ABSTRACT
The major legacy of Cambridge economist Herbert Somerton Foxwell was to form the nucleus of two of the greatest collections of economics books. Indirectly it is essentially thanks to Herbert Foxwell, and later to the curator of one of these collections, that they are able to produce a fairly accurate list of the economic bestsellers in the German language before 1850. In Cambridge Herbert Somerton Foxwell was a contemporary of John Maynard Keynes father John Neville Keynes, of Alfred Marshall, the founder of neo-classical economics, and of economic historian William Cunningham. The work on Schumpeter's filiations of economic thought was continued in Kress Library through publications on bibliographical matters and on unknown economists. The large number of translations of Giovanni Botero's works especially the Relazioni Universali that appeared in Germany, both in Latin and German translations, testifies to his strong influence on the German seventeenth century Zeitgeist.
