921 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
79 981 Economics Fisher I 
- Fine copy.
= First published in 1906, this work is the first to exposit Irving Fisher's neoclassical economic theory of capital, investment and interest rates.
79 982 Economics Hawtrey R G 
- Lower corners bumped. = With loosely inserted presentation leaf "From the Author".
Wicksel, K. Selected Papers on Economic Theory. Ed. E. Lindahl. London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1958, 1st ed., 292p., frontisp. portrait, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Gayer, A.D. The Lessons of Monetary Experience. Essays in Honor of Irving Fisher. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1937, 1st ed., XII,450p., orig. gilt cl. - AND 4 others, i.a. J. HICKS, Capital and Growth (Oxf., 1965, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and T.R. MALTHUS, An Essay on the Principle of Population (...) (London, 1888, 9th ed., orig. cl.).
79 983 Economics Keynes J M 
- A few scattered pencil markings and annots. A fine copy.
= PMM 423: "The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate. By-passing what he termed the 'underworlds' of Marx, Gesell and Major Douglas, he propounded a hardly less unorthodox programme for national and international official monetary policies. (...) In 1936 (...) The General Theory (...) threw the economists of the world into two violently opposed camps. Yet eight years later Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank".
79 984 Economics Keynes J M 
- Library/ cancellation stamps and ticket on first endpaper.
Idem. Essays in Biography. Ibid., idem, 1933, reprint ed., X,318,(1)p., portraits, orig. gilt cl. - AND 1 other by the same: De economische gevolgen van den vrede (Amst., 1920, 1st Dutch ed., orig. gilt cl.).
79 985 Economics Keynes J M 
- Fine set. = PMM 423. I. The Pure Theory of Money; II. The Applied Theory of Money.
79 986 Economics Knight F H 
- Stained in upper corner at the beginning.
= Frank Knight's best known work in which he distinguishes economic risk and uncertainty, coining the term Knightian uncertainty.
Idem. The Ethics of Competition and other Essays. London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1935, 1st ed., 363,(1)p., orig. gilt cl.
- Trifle foxed.
79 987 Economics Laughlin J L 
- Spine and frontcover stained. = Rare.
79 988 Economics Moggridge D E 
79 989 Economics Pigou A C 
= First edition of this early work by Arthur Pigou which laid the basis for his major work The Economics of Welfare (1920).
Idem (ed.). Memorials of Alfred Marshall. Ibid., idem, 1925, 1st ed., IX,(1),518,(2)p., helio-engr. frontisp. portrait, plates, orig. gilt cl.
79/990 Economics Poyaisian Land Certificate Certificate of 120 acres 
= The Poyaisian Scheme was one of the first modern large securities fraude schemes. Set up by the Scottish soldier and adventurer Gregor MacGregor (1786-1845), who began his life of military adventuring in Venezuela and Colombia, during the struggles for independance in South America. He visited what is today Honduras, and claimed that when he was there he obtained a grant of eight million acres from George Frederick Augustus, king of the Mosquito Indians. Returning to London, Macgregor styled himself as Gregor I, cazique (chief) of the independent state of Poyais. He set about publicising his fictitious state, setting up a land office in London (and later in Paris and Glasgow) and selling land certifcates and was able to issue bonds of a Poyaisian government loan (lent by a respectable company) to investors. A group of around two hundred settlers, actually sailed to the so-called land of Poyais in central America. Discovering a barren and inhospitable jungle and swampland, only about 50 survived (who were saved by a British rescue mission). MacGregor fled to Paris in 1823 and continued his fraudulous Poyaisian activities there. After being acquitted in a French fraud trial he returned to London in 1827. He changed his chiefdom into a republic, still with him as head of state. He continued to issue bonds on a further loan of 800.000 pound to cover his debts, despite the failure of his first fraudulous attempt and a published account in 1823 by one the surviving settlers. He was able to maintain the scheme because the public disapproval focused on speculators in South American loans rather than his very colourful and positive misinterpretation of Poyais; even a pamphlet from 1827 warning investors about Poyais, makes no mention of him at all. He returned to Edinburgh and issued further land certificates to cover his debts from the defaulted securities of his previous loans. His wife died in 1837 and he returned to Venezuela the next year, where he received a citizenship and a pension because of his involvement in the Venezuelan struggle for independance. He lived out his days in Caracas where he was buried with full military honours with i.a. the president of Venezuela and his cabinet behind his coffin and was hailed as a military hero.
79 991 Economics Thornton H 
- Spine sl. rubbed; top of spine chipped; lacks letterpiece; upper joint splitting.
= Kress 4612; Goldsmith 18526; Einaudi 5617. Rare early work on monetary reform.
79 992 Egypt Brehm A E and Dümichen J 
79 992 Egypt Brehm A E and Dümichen J 
79 992 Egypt Brehm A E and Dümichen J 
79 992 Egypt Brehm A E and Dümichen J 
- Some foxing. Lower joint dam. at top of spine.
= Cf. Blackmer 1947 (plates only); cf. Hilmy I, p.87 (both listing the ed. London, 1871-1875). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIV.
79 993 Egypt Conrad F W 
79 993 Egypt Conrad F W 
79 993 Egypt Conrad F W 
- Hinges weak; occas sl. foxed. Cloth trifle worn at extremities.
= Tiele 267; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 257. F.W. Conrad was chairman of the Suez committee.
79 994 Egypt Roberts D 
79 994 Egypt Roberts D 
79 994 Egypt Roberts D 
- Fine. = Facs. reprint of the ed. publ. between 1846 and 1849.
79 995 Facsimiles Flavius Josephus 
= Facs. ed. of the 1722 ed. publ. by Joannes van Oosterwijk in Amst., and the 1726 ed. by Gerard onder de Linden/ Reinier Boitet in Amst./Delft . Second vol. incl. loosly inserted 8p. introductory leaflet by dr. Hans Jansen.
AND 1 other.
79 996 France Comte d'Avaux J A de Mesmes 
79 996 France Comte d'Avaux J A de Mesmes 
- Trifle yellowed; cancellation stamps on upper pastedowns.
= Report of the negotiations between France and the United Provinces during the War of the Reunions, led by Comte d'Avaux, appointed ambassador of The Hague. Quérard, La France littéraire I, p.137.
79 997 France Jeannin P 
- Title-p. to the 1st part doubled and lacks portion of (blank) margin. Binding chafed and rubbed; turn-ins frontcover scorched.
= Pierre Jeannin was a French statesman who served as one of King Henry IV's most influential advisors in the years after the French civil wars. He was ambassador to the Low Countries from 1607-1609.
79 998 France Petit V 
- Plates partly sl. foxed in blank margin(s). Binding in mediocre condition: covers soiled, frontcover loose, traces of tape.
= Attractive views of castles, churches and mansions, partly long since demolished.
79 999 France Pompadour J A P de 
- Backcover and spine rubbed. = Gay/ Lemonnyer II, p.823; Hayn/ Gotendorf VI, p.245.
79/1000 France Postes impériales État général des postes du Royaume de France pour l'an 1810 