A handsome set of Adam Smith's (d.1790) pivotal work of economic theory and political philosophy. The Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought t...

Inscribed by the author. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the journalist and newspaper editor J. L. Garvin.'To J. L. Garvin,a tribut...

First two-volume edition expounding the Malthusian-trap. The first two-volume edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, with import...

Populariser of Adam Smith. The first edition of Stewart's biographical study of leading figures in the Scottish Enlightenment.Stewart (1753-1828), ...

First two-volume edition. The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions, particularly the appe...

Early Wall Street novella in which an innocent upstate New York carpenter's son, Billy Hazard, is ruined by a failed short-selling trade: 'It is on...

The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions, including replies to his critics.'The central ...

Signed by prisoners of war. Signed by seven former Colditz prisoners of war:- Kenneth Lockwood, Jimmy Yule, Hugh Bruce, Tommy Catlow, Peter Allan, ...

First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to est...

Government sponsored gambling. A handbill advertising tickets and shares in the state lottery of 1780. In this instance 16,021 prizes were issued a...

A fascinating survival from the Taishō Democracy, a period of liberal reform and political renewal in Japan lasting from 1912 until 1926, which ul...

An early statement of the Utility Theory. Condillac made his name both with economic and with philosophical writings. His most important economic w...

George Dodd (1808- 1881) was a journeyman author employed in supplying Victorian publications with the type of factual article for which there was...

An excellent example.Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774) was a French economist and statistician. In this, his major work, he provide...

The new york stock exchange in 1936. Two fine photographs of the American Stock Exchange.In 1908, the New York Curb Market Agency was established, ...

Icon of Modernism. An iconic image of Wall Street and a turning point in modern photography.Wall Street depicts a scene of everyday life in Manhatt...

Exchange rates at the end of the Bourbon Restoration. A rare chart giving the currency exchange rates for 60 cities and 36 countries across the wor...

Pioneering work on statistics. In 1790, as an elder in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) launched the id...