Economics & Social Sciences

First edition, first printing, inscribed presentation copy from the author; 8vo; ink note to rear free endpaper; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, slight fraying and rubbing to spine ends, fore-corners and fore-edges, but otherwise very good.

First edition, 8vo (18 x 11 cm) x, (2), 152pp.,Contemporary paper-covered boards, marked with ink on upper cover,label, rubbed and partly worn away, spine partly split; overall a good copy, housed in modern black foldover box, black morocco label, gilt lettered.

Large folding engraved hand coloured chart mounted on linen, edged in blue silk; size: (65.3 x 100.7 cm) housed in an original marbled slipcase, red morocco label, gilt lettered.

First German edition, 2 vols, 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm). pp. xvi, 368; pp. vii, 358; very slight spotting to vol. 1. Contemporary half-brown leather binding; flat spine, gilt bands separating compartments, compartments 1, 3, 5 and 6 contain gilt floral decoration, compartments 2 and 4 contain gilt lettering including translator's name and title, gilt library stamp to both upper boards, library stamps to verso of both upper boards and title pages, pencil markings to verso of upper boards and endpapers; rubbed, water or possibly glue marks to verso of upper boards and endpapers.

8vo; signed presentation copy from Queen Victoria to the Rev. George Prothero, Vicar of Whippingham Church with her inscription on fly-leaf, frontispiece portrait of Prince Albert, natural toning throughout, very faint spotting to frontispiece and fly-leaves, else very good; publisher's cream pebble-grained cloth, gilt stamp crest on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, slightly soiled, darkened, mostly to spine but wholly original and strong, overall very good.

12mo., 224pp., + 4pp of record pages (not used) for 'Baby's Birth', 'Baby's Baptism', 'Signatures of Father Mother Relatives & Friends', 'Colour of Baby's eyes [and] Colour of Baby's hair', including a loosely inserted envelope for lock of hair, vignette illustrations within text, publisher's blue calf gilt, top edge gilt, a little worn at extremities, otherwise very good.

First edition; 8vo; small ownership stamp to lower outside corner of title-page, small, early 20th century bookseller's label to lower outside corner of verso of upper free endpaper, a little age-toning and small ink smudge to title, otherwise near-fine, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, rubbed at extremities, spine faded, a very good copy; vi, 601 pp.

First collected edition. 8vo ( 15 x 23 cm),pp. [4], 24,24.24,24,24,24,24,24,24, 24,24,24, advertisement at end, later ink and pencil notes to preliminary pages, publisher's brown cloth, some fading and marking, extremities rubbed, overall a very good copy.

Folio. First report 232 pp., (others 250pp approx, some folding), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label, joints cracked but firm.

First edition. 21 volumes, 8vo, 7 engraved plates, 4 folding, engraved map, 4 folding tables, half-titles. (2 folding plates very browned, a little foxing.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, red labels on spine, neat repairs to joints and extremities as required, a very good set.