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vi, [2], 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period, for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years... His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921... As the Nazi avalanche swelled, Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank... but (Schacht) soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government, remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - dust jacket. Schact was later aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Average wear to unmarked book. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. KEHR & LANGMAID 1217, ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83. Book
First and only edition, 4to, vi, viii, [8], vi, 309, [1]pp., (terminal errata leaf incorrectly bound before contents), 13 folding engraved plates of naval tactics (a couple lightly brown or foxed), unobtrusive blind-stamp to title and margins of plates, expertly rebound in half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt extra with morocco title label, a handsome copy. Bourd? de Villehuet served in ships of the French East Indies company before joining the naval service. This work, first published at Paris in 1765, is a useful guide to French practice just before the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1798 the author was part of the naval force that occupied Corfu, Zante and Cephalonia. Adams and Waters, 248.
First Edition, [2], 73, [1] pp., with the circular stamp of the "Birmingham Law Society" on the title and foremargins soiled, disbound. Attributed to Thomas Wise. A reissue of this first edition was published in the same year, with a new title-page and final leaf, and has the imprint "London: Printed in the Year, 1744." A second edition was also printed in 1744. Rare, ESTC locating 3 copies in UK and 3 in North America; Kress, 4739; Goldsmith, 8068.
Cinque volumi in 8° piccolo di (4)-XII-384pp.; (4)-406pp.; (4)-400pp; (4)-437pp; (4)-432pp. Il primo volume ha un faux-titre, non gli altri. Legatura in mezza pelle marrone dei primi dell’800. Seconda edizione della traduzione di Jean Antoine Roucher (1745-1794), poeta e letterato che aderì alla Rivoluzione, ma venne ghigliottinato durante il Secondo Terrore dopo essere stato in cella con André Chenier. Jammes Cat2001: "Deuxième édition peu connue".
... où l'on donne: I°. une idée générale et distincte des changes & lettres de changes ... II°. les monnoies et les prix courans des changes ... III°. des régles générales, avec des exemples ... IV°. un traité du pair des monnoies ... V°. un traité des arbitrages du change ... Enfin, le raport des poids et des mesures … Un volume (19x23,5 cm) di (6)-VI-(4)-440 pagine. Al verso dell'occhiello FIRMA AUTOGRAFA di Senebier sotto la frase “L'Auteur désavoue tous les Exemplaires qui ne seront pas, en cet endroit, signés de sa main”. Seguito da: ADDITION au Traite des changes et des arbitrages: contenant de nouvelles observations sur les monnoies, les prix des changes, les poids & les mesures, & la methode de trouver les positions fixes : avec une exposition abregee du systeme & des principes de l'art de tenir les livres en parties doubles. Di (2)-66 pagine. Legatura coeva in piena pelle, dorso a nervi ornato e dorato (inizio di fissurazione alla cerniera).. E.O. Prima edizione di entrambe le opere. Il Traité ebbe notevole successo e diffusione in Europa (una traduzione italiana è del 1784). Questa prima edizione resta assai rara, con la firma autografa dell'autore
Amsterdam, K.N.A.G., 1885. 8vo. In recent paper wrappers with brown title label pasted on the front wrappers. As extracted from ""Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap"". Vol. II. Very fine and clean. Pp. 213-228.
London, Macmillan, 1940. 8vo. In the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with the orignal dust jacket (not price clipped). Dust jacket with a few small nicks and wear to upper and lower part of spine. Previous owner's name to front free end paper, other wise a very fine and clean copy including all the folded plates. XII, 504 pp. + 5 folded plates.
Kiøbenhavn, J.D. Qvist, 1852-53. Et samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. øverste kapitæl slidt. Lettere brugsspor. Med fællestitelbladet og indholdsfortegnelse over begge kvartaler. (4),384 pp. Hefterne fortsat paginerede. Første hefte med lidt brunpletter, ellers rene. Eksemplaret har tilhørt Harald Rue (med hans navnetræk på indersiden af forpermen), grundlæggeren af den marxistiske tradition i Danmark.
Kiøbenhafn, Johan Philip Bockenhoffer, (1695). 8vo. Samtidigt hellæderbind med ét (ud af to) spænde bevaret. Mangler er del af læderet på ryggen. Titelblad trykt i rødt/sort, sidste blad med hjørne repareret. Fugtskjolder i bogen sidste blade. Udvisket superexlibris fra Bolle Luxdoph og hans navnetræk på den indvendige forperm. (16), 234 pp.
Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Møller, 1791. Folio. (49x32 cm.). Indbundet helt ubeskåret i et velbevaret halvlæderbind (pastichebind) i brunt kalveskind med forgyldt rygtitel og ophøjede bændelbind på ryg. Halvtitel og titelblad med stor kobberstukket vignet. LXIV, 819, (4) pp. Med stor kobberstukket indledningsvignet og 1 mindre slutvignet. De første blade med svag brunskjold i indre margin ellers aldeles ren, trykt på svært skrivepapir. Skønt bindet er senere, er det dog tekstbindets første indbinding.
First Edition, imprimatur leaf, engraved frontispiece, [4], 219, [5] pp., contemporary panelled calf, hinges partly cracked, label, a nice copy. Written by the judge, traveller, diplomatist and pamphleteer, Sir Thomas Burnet, (with the collaboration of George Duckett). In fact the correspondence between Burnet and Duffett (Roxburghe 1914) makes it clear that this was a joint production. This political satire on the statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is far from being destitute of wit and humour and takes the form of an account of Martin Powell (fl.1709-29), the somewhat physically deformed showman who ran a celebrated puppet-show in Covent Garden. It also, of course, adopts the title of Swift's celebrated 'Tale of a Tub' (but is not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of this work's spurious sequels etc.).
Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 293. Charming woodcut device to title, end-piece to the Préface, and a large head-piece to the first page. Plus folding engraved grid-map of France, incorporating title within elaborate cartouche, and 4 other folding tables, all printed on deckle-edged rug paper. Hardcover, bound in recent full olive-green calf, gilt-stamped lettering to spine, faint armorial stamp to title. Excellent wide-margined, untrimmed deckle-edged copy, preserved in the original state. Overall in fine condition, crisp folding plates. ~ First edition. Based on a much quoted manuscript note in the Library of Congress' copy ("l'on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel [celui de Turgot & Malesherbes]") the book is often attributed to Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (1727-1781), controller-general of France under Louis XVI. However, the attribution to Turgot is doubtful if not false. (For that matter see: Quérard: La France littéraire. Paris, Bibliothèque National, Catalogue géneral des livres imprimés; and also: Higgs, H. Bibliography of economics, 6403.) Also the imprint is false, and the book was probably printed in Paris or Amsterdam (see British Library Catalogue entry).
First Edition, oblong 8vo, short tear on final leaf (no loss of text), viii, 558, [38] pp., contemporary calf, rubbed, hinges cracked, morocco label. Later editions are in the quarto format. Contains a long list of 1,532 "Offences" that includes, Buggery, Burglary, maiming Cattle, counterfeiting Coins, Forging bank-bills, apprehending Highwaymen, killing Deer, destroying Mines, Murder, payments to the Poor, Rape, Robbing the Mail, Smugglers, etc., and the "Penalties and Punishments" to be applied. Sweet and Maxwell, 138, (2).
First and only edition, 4to (250 x 200 mm), xi, [2], xiii-xiv, [2], 12-97, [1]pp., (pp. xiv-xv misnumbered xiii-xiv), 7 engraved folding plates, occasional foxing or light browning, offsetting, plate 3 repaired at head (not affecting image), recent green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Here Randall is continuing the Tullian debate. He highlights the advantages of the Tullian system, especially when carried out with the aid of the 'ingenious' implements he has designed. His seed-furrow plough, along the lines of Tull's drill, was criticised as being too complicated and his system of husbandry was described by a fellow agricultural writer John Wynne Baker as 'founded on the labours of others'. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute. Fussell II, pp. 58-59; Rothamsted Library, p. 124.
Londres, 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.
12mo, small blind stamp on title, 3 folding engraved plates, some browning of the text, [12], 120, 191-226, 229-234 pp., quite tightly bound, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, upper hinge cracked and almost detached, morocco label, with the bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield. "Martindale, was a prominent nonconformist preacher who eked out a livelihood as a mathematical practitioner..... He invented a 'Plain and Easy Instrument' for making dials, and wrote on navigation and surveying, besides publishing an almanack (1675-7), covering in fact the whole range of Activities of a mathematical practitioner,....." - Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners, Tudor & Stuart, 211. Originally published in 1682, this reached an eighth edition in 1711.
Second edition, 4to, 2 parts in one, [2], x, 200, [2 index]; [3], 206-274, [4 index]pp., lacking initial imprimatur leaf, D1 (contents) bound after title instead of preface, 7 engraved plates (of which 6 are folding), some minimal worming to margins of several leaves, cont. calf, a little rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired. A much enlarged version of the first edition of 1731, and the first to contain plates of Tull's revolutionary farming implements. Fussell, p.4; PMM 188; Goldsmiths'-Kress, no. 7065.
[Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1871]. 4to. Uncut, unopened. As extracted without wrappers. Very fine and clean. 64 pp.
.Lezioni di commercio o sia d’economia civile, dell’Ab. Antonio Genovesi regio cattedratico di Napoli. Parte prima ( e seconda). - Due volumi in 8vo piccolo di 355pp; 260 pp. (mal numerata 160). Mezza pelle del tempo. Ex libris e bollo di Biblioteca privata estinta (Polesini) sul foglio bianco. La prima edizione è del 1765-67. Il libro nasce dalle lezioni tenute alla cattedra di Economia istituita a Napoli, tra le prime in Europa. Il catalogo Kress, Italian Economic Literature, segnala che a questa data furono stampate tre varianti dell’opera più famosa di Genovesi: questa corrisponde alla Edition 1. Vedi anche Carpenter XXII. “At the time the work appeared, nobody has published as comprehensive a presentation of the utilitarian welfare economics yhat in the epoch was evolving. The mercantilist elements in Genovesi’s teaching only prove the realism of his vision” (Schumpeter, p. 177) Einaudi 2515.
"National bank notes retired - legal tenders the only paper money - prosperity for every industry." - subtitle. "This little work makes no pretensions to literary merit. It was written, by the author, at intervals snatched from his other occupations as a farmer... The leading facts stated, and the great and fundamental truths of the science of money enunciated, are in accordance with the true principles of Political Economy when applied to the present conditions of America, and are believed to be sound and incontrovertible." - from Preface. Contains the following five essays: As long as America is so heavily indebted to European Nations it will be impossible to have a good and uniform currency upon a gold basis; Specie-based currency with the shackles of gold redemption and the national bank system are anti-republican and dangerous to human liberty; A second system of paper money freed from the shackles of specie redemption and based upon the faith of the nation; How contraction and gold redemption will affect the debtors and tax-payers; Industry and productions stimulated by a greater volume of currency. Usual library markings. Spine Slant. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Gilt lettering mostly worn from backstrip but clearly legible upon blue front board. Upper portions of almost all pages lightly stained yellow - all text remains clearly legible. Book
464 pages. Index. "In the analysis of the causes and effects of the depreciation of the German mark I have used, besides German official publications and economic articles in some of the leading newspapers... personal observations made during a long stay in Germany from 1920 to 1929, first as a member of Berlin staff of the Reparations Commission; than as head of the German Exports Control, which was instituted in 1921 by the Committee of Guarantees; and lastly as economic advisor to the Agent-General of Reparations." - from Preface to the English Edition. Usual library markings, some stroked out in black. Front hinge starting. Back hinge almost open. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy of this important work, particularly in light of current inflation prospects in the United States. Book
231 pages. History certainly does repeat itself as the following statement appears upon the title page: "Equity and justice demand that the merchant, manufacturer, farmer, and wage-earner shall receive as much consideration at the hands of the law-makers as is accorded to those who deal in money." Clearly, the author would not be a fan of Goldman Sachs and their modern-day ilk. Chapter titles include the following: Thirty Years' Fall in Prices; Disastrous Effects of Falling Prices; Opinions Regarding the Cause of the Fall in Prices; Money, its use and abuse; Our Money a Banker's Money; A Monetary System Which Will Restore Prosperity; Bimetallism as a Cure; Immigration; Trusts and Department Stores as a Cause; Overproduction; Hard Times - The Effect of "Improved Machinery"; Confidence; Supply and Demand; Review and Summary of Overproduction; Review and Summary of Bimetallism; Conclusion. Tissue-protected black and white photographic frontisplate of author. Bright gilt lettering upon maroon backstrip and decorated front board. Prior owner's signature upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. An above-average copy of this important and timely work. Book
ix, 156 pages. Many graphs and tables. "An analytical narrative account of the entire postwar bond market in the United States. A summary of simultaneous interest rates in several key foreign markets has been included in order to put United States interest rates into an international context." - from Preface. Homer previously wrote the landmark "A History of Interest Rates" in 1963. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Contents clean, fresh and unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important reference. Book
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.
First Edition in English, small 4to, typographical device on title, title recto [A], verso blank, [2], 41, [1] pp., modern half calf, a good copy. "The political satire against the Duc des Luynes, according to Barbier, was the cause of the author's imprisonment in the Bastille where he died. The bibliography of the early French editions, as in the case of the more celebrated Menippean satire, does not appear to have been studied so that it would be difficult to say with just what celerity it was translated and published in English. However, the fact that it was translated is not necessarily an indication of the concern of Jacobean England with the internal affairs of France. Although this translation may have been in part intended as a commentary upon Buckingham and other 'favourites' of the King's Council, it was probably published principally because of its intrinsic wit and vigor." - Pforzheimer Library. S.T.C. 15203; Hazlitt 11, 123; Huntington C.L., 511; Pforzheimer, 578.
