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Adam Smith | First Editions
1723 - 1790
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed for Silvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Adam Black, and John Fairbairn [etc.], 1817. [Economics] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; lxvi; 360 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 514 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 448 [52]. With a life of the author to volume I, an appendix to..... More
An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations.
London: J. Maynard and others, 1811. [Economics]FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.lxxi; 360; pp.vi; 514; pp.vi; 448; unpaginated index. Original marbled-calf boards, respined to style with gilt rules, black leather title labels, combed marble ends. Norman Court monogrammed leather book..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1796. [Economics] EIGHTH EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 499 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 518 [6]; pp.vi; 465; [1]; [50]; [2], blank. Bound without half-titles. With an appendix to volume II, and an index..... More
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. A New Edition: comprehending A Life of the Author, and A View of the Doctrine of Smith compared with that of the French Economists.
Glasgow: At the University Press, 1805. [Economics] Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), [Vol.I] pp.[iv]; iv; lvi; 360; [Vol.II] pp.[ii]; iv; vi; 512; [4], Appendix; [Vol.III]; pp.[11]; ii; 448 [52], Index. Contemporary brown acid-stained patterned calf boards, re-backed to style circa 1890s in brown calf, with gilt titles..... More
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