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An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with, An Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which It Occasions. Thomas R. Malthus.

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Malthus, Thomas R.

An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with, An Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which It Occasions.

Washington City: Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman (another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan). 1809. First American, from the third London edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 510, xxxiv; vii, 542 pp. Half-title to each volume present. Here Malthus "laid down his famous... More

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The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of husbandry in that County. William MARSHALL.

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MARSHALL, William

The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of husbandry in that County.

London: T. Cadell, 1787. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvii, (2), 400; ix, (6), 392, (4) pp. Folding map. Contemporary calf, gilt rules and leather labels on spines; joints cracking, offset from map to title page of volume one, but a very good copy. More

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THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: WITH A SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE. J. R. McCulloch.

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McCulloch, J.R.

THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: WITH A SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE.

Edinburgh: printed for William and Charles Tait: and Longman and Co. London, 1825. First edition. 24 cm. x, 423 pp. Original plain blue drab boards with grey paper spine. Half title present. Paper label on spine lacking; 2 cm. chip to head of spine, and wear to bottom of spine;... More

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Discussing a variety of economic issues in a series of autograph letters, signed 20 February 1835 - 30 June 1840, from Columbia College, New York, to the British economist Nassau William Senior. John McVicar, Protestant Episcopal clergyman American economist.

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McVicar, John (1787-1868; American economist, Protestant Episcopal clergyman).

Discussing a variety of economic issues in a series of autograph letters, signed 20 February 1835 - 30 June 1840, from Columbia College, New York, to the British economist Nassau William Senior.

4to and 8vo. 12 pages, approximately 1000 words. Folded; two with traces of mounting on blank verso of integral leaf. Very good. Among the subjects discussed by McVickar are a meeting with Harriet Martineau; one of Senior's books ("may I venture in passing to suggest your definitions sometimes struck me... More

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Autobiography. John Stuart Mill.

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Mill, John Stuart.

Autobiography

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition, second issue, with the erratum leaf. 8vo. vi, 313, (5) pp. Erratum leaf; ad leaf. Cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 345: "[His father's educational] regime, as recorded in [Mill's] 'Autobiography,' has excited universal astonishment. At the age of three... More

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DE LA CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE. le Comte de. Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti.

Mirabeau, le Comte de. [Honore Gabriel Riqueti (1749-1791)]

DE LA CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE.

[Paris]: np, 1785. 22.5 cm. xvi, 124, (2), [125]-226, (1). Ends with "Post-scriptum" on p. 207-225, "Omission" on p. 226, table of contents on the page following. The "Post-scriptum" was a last-minute addition to the work, which as originally printed ended with the "Omission" on p. 207 and table of... More

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De L'Administration des Finances de la France. Jacques NECKER.

NECKER, Jacques.

De L'Administration des Finances de la France.

NP: np, 1785. One of a number of reprints published the year after the first edition. 12mo. 3 volumes: cviii, 244; iv, 376; vi, 324 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, folding table. Necker (1732-1804), finance minister under Louis XVI, "did great good in regulating the finances by attempting to... More

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"Man Over Money": The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism. Bruce Palmer.

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Palmer, Bruce.

"Man Over Money": The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism.

Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, (c1980). First edition. 8vo. xviii, 311 pp. Concentrating on the 1890s, this is the "first book-length study of southern populism as a regional rather than a state-wide phenomenon and the first study to explain the complex connection between ideas and political behavior for this movement."... More

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Plantation and Frontier Documents, 1649-1863. Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial and Ante-Bellum South [expanded title of the separate edition]. [Collected from manuscripts and other rare sources and edited by Ulrich B. Phillips.]. Ulrich B. Phillips.

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Phillips, Ulrich B.

Plantation and Frontier Documents, 1649-1863. Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial and Ante-Bellum South [expanded title of the separate edition]. [Collected from manuscripts and other rare sources and edited by Ulrich B. Phillips.].

Cleveland, (OH): Arthur H. Clark Co. 1910. The first two volumes of the publisher's "Documentary History of the American Industrial Society" (published as a separate, with new title pages, the previous year in 202 sets). 8vo. 2 volumes: 375; 379 pp. Facsimile plates. Series title: "Plantation and Frontier." Howes P-329... More

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Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Establissemens et du Commerce des Européens dan les deux Indes. L'Abbe Guillaume T. F. Raynal.

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Raynal, L'Abbe Guillaume T.F.

Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Establissemens et du Commerce des Européens dan les deux Indes.

Amsterdam: 1770. 8. 8vo. 6 volumes: (2), 384, (4); (2), 294, 3; (2), 432, 6; (2), 291, (2); (2), 294, (1); (2), 426, (2) pp. Contemporary calf-backed paper boards (rubbed, corners bumped), spines richly gilt with ornamentation, leather spine labels; spines rubbed, some scattered foxing, but an attractive copy. First... More

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THE GREAT FALLS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER OF VIRGINIA, WITH ITS RESOURCES AND OUTLETS AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES. Andrew J. Rogers.

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Rogers, Andrew J.

THE GREAT FALLS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER OF VIRGINIA, WITH ITS RESOURCES AND OUTLETS AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES.

Washington, DC: Chronicle Publishing Co. 1873. Black lettered light orange paperwraps. 8vo.; 36 pp. An examination of the water power of the Great Falls and its manufacturing capabilities in the post-Civil War era. A very good copy. Three listings found on OCLC (USGS; Huntington; Hagley). More

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Economic Aspects of Southern Sectionalism, 1840-1861. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in history in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1922. Robert Royal Russel.

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Russel, Robert Royal.

Economic Aspects of Southern Sectionalism, 1840-1861. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in history in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1922.

(Champagne, IL: U. of Illinois), 1922. First separate edition, "reprinted from the U. of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. XI, no. 1". 8vo. 325 pp. "The object of this monograph is to evaluate some of the causes of the secession of our Southern states which seem generally to... More

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HISTORIA ECONOMICO-POLITICA Y ESTADISTICA DE LA ISLA DE CUBA; O SEA DE SUS PROGRESOS EN LA POBLACION, LA AGRICULTURA, EL COMERCIO Y LAS RENTAS. Ramon de la Sagra.

Sagra, Ramon de la.

HISTORIA ECONOMICO-POLITICA Y ESTADISTICA DE LA ISLA DE CUBA; O SEA DE SUS PROGRESOS EN LA POBLACION, LA AGRICULTURA, EL COMERCIO Y LAS RENTAS.

Habana, (Cuba): Imprenta de las vuidas de Arazoza y Soler, 1831. 4to. Xiii, (3), 386, (1) pp. Subscriber list. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label; front board detached, some wear to joints, old institutional blindstamp, but a very good copy, housed in a custom quarter-leather and cloth clamshell box. First... More

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A Practical Co-Operative System [and] The Co- Operative System [captions titles for two broadsides]. H. E. Sawdon.

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Sawdon, H.E.

A Practical Co-Operative System [and] The Co- Operative System [captions titles for two broadsides].

Chattanooga, TN: The author, nd [1910?]. Two printed broadsides, 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 and 14 1/2 x 10 inches, the first a caption title followed by 20 paragraphs of dense text printed in three columns separated by thin rules, the second a caption title followed by 19 paragraphs of... More

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Catechism of Political Economy; or, Familiar Conversations on the Manner in Which Wealth Is Produced, Distributed, and Consumed in Society, translated from the French by John Richter. Jean-Baptiste Say.

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Say, Jean-Baptiste.

Catechism of Political Economy; or, Familiar Conversations on the Manner in WhichWealth Is Produced, Distributed, and Consumed in Society, translated from the French by John Richter

Philadelphia, (PA): M. Carey & Son, 1817. First American edition. 8vo. 144 pp. With the early bookplate of John S. Claybrooke on the front pastedown; Claybrooke (1808-1872), a Williamson County, Tennessee, businessman was the nephew of Judge John Overton, whose ownership signature "John W. Overton's / 1821" appears on the... More

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Traité d'économie politique, ou, Simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent et se consomment les richesses. Jean-Baptiste Say.

Say, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité d'économie politique, ou, Simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent et se consomment les richesses

Paris: Chez Rapilly Libraire, 1826. Cinquième edition, augmentée d'un volume, et a laquelle se trouvent joints un épitome des principes fondamentaux de l'économie politique et un index raisonné des matières (first published Paris, 1803). 8vo. 3 volumes: (4), cviii, 385; (4), iii, 408; (4), 435, iii pp. Folding table at... More

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Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. Larry Schweikart.

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Schweikart, Larry.

Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction.

Baton Rouge, (LA): LSU Press, (c1987). First edition. 8vo. xiv, (2), 367 pp. "Analyzing the division between banking policies and economic ideas in the states of the old and the new South ... one that was commercialized and business oriented, with politics balanced between Whigs and Democrats, and the other... More

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Three Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-Laws: Viz., 1. A Short Essay on the Corn-Trade and the Corn-Laws ... 2. Considerations on the Laws Relating to the Importation and Exportation of Corn ... 3. A Collection of Papers Relative to the Price, Exportation, and Importation of Corn, with Some Observations and Calculations, Shewing What the Nation May be Supposed to Have Gained by Giving the Bounty on the Exportation, What the Quantity of Each Sort of Corn Annually Consumed, Exported, Imported, and Grown May Amount to, and the Proportions They Severally Bear Each to the Other; to These Is Added, a Supplement, Containing Several Papers and Calculations Which Tend to Explain and Confirm What Is Advanced in the Foregoing Tracts. [Bound ahead of:] Three Letters to a Member of the Honourable House of Commons, from a Country Farmer, Concerning the Prices of Provisions; and Pointing Out a Sure Method of Preventing Future Scarcity. Charles Smith.

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(Smith, Charles)

Three Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-Laws: Viz., 1. A Short Essay on the Corn-Trade and the Corn-Laws ... 2. Considerations on the Laws Relating to the Importation and Exportation of Corn ... 3. A Collection of Papers Relative to the Price, Exportation, and Importation of Corn, with Some Observations and Calculations, Shewing What the Nation May be Supposed to Have Gained by Giving the Bounty on the Exportation, What the Quantity of Each Sort of Corn Annually Consumed, Exported, Imported, and Grown May Amount to, and the Proportions They Severally Bear Each to the Other; to These Is Added, a Supplement, Containing Several Papers and Calculations Which Tend to Explain and Confirm What Is Advanced in the Foregoing Tracts. [Bound ahead of:] Three Letters to a Member of the Honourable House of Commons, from a Country Farmer, Concerning the Prices of Provisions; and Pointing Out a Sure Method of Preventing Future Scarcity

London: Printed for the author and sold by J. Brotherton, 1766. Second edition, corrected and enlarged (of the first title; published earlier the same year with 210 pages) and first edition (of the anonymously published second title, also concerning the corn laws). 8vo. 2 volumes: iv, 235, (1); (2), 49... More

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AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH NATIONS. Adam Smith.

Smith, Adam

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH NATIONS

London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1789. Fifth edition, the last published in Smith's lifetime. 8vo. vii, 499; vi, 518, (5, appendix), (1, errata); v, (1, errata), 465, (49, index), (1, publisher's ad) pp. "The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature... More

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Reconstruction in Arkansas, 1862-1874. Thomas S. Staples.

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Staples, Thomas S.

Reconstruction in Arkansas, 1862-1874.

New York: Columbia Univ. 1923. First edition, Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, volume CIX, whole number 245. 8vo. 450 pp. One of the Dunning series of studies of reconstruction in the individual southern states. Howes S-890. Neat owner's name, else very good. Orig. printed green wrappers (spine a.... More

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The Merchant Class of Medieval London [1300-1500]. Sylvia L. Thrupp.

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Thrupp, Sylvia L.

The Merchant Class of Medieval London [1300-1500]

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition. 8vo. xix, 401 pp. Blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine in gray dust jacket with blue ink printing. Very good. More

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE FINANCIAL POSITION AND CREDIT OF SUCH OF THE STATES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION AS HAVE CONTRACTED PUBLIC DEBTS: COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SUMS RAISED BY EACH STATE HAVE BEEN APPLIED, AND A CONSIDERATION OF THE PROBABLE EFFECTS OF SUCH APPLICATION UPON THE GENERAL WEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY. Alexander Trotter.

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Trotter, Alexander.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE FINANCIAL POSITION AND CREDIT OF SUCH OF THE STATES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION AS HAVE CONTRACTED PUBLIC DEBTS: COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SUMS RAISED BY EACH STATE HAVE BEEN APPLIED, AND A CONSIDERATION OF THE PROBABLE EFFECTS OF SUCH APPLICATION UPON THE GENERAL WEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY.

London: printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 26th December, 1839. First edition. 8vo. viii, 453 pp., (1, errata) pp.; additional errata slip tipped-in. Folding frontispiece map, with states outlined by hand-coloring. A very complete look at American finances from the public level, examining state and Federal trade, credit... More

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