First edition of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' sells in New York

A 1776 first of Adam Smith’s '…Wealth of Nations' sold in a New York summer sale bore an understandably irritated inscription by the man to whom it had been gifted by its author.

Bound in full but now rubbed and rebacked contemporary calf and sold at $100,000 (£76,925) by Swan…

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