Instituiçoens de direito cambial portuguez, com referencias às Leis, Ordenaçoens, e Costumes das principaes praças da Europa acerca de Letras de Cambio by BORGES, José Ferreira - 1825

Edinburgh, William Tait; London, Simpkin, Marshall; Dublin, John Cumming, 1843. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. xxiii, (i) blank, 419, (1) blank. Plus lithograph frontispiece portrait, from an engraving made by C. Fox after H. W. Pickersgill, printed by the lithographer S. Leith of Edinburgh, with facing tissue-guard. Half-title present. Index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, embossed in blind, spine gilt; first inner hinge cracking but very firm, lower joint mended, wear at head of spine, cloth bit dull. Good copy, preserved in the original state, with rather fine interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Republished in 1844, and recently in 1998. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English social philosopher whose influence on the development of economic thought and theory was very great. Burton was an Edinburgh lawyer and a professional writer for literary journals. He established his name as an author with the "Life and Correspondence of David Hume" (1846), in which he threw… Read More

Londres et se trouve à Paris, Duchesne, 1756. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Small octavo. Pp. 151, (1) publisher's ad. Plus engraved frontispiece. handsome device to title, decorative head-pieces. Includes the "Explication du frontispice". HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary marbled boards, spine with crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, date gilt stamped on foot. Fine, handsome copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. Many later editions followed with various paginations, different layout, different publisher's device to title-page, etc. Some pirated editions joined the race, some appearing as "first edition". Gabriel François, abbé Coyer, was a French man of letters and worldly cleric born in 1707. He entered the Society of Jesus, studying humanities and philosophy until he left the order in 1736. In 1741 he became private tutor to the young Duke of Bouillon (Prince of Turenne at the time). There followed public functions that saw him in attendance at some battles of… Read More

P. S. King & Staples. Ltd. London. ND.,1937. Sixth (Fourth) Edition. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Definitive edition. The original edition was first published in 1901, and is based on lectures delivered at the London School of Economics in the five years after it was founded in 1895. This edition uses the revised text of the fourth edition, published in 1920, but with supplements explaining the Authors, and others, work in the interim years. Illustrated throughout with many diagrams, some on fold out pages. A fine copy in a fine early binding of full blue calf by Morrell of London. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Double ruled gilt borders to both boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Gilt stamped arms of Queen Mary College, University of London, on the front board. Neat prize labels, dated 1944, to the front blank endpaper. A fine copy in a lovely, highly decorative, leather binding. :

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911. Near Fine, SCARCE publishers notice tipped in at front endpage "The D. Van Nostrand Company intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price, and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow of discount.", book plate front paste down that of John F. Mee, who was the former chairman of the Dept. of Management at the Indiana University School of Business, an authority on the changing concepts of management and a pioneer of management education. Prior owner name and address front endpage, cloth lightly rubbed, contents are clean tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Xi, 179 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. All Publishing Information Shows Cambridge University Press, 1960, Sheets Printed In The Usa, Dj Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap And With (American) $3.75 Price Stamped At Top Corner Of Front Flap. No Indication Of Later Printing, No Reviews On Dj. A Classic Of Cold-War Economics. Book With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Marks. Dj With Some Wear, A Few Short Tears And With Some Very Small Losses At Corners, Spine A Little Faded. Small Original Pasadena Bookseller's Tab (Vroman's) On Front Endpaper, Thus First Purchased New In Pasadena.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1935. TWO VOLUMES. Early reprints. Both are third impression reprints of the original 1930 edition. Previous owners name written neatly on the front free endpapers. A fine, bright pair, the pages crisp and clean. Original publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spines. The boards and spines are beautifully bright and clean having been protected by the publishers original brown paper, black printed dustwrappers. The wrappers are in near fine condition without any significant loss to edges but one crease to the front panel of volume two and a tiny hole (about 0.2 x 0.1 inch) to the spine of volume one, not affecting the lettering. Minor uniform darkening to both wrapper spines but overall a very near fine early set of this important work.

London: The Macmillan Co,, 1903. Near Fine, small darkened area base of spine, end pages slight browning. Pages are uncut, a gorgeous copy of this classic economics text. Gustav Cassel was a founding member of the Swedish school of economics, along with Knut Wicksell and David Davidson. A professor at Stockholm University, his notable students include Nobel Prize in Economics laureates Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. London, John W Parker and Son 18592 volumes octavo, original publishers brown cloth, a little faded, spines lettered gilt, a little wear to the hinges, pp.vi, (ii), 474, (6) adverts; (iv), 563, (1), ownership in ink on both titles Isabella Sanders 1870, a fine set £350
First editions. Articles included in these volumes are Civilisation [first published 1836], Bentham [1838], Coleridge [1840], M de Tocqueville on Democracy in America [1840], Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848, in reply to Lord Brougham and others [1849], Enfranchisement of Women [1851], and Whewell on Moral Philosophy [1852]

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1958. Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, spine sunned to brown and small chips and edge wear. SCARCE in dust jacket, no other jacketed copies found in current commerce. From the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, his signature front end page. Stolnitz was an international expert on demographic trends and a frequent consultant to the United Nations and U.S. government agencies, and a past president of the Population Association of America. Boulding was the founder of the evolutionary economics movement and a cofounder of General Systems Theory, and the author of two Citation Classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.