Human Sciences
Contact Jonathan Harrison, Alfred Pasternack or Barbara Scalvini
Human Sciences at Quaritch embraces a wide range of books and manuscripts documenting the history of ideas from the earliest times up to about 1960. Our strengths are in the history of economic thought and in philosophy, but we also deal in law; finance and banking (including speculation, actuarial science and insurance); politics and political theory; sociology; psychology; agriculture; education; logic; and the theory of language.
Some notable items which have recently passed through our hands include the only known copy of the Communist Manifesto inscribed by Karl Marx, Rudolf Carnap’s annotated copy of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung), Joseph Penso de la Vega’s Confusion de Confusiones (1688, the first book to describe the practice of a stock-exchange) and a copy of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (4th edition, 1786), inscribed in Smith's own hand to Bonnie Prince Charlie's private secretary.
As well as dealing in individual books and manuscripts, we also offer collections. In recent years we have sold author collections of Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Thorstein Veblen, Emile Durkheim and Jeremy Bentham. Among subject collections we have offered are the Herwood Library of accounting literature (including Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, 1494, the first printed exposition of double-entry book-keeping); the philosophy of language; texts pertaining to the theory and study of language in the West, and the history of probability - the calculus of probabilities, statistics and their applications.
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[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]
Deed granting land to the hospice.
Metz, 5 May 1464.
A significant document recording the grant...
£450
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[HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.
‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester...
Mindelheim, Lingauer, 1744.
Extremely rare devotional engraving of...
£750
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HOWARD, John.
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos...
Warrington, Eyres, Cadell, Johnson, Dilly...
First edition of Howard’s study of quarantine...
£575
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HUISH, Robert.
Fatherless Rosa; or, the Dangers of the...
London, Published by T. Kaygill … for...
First edition. Like the best-selling Fatherless...
£750
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HUME, David, [and Octavie BELOT, translator].
Histoire de la maison de Tudor sur le trône...
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], 1763.
A very fine set of the first French edition...
£600
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‘HURLBUT’ [i.e. HURLBERT], William Henry.
Pictures of Cuba.
London: M’Corquodale and Co. for Longman,...
First British edition, revised and retitled,...
£150
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HURRY, Thomas.
Tables of interest, from one pound to five...
[Yarmouth], Printed for the author, and...
One of two editions published in 1786,...
£150
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HYGINUS Gromaticus, attributed, and POLYBIUS.
De Castris Romanis, quae extant. Cum notis...
Amsterdam, Jodocus Pluymer, 1660.
First edition thus, with annotations by...
£1000
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[‘HYSON, Timothy’, pseud. Thomas LOWNDES].
A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer,...
London, [C. Roworth] for the author, 1827.
Second edition of the Letter to Mr Richard...
£250
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INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth].
Nature and Art.
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition of a powerful and tragic...
£3250
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[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]
The present state of the unhappy sufferers...
London, [n.p.], 1733.
First and only edition of an anonymous...
£250
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...
£3500
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IRWIN, Eyles.
The Triumph of Innocence; an Ode. Written...
London, W. Bulmer for G. Nicol, 1796.
First and only edition, very rare, of this...
£800
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[ISELIN, Isaak].
Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.
Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.
Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...
£150
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[ISELIN, Isaak; Peder Topp WANDALL, translator].
Philosophiske og Patriotiske Drømme af...
Frid. Stein, 1774.
Very rare first Danish edition of Iselin’s...
£250
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ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.
Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...
The petition explains that the parish of...
£250
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JEFFERIES, Richard.
Hodge and his Masters …
London, Smith, Elder, & Co. … 1880.
First edition, an influential volume of...
£450
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JENKINS, Edward.
The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....
[Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...
A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...
£100
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JEROME, Jerome Klapka.
Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster...
Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.
A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome...
£500