This collection comprises 1,917 foreign books mainly in the field of economics. These books were collected by Professor Inosuke Onishi during the early period of OUC, when it was known as Otaru Higher Commercial School. The collection was given to the Library as a gift by his family in 1923.
This collection includes the first edition of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith published in 1776, the first edition of "An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas R. Malthus published in 1798, and other historically valuable books.

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  The first edition of "An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness" by William Godwin, 1793

This memorial collection comprises 391 copies of books dealing with the history of social thought, chiefly the ideas of social evolution of such noted thinkers as F. M. C. Fourier and Sain-Simon (born Claude Henry de Rouvroy).
These books are unique to the Shelle, Tezuka Collections.

This collection, personal books of the Professor Emeritus Jun'ichi Ono, the first president of Otaru College of Economics and OUC, has 1,280 books. It was given to the Library as a memorial by his family in 1983, the first anniversary of his death.
This collection includes the first edition of the first volume of "Das Kapital", the main work of German economist and philosopher Karl Marx.

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  The first edition of the German version of "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx, 1867

This collection has 1,603 Japanese and foreign books on finance and public finance collected by Professor Nizaburo Kito, who taught Theory of Finance and Monetary Economy at Tokyo University of Commerce.
After World War II, in the stage of Otaru College of Economics, this collection was given to the Library as a gift from the Association for Realization University Growth.

This collection has 1,705 books (consisting of 1,699 foreign and 6 Japanese books) in the field of literature, collected by Professor Emeritus Yoshinori Kose, who taught English Literature at Hitotsubashi University. His son Tairoku Kose was a Professor of Management Science until March in 1973 at this university.
It was given to the Library as a gift by "The Kose Collection Society" in 1982 in memory of the school's 70th anniversary.

This collection has 1,890 books collected by Professor Tairoku Kose, former Library Director, who taught Econometrics and Management Science at this university.
It was given to the Library as a gift by his family after his death.
This collection also includes 25 volumes of the series of comics "TENSAI YANAGISAWA KYOOJU NO SEIKATSU" (The life of Genius Professor Yanagisawa). The main character in the comics is modeled on Professor Kose.

This collection has 6,624 books (mostly French) collected by Professor Juro Tezuka. He taught economics from 1919 through 1942 at this university.
These books were bought for 40,000 yen by Mr. Miyakichi Itaya and given to the Library as a gift in 1944.
It includes widely valuable books in the field of social thought and philosophy as well as economics.

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  "Les six livres de la repvbliqve" by Jean Bodin, 1577
  "Abrege du projet de paix perpetuelle" by Charles Saint-Pierre, 1729
  The first edition of "Principes du droit politique" by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, 1751
  "Elemens du droit naturel" by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, 1775
  "Collection Complete des oeuvres de l'abbe de Mably" by Mably, 1794

This collection comprises 9,336 classical books mainly in the field of economics. These were collected by Professor Miyoji Hayakawa, who taught Principles of Economics and Business Cycles at OUC. Part of the collection was purchased by the university in 1970, and the rest was later donated through the kindness of his family.

Professor Fusajiro Ban was a Professor of Law at OUC (Otaru Higher Commercial School) and its second President. Upon retiring in 1935, he donated 367 books to the university.
Additional books in the field of law were added to the collection thanks to a memorial fund donated by his family.

This collection of personal books of Arata Matsuda, who was one of the first graduates of the first graduate of Otaru Higher Commercial School, has 625 books mainly in the literary field.
It was given to the Library as a gift by his family in 1955.

This collection has 2,448 books (1,608 foreign and 840 Japanese books) collected by Professor Ryozaburo Minami, who taught Principles of Economics and Social Policy. He made a great contribution to progress on population problems. Afterwards he lectured on "Problems of Population" at Chuo University and Komazawa University.
After his death, this collection was given as a gift to the Library by his family.

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  "The primitive origination of mankind" by Matthew Hale, 1677
  "Von Verbesserung Land und Leuten, und wie ein Regend seine Macht und Ansehen erheben konne" by Johann George Leibs, 1708

This collection has 4,097 books collected by Professor Kenjiro Muroya who taught Business Management and Economic History at this university.
It was given to the Library as a gift by his family in 1975.

This collection comprises 32 copies of the rare books related to the French Revolution in various areas of law. They were once in the library of J. Combaceres, a lawyer and politician noted as the editorial chief of the Code Napoleon.
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This collection, a set personally collected by French economist Gustave Schelle (1845-1927), has 1,578 books (added later). This collection was brought to the Library with great effort by Professor Juro Tezuka, who studied in France in those days.
Schelle is a well-known authority especially on scholars of the Physiocrat. This is a rare collection including almost all originals by main scholars of the middle eighteenth century, Francois Quesnay, Victor Riqueti, Marqui's de Mirabeau, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, and others.

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  "Testament politique de messire Jean Baptiste Colbert, ministre et secretaire d'Etat" by Jean Baptiste Colbert, 1693
  "Traite des effets et de l'usage de la saignee" by Francois Quesnay, 1750

This collection is mainly composed of the publications or other materials related to the French Revolution.
In the collection you can discover first-hand materials that appeared in the days of French Revolution. For instance, decrees of laws and ordinances, parts of a draft constitution, even assignats. 1190 copies of them are bound together into 207 volumes.

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  Assignats

This collection has 197 books, collected by Professor D. Brooke McKinnon, who taught English at Otaru Higher Commercial School from 1917 to 1941 and was popular among Otaru citizens as "Professor Donkey" for his riding a donkey to go to the school.
This collection comprises 3 books by Professor McKinnon, 100 foreign and 94 Japanese books mainly in the field of English literature and language education.

This collection comprises 1,138 foreign books that cover the economic, political, diplomatic, and cultural aspects of modern Japanese history particularly between World War 1 and 2. It was the private collection of Professor Richard Storry, who taught at OUC (Otaru Higher Commercial School) in 1937 -- 40 and returned to England to become a Professor at Oxford University. It was purchased by the university in 1987.