History of Economic Thought

Londres et se trouve à Paris, Duchesne, 1756. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 151, (1) publisher's ad. Plus engraved frontispiece. handsome device to title, decorative head-pieces. Includes the "Explication du frontispice". HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary marbled boards, spine with crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, date gilt stamped on foot. Fine, handsome copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Many later editions followed with various paginations, different layout, different publisher's device to title-page, etc. Some pirated editions joined the race, some appearing as "first edition". Gabriel François, abbé Coyer, was a French man of letters and worldly cleric born in 1707. He entered the Society of Jesus, studying humanities and philosophy until he left the order in 1736. In 1741 he became private tutor to the young Duke of Bouillon (Prince of Turenne at the time). There followed public functions that saw him in attendance at some battles of… Read More

Rio De Janeiro: Petrobras, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 255p. Portuguese text. a pristine copy of the story of the first 50 years of the Oil industry in Brazil. This item was sent only to oil company executives and investors and is seldom seen in North America. OCLC locates one copy at the Library of Congress and another in the Brazilian national library.

New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 323 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Stated First Edition. Clean, Gilt Brilliant, Would Be Near Fine But Fading To Upper Third Of Covers (All Gilt Still Brilliant), With A Little Offsetting Of Red Color Onto Inside Of Dj, No Show Through, Just A Dampstain On Part Of Upper 1/2" Of Flaps. Previous Owner's Small Name/Address Label. Dj With Light Wear, A Few Minute Losses At Corners, Red Title On Spine Slightly Faded But Still Red. Full Page Blurb On Rear Cover By Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "The New Men Of Power Is A Brilliant, Original, And Provocative Work, Genuinely Democratic And Boldly Radical In Its Character... I Have Not Read For A Long Time Any Book Which In Its Main Bearings Casts More Valuable Light On The Tensions Of American Society Or Which Is More Stimulating And Fruitful In Its Challenges To The Reader." Scarce In Jacket.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Xi, 179 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. All Publishing Information Shows Cambridge University Press, 1960, Sheets Printed In The Usa, Dj Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap And With (American) $3.75 Price Stamped At Top Corner Of Front Flap. No Indication Of Later Printing, No Reviews On Dj. A Classic Of Cold-War Economics. Book With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Marks. Dj With Some Wear, A Few Short Tears And With Some Very Small Losses At Corners, Spine A Little Faded. Small Original Pasadena Bookseller's Tab (Vroman's) On Front Endpaper, Thus First Purchased New In Pasadena.

1779. Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two very nice contemporary brown half calf bindings with raised bands, gilt ornamentations and gilt leather title- and tome-labels. Volume two with a bit of wear to upper capital. Corners slightly bumped. Pencil annotations to verso of title-page in volume one; title-page in volume two mounted to cover up a small hole caused by the removal of an old owner's name. Internally very clean and bright. All in all a very nice, clean, fresh, and tight copy. Engraved (by Weise, 1784) armorial book plate to inside of front boards (Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen). (12), 575; (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp. The extremely scarce first Danish edition of Adam Smith's seminal main work, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM 221), the main foundational work of the era of liberal free trade. This publication constitutes the first Danish work worth mentioning in the history of economic thought - in spite of the great interest in… Read More

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1915. Paperback. Good. 251, [5] p.: tables; 19 cm. Paperback with plain brown wrapper and black cover titles. Publisher's catalog on final 4 unpaginated pages. Printed pastedown on front cover from the United Mine Workers of America to a newspaper editor urging the paper to use the information in this book when writing about the negotiations for the next anthracite wage agreement. Stamped over the pastedown and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library" (newspaper not identified). Attached to the inside of the front wrapper is a folded sheet with detailed information about the agreement, which was set to expire on March 31, 1916. Very scarce in paperback with the United Mine Workers additions. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper over spine; chipping along edges of wrapper, with partial loss of title on front wrapper; back wrapper is detached but present; front wrapper almost detached; tape residue along spine from old repair; minor loss from… Read More

1868. St Petersburg, I. I. Glazunov, 1868. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with with embossed boards. Three raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear. Small label pasted on to top left corner of pasted down front free end-paper. Removed stamp to half-title and title-page with stamp and a a few number written to top of title-page. A few light occassional underlining in pencil, otherwise internally fine and clean. (1)-515, (1), IV pp. Rare first Russian translation of Adam Smith's 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'.The translator, Pavel Bibikov (1831-1875), also translated the 'Wealth of Nations' in 1866, both being part of his series the Library of Classical European Writers. Bibikov regarded the two works as complementing each other, as he remarks in his preface to this translation, "the works reinforce each other. That is why, having published in Russian Adam Smith's great work of political economy, I decided to translate and publish his other work, which is no less remarkable, and… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. A képviseleti kormány. A Második Kiadás után Magyarra forditotta Jánosi Ferencz. Pest, Emich Gusztáv Tulajdona, 1867
Octavo, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.(4), 350, (1), title and final leaf browned.
First edition in Hungarian. Very rare. [no copy in copac]

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. First Edition, Second Printing June 1938, 293 pp. RARE in either the 1st or 2nd printings, and especially so in dust jacket. Very Good Plus, slight browning to cloth at spine ends, in Very Good dust jacket, spine browned, chipping at spine ends and fold corners. Although no indication in the book, from the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, with his scholarly annotations in pencil at margins of Appendix A only from pages 245-290. F. A. Hayek is the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists, and a founding board member of the Mises Institute. Hayek shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974 with Gunnar Myrdal, for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. First Edition, First Printing of Samuelson's classic work on economics, in RARE dust jacket. Original red cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine, Near Fine, sun fading at top edge of spine, slight toning at gutters. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine, small chips at base of spine, spine faded yet title still legible, 2" tears at front spine crease with horizontal tear just below title.. Harvard Economic Studies No. 80. Samuelson was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970 for having written considerable parts of economic theory. "Fifty years after it was written, the Foundations (together with Hicks' Value and Capital) is still one of the most inspiring classics of general equilibrium economics (Niehans, History of Economic Theory, 423).. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939. Fourth Inpression of the 1939 First edition. Two volumes in original red cloth, black labels and gilt lettering at spines. Very Good, Vol.II with tears to cloth at spine, light rubbing at the tips, contents clean and unmarked. Although initially viewed less favorably than John Maynard Keynes, Schumpeter is now viewed as one of the greatest economists of modern times. He introduced the concept of the entrepreneur and the influence of entrepreneurship on economic systems, and the theory of dynamic economic growth known as creative destruction. . Fourth Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Presentation Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS at front end page -"For E. W. Kemmerer with the high regard of Waddill Catchings and William T. Foster New York 23 October, 1925". With Edwin Walter Kemmerer's bookplate front paste down. Near Fine, light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corners. Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875 -1945) was an American economist, who became famous as an economic adviser to foreign governments in many countries, helped design the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1911, edited the American Economic Bulletin and the American Economic Review, and became president of the American Economic Association in 1926. William F. Trufant and Waddill Catchings collaborated in a series of economics books that were highly influential in the United States in the 1920s, and whose pre-Keynsian thinking influenced both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A unique Association Copy in American economic history. .… Read More

Paris: Hermann & Cie., Editeurs , 1934. Part I, published 1934, 45 pp., Near Fine, some pages uncut, 1" tear at bottom edge of spine. Part II, published 1939, 149 pp., Very Good, old tape mends to spine and hinges, both Parts with small ownership markings front wrappers of Professor G. J. Stolnitz, noted economist at Indiana University, Part II with a few scholarly marginal notations in ink by Stolnitz. Alfred J. Lotka (1880-1949) is considered the father of mathematical demography. RARE, no copies of Part I and only one copy of Part II found in current commerce. (Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles, nos. 187, 780). . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1727 ECONOMICS Panarithmologia Money Coins Finance 100s+ Tables Leybourn Trade

William Leybourn was a 17th-century scholar known for his studies in math, military, commerce and trade, and land surveying. Perhaps his most important and best work was 'Panarithmologia' – a guidebook and pocket manual for merchants and traders. Leybourn published this book to offer help for goldsmiths, carpenters, grocers, plumbers, and countless other tradesmen through hundreds of calculation tables! Leybourn himself claims this book to be "more complete than any of its kind".

Item number: #21760
Price: $599

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Panarithmologia'…

London: Printed by W. Pearson, for J. and B. Sprint, G. Conyers, 1727.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o Unpaginated (~228)
• Provenance: Handwritten – John Hall, 1734
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.75in X 3.5in (14.5cm x 9cm)
• Quite scarce

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TWO SHEPHERD MEAD VOLUMES are included here: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Dastard's Guide To Fame and Fortune (unsigned) USED Good Condition/ Good Condition yellow publisher's dust jacket. 1952 Simon & schuster third Impression thus. 148 pages, 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 PLUS a 1965 Simon & Schuster Stated First Printing copy of "The Carefully Considered Rape of the World, a Novel about the Unspeakable" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. USED. Good/Good- original $4.95 unclipped green dust jacket with photo of author on back panel. 245 pages 5 3/4 X 8 3/8.