AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS The Eleventh Edition with Notes Supplementary Chapters and a Life of Dr Smith by William Playfair In Three Volumes
by SMITH Adam
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About This Item
Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805. 11th edn. 3 vols. 8vo (8¾ x 5½ ins). Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt tooled in six compartments, boards with double gilt fillet borders, marbled edges and endpapers (some wear at joints but boards still firm; corners rather rubbed and bumped). Pp. [iv] + xl + 515 + [5] blank [&] [ii] + viii + 567 + [5] blank [&] [ii] + viii + 590 + [2] blank (small tear at bottom edge of pp. iii-iv vol I and pp. 29-36 and 336-354 vol III heavily spotted; previous owner's engraved cards front paste-downs and bookplate on front free endpaper of vol I).
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- Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd (GB)
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- 150241
- Title
- AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS The Eleventh Edition with Notes Supplementary Chapters and a Life of Dr Smith by William Playfair In Three Volumes
- Author
- SMITH Adam
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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