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Crisp, clean, bright and tight. Used
Previous owner's name on the front end page. Minor edgewear to the dustjacket. Used
Sound book with clean pages.
Sound book with clean pages. Some discolouration and a small tear on the dust cover. Used
19717084Torino Italy: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi 1971. 1971. Very good. - Thick octavo cloth in dw. Bumped heavily stained & spotted; dw lightly soiled & chipped with the spine darkened & lightly stained. 909 pp. Color portrait frontispiece B&W plates & B&W facsimiles. There is some light staining to the edges of the endpapers else the contents are very good. <p>The text is in Italian. Torino, Italy: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 1971. hardcover
134p. Foxed, dampstained and worn. Early manuscript ownership of Samuel Muffley, 1835, on front and rear paste downs. 24mo. 125 mm. Original leather spine over plain paper boards, very worn. Spine perished. Title continues: 'From one quarter of a cent to twelve dollars. In dollars and cents. With a variety of useful Tables'. Hardbound. Fair. This useful little 'Reckoner' from Allentown is VERY SCARCE. OCLC locates only two other examples. PAIMP 23
16254(At end:) De l'Imprimerie des Postes et Messageries, (1798). 44 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth. Kress B.3606; not in Goldsmiths. There is a half-title or title reading 'Histoire de la Banque d'Angleterre', without name, date, publisher and year. The given title is a drop-head title. - With a faint waterstain throughout covering the lower half of the pages.
18391A Paris, Chez Valleyre père, 1762. (2), x, (4), 468, (20) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges, corners very lightly bumped. Kress 6021; INED 2614; Higgs 2669; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Leblanc; not in Masui; not in Stammhammer, Bibliographie der Finanzwissenschaft; not in Camus; Conlon 62:879. First edition. Historical and legal treatise which studies the dîmes in relation to religion, law and the origins of the monarchy and stating that the dîmes were not, at the outset, due to the church. Edme de la Poix de Fréminville studied law. His main interests were related to feudal questions and his works were of importance. - Occasional light browning. Rare.
180326581Albany NY: D. & S. Whiting 1803. 1803. Good. - hardcover Octavo bound in vintage tan calf. The covers are bumped rubbed & scuffed. There are small pieces out of the head & tail of the spine and damage to the bottom edge of the rear cover and to the bottom edges of the last part of the book with no loss of text. Pages i-xv & 16-479 plus errata page. As issued pages 290 to 295 are repeated in their numbering. There are previous owner's names penned in ink on the front endpaper. and a few ink notes. There is scattered foxing & light staining throughout with some creases. Good only. <p>The alphabetically arranged material which includes sections on bastardy bigamy dogs "it is not a felony to steal dogs which are of a base nature" the poor rape slaves women and wrecks gives quite a comprehensive view of society at the time. Albany [NY]: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. hardcover
E.O. - First Edition – Due volumi in 8vo di XX-389-(3) pagine, e (4)-474-(2) pagine. Legatura coeva in pien a pelle, piccole mancanza agli angoli e al dorso del primo volume. Firma di possesso al titolo (D'Ales Latour). - Prima edizione di questa opera vicina alle idee dei fisiocratici, considerata come una delle più interessanti proposte di riforma globale della società del tempo. Tra l'altro l'autore propone, come garanzia di pace, una Confederazione Europea. Il benessere pubblico viene garantito da “une agriculture florissante, une popolation nombreuse et aisée, la liberté et l'habitude de l'instruction, et enfin une paix durable ou rarement interrompue” (Ined 4116).
pp. viii, 143, (1) [A Table showing the number of days in one month, to the same (or any other) day in any other month]. Some age stain. 4to. 200 mm. Original leather spine over marbled paper covered boards. Leather corners. Hardbound. Good. Autograph and stamped ownerships of Adam Guttinger (Lebanon, PA). Title continues: 'To Which Is Added A Plain, Practical System Of Conveyancing, Sufficiently Copious To Enable A Person Accurately To Draw Any Instrument Of Writing Appertaining To The Business Of A Conveyancer, Without Having Recourse To Any Other Work'. After service in the Navy, George Getz (1789-1853) became the proprietor of 'The Berks and Schuylkill Journal.' He later was a bookseller and publisher (in English & German). He served as the mayor of Reading from 1849 until his death. These Form Books were of great practical utility through many walks of life in early America. SCARCE. S&S/AI 9996. PAIMP 22
18142A Genève, 1777. (4), (2, Avis au Lecteur, blank), vii, (1, blank), 316, (4, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 2037 (later edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare first edition of this work which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet). 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). - Some annotations concerning author and book on verso front free blank. A very nice copy with good margins, and an interesting copy: after the title-page there is a "Avis au Lecteur", reading: "Ce livre n'ayant pas ete imprime sous les yeux de l'Auteur, il s'y est glissé plusieurs fautes typographiques. On a corrigé les plus importantes dans l'Errata qui est à la fin de cet Ouvrage." Both this "avis" and the errata are almost always lacking in copies usually found, the errors in those copies not being corrected.
18497A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1780. With engraved frontispiece. (4), xxiv, 427, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red label and gilt lettering, a beautiful copy. INED 2037 (1782 edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Mornet, Les origines intellectuelles de la Révolution, pp. 217-8. Rare second edition, as the first not to be found in any of the reference works. The present work, which is primarily a defence of monarchic government against the theories of Montesquieu and Mably, is notable for a variety of observations on economic issues. Gin identifies the products of agriculture and manufacture as the basic forms of wealth, and condemns import on the grounds that they lead to a diminution in the population. 'Sociologie politique. De la monarchie, en général, et du gouvernement français en particulier. Plusieurs passages consacrés à des questions économiques. Réflexions sur les impôts et sur les richesses en général' (INED). 'Il y défend les lois fondamentales de la monarchie pure, réfute la théorie de la liberté politique ou de constitution de Montesquieu, celle de l'équilibre des pouvoirs et refuse de donner des limites à la puissance du monarque' (Mornet).
10252A Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1759. Title printed in red and black. viii, 296 pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind marbled covers, paper shelf number to spine, uncut. Kress 5781; Goldsmiths 9441; Einaudi 2671; Mattioli 1484; Higgs 1978; INED 2119; Conlon 59:827; Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 86-90. First edition. The copies catalogued in Kress and Higgs have 535 pages and the title ends after the words 'Commerce général', lacking the additon 'du Royaume'. No priority has been established, either of these editions is very rare. The author, one of the editors of the Journal Économique, philantropist and utopian socialist, proposes in this work to 'faire entrer tous les moyens de mettre en exécution les projets les plus grands pour le bonheur de la nation': the founding of a state-owned agricultural company for the sale of its products with the purpose of maintaining price stability, the foundation of 'sociétiés de crédit', development of the use of machines, etc. The whole of his socialist and utopian ideas is also elaborately dealt with in J.-C. Perrot's work 'Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie Politique', chapter entitled Le despotisme de la raison dans l'utopie économique de Goyon de la Plombanie, pp. 284-304. See also A. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 329-334. - Occasional faint dampstain, a very good copy.
19956509Zutphen: Matthys de Jongh 1995. 1995. Fine. - Octavo black cloth titled in gilt. xxiv & 708 pp. B&W frontispiece & B&W illustrations. Near fine. <p>Reprint of the 1950 definitive bibliography of Grotius. The text is in French. Zutphen: Matthys de Jongh, 1995. hardcover
198511379(Hamburg, 1985). 40 S. Mit s/w Abb. OBrosch.
Fuller title: COMES COMMERCII, OR, MERCHANT AND TRADER'S-COMPANION. Containing I. Exact and useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by an Ingenious Accomptant. II. Tables of Exchange. In two Parts. 1. English Money Exchanged into Irish. 2. Irish Money Exchanged into English. Each by Addition only, for any Sum of 300 Pounds to 1 Penny, and at the several Rates, whether Quarters or Eighths, from Five per Cent. to Eleven per Cent. III. Tables of Commission at the several Rates mostly used in Ireland. IV. An Index to Intrest. Containing Tables of Simple Interest. To all which is prefixed, A Table of Guineas and Half-Guineas. Together with a Table of the Number of Yards in the Several Scores of Linen, from 1 to 150. The Tables of Exchange, Commission, and Coin calculated originally: All the other Tables cast up in Manuscript, and the whole Work carefully corrected. pp. [144]. Tall 12 mo. 200 x 8 mm. Foxed and age stained. Original full leather binding, very broken and worn. **Interesting manuscripts and notes on the fly-leaves: "Robert Taylor his Book Brought from Ireland to the United States of America" / "Mathew Kirkpatrick His Book in hand. 1 June 1790. Steal Not this Book. Etc." / Manuscript notes on the costs (in pounds and shillings) for making a (woman's) clothing outfit. Very scarce (and well-used) ready-reckoner, owned in Ireland and America. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMER 11
17830Cologne (Amsterdam), P. du Marteau, 1677. 2 volumes in 1. (12), 13-360 pp.; 165, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Bourgeois & André 2969; Sauvy, Livres saisis à Paris, p. 5; Le Bucher bibliographique, 525; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 1073. Augmented edition. The second part has its own separate title-page: Reflexions sur le IV & V Chapitres de la Politique de France de Monsieur P.H. Marquis de C. Ou il censure le clergé de Rome, & les Huguenots. Par le Sieur de L'Ormegigny. A Cologne, Chez Pierre du Marteau, 1677. Upon its first publication in 1669, also anonymously and outside France, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce and protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, marquis de Chatelet, and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conducted to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique.' He condemned the expulsion of the Huguenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation. See also: Vignes, Origines de la dîme de Vauban. The Réflexions added under the pseudonym of Ormegregny are by Pierre Dumoulin. They deal with the two chapters concerning the clergy and the protestants.
36682Ohne Ort Verlag/Drucker 1734. . Holzm./Boh. IV 1483; Bruun III 351 Rapp S. 56 in Dc 2g.- Fingerprint: Sorr n.nd i-e- rean 3 1734 A.- Einband berieben. Exlibris des Hamburger Senators u. Büchersammlers Theodor Rapp. Etikett der Büchersammlung Hamburg von H. G. Spann. - Zu dem dänischen Historiographen u. Rechtsgelehrten mit Professur in Kopenhagen Andreas Hojer 1690-1739 siehe ADB 12 S.708 f. ohne diese Schrift. - Hojers als "aufwieglerische Schmäh-Schrift" denunzierte Polemik gegen Münz- u. Handelsstreitigkeiten zw. Dänemark u. Hamburg 1726-36 führte zur Indizierung u. Konfiskation des Pamphlets kraft Senatsbeschluß sowie zum Aufruf zur Ergreifung ihres anonymen Autors für ein Kopfgeld von 200 Reichstalern. Das Senats-Mandat vom 6. Dez. 1734 4 S. ist am Schluß angehängt. Ohne Ort, Verlag/Drucker, 1734. unknown
18217A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Dessain junior, 1767. (2), xii, 298 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges, some light scratches, small repair to joint of rear cover, a fine copy. Kress 6453; Goldsmiths 10298; Einaudi 3048; INED 2349; Higgs 4197; Conlon 67:953; not in Mattioli. First (and only?) edition. The abbé Pierre Jaubert's opinions were more varied than those of Danguel and Plombaine, but similar in character. He accepted the opinion of Montesquieu, Forbonnais, and the agrarian writers that population tended to grow when men were assured the fruits of their labor and some comfort; and that failure to cultivate all available land, coupled with the great and inequitable tax burden was depressing agricultural production and retarding population growth. Therefore he advocated stimulation of the agricultural arts: protection of agriculturalists against their creditors; a redistribution of the tax burden; the use of idle urban workeers to perform the corvées; and restrictions upon the crop-destroying wild game which were raised and protected for the benefit of the nobility. He furthermore proposed that monasteries and nunneries be stripped of tax exemption and other privileges, he was critical, as were many writers, of the French hospital and penal system, he advocated an improved urban water supply, enlargement and frequent cleaning of the streets, daily filth removal, and the location of certain establishments (cemetries, tanneries, etc.) outside cities. Spengler considers his suggestions for the curtailment of celebacy and the counterbalancing of its effects, as most important. With his emphasis on agricultural arts he was in line with the Physiocrats (for a detailed analysis see: Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 90-94). A very nice copy of a scarce and important work.
In 4to (21x27cm) di 30 pagine. In barbe. Senza legatura, cucito. E.O. - L'auteur (1728-1792) prône la liberté du commerce, la suppression des douanes et esquisse un plan d'administration des finances. INED, 1407.
Un volume in 8o di (4)-398 pagine. Brossura cartonata del tempo, muta ma con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Einaudi 1290; Ined 1195; Kress 7204. Nello stesso anno furono pubblicate altre due edizioni di queste memorie apocrife, scritte per mettere in cattiva luce Terray. Per Einaudi è questa la prima. Importanti soprattutto le due "appendici" sulla rivolta del pane a Parigi e sulle vicissitudini della Compagnie des Indes.
185713208London: Charles and Edwin Layton 1857-1858. 1857-1858. Good. - Octavo softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled & foxed with the issue numbers handwritten in the top left corners of the front wraps. The spines are darkened & chipped with small pieces out. The Part 6 spine is torn & the lower third of each wrap is detached. Title 1 leaf & pages 1-60 plus index & ads; title 1 leaf & pages 61-120 plus ads; title ii & pages 121-180 plus ads; title ii & pages 181-240 plus ads; and title ii & pages 301-360 plus ads. Partially unopened. Illustrated with tables & with a folding diagram in Part I. There is some light foxing & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. <p>The Institute of Actuaries was founded in 1848 and contributed to the study of the theory of life contingencies enabling an exchange of ideas between its members and bringing about a greater consistency in their methods. Its aims were advanced by the publication of its Journal originally called The Assurance Magazine which first appeared in September 1850. The magazine was founded by two well-known actuaries Charles Jellicoe and Samuel Brown and was adopted as the organ of the Institute of Actuaries in 1852. Jellicoe continued as its editor until 1867 when he was succeeded by T. B. Sprague. London: Charles and Edwin Layton, 1857-1858. paperback
19912570(Oldenburg, 1991. 334 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. u. Faks. Gr.-8vo. OPp.
16365(Blois), 1789. 2 parts in 1 volume. 140 pp.; 60 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Stourm, p. 154; Martin & Walter 19727. One of two different editions from the year of the first publication. The first part is entitled Instructions, the second part Observations sur le rapport fait au Roi dans son conseil par le ministre des finances, le 27 décembre 1788. Pp. 73-75 of the first part contains arguments in favour of the abolition of slavery under certain conditions. Discusses the various reforms deemed necessary for France: criminal justice, the parlements, the meeting of the estates general, the procedure for voting, the ancient constitution, legislation, financial matters, the various trading compagnies, royal power and authority, freedom of the press, etc. etc. all with remarkable short historical references.
