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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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  1. GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].

    Question d’estat: fille reclamée par...

    Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.

    Very rare first edition of this account...

    £350

  2. GEORGE, Henry.

    Izbrannyia rechi i stat’i … Perevod...

    [Nikolaev]. Moscow, ‘Posrednik’, 1905.

    First edition, very rare: Russian translations...

    £500

  3. GESELL, Silvio.

    Denkschrift für die Deutschen Gewerkschaften...

    Potsdam, Robert Müller [for the author],...

    A very good copy of the rare first edition...

    £125

  4. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

    Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  5. [GRANT, Charles, Vicomte de Vaux.]

    Recueil d’Essais, ou précis des opinions,...

    A Londres: De l’Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury...

    An interesting tract volume, containing...

    £1500

  6. GRIMKE, Frederick.

    Considerations upon the nature and tendency...

    Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & Co., 1884.

    First edition, scarce in commerce, of this...

    £850

  7. [GROUVELLE, Philippe-Antoine].

    Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un...

    [s.l, s.n., c .1794].

    First and seemingly only edition of this...

    £375

  8. HAREL, Charles.

    Ménage sociétaire ou Moyen d’augmenter...

    Paris, Bureau de la Phalange, à la librairie...

    First edition of this work by the entrepreneur...

    £975

  9. HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].

    'Baktiaris Persans'.

    [Iran, c. 1905-1911].

    An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...

    £1500

  10. HARRIS, James, later first Earl of Malmesbury.

    A small group of documents.

    [1779–1785].

    Harris (1746–1820) was ‘the leading...

    £325

  11. [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

  12. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  13. [ISELIN, Isaak].

    Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

    Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

    Uncommon first edition, part one only (very...

    £150

  14. ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

    Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

    The petition explains that the parish of...

    £250

  15. JONES, John Gale.

    An Oration on the late General Washington,...

    Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.

    Scarce revised second edition, printed...

    £375

  16. [JULY REVOLUTION.]

    Habitans de Paris, les députés de la...

    [Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July...

    A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s...

    £100

  17. [JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

    The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

    ...

    First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

    £27500

  18. KANT, Immanuel.

    Kritika chistago razuma …

    St Petersburg, M.V. Popov, 1902.

    Third Russian edition of Kant’s Critique...

    £450

  19. KARG, Stanislaus, Celso EISENMAN, and Eccard HOCHENBAUM.

    Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio...

    Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].

    Only edition, rare, of this dissertation...

    £275

  20. KAUTSKY, Karl.

    O istocie klasowości.

    [Krakow, People’s Printers] for “Proletaryat”,...

    Rare first edition in Polish of Kautsky’s...

    £125