Auction of Staffordshire manor house contents unearths first edition copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

A first edition copy of Adam Smith’s 'The Wealth of Nations' has been unearthed during final preparations for the sale of the contents of a Staffordshire manor house.

Derbyshire auction house Hansons expects the two volume work, properly titled Inquiry into the Natur…

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