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Dr.Adam Littleton's Latin Dictionary the fourth edition English-Latin Dictionary Fourth Edition 18th century England

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Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations. Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Smith by Blavet. 2 Tomes.

178842376Londres Pierre J. Duplain 1788. 8vo Two nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Some loss of leather to back hinge and lower capital of volume one and minor loos of leather to spine of volume two all due to worming. Worming is not bad and does not affect anything but outer layer of small parts of the bindings. Apart from the worming a very nice fresh and clean copy indeed. 8 IV 503; 4 496 pp. With both half-titles the advertisment both prefaces and the table of contents. Rare early French translation of Adam Smith's political and economic classic the "Wealth of Nations". Translated by Blavet. The present edition constitutes the third reprint of the second French translation. The second French translation was done by Blavet and is the first translation into French of which the translator and publisher are known. "The reprint of Blavet's version appeared at Yverdon in 1781 in 6 volumes 12mo and at Paris in the same year in 3 volumes 12mo and again at London and Paris in 1788 in 2 volumes 8vo the present edition and revised and corrected with Blavet's name as translator at Paris An ix 1800-01 in 4 volumes 8vo.He Blavet had no intention of publishing it until his friend M. Ameilhon happened to complain of scarcity of interesting articles for his Journal de l'Agriculture du Commerce des Arts et des Finances which had just come under the control of the Mercantilist. It struck him that he might offer it to him which he did with the explanation that it was far from perfect. It was accepted and appeared in the issues of the Journal between January 1779 and December 1780. He did not anticipate that it would go further. The edition of 1788 likewise appeared without his knowledge or consent and was still more marred by errors than that of Yverdon". Lai Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations Clarendon Press UK 2000. Hailed as the "first and greatest classic of modern thought" PMM 221 Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith 1723-1790 is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain mainly due to his groundbreaking work the "Wealth of Nations" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well and the first edition the number of which is unknown sold out within six months which came as a surprise to the publisher and probably also to Smith himself partly because the work "requires much thought and reflection qualities that do not abound among modern readers to peruse to any purpose." Letter from David Hume In: Rae Life of Adam Smith 1895 p. 286 partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world and Buckle's words that the work is "in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written" and that it has "done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account" History of Civilisation 1869 I:214 well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Considering the groundbreaking views presented in "Wealth of Nations" it comes as no surprise that the work was considered part of the revolutionary cultural development in France. As Adam Smith's friend the Marquis of Lansdowne said after quoting Smith's work: "With respect to French principles as they had been denominated those principles had been exported from us to France and could not be said to have originated among the population of the latter country." Quoted in: Rae p. 291. The ideas of Adam Smith were often considered so dangerously closely connected with French ideas at the time that the term "political economy" almost became synonymous with questions concerning the constitution of governments. "The French Revolution seems to have checked for a time the growing vogue of Smith's book and the advance of his principles in this country just as it checked the progress of parliamentary and social reform because it filled men's mind with a fear of change with a suspicion of all novelty with an unreasoning dislike of anything in the nature of general principle." Rae p. 293. There can be no question that this seminal work greatly influenced French opinion at the time. hardcover

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Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall

1857408581857. 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. 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. IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District: "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. . . ." 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. 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: "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!" 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. . unknown books

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Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall

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Waldie Adam Publisher. Flint Timothy 1780 1840 Contributor. Marryat Captain Frederick. 1792 1848 Contributor. BailABAA

JOURNAL OF THE REV. TIMOTHY FLINT FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE QUACHITTA or WASHITA in Louisiana in 1835" as published in The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature Including Memoirs Biography Novels Tales Travels Voyages &c. Part I - 1836. bound with THE JOURNAL Of BELLES LETTRES. PART I. Nos 1 - 26. 1836

183631787.1Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Joints starting boards held solidly by cords with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue usually. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. "Belles Lettres" also publishes for the first time journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK which was serving at the time in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books

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Dr.Adam Littleton's Latin Dictionary the fourth edition English-Latin Dictionary Fourth Edition 18th century England

Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations. Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Smith [by Blavet]. 2 Tomes.

Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations. Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Smith by Blavet. 2 Tomes.

Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit – Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum

Canada and its Provinces

La misère sociale de la femme d'après les écrivains et les artistes du XVIIe au XXe siècle with original prints by Charles Cottet André Devambez Abel Faivre Gaston La Touche Charles Léandre Auguste Lepère Bernard Naudin Alfred Roll Steinlen and Jean Veber Toulouse-Lautrec

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Letters from North America; Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada

Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations

Military History of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 to April 1865.

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Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus

Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus

Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall

Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall

Lectures on Justice Police Revenue and Arms

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 3 Vols. MIXED SET

Lectures on Justice Police Revenue and Arms

"JOURNAL OF THE REV. TIMOTHY FLINT FROM THE RED RIVER TO THE QUACHITTA or WASHITA in Louisiana in 1835" as published in The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature Including Memoirs Biography Novels Tales Travels Voyages &c. Part I - 1836

Mr. Weyrich Siltzer Dear Sir

Mr. Weyrich Siltzer Dear Sir

Mr. Weyrich Siltzer Dear Sir

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