ANDERSON, Adam. An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the earliest accounts, London: printed at the Logographic Press by J. Walter, 1787-89, 4°, 4 volumes, second edition, half titles, engraved frontispiece (tipped-in and lower margin cropped with loss), 2 folding engraved maps and one folding table (small holes to inner margin of vol. I, half title and title of vol. II lightly dampstained, a few leaves in vol. III lightly browned), contemporary half roan (rebacked with old spine relaid), small stamp of the Prudential Insurance Company of America to verso of titles. [Goldsmiths' 13294; Kress B1150; Sabin 1382]. With Extracts from the Information received by his Majesty's Commissioners, as to the Administration and Operation of Poor-Laws (London, 1833), and one other work. (6)

II. Economics, Philosophy, Law and Language

细节

ANDERSON, Adam. An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the earliest accounts, London: printed at the Logographic Press by J. Walter, 1787-89, 4°, 4 volumes, second edition, half titles, engraved frontispiece (tipped-in and lower margin cropped with loss), 2 folding engraved maps and one folding table (small holes to inner margin of vol. I, half title and title of vol. II lightly dampstained, a few leaves in vol. III lightly browned), contemporary half roan (rebacked with old spine relaid), small stamp of the Prudential Insurance Company of America to verso of titles. [Goldsmiths' 13294; Kress B1150; Sabin 1382]. With Extracts from the Information received by his Majesty's Commissioners, as to the Administration and Operation of Poor-Laws (London, 1833), and one other work. (6)

拍品专文

Anderson's great work "is not merely a record of commercial progress and colonial enterprise, but a history of the political, industrial, and social development of all civilised countries, and especially of Great Britain and Ireland" (DNB).