulverston; & on Saturday or possibly Monday to transfer my head quarters to Broughton. I want to connect our work in all quarries on the east side of the road with the great open quarries in the Ireleth country; which we failed to do. The beds in the great open quarries strike very differently from those you & I saw; yet the strike of the cleavage is unchanged in direction & from end to end almost perpendicular--I think it highly probable that the bed between the Ireleth slate & the Ulverston estuary are nearly all from the flag or flag & grit--And I suspect that some hard gritty ridges I remember to have seen in a part of Cartmell Fell are but a repetition by enormous fault of the Comiston grits. . . ." </p> <p>Sedgwick also notes his intention to "hear Dr. Livingstone's evening lecture"; this is a reference to David Livingstone 1813-73 famous for his exploration of Africa. Sedgwick later provided a preface to Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures 1858.</p> <p>In his Oct. 31 letter Sedgwick touches on his precarious health--"On Monday I ought to have begun my course of lectures but on that day I had a severe relapse of vertigo & was obliged to put off my lectures until Friday yesterday"--and continues his discussion of his work:</p> <p>"All the rocks from the Ireleth country to the Comiston Ulverston sands are Comiston flag--But in our final traverse we found the hard Comiston grits in the hills S. W. of Penny Bridge--just where they ought to be--I think there is an enormous break down the valley meeting the complicated faults which come down from the hill a little North of Seathwaite at an angle.--In short the country from Ireleth Moor inclusive to the Sand of Ulverston has had a shove southwards of about five miles!"</p> <p>The recipient of these letters James Marshall was an amateur geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society. A friend of both Sedgwick and John Herschel Marshall was "a keen advocate of scientific education" Briggs Victorian Cities 1993 p. 161. Olroyd Earth Water Ice and Fire 2002 p. 20. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. </p> . unknown
179655618London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell jun. and W. Davis 1796. Eigth edition/ Seventh edition Vol.s 2 3. Hardcover. Fair to good condition. Octavo. x 499 vi 512 5 v. 465 50pp. Original brown leather marbled for vols. 2 and 3 with gilt lettering and ruling on spine Vol. 1 volumes two and three with gilt lettering on black and red labels of spine gilt ruling and tooling. <br /> <br /> Magnus opus of Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith reflecting on economics at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Contains index of fifty pages at rear of vol. 3. Smith was one of the commissioners of his Majesty's Customs in Scotland; and formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.<br /> <br /> Binding of volume one with wear along edges front joint cracked back joint partially cracked both holding together. Volumes two and three with light to medium wear along edges and three to four inches of front joints cracked. Binding of volume one rubbed some light damp-staining of first and last few pages. Front free endpapers of volume one with some staining. Initials and name inked to title page of all volumes name offsetting to facing page. Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell jun. and W. Davis hardcover
1896140940980Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press 1896. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth ruled in blind with spine stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and lightly spotted. Offsetting to free endpapers. Owner name effaced with some abrasion from front paste down and small vintage bookseller label partially removed from rear paste down. The first publication of major lectures of Adam Smith from notes taken by his student at the University of Glasgow circa 1863-4. These lectures contain the formative ideas he later worked into The Wealth of Nations. Oxford at the Claredon Press unknown
1790319Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ".Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less then the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise on keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope thy will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor."Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionar War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9 acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. unknown
1790549Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper "I R". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less than the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise one keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope they will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor." Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionary War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9-acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. 319 549. unknown
2007SKU0188770Cognella Academic Publishing 2020-07-24. Hardcover. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cognella Academic Publishing hardcover
43439426like new. unknown
1801620771801. Wien bey Albert Camesina 1801 4° 2 84 pp. marmor. Pappband d.Zt.; feines Expl. First Edition - rare Offprint! Inflammation of the iris was named iritis by Schmidt. In 1801 with Himly he founded the first journal devoted to ophthalmology the Ophthalmologische Bibliothek. Schmidt gebührt das Verdienst die Entzündung der Regenbogenhaut erstmal klar unter dem Namen "Iritis" abgegrenzt und unter Anwendung der Kantschen Kritik analysiert zu haben. Beethovens Augenarzt Johann Adam Schmidt 1759-1809 "ward am 12. October 1759 in Aub in Unterfranken geboren begann seine Studien in der Würzburger Bader- und Chirurgenschule von der er aber wie er selbst zugesteht wenig profitirte indem er sich anstatt mit niederer Chirurgie mehr mit Tanzen Reiten und Fechten beschäftigte. 1778 ging er nach Prag und machte als Unterchirurg den Krieg gegen Preußen mit und wurde dann da ihn sein Regimentsarzt Göpfert sehr protegirte nach Beendigung des Krieges in die militärärztliche Akademie in Wien aufgenommen. Hierauf wurde er Secretär des Armeeprotochirurgen Brambilla wo er an den litterarischen Werken seines Chefs einen hervorragenden Antheil nahm. Auch beschäftigte er sich fleißig mit Philosophie und Anatomie und wurde im Jahr 1790 von Barth als Augenarzt ausgebildet. Nach Beendigung seiner Studien legte er eine Heilanstalt für arme Augenkranke an und wurde 1795 Ordinarius an der Josefs-Akademie wo er über verschiedene medicinische Fächer Vorlesungen hielt aber sein Hauptinteresse immer der Augenheilkunde zuwandte. Schmidt zeichnete sich hauptsächlich durch scharfe Beobachtung aus geradezu reformatorisch in dieser Hinsicht wirkte seine Schrift über den Nachstaar. Er führte zuerst den Nachweis daß es sich sehr häufig hier um eine Exsudatbildung in der Pupille handle bedingt durch entzündliche Infiltration der Iris und des Corp. ciliare. Ebenso war er der Erste der nachwies daß der sogenannte Vorderkapselstaar von einem besonderen Reproductionsproceß abhängt wo in der Kapsel selbst Substanzwucherung stattfindet eine Ansicht welche erst in neuerer Zeit wieder durch pathologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen bestätigt wurde. Seine Schrift über den Nachstaar und Iritis kann wohl als eine der besten seiner Zeit bezeichnet werden. Ebenso trefflich ist eine Monographie über die Behandlung der Thränenorgane. In einer 1794 erschienenen Schrift über die Lendennerven beschrieb er zuerst den N. obturator. accessor. Mit Recht sagt August Hirsch in seiner Geschichte der Augenheilkunde von ihm: "Schmidt war eine ungewöhnlich beanlagte Natur. Mit einer Frische und Jugendlichkeit des Gemüthes die ihn bis zu seinem Tode nicht verließ verband er ein höchst entwickeltes Selbstgefühl und eine eiserne Willensstärke. An philosophischer classischer und ästhetischer Bildung seinem Collegen Beer weit überlegen an Scharfsinn und praktischer Tüchtigkeit ihm nicht nachstehend strebte er weniger nach einer Verbreiterung als vielmehr nach einer Vertiefung des Wissens woraus es erklärlich daß er sich nur mit einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Fragen beschäftigte nach diesen Richtungen aber ausgezeichnete Arbeiten lieferte. Aus einer Polemik welche zwischen ihm und Beer über die Methode der Staarausziehung sammt Kapsel entstand ist er wohl als Sieger hervorgegangen". Im Februar 1809 starb er nach siebentägiger Krankheit an einem nervösen Fieber." August von Rothmund ADB XXXI 1890 pp.742-743 Hirschberg § 471; Lesky Wiener Med. Schule p.79ff.; W- Lohmann Die Ophthalmologie des J.A. Schmidt Diss. München 1903. Garrison & Morton No. 5836 Abhandl. k. k. med.-chir. Josephs-Acad. Wien 2 209-92. 1801 unknown
BN90616JOVIS Verlag. Hans Schwippert 1899-1973: Moderation des Wiederaufbaus <br/><br/>Hans Schwippert 1899-1973: Moderation des Wiederaufbaus Breuer Gerda; Mingels Pia; Oestereich Christopher; Hallerbach Leif; von Massow Jennifer; C. Oellers Adam; Sigel Paul and Wagner-Conzelmann Sandra JOVIS Verlag unknown
BN90625Hatje Cantz Verlag. Ragnar Kjartansson: The End: Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Pavilion of Iceland La Biennale di Venezia Venice 2009 and at Hafnarborg The . Center of Culture and Fine Art Iceland 2010 <br/><br/>Ragnar Kjartansson: The End: Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Pavilion of Iceland La Biennale di Venezia Venice 2009 and at Hafnarborg The . Center of Culture and Fine Art Iceland 2010 Schoen Christian; CIA.IS-Center for Icelandic Art; Alemani Cecilia; Andrésson Markús Thór; Budak Adam and Schoen Christian Hatje Cantz Verlag unknown
194175851The Lawyers co-operative Pub. Co 1941-01-01. Very Good. Very Good; Contents are tight and clean; Hard Cover; The Lawyers co-operative Pub. Co; 1941; 0 The Lawyers co-operative Pub. Co hardcover
#[15018]Geb. in perkamenten band met reliefstempeling 2845616 p. Licht gevlekt; op voor- en achterplat in zwart een ovaal stempel met een achtpuntige gekroonde ster waarboven de letters WACDS. Lit: Bodel Nijenhuis 60 als 1677. l Weer een vierde druk doch geheel opnieuw gezet en bij een andere uitgever. Het jaartal 1682 op de titelpagina heeft waarschijnlijk eerst 1677 geluid want over de zevende letter van het Romeinse jaartal is een X geplakt. Kennelijk een vroeg voorbeeld van unknown
1888779L5Paris: A La Librairie Illustree 1888. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6" by 4". None. A first edition of this collection of horror tales by French symbolist author Auguste de Villiers. An important collection of horror stories which pioneered the short story genre conte cruel. This genre of writing was adopted by Charles Birkin Maurice Level and Roald Dahl. Scarce in the original wraps. This first edition is undated as called for. In the original French. Villiers' typically wrote in a Romantic style with fantastic plots filled with mystery and horror. In the publisher's original wraps. Externally smart. Chips to the extremities and loss to the head and tail of spine. Fading to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Several gatherings remain unopened at the top edge. Occasional light spots to pages. Very Good A La Librairie Illustree paperback
198414646United Kingdom: Magnum Opus 1984. First Edition Thus Limited & Numbered . Hardcover. Fine/NO Dustwrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With the text of the 1690 Foxcroft translation revised and modernised by Deirdre Green and Adam McLean with extracts from the original German Edition translated by Donald McLean. A deeply interior work which invites the reader to step into its symbols. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No 18. First Edition Thus Limited & Numbered 161/250 Signed by Adam McLean and nicely hand bound in simulated leather. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks Edinburgh UK - 1984. illus vi 128pp hb gilt brown simulated leather fine <br/> <br/> Magnum Opus hardcover
2016CNAP107aSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2016. Hardcover. New. Chagoya Enrique. 12 by 8-1/4 inches 152 numbered pages by coincidence the same number of pages as the first edition for the text and ten unnumbered signatures for the prints consisting of a sheet folded at the fore-edge with die-cut windows and a folded tab to tip into the sewing section and an inserted sheet of Japanese handmade paper making three leaves which adds six "pages" for a total of 212 pages. The paper is Italian mouldmade Magnani Ingres laid. The Japanese paper for the prints is handmade Arokaji koso washi. The type printed by letterpress is Kennerley Old Style designed by Frederic W. Goudy composed and cast in Monotype with handset type for display. The binding is Smyth-sewn with handsewn silk endbands with a three-piece cloth cover green on the sides and blue on the spine foil stamped on the sides with roundels designed by Enrique Chagoya and stamped on the spine with titling. The book is presented in a slipcase in an edition of 300 copies for sale. Each book is signed by the artist. Juan Rulfo’s "Pedro Páramo" is a monument of Mexican literature and one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Juan Rulfo was a photographer and a fiction writer known for his two books "El Llano en Llamas" a collection of short stories published in 1953 and the 1955 novel "Pedro Páramo". He was born in Apulco in the Mexican state of Jalisco in 1918 and died in Mexico City in 1986. <br /> <br /> Gabriel García Márquez said he felt blocked as a novelist after his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of "Pedro Páramo" in 1961 that allowed the composition of his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Marquez noted that all of Rulfo's published writing put together "add up to no more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many and I believe they are as durable as the pages that have come down to us from Sophocles". <br /> <br /> Enrique Chagoya has made ten color prints for the book. They are highly unusual in that they are printed on both sides of thin translucent handmade Japanese paper of a tan-brown color. On the front recto are portraits of Mexicans from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries printed in a dark blue with background imagery printed in green on the other side. As Chagoya has written in his artist statement for the book "The drawings are not an illustration of 'Pedro Páramo' because the story does not need illustrations. It is more like a visual duet and instrument playing a counterpoint parallel to the novel."<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover
183333111833. Lithograph with later hand-colouring. 365mm by 505mm sheet 170mm by 310mm image. From Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique.' 1833. CONDITION : Acid stain from a previous mount. Faint handling creases in the margins.Faint foxing in margins.<br /> unknown
1790018055Paris: Buisson 1790-91. Quattro volumi in 8° di XI-570pp; 4-312pp; 4-602pp; 4-591pp. Legatura in piena pelle del tempo cornice dorata ai piatti; dorso liscio ornato. Mancanza al piatto del vol I; spellature e mancanze a piatti angoli e cuffia al vol II; spellature e mancanze ai piatti cerniera spaccata al vol. III; spellature e mancanze ai piatti al vol IV. Prima edizione di questa traduzione del Roucher la terza in lingua francese. Il titolo annuncia suivi d'un volume de Notes par M. le Marquis de Condorcet ma queste note non furono mai stampate. Einaudi 5338. Buisson unknown
2025__1032436034Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. pck edition. 1103 pages. 9.18x6.12x2.87 inches. Routledge hardcover
1913502808Toronto : Edinburgh University Press 1913-17. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Each volume 8 x 11 inches approximately in near fine condition minor scuffing and browning. Black/deep-green faux-leather with gold script. Gilted top foredge inner dentelles. Gilt crest on front panels. Number 437 of 850 of the author's limited edition set signed by the publisher. Complete 23 volumes finely bound. Printed by T and A Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited 1913-17 Toronto. This is a very heavy set and may require additional shipping charges. Edinburgh University Press hardcover
18059398gcsGlasgow and London: Printed for J. & J. Scrymgegour and for Mundell & Son and Arch. Constable & Co. and Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1805. Three volumes. A married set with all volumes printed in 1805 but the first two printed in Glasgow and the third in London. Octavo calf hardcover leather calf labels 4 lv Life & Doctrine of Smith 360 pp 2 iii 3 blanks 567 pp 2 448 48 Index pp. Barely Good; covers worn scuffed several joints tender. Printed for J. & J. Scrymgegour, and for Mundell & Son, and Arch. Constable & Co. [and Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies], 18 hardcover
1811999003I believe this is the way it came from the printer and it was never bound. Not much holding the spine Pages very clear with no foxing some damage around the edges of some of outermost ones.<br /><br />Shipping at cost to be determined.<br /><br />Will consider offers on price but may wait to see if I get more than one offer. Printed for J. Maynard, Panton Street, Haymarked; and F. Zinke, 448, Strand
2005mon0000112352STABENFELDT INC 2005-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.6000 in x 8.1000 in x 5.1000 in. Clean & tight. Hardcover. Inside pages are in nice condition! STABENFELDT INC hardcover
