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BROUGHAM ( Henry Peter ), FRS, Baron Brougham and Vaux

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BROUGHAM ( Henry Peter ), FRS, Baron Brougham and Vaux

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
BROUGHAM ( Henry Peter ), FRS, Baron Brougham and Vaux. An inquiry into the colonial policy of the European powers. Edinburgh, 1803FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 588 : (6), 588, 2 vols, 8vo, original boards, entirely uncut, with printed paper labels, in a fitted folding cloth case : the spines worn, wanting most of the backstrips, but the labels intact and the cords strong and with some light browning in places, but otherwise a very good copy in original state of a work rarely found thus."This, which was the earliest, is, perhaps, also the best of the many publications put forth by its prolific and versatile author. It has comparatively little of the exaggeration which characterizes his later writings. It evinces, also, considerable research." - McCulloch. "His first considerable work … Criticising Adam Smith, maintains that the monopoly of colonial trade did not produce all the detrimental effects ascribed to it … he not only denouces the slave trade as iniquitous - 'not a trade, but a crime' - but also argues that it is unprofitable." - Palgrave. "He was very hostile to emancipation. More than a quarter of a century later, when he championed the latter step, his words here were turned against him." - Ragatz.(2)HISTORY; ECONOMICS; TRADE; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;