History of Economic Thought

1836 Panorama of Professions & Trades Hazen Economics Manufacturing Illustrated

Edward Hazen's 'The Panorama of Professions and Trades'
is a curious 19th-century book outlining the specifics of recognizable jobs and professions. Hazen covers jobs such as bakers and brewers, butchers, tobacco farmers, barbers, hatters, tailors, shoemaker, fishermen, clergymen, attorneys, physicians, and many others. Each chapter discusses the importance of each profession and its influence on economics as well as business practices.
Item number: #11442
Price: $499
HAZEN, Edward
The panorama of professions and trades, or, Every man's book
Philadelphia : U. Hunt, 1836. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xii, 320
o 82 engravings
· References: Goldsmiths'-Kress 29418.12
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 6in (19cm x 15cm)
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Woodcut title-vignette, XXXIV (recte XXXVI), 47 pages, XLIII pages with tables of which four folding, 22 (one folding) engraved plates. Cont. calf, richly gilt spine with red morocco label. All edges gilt. Multipe coloured shell marbled end-papers. Engraved book label of one Thihavsky - Lieutenant Colonel d'Artillerie pasted onto front paste-down. Folio. (405 x 265 mm). Extremeties rubbed, three tiny traces of worming to covers. First and only edition. A report of a commission initiated by the Austrian archduke Charles to investigate effective wood-burning stoves in public and private premises. The furnaces for military facilities, hospitals and schools, prisons and bathing establishments, as well as cooking hobs for public facilities, laundry kettles and stoves for industrial purposes of dyeing and cloth manufacture are shown on the plates, together with thorough tabular listings of production costs, maintenance and consumption data. Furthermore recommendations for furnaces for private use with a… Read More

Very large broadside statistical overview of France in 1824
Paris, Belin-Leprieur, printed by Imprimerie de Jules Didot aîné, June 1824.
Plano (69x100 cm.). Letterpress text, engraved title and illustrated with an engraved ornamental border on thick paper without watermark.
€ 2.400
Impressively large and very rare French broadside table providing a detailed overview of the statistics on population, geography and economy of the 57 départemens of France for the year 1824. It does so in an extremely structured manner. Of each administrative region the precise geographic and topographic values are given, after which the specialization in natural or industrial productivity of these regions is described. For example, the département Calvados has "excellent horses, bestieux fat, grains, cider, cider brandy, flax, hemp" etc. etc. According to a contemporary review in Revue encyclopédique (1825), this table was considered especially useful to understand the importance of each of the départements, and… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Vol.III. London, John W Parker and Son 1867Octavo, original publishers cloth, rubbed and worn, upper cover with The Cork Library printed paper label, spine laid down lettered gilt, pp.(4), 379, 24 adverts., library stamp of Cork Library on the title. £350First edition of this third volume includes articles Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, Bain's Psychology, A few words on non-intervention, The Contest in America, Plato.

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea- Chesnut Street, 1822. First collected edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 214 x 135 mm). ii, [4], [iii]-x, [2], [9]-546, [10, index] pp. With general title-page and title-pages for all essays except The Farmer's & Planter's Friend which is not required for correct collation. We could find no copies of this at auction in over thirty years. Book comprises: Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry. Philadelphia, 1822. Sixth Edition. [and] The New Olive Branch: or the Attempt to Establish an Identity of Interest Between Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce: And to Prove that a Large Portion of the Manufacturing Industry of this Nation Has Been Sacrificed to Commerce, and that the Commerce Has Suffered by this Policy Nearly as Much as Manufactures. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sones, 1821. Second Edition. [and] Address to Congress: Being a View of the Ruinous Consequences of a Dependence on Foreign Markets for the Sale of the… Read More

1826 ECONOMICS 1st ed Scenes Wealth BEER Blacksmith Farming Industry Capitalism
Isaac Taylor's "Scenes of Wealth" is a rare, early 19th-century history of industry in Great Britain with reports on trade and manufacturing. Filled with dozens of illustrated figures, this book offers descriptions of sugar trade, steel wares, ship building, oyster fishing, wheat harvesting, wool and silk weaving, ale and beer making, pottery, blacksmithing, and much, much more!
Item number: #21429
Price: $499
TAYLOR, Isaac
Scenes of wealth , or, Views and illustrations of trades, manufactures, produce, and commerce, for the amusement and instruction of tarry-at-home travelers
London, Hartford: Harris and Son, Re-published by O.D. Cooke, 1826. First American edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
VI, 9-168
o
23 leaves of plates
83 numbered illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 4.5in (18cm x 11.5cm)
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1677 1ed Touch-Stone for GOLD Silver Commerce Finance Money Badcock Economics

A rare and highly desirable 1677 first edition of William Badcock's "A Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares". This work was one of the most important financial guides from the 17th-century – a work of buying direction for money changers, gold and silver handlers, for values of goods, and much more.

This fine edition contains a printing of John Reynolds exchange rate tables, published in 1679.

Item number: #21818
Price: $750

BADCOCK, William [or 'W.B.']

A touch-stone for gold and silver wares, or, A manual for goldsmiths and all other persons, whether buyers, sellers, or wearers of any manner of goldsmiths work

London: For John Bellinger & Thomas Bassett, 1677. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [16], 218
o "Tables" – [152]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4.5in (16.5cm x 11cm)
• Rare and desirable

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Shakespear's-Head over-against Katherine Street: J. Tonson, 1724. [title continues...."and an abusive letter to Lord C.]. Third addition. Octavo, title page, pp [xiv], 428, [12], [2], 443-477, (pages 74/75 are mispaginated 82/83, but all is correct), some pencil underlining and marginal lining (see illustration) but nowhere too offensove, otherwise the pages are remarkably clean, rebound in marbled boards and leather spine with paper title label, slightly dull and rubbed but good and sound. [Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (1670 -1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. The book was primarily written as a political satire on the state of England in 1705, when the Tories were accusing John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and the ministry of advocating the War of the Spanish Succession for personal reasons. In 1723 a later… Read More

1705 1ed Forbes Church Lands & Tithes Finances Wealth Money Edinburgh Scotland
William Forbes's "Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes" is an early 18th-century discourse on Catholic Church finances and revenue. Forbes describes the effects of military orders and canon law on church finances. It also includes interesting descriptions on the secrets of gaining church wealth.
Item number: #22545
Price: $499
FORBES, William
A treatise of church-lands & tithes, in two parts. Containing, an historical account of ecclesiastical revenues, churches, church-yards, church-offices
Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of A. Anderson, 1705. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: complete with all pages
o [16], 450, [24]
· Provenance:
o Armorial bookplate – DEO JUVANTE CONSILIO ET ANIMIS
Likely John Maitland (later Lauder), 5th Earl of Lauderdale (1655–1710) was a Scottish judge and politician who supported the Acts of Union.
o Bookplate – J. R. P. Forrest
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Printed by A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and Son. London. 1814. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). Vol.1; xlviii,566pp,8pp ads; Vol.2; xxiv,622pp; Vol.3; xvi,374pp. Minor hole to prelim pages of volume one otherwise a clean tight set in contemporary brown calf bindings with ruled lines & numbering, and red title labels, all in gilt, to the spines. Hinges all professionally repaired. Blind stamped rope border to the boards. Edges a but rubbed and bumped but overall a very good set. Previous owners attractive armorial bookplate (Samuel Wells, Jun. of Huntingdon) to all of the front pastedown endpapers and neat hand written notes to the first 2 volume's front free endpapers. Overall a very god set.

Ottawa, Central Publishing, 1980, hardcover, xv-146 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to head and heel of spine, slight sunning and touch of foxing to top edge. The classic guide to trading mining stocks for maximum profitability, based on the Canadian model, applicable worldwide. Appended: Ten Commandments of the Market, Information Sources. ISBN 9780969044307.

New York: The New American Library, 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, "First Printing" stated on copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $6.50 price on front flap. Black boards and green cloth spine with silver lettering. 309 pages. FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book is very bright and clean, tight and square, spotless and unworn with no bumping. Thin strip of mild sun-fading along top edge of spine. Flawless interior with bright pages appearing possibly unread. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is very bright and very clean with no sunning. Light wear to the spine ends. A small scrape with closed tear on the rear spine fold. Front panel has just slight surface wear. Rear panel has one small closed tear at both the top and bottom edges along with some faint creasing and is otherwise unworn. Excellent inner flaps. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..

1920 ECONOMICS 1st ed KEYNES Consequences of Peace Versailles Conference Germany

"When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position."
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes was a 20th-century British economist most known for his book "The Economic Consequences of the Peace."
"This work was widely acclaimed by the public because it disclosed, to a far greater extent than anything up to that time, the proceedings at the Versailles Conference, where the treaty with Germany was being drafted. Keynes, who attended these meetings as a member of the British Treasure delegation, showed himself to be no meek author, but a brilliant writer who was determined to deliver his message to the world and be heard. The gospel he sought to preach was that the treat was 'an act of wickedness and folly'. (Cammarosano, 70)
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La colonia espanola en la economia cubana un balance historico 1902-1936 por miguel gonzalez rodriguez primera edicion habana cuba 1936.importante estudio historico-economico sobre la relacion comercial entre espana y cuba en la primera mitad del siglo XX.

NY: International Publishers. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn.. 1935. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in black on spine. Index. Appendices. Introduction by Emile Burns. Appears to be signed by Granville Hicks in blue pen on title page and (mostly) penciled annotations in the same hand extensively written in first 400 pages, and sporadically thereafter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1087 pages .