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A landmark in the history of of social liberation, praised by
Marx
Second edition, with some substantial alterations, first published the previous year. A famous publication in the history of social liberation. It was a source of inspiration for Robert Owen, who published a new edition of it in 1818, and was highly praised by Karl Marx. Perhaps inspired by Plockhoy's A way propounded to make the poor in these and other nations happy (1659) Bellers here designs a complete plan for the organization of industry and labour. He proposes the founding of ‘colleges of industry', agricultural and manufacturing co-operative settlements to enable the poor to care for themselves. Colonies of at least 300 people would have collective capital and labour, and not money but labour would be the standard of value, thus giving a draught for a labour theory of value. Family life would be private - he therefore uses the term colleges rather than communities - and much attention would be paid to education. It would be beneficial to the poor, enabling them to care for themselves, as well as to the rich and the state, no longer forced to support the poor. Marx refers to Bellers in Das Kapital several times. He calls Bellers ‘a very phenomenon in the history of Political Economy, [who] saw most clearly at the end of the 17th century, the necessity for abolishing the present system of education and division of labour, which beget hypertrophy and atrophy at the two opposite extremities of society'. *Wing B1830. Kress 1932. Goldsmiths' 3369. McCulloch p.275. The most important coin book of the German
Renaissance [BERG, Adam (1540-1610)] New Müntz Buech. Darinen allerley gross unnd kleine, silberne und guldene Sorten, umb wichtiger Ursach willen also fürgestelt werden ... Und dann wirt auch ein Dialogus oder Gespräch, zwischen dem Gelt und der Armut mit angehängt ... Neben disem allen wirt auch mit einbracht, was die Müntzen in altem Testament gewest, und was sie golten ... Gedruckt zu München [Munich], bey Adam Berg 1604. Folio. [8],80,[12],[10] lvs. Title printed in red and black. With hundreds woodcuts of coins, the gold coins coloured orange or yellow. Seventeenth-century French half calf, gilt back, extremities little worn. Bookplate of 'Bibliothèque d'Yves Guermont, Prieuré de Rozérieulles, Abbaye de Mouzon' to front paste down. A few marginal stains and tears but generally fine. (#29352) € 2250
BLOCH, Jean de [Jan Gotlib] (1836-1902) La guerre. Traduction de l'ouvrage russe, la guerre future aux points de vue technique, économique et politique. Paris, Imprimerie Paul Dupont [volume 1], Guillaumin [volume 2-6] 1898-1900. 6 volumes. With numerous ills, plans, tables, etc. in the text and on (partly folding) plates. Contemp. half cloth, not quite uniform, marbled sides, a few backs stained, bookplate to front paste-downs, some minor imperfections. (#36914) € 1500
[BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul (1724-1793)] Du rétablissement de l'impot dans son ordre naturel. Yverdon 1769. 23,[1],148,[3]p. Contemp. calf, back richly gilt with red label, marbled edges and endpapers. Nice early 20th-century bookplate to front paste-down and name of the same owner very small in corner of first blank. (#30933) € 2250
First edition. A violent rejection of the existing social order in which the author holds that the three basic principles of present society: property, marriage and religion, violate the rights of nature. In the form of a catechism he argues for the restauration of the natural order by means of education, aiming at the equality of men and the community of goods. He thus holds pre-communist views much resembling those of Babeuf. A second edition of this appeared in 1792. *Martin & Walter I,3846. Monglond I,c.313. INED 578. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. Lichtenberger p.52.
First Dutch editions of the first two works and second Dutch edition of the third work. They are here issued together with their own title pages to which a general title was added. These Dutch editions were revised and expanded by both the author and the translator; the latter also added a preface. Daniel van Breen (or Daniel de Breen) was a Socianian theologian, a pupil of the remonstrant leader Simon Episcopius, and a member of the heterodox Collegiants in Amsterdam. The third work is his best knownbook, a chiliastic work on the coming realm of Christ. An earlier Dutch edition appeared 1653, a Latin edition with the title Tractatus de regno Ecclesiæ glorioso per Christum in terris erigendo in 1657. The translator Frans Kuyper (1629-1691), also known as Franciscus Cuperus, a nephew of Van Breen, was also the publisher of the volume. He acquired some fame as the publisher of the Socinian Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, forbidden by the States of Holland in 1674. He was also a member of the Collegiants and, though critical towards the ideas of Spinoza, also accused of Spinozistic sympathies. His conflict with another critic of Spinoza, Johannes Bredenburg, is now considered as the first public debate about Spinoza's philosophy. P.Knijff & S.J.Visser, Bibliographia sociniana 3046.
First edition. A proposal to replace the hundredth penny a.o. by the formation of an annuity fund, to meet the financial needs of the war. The author came from an old regent family and was for a time a member of the city government of Dordrecht. He published several works on lotteries and annuities, including polemics with Willem Kersseboom. M. van Haaften has dated this 1703, based on internal evidence. *NCC records two copies dated 1712 (KB and UVA), one copy dated 1704 (BL), and two copies (IISG and NYPL), with a slightly different title, dated 1709. M. van Haaften, ‘Van der Burch's Kort beright betreffende lijfrenten uit 1703', in De Verzekeringsbode, 11 juli 1952. Bouwstoffen voor de geschiedenis van de levensverzekeringen en lijfrenten in Nederland, p.155-165. Of great influence on the making of the American
constitution
First edition of both volumes. Particularly the second volume is extremely rare in this posthumously published original edition. It was clearly issued as a second volume to the first work, with a caption title Table des chapitres contenus dans ce second volume. Both works were many times reprinted, mostly as separate works in two octavo volumes, and translated into several languages. Burlamaqui was an ardent advocate of freedom of conscience and tolerance. His works exercised great influence on the making of the American constitution. ‘His understanding of checks and balances was much more sophisticated and practical than that of Montesquieu, in part because Burlamaqui's theory contained the seed of judicial review ... He was the first philosopher to articulate the quest for happiness as a natural right, a principle that Thomas Jefferson later restated in the Declaration of Independence.' Burlamaqui was professor of law at the university of Geneva and a member of the council of state of the city. He was also the eminent editor of works of Grotius and Pufendorf. *En français dans le texte 15.
First French edition. The author was a Dutch patriot, one of its leaders in the province of Gelderland, and a cousin of the famous patriot leader Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol. After the restoration of 1787 he fled to France and in 1788 was sentenced to death for high treason by the Court of Gelderland. As from page 177 a great number of documents. A Dutch edition appeared the same year in Dunkirk and a second French edition in 1793.
First (only) edition. A history of the Dutch role in opening Japan to world trade based upon a great number of documents. Appended are the following pieces: Geschiedenis der afschaffing van den Komps- en Kambanghandel, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche marine-detachement in Japan, Wederlegging van het medegedeelde over de Nederlandsche politiek jegens Japan in: Perry: Expedition to Japan, Japansche publicatiën naar aanleiding der additionele artikelen, Chronologisch overzigt, and Over het gebeurde van 1862 tot 1866. *Cordier c.588. One of the major books in the history of probability
theory
Together 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemp. calf, rubbed, extremities worn, joints cracked but holding, gilt back with red label, red edges, marbled endpapers. Small corner (2 cm) of half title torn away. Small armorial blank stamp ('Charles Anderson') in corner of first blank and half-title. The usual light browning. A very good copy with ample margins. First (only) edition, with the Objections and Addition, rarely found together. The Essay on the probabilities of the duration of human life is one of the major books in the history of statistics and probability theory. Deparcieux had studied various schemes for life insurance, including that developed by the Neapolitan banker Lorenzo de Tonti, whereby upon the death of a participant his share (or only its dividends) is distributed to the remaining members. For the construction of mortality tables Deparcieux studied the life expectancy of members of restricted groups like religious communities, in order to exclude the effects of migration. His tables were used in France for decades. Deparcieux was a scientist and mathematician, member of the French Academie des Sciences and professor at the Collège de France. He was also a mechanical engineer with particular interest in hydrodynamics and as such best known for his project for the supply of water for Paris, the Canal de l'Ourcq, carried out during the Empire. Followed by: Objections faites à M. Deparcieux ... sur son Livre des probabilités ... avec les réponses à ces objections [drop title]. [No place or date, privilege at end dated 1746.] 16p. Followed by: Addition à l'Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine ... par M.Deparcieux. Paris, H.L.Guerin & L.F.Delatour 1760. 32,[3]p., including 4 tables. *Kress 4801 and 4801a. Einaudi 1529. INED 1346. McCulloch p.246.
First (only) Dutch edition, a translation of ‘A defence of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East-Indies, and their servants, (particularly those at Bengal) against the Complaints of the Dutch East-India Company: being a Memorial from the English Company to His Majesty on that subject'. It was drawn up on behalf of the English East India Company to justify their actions against the Dutch after the latter's failed attempts in 1759 to increase their power in Bengal at the expense of the English. *Knuttel 18848. Landwehr 164.
First edition, rare. The importation and manufacture of printed or painted cloth was forbidden in France in 1686, at the instance of the wool and silk industry. Forbonnais here investigates the arguments for and against the prohibition. He favours a liberal policy, but a ‘libéralisme dirigé'. Pages 72-90 are taken by ‘Observations sur l'Examen', attributed to Vincent de Gournay. *INED 4426. Goldsmiths' 9026. Mattioli 1303. Not in Kress or Einaudi. Bound with: [François Véron de FORBONNAIS] Essai sur l'admission des navires neutres dans nos colonies [caption-title]. [No place, no publisher 1756 or 1759.] 107p. First edition. Forbonnais here argues for a conditional admission of merchant ships of neutral countries to France's colonial ports in the interests of commerce. It is the first part of Divers mémoires sur le commerce published the same year. *INED 4424 (1759). Goldsmiths' 9481 (1759). Kress 5516 (‘Divers mémoires', 1756). Not in Einaudi or Mattioli. BnF (FRBNF31564872) dates this 1756. And with: Jerome BELLONI (1688-1760) Dissertation sur le commerce. Traduite de l'italien par Mr. A*** [François Morénas]. A La Haye, aux depens de la Compagnie 1755. 72p. Second French edition. Originally published in 1750 as De commercio ... Dissertatio. *Kress 5419. Goldsmiths' 9014.
First appearance of the description of the author's famous mechanical calculating machine, ‘the first fully functional popular four-species mechanical calculating machine' The description was already announced by the editor of the Teutsche Merkur, Christoph Martin Wieland, on page 194 of the first part of this volume. At length: history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/18thCentury/Hahn. [HEY, Johannes van der (1726-1812/13)] Memorie aan de respective heeren commissarissen van de Generale Nederlandsche Lyfrenten Compagnie. [No place or printer 1780.] Folio (33 x 21 cm). 40p. Worn old wrappers. Once folded, vague stamp on title. Added: Reglement der geredresseerde Generaale Nederlandsche Lyfrente-Compagnie. Ingegaan den eersten Mey 1781. [No place or printer 1782.] Folio (33 x 21 cm). XXI,[13]. With 2 folding tables. Very worn old wrappers, once folded, vague stamp on title. (#20414) € 450
HOGENDORP, Gijsbert Karel van (1762-1834) Memorie over den tegenwoordigen staat van den handel en de culture in de Oost-Indische bezittingen van den staat. Te Amsterdam, by de wed. J.Doll 1804. 192,8p. Uncut in contemp. sprinkled boards. (#31796) € 350
First French edition of A system of moral philosophy, translated by Marc Antoine Eidous. It is the book by which the author is remembered as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment, and of great influence on a.o. Adam Smith and David Hume. It had been completed as early as 1742 but published posthumously by Hutcheson's son in 1755. A German translation appeared already the next year. Hutcheson's admiration for and influence on Adam Smith can hardly be overestimated. Smith referred to him as ‘the never to be forgotten Hutcheson', a title he used to describe only two people, his friend David Hume and his influential mentor Francis Hutcheson. W.R.Scott already in 1900 wrote that ‘the order of topics discussed in the economic portion of Hutcheson's System is repeated by Smith in his Glasgow Lectures and again in the Wealth of Nations'. *Jessop p.146. Palgrave II,p.347.
First edition. A collection of essays on the concept of the state, its duties and responsibilities and its relation with society and the responsibilities of its individual members. Iselin was a Swiss historian, political philosopher and economist. He was also the editor of the German economic journal Ephemeriden der Menschheit which soon gained a great reputation and counted among its contributors many of the most eminent German economists. He converted to the ideas of the physiocrats in the early 1770's. *Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. Palgrave II,p.459. Preceded by: [Friedrich Karl von Moser], Der Herr und der Diener geschildert mit patriotischer Freijheit. Franckfurt, Johan August Raspe 1761. [VIII],422p. With engraved title and frontispiece. Until page 24 with niggling corrections. JUGLAR, Clement (1819-1905) Des crises commerciales et de leur retour périodique en France, en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis. Deuxième édition. Paris, Guillaumin 1889. XX,560p. With 17 mostly double-page tables and 7 large folding tables at end. Finely bound in recent half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., orig. printed wrappers (stained and with some repairs) preserved. (#24403) € 1500
Second edition. The first part is an alphabetically arranged dictionary of all kinds of gold and silver coins and ‘things that are used for money', mostly with their origin and value. The second part (p.79-99), here printed for the first time, gives a chronologically arranged list of some 50 people died at or over over the age of 100, taken from historical sources. This is followed by some figures on the death rates, baptized children, marriages, etc. in various European places. A third edition was published in 1780, with additions to the first part, but without the second part of the present second edition. We could not find a first edition of this title. A precursor of John Law
A notoriously rare proposal for financial and governmental reforms similar to the scheme of John Law. The extreme rarity of this book has been explained by Law's eagerness to destroy as many copies as he could find to hide the fact that much of his own ideas were contained in this book. ‘[La Jonchère] advocates one sole tax, to be paid without privilege or exemption, by all Frenchmen without distinction, to consist of a percentage collected in money or in kind, on the general produce of the ground, mines, quarries, etc., by a ‘Compagnie du Commerce', to be formed for the purpose. This company was to have the monopoly of foreign trade, its shares being given as reimbursement of the price of all the offices sold by the king's predecessors and of the capital of the rents due to towns or individuals. The corn collected by the company was also to be entrusted with the recoinage and ‘diminuations' of the metallic currency, which were to bring it down to what La Jonchère calls ‘its intrinsic value'.' The mention of ‘Seconde edition' is probably fictious. WorldCat does not locate any copy printed before 1720. The 1970 EDHIS reprint also from this ‘second' edition. The name and place of the publisher are probably fictious as well. *INED 2517. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths', Einaudi or Mattioli. Palgrave I,p.537. the Tolpuddle Martyrs
A milestone in the history of British trade unionism. George Loveless and his comrades ‘had struck a blow from which the opposition to trades unionism never recovered and the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs' are saints in the trade union hagiology'. In the early 1830's a group of six agricultural labourers from Tolpuddle near Dorchester led by George Loveless formed a Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to fight for higher wages. Although trade unions were not forbidden since the Combinations of Workmen Act of 1825 they were accused of swearing secret oaths, thus violating an obscure and obsolete Unlawful Oaths Act of 1797. They were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for seven years to Australia. Growing popular protest - almost a million people signed a petition and 50.000 people marched in London for their release - resulted in their full pardon in March 1836. The present publication is largely devoted to an account of Loveless' transportation (due to illness he left later than his comrades) to Australia, with details on the hard conditions aboard transports and the dangers of the voyage. He arrived in Hobart on Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on 4 September 1833. He first worked in irons on the roads and later as a shepherd and stock-keeper with some privileges. After the pardon he returned to England in June 1837. He became an active Chartist and in 1844 emigrated to Canada. This went through at least eight editions in 1837 and 1838. All editions seem rare. *Kress has the present second edition only C.4422. Goldsmiths' 30126. Printing and the mind of man 305. MAFFEI, Scipione (1675-1755) Consiglio politico finora inedito presentato al governo Veneto nell'anno 1736. Venezia, dalla Stamperia Palese 1797. 125,[2]p. Contemp. tinted boards. Library stamp on title and small shelfmark on 2 following pages, some staining. (#38023) € 300
MANGOLDT, Hans von (1824-1868) Grundriss der Volkswirthschaftslehre. Ein Leitfaden für Vorlesungen an Hochschulen und für das Privatstudium. Stuttgart, J.Engelhorn 1863. XVI,224p. Contemp. half cloth, corners worn. Small name stamp (‘E.Baumstark') on title, library bookplate to front paste-down. Two pages with mild brown offsetting from an inserted leaflet. (#24097) € 1500
MARQUARD [or MARQUART], Johann (1610-1668) Tractatus politico-juridicus de iure mercatorum et commerciorum singulari ... Francofurti, ex officina Thomae Matthiae Götzii [Frankfurt, Thomas Matthias Götz] 1662. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. [XII],572, [4],156,158-213,215-278,277-744,[138]p., thus complete. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemp. vellum, little wrinkled, neat repair to top of back. Worming in outer margin mostly in second half not affecting text. Some mild browning, small stamp on frontispiece and in the margin of a few other pages. Bound with another work of minor importance. (#33979) € 2750
An economic post-incunable Müntz belangende Antwort und Bericht. Die Müntz Belangende. Antwort und bericht: der furnemesten punct und Artikel, auff das Büchlein, so der Müntz halben, in der Chur und Fursten zu Sachssen, Landen, mit dem Titel, Der Gemeinen stymmen, jdoch sunder namen, kürtzlich im druck ausgangen ist, von denen so dagegen die wolfart der Lande, aus unterthenickeit auch wol meinen. Anno Domini M.D.XXX. [Wittenberg, Georg Rhau] 1530. Small 4to (19 x 15 cm). 57,[3 blank]p., A-F4,G2,H4. Title printed in black and red, 19 decorated capitals. Stitched, back covered with marbled paper. (#41004) € 2500
the administration of Spanish America Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias. Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias. Nuevamente recopiladas, y por el Rey Don Felipe Quarto N. S. para su govierno establecidas ano de M.D.CXXXVI. En Madrid, por Julian de Paredes 1681. Folio (28,5 x 20,5 cm). 206,[14 index]p. Title with fine engraved coat of arms, numerous large and several decorated capitals and two tail-pieces. Contemp. calf, gilt back with red label, marbled edges and endpapers. Very fine copy. (#15417) € 6500
PRINCE-SMITH, John (1809-1874) Uber Handelsfeindseligkeit. Königsberg, Theodor Theile 1843. 87p. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers, back neatly repaired, light soiling. A few old stamps. (#35524) € 500
QUESNAY, François (1694-1774) Essai physique sur l'oeconomie animale. Seconde édition augmentée de deux volumes, & de tables fort amples. A Paris, chez Guillaume Cavelier 1747. 3 volumes. 12mo. CXII,[12],612; [IV],662,23; [IV],768p. With engraved frontispiece to volume 1. Contemp. calf, gilt backs, marbled endpapers, red edges, some neat repairs. Small number stamp to corner of title and small red stamp to verso and to lower margin of last page of each volume. (#20039) € 1750
First edition. One of the earliest andmost important publications of the author, a pioneer of the theory of state socialism. Rodbertus, known as Rodbertus-Jagetzow from the name of his Pommeranian estate of Jagetzow, was a major figure in the development from utopian to scientific socialism. Rodbertus defended the Ricardian labor theory of value and was also influenced by Sismondi. ‘For Rodbertus, labour was the only true source of productive wealth. His fundamental proposition, taken from Ricardo, was that the working-classes would always receive only a subsistence wage: the "ron law" of wages. Hence, any growth of national income would inevitably increase the share of rent and profits, whereas the proportion going to wage-earners would fall. This in turn would produce recurrent economic crises as consumption would fail to match output due to lack of demand. Rodbertus may thus be considered as a continental forerunner of underconsumptionist theorists.' *Kress C.5941. Goldsmiths' 33076. Einaudi 4806. Humpert 8130. New Palgrave IV,p.218. SALWECHTERUM, Jacobum [Jacob SALWECHTER] De maniere om een proces te voeren, leerende hoemen een sake voor rechte sal bedinghen, ende voorsichtelijck beleyden van beghinne totten eynde. [And:] Dboeck van exceptien inden rechte, seer nut ende profitelijck om eenen persoon oft een sake voor rechte te verweeren, verantwoorden, beschudden ende te beschermen, vergadert wt den gheestelijcken ende weerlijcke rechten. [And:] [ANDREAS PERNEDER (1500-1543)] Een tractaet van criminele saken, te weten: van saken die dlijf aengaen, ende is ghenomen uut de keyserlijcke rechten, midtsgaders de allegatien vande rechten in Latijn, leerende watmen doen ende laten sal (na uutwijsen vande rechten) in saken daer dore dat een mensche soude mueghen beschadicht werden aen zijn goet-fame, oft aen zijnen lichaeme. Gheprint T antwerpen ... by Hans de Laet 1551. 3 volumes in 1. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm). [64]; [56]; [68] lvs. With three different fine woodcut illustrations of a courtroom on the titles. Nineteenth-century half calf, gilt back, modern bookplate to front paste down. Some faint thumbing, small ink-blot on fore-edge, old faded name at foot of first title, few contemp. scribbling on some blanks. (#33038) € 1750
The 'Northeastern part of Siberia, the Ice-Sea, the
Eastern-Ocean and the Northwestern coast of America' SARYTSCHEW [SARYCHEV], Gawrila (1763-1831) Reis in het Noordoostelijke Siberie, en op de IJszee en den Noordoostelijken oceaan. Uit de Hoogduitsche vertaling van Johann Heinrich Busse overgezet door N. Messchaert. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart 1808. 2 volumes in 1. [II],XXXII,190; III-X,334p., wanting half-title to volume 2 as usual. With a large folding engraved map (78 x 47 cm) of the 'Northeastern part of Siberia, the Ice-Sea, the Eastern-Ocean and the Northwestern coast of America', 5 engraved plates coloured by hand, 10 folding engraved plates, and a folding table. Small tear (c.5 cm) in the map. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards, extremities and joints somewhat worn, edges dust-soiled. (#38245) € 1500
First German edition of De intellectus emendatione and Tractatus politicus, translated from the Latin of the Opera posthuma. Translated by Schack Hermann Ewald (1745-1824), a court clerk and freemason from Gotha who also translated the Tractatus theologico-politicus and Ethica into German, published 1787-93 as Spinoza's Philosophische Schriften. *Kingma & Offenberg 27. Van der Linde 29. Spinoza-Bibliografie 6631. Not in Wolf or Spinozahuis. STRüBI, Heinrich. Arithmetica: ein new künstlich Rechenbuch mit der Zipher: darinn die Anfäng und Gründ der Rechenkunst, im Gantzen und Gebrochnen, auffs klärlichest unnd verständtlichest dargethon sind, durch Weiland H. Heinrich Strübi ... Nun aber mennigtlichem zu nutz auffs newe übersehen ... Getruckt zu Zürich bey Johanns Wolffen 1599. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm). [VIII],128 lvs. Contemp. vellum, somewhat stained. Title printed in black and red. Contemp. ownership inscription at foot of title, inner margin of first quire little frayed, lower outer corner of fist quire little thumbed. Old annotations on endpapers. (#28797) € 750
SüSSMILCH, Johann Peter (1707-1767) Die göttliche Ordnung in der Veränderungen des menschilichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen. Vierte, verbesserte Ausgabe, genau durchgesehen und näher berichtiget von Christian Jacob Baumann. Neue Auflage. [With:] Dritter Theil, welcher Anmerkungen und Zusätze zu den beiden ersten Theilen nebst einer Abhandlung von Wittwenverpflegungsgesellschaften enthält, herausgegeben von Christian Jacob Baumann. Zweyte verbesserte und sehr vermehrte Auflage. Berlin, Im Verlag der Buchhandlung der Realschule 1787-1788. 3 volumes. [VIII],XX,576,130; [IV],580,81; XXX, 850,119,[2 errata]p. With 36 tables to volume 1, 39 tables to volume 2 (incl. 1 folding), and 45 tables to volume 3. Contemp. half calf, spine ends chipped and worn, corners and edges worn. Deaccession stamp on title and another stamp at end of volume 3. (#11666) € 1150
First (only) edition. A strong plea for the founding of a training college for sailors, provoked by the shortage of qualified sailors and the decay of Dutch maritime trade. It was successful indeed because in 1785 the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart was founded. The author was an employee of the East India Company and during the Batavian Revolution a member of the Comité tot de Oost-Indische Handel en Bezittingen. *Knuttel 19465. Landwehr 1594. Laspeyres p.154. His only work of economic interest VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) The man of forty crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. London, printed for T.Becket and P.A.D'Hondt 1768. IV,104p. Finely bound in 3/4 calf, gilt ribbed back, red label, marbled sides (sd Bayntun, Bath). (#30679) € 1500
The honour of special refutation from
Malthus
First edition. A major criticism of Malthus' population theory, answered by Malthus the next year in the appendix to the fifth edition of his Essay on population. Malthus thought much higher of it than of the other object of the appendix, the Inquiry of James Grahame which appeared the same year, 'a slight work without any very distinct object in view ... Mr. Weyland's work is of a much more elaborate desciption [and] has also a very definite object in view'. Weyland believed that an increase of population was recommendable and argued that a higher birthrate in the countryside was needed to compensate for the higher mortality rate in towns. He holds that 'population has a natural tendency to keep within the powers of the soil to afford it subsistence in every gradation through which society passes [and] this tendency can never be destroyed, and can only be altered or diverted from its natural course ... by grossly impolitic laws, or pernicious customs, either accelerating the progress of population considerably beyond its natural rate, or depressing the productive energies of the soil considerably below its natural powers' (p.21). Weyland was a landowner and magistrate from Oxfordshire and author of several books on the poor laws and related subjects. *Kress B.6837. Goldsmiths' 21429. Einaudi 6027. Bonar p.378-380. Zee-rechten. 't Boeck der zee-rechten. Inhoudende dat hoochste ende oudste Gotlantsche water-recht, dat de gemeene cooplieden ende schippers geordineert ende gemaeckt hebben tot Wisbuy ... [Second title:] Zee-rechten, dat is: Dat hoochste ende outste Gotlandtsche water-recht ... Middelburgh, Symon Moulert 1637. 4to. [VIII],158p. With a vessel on the first and coat of arms of Zeeland on the second title-page. Contemp. vellum, a little dust-soiled but a nice copy. (#40047) € 600
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