SMITH, Thomas Verner and Leonard D.

WHITE, editors. Chicago: an experiment in social science research. [The University of Chicago...

Chicago, University Press, 1929.

First edition. An assessment of the first five years of work by the Local Community Research Committee.

£80

STEVENS, William H. S.

Unfair competition. A study of certain practices. With some reference to the trust problem in the United...

Chicago, University Press, 1917.

First edition. Something of the spirit that would define the Sociological Series can be found in this study, which takes an isolated, detailed look at industries such as the lumber trade to identify the dark arts of industry, including espionage, intimidation, white lies and boycotts.

£80

THOMAS, William I.

Source book for social origins: ethnological materials, psychological standpoint, classified and annotated bibliography...

Chicago, University Press, 1909.

First edition, uncommon, an early work of Chicago sociology and a foundational one, prefiguring the entire ethnological approach of the Chicago School. The supplementary bibliography is a useful reference work in itself.

£250

DONOUGHUE, A.

An Essay on the Passions: with other Poems … Shrewsbury: Printed by T. Wood … for P. Owen … Welshpool; sold...

Welshpool; sold by Champante and Whitrow … London, and all the Booksellers in Shrewsbury. 1799.

First edition. ‘I have felt as many woes as ever tore the bosom of a Petrarch’, writes the author in the Preface, ‘and have struggled with as many penurious calamities as ever agonized the soul of a Chatterton; will not then a generous public pardon my presumption, when informed, that I woke my...

£325

SEGNERI, Paulo.

Devotus Mariae Virginis … Ad ejusdem Virginis gloriam, & honorem, Mariaeque devotorum fructum latine redditus...

Lincii, Joan. Michaelis Pramsteidel, ‘1858’ [i.e. 1758].

An apparently unrecorded edition of this work of Marian devotion by the Italian Jesuit Paolo Segneri (1625-1694), printed for the Jesuit College at Linz in Austria and bound, probably as issued, with a short unpaginated work providing instructions for Marian feasts, reprinted by Pramsteidel from numerous...

£195

[SCOTTISH AGRICULTURE.]

A collection of fifteen county reports on the present state of agriculture in Scotland produced for the...

Edinburgh and London, 1794-5.

The agricultural improver and social campaigner Sir John Sinclair had long desired a Board of Agriculture ‘as a means of publicizing agricultural developments, advising the government, spreading information, conducting experiments, and promoting legislation’. Finally Pitt granted him an annual stipend...

£3000

[‘E. S.’, sometimes attributed to Elizabeth SANDHAM].

A Cup of Sweets, that can never cloy: or, delightful Tales for good Children....

London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery … 1807.

‘Third edition’, scarce with the frontispiece; first published 1804. A typically moralistic collection, with one very gruesome tale pertaining to animal welfare. Straying unwarily into the kitchen one day, the unfortunate dog Fido is horribly scalded by a falling pan of boiling water, losing an eye...

£150

ELLIOTT, Mary [née Belson].

Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …

London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton … and John Harris … [c. 1825].

‘Fourth edition, corrected and revised’. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).

£200

JUSSIEU, Laurent Pierre de.

Antoine et Maurice. Ouvrage qui a obtenu le prix proposé par la Société Royale pour l’amélioration...

Paris, L. Colas, 1821.

First edition, rare, of this unsurprisingly moralising novel by the writer, geologist, and natural historian Laurent Pierre de Jussieu (1792-1866), written in response to a competition held by the Royal Society of the Improvement of Prisons to find the best book to circulate amongst inmates.

£250

FERRARI, Silvio.

Votometro per elezioni e referendum. Pavia, Bruni, 1909.

Large 8vo (162 x 230 mm), pp. 8; marginal light...

Pavia, Bruni, 1909.

Two unrecorded pieces of ephemera, witnesses to one of the earliest attempts to mechanize the voting system in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century.

The main aim of Ferrari’s invention was to simplify the way the vote was cast, by introducing balls or dice in the voting machine, and therefore...

£250

[TODESCHI, Claudio.]

Lettere filosofiche dirette alla nobil donna la signora baronessa Laura Astalli Piccolomini sotto il nome di Clori.

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1783.

Extremely rare first edition of these four verse letters by Claudio Todeschi (b. 1737) addressed to baroness Laura Astalli Piccolomini, his fellow member of the Accademia degli Arcadi. Known as 'Clori', Laura was a soprano and one of the last surviving members of the noble Roman family the Astallis;...

£475

HÔNE, Hubert.

Archive of original drawings for the Liège Trocadéro.

Liège, circa 1966-1979.

A substantial collection of set-designs for the famous Liège Trocadéro theatre, ‘the most Parisian of the Belgian theatres’, and the last one to feature revue shows in Wallonia.

£550

[COLOMBIA.]

Resolucion del rey. Comunicada por el excelentisimo senor Don Miguel de Muzquiz a la direccion general de rentas, en...

[Madrid, 1776].

Very rare resolution issued by Charles III of Spain granting the right of free trade to the province of Santa Marta, in modern-day northern Colombia, then in the Spanish Virreinato de Nueva Granada. Stating his express desire to encourage commerce among his subjects, the king grants comercio libre to...

£275

[BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri de.]

Lettre d'Hypocrate à Damagette. Traduction.

'Cologne, chez Jacques le Sage', 1700.

Rare second edition (following the first of 1699, of which we have traced only one copy, at the Wellcome Library) of this important clandestine tract, attributed to the historian and political writer Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722).

£450

[WILLIAMS, John.]

The History of the Gunpowder-Treason, collected from approved Authors, as well popish as protestant.

London, Richard Chiswel, 1678.

First edition of an anti-popish history of the Gunpowder Plot. A well informed account drawing on both Anglican and Catholic sources, The History of the Gunpowder-Treason was published anonymously by John Williams (1633/6–1709), later Bishop of Chichester, amid renewed interest in the subject during...

£750

SKARBEK, Fryderyk.

Gospodarstwo narodowe. Elementarne zasady gospodarstwa narodowego.

Warsaw, N. Glucksberg, 1820.

First edition. The work is amongst the first to differentiate between the principles of individual wealth and the wealth of nations. Divided into two parts, the first discusses production, exchange, revenue and consumption. The second is a general examination of the wealth of nations in which the author...

£1500

BISHOP, Isabella Lucy (née BIRD).

The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of...

for John Murray, ‘1890’ [but c. 1894].

Seventh edition. As Bishop states in her preface, ‘I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity of leading a life of open air and exercise...

£200

RONDINELLI, Francesco.

Relazione del contagio stato in Firenze l’anno 1630 e 1633 con un breve ragguaglio della miracolosa immagine...

Florence, Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.

First edition of this official account of the Florentine plague of 1630 and 1633, commissioned by Ferdinando II de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, and composed by his librarian Rondinelli from official records and interviews with survivors. Plague had been brought to Italy in 1629 by troops fighting...

£950

GUASP Y PUJOL, Manuel.

Apuntes de Economia Política. Cursos de 1866 a 1867 – 1867 a 1868 en la Universidad de Barcelona.

[Barcelona], 1868.

Unique witness to the lectures of political economy taught by Manuel Guasp y Pujol at Barcelona in the mid-1860s: a ponderous manuscript, endowed with the depth of numerous corrections and additions, amounting to an unpublished full-blown treatise on political economy, with topics such as labour, capital,...

£850

TULLOCH, James Dundas Gregorie.

Small archive relating to his military career.

1826-1854.

An interesting set of documents tracing the military career of James Dundas Gregorie Tulloch (1804-1879), from his initial struggles to obtain a commission to his promotion to Major under Queen Victoria. Tulloch was the younger brother of the statistician Major-General Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch (1803-1864),...

£2000