2526 - 2709 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Bookblock broken, contents loose; a few textlvs. sl. frayed.
- Libr. stamp on title-p. Backstrip sl. dam. = Regesta Imperii vol. I.
= Mint.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Top of spine sl. dam.; covers chafed.
= General universal history, schematically arranged in categories, i.a. politics, religion, philosophy, science etc.
- Fine copy. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Owner's entry on title-p.; 1 plate w. sm. tear closed w. sellotape on verso. Backstrip dam.; wrs. loose(ning).
= Rare publication on the street life in Beijing in the 1920s, with folding plates depicting a traditional wedding and funeral procession.
- Owner's entry ("Mary C.C. van Sluyters-Cuenen") in pen on colophon leaf. Silk over corners sl. worn. Otherwise fine.
= Copy printed on the name of M. van Sluyters. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Hinges weak/ broken (but holding on cords); some lvs. sl. frayed (untrimmed copy); bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends and extremities sl. worn/ rubbed (1 corner cracked).
= Beddie 683.
= Fine, attractively bound set.
ADDED: 1 odd vol.
- Owner's stamp on upper pastedown and htitle; sm. portion of first free endpaper torn off; hinges sl. weak; occas. trifle (water)stained. Spine-ends sl. worn.
= Sabin 18447.
= Fine copy of this extensive work on Danish colonial history. Vol. 1 deals with the presence of the Danes in Tranquebar, India between 1616-1845 and in the Gold Coast, West Africa; vol. 2 focuses on the Danes in the West Indies, St. Thomas, St. Jan, and St. Croix between 1702-1917.
- Upper hinge sl. weak; vaguely waterst. at the end. Binding sl. rubbed.
= Rare, not in the usual reference works.
- Corners showing. Fine copy.
= Humpert 12111; Stammhammer 155; Roscher 813ff. Rare copy of this economic work by the Russian Minister of Finance, who reformed the Russian financial system in the early 19th century.
- Both vols. sl. foxed on first and final few leaves. Otherwise fine.
AND 2 others: IDEM, Essai sur la répartition des richesses et sur la tendance à une moindre inégalité des conditions (Paris, 1881, 1st ed., contemp. hcl. Libr. stamp on title-p.) and L. SAY, Les finances de la France. Une année de discussion Du 15 Décembre au 20 Décembre 1882 (Paris, (1882), 1st ed., contemp. giltlettered hmor. First 2 leaves sl. foxed).
- Traces of silverfish activity present on dustwrappers of all four vols. Nevertheless a fine set.
- Covers sl. scratched; spine chafed and rubbed.
= PMM 359; Stammhammer I, p.145; Palgrave III, p.367-383. "Only the first volume of Marx's magnum opus apeared in his lifetime, though in a letter to his friend Dr Kugelmann in the autumn of 1866, when he was working over the manuscript, he described a four-book three-volume work on lines identical with those edited after his death by Friedrich Engels." (PMM). The 1st vol. was published in 1866, the 2nd in 1885 and the 3rd in 1894, and the final 4th part was published from Marx's extensive notes by Karl Kautsch and incorporated in his work Theorien über den Mehrwert (1905-1910).
- All vols. libr. stamps on upper endpaper and title-p.; hinges of vol. 2 weak. Covers sl. stained/ rubbed.
Mill, J.S. A System of Logic, ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. Ibid., Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1862, 5th ed., 2 vols., XVI,539; XII,550,(2),4 (advert.)p., contemp. unif. cl.
- Hinges partly split; joints worn; covers sl. worn/ rubbed.
- Annots. in margin/ text (almost all in pencil); owner's entry (E.J. Elliot, dated "Trinity College, Cambridge 1905"), and annots. on first blank. Top of spine trifle worn; covers partly sl. sunned.
= Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924), Italian economist, originally published this work in1889 as Principii di Economia Pura "contributed to the introduction of marginalist ideas into Italian economic thought and (..) in its English translation (1898) made a considerable impression outside Italy as well" (New Palgrave, vol.III, p.794).
- Frontisp. of vol.1 cut-out from another copy and mounted opposite title-p. vol. 1; partly yellowed/ foxed; vol. 7 w. some underlining in red pencil.
= Very rare early edition (first published in Amsterdam the same year, in four octavo volumes). Higgs 4994; cf. Einaudi 4648; Kress 6750; Sabin 68080; Peignot, Livres condamnés II, p.71; cf. Goldsmiths 12007 and Chadenat 1960 (both ed. Geneva, 1780). Sabin: "A large part of this work is said to have been written by Diderot, and others. The sentiments and criticisms contained in it prevented its publication in France (...). The book was condemned by the French parliament and church dignitaries, and Raynal was obliged to leave France." Borba de Moraes p.700: "Raynal's work had enormous repercussions in his time. It is rightly considered to be one of the books which most influenced the French Revolution. Raynal used extensively the advice and even the collaboration of Diderot, Holbach, and other contemporaries. (...) The work appeared in more than thirty editions in twenty years (...)." Blanqui p.76: "C'est lui qui a porté les premiers et les plus rudes coups à l'esclavage colonial."
- Bindings rubbed; vol. 1 backstrip partly lacking; joints split.
= Cf. Kress S.1407; cf. Goldsmiths 5123; cf. Einaudi 4732 (other editions).