1789 Wealth of Nations 1st US ed Adam Smith Economics Industrial Rev Capitalism

1789 Wealth of Nations 1^st US ed Adam Smith Economics Industrial Rev Capitalism

First American edition of Smith’s famous ‘Wealth of Nations’!

“Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Wealth of Nations” was one of the world’s first collected descriptions of what builds a nations’ economy, wealth, and capitalism. Smith begins this landmark work by stating that the source of a nation’s wealth comes from the labor of the people. Throughout the rest of the work, Smith shows how productivity and financial exchanges are the root of a working economy.

Adam Smith’s work is the first major expression of organized study of social wealth.

‘The Wealth of Nations’ is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought. (PMM 221).

This printing is perhaps the most desirable of any other edition of Smith. This 1789 Dobson printing is the first American edition. Prior to this edition, American readers were unlikely to be able to have easy access to this landmark work. Few works printed in 18^th-century America are as rare and valuable as this!

Item number: #26365

Price: $9500

SMITH, Adam

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Philadelphia: printed for Thomas Dobson, 1789. First American edition!

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • 1 – viii, [9]-412
  • 2 – vi, [7]-430
  • 3 – v, [1], 7-387, [55]
• References: Goldsmiths’-Kress 11392; PMM 221; Rothschild 1897; Grolier English 57;
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11.5cm)
• ASTONISHINGLY rare, valuable, and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at $25,000

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