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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 336 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Ed. and with an introd. By Andrew S Skinner. - With bibliogr., index. - Cloth, good+.

First edition; 2 vols; 4to (30.5 x 24 cm); 2 tables (vol. I folding), errata to verso preface vol. I & last f. to end vol. II, final f. of text in vol. I slightly creased, occasional light spotting; contemporary mottled calf, single gilt rules, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, spine caps slightly chipped, small split to upper joints, corners a little bumped, slightly rubbed, very good; xv, [13], 639, [1]; [16], 646, [14]pp. The first systematic survey of economic policy in English. The first edition of Sir James Steuart's Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy, an important precursor to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which represented the culmination of the mercantilist thought that had dominated European economic thinking throughout the early modern period. 'Steuart's aim was to produce a great conceptual system, linking the most interesting branches of theory and policy, such as "population, agriculture, trade, industry, money, coin, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit and taxes"' (ODNB). The work was well-received, and Steuart's historical approach found later influence in the writings of Hegel and Karl Marx. 'The first English work which had any pretensions to be considered as a systematic or complete view of the subject' (J.R. McCulloch). ESTC N797; Sabin 91387; Goldsmiths 10276; Kress 6498.

Six volumes, 8vo., pp. xx, [4], 444, [4]; [iii]-xx, 441; [iii]-xx, 467, [1]; viii, 416; [iii]-vii, [1], 415, [1]; [iii]-viii, 391, [1] + a large folding table; occasional light spotting, more severe in places, generally a very good clean set, bound without four initial blanks or half-titles and a final advertisement leaf, in contemporary sprinkled calf and marbled boards, flat spines decorated and numbered gilt in compartments, joints cracked but firm, some wear to spine ends, and with the gilt lettering-pieces lacking; from the Stobhall library, with the armorial Strathallan bookplate in each volume.First and only edition of Steuart's collected works, volumes I to IV containing the Inquiry into the principles of political Oeconomy, volume V containing Steuart's various writings on money and coinage, volume VI his philosophical writings, together with anecdotes of his life.Einaudi 1526; Goldsmiths' 19010; Kress B.4987; not in Ma ttioli. Language: English.

First Dublin edition. Three octavo volumes (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm). [10], [i]-xxi, [5], [1, blank], 426, [2, publisher's ads]; [30], 288, 281-424; [8], 431, [1, blank], [19, index], [1, blank] pp. With one folding table, a list of subscribers, and index and two pages of publisher's advertisements. Uniformly bound in contemporary full sheep. Spines ruled and numbered in gilt. Dark red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Minor chipping to head and tail of the spine of volume II. Outer joints starting on volumes I and II, but still firm. Previous owner's old ink notes on front free endpaper of Volume I. Previous owner's signature on half-title of volume I and title-page of volume II. Some foxing and toning throughout, and some occasional light marginal dampstaining. The rear endpapers of each volume with some fraying. Overall a very good copy. The previous owner's note on the front free endpaper of volume I reads "The Inquiry of Sir James Steuart is learned and profound; but it is clogged with prejudices, and obscured [the "d" is almost invisible] by a stile [sic] uncouth and almost unintelligible; it has therefore been of more utility to author's [sic] than to the Public - Adam Smith, with inferior Powers + less information, but with more art [?] of management, and greater perspicacity [?] of Language, has attracted more attention and been of greater service in stimulating political inquiries." "The book has been variously appraised; popular for a few years, it was completely overshadowed after 1776 by Smith's Wealth of Nations but was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by German scholars, who even hailed Steuart as the real founder of economic science. This claim is not wholly invalid. He was the first to set out with some pretense at system the principles of economic policy and to analyze their theoretical basis; and he was also the first writer in English to name his study 'Political Economy', i.e. 'the science of Domestic Policy in free Nations'. Moreover, recognizing the danger of verbal misunderstandings in economic discussions, he set out to elaborate a precise terminology for his science. At many points he made contributions of real interest to economic theorynotably in his discussion of population problems, in his distinction between price and value and his analysis of the component parts of the latter and in his investigation into the 'balance of demand' and labor supply, or 'work', and the nature and function of competition" (Encyclopædia of the Social Sciences). "Sir James Steuart had the misfortune to be followed by Adam Smith in less than a decade. Otherwise, his work would probably have served as the standard English economic text" (Carpenter). HBS 67593. $3,500.

Tankobon Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. Japanese language. 9.29x5.75x1.97 inches. In Stock.

4°, Ledereinband. Zustand: Sehr gut. Nummeriertes Exemplar. Der Kommentarband in Pappe hat 109 Seiten. Dieser leicht lichtrandig. Textbände mit Exlibris auf dem Vorsatz. Sehr gut erhalten. 9783878810766 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 5600 Faksimile basierend auf der 1767 erschienenen Ausgabe.

Zustand: Gut. 2 Bände; LXXXIV, 338 S.mit 1 Porträt-Abbildung als Frontispiz; LXXXIV, S.339-755 mit 1 Porträt-Abbildung als Frontispiz; Original-Lerinenbände im Orig.-Schuber; Gr.8°, Ehemalige Institutsbände einer aufgelösten Bibliothek, mit einigen kleinen Stempeln , a.d.Innendeckel, Vorsatz, a.d.Titelblatt Stempel und Signatur-Nummer, am Rücken unten Leimschatten, Markierung am Schnitt, sonst sehr gutes, wohl kaum genutztes Exemplar. In Original Einbänden und innen sehr gutes Exemplar.

Very rare first edition, written by Steuart whilst in Tübingen, where he had settled in 1757 with his wife and son under the protection of the Duke of Würtemberg, to whom the work is dedicated (in French). In it, Steuart attempted to disentangle the inextricable perplexities of the German mints. The work was translated from a manuscript by Christoph Friedrich Schott, and was only first published in English in 1805 as A Dissertation upon the Doctrine and Principles of Money, applied to the German Coin in volume five of the Works, political, metaphysical, and chronological. Carpenter, Dialogue in Political Economy, 25; Higgs 2537; Holzmann & Bohatta VI, 156; Kress 5986; Lipsius & Leitzmann, p. 2. Octavo (209 x 140 mm). With a large folding table opposite p. 54. Printed in Gothic type. Uncut in recent half mottled calf and marbled boards, spine decorated in blind, red morocco label lettered gilt. Pale dampmark to upper margin of first few leaves, occasional marginal dust soiling; a very good copy, entirely uncut.

First complete edition in German of Steuart's An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (London, 1767), a masterpiece of economics which "was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by German scholars, who even hailed Steuart as the real founder of economic science" (ESS). It is here translated by Steuart's close friend Christoph Friedrich Schott. Of the two competing translations into German published in 1769-72, this is more faithful to Steuart's writing. The translator Schott was a friend of Steuart from the four years the latter spent in Tübingen. Steuart wrote much of the Inquiry there in 1758-9, and in 1761 Schott published a translation of Steuart's Dissertation Upon the Doctrine and Principles of Money. In the preface to this translation, the publisher is keen to emphasize this personal connection. The other translation was published in Hamburg and appears to have precedence, but abridges chapter 28, which here appears in its entirety. The Inquiry, Steuart's magnum opus, had the misfortune to be eclipsed by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1776 - "otherwise, his work would probably have served as the standard English economic text" (Carpenter, p. 20). The 19th-century German appraisal of the work may be influenced by the fact Steuart's economics drew heavily on German neocameralism. Higgs 4569; Humpert 13147; Kress mentions the Hamburg edition of the same year; not in Goldsmiths'. Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Economic Bestsellers Before 1850, 1975. 5 vols, octavo (195 x 119 mm). Folding table in vol. III. Contemporary boards, printed paper labels. 19th-century library stamp of the Königlich Preußisches Statistisches Bureau to the title pages, and 20th-century Japanese stamp to title pages or front free endpapers. Light rubbing (some abrasion to spine label lettering), else bindings very well preserved, occasional very light foxing else clean. An excellent set.

First edition of the author's masterpiece, marking the culmination of British economic thought before the Wealth of Nations. "Sir James Steuart had the misfortune to be followed by Adam Smith in less than a decade. Otherwise [Steuart's Inquiry] would probably have served as the standard English economic text" (Carpenter). Its later influence "proved to be most considerable on the continent. During the 1770s the text was translated into German (twice), and into French in 1789. One authority has noted that 'until the final decade of the eighteenth century, Sir James Steuart's Inquiry was better known and more frequently cited than Smith's Wealth of Nations' (Tribe, 133). The admiration of the members of the 19th-century German historical school is now well known. Steuart's historical and cosmopolitan perspective later attracted the well-documented attention of Marx, while it is known that Hegel spent some three months studying one of the German editions. But perhaps the most intriguing link is with North America. The Dublin edition of the Inquiry (1770) was widely circulated in the colonies. The book also attracted the attention of Alexander Hamilton, whose protectionist position was adopted with a view to counterbalancing the competitive advantages of the British economy in the years following the treaty of Paris (1783)" (ODNB). Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 241-2; Carpenter, The Economic Bestsellers Before 1850, p. 20; Einaudi 1527; ESTC N797; Goldsmiths' 10276; Higgs 3968; Kress 6498; Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 176. 2 vols, quarto (285 x 227 mm). With 2 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original labels, new plain endpapers. No half-titles issued (the book was issued without leaf A1 in vol. I, despite the pagination including it), bound with terminal errata. Errata corrected in text in early hand; terminal errata in vol. II trimmed to the form of a slip. Slight abrasion to calf, light intermittent staining at bottom forecorner, occasional light peripheral browning, 5 cm closed tear to vol. I pp. 635/6 slightly affecting text without loss. A very good copy.

Rare first edition in French of Steuart's Inquiry into the principles of political economy, the translation prepared by Étienne de Sénovert upon the request of Alexandre Vandermonde. Vandermonde, a strong supporter of the Revolution, member of the Académie des Sciences and teacher in political economy at the newly created École Normale, saw that Steuart's work made points not focused on in Adam Smith's more widely translated works. "Sir James Steuart had the misfortune to be followed by Adam Smith in less than a decade. Otherwise [Steuart's Inquiry] would probably have served as the standard English economic text" (Carpenter). Its later influence "proved to be most considerable on the continent. During the 1770s the text was translated into German (twice), and into French in 1789. One authority has noted that 'until the final decade of the eighteenth century, Sir James Steuart's Inquiry was better known and more frequently cited than Smith's Wealth of Nations' (Tribe, 133). The admiration of the members of the nineteenth-century German historical school is now well known. Steuart's historical and cosmopolitan perspective later attracted the well-documented attention of Marx, while it is known that Hegel spent some three months studying one of the German editions. But perhaps the most intriguing link is with North America. The Dublin edition of the Inquiry (1770) was widely circulated in the colonies. The book also attracted the attention of Alexander Hamilton, whose protectionist position was adopted with a view to counterbalancing the competitive advantages of the British economy in the years following the treaty of Paris (1783)" (ODNB). Kress S.5268; not in Einaudi, Goldsmiths' or Mattioli. 5 vols, octavo (198 x 122 mm). Contemporary half roan and sprinkled boards, spines ruled gilt, labels and numbering pieces, yellow edges. Bookplate of the Barante Library to each front pastedown, evidence of paper shelf label removal from foot of each spine, bindings nonetheless fresh. Blank corner of one leaf restored not affecting text (CC2 in vol. IV), a couple of marginal tears repaired, one entering text (leaf T4 vol. II), contents clean. A very good copy.