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GUIZOT, [François]
De la democratie en France. [Janvier 1849].
1849 - 8vo, (iv) + 157 + (3)pp, ink stamp on blank verso of title and blank verso of final leaf of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club, slight stain on extreme outer edge of first few leaves, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt. A good copy.
First edition. Einaudi 2810. Stammhammer I, p.99. Not in Goldsmiths.

 
Price : GBP£ 90
  
 

CABET, (Etienne)
Voyage en Icarie.
1848 - 8vo, (4) + viii + 600pp, contemporary dark blue quarter roan with marbled sides, flat spine gilt and lettered. Slight wear to binding else a very good copy indeed complete with the half-title.

communism, utopias
  
Price : GBP£ 100
  
 

(ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François Ignace)
The spirit of nations.Translated from the French.
1753 - 8vo, woodcut device on title, xvi + 406 + (2)pp, including the final leaf of publishers' advertisements, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked. A very good copy.
First edition in English: very scarce.
antiquarian, philosophy, national characteristics, France
  
Price : GBP£ 450
  
 

THIERS, Louis Adolphe
De la propriété.
1848 - 8vo, (4) + 439pp, complete with the half-title, occasional light spotting, contemporary maroon half roan, spine fully gilt with raised bands, marbled edges, silk marker. A very good copy.
First edition. Einaudi 5585. Goldsmiths 36120. Not in Kress.

 
Price : GBP£ 125
  
 

BOWER, Samuel
The peopling of Utopia;or, the sufficiency of Socialism for human happiness: being a comparison of the social and radical schemes.
1838 - 8vo, 15 + (1)pp., small adhesion defect on title causing loss of two letters of the work "social", recently well bound in blue boards, upper cover lettered.
First and only edition.
Robert Owen
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

KNORR, Emil
Die polnischen Ausstande seit 1830 in ihrem Zusammenhange mit den internationalen Emsturzbestrebungen.
1880 - 8vo, x + 431 + (1)pp, contemporary dark red straight-grain half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, original printed upper wrapper preserved, edges untrimmed, by Zaehnsdorf.
First edition.
radicalism, politics, poverty, Poland, Bernard Quaritch, inscribed copy
  
Price : GBP£ 375
  
 

LAFFITTE, Jacques
Réflexions sur la réduction de la rente, et sur l'état du crédit.
1824 - 8vo, 176pp, complete with the half-title, well bound in old- style quarter calf gilt. A very good copy.
First edition. Masui p.473. Kress C.1270. Not in Goldsmiths, Black or Einaudi.

 
Price : GBP£ 125
  
 

WHITWORTH, Sir Charles
Public accounts of services and grants:shewing how the money given for each year has been disposed of; what parts remain unsatisfied; and the balance of overplus and deficiency. To which is added an introductory preface, to explain particular parts. And a table of the totals of services and grants, and of the Acts of Parliament passed each year for the Ways and Means: likewise an index to the sundry services.
1771 - folio, (2) + xi + (3) + 83 + (1)pp, contemporary calf gilt, skilfully rebacked with raised bands and a label. A very good copy indeed with the near-contemporary armorial bookplate of Delapre Abbey.*
First edition: very rare. Goldsmiths 10796. Higgs 5259. Not in Kress. ESTC locates a total of only 4 copies (BL + LSE + State Univ. of New York + Univ. of Pennsylvania). OCLC adds NYPL + London Lib. + Queens Univ. (Belfast).

 
Price : GBP£ 950
  
 

TINNEY, John Pern
A letter to the Viscount Folkestone;on the unlawfulness of the votes of thanks to Mr. Wardle and the late Minority.
1809 - 8vo., (2) + 26pp., later marbled card covers. A very good copy.
First edition: apparently very scarce.
politics, Duke of York, Mary Anne Clarke
  
Price : GBP£ 45
  
 

[WADE, John]
The Black Book;or, corruption unmasked! Being an account of places, pensions, and sinecures, the revenues of the clergy and landed aristocracy; the salaries and emoluments in courts of justice and the police department; the expenditure of the Civil List; ... the robbery of charitable foundations; the profits of the Bank of England, arising from the issue of its notes, balances of public money, management of the borough debt, and other sources of emolument; the debt, revenue, and influence of the East-India company; the state of the finances, debt, and sinking-fund … the whole forming a complete exposition of the cost, influence, patronage, and corruption of the Borough Government.
1820 - 8vo, (4) + 480pp, some signatures a bit foxed, contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with most of the original spine preserved. A good copy.
First edition. Kress C.638. Goldsmiths 23071.

 
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

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