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[1780]. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound together with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[BURKE, Edmund]. \u003cstrong\u003eA Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol, Previous to the Late Election in that City, Upon Certain Points Relative to his Parliamentary Conduct.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Fifth edition]. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLXXXII. [1782].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixed states. Five titles bound in one volume. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (215 x 130 mm.), pp. (2), 107; 79; (2), 32; (2), 95; (2), 68. Near contemporary full tan calf, smooth spine gilt, bound without half-titles. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Upper board detached but present, lower board holding by the strings, the spine rubbed and worn. Contents largely clean, else for a couple of ink marks in the margins and some light scattered foxing. A scarce collection. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: This compilation includes early reprints of some of Burke's best writings, originally published separately, with some of his early orations defending the actions of the American colonists. 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To which is added, an Appendix and Postscript, containing, a State of the National Debt, an Estimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Johnson, No. 72. St. Paul’s Church-Yard, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew edition, corrected by the author. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo, 12⁰ (180 x 105 mm.), pp. [2], 76. Signatures: [pi]¹ A-B¹² C-D⁶ E². English text. Rebacked retaining the original boards. Preface to the first and fifth editions. Below imprint in square brackets: 'Price Three-pence, or One Guinea per Hundred'. Footnotes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Upper board detached. Contents compete and very well preserved.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Early edition of this important work on civil liberty, a significant influence on American independence, printed the same year as the first. The first edition of Price's Observations (printed mid-February, 1776) sold out within three days, and by May 14th was in its eleventh edition. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the most influential British advocates of American independence, Price believed every community had a right to govern itself. He discusses four types of liberty (physical, moral, religious, and civil), focusing primarily on civil liberty, the principles of government, and the issues surrounding the war of American independence. Price warned that the war would be financially disastrous for England and argued for new measures to be adopted in the treatment of the American colonies, or else \"ruin\" would be \"our lot.\" He foresaw the possibility that America could establish \"a plan of government, and a growing power that shall astonish the world, and under which every subject of human enquiry shall be open to free discussion, and the friends of Liberty, in every quarter of the globe, find a safe retreat from civil and spiritual tyranny\" (p. 103). This work had a significant effect on the resolve of American colonists to secure self-government. In 1778 Price was offered the singular honor of United States citizenship. \"In recognition of his services in the cause of liberty, Dr. Price was presented with the freedom of the city of London, and it is said that the encouragement derived from this book had no inconsiderable share in determining the American colonists to declare their independence\" (DNB). 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Upper board and part of spine detached but present, some rubbing and abrasions to extremities. Contents clean with some light browning, minor tears to edges of folding tables. Extremely scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare second edition of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was a noted abolitionist, Christian, classicist, author, and musician; he was one of the earliest British campaigners against slavery. Sharp devised a plan to settle freed and runaway black slaves in Sierra Leone and thus founded Freetown in that country in 1787 - he is now considered one of the founding fathers of the nation. Very few institutional copies held and rare to auction. 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Newly translated from the originals; illustrated with notes, anecdotes, dissertations, and the life of Machiavel, never before published; and several new plans on the art of war. By Ellis Farneworth, M. A. Vicar of Rosthern in Cheshire, translator of the Life of Pope Sixtus V. and Davila's History of the civil wars of France.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for Thomas Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Thomas Waller, in Fleet-Street; R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; James Fletcher, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mess. Balfour and Hamilton, Edinburgh; and Mr. James Hoey, junior, at Dublin, M.DCC.LXII. [1762].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition thus. In two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (26.5cm x 21cm). Pp. xxi, [1 blank], [2, contents], [1, blank], 821, [1, errata]; xxii, [2], 379, x, 227, [1], \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e[24, letter, 1, errata]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e. English text, translated by Ellis Farneworth. Handsomely bound in later panelled calf gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. 7 folding plans. Printed footnotes. Contents:- v. 1. The history of Florence; The prince; The life of Castruccio Castricani, of Lucca; A narrative of the method taken by Duke Valentine to rid himself of Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, Paula Ursini, and the Duke of Gravina; A sketch of the constitution and affairs of France; A sketch of the affairs and constitution of Germany. Contents:- v. 2. Political discourses upon the first decad of Livy; The art of war; The marriage of Belphegor: a novel; Posthumous works of Nicholas Machiavel. A discourse concerning the proper ways and means of reforming the government of Florence, written by the command of Pope Leo X; Letters written by him in the name of that republic, upon different occasions, whilst he was Secretary of State to it. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Some light toning. Minor marginal worm tracts affecting just a few leaves. An excellent copy and scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First quarto edition, rare. The first edition of Farneworth’s translation containing the four major works and the minor works, adding posthumous works including a discourse on the reformation of Florentine government and a number of letters concerning matters of state, as well as the Life of Machiavelli. The folding plans are typographic plans for The Art of War detailing formations of troops. There are voluminous notes throughout and The Prince is followed by Frederick the Great’s Examen or ‘Anti-Machiavel’, with Voltaire’s preface. Needless to say this edition is less sympathetic to Machiavelli than Neville’s and is even hostile to the ‘jejune’ and agenda-serving translations of the previous century. This edition reprints Machiavelli’s apology alongside a letter sent in 1762 by William Warburton, throwing doubt on Neville’s authorship and suggesting that the Marquis of Wharton, the redoubtable Whig, was the author. 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Irregular pagination. English text in double columns. Bound in contemporary panelled calf, initial and terminal blanks present, printed footnotes, rear index. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Slight rubbing to extremities. Interior largely well-preserved, some light toning, a few unobtrusive marks, the endleaves with old inking and ragged fore edge, armorial bookplate to front pastedown.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition in English, first published as De jure Naturae et Gentium libri octo in 1672. The legal theorist, historian and theologian Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694) was the first professor of the Law of Nature and of Nations in a German university at Heidelberg. In his works on political science \"he attempted to strike a middle path between the rationalism of Grotius and the voluntarism of Hobbes. He envisaged the state of nature as a war of all against all, from which men would wish to save themselves by joining in a society whose laws were imposed by the ruler's will. But he also argued that such laws must conform to natural law, whose duties he maintained, unlike Grotius, were imposed on man by God's will. 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I with half-title verso showing a facsimile of the title-page to the first English edition. Printed footnotes, some tables in the text, indexes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Bindings tight and secure. Slight marks to covers and fading to spine titles. Interiors with some light toning and very occasional pen and pencil annotations. A sound set.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Marx's polemical masterpiece, Das Kapital was the culmination of almost 25 years of research, and represents the most significant and influential analysis of capitalism ever written. The first volume of Das Kapital was published in German in 1867, and first translated into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling in 1887. This edition follows that translation for the first volume, revised in light of Engels's third German edition; here dated 1938. The second and third volumes were published in German in 1885 and 1894 respectively. They are here first translated into English by Ernest Untermann. \"The history of the twentieth century is Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro - the icons and monsters of the modern age have all presented themselves as his heirs. Whether he would recognise them as such is quite another matter. Nevertheless, within one hundred years of his death half the world's population was ruled by governments that professed Marxism to be their guiding faith. His ideas have transformed the study of economics, history, geography, sociology and literature. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted\" (Francis Wheen, in his introduction to Karl Marx, 1999). 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Binding tight and secure. Slightest touch of fading to spine. Contents very well-preserved. Dust jacket with slight edge wear, some losses at the spine ends. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The author's first collection of essays, devoted to politics, economics, and world affairs. 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