An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
The book contains two fragments of a Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic, the Pennsylvanian tablet” and the “Yale table”, with translation, commentary and images of the tablets.
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L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (7th ed. 1866)
Tocqueville’s last major work which he left unfinished on the continuities between the old regime and the French Revolution.
La teorica delle produttività marginali
An important Italian contribution to the early develoment of the marginal school of economic thought which also influenced the Public Choice school in the US.
Principia mathematica (Latin ed.)
Newton’s most famous work Principia (1687) explains the laws governing the motion of physical objects (heavenly and otherwise). Principia rests on the new branch of mathematics that Newton invented simultaneously with Leibniz (1646-1716), calculus, a tool that allowed mathematicians to move beyond the work done by the ancient Greeks for the first time in almost two thousand years. Newton provided explanations for fundamental natural phenomena: gravitation, the motion of the planets, and the mechanics of physics on earth.
Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen
A German edition of Humboldt’s great work on limited government and individual autonomy.
An Interview with Dennis O’Keeffe about Benjamin Constant
David Hart interviews Liberty Fund author and Professor of Social Science, Dennis O’Keeffe, about his translation of Benjamin Constant’s Principles of Politics applicable to all Governments (1815). O’Keeffe also discusses the continuing importance of Constant’s political views.
Twenty-Five Sonnets of Shakespeare
A selection of 25 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in a bibliophile edition of 1922 from Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford.
The Code Napoleon: or, the French Civil Code
An English translation of the French Civil Code by an anonymous English barrister.
Armonias Economicas
A Spanish translation of Bastiat’s best known work on “economic harmonies” in which he explains in simple terms how the free market operates to everybody’s benefit.
Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (1849)
This catalogue is 5 pages long and contains Dunoyer’s book on the February Revolution of 1848, the collection of Petits Pamphlets of Bastiat, a work collecting the debates in the National Assembly on the right to work issue, an announcement of Bastiat’s “forthcoming” work Economic Harmonies, and Charles Coquelin’s work on free banking.