London [Paris]: Fletcher Gyles [Pierre André Guillyn], 1755. First edition, the exceptionally fine La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt copy in untouched armorial binding, of the earliest treatise on modern economics. Cantillon is the “founding father of modern economics” (Rothbard) and the Essai has been declared “more emphatically than any other single work, the..... More about Essai sur la Nature du Commerce ed général. Traduit de l'Anglois. A Londres: chez Fletcher Gyles
Item #3706

Paris: for the author, 1588. First edition, a magnificent copy bound in contemporary gilt vellum, and with outstanding provenance, of one of the most famous illustrated books of the sixteenth century and a landmark in book design. “The plates in Ramelli’s treatise are artistically as well as technologically superb, the..... More about Le Diverse et Artifiose Machine... Nelle quali si contengono varii et industriosi Movimenti,...
Item #3694

Cambridge: at the University Press, 1910-12-13. First edition of all three volumes of this monumental work. Complete sets of the first edition which, like ours, are not ex-library, are very rare on the market – only two such copies have sold at auction in the past 25 years. Probably named... More about Principia mathematica
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