Speculation (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. Amy Spencer "The Survey of London on Oxford Street" / Sheila O'Connell "Hogarth's London" / Andrew Saint "An Early Speculation in Lambeth by John Nash" (BT#48).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 34 pages. Gerald Abraham "Wagner's String Quartet - An Essay In Musical Speculation" / William McNaught "Mozart's String Quartets" / Reginald Hunt "Singing for Boys - The Adolescent Voice" / The Musician's Bookshelf" / The Promenade Concerts" (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. Adrian Rifkin "Success Disavowed: the Schools of Design in mid-nineteenth century Britain" / David Brett "The Interpretation of Ornament" / Pauline Madge "An Enquiry into Pevsner's 'Enquiry'" / Sean Cubitt "Anxiety in Public Houses: Speculation on the Semiotics of Design Consciousness". (SL#32).

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. Paper wrinkled. An original essay from the Monthly Review, 1767. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Monthly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condition: New.

1974. (Trade paperback) Very good. 248pp. Color frontispiece, maps, tables, graphs, bibliography, notes, appendix. Lightly rubbed. Contributors include Mary Lile Benham (The Apparel Industry in Winnipeg), W.J. Carlyle (Growth, Ethnic Groups and Socio-Economic Areas of Winnipeg), B.M. Evans (Migration into Manitoba C.1885-C1920 and Some Problems and Questions Which It Raises), R. Hastie (Development of the Apparel Industry in Winnipeg), W. Houston (The Brewing Industry in Winnipeg), D. Hum (The Future Economic Prospects of Winnipeg: An Analytical Speculation), Tony J. Kuz (Metropolitan Winnipeg: Inter-Urban Relationships), Victor Leathers (Culture at the Gateway), D. Lofto (The Place of Metropolitan Winnipeg in the Provincial Economy), Roger Newman (The Construction Industry in Winnipeg), R. Parliament (Winnipeg Livestock and Meat Processing Industry: A Century of Development), G.F. Parsons (Winnipeg As a Financial Centre), D. Ross (The Electrical Manufacturing Industry in Winnipeg), R. Schmidt (Winnipeg As a Transportation Centre), Ed Thornhill (The Aerospace Industry in Winnipeg), D. Watson (The Metal Fabricating Industry), T.R. Weir (Winnipeg: A City in the Making). Locale: ; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Apparel Industry, Farm Machinery, Livestock Industry, Transportation).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition, first printing of Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [10], 180pp, [2]. White hardcover, title in white on red spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, internally clean. In the publisher's dust jacket, $22.95 retail price on front flap, a fine example. Signed by Jenny Offill on the title page. Signed.

Condition: Assez bon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This is a First edition, with the Doran logo beneath the copyright information. This particular title is scarce (in this original edition, and also in the A L Burt reprint) . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a large chip from the top spine end, along with smaller nicks and chips to the spine ends and corners. There is a tiny hole to the front flap joint, and a couple of scrapes to the rear panel. The book is a "Confession of a man to the woman he loves. The author of M. L. G. Persuaded him to write it. She describes this "Jay Kay", the confessor, as dark and violent, gentle and cruel, a man who had immediate magnetism for women." (from the front blurb).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 36 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Second edition of one of the most striking and bizarre books in all economic literature, ruthlessly satirizing - through large engravings with accompanying text - the mass hysteria, greed, credulity, and deception that characterize stock market bubbles. This copy, very unusually, is in a contemporary English binding, perhaps reflecting English interest in bubbles following the South Sea collapse. The Tafereel reprints and adapts a multitude of satirical Dutch texts and prints on the theme of economic bubbles and speculative mania. As stated on the title page, its aim was to serve as a "warning for future generations", though in practice it offered a humorous commentary on the speculative schemes that pervaded Dutch life at the time. "This book works so well because the Tafereel is not just about the eighteenth century; it is also a mirror of other times, other public hysterias, and other speculative bubbles - even of our recent financial crises and the kinds of speculative folly that led to the financial crises of recent years" (Goetzmann, p. vii). The first edition was issued in 1720. The second edition was issued from 1721 to 1723 and added the additional plates found here. This copy is from the first issue of the second edition, without the fifth text part, E - Goetzman presents those without E as issued in 1721, and those with it from 1722 to 1723 (Goetzman, p. 47). The third edition, issued after 1723, has all the plates in folio, whereas the earlier editions include some in quarto. Across the editions, no two copies are alike, reflecting the erratic nature of its composition - some omission, duplication, and deviation of material is standard. This copy is desirable due to the large number of plates (88, copies usually have around 75), the hand-coloured map (not seen in the other copies we have handled), and the English binding (attesting to its reception beyond the Dutch market). Goldsmiths' 5879, Kress 3217; Sperling 205. See: Arthur Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly. An Economic-Bibliographical Study, 1949; William N. Goetzmann et al, eds, The Great Mirror of Folly. Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720, 2013. Tall folio (392 x 249 mm). With letterpress title page printed in red and black (second state), and the first four text parts: pp. [2]; 25, [1]; 52; 26, 29-31, [1] (gap in pagination as called for); 8. With 88 plates, comprising Muller numbers 1-26 & 28-73 [plates 27 and 74 is a variant of 18 and 73 respectively and often not present]; alongside Muller supplementary numbers 2, 3, 4, and 6; Muller 26 and 29 are each bound as four plates in quarto, 34 and one of the sub-plates of 26 is duplicated in quarto, while 33, 37, and 65 are duplicated in folio; there is one plate, "Sy Overwin T de Min", not in Muller. One plate, the map of Enkhuysn, has contemporary hand colouring. Contemporary English mottled calf, twin morocco labels lettered in English "Illustrativ Missippi 1720 / Prints of the Scheme", gilt in compartments, gilt border to covers, new endpapers to style. Joints and extremities neatly restored, gilt retouched; restoration at engraved title extremities with some loss, reinforcement on verso to Muller plate number 11, very minor worming, some tears to plates along folds, light browning and foxing. A very good copy.

The definitive third edition of one of the most striking and bizarre books in all economic literature, ruthlessly satirizing - through a series of large engravings with accompanying text - the mass hysteria, greed, credulousness, and deception which characterizes stock market bubbles. The third edition presents the work, for the first time, as a luxury picture book in a bespoke binding. The Tafereel reprints and adapts a multitude of Dutch texts and prints that came out on the theme of economic bubbles and speculative mania, chiefly satirical. The avowed purpose of the book, as stated on the title page, was to convey a "warning for future generations", though of course it was more broadly a humorous take on the bubbles and the get-rich-quick schemes which were a persistent and prominent feature of Dutch life of the period. The Dutch stock market was rivalled only by London in its scope and reach. It saw extensive public engagement and investment, and - though it is chiefly Tulip Mania which is remembered now - bubbles and crashes were common. There was thus a ready market for such a volume at the time, and its popularity still endures today: "This book works so well because the Tafereel is not just about the eighteenth century; it is also a mirror of other times, other public hysterias, and other speculative bubbles - even of our recent financial crises and the kinds of speculative folly that led to the financial crises of recent years" (Robert J. Schiller, in Goetzmann et al, p. vii). The publication history is notoriously complex. The first edition was printed in 1720. The second edition of 1721-3 featured new portraits of John Law, Madame Law, and James III, and text part E either absent or reset in folio (formerly in quarto pamphlet form). In the first state of the second edition, these portraits are pasted into decorative frames sold by Wilhelmus Koninck; in the second, pasted into the outer framing of existing Tafereel plates borders. In the third edition, after 1723, the format follows the second state of the second edition, though copies are readily distinguished by the uniform trade binding by an Amsterdam atelier known as the Double Drawer Handle Bindery. The trade binding on this copy allows it to be identified as the third edition, although it has characteristics of the second: it is without text part E, and without the decorative frames. The copy contains 74 plates, comprising Muller numbers 2-8, 10-53, 55-65, 67-73 (plate 27 is a variant of 18, both present, plate 74, a variant of 73, is omitted), and supplementary numbers 2-4 and 6 (portraits of John Law, Madame Law, and James III, and a map of Louisiana). Between and within the editions copies vary significantly due to the amendment, addition, and subtraction of existing plates, and the resetting of text leaves. No two copies are alike, and some omission and deviation of material is standard. A fourth edition of 1780 is found in a distinctive half leather binding, but the late publication date and lack of any notable additions ensures it is not the most desirable to collectors. Instead, it is this third edition which is the definitive edition, expanded from the first, and presented as a single unit in its own binding rather than a sequence of plates. Goldsmiths' 5879, Kress 3217; Sperling 205. See Arthur Cole's The Great Mirror of Folly. An Economic-Bibliographical Study (1949), and Goetzmann, Labio, Rouwenhorst, & Young (eds.), The Great Mirror of Folly. Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720, 2013. Tall folio (400 x 244 mm). With 74 plates, many folding. Letterpress title page printed in red and black (second state). Contemporary Dutch trade binding of mottled calf, black calf spine label lettered in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, raised bands tooled in gilt, boards elaborately panelled with two concentric patterned gilt-tooled rectangular frames, ornate gilt centrepiece, crown corner pieces, speckled edges. Spine label chipped at head and top raised band abraded, boards with a few minor abrasions or scuff marks. Paper shelf label to third compartment, label and raised bands rubbed with partial loss of gilt, corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean and fresh, a few plates with short tears to folds; a very attractive copy.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1974 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 274 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 274.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Agen, Imprimerie du département, 1796. Placard, 38 x 50 cm sur vergé.