“MEN… GO MAD IN HERDS”
MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London, 1841. Three volumes.
First edition of this highly entertaining and exceptionally influential early study of crowd behavior, a long-standing and classic guide to both popular psychology and the stock market. $17,000.
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"A LEADER IN THE BRITISH ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT": FIRST EDITION OF ALEXANDER'S PIVOTAL WORK, LETTERS ON THE SLAVE-TRADE (1842)
ALEXANDER, G[eorge]. W[illiam]. Letters on the Slave-Trade. London, 1842.
First edition of a signal work by leading British abolitionist Alexander, whose lifelong efforts "to rid the world of the scourge of slavery" won praise by Frederick Douglass, cited in W.E.B. Du Bois' Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost entirely uncut and unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth. $2900.
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“A CLASSIC WORK ABOUT PARAGUAY”
CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francis-Xavier de. History of Paraguay. London, 1769. Two volumes in one. First edition in English of this fascinating history of Paraguay and its colonization by the Jesuit missionaries, handsomely bound. $1200.
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