Maurice Edward Ogborn; Patricia James; Ian Simpson Ross; Douglas Watt; James Buchan
A Collection of First Edition Volumes on Economics
London; Oxford, George Allen & Unwin Ltd; Routledge & Kegan Paul; Clarendon Press; Maclehose Press, 1962-2018. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of first edition volumes on economics, exploring the lives and works of some of the best known economists of our times. Five volumes. First editions. This set contains: Equitable Assurances, 1962. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty black-and-white plates, and one colour plate. Collated complete. The story of Life Assurance in the experience of The Equitable Life Assurance Society 1762-1962. Written by Maurice Edward Ogborn, a British economist and author. Population Malthus: His Life and Times, 1979. With a folding genealogical table. The first full-length biography of Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography, exploring his best known works. Written by Patricia James, a British economist and Fellow of the Royal Economics Society. The Life of Adam Smith, 1995. A biography of Adam Smith, a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Written by Ian Simpson Ross, a Scottish academic and biographer. The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations, 2007. An exploration of the attempt by the Company of Scotland to establish a colony at Darien in Central America, as one of the best known episodes in late seventeenth-century Scottish history. Written by Douglas Watt, a Scottish historian. John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century, 2018. Illustrated with two double-page maps and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A study of the work and life of John Law, a Scottish-French economist and financier who served as Controller General of Finances under Philippe II, Duke of Orleans. Written by James Buchan, a Scottish novelist and historian. Previously held in the library of Hamish Riley-Smith, a British dealer, retailer, and trader in rare books and manuscripts from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities and sunning to the spines. The odd small mark to the panels with the odd small closed tear to the panel edges of Equitable Assurances. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of the odd volume. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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