A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith: Author of the 'Moral Sentiments' and 'The Wealth of Nations'

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un nom par des talens, des vertus, des forfaits, des erreurs, etc. Par une Société de Gens de Lettres. 8 vols. 5th ed. Gz«z, 1783. Thesaurus Historiae Helveticae, continens lectis-simos Scriptores. 1 vol. Fol. Tiguri (Zurich),!775. Historiae Augustae ScriptoresVI. Cum notis Isaaci Casauboni, Cl. Salmasii et Joannis Gruterii. 8vo, vellum. Lugduni Batav. 1671. Vol. i. Vol. ii. History of the Union of Great Britain. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. Edinburgh, 1709. Attributed to Defoe. Leviathan. 1 vol. Small fol. calf. London, 1651. Moral and Political Works. 1 vol. Fol. calf. London, 1750. Mor. Sent. ii. 325 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. i.) (Hobbes is one of those who deduce the principle of self-approbation from the principle of self-love.) Ibid. ii. 332 (Part VII. Sect. III. ch. ii.) ("a state of nature is a state of war"), 333-335 (the controversy aroused by Hobbes). W. of N. I. v. 14. 1. ("Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power,"--but it is not necessarily political power.) India Tracts by Mr. Holwell and Friends, containing: (1) An Address to the Proprietors of East India Stock, setting forth the unavoidable necessity and real motives for the Revolution in Bengal, 1760. (2) Refutation of a Letter from certain Gentlemen of the Council at Bengal to the Hon. the Secret Committee. (3) Important Facts regarding the East India Company's Affairs in Bengal from the years 1752 to 1760, with copies of several very interesting letters. (4) Narrative of the deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William at Calcutta, June 1756. (5) Defence of Mr. Vansittart's Conduct. Frontispiece: Monument at Calcutta to the Sufferers in the Black Hole Prison. 2nd ed. with add...