steuart sir james denham (2 Ergebnisse)

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.

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.