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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three Volumes. The Fourth Edition. by SMITH,Adam - 1786

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three Volumes. The Fourth Edition. by SMITH,Adam - 1786

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three Volumes. The Fourth Edition.

by SMITH,Adam

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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 writes 'In this fourth edition I have made no alterations of any kind. I now, however, find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Henry Hop of Amsterdam. To that Gentleman I owe the most distinct, as well as liberal information, concerning a very interesting and important subject, the Bank of Amsterdam; of which no printed account had ever appeared to me satisfactory, or even intelligible...'

Adam Smith wrote to his publisher Andrew Strahan in February 1786 'I beg you will employ one of your best compositors in printing the new edition of my book. I must, likewise beg that a compleat copy be sent to me before it is published, that I may revise and correct it. You may depend upon my not detaining you above a week...'

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The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Portugese of...
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The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Portugese of Luis de Camöens. The Second Edition

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Goldsmith 11720. Viner, Guide to John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith pp.70-74. Not in Kress or Vanderblue.
Second edition, but the first to contain this critical attack on Adam Smith’s laissez-faire doctrines to the East India Trade in the Wealth of Nations. The long criticism appears on pages clxi-clxxxvi and begins; "Of the example of Portugese Asia cannot be better enforced by an examination of the popular arguments relative to the British commerce with India. A recent Writer on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, has stood forth as the philosophical champion for the abolition of the Monopoly of the English United East India Company…"
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India Pamphlets 1858

India Pamphlets 1858

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[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
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
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Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More
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First edition in German, translated by the political economist Adolph Soetbeer [1814-1892]. This edition is more than a translation; it is an elaboration, with contradictions discarded or reconciled. It includes an appendix, an extensive bibliography, and statistical tables.
"As far as I have had time to examine it the translations seems extremely well executed: the sense appears to be very faithfully & clearly rendered. I only regret that your time & pains were not bestowed on the edition which is now about to go to press & which I have not only revised throughout but have entirely recast several important chapters; in particular the two most important, those on Property & the on the Futurity of the Labouring Classes" Mill to Soetbeer, March 18 1852, in Mineka, Later letters of John Stuart Mill, letter no.74
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Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet.
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MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862
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Quarto, contemporary tree calf, edges worn, rebacked, red morocco label, (2) + ccxxxvipp + 496pp, including the dedication to the Duke of Buccleuch, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map.
Goldsmith 11720. Viner, Guide to John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith pp.70-74. Not in Kress or Vanderblue.
Second edition, but the first to contain this critical attack on Adam Smith’s laissez-faire doctrines to the East India Trade in the Wealth of Nations. The long criticism appears on pages clxi-clxxxvi and begins; "Of the example of Portugese Asia cannot be better enforced by an examination of the popular arguments relative to the British commerce with India. A recent Writer on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, has stood forth as the philosophical champion for the abolition of the Monopoly of the English United East India Company…"
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India Pamphlets 1858

India Pamphlets 1858

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[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
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More
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by Mill, John Stuart

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"As far as I have had time to examine it the translations seems extremely well executed: the sense appears to be very faithfully & clearly rendered. I only regret that your time & pains were not bestowed on the edition which is now about to go to press & which I have not only revised throughout but have entirely recast several important chapters; in particular the two most important, those on Property & the on the Futurity of the Labouring Classes" Mill to Soetbeer, March 18 1852, in Mineka, Later letters of John Stuart Mill, letter no.74
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Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet.
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by MILL,John Stuart

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MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

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