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Smith, Adam
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
« The first and greatest classic of modern economic thought » (PMM). Very rare second octavo edition, and fourth edition overall, of La Richesse des Nations d’Adam Smith (1723-1790). Bel exemplaire imprimé sur papier fort, très pur, conservé dans sa reliure de l’époque. 2 tomes en 2 volumes in-8 de : I/ XIII et 498 pp. ; II/ (4) ff., 489 pp., (30) ff. Veau moucheté, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, de tomaison en maroquin vert, roulette à froid sur les coupes, discrètes restaurations anciennes. Reliure de l’époque. 205 x 125 mm. Smith, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of Nations. The fourth edition, with additions. Dublin, printed for Mssrs. W. Colles, R. Moncrieffe, G. Burnet, W. Wilson…, 1785. Très rare seconde édition in-8 et quatrième édition du plus grand classique de la pensée économique moderne. Very rare second octavo edition, the fourth overall of the "first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). Kress, B967 ; PMM, 221 (pour l’édition de 1776). Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange " (PMM). "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry" (ODNB). « Ce Traité de Smith est l’un des ouvrages les plus profonds et les plus utiles que ce siècle ait produits » (Beuchot) «The Wealth of Nations, coming at a point when « natural liberty » was being widely debated, had a decisive influence on the study of national economic and on the freeing of economic policy from the artificial restraint of the mercantilist system. Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work. The certainty of The Wealth of Nations’ criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought » (PMM). « Adam Smith. Ce nom est le plus grand de l’économie politique ; il a eu cette singulière fortune de marquer son empreinte d’une manière ineffaçable dans le monde intellectuel et dans celui des faits. L’ouvrage paru, Hume qui le félicita, ne fit que devancer le jugement de la postérité, qui a associé le nom de Smith à ceux de Grotius et de Montesquieu. Tout dans son ouvrage est traité avec le calme souverain d’une raison supérieure et un bon sens immuable, qui, poussé jusqu’à cette limite, est le génie même. Nul avant Smith n’avait montré avec plus de clairvoyance et de netteté les avantages de la liberté économique » (Ch. Coquelin). Bel exemplaire du premier et du plus grand classique de la pensée économique moderne, imprimé sur papier fort, très pur, grand de marges, conservé dans sa reliure de l’époque. Eighteenth century editions of Smith’s magnum opus are becoming very scarce; even more when published in the author’s lifetime and kept in its original binding.
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5 book(s) with the same title
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes ot the Wealth of Nations…in three volumes. With notes and an additionnal Volume, by David Buchanan (avec): Observations on the Subjects Treated of in Dr Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
1501 Edinburgh, Printed For Oliphant, Waugh 1 Innes, Edinburgh and John Murray, 50, Alnemarble-street, London, 1814; 4 volumes in-8, de X - 525pp.; VII- (I) - 542pp. ; VII - (I)- 462 pp.- (53)pp.( Index) - (1)p.(errata). ; VII-(I) - 492pp. (53) - (1) pp.; (8) -XVI- 316pp. 88pp. ( Appendix)- (15)pp. (Index). Reliure de emi-veau glacé framboise, dos à larges nerfs plats cernés de filets à froid et orné de palette dorées, compartiments de fleurons à froid, titre et tomaison dorés, palette en tte et pied , tranches marbrées de beige, papier des plats rose moucheté ( Thouvenin relieur)
1ère édition donnée par David Buchanan.Rousseurs à de très rares feuillets, papier du 1er plat du Tome 1 poussiéreux. Bel exemplaire relié par Thouvenin..
Politisk undersökning om lagar, som hindra och tvinga införseln af sådana utländska varor, som kunna alstras eller tillverkas inom landet. Göteborg. (i.e. English: ""An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations""). - [SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WEALTH OF NATIONS]
Göteborg (S. Norberg) 1804. 8vo. In contemporary grey blank wrappers. Stamp to front wrapper, verso of front wrapper, title-page and p. 17. Otherwise fine. (12), (1)-51, (1) pp.
The exceedlingly rare second part of the Swedish Bodell-translation of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' book IV. . Bodell published translations of excerpts of Smith's landmark work in 1800 and 1804. A more lengthy translation was made in 1909 - 1911 but to this day a full Swedish translation has not been made.Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish, it still had a profound influence, not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English, but upon politics and public opinion in general: ""There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's, there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. [...]Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century"" and, as far as I know, nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish, nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill."" (Heckscher, A survey of economic thought in Sweden, 1875-1950).Cheng-chung Lai, A17, 2. Vanderblue p. 33.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: VOLUME 2 UNIQUEMENT
London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778
London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778, in-4, reliure demi cuir moderne, titre – contents of the second volume – 589 pp. Second édition. PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE!
An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Volume 1 (and) Volume 2 ( complete).
"2. Indianapolis, Liberty Classics, undated reprint of the O.U.P. edition (after 1976), 2 vols in-8°, 543 pp ; 544 - 1080 pp. Spine faded, name in ink on the half-title but still a good set in tight bindings ( softcover )."
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, by Adam Smith, L.L.D. Tome 2-3-4 seuls
Basil Printed and sold by James Dckers 1801 in 8 (21,5x13) 3 volumes reliures pleine basane fauve racinée de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de très beaux fers dorés au '' palmier '', pièces de titre de maroquin rouge, pièces de tomaison de cuir vert, tranches teintées jaune, ex-libris armorié ancien de Mr de Bataille de Sévignac sur chacun des vomlumes. Tome 2: VI et 344. Tome 3: IV, 358 pages [3]. Tome 4: V et 374 pages, et un index non chiffré in fine (52 pages). Adam Smith, 1723-1790. le tome premier manque. Tome 2-3-4 seuls (sur 4). Bel exemplaire, bien relié ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
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