‎Adam‎

‎"ADAM (Paul)"‎

‎"La cité Prochaine Lettres de Malaisie."‎

‎"" "X1520 Broché."‎

Bookseller reference : "7921C0B640B5"

‎"Adam Vetulani"‎

‎"Le Grand Chapitre de Strasbourg, des origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle, par A..."‎

‎"" "X2222 Edition de 1927. Broché. Non coupé."‎

Bookseller reference : "1A-LKZQ-IX8O"

‎"Adam, George"‎

‎"Le roman des roses"‎

‎"" "T8531 EDITION DE 1955. CARTONNE."‎

Bookseller reference : "28A6B409FFB9"

‎"ADAM, Micheline; BERSIANIK, Louky; BOUCHER, Denise ; DUMOUCHEL, Thérèse et al."‎

‎Te prends-tu pour une folle madame Chose?‎

‎Editions de la Pleine Lune Montréal 1978 in-4 bien illustré (dessins, photos et reproductions couleurs de 2 eaux-forte d'Aline Martineau), 97p. Couverture illustrée. :: Edition originale. Broché. Bon état. Bel ENVOI de Denise Boucher avec une photo (portrait signé de Jeannot Petit, 1978).‎

Bookseller reference : 19524

‎"Arroyo Zapatero Luis;Nieto Martin Adan;Munoz de Morales Marta;Matias Bailone""‎

‎Piratas mercenarios soldados jueces y policías: nuevos desafíos del Derecho‎

‎2010. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 68682 ISBN : 8484277488 9788484277484

‎"D. Adam"‎

‎"El Dorado La Guyane Française Agricole"‎

‎"1936. Paris Larose Éditeurs 1936 - Broché 24 cm x 28 5 cm 84 pages 37 ills photographiques sur X planches hors-texte 3 cartes hors-texte tableaux - Texte de D. Adam - Non coupé bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 19563

‎"Francis Vielé-Griffin Emile Goudeau Paul Adam Ferdinand Hérold Jean F. Schmitt Georges Vanor"‎

‎"Entretiens Politiques et Littéraires n°5"‎

‎"1890. Paris Librairie de l'Art Indépendant 1 er août 1890 - Broché 14 cm x 20 cm 31 pages - Textes de Emile Goudeau Paul Adam Ferdinand Hérold Jean F. Schmitt Georges Vanor Francis Vielé-Griffin - Bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 16663

‎"Greenspan Adam Montesano Pasquale"‎

‎Imaging of the Spine in Clinical Practice‎

‎New. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : DC5/B1196/NEW27821 ISBN : 1563750147 9781563750144

‎"HAUCH, ADAM WILHELM von. - HAUCHS OG DUMOTIERS GAZOMETER.‎

‎Beskrivelse af en forbedret Gazometer eller Luftmaaler og nogle med samme anstillede Forsøg.‎

‎(Kiøbenhavn, Johan Rudolph Thiele, 1799). 4to. Without wrappers. In: ""Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter."" Vol. V. Pp. 18-27 samt 1 stor dobbeltsidet kobberstukket planche.‎

‎Hauch beviste med dette, af ham selv forbedrede udgave af Dumotiers Gazometer, at vandets bestanddele består af brint og ilt. Hermed bidrog han væsentligt til at indføre den nye kemi i Danmark, anført af Lavoisier.‎

Bookseller reference : 45697

‎"Kennedy Adam "‎

‎The Domino Principle‎

‎New York: Viking Press 1975. "First Edition First Printing". Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Black Cloth and Robin's Blue Board Covers; covers are sunned at bottom edge and top edge has image of dustjacket telegraphed onto boards from sunning; white endpapers; book edges show some signs of early foxing; 8vo; 180 pages; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper; dustjacket is clean; white areas of dustjacket have darkened; <br/><br/>0.86#; P3; Viking Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20071341 ISBN : 0670278122 9780670278121

‎"Mandelslo Johann Albrecht von 1616 1644 ; Olearius Oehlschlaeger Adam 1603 1671"‎

‎"Voyages celebres & remarquables Faits de Perse aux Indes Orientales Par le Sr. Jean-Albert de Mandelslo . Contenant une Description nouvelle & très-curieuse de l Indostan de l Empire du Grand-Mogol des Iles et Presqu îles de l Orient des Royaumes de Siam du Japon de la Chine du Congo &c. Où l on trouve la situation exacte de tous ces Pays & Etats; & où l on rapporte assez au long le Naturel les Moeurs & les Cotumes de leurs Habitans; leur Gouvernement Politique & Ecclesiastique; les Raretez‎

‎Amsterdam: Chez Michel Charles Le Ce ne MDCCXXVII 1727. . XIXth c. half leather binding with marbred paper. VG. "2 t. in 1 vol. continous pagination Folio 312x205mm.- 30 p. 5-440 col. 1 l. 445-808 col. 73 p. ; sign.: 4 1 -4 2 A-Z4 Aa-Dd4 Ee2 1 Ff-Zz4 Aaa-Ooo4; half-titles half-title of t. 2 absent here; title-pages in red and black; great vignette in dedication; full of its 19 calcographies in the text and 51 plates out of pagination see note at the end of the commentary.- // XIXth c. half leather binding with marbred paper; ribbed back with gilt fillets and title label; fillet border gauffered in boards. Slight trace of a label in the top of the spine. Slight age-toned paper -more pronounced in title-pages as usual in 1727 ed.- Paper clean with large margins. No smudges annotations nor underlines. Ripping in the bottom fold of Goa s plan with no lost. Small rip restored in the bottom margin of Amsterdam s plate col 800. Some minor breaks in the margin of some leaves. Great example.- // Prov.: Blind stamp exlibris glued over front pastedown endpaper library of Ruth and Walter Middelmann.- // Refs.: Boucher de la Richarderie IV pp. 373-74; Chadenat 5094; Chadenat Bibliophile 24736; Cordier Indosinica 883; Cordier Japonica 367; Cordier Sinica 1904 2077; Graesse V 18. The celebrated journey story of the knight Mandelslo accompanying the Duke of Holstein in an embassy to Russia and to Persia was first published in Schlesswig in 1645 already deceased Mandelslo and at his desire 1 by Adam Olearius Adam Oehlschlaeger librarian of the Duke and secretary of the embassy as a complement to the report that Olearius drafted about that embassy. From there coming alive the trip was edited on multiple occasions during XVIIth c. at least in German Dutch French Italian and English. The success of the work was helped by both Olearius and his translators and successive publishers by adding new content to the brief description of Mandelslo s return to Europe through India and by boat turning the Cape of Good Hope taken it from other sources to describe other Asian and East Indian territories in which Mandelslo had not stayed from China to Japan through Siam or the Philippine Islands. These modifications also took on a life of their own and the return trip description became a completely different separate work from the original story of the embassy in Moscow and Persia. The most complete editions of what came to be known as Mandelslo s voyages especially in regard to the arrangement of multiple images to illustrate those distant territories are those that Pieter Van der Aa printed in Leiden 1719 in French. He published the Mandelslo s original narrative in two continuous paged tomes titled 'Voyages très curieux et très renommez faits in Moscovie Tartarie et Perse' in which the name of Mandelslo did not appear. On the other hand paradoxically the essentially apocryphal narrative of the voyage from Persia to India with the description of East Asia with all the accumulated sum of descriptions of those territories taken from multiple sources was published by Vander Aa also in two continuous paged tomes with the title of 'Voyages celebres & remarquables faits de Perse. por Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo'. But something happened that we have not been able to find out because eight years later in 1727 the unsold copies of these two works began to be commercialized with new title-pages under the imprint of Michel Charles Le Céne a publisher-printer from Amsterdam that was specialized in music prints production. Focusing on the second work that we offer by comparing the copies of both states it can be observed that apart from took out the first engraved title-page in which the name of Van der Aa appeared and apart the new title-pages of worse quality paper motive by which all the copies present the title-pages more age-toned than the rest of the leaves Le Céne did not make any other alteration. Thus both the pages and the graphic work that must be present in any copy whether of the commercials with the tiltle-page from Van der Aa or the one from Charles de Ce ne are always the same except the engraved title-page. Moreover this circumstance implies that all engravings come from the same state of the plates and from the same print run: all of them were printed in 1719 or earlier. Graphic contents must be composed of 20 half page or bigger vignettes inserted in the text and 45 engravings out of text which are the result of the sum of on the one hand the 37 engravings collated in the notice to the bookbinder that appears on the back of Ooo3 2 folded 28 double-page and 7 single-page and on the other hand 8 engraved leaves: the Mandelslo s portrait sometimes in front of the cover sometimes behind and sometimes behind preliminars a plate of two people on the coast of Cormandel and six full-page engravings containing each one two framed images. These leaves of uncollated engravings are etched Mandelslo s portrait excepts with the number of the column they must be bound together. Cartographically 26 of the engravings of the previous set are maps namely 4 of the great vignettes interspersed in the text and outsides 1 folding city map of Goa and 15 double-page and 6 simple-page maps. Among the remaining panoramas landscapes scenes ruins and buildings stands out the Yedo i.e. Tokyo folding panorama. On the other hand the engravings that are most often missing because many copies have been stripped of any of them are the double-page of the Court of the Great Mogul col. 144 the folding plane of Goa col. 244 the Java Island map col. 356 and of course Tokyo s grand panorama Col. 472. The item we offer full of his graphic work and with the second volume half-title absent was part of the great botanical library of the marriage formed by Ruth Hinrichsen and the bibliophile Walter Middelmann German emigrants 1935 in South Africa and founders of Honingklip Dryflowers flower growers like Erikas Proteas and other endemicals of the Cape region in South Africa. 1 'Klageschrifft Vber den allzufrühzeitigen Hintritt auß dieser Welt Des weyland WolEdlen . Johan Albrecht von Mandelslo'.- Schlesswig 1645 published again two years later as 'Offt begehrte Beschreibung Der Newen Orientalischen Reise So durch Gelegenheit einer Holsteinischen Legation an den König in Persien geschehen'.- Schlesswig: Jakob zur Glocken 1547." Chez Michel Charles Le Ce ne, MDCCXXVII unknown‎

Bookseller reference : #0;C#0;-#0;1#0;0#0;1#0;1#0;

‎"Mingote Adan Jose Carlos;Perez Garcia Santiago""‎

‎Estrés en la enfermería‎

‎2005. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

Bookseller reference : T97883 ISBN : 8479785187 9788479785185

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Egenhændigt signeret digtmanuskript til ""Hans Kongelige Høihed/ Prinds Christian Frederiks/ Fødselsdag/ den 18de September 1826."" - [ORIGINALT SIGNERET DIGTMANUSKRIPT]‎

‎2 blade 4to. Titelbl. som ovenfor beskrevet. Selve digtet fylder 2 1/2 side og består af fem vers m. 8 linier i hvert. Enkelte rettelser med overstregninger. Ud over rettelserne er der en enkelt afvigelse fra den trykte version: Vers 4, linie 6 står: ""De Piger saa villige fandt:"" i stedet for det trykte: ""De Skiønne saa villige fandt:"".‎

‎Vedlagt Kjøbenhavns Morgenblad, Anden Aargang, No. 113-14. Løverdagen den 24de September 1826, hvor digtet er trykt første gang.Optaget i Oehlenschlägers Poetiske Skrifter, XXI, 1860, pp. 86-87. Liebenberg I:125.‎

Bookseller reference : 34909

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Frederiksberg Et Digt.‎

‎Kiöbenhavn, (Forfatterens Forlag), 1817. Kvadratisk 12mo. Samtidigt (originalt ?) helshirtbd. ""Frederiksberg"" i guld på forpermen. I kassette. Kobberstukket titelblad med billede af Frederiksberg Slot. 95,(1) pp. På skrivepapir. Lidt spredte brunpletter.‎

‎Originaludgaven.‎

Bookseller reference : 54650

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Nordiske Digte.‎

‎K., 1807. Lidt senere hshirt bd. Kobberst. titelbl. XXXIV, 426 pp. Lettere brunplettet pga. papirkvaliteten. Originaludgaven. Indeholder de vigtigste bidrag af hans ungdoms digtning f.eks. ""Hakon Jarl Hin Rige"" og andre.‎

Bookseller reference : 3218

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Om Evald og Schiller. Forelæsninger holdte ved Kjøbenhavns Universitet i Aarene 1810 og 11. 2 Bd.‎

‎Kiøbehavn, Lose & Delbanco, 1854. Et samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Graveret portræt. 120,211 pp.‎

‎Udkom som Supplementsbind til ""Digterværker og Prosaiske Skrifter"".‎

Bookseller reference : 58964

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Poetiske Skrifter. Anden Deel (af 2).‎

‎Kbhvn., Schubothe, 1805. Samt. halvlæder med farvede titelfelter, lidt skrammet. 436 pp.‎

‎Originaludgave m.førstetryk af bl.a.""Aladdin, eller den forunderlige Lampe"".‎

Bookseller reference : 40569

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Poetiske Skrifter. 2 Dele.‎

‎Kbh., 1805. 2 nydelige samt. ensartede hldrbd. af marmoreret kalv m. rygforgyldn og forgyldte bordurer på permer. Rygge m. lidt krakkeleringer, titelfelter på rygge slidte. Indvendig nydeligt og rent ekspl. på skrivepapir.‎

‎Originaludgaven, der bl.a. indeholder førstetrykket af ""Aladdin...""‎

Bookseller reference : 26439

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Skuespil.‎

‎K., 1827. Pænt nyere papbd.m.skindtitel på ryg. Ubeskåret. En smule brunplettet. Orig.udg. Inkl.""Væringerne i Miklagaard"".‎

Bookseller reference : 6288

‎"Richard Avedon Jane Livingston et Adam Gopnik"‎

‎"Evidence 1944-1994"‎

‎1994. "Munich-Paris Éditions Schirmer/Mosel 1994 - Cartonné bien complet de la jaquette 29 cm x 36 5 cm 183 pages photos noir et blanc in et hors-texte - Photos et textes de Richard Avedon textes de Jane Livingston et Adam Gopnik avant-propos de David A. Ross trad. de Marie-Hélène Sabard catalogue et chronologie expositions bibliographie - Très bon état"‎

Bookseller reference : 17994

‎"SMITH, ADAM -‎

‎""Om Beskatning"" (+) ""Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa, efter Romerska Väldets undergäng"" (+) ""Om Handelsbalancen"" (+) ""Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning, samt om Economisterne I Frankrike"" (+) ""Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne, före... - [""THE EARLIEST APPEARANCE IN SWEDISH OF A NUMBER OF TRANSLATIONS FROM ADAM SMITH""]‎

‎Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797-1801. 8vo. Uncut, partly unopened in the original wrappers. In 22 volumes as issued. Last volume name written on title-page, otherwise an exceptionally fine, clean and untouched set rarely seen in this condition. (4),102 pp." (2),182 pp. (2),107 pp. (2),157,(1) pp. (2),176,(4) pp. (4),138,(2) pp. (2),205,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),188 pp (2),190 pp. (2),89,(4) pp. (4),135,(1) pp. (2),116,(1) pp. (2),157 pp. (2),120 pp. (2),151,(1 blank,10) pp. + 1 folded map (2),215 pp. + 1 folded table (2),131,(5) pp. (4),207 pp. (2),183,(1) pp. + 1 folded table (2),218 pp. (2),144,(4) pp." (6),449,(1) pp. + 5 folded plates.""Om Beskatning"", Part: 36, 37, 38:Pp. 145-177""Om Jordbrukets förfall i Europa, efter Romerska Väldets undergäng"", Part: 27, 28. Pp. 93-120""Om Handelsbalancen"", Part: 25,26. Pp. 92-114""Om Jordbruks-systemet I en Rikshushållning, samt om Economisterne I Frankrike"", Part: 25-26. Pp. 43-92""Om Pappers-myntet I Norr-Amerika Kolonierne, före Revolutionen"". Part: 27-28. Pp.57-62""Om Krono-jord"". Part: 29,30,31. Pp 139-146.""Theorien för statsskulder"". Part: 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 & 50. Pp. 151-161.‎

‎First, however partial, translation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Swedish rarely seen in this condition, thus making it the very first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. A more lengthy translation was made in 1909 - 1911 but to this day a full Swedish translation has not been made.""Von Schulzenheim [nobleman, physician, country squire and politician] also published shorter articles in the review 'Läsning I blandade ämnen', an organ of the opposition to the absolutist and obscurantist regime of Gustavus IV Adolphus. The editor of the review was count Georg Adlersparre, an army officer and a political writer who in 1809 was to become one of the prime-movers behind the dethronement of the king. Adlersparre to was an admirer of Adam Smith. In 1799-1800 he published in the 'Läsning' his own Swedish translation of several selections from Wealth of Nations. In some cases Adlersparre added footnotes, making it easier for the readers to apply Smith's ideas to Swedish conditions. Those translations, to the best of my knowledge, were the first ones of Wealth of Nations in Sweden. They were followed by translations of other parts of Wealth of Nations, published in 1800 amd 1808. This time the translator was Erik Erland Bodell, an official of the Swedish Customs and thus, if you like, a colleague of Adam Smith."" ( Cheng-chung, Adam Smith Across Nations). Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish, it still had a profound influence, not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English, but upon politics and public opinion in general: ""There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's, there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. [...]Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century"" and, as far as I know, nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish, nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill."" (Heckscher, A survey of economic thought in Sweden, 1875-1950).The journal was preceded by Adlersparre's ""Läsning för landtmän"" 1795-96. The content is a mixture of literature, agriculture, law, philosophy and politics. Apart from the many contributions by Swedish authors, ""Läsning i blandade ämnen"" also contains texts by Kant, Gibbon and De Lolme OCLC lists copies at Yale, Minnesota, and Texas.‎

Bookseller reference : 53615

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎En Undersökning av Folkens Välstånd dess Natur och Orsaker. Översättning av D:r Emil Sommarin. [i.e. Swedish ""Wealth of Nations""]. 2 volumes. - [FIRST SWEDISH EDITION OF ""THE WEALTH OF NATIONS""]‎

‎Lund, C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, 1909 & 1911. 8vo. Both volumes in the original printed wrappers. Light wear to spines, otherwise a very fine and clean set. XVI,191, (4), 179 pp.‎

‎First edition of the first Swedish translation of Adam Smith's ground-breaking main work, the ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"". Smaller parts of the book had previously been translated into Swedish (in 1800, 1804 and 1869), but the present translation is considered the first actual translation of the work (even though some parts have been excluded by translator Emil Sommarin, who based his translation the 5th English edition, the last edition to be supervised by Adam Smith himself). It is to this date the only Swedish translation of the work, which tells us a lot about the history of Swedish economics. Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish, it still had a profound influence, not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English, but upon politics and public opinion in general: ""There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's, there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. [...]Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century"" and, as far as I know, nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish, nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill."" (Heckscher, A survey of economic thought in Sweden, 1875-1950).Translator Emil Sommarin (1874-1955) was a student of Knut Wicksell, arguably the most influential Swedish economist, and Sommarin succeeded Wicksell's professorship in national economics. Wicksell ""came to know his classics very well and became and remained an admirer of Adam Smith. Around 1910 he also assisted his former student and successor as economics professor in Lund, Emil Sommarin, with the translation of WN, still the most complete we have in Sweden. In this connection he wrote to a friend in Uppsala, ""It is almost unbelievable that we have been denied this masterpiece for 125 years and our economic policy is a result of the omission"" (Cheng-Chung Lai, Adam Smith Across Nations, p. 384).‎

Bookseller reference : 58833

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Politisk undersökning om lagar, som hindra och tvinga införseln af sådana utländska varor, som kunna alstras eller tillverkas inom landet. Göteborg. (i.e. English: ""An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations""). - [SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WEALTH OF NATIONS]‎

‎Göteborg (S. Norberg) 1804. 8vo. In contemporary grey blank wrappers. Stamp to front wrapper, verso of front wrapper, title-page and p. 17. Otherwise fine. (12), (1)-51, (1) pp.‎

‎The exceedlingly rare second part of the Swedish Bodell-translation of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' book IV. . Bodell published translations of excerpts of Smith's landmark work in 1800, 1804 and 1808. A more lengthy translation was made in 1909 - 1911 but to this day a full Swedish translation has not been made.Despite the comparatively late translation into Swedish, it still had a profound influence, not on economists since they were well aware of the original work in English, but upon politics and public opinion in general: ""There are few things more striking to the modem student of the history of ideas in Sweden than the negative phenomenon that Sweden was almost entirely uninfluenced by this fact and thus remained almost unaffected by English economic thought during a period when its superiority was most evident. As far as I am acquainted with the Swedish economic discussion and our popular economic literature of the 1860's and 1870's, there is almost no trace of any influence from English writers. [...]Of Adam Smith we have still only one abbreviated translation of his famous work and that was published as late as during this century"" and, as far as I know, nothing of Ricardo's or Malthus' exists in Swedish, nor do any of the major economic works of J.S. Mill."" (Heckscher, A survey of economic thought in Sweden, 1875-1950).Cheng-chung Lai, A17, 2. Vanderblue p. 33.‎

Bookseller reference : 58583

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Undersøgelse om National-Velstands Natur og Aarsag. Af det Engelske oversat og med nogle Anmærkninger oplyst af Dræbye. 2 Deele. [Anden Deel:] Hertil er føiet Gourvenør Pownals Brev til Forfatteren i hvilket nogle af de i dette Værk fremsatte Læresætn... - [FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ""THE WEALTH OF NATIONS""]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two very nice contemporary brown half calf bindings with raised bands, gilt ornamentations and gilt leather title- and tome-labels. Volume two with a bit of wear to upper capital. Corners slightly bumped. Pencil annotations to verso of title-page in volume one" title-page in volume two mounted to cover up a small hole caused by the removal of an old owner's name. Internally very clean and bright. All in all a very nice, clean, fresh, and tight copy. Engraved (by Weise, 1784) armorial book plate to inside of front boards (Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen). (12), 575" (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.‎

‎The extremely scarce first Danish edition of Adam Smith's seminal main work, ""the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought"" (PMM 221), the main foundational work of the era of liberal free trade. This publication constitutes the first Danish work worth mentioning in the history of economic thought - in spite of the great interest in political economy that dominated Danish political thought in the last quarter of the 18th century. The value of Smith's work was not immediately recognized in Denmark at the time of its appearance and a quarter of a century had to go by for its importance to be acknowledged and for Danish political economy to adapt the revolutionizing theories of Adam Smith. Few copies of the translation were published and sold, and the book is now a great scarcity. As opposed to for instance the German translation of the work, Smith concerned himself a great deal with this Danish translation. As is evident from preserved correspondence about it, he reacted passionately to it and was deeply concerned with the reaction to his work in Scandinavia (see ""Correspondence of Adam Smith"", Oxford University Press, 1977).- As an example, Smith writes in a letter to Andreas Holt on Oct. 26th, 1780: ""It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that Mr. Dreby has done me the distinguished honour of translating my Book into the Danish language. I beg you will present to him my most sincere thanks and most respectful Compliments. I am much concerned that I cannot have the pleasure of reading it in his translation, as I am so unfortunate as not to understand the Danish language."" The translation was made by Frants Dræby (1740-1814), the son a whiskey distiller in Copenhagen, who mastered as a theologian and was then hired by the great Norwegian merchant James Collett as tutor to his son. There can be no doubt that Dræbye's relation to the Collett house had a great impact upon his interest in economics. In the middle of the 1770'ies, Dræbye accompanied Collett's son on travels throughout Europe, which took them to England in the year 1776, the same year that the ""Wealth of Nations"" was published for the first time. Through the Colletts, Dræbye was introduced to the mercantile environment in England and here became thoroughly acquainted with English economics and politics at the time. It is presumably here that he gets acquainted with Adam Smith's freshly published revolutionary work. When Dræbye returned to Denmark at the end of 1776, he was appointed chief of the Norwegian secretariat of the Board of Economics and Trade. He began the translation of the ""Wealth of Nations"" that he brought back with him from England immediately after his return.""WN [i.e. Wealth of Nations] was translated into Danish by Frants Dræbye and published in 1779 (three years after the first English edition). The translation was initiated by Andreas Holt and Peter Anker, who were acquainted with Smith. Dræbye was a Dane who lived mainly in Norway, reflecting the fact that Norway was much more British-oriented than Denmark proper (Denmark and Norway were united until 1814, when Sweden took Norway away from the Danes"" in 1905 Norway became an independent state). Norwegian merchants lived from exporting timber to Britain and tended on the whole to be adherents of a liberal economic policy, whereas the absolutist government in Copenhagen was more German-oriented and had economic views similar to those in contemporary Prussia."" (Cheng-chung Lai (edt.): ""Adam Smith Across Nations"", p. (37)). The last quarter of the eighteenth century in Denmark was dominated by a lively discussion of monetary policy and the institutional framework best suited to realize that policy. There was a vital interest in questions of economic concern, and contemporary Danish sources refer to the period as ""this economic age"" and state things such as ""never was the world more economically minded"" (both from ""Denmark and Norway's Economic Magazine""). During this period, Smith's revolutionary ideas did not play a major role, however, and only at the beginning of the 19th century did Danish politicians and economists come to realize the meaning of Smith's views. ""Without exaggeration it can essentially be said that a quarter of a century was to pass from the time of the publication of the book in Denmark before Danish political economy fully made Adam Smith's theories and points of view its own. It took so long a time because the economic conditions as a whole in the years from 1780-1800 did not make desirable or necessary the changing of their concepts. That glorious commercial period had to pass before it was understood that we had altogether too little help in our own natural resources and that a different course was, therefore, necessary. Only when one had come so far could the new thinking find a nourishing soil so that it could develop strength with which to push aside the old ideas.""(Hans Degen: ""On the Danish Translation of Adam Smith and Contemporary Opinion Concerning It."" Translated by Henrietta M. Larson. In: Adam Smith Across Nations, p. 51). This first Danish translation is one of the very earliest translations of ""Wealth of Nations"""" it is only preceded by the German (1776-78) and the extremely scarce French (1778-79). As a comparison, the Italian translation does not appear until 1790-91, the Spanish 1792, the Swedish 1800-1804, the Russian 1802, etc.Adam Smith Across Nations: A4 - nr. 1. ""All five books were translated"" appears to be a complete translation. The long letter from Governor Pownall to Adam Smith (25 Sept. 1776) is added as the Appendix (vol. 2, pp. 683 ff.).""(PMM 221 - first edition)‎

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‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Untersuchung der Natur und Ursachen von Nationalreichthümern, Aus dem Englischen. 2 Bände. - [THE SEMINAL FIRST TRANSLATION OF 'WEALTH OF NATIONS']‎

‎Leipzig, Weidmann, 1776-78. 8vo. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-papers and a small embossed stamp to front free end paper on volume 1 (""Buchhändler u. Antiquar Carl Helf""). Stamp to p. 1 of both volumes. Spines with light soiling and capital on volume 1 lacking a small part of the leather. A few light brown spots throught. A fine set. VIII, 632 pp"" XII, 740 pp.‎

‎First German edition, also being the very first overall translation, of Adam Smith's ground-breaking main work, the ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"". This seminal first translation of the work was undertaken by J.F. Schiller, who finished the first part of the translation in time for it to appear as soon as 1776, the same year as the original English edition. The second part appeared in 1778, the same year as the exceedingly scarce first French translation. This first German translation has been of the utmost importance to the spreading of Smith's ideas throughout Europe, and, after the true first, this must count as the most important edition of the work.""The influence of the Wealth of Nations [...] in Germany [...] was so great that 'the whole of political economy might be divided into two parts - before and since Adam Smith"" the first part being a prelude, and the second a sequel."" (Backhouse, Roger E., The Methodology of Economics: Nineteenth-Century British Contributions, Routledge, 1997.)""The first review of the translation, which appeared in the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen for March 10, 1777, by J. G. H. Feder, professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, was very favorable. In the words of the reviewer: ""It is a classic"" very estimable both for its thorough, not too limited, often far-sighted political philosophy, and for the numerous, frequently discursive historical notes,"" but the exposition suffers from too much repetition."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Until 1797, [...], the work of Adam Smith received scant attention in Germany. While Frederick II was living, Cameralism held undisputed sway in Prussia, and the economic change which began with the outbreak of the French Revolution had still not gained sufficient momentum to awake the economic theorists from their dogmatic slumber."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Various German economist read the german translations and was inspired by it.""Christian Garve, [...], must be considered as among the important contributors to the spread of Smith's views. Himself a popularizer of philosophical doctrines, he was early attracted by the Scotch writers and became one of their foremost exponents in Germany."" In 1791 Garve began a second translation of the Smith's work and in the introduction to the the translation he wrote: ""It (Smith's work) attracted me as only few books have in the course of my studies through the number of new views which it gave me not only concerning the actual abject of his investigations, but concerning all related material from the philosophy of civil and social life"". Georg Sartorius, August Ferdinand Lueder and, perhaps the most important economist of the period, Christian Jacob Kraus, were all important figures in the spread of Smith's thought. ""The most significant of Kraus' works and that also which shows his conception of economic science most clearly is the five-volume work entitled State Economy. The first four volumes of this work are little more than a free paraphrase of the Wealth of Nations"". Kraus was: ""to a large extent responsible for the economic changes which took place in Prussia after 1807, in so far as they can be ascribed to Smithan influence."" (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000).Kraus wrote of the present volume: ""[T]he world has seen no more important book than that of Adam Smith.... [C]ertainly since the times of the New Testament no writing has had more beneficial results than this will have.... [Smith's doctrines form] the only true, great, beautiful, just and beneficial system."" (Fleischacker, Samuel , A Third Concept of Liberty, Princeton University Press, 1999.)_____________Hailed as the ""first and greatest classic of modern thought"" (PMM 221), Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics, and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith (1723-1790) is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain, mainly due to his groundbreaking work, the ""Wealth of Nations"" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to, and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well, and the first edition, the number of which is unknown, sold out within six months, which came as a surprise to the publisher, and probably also to Smith himself, partly because the work ""requires much thought and reflection (qualities that do not abound among modern readers) to peruse to any purpose."" (Letter from David Hume, In: Rae, Life of Adam Smith, 1895, p. 286), partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this, it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world, and Buckle's words that the work is ""in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written"", and that it has ""done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account"" (History of Civilisation, 1869, I:214) well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Kress S. 2567Goldsmith 11394Menger 521Not in Einaudi‎

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