Search Results: Titles starting with I from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

CHERNYSHEVZSKII,Nikolai. Сочиненія Н.Чернъішевскаго. Допоаненія и примвчанія на иервую книгу МОИТИУЕСКОЙ ЗКОНОМIЙ Цжона Стюарта Миппя. Томъ III [together with] Оуерки иаь МОИТИУЕСКОЙ ЗКОНОМIЙ (II Миааю) Томъ IV. Элиндина и Комцаніи, Женева 1869; H.Georg, Genève & Bale 1870
2 volumes bound in one, octavo, 19th century boards rebacked, pp.(2), x, (4), 9-276,(2)blank, (1`); (1),viii, (1), 478, (2)blank, 4 index, a few leaves foxed in the second volume, first volume with ownership inscription on the title in Yiddish, Russian text throughout.
Very rare volumes 3 and 4 [of 5] of the Collected Works of the Russian socialist reformer Nikolai Gavrilich Chernyshevzskii [1828-1889] – volume 3 is Additions and Remarks on the 1st Book of John Stuart Mill's Political Economy and volume 4 is Sketches from Political Economy (according to Mill). Both volumes… Read More

[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2).MacMinn, p.90FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. Of this Memorandum Mill wrote in his manuscript of the bibliography of his writings of this I was partly the author and partly the editor, the facts being furnished by the departments of the India House.MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".withSix pamphlets in two volumes[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858Tall octavo, blue cloth on grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, pp.(4), 101, drop head title.Very rare, 1 copy only in Copac at BL. MacMinn, p.90First separate edition. Of this Memorandum… Read More

4 volumes, twelvemo, ORIGINAL PALE BLUE BOARDS, UNCUT, original printed paper labels, engraved frontispiece portrait of Adam Smith from the Tassie Medallion, pp.viii, 304; iv, 286; iv, 284, (4); iv, 280, skilful repair to hinges of volume I, heads of spines chipped, a little browned throughout, unopened on some gatherings, a good copy surviving in its original publishers binding.
Vanberblue, p.13
Rare first Glasgow edition, taken from the fourth edition of 1786, and the first printing of the Wealth in Scotland and the first to contain a portrait of the author.

Three volumes, octavo, contemporary pale Irish calf, contemporary dark red labels lettered and numbered gilt, slight wear to head and tails of volume II, pp. (4) + (8) + iii-xii + (6) + 426 + (2)adverts; (32) + 424; (8) + 431 + folding table of coins + (20), a fine and attractive copy.
Kress 6760. Goldsmith 10611. Higgs 4854. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176.

First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More

3 volumes, octavo, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, contemporary red morocco labels lettered gilt with volume numbers in gilt, head and tails worn, leaf edges entirely uncut, pp.viii + 499 + (1) errata; vi + 518 + (5) appendix + (1) errata; v + (1) errata + 465 + (1) blank + (50) index, in vol.III title page and index leaves unopened, engraved armorial bookplate in all volumes of Talbot of Gonville's Hall in Wymondham Co.Norfolk MDLXXXIV, in volumes II and III in ink on initial blank B.C.Hingham June 87, contemporary binders note in ink on front blank endpaper of volume I 3 V. 0.18.0 in hf bind., and at the foot of the final blank leaf Joh.Slapp Cher., a charming copy.
PMM 221 (1st edition). Goldsmith 13148. Kress B1129. Vanderblue, p.3. See Mossner, Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1987, letter no.256 to Andrew Strahan
Fourth edition published on November 6th 1786. There are a few trifling alterations from the 3rd edition.. In the 'Advertisement' leaf in volume I to this edition Adam Smith… Read More

1 volume bound in 2 volumes, octavo, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, calf edges, maroon morocco labels lettered gilt, five raised bands, leaf edges uncut, interleaved throughout, pp.vi, 3-32, 242; 243-445, pencil notes throughout the first volume, a fine copy.

Provenance: engraved bookplate Briglands, Perthshire home of J.A.Clyde, (1863-1944) advocate. He was Lord President from 1920 until 1935 with the title of Lord Clyde.

First edition edited by Shield Nicholson who was Professor of Political Economy at Edinburgh University.