CHARLES DAVENANT The Political and Commercial Works of the celebrated Writer Charles D’Avenant, LL.D. Relating to the Trade and Revenue of England, the Plantation Trade, the East-India Trade, and African Trade. Collected and Revised by Sir Charles Whitworth, Member of Parliament. To which is annexed a copious Index. London, R.Horsfield 1771 5 volumes, octavo, contemporary pale calf, spines with five raised bands, contemporary red morocco labels lettered gilt, (1) + xvipp + 459pp; (2) + 382pp; (2) + 430pp; (2) + 439pp; (1) + 463pp + (21), with 3 folding tables, dedication leaf in volume I loose, ownership in ink on the titles of John Hamilton. Provenance: John Hamilton 1739-1821 of Sundrum Castle, Ayrshire; prominent in local politics in Ayr, he had enlightenment interests typical of his age, was a friend of James Boswell who introduced him to Samuel Johnson in 1773 which is recorded in Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Rare. Goldsmiths Library 10710. Kress 6785. Einaudi 1437. Adam Smith’s Library: Yanaihara p.101, Mizuta p.86, Bonar p.54. FIRST AND ONLY COLLECTED EDITION and very rare. Davenant (1656-1714) was Inspector-General of Imports & Exports in the reign of Queen Anne. His writings were first published between 1695 and 1712. Though a partisan of the mercantilist system, he was free from some of the prejudices of its more indiscriminate and zealous supporters. A disciple of William Petty, he contributed t6o keeping political arithmetic alive by quoting and reproducing Gregory King’s careful quantitive estimates of national income, the growth of population, the value of capital and the rate of the growth of capital. Adam Smith quotes directly from this work in The Wealth of Nations, Book I, chapter viii, referring to Davenant’s comments on Gregory King’s skill in political arithmetic. Again in Book V, chapter ii, Adam Smith notes Davenant’s view about the incidence of taxation on malt liquors. Adam Smith’s own copy of this work is in Edinburgh University Library. £2,950	Please select : JOHN BATE Gerard Blaes Bullion Report Ephraim Chambers Captain James Cook Charles Davenant Alexis de Tocqueville Nicholas Dubois de Chemant Francesco Feliciano William Hamilton Ebenezer Howard DAVID HUME Six 17th Century editions of the Koran Koran Koran Koran John Locke JOHN LOCKE JOHN LOCKE Thomas Masterson HENRI MATISSE JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL Thomas Obicini LUCA PACIOLI John Parkinson JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI François PÉTIS DE LA CROIX William Petty Giovanni Sfortunati William Shaw Robert Simson Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith SIR JAMES STEUART Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Stromer William Thom CUTHBERT TUNSTALL JOHN WHEELER Robert Wooffendale
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