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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D....With an account of his life and writings by Dugald Stewart. In Five Volumes by Smith,Adam - 1811.1812

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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D....With an account of his life and writings by Dugald Stewart. In Five Volumes by Smith,Adam - 1811.1812

The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D....With an account of his life and writings by Dugald Stewart. In Five Volumes

by Smith,Adam

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5 volumes, octavo, contemporary calf, contemporary labels lettered in gilt, edges rubbed, covers scuffed, ruled in gilt, spines richly gilt, pp.xv +611; viii + (1) + 499; vi + 523; v + (1) + 515; iv + 584, engraved frontispiece portrait of Adam Smith to volume I from the Tassie medallion drawn by J.Jackson and engraved by S.Picart, contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of William Barlee and bookplateof David Oliver, an attractive set.

Kress B5917. Goldsmith 20438. Vanderblue p.45.

First edition of the first printing of The Works of Adam Smith. Volume I contains The Theory of Moral Sentiments from the sixth edition; volume II, III, IV The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations from the fourth edition; volume V Considerations concerning the Formation of Languages; Essays on Philosophical Subjects; Account of the Life and Writings of Dr Smith taken from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1793. The Appendixpp.553-584 containsAdam Smith's two contributions in 1755 to the journal The Edinburgh Review which was a review of Johnson's Dictionary and A Letter to the Author's of the Edinburgh Review.

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Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.
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Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française,...

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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

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First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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Autograph letter signed to Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin. 1862

Autograph letter signed to Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin. 1862: Mill writes to his French publisher

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Large octavo, 20.5 x 13.0 cm, 3 pages in French in ink.£2,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin (1801-1864) was co-founder of the Journal des Economistes in 1842 and was publisher of the French translation from the third edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Representative Government and Charles Dupont-White (1807-1878) was the French economist who translated Mill's Representative Government.In this fine letter Mill asks Guillaumin to send copies, now approaching publication, of his Le gouvernement représentif to his Avignon friend and writer on economic and agricultural subjects Auguste Picard and the positive philosopher Célestin de Blignières (1822-1905).Mill reports that he leaves for Greece on January 29th, and to forward to Poste Restant Athens anticipated articles on his book by Emile Littré (1801-1881) and on books of Dupont-White in the Journal des Débats.Marion Filipiuk, Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill, no.529
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Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.
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Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More
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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française,...

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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

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Kress 6760. Goldsmith 10611. Higgs 4854. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176.

First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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by SMITH,ADAM

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Autograph letter signed to Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin. 1862

Autograph letter signed to Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin. 1862: Mill writes to his French publisher

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Large octavo, 20.5 x 13.0 cm, 3 pages in French in ink.£2,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin (1801-1864) was co-founder of the Journal des Economistes in 1842 and was publisher of the French translation from the third edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Representative Government and Charles Dupont-White (1807-1878) was the French economist who translated Mill's Representative Government.In this fine letter Mill asks Guillaumin to send copies, now approaching publication, of his Le gouvernement représentif to his Avignon friend and writer on economic and agricultural subjects Auguste Picard and the positive philosopher Célestin de Blignières (1822-1905).Mill reports that he leaves for Greece on January 29th, and to forward to Poste Restant Athens anticipated articles on his book by Emile Littré (1801-1881) and on books of Dupont-White in the Journal des Débats.Marion Filipiuk, Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill, no.529
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