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

Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, label of Bibliothek der Wiener Handelsakademie on the upper cover and inside, leaf edges marbled, printers woodcut on title of a grasshopper, pp.xii + 139 pages, discreet library stamp on title, a fine copy.

Provenance: Bibliothek der Wiener Handelsakademie, founded in 1857, the second Handelsakamie of the Austrian Empire after Prague.
Not in Einaudi or Sraffa. Not in the Amex Library. See Chi-Yuen Wu: An outline of international price theories. (2007), pp.204-206. Schumpeter, p.736.

FIRST EDITION of this classic treatise in which Goschen declared that the primary clause which determined the fluctuations in the exchange rates was the balances of international indebtedness. He found that the state of credit in the money market played an important role. Chi-Yuen Wu writes that Goschen produced the first systematic exposition of the effects of the bank rate.
Goschen [1831-1907], Chancellor of the Exchequer in Salisbury's second… Read More

Octavo, contemporary vellum; pp. (6), 447, pp. (44), Syriac, Arabic and Latin text throughout, woodcut printers device to title, woodcuts to chapter endings, some paper browning throughout, a good copy.
FIRST EDITION of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary arranged according to subjects originally compiled in the 11th century by Elias bar Shinaya, Metropolitan of Nisibis, edited with a Latin translation by Obicini. It was published by Obicini's pupil Germanus de Silesia, author of an Arabic Grammar and an Italian-Arabic dictionary. It is dedicated by Achilles Venerius to Cardinal Barbarini. The Syriac types are the 20pt Maronite types and the Arabic of the text Granjon's arabe du kitãb al-Bustãn.
Thomas Obicini (1585-1632) from Novara, was abbot of the Franciscan convent at Aleppo. In 1621 he returned to Rome and became first lector of Arabic in the St Peter Convent. He was responsible for the supervision of the type designs of Oriental types at the Propaganda Press. The author warns the reader against… Read More

ANONYMOUS. . True and False Democracy. Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only. A Brief Synopsis of Recent Publications on the Subject by John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hare. Boston, Prentiss & Deland 1862
Octavo, disbound, 16pp.
First edition. Very rare no copy in Copac, or Candfield,E. Proportional Representation. A bibliography 1990

HAZARD, Rowland G. Two Letters on Causation and Freedom in Willing, addressed to John Stuart Mill. With an Appendix on the existence of matter, and our notions of infinite space. Boston, Lee and Shepard (1869)
Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, rebacked, lettered gilt, pp.300, perforated stamp to title, inscribed on the initial blank Samuel Gilman LLD with kind regards of R G Hazard. Peace Dale Aug 6/82 and bookplate of John Hopkins University presented by D C Gilman.
First edition, presentation copy. Hazard [1801-1888] Rhode Island woollen manufacturer and writer on philosophical subjects and correspondent with Mill. Author of the earlier Freedom Mind in Willing 1864 which he sent to Mill. In a letter dated November 1866 Mill wrote "It is a real pleasure to have you for an antagonist, for you see the true gist of a question, do not trifle on the mere surface of the subject, and your arguments are real arguments addressing themselves to the real points in dispute and not to imaginary ones".
Mill… Read More