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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du roi, qui ordonne l'exécution, dans le port de Dunkerque, des arrêts & règlemens qui accordent la préférence à la ferme générale, dans les adjudications de tabacs provenans de prise. Du 2 Avril 1783. Paris, 1783. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Originaledition. EUR 100
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CANAL Littoral du Delta du Rhone. (Extrait de Cultivateur, Journal des progrès agricoles, avril 1840). (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, no date. 8 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Written by several owners of land ('près de 40.000 hectares de terrain') who have spend several millions of francs 'pour fertiliser cette immense surface' and proposing the construction of an irrigation canal. - At head of title: Société des Progrès Agricoles. EUR 125
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CITOYEN, Un, aux Etats Généraux. No place, 1788 (Paris, EDHIS, 1976). 46 pp. 8vo. Boards. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi or INED.Very rare text, reprinted in an edition of 150 numbered copies and 30 not destined for the trade, and since long out-of-print. Anonymous tract of a physiocratic character. Demands to reconsider the division of taxes; explains the advantages of small farmlands which should be maintained and not destroyed by the pressing high taxes. Published at the eve of the Revolution, this tract forms an interesting document on the farmers' problems. EUR 125
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DECLARATION du roi, portant réglement général pour le tabac; donnée à Paris, le 1er Août 1721. Paris, 1785. 22 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. EUR 125
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DEPEND de l'honorable conseil de cette ville de Marseille, tenue le 14 Juin 1764. A Marseille, De l'imprimerie J.A. Brebion, 1764. 38 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. - Title-page spotted. Pages 7-35 contain: Reglement pour la perception des droits de piquet, pestre, reve et gabelle du vin et boucherie, au profit de la communauté de Marseille. The 41 articles pertain mainly to corn and flour. EUR 175
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INSTRUCTION sur la manière de cultiver la betterave. Boulogne, Imprimerie de Leroy-Berger, 1811. (2), 28 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Published and distributed by the 'Société d'agriculture, du commerce et des arts de Boulogne'. This particular copy has been marked with an * after the word 'betterave'; an explanatory note on the title-page explains that a number of copies marked thus have been improved and changed during the printing process. EUR 175
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LOI donnée à Paris, le 16 Août 1792, l'an quatrième de la liberté. (Toulon, 1792). 3 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Deals with prices for tobacco and salt. EUR 80
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LOI relative au prix du tabac manufacturé. Donnée à Paris le 1er Avril 1791. Paris, 1791. 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Goldsmiths 14709; not in Kress. Original edition. EUR 75
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LOI relative au tabac de cantine pour les troupes. Donnée à Paris, le 6 Août 1791. Paris, 1791. 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Originaledition. EUR 75
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LOI relative à l'importation du Tabac. Donnée à Paris, le 24 Avril 1791. (Toulon, 1791). 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Krress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. EUR 75
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LOI relative à la réduction des droits d'entrée sur le tabac. Du 5 septembre 1792. (Drop-head title). (Grenoble), De l'Imprimerie du Surre, fils, 1792. 3 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. Goldsmiths 15220; not in Kress. 'Les tabacs du Levant seront admis en balles; ceux d'Amerfort & autres de Hollande en panier, & ceux des colonies en paquets'. EUR 100
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MEMOIRE sur un point essentiel de la Richesse de l'État. No place, no date. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Not inKress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; not in Musset-Pathay First edition. Probably written around 1788-1789 as the author refers to the upcoming meeting of the Three Estates (the only one held in the 18th century) and reminds the reader of the 'grande sechesse de l'été de 1785.' Advocates agriculture and the means to improve its results, and points to the devastating effects of the 'Dime'. EUR 125
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OBSERVATIONS sur la question de l'aliénation des forêts nationales. Présentées à l'Assemblée nationale, par la Société royale d'agriculture, le 3 février 1792. Paris, Impr. de la Feuille du Cultivateur, 1792. (2), 31 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Musset-Pathay; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 11196. Responsable for these observations were among others Abeille, Tessier, Boncerf, and Varenne de Fenille. EUR 150
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PETITION de la Société populaire et républicaine d'Harfleur, département de la Seine-Inférieure, à la Convention nationale. (Sur un nouveau systême de mouture économique). (Paris), Impr. Moutard, (ab. 1793). 15 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. Proposes among others the establishment of 'Ecoles nationales de meunerie et de boulangerie'. EUR 150
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PLAN des travaux du Comité d'agriculture et de commerce, présenté à l'Assemblée nationale, le 8 mai 1790. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1790. 12 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; INED 4728bis; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1667. Dealing with various projects but aiming particularly at the suppression of the 'privilège' of the Compagnie des Indes and at the abolishment of the internal custom barriers.The Compagnie des Indes was the most important trading organization of eighteenth-century France. Its policies and activities were intertwined with royal finances and colonial ambitions. As a target of free trade advocates, the company was a source of frustation to provincial merchants and served to weaken loyalty to the absolute monarchy. At the outbreak of the French revolution, the advocates of free trade were once again in control (after a period of free trade in the 1770's, which was not very succesful and which led to the re-establishment of the company as monopolist) and the Constituent Assembly opened commerce to all in the spring of 1790, but did not liquidate the company. EUR 150
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PROGRAMMES des prix proposés par la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Dans sa séance générale du 22 Novembre 1826, pour être décernés en 1827, 1828, 1829 et1830. (Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1826). With one folding table. 53, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label and gilt lettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Rare and important document. Presided by Chaptal, assisted by de Gerando, Costaz, Jamard, the Comte de Lasteyrie and the duc de Doudeauville, the Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie counted among its members the most important representatives of the industrial and commercial interests of the age. The society proposed for four consecutive years (1827-1830) 35 prices with a total of 115,000 francs, for proposals which would lead to improvement in the 'arts mechaniques, la chimie, l'agriculture, l'économie', or inventions of importance in one of these areas of commercial or industrial activity. The text details the subject for each price and as such gives outstanding information on the actual situation in the mentioned fields. For exemple: for the Arts mècaniques there is a 'prix pour la fabrication des briques, tuiles et carreaux, par machines' and the text outlines the current situation and the use other nations make of such machines and details the specific requirements to be in competition for the price. For the Arts Mécaniques, as for the other subjects, several inventions or improvements are asked for or suggested and in all instances the text outlines the current situation, and describes what is wanted i.e. Agriculture: Pour la construction d'un moulin propre à nettoyer le sarrasin, Pour un semis de pins d'Ecosse (pinus rubra). Arts Chimiques: Pour le prefectionnement des fonderies de fer, etc. etc. The folding table is a recapitulation of the main subjects and the desired inventions, dates for submitting the plans and proposals, and dates for the distribution of the prices and the prices themselves. EUR 600
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PROJET d'encouragement de l'agriculture, du commerce et des arts, par la suppression de la milice, ou tirage au sort; avec la manière économique de suppléer aux troupes provinciales, par la création d'une école martiale, & l'établissement de manufactures & d'ateliers relatifs à leur service. Par M. l'abbé de M ..... l'aîné. No place, 1789. xiii, 56 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 14644; Kress S.5260; not in Goldsmiths. Includes a chapter 'Moyens supplétifs de ressources pécuniaires en faveur de ces asyles de charité.' EUR 100
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RICHESSE, LA, des cultivateurs ou dialogues entre Benjamin Jachère et Richard Trèfle, laboureurs, sur la culture du Trèfle, de la Luzerne et du Sainfoin; Traduit de l'Allemand (par Barbé-Marbois). Ouvrage servant de Manuel aux Cultivateurs des deux rives du Rhin. A Paris, Chez A.-J. Marchant, An XI (1803). With one folding table and a very charming engraved vignette on page 1. xvi, 175, (1), (16, publisher's catalogue) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, red morocco label with gilt lettering. Musset-Pathay 1740; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition ? Musset-Pathay lists Barbé-Marbois as the translator. Deals with alfalfa, clover and cock's comb in the form of dialogues between Benjamin Jachère and Richard Trèfle (Mr. Fallow and Mr. Clover). EUR 250
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ACTE pour amender les lois actuellement en vigueur (in Great Britain) sur l'importation des grains (23 Mars 1815). Paris, Impr. Royale, Avril 1821. - (Followed by:) MINISTEREde l'intérieur. Résultats des importations et des exportations de grains, farines et légumes en 1820. Paris, Impr. Royale, Avril 1821. - (Followed by:) MINISTERE de l'intérieur. Extrait de la correspondance du Consul de France à Odessa (concerning the prices and exports of corn). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Avril 1821. 3 pieces bound in 1 volume. 4 pp.; 2 pp.; 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards. None in Kress; none in Goldsmiths. EUR 150
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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du roi, concernant la vente & le débit du tabac. Du 16 octobre 1784. Lyon, 1784. 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. This issue not in Wroth & Annan. EUR 150
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EFFETS, DES, du transport des bureaux des traites aux frontières extrêmes, et autres vues politiques. Metz, chez la veuve Antoine & Fils, Et se trouve Chez les Libraires de Metz & Chez Belin à Paris, décembre 1790. (2), iv, 34 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 5310. First (and only?) edition. Of physiocratic inspiration, dealing with the inconveniences of interior customes. 'd'Après les Quesnai, les Mirabeau, les Larivière, les Dupont, les Smith, le régime des traites est destructif de l'agriculture et des arts'. EUR 200
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ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE. Économie politique et diplomatique. Partie dédié et présentée à Monseigneur le Baron de Breteuil ..... Par (J.N.) Démeunier. A Paris, Chez Panckoucke, A Liège, Chez Plomteux, 1784-1788. With one large folding engraved table.4 volumes. (2), vi, 760 pp.; (4), 757, (1) pp.; (4), 787, (1) pp.; (4), 840 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt backs with red and green labels with gilt lettering, all edges red (upper compartment of volume 4 with small damage). Kress B.574; Goldsmiths 12380; INED 1340; not in Einaudi. First edition. The Encyclopédie Méthodique was a reworking of the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, containing most of the articles from that work with additions and corrections. Its chief novelty was that the whole work was divided into subject categories, making every subject thus more accesible. All these parts form an independent work on particular subjects. The major part of the work was done by Demeurier who was assisted by Desbois de Rochefort and Grivel. The major subjects here are agriculture, population and political economy. EUR 1750
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HISTOIRE de la France rurale. Sous la direction de Georges Duby, professeur au Collège de France et Armand Wallon, inspecteur général de l'Agriculture. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1975-1976. With numerous illustrations, partly in color. Bibliographies and indices in every volume. 4 volumes. 620, (4) pp.; 620, (4) pp.; 568, (6) pp.; 666, (6) pp. 4to. Original publishers cloth with illustrated dustjacket. (Collection l'univers historique). First edition. Contributions by a.o. Duby, Bailloud, Le Glay, Fourquin Le Roy Ladurie, Jacquart, Gervais, Jolivet, Tavernier. Vol. I: La formation des campagnes françaises, des origines à 1340. Vol. II: L'âge classique des paysans, de 1340 à 1789. Vol III: Apogée et crise de la civilisation paysanne, de 1789 à 1914. Vol. IV: La fin de la France paysanne, de 1914 à nos jours. EUR 125
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INSTRUCTION sur les moyens de suppléer à la disette des fourrages, et d'augmenter la subsistance des bestiaux. Publiée par ordre du Roi. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1785. Engraved royal coat-of-arms on title-page. 16 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Musset-Pathay 846 (listing a 1786 edition, apparently with a supplement); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Proposes measures and puts forth suggestions to improve the stock of cattle and to anticipate and avoid the shortage of cattle-fodder in periods of dryness. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE et observations sur quelques impôts indirects. At end: Paris, Imprimerie de Prault 1789. With two folding tables. 4, 35, 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9670; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Tables deal with: 'Subvantion nationale sur les vins et boissons de toute espèce' and a 'Tableau comparatif de la perception des droits de courtiers-jageurs, inspecteurs aux boissons et inspecteurs aux boucheries'. The last 11 pp. contain 'Observations additionelles'. In the preface that anonymous author states that the work was written on request of 'un ministre de finances' and that the silence which followed the submission of his work is a proof of prejudice: he therefore decided to publish the manuscript. EUR 300
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MEMOIRE sur la nécessité de modifier notre législation sur les grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris, A. Egron, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) OBSERVATIONS sur l'importation et l'exportation des grains. A messieurs les membres de la Chambre des députés des départements, la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de l'arrondissement de Trévoux. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Pillet aîné, ab. 1821). - (Followed by:) EXTRAIT des registres des délibérations du conseil municipal de la ville de Marseille. Séance du 11 avril 1821. Marseille, A. Ricard, 1821. 3 works bound in 1 volume. 19, (1) pp.; 3, (1) pp.; 42 pp. 4to. Modern boards. None in Goldsmiths, none in Einaudi, Kress only has the third text: S.6314. Original editions. Interesting collection of works on corn trade.The first work is a plea for the restriction of the free importation of foreign grain: 'de protéger efficacement notre agriculture contre l'invasion des blés étrangers, et en même temps d'encourager ses travaux par la diminution de l'impôt territorial et par la libre exportation de ses produits.'The work is heavily annotated in a contemporary hand in the margins, under the first annotation there is a lead-pencilled note reading: 'note du Vte de Noailles.' At the end a printed note stating the the text was signed by the representatives of 55 departments.The second work is also in favor of limiting or prohibiting the import of foreign grains, the third text however, opposes explicitly the first and argues in favor of the existing situation. EUR 600
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MEMOIRE sur la vente exclusive du tabac, Par N.M.B. Pe ... , Electeur du département de l'Isle et Vilaine, et officier municipal de Saint-Malo. Saint Malo, 1791. 24 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Not in Sabin; not in Martin & Walter. Texts ofthis period printed in Saint-Malo are of the greatest rarity. EUR 750
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OBSERVATIONS sur les domaines du Roi, sur les vices de leur administration actuelle, et sur les moyens d'en tirer, au profit de l'Etat, le produit dont ils sont susceptibles. Berlin, aux dépens de la Société typographique, 1787. 87 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1307; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Propositions to improve the use of the royal domaines as well as improvement of its administration. EUR 162
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PROCES-VERBAUX et Ordonnances de Messieurs les Prévôt des Marchands et Echevins de la ville de Lyon, Pour le rétablissement des Mesures à Grains de ladite Ville. A Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1773. Large vignette on title. 87, (1) pp. Folio. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Musset-Pathay; Conlon 73:410. First edition. Deals with weight and mesures of corn and food and other (among which water, ice) products, mainly asking for the re-establishment of defined weights and mesures. Contains also schedules and tables with these weights and mesures, many in nice printed borders.Small repair to lower outer corner of title and same to upper outer margin of last leaf, some pages with a small marginal stain not touching text. EUR 175
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RECUEIL contenant les délibérations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture de la généralité de Paris, depuis le 12 Mars jusqu'au 10 Septembre 1761. Et les Mémoires publiés par son ordre pendant le même tems. A Paris, Chez la Veuve d'Houry, 1761. (4), 61, 7, (1), 6, 7, 12, 8, 12, 12, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, corners, marbled boards. Higgs 2448; Conlon 61:349; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not Goldsmiths. First edition, all published The 'Mémoires' are: Questions générales sur l'agriculture. - Observations sur l'établissement des Sociétés royales d'agriculture. - Réflexions sur les Sociétés royales d'agriculture. - Essai sur les labours. - Moyen de préserver le bled de la carie, par M. Du Plessis. - Mémoire sur le ray-grass et le red-clowe, par Delisle. - Mémoire sur les semoirs, par d'Ogilvy. - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding. EUR 500
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TARIF arresté au Conseil le 30 aoust 1735, qui fixe les sommes qui seront perçûës par les commis des ports, portes & barrières de la ville et faux-bourgs de Paris, sur les volailles & gibier, cochons-de-lait, agneaux & chevreaux y entrans .... comme aussi les volailles & gibier qui seront envoyés par présent .... conformément à l'arrest du 9 may 1741. Du 13 juin 1741. A Paris, Chez Pierre Prault, 1741. (4) pp. 4to. Pages 2-3 contain a list of prices for all kinds ofanimals, whether bought per piece or in larger quantities. EUR 75
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(ABEILLE, L.P. & J.G. MONTAUDOUIN DE LA TOUCHE.) Corps d'observations de la Société d'agriculture, de commerce & des arts, établie par les Etats de Bretagne. Années 1757-1758 & 1759-1760. A Rennes, Chez J. Vatar; A Paris, Chez la Veuve de B. Brunet, 1760-1762. With 3 engravings (1 folding). 2 volumes. xxxii, 276, (8) pp.; x, 359, (1, blank), (12) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 1-2 & 3243-4 (different issues); Higgs 2179 & 2673 (different issues); Goldsmiths 9655 & 9741; Einaudi 48-9; Conlon, 60:144 & 62:165; not in Kress. First edition, all published. Louis-Paul Abeille was an economist of the Physiocratic school, inspector-general of manufactures in France and later secretary to the council of the bureau of commerce. Montaudouin was a lawyer from Nantes. These reports were the only ones published although a third report was planned. The Société d'Agriculture was the first society of this type established in France, founded through Gournay's influence. Its members were to examine the state of agriculture, commerce and manufacturing industry. - Small stamps on titlepages. EUR 600
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(ABEILLE, L.P. & J.G. MONTAUDOUIN DE LA TOUCHE.) Corps d'observations de la Société d'agriculture, de commerce & des arts, établie par les Etats de Bretagne. Années 1757-1758 & Années 1759-1760. A Rennes, Chez J. Vatar; A Paris, Chez la Veuve de B. Brunet, 1760-1772. With engraved frontispieceand 4 engraved plates. 2 volumes. xxxviii, 38, 284, (6) pp.; viii, 392, (8) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines with raised bands and gilt lettering, with the gilt stamped armes of the États de Bretagne on the covers, slightly rubbed. INED 1-2 & 3243-3244 lists different issues but no second volume with the date 1772; Higgs 2179 & 5423; Goldsmiths 37378 & 10838.1; Einaudi 48 & 49; not in Kress; not in Mattioli. One of at least two editions for volume one from the year of publication, the other being in 12mo and with a completely different collation. The 12mo edition has no frontispiece and three plates. First edition of volume one, second edition of volume two, all published. Louis-Paul Abeille was an economist of the Physiocratic school, inspector-general of manufactures in France and later secretary to the council of the bureau of commerce. Montaudouin was a lawyer from Nantes. These reports were the only ones published although a third report was planned. The Société d'Agriculture was the first society of this type established in France, founded through Gournay's influence. Its members were to examine the state of agriculture, commerce and manufacturing industry. For the arms see: Olivier, Hermal and Roton, Reliures Armoriées Françaises, plate 1576, nr 3. EUR 1250
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(AMERVAL, D'.) La voix du vrai patriote. No place, 1789. 77, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in INED; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm (cf.: p. 192); not in Martin & Walter. First edition. The author primarily denounces the taxes which he considers to be destructive for agriculture and commerce. Inspired by the physiocratic theories he suggests that the only basis for taxation should be landed property. EUR 375
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(BAUDEAU, N.) Résultats de la liberté et de l'immunité du commerce des grains, de la farine et du pain. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint, Lacombe, Lemoine, 1768. 48 pp. 12mo. Modern marbled boards, red leather label on spine with gilt lettering. Weulersse p. xxv; Kress 6521; INED 296; Higgs 4376; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Very rare first separate edition, first published in the Ephémérides, September 1768, volume IX, entitled 'Résultats de la liberté parfaite et de l'immunité absolue du commerce des grains, de la farine et du pain; et conséquences pratiques de ses résultats'. 'Afin d'établir que la liberté parfaite et l'immunité totale du commerce des grains 'sont l'objet le plus essentiel à la prospérité de l'État', Baudeau considère les résultats de l'octroi de cette liberté sur le prix des grains, des terres, etc., et s'élève contre les 'exacteurs' et les 'monopoleurs'' (INED). One of several pamphlets and polemical writings of the period dealing with physiocratic solutions and explanations for the harrowing scarcity of grain and bread and the ensuing riots. - Name in an old hand written at top of title-page, sligthly touched by the binder's knife. The woodcut title-vignette has in the center a printed monogram 'NB'. EUR 2250
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(BAUDEAU, N.) Avis au peuple sur son premier besoin, ou Petits traités Economiques. Par l'Auteur des Ephémérides du Citoyen. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Hochereau, Desaint, Lacombe, 1768. 3 parts in 1 volume. (2), 152 pp.; 69, (1) pp.; 201, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, gilt lettering, gilt stamped unidentified arms in upper compartment, marbled edges. Kress 6516; Goldsmiths 10441; Einaudi 4432; INED 273; Higgs 4373; Leblanc 99; Weulersse, i, pp. 160-161. First edition. I: Premier Traité sur le commerce des bleds.II: Second Traité Sur la Mouture des Grains, & sur le Commerce des Farines.III: Troisième Traité, sur la Fabrication et le commerce du pain, et sur le vrai moyen de pourvoir aux approvisionnements publics. Nicolas Baudeau (1739-c1792). Born at Amoise, Baudeau entered the church, becoming a Canon and Professor of theology at the Chancelade Abbey. He was subsequently called to Paris in the service of Archbishop de Beaumont. In 1765, Baudeau founded the periodical Ephémérides du Citoyen, at that time a journal defending the mercantile system, in oppostion to Quesnay and his followers. Baudeau however was converted to Physiocracy in 1766 by Dupont de Nemours and he turned his journal over to the promotion of physiocracy. He was the editor till late 1768 when he handed editorial responsibility to Dupont de Nemours. Perhaps the most interesting of Baudeau's many writings is his systematic exposition and development of the Physiocratic theory of luxury, the most complete version of that theory and as such wrongly ignored. The Avis au Peuple 'est un livre pratique, semi-technique, puisqu'il s'agit de mouture et de boulangerie; une oeuvre d'expédient, pourrait-on-dire, écrite en vue de remédier d'urgence à la cherté, 'enfin d'aider aux vues saines et généreuses de l'Administration, qui en de telles circonstances porte seule le poids de la misère du peuple et de l'ignorance des subministrations'' (Weulersse). - Lacks the title-page to the third part. Very rare. EUR 2000
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(BELLEPIERRE DE NEUVE-EGLISE, L.J.) Le Patriote artesien. Dédié à Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois. Par M. de ***, ancien Officier de Cavalerie. A Paris, Chez Despilly, Le Clerc, 1761. With engraved frontispiece. xvi, 341, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges. INED 382; Higgs 2578; Musset-Pathay 1514; not in Kress; Goldsmiths, and Einaudi. First edition. 'Agronomique. De la décadence de l'agriculture, du commerce et des arts dans la province d'Artois, et des moyens de les ranimer. 'Ce n'est pas dans la simple agriculture que consiste le seul bonheur d'un État; c'est dans tous les Arts de nécessité première'' (INED).Contains statistical information on all sorts of commerce in all sorts of products among which wine, cotton, fish, tobacco, etc. as well as on a large number of professions: Peintres, Boulangers, Bouchers, Traiteurs, Miroitiers, Potiers, etc. - Small stamp on title. Very good copy. EUR 750
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(BERTHOLLET, C.L.) Rapport général sur les étangs, fait au Comité d'agriculture et des arts, par la Commission d'agriculture et des arts. (Paris, Imprimerie de la Feuille du Cultivateur, an III, 1794). With 1 folding table. (2), 133 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Musset-Pathay; Martin & Walter 2978 (erroneously dating it An II). - Inner margin of title renewed. Signed also by L'Héritier & Tissot. EUR 150
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(BIGOT DE SAINTE CROIX.) Avis du Parlement de Dauphiné Sur la libre circulation des Grains et la réduction naturelle des prix dans les années de cherté. Adressé au Roi le 26 avril 1769. No place, 1769. With 1 folding table. 147, (1, Avis au relieur) pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Einaudi 2247; Higgs 4642; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, contribution bibliographique à l'histoire économique, 290; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition.There are some copies of the first edition (and this is one of those copies), where the pages 122-124 contain a long note, not present in all copies first edition. The text of the note refers to the deliberations of the Parlement de Paris (see below, the citation from Weulersse). It seems likely that the author, as soon as he was aware of the opinion of the Parlement of Paris added this note in defense of his position. During the discussion on free trade of grains several 'Parlements' gave their opinions. 'Celui de Dauphiné donnait solennellement, le 26 avril 1769, un Avis qui était une exposition magistrale de la doctrine physiocratique, d'une orthodoxie impeccable. 'Ouvrage excellent à tous égards, s'écrie Dupont en l'annonçant aux 'lecteurs patriotes' aux 'bons citoyens'; ouvrage que nos derniers neveux baigneront encore des larmes de leur reconnaissance, comme nous l'avons fait nous-même en le lisant.' ..... l'Avis fut rendu public. L'impression produite pouvait être si forte que le Parlement de Paris s'arrangea pour faire disparaître la brochure: 'Cet ouvrage est devenu bientôt excessivement rare, écrit Bachaumont, parce que le système qu'on propose à Sa Majesté est totalement opposé à ce que les Parlements de Paris et de Rouen ont écrit sur cette matière, et que cette première Compagnie n'a pas trouvé bon qu'on répandit sous ses yeux un écrit si contraire à sa façon de penser.' Le manifeste du Parlement de Dauphiné n'en émut pas moins l'opinion , et son succès rejaillit sur le parti tout entier' (Weulersse, i, p. 200). 'Le Parlement du Dauphiné se fait défenseur de l'Edit de 1764, donc de la liberté du commerce des grains et de la concurrence. Il s'élève contre les entraves et les limitations qui lui sont apportées' (Leblanc, op.cit.) - Extremely rare. EUR 3000
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Testament politique de Monsieur de Vauban, Marchal de France, & premier Ingenieur du Roi. Dans lequel Ce Seigneur donne les moiens d'augmenter considerablement les Revenus dela Couronne, par l'établissement d'une Dixme Royale; & suppression des Impots, sans apprehension d'aucune revolution dans l'Etat. Tome Premier [-Tome Second]. No place, 1707. With engraved portrait-frontispiece of Vauban. 2 volumes. 404 (misnumbered 386) pp.; 380 (misnumbered 356) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, very slightly rubbed, gilt on spine somewhat faded. Goldsmiths 4433 (listed under Le Prestre de Vauban); Kress S.2356 (vol. I published 1707, volume II published 1708); Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, VIII, nrs. 14-16; INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert ou la Naissance de l'Économie Politique, i, p. 499; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in Quaerendo, volume 16/3, 1986, pp. 198-207. First edition with this title. - Good copy of a rare and important work. 'Après la mort du Maréchal (de Vauban), Boisguilbert (ou ses libraires), voulant tirer parti de la grande publicité faite autour du nom et de l'oeuvre de Vauban, remplaça les titres de Détail et de Factum, devenus trop compromettants, par celui de Testament politique de Monsieur de Vauban, ajouta un portrait du Maréchal, et supprima le dangereux Supplément. Le P. Lelong confirme: 'Ce titre est manifestement supposé par le libraire pour donner sans doute plus de débit à cet ouvrage, qui est fort bon d'ailleurs'' (INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert ou la Naissance de l'Économie Politique). This edition contains: 'Le détail .....', 'Traité du mérite .....', 'Traité des grains .....', le 'Factum .....', 'Mémoire qui fait voir en abrégé .....', 'Sentence du Chatelet', 'Causes de la rareté de l'argent', and 'Dissertation de la nature des richesses'.'Pierre le Pesant, Sieur de Boisguillebert (1646-1714), was a public-spirited member of the semi-hereditary civil-service gentry of prerevolutionary France (noblesse de robe) and lived mostly in Normandy removed from all the Paris influences that might have interfered with the originality of his ideas. Though, as we know, chiefly preoccupied with the problems of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any writer before Cantillon ..... He was one more of those authors who saw the economic organism as an equilibrium system of interdependent economic magnitudes and who constructed this system from the angle of consumption - getting further, perhaps, than anyone before Cantillon. His economic sociology turned, in an almost Marxist spirit, upon two social classes, rich and poor, the existence of which he explained in a way that was to become quite common as the eighteenth century wore on ..... The economic principle of order he found in competition quite as clearly as did A. Smith more than half a century later' (Schumpeter, pp. 215-216). The errors in pagination come about through repetition of the page numbers 156-175 and the ommission of the page numbers 343-344 in volume I, and through repetition of the page numbers 193-204, 246-255 and 325-326 in volume II. - Good copy of a rare and important work. EUR 1250
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering), 12 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, spine damaged at head and foot, rear cover damaged, front joint tender. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in Quaerendo, vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. The 12 pages at the end of volume two are printed in a small caracter and contains the supplement, here written with one 'p' and which is only rarely found. Aiiii and Aiii in the supplement have been interchanged. 'In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BOISGUILBERT, P. LE PESANT DE.) Le détail de la France, sous le regne present. Augmentée en cette nouvelle Édition, de plusieurs Mémoires & Traitez, sur la même matiere. No place (Rouen?), Année 1707. 2 volumes in 1. (2), 294 pp.; (2), 300 (misnumbered 302, 277-278 omitted in numbering) pp. 8vo. Contemporary green vellum, raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 2542; Goldsmiths 4429 & 4430; Einaudi 581; Mattioli 370; Carpenter VIII (9); INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert où la naissance de l'économie politique, i, p. 495 ff; Gerits, A., Le Détail de la France in 'Quaerendo', vol 16/3 (1986), pp. 198-207. One of at least 7 editions published in 1707. This is the edition normally found, without the rare supplement of 12 pages. The last line on page 294 (volume 1) contains only the word 'place'. There are copies from the same year and the same pagination were the last line on page 294 ends with the words 'éclairez que ceux qui se trouvent en place.' In the second half of the seventeenth century the great advance in economic theory and method had been concentrated mainly in England. The appearance of the first writings of Pierre de Boisguilbert, notably his Détail de la France (first published in 1695), can be taken as a sign that eventually, in the course of the eighteenth century, pre-eminence in political economy would pass to France - before subsequently being assumed by Scotland. As regards France, the title of the definitive edition of Boisguilbert's writings (1966) is well justified: Pierre de Boisguilbert: où la naissance de l'économie politique ...... Boisguilbert regarded the economic situation of France as one of disastrous decline and widespread poverty, and he began to study, with mounting passion, the causes and policies in the preceding decades which had brought this about. The depression seemed to have been specially severe in agriculture, which had suffered from Colbert's policy of favouring industrial development. Whether or not his alarming assessment of France's economic decline was correct, Boisguilbert, in seeking to analyse and establish the causes of what had happened, made general, theoretical and conceptual contributions of fundamental importance, including, among others, such monetary, or macro-economic, concepts, clearly though precisely formulated as: the propensity to consume or save, the velocity of circulation, the state of confidence, the expectations of businessmen, multiplying or cumulative effects, and, especially, the fundamental notion of equilibrium (Hutchison, T., Before Adam Smith. The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776, pp. 107-115). Boisguilbert was 'chiefly preoccupied with the problem of French fiscal policy and nearly as fact-minded as was Vauban, he differed from the latter not only in the much wider scope of his interests but also in the fact that he was theoretically articulate - perhaps more so than any other writer before Cantillon' (Schumpeter, p. 215 note). 'Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive: much of Cantillon's circular flow analysis appears inspired by his work; while Roberts in his Boisguilbert, Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV, (1935) argues for considerable similarity between his fundamental economic ideas and some of Adam Smith's' (New Palgrave, i, p. 259). EUR 1500
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(BORDE, CH.) Tableau philosophique, du Genre humain depuis l'origine du monde, jusqu'a Constantin. Traduit de l'Anglois. En III Parties. A Londres, (Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1770. 3 parts in 1 volume. (4), 226 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbledcalf, rebacked, gilt ornamental fillets on sides, inside dentelles, all edges gilt. Catalogue Bibliothèque Voltaire, 476; Cioranescu 12924; INED 641. Second edition, first published in 1767. 'Historique. Dans la troisième partie, quelques considérations générales sur l'agriculture, 'la plus nécessaire et le plus respectable des arts', sours féconde de population; et sur le commerce, fondement de la société civile, qui fait circuler partout l'abondance et le luxe' (INED). 'L'auteur s'efforce de lutter contre Bossuet, et à chaque page, il trahit l'intention coupable de saper la révélation et tout ce qui sert de base au christianisme' (D. Chésurolles). For a long time this text was attributed to Voltaire (see Bengesco, Voltaire, Bibliographie de ses oeuvres, iv, 2407, with detailed comments). The publication was certainly due to the Holbach circle and it is of course not a translation, but an original French work. - Some occasional unobtrusive spotting. EUR 450
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(BUTEL DUMONT, G.M.) Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'administration publique et privée des terres chez les Romains: depuis le commencement de la République jusqu'au siècle de Jules-César. Dans lesquelles on traite incidemment de leur commerce par rapport aux productions de leur crû, & l'on prouve en même-temps le peu d'influence que l'agriculture a eue sur leurs moeurs. Par l'Auteur de la Théorie du Luxe. A Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1779. (4), xliv, 484, (12) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Musset-Pathay 1648; Kress B.179; Goldsmiths 11796; INED 885; McCulloch, p. 34 (note); Mattioli 474; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Auteur très laborieux et très exact dans ces citations; il a traduit plusieurs ouvrages anglais sur le commerce .... Ouvrage extrèmement remarquable, le meilleur peut-être qui ait été écrit sur le même sujet. Il est très préférable à beaucoup d'autres très recherchés' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). '.... author of a very learned and able treatise 'Sur l'administration des Terres chez les Romains ....' (McCulloch). EUR 600
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(CARLIER, C.) Considérations sur les moyens de rétablir en France les bonnes especes de bestes à laines. A Paris, Chez Guillyn, 1762. (2), xxii, 180 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt,gilt lettering, red edges. Kress S.4258; Higgs 2676; Musset-Pathay 280; not in Conlon; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. - Very good copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding. 'L'auteur parle de la qualité des pâturages, des différentes températures de la France, des provinces les plus favorables à l'établissement des bêtes à laine. M. Turgot remit à l'abbé Carlier trois cents Mémoires sur les moutons: l'abbé en composa un ouvrage' (Musset-Pathay). EUR 300
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(CARLIER, C.) Considérations sur les moyens de rétablir en France les bonnes especes de bestes à laines. A Paris, Chez Guillyn, 1762. (2), xxii, 180 pp. 12mo. Modern boards, green label with gilt lettering on spine. Kress S.4258; Higgs 2676; Musset-Pathay 280; not in Conlon; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. - Page 180 contains the 'Approbation' and the 'Privilège', however, the 'Privilège' has been covered by a piece of paper pasted over the text. 'L'auteur parle de la qualité des pâturages, des différentes températures de la France, des provinces les plus favorables à l'établissement des bêtes à laine. M. Turgot remit à l'abbé Carlier trois cents Mémoires sur les moutons: l'abbé en composa un ouvrage' (Musset-Pathay). EUR 225
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(COYER, G.F.) Chinki, histoire cochinchinoise, qui peut servir à d'autres pays. Londres, 1768. 96 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Goldsmiths 10389 (other issue); Einaudi 1382; Higgs 4327;INED 1225; Weulersse, i, p. xxvi; not in Kress; not in Mattioli. First edition. The most important criticism on the Corps des Arts et Métiers before the reforms of Turgot. Cochinchina stands for France, Chinki for the French peasant, whose work is the most favourable to the nation, but who is ruined by the taxes. The author also recommends the emancipation of the Jews. With this subject is dealt with at length in chapter 21, where the Jews are called 'Banians'. At the time the work was also attributed to Voltaire and Clicquot de Blervache. EUR 500
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(DESPLACES, L.B.) Préservatif contre l'agromanie; ou l'agriculture réduite à ses vrais principes. A Paris, Chez J.Th. Herissant, 1762. (4), 197, (3) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Musset-Pathay 1573; INED 1392; Higgs 2671; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 62:794. First edition. 'L'agriculture est un art de première nécessité ..... Aussi l'économie française doit-elle prendre garde de ne pas négliger l'agriculture au profit des Arts d'agréments ..... et des brillants attraits de luxe qui sont plus considérés dans la capitale que partout ailleurs au monde' (INED). EUR 225
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(DESPLACES, L.B.) Préservatif contre l'agromanie; ou l'agriculture réduite à ses vrais principes. A Paris, Chez J.Th. Herissant, 1762. (4), 197, (3) pp. 12mo. 19th-century boards. Musset-Pathay 1573; INED 1392; Higgs 2671; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 62:794. First edition. 'L'agriculture est un art de première nécessité ..... Aussi l'économie française doit-elle prendre garde de ne pas négliger l'agriculture au profit des Arts d'agréments ..... et des brillants attraits de luxe qui sont plus considérés dans la capitale que partout ailleurs au monde' (INED). EUR 225
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(DIERES). Mémoire en forme de consultation, présenté à Messieurs de l' Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres & Arts de Rouen, sur les effets de la Céruse dont font usage en Normandie plusieurs Particuliers, pour hater la façon de leurs Cidres. Suivi de la Réponse de l'Académie à cette question. A Rouen, Chez Et.-Vinc. Machuel, 1772. (2), 18 pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary chinz covers, uncut, edges frayed. Conlon 72:738. First edition. At the end an answer of the author on the reply by the Académie, signed 'Dieres'. EUR 175
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(DUBUISSON, H.D.J.) Restauration de l'agriculture en France et moyens de prévenir toute disette. Par Un Cultivateur, député à l'Assemblée Nationale. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1790. 71 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Musset-Pathay; Kress S.5299; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 1630; INED 1488. First edition. 'L'agriculture prospérera, si l'on institue 'un impôt simple et unique', et des centres d'apprentissage' (INED). EUR 150
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(DUCLOS, C.P.) Considérations sur les moeurs de ce siècle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1751. Title printed in red and black, with title-vignette.(4), 366 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, raised bands (uncut). Conlon 51:580; Higgs 226; INED 1511; not in Mattioli. One of three editions from the year of first publication: Conlon lists an edition without publisher or place, INED lists a Paris edition. Duclos deals with individual morality and states that the best government is that which makes the largest number of people happy. In favor of agriculture, 'utile à tous.' 'Sociologie morale' (INED). Important social study on the 18th century by the historiographer of Louis XV. - One quire misbound. EUR 300
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(DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, H.L.) Ecole d'agriculture. Paris, les frères Estienne, 1759. 190 (misnumbered 180), (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt triple fillet on sides, a bit rubbed. Musset-Pathay 537 (without knowing the author, but with extensive praise); Goldsmiths 9452 (with eronneous collation); Higgs 1926 (with erroneous collation); INED 1546 (incomplete copy); Higgs 1926; Weulersse, i, xxvi; Conlon 59:746; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Sur les études et expériences agricoles à développer dans toute la France. Critique d'abus et d'erreurs, notamment dans la durée trop courte des affermages, qui n'incite pas le fermier à donner toute sa mesure' (INED). Duhamel de Monceau (1700-1782), agronomist, chemist, botanist, a man of profound learning whose breadth of interests was somewhat surprising even for an eighteenth-century polymath. His most important contributions to science and society are in the field of agriculture. EUR 375
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(ESSUILE, J.F. DE BARANDIERY-MONTMAYEUR DE.) Traité des communes, ou Observations sur leur origine & état actuel, d'après les anciennes ordonnances de nos rois, les coutumes, édits, déclarations, arrêts & réglements intervenus sur cette matière; les droits qu'y ont les seigneurs, les communautés & chacun des habitans; ou joignant la politique à l'économie, on démontre leur inutilité, le préjudice qu'elles font à l'agriculture, & l'avantage que l'on retireroit de leur aliénation ou partage. A Paris, Chez Colombier, 1777. With two folding tables. 395, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering. Cf: Kress 6726 (listing the 1770 edition only); Einaudi 789 (listing the 1779 edition only); Goldsmiths 11547; INED 1752; not in Mattioli. Second edition, title-edition, brought on the market 7 years after the first edition by another publisher who only changed the title and apparently using the unsold copies of the first edition. 'Des biens communaux: origine historique, étendue, répartition géographique; l'on ne peut, dans l'état actuel de ces communes, en tirer aucun profit, notamment pour l'agriculture. Au contraire, leur stérilité nuit de 'la manière le plus dangereuse autant à la population et à la subsistance des hommes qu'à la multiplication et à la nourriture des bestiaux.' Essuile propose de les partager et d'en faire bénéficier les pauvres; ce partage avantageux est tout à fait confomre aux désirs des législateurs.' With the 'pièces justificatives' in both French and Latin.For the importance of this work and the development of physiocrat ideas see: Weulersse, i, pp. 411-12. EUR 1000
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(FEROUX, CH.L.) Vues d'un solitaire patriote. A La Haye, et se trouve à Paris, chez Clousier, 1784. With two engraved frontispieces. 2 volumes in1. 237, (1) pp.; 244 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, corners a bit bumped. INED 1812; Mattioli 1255; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Apologie des biens religieux: les propriétaires religieux sont bien plus utiles à la culture et à la population que les propriétaires laïques .... Chapitre sur le luxe, et sur la division des grandes propriétés .... Le tome premier se termine par un apologue, où Feroux préconise l'impôt unique, l'abolition des servitudes, la justice gratuite, ainsi que la conversion des dîmes en propriétés rurales et foncières. Le second volume traite de conciliation perpétuelle entre les abbés commendataires et les religieux. Chapitre sur la liquidation des dettes des ordres religieux' (INED). Feroux belonged to the extreme anti-physiocrats. They all reasoned in more or less similar fashion that when the vast majority were propertyless, the owners of property would be able to exploit the common man and pay him only a scant subsistence at the best (see: Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 339-340). EUR 1250
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(GALIANI, F.) Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. A Londres (Paris), 1770. (4), 314, pp + 1 errata leaf. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richlygilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering and red edges. Weulersse, i, p. xxvi; Kress 6730; Goldsmiths 10640; Einaudi 2334; INED 1948; Higgs 4941; Leblanc, 138. First edition of this epochal work. 'At the age of twenty-two, Galiani published anonymously the first of his two major works on political economy. This was his treatise, Della Moneta (1751), one of the outstanding works of economic theory of the eighteenth century. In 1759 he was sent to Paris as Secretary of the Neapolitan Embassy, where he stayed for ten years. His friends included many of the leading figures of Parisian intellectual society, most importantly Diderot, Grimm, and Mme d'Epinay. He won great renown as a wit and satirist, at a period when Parisian brilliance was at its most scintillating. Moreover, it was in the 1760s, the decade of Galiani's stay in Paris, that political economy became the great fashionable interest of the day, thanks, mainly, to the challenging, dogmatic crusade of the physiocratic school, led by Quesnay. Policy towards the grain trade, long the most vital branch of domestic economic affairs, became more than ever the dominant issue, with the lifting of the ban on exports in 1764. The debate came to a head just before Galiani was brusquely summoned back to Naples (1769). With the aid of his friends, however, he managed to complete his second major work on political economy, his Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, a scathing attack on the physiocrats and their policies, and surely one of the most brilliant and profound policy tracts ever written ....... Ultimately, what was the most important in the Dialogues was their methodological significance, with regard to the complex relationships between economic theory and policy, and the importance of the historical-institutional dimension. Galiani provided the first profound criticism of deductive theorizing in economics from an historical standpoint' (T. Hutchinson, Before Adam Smith, pp. 255-256 and p. 269). - Very good copy, bookplate "Bibliothèque du Chateau de Chaltraih" (?) on front paste-down. EUR 2500
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(GERARDIN, J.F.L.) Comptes faites en forme de tarif, dans lequel on trouve le montant des parties de soie vendues à Florin, poids de douze onces, réduit en monnoie de France. Dédié à la ville d'Avignon. A Avignon, Chez T. Domergue, 1778. - (Bound with:) GERARDIN, J.F.L. Compte fait pour l'achât des cocons, le prix fixé à sols & liards. Dans lequel on trouve le montant de chaque quantité, à francs, sols & liards. A Avignon, Chez T. Domergue, 1778. - (Bound with:) GERARDIN, J.F.L. Réduction des aunes et autres mesures étrangères à l'aune de Paris, et rapport des poids de 24 villes ou provinces les plus commerçantes au poids de Paris. Cet Ouvrage, divisé en douze Tables pour les Poids, & en une seule pour les Mesures, est donné en Supplément au Compte fait pour l'achat des Cocons. A Avignon, Chez T.F. Domergue, 1781. All pages within a nice printed border. 3 pieces bound in 1 volume. 150 lvs.; 16 lvs.; 7 lvs. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed and spotted, small damage to head of spine. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Conlon 78:999; NEHA 251. Second work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 11704; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Conlon 78:998, not in NEHA. Third work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 12117; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in NEHA. EUR 300
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(GOEZMANN DE THURNE, L.V. DE.) Essais politiques sur l'autorité, et les richesses Que le Clergé Séculier & Régulier ont acquises depuis leur établissment. No place, 1776. - (Bound with:) (PUYSEGUR, F.J. DE CHASTENET DE.) Pieces détachées relatives au Clergé Séculier et Regulier. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1771. With one folding engraved plate, and four folding tables. 3 volumes. Together 4 volumes bound in 2. iv, 228 pp.; x, (2), 190, (2), 104 pp.; (4), 54, (2), 23, 84, 123, (1) pp.; (4), 219, (1), xx pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering, gilt stamped 'P' at foot of spines. First work: INED 2058; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'De la jurisdiction ecclésiastique, des abus du monachisme, des moyens d'y remédier. Les chapitres XVII-XX traitent de l'influence du monachisme sur la décadence relative des États, des moyens de le réduire à un plus petit nombre, et des ressources à tirer des biens monastiques. La force et la richesse d'un État consistent en une culture, une population et un numéraire relativement plus importants que dans les autres pays. Néfaste influence du monachisme sur ces trois facteurs, urgente nécessité de certaines réformes: mise en valeur rationnelle des biens religieux, ce qui augmenterait la population, répartition plus équitable du numéraire, etc.' (INED).Second work: INED 3681; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs.First edition.'Sur l'histoire ecclésiastique, la suppression souhaitable des ordres religieux, l'illégitimité des biens de l'Église, et la religion naturelle' (INED). In volume 1, pp. 14-50: 'Mémoire sur le commerce, les finances et l'économie', where the State is considered to be the proprietor of all the capital and business and therefore as having the right to dispose of it for the public benefit. In volume 2 we find the text Du Droit souverain sur les bien-fonds du Clergé et des moines by Cerfvol (see INED 1013). - A very nice copy. EUR 900
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(GOUDAR, A.) Les intérêts de la France mal entendus, dans les branches de l'agriculture, de la population, des finances, du commerce, de la marine et de l'industrie. Par un citoyen. Amsterdam, Jacques Coeur, à la corne d'Abondance (Paris), 1756. 3 volumes. viii, 436 pp.; (2), vi, 434 pp.; (2), 392 (misnumbered 388) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering. Mars 26; Weulersse, i, p. xxvii; Kress 5524; Goldsmiths 9081 (two volumes only); Einaudi 2659 (other edition); INED 2079; Higgs 1145; Leblanc 52; Conlon 56:904. Counterfeit edition, probably from Paris, easy distinguishable by the crown ornament on all title-pages. Mars gives 388 pages for the third volume, which is the numbering of the last page, but at page 289 the numbering drops to 285 and continues then to 388. - Some light occasional browning, pp. 233-266 of volume one with a small spot in lower outer blank margin. This is the main work of Goudar. It was used by the demographer Süssmilch in his Die goetliche ordnung. Voltaire had a copy in his library and Diderot wrote about the book in a letter to Sophie Volland. Preceding Mirabeau's L'Ami des Hommes by a few months, it marks an important date in the history of political economy, and made Goudar one of the leading figures of the school of 'des agrariens et populationnistes', not to be mixed with the Physiocrats, which they preceded and with whom they disagreed on various points. 'Of the pre-physiocratic French writers who approached the population problem in terms of agricultural values and reforms, Ange Goudar (1720-1791) was the most important' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 56-67.) Spengler's analysis is elaborate and shows the crucial importance of this work. 'Avec Herbert, il annonce directement les physiocrates. Il pose comme principe que tout ce qui vient de la terre constitue la seule puissance des Etats. Celle-ci ne réside plus dans l'industrie, l'abondance des ressources monétaires, comme le proclamaient les mercantilistes. Goudar est essentiellement libéral, agrarien, aussi dénonce-t-il la misère de la classe rurale et réclame-t-il des réformes à la fois fiscales et douanières' (Leblanc). EUR 900
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(GOUDAR, A.) Les intérêts de la France mal entendus, dans les branches de l'agriculture, de la population, des finances, du commerce, de la marine et de l'industrie. Par un citoyen. A Amsterdam, Chez Jacques Coeur, à la corne d'Abondance (Paris), 1756. 3 volumes. xii, 372 pp.; 406pp.; 350 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering and numbering. Mars 27; Weulersse, i, p. xxvii; Kress 5526; Goldsmiths 9082; Einaudi 2659; Mattioli 1481; INED 2079; Higgs 1145. First edition, second issue. Einaudi's copy is identical with ours, about the Kress and Goldsmiths copies not much can be said, both collections contain more than one copy and they both indicate that there is one copy with a third volume with the indication 'Nouvelle édition', as does our third volume. According to Mars, Ange Goudar, cet inconnu, essai bio-bibliographique, the third volume came from the same press as the first two volumes but with a different ornamental typography. Between the first issue and this issue, there appeared, according to Mars, a parisian contrefaçon, all published in 1756. This is the main work of Goudar. It was used by the demographer Süssmilch in his Die goetliche ordnung. Voltaire had a copy in his library and Diderot wrote about the book in a letter to Sophie Volland. Preceding Mirabeau's l'Ami des Hommes by a few months, it marks an important date in the history of political economy, and made Goudar one of the leading figures of the school of 'des agrariens et populationnistes', not to be mixed with the Physiocrats, which they preceded and with whom they disagreed on various points. 'Of the pre-physiocratic French writers who approached the population problem in terms of agricultural values and reforms, Ange Goudar (1720-1791) was the most important' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 56-67.) Spengler's analysis is elaborate and shows the crucial importance of this work. - Some corners somewhat damaged. EUR 1500
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(HERBERT, C.J.) Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur leurs prix & sur les effets de l'agriculture. A Berlin, 1757. iv, xviii, 435, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges. Higgs 1474; Kress 5617 (incomplete copy); Weulersse, i, xx; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. The best edition. Including the 'Arrêt du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui, entr'autres dispositions, ordonne que le commerce de toute espèce de grains sera libre entièrement par terre et par les rivières, de province à province, dans l'intérieur du Royaume. Du 17 Septembre 1754', to which referrence is made in the Avertissement. The basic importance of agriculture in the life of the French nation was equally emphasized by C.J. Herbert, who held labor and land to be the primary resources of a nation, and agriculture its basic industry. Upon agriculture depended a nation's power and wealth, its ability to colonize, the fruitfulness of its commerce, and the capacity of its territory to support population. Having demonstrated the basic importance of agriculture to the political and economic strength of France, Herbert indicated that French agriculture was languishing, and its revivification was essential to the aggrandizement of the nation and to the felicity of its inhabitants; ..... Herbert advocated the improvement of grain markets and prices through inauguration of the right to export grain, modifications in the tax system, and the establishment of a research bureau to discover how agriculture could be improved, and why some provinces were more favorable to agriculture, manufacturing, and population growth than others. (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 67-72). Valuable work, cited with praise by Adam Smith. EUR 750
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(JAUBERT, P.) Des causes de la dépopulation et des moyens d'y remédier. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Dessain junior, 1767. (2), xii, 298 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges, some light scratches, small repair to joint of rear cover, a fine copy. Kress 6453; Goldsmiths 10298; Einaudi 3048; INED 2349; Higgs 4197; Conlon 67:953; not in Mattioli. First (and only?) edition. The abbé Pierre Jaubert's opinions were more varied than those of Danguel and Plombaine, but similar in character. He accpted the opinion of Montesquieu, Forbonnais, and the agrarian writers that population tended to grow when men were assured the fruits of their labor and some comfort; and that failure to cultivate all available land, coupled with the great and inequitable tax burden was depressing agricultural production and retarding population growth. therefore he advocated stimulation of the agricultural arts: protection of agriculturalists against their creditors; a redistribution of the tax burden; the use of idle urban workeers to perform the corvées; and restrictions upon the crop-destroying wild game which were raised and protected for the benefit of the nobility. He furthermore proposed that monasteries and nunneries be stripped of tax exemption and other privileges, he was critical, as were many writers, of the French hospital and penal system, he advocated an improved urban water supply, enlargement and frequent cleaning of the streets, daily filth removal, and the location of certain establishments (cemetries, tanneries, etc.) outside cities. Spengler considers his suggestions for the curtailment of celebacy and the counterbalancing of its effects, as most important. With his emphasis on agricultural arts he was in line with the Physiocrats (for a detailed analysis see: Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, pp. 90-94).A very nice copy of a scarce and important work. EUR 900
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(LA MAILLARDIERE, C.F. LEFEVRE DE.) Le produit et le droit des communes, et autres biens; ou l'Encyclopédie rurale, économique et civile. Paris, 1783-1787. 2 volumes in 3. 32, 280 pp.; (2), 281-530, xxxv, (3) pp.; (4), 531-780, 28 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, worn. Cf.: Musset-Pathay 1587; Kress S.5007 (first part only with slightly different title); cf.: Goldsmiths 12387; INED 2526, 2528; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 284; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Complete set with the rare supplement. Agriculture is considered as the most important factor of economic wealth, hence the necessity to improve agriculture through better legislation and political instruments. The supplement is entitled: "Traité d'économie politique, embrassant toutes ses branches, ou les intérêts de la population, de l'agriculture, des arts, du commerce, de la naviagtion, des finances, de la justice, du militaire et de la politique, à concilier pour la richesse et la prospérité de l'Etat et des citoyens. Suite annoncée, du produit et droit des communes et autres biens, ou dernière partie du Traité ....." The last 28 pages form a "Dernier supplément", dated again 1783, and contains: "Dernier de réglement pour les communes et terres vagues, et qu'il en soit enfin tiré parti." EUR 750
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(LA SALLE DE L'ETANG, S.P. DE.) Prairies artificielles, ou Moyens de perfectionner l'agriculture dans toutes les provinces de France, surtout en Champagne, par l'entretien & le renouvellement de l'engrais. Troisième édition, augmentée 1. d'un traité sur la culture de la luzerne, du trèfle et du sainfoin; 2. d'une dissertation sur l'exportation du bled. A Bruxelles, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint & Saillant, 1762. 330 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (rear joint with some loss). INED 2659; Higgs 2666; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 3219 (Italian translation); Weulersse i, xxvii. Third and best edition. - Old handwritten ownership's entry in blank lower margin of the title-page. A treatise on 'artificial pastures' and other means to improve agriculture, originally published in 1756 as a volume counting 124 pages only. In the present third edition the original essay is followed by two other treatises, of which the first deals with the culture of clover, and the second with the exportation of corn. Simon-Philibert la Salle de l'Etang (1700? -1765) was an official of the city of Reims and deputy at Paris and author of a popular 'Manuel d'agriculture'. His formula for a balanced partition of the soil between arable land and 'artifical pastures' was adopted by Quesnay in his famous article 'Grains' for the 'Encyclopedie'. EUR 600
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(LIGER, L.) La nouvelle maison rustique, ou économie générale de tous les biens de campagne: la manière de les entretenir & les multiplier; donné ci-devant au public par le Sieur Liger. Huitième édition, augmentée considérablement, & mise en meilleur ordre: avec la vertu des simples, l'apoticairerie, & les décisions du droit françois sur les matières rurales. A Paris, au Palais, chez Saugrain aîné, 1762. With frontispiece, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, 36 plates of which 2 folding. 2 volumes. (10), 916 pp.; (8), 894, (26) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, spines repaired at head and foot, somewhat rubbed and some spots on bindings. Kress 6037; Goldsmiths 9751; Higgs 2677; not in Einaudi; not in INED. Eighth edition, considerably enlarged. Louis Liger was born in Auxerre in 1658. He published many works on agriculture and husbandry. The work has its origins in Charles Estienne's Praedium Rusticum (1554), the French version of which was edited and seen through the press by Jean Liébault in 1564 under the title L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique. Numerous editions, revisions, and updates followed, with French horticulturalist Louis Liger's two-volume modernized version, Oeconomie Générale de la Compagne, ou Nouvelle Maison Rustique, first appearing in 1700. The work includes sections on buildings and provisions, agriculture, husbandry, silk worm culture, bee-keeping, diseases of plants and animals, gardening, viticulture, hunting, fishing, distillation, apothecary medicine, and cookery. Illustrating the text are plates of domestic animals, plants and trees, honey and silk production, field cultivation, wine presses, fishing nets, animal traps, farming instruments, &c. EUR 800
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(LINGUET, S.N.H.) Lettre à l'auteur des Observations sur le commerce des grains. A Amsterdam (Paris), 1775. 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering. INED 2917; Kress 7134; Einaudi 3413; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs; Leblanc 162. First edition The usual attribution of the Observations sur le Commerce des Grains is to Dupont de Nemours, see INED and Einaudi. However, Dupont de Nemours' work was written as early as 1770. The author of these Observations against which Linguet writes, is G.J.B. Target. The complete title of Target's work is: Observations sur le commerce des grains, écrites en décembre 1769, Amsterdam, et Paris, Cellot, 1775. The text of Linguet's vehement refutation starts: 'Vous venez, Monsieur, d'imprimer, en 1775, ce que vous écrivies, dites-vous, en 1769 .....' The Lettre à l'auteur .... has also been attributed to Bourdon-Desplanches. Target's work was a plea in favor of freedom of trade in grain, while Linguet's response is vehemently opposing the idea of absolute and unlimited freedom of trade in grain. EUR 425
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(LORMOY, P. DE) Mémoire sur l'agriculture. (Paris), 1789. 127 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter 21710. The main text is followed by: Lettre sur les bêtes à laine (pp. 40 and ff.) and various controversial letters of Lormoy against Daubenton and Quatre-mère d'Isjonval, about the same subject. EUR 150
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(LORMOY, P. DE.) Mémoire sur l'agriculture. (Paris), 1789. 127, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt. Not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter 21710. The main text is followed by: Lettre sur les bêtes à laine (pp. 40 and ff.) and various controversial letters of Lormoy against Daubenton and Quatre-mère d'Isjonval, about the same subject. EUR 150
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, CH. J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. A Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Cuchet & Gattey, 1788. With tables in the text. - (Bound with:) SABATIER, (J.J.) Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, sur la Dépense de l'Etat, les impôts, la construction des routes, le commerce des grains, la mendicité, & les secours à accorder aux cultivateurs; la conservation des biens des pupilles, des mineurs; l'administration de la justice; les gabelles, &c. A Paris, Chez Prault, 1790. - (Bound with:) BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deuz siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. A Versailles, Chez Blaizot, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. Together 4 volumes bound in 1. xii, 231, (1) pp.; vi, 191, (1) pp.; 96 pp.; 184 pp.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, corners, green paper covered boards, corners somewhat bumped, marbled edges. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27: 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' First edition. Higly important financial reports, which certainly would have remained unknown, if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains reports by Boullogne (1758), De Silhoutte (1759), Terray (1770, 1772, 1773 & 1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781) etc. Second work: Martin & Walter 30495; INED 4016; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Devoted mainly to the question of tax reforms. Lacks half-title. Third and fourth work: Stourm 191; INED 771; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raison des propriétés' (INED). Complete copy with the general half-title for the two works. EUR 750
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(MAZZEI, F.) Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale, où l'on traite des établissements des treize colonies, de leurs rapports et de leurs dissentions avec la Grande-Bretagne, de leurs gouvernemens avant et après la révolution, etc. Avec quatre lettres d'un Bourgeois de New-Haven sur l'unité de la législation. A Colle, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Froullé, 1788. 4 volumes. (4), xvi, 383, (1) pp.; (4), 259 pp.;(4), 292 pp.; (4), 366 pp. 8vo. Contemporary catspaw calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spines richly gilt in compartments, a very nice copy. Sabin 47206; Leclerc 957; Howes M.456; Monaghan 1052; Muller 1612; Fay 24; Echeverria & Wilkie 788/65; Echeverria, p. 124; Einaudi 3807; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in JFBL. First edition. 'This work was conceived as a corrective reply to Raynal's Histoire Philosophique et Politique and Mably's Observations. It was suggested by William Short, Jefferson's secretary, and was written with Jefferson's assistance and approval.' Contains among others: Reflexions rédigées à l'occasion du Mémoire sur la manière dont la France & l'Espagne doivent envisager les suites de la querelle entre la Grande-Bretagne & ses Colonies (volume 3, pages 217-282), by A.R.J. Turgot, dated April 6, 1776 and published here for the first time. On a memoir by Vergennes written at the request of Louis XVI to assist the Conseil d'État in formulating a policy for France and Spain in regard to the American Revolution. Turgot explored the various possible outcomes with their probable consequences for France and predicted that the eventual independence of the U.S. would lead to the independence of other European colonies in America. He recommanded arms sales to the U.S. but favored continued official neutrality and opposed direct military intervention' (Echeverria & Wilkie). Mazzei was an Italian physician who practised medicine in Smyrna and later, from 1755 to 1773, engaged in commerce in London. With several other Italians he came to the United States in December, 1773, to introduce the cultivation of the grape and the olive. He became a neighbor and friend of Thomas Jefferson. He actively supported the movement for independence and from 1779 to 1783 he was an agent for Virginia to obtain supplies in Italy. His Memorie della vita (Lugano, 2 volumes, 1845-1846) contains a lengthy account of his activities in Italy on behalf of Virginia (Monaghan, op.cit.) In the above work he was assisted by Condorcet who is the 'Bourgeois de New-Haven.' 'Compilation très exacte, qui réfute les théories de Mably et de Raynal et constitute un répertoire précieux de renseignements de tous ordres sur les États-Unis' (Fay). - Very good and attractive copy. EUR 1500
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(MIRABEAU V. RIQUETTI DE. & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée d'une quatrième Partie & de Sommaires. No place, 1758-1760. With engraved frontispiece. 6 parts in 3 volumes. viii, 192 pp.; (2), 266, (4)pp.; (6), 263, (1) pp.; (8), 278, 81, (1) pp.; viii, 167, (1) pp.; (2), 118, (2), 119-279, (5) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering. Kress 5736; Goldsmiths 9317; Einaudi 3941; INED 3194, 3203, 3206; Higgs 1631 & 2160. Second edition of the first three parts, first edition of the parts IV-VI. The Ami des Hommes is the fundamental Physiocratic text. 'This remarkable treatise created the greatest sensation throughout the whole of Europe. It is said to have gone through forty editions, and was translated into several languages. Its anonymous author, soon discovered, became the idol of the day, and was generally referred to by the sobriquet which he had chosen for the title of his book ..... After reading the Ami des Hommes (the first three parts, 1756), Quesnay, who agreed with many of the author's opinions, desired to make his acquaintance' (Palgrave, ii, p. 775). Mirabeau now became the fervent admirer of Quesnay, and between them they founded the school of the Physiocrats. In 1758 a fourth part was published in which Quesnay's influence is clearly visible. The final two parts were published in 1760. It is this final part which is of particular importance as it contains the first public appearance of Quesnay's Tableau Economique. There are less than ten copies in the world of either the earlier editions of 1758 or 1759. This work is thus the first obtainable edition of the Tableau Economique. - Very good copy of the rare 4to edition. EUR 8000
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760-1764. With title-pages in red and black. 6 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinqième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1764. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Tome Quatrième. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. Sixième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. (4), 208, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (Drop-head title). - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce, Proposées aux Académies & autres Sociétés savantes des Provinces. (Drop-head title). (2), 336 pp. (the 'Réponse' and the 'Questions' continuously paginated).V: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Cinquième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture envoyé a la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne; Avec L'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), vi, 281, (5) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Sixième Partie. Réponse a l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. Sixième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 206 pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Septieme Partie. Tableau Economique avec ses Explications. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 162, (4) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes, Nouvelle Édition, Augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées & la Milice. Huitieme Partie. Lettres pour servir de Suite a l'Ami des Hommes. Huitieme Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1762. (4), 104 pp. EUR 850
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Avignon, Hambourg, 1756-1761. 10 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red edges. The L'Ami des Hommes is known for its great number or editions published in the years after 1756. Numerous editions in 4, 7 or 8 volumes can be found in both Kress and Goldsmiths. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. A Avignon, 1756. With engraved frontispiece. 431, (1) pp.; 578, (2) pp.; 577, (1) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrieme Partie. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. No place, 1758. (8), 285, (1) pp.V: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrieme Partie. No place, 1758. Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (2), 313, (1) pp. Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'agriculture et le commerce ..... 150, (2) pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqieme Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. 300 (misnumbered 298), (6) pp.VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse à l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228, (2) pp.VIII: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Explications. No place, 1760. With 6 folding engraved tables. (4), 228, (4) pp.IX: Théorie de l'Impôt. No place, 1761. viii, 422 pp.X: L'Ami des Hommes. Nouvelle édition, augmentée des Lettres sur les Corvées et les Milices. Huitième Partie. Lettres pour servir de suite à l'Ami des Hommes. Huitième Partie. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1760. Title printed in red and black. (4), 104 pp. EUR 1250
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition corrigée. A Avignon, 1761-1764. 7 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with contrasting spine labels and gilt lettering, marbled edges. - First three leaves of volume 1 with a marginal dampstain. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition corrigée. A Avignon, 1762. With engraved frontispiece. viii, 220, (2) pp.; 304, (2) pp.; 301, (1) pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrième Partie. Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. A Avignon, 1764. (8), 160 pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrième Partie. 1764. Réponse aux Objections Contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. 252 pp.V: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture, envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Economie Rustique de feu Mr. Thomas Hale. A Avignon, 1761. viii, 206, (2) pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse à l'essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. A Avignon, 1761. 142 pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Économique avec ses Explications. A Avignon, 1761. With 6 engraved folding tables. 149, (3) pp.VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Septième Partie. Théorie de l'impôt. A Avignon, 1761. viii, 322, (2) pp. This last volume is bound in a modern matching binding. EUR 800
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition, Augementée d'une quatrième Partie & de Sommaires. No place, 1759-1760. 6 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, redlabels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée d'une quatrième Partie & de Sommaires. No place, 1759. With engraved frontispiece. x, (6), 391, (1) pp.; (12), 534 pp; (12), 526 pp.IV: L'Ami des Hommes, Quatrième Partie. Precis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. No place, 1759. xi, (1), 267, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) L'AMI des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrieme Partie. (2), 376 pp. This last work contains: 'Réponse aux Objections Contre le Mémoire sur les Etats Provinciaux' (pp. 1-250) and 'Questions Intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce' (pp. 251-376).V: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinquième Partie. Mémoire sur l'Agriculture Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. xii, 298, (4) pp.VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixième Partie. Réponse a l'essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228 pp. - (Followed by:) L'AMI des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Explications. No place, 1760. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 228, (4) pp. EUR 950
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Quatrième édition. A Hambourg, (last two volumes: no place, no publisher), Chez Chrétien Herold, 1758-1760. 6 volumes.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, last two volumes with a slightly different binding, last volume with short split in joints. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Quatrième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Herold, 1758. Titles printed in red and black. (4), 8, 308, (2) pp.; (2), 426, (2) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: Précis de l'Organisation, ou Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. Quatrième Édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Herold, 1758. Title printed in red and black. (6), 208, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) Réponse aux Objections contre le Mémoire sur les États Provinciaux. (Drop-head title). - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la Population, l'Agriculture et le Commerce. (Drop-head title). 336 pp. (both parts continuously paginated).V: Mémoire sur l'Agriculture Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. xii, 298, (6) pp.VI: Réponse à l'Essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228, (2) pp. - (Followed by:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Eplications. No place, 1760. With 6 engraved folding plates. (4), 228, (4) pp. EUR 900
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE. & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinquième édition. Together 8 parts bound in 6 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, the volume labels somewhat faded. Higgs 2160; cf.: INED 3194 & Kress 5882 (incomplete); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Improved edition. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinquième édition. Hambourg, Chez Chr. Hérold, 1764. 3 volumes. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: Précis de l'organisation ou Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. Sixième édition. Hambourg, Chez Chr. Hérold, 1764. - (Includes): Dialogue entre le surintendant d'O et L.D.H. Utilité des Etats provinciaux. - and: Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. Réponse aux objections contre le Mémoire and Questions intéressantes sur la population, l'agriculture et le commerce. (par Quesnay). 3 parts in 1 volume. (4), 208, (4), 336 pp. V: L'ami des hommes. Nouvelle édition. Augmentée des Lettres sur les corvées et la milice. 1762. - Mémoire sur l'agriculture. Extrait des six premiers Livres d'un ouvrage anglais, intitulé: Corps complet d'Economie Rustique. (8), vi, 281 pp. - including: Réponse à l'essai sur les ponts et chaussées, la voirie et les corvées. (4), 206 pp. VI: Tableau économique avec ses explications. With 6 folding tables (erroneously bound in vol. 1). (8), 192 (misnumbered 162) pp. - (Followed by:) Lettres pour servir de suite à l'Ami des Hommes (sur les corvées et la milice).The main work of the Physiocratic school. - Fine complete set. EUR 1250
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Troisième édition. A Hambourg, Chez Chrétien Hérold, 1758. 2 volumes. (12), 523, (1) pp.; (4), 520, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, corners lightly bumped. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs Third edition. These two volumes contain the complete text of the first three volumes of the Ami des Hommes published in this period. The following parts (4-6) published in the years 1759-1760 have not been published with this third edition. The edition is apparently quite rare: Kress, Goldsmiths and Higgs listing various editions published in the period upto 1762 but none of these reference works lists this third edition in two volumes. EUR 600
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) Théorie de l'impôt. Par l'Auteur de l'Ami des Hommes. A Amsterdam, Chez Arktée (sic) & Merkus, 1761. vii, (1), 416, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges. This edition not in Kress, Goldsmiths and Einaudi, where several other editions from 1761 are to be found. The work was first published in 1760 in both 4to and 12mo. The year 1761 saw a great number of different editions without any priority being established. 'Ce fut la première oeuvre vraiment personelle de Mirabeau depuis sa conversion (to Physiocratic doctrines). Le succès en fut très vif. Mirabeau développe les principes de la nouvelle école, avec un franc-parler qui lui attira de nombreux suffrages ..... et le fit emprissoner. Il s'élève nottamment contre les fermiers-généraux, fait une critique sévère du régime fiscal alors en vigueur, et énonce trois conditions nécaissaires à une judicieuse imposition' (INED). The collaboration between Mirabeau and Quesnay seems evident as the Archives Nationales have the manuscript of the text to which lengthy notes by Quesnay have been added. It is one of the principal works of the Physiocratic school and established it in the public eye, which was also due to the ensuing emprisonment of Mirabeau following his very frank manner of expression used in the book. 'Always in strict collaboration with the master, Mirabeau wrote a treatise on one of the major economic problems of the time: the reform of the fiscal system. The Théorie de l'Impot appeared in 1760 and presented one of the Physiocrats' most famous proposals: the single tax on rent' (New Palgrave, iii, p. 870).This is a spirited and able attack on the financial administration of France and especially the Fermiers-généraux, whom Mirabeau regarded as parasites preying upon the vitals of the nation. The work proposes a reorganisation of financial administrative machinery, the abolition of the 'Fermes', a reduction in the taxation upon salt, with the object of increasing the total yield, and a special tax upon tobacco farms. The domaine, the post and the mint were to be further sources of revenue. The author ranks as one of the earliest important writers on taxation. Higgs notes that the book is 'of real importance in the history of financial theory' (The Physiocrats, p. 57.) - The spine labels read: L'Ami des Hommes, Tom IX. EUR 450
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Together 8 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spines gilt with contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a few corners lightly bumped, front cover of volume 1 with a small damage to corners, rear cover of volume 8 with a few scratches. Higgs 2160; cf.: INED 3194 & Kress 5882 (incomplete); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. A Avignon, 1756. With engraved frontispiece and portrait of Mirabeau (added, lower edge shaved). 3 volumes. 431, (1) pp.; 578, (2) pp.; 577, (1) pp. IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrième Partie. Précis de l'organisation ou Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. No place 1758. (8), 285, (1) pp. V: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrième Partie. No place, 1758. Réponse aux objections sur les Etats provinciaux. (2), 313, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la population, l'agriculture et le commerce proposés aux Académies et autres Sociétés sçavantes des provinces (par Quesnay). 150 pp. - (Followed by:) (BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, P.J.) L'ami des femmes. No place 1758. (4), 188, (2) pp. VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqième Partie. Mémoire sur l'agriculture. Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. xii, 298, (6) pp. VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse a l'essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228, (2) pp. - (Bound with:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Explications. No place, 1760. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 228, (4) pp.VIII: Théorie de l'impôt. No place, 1760. viii, 520 pp.The main work of the Physiocratic school, with the rare Ami des femmes and Mirabeau's Théorie de l'impôt added. - A nice copy. EUR 1400
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(MORELLET, A.) Analyse de l'ouvrage intitulé 'De la législation et du commerce des grains'. Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Pissot, 1775. - (Preceded by:) (NECKER, J.) Sur la législation et le commerce des grains. Troisième édition. A Paris, chez Pissot, 1775. Two volumes. Together 3 volumes bound in one. 59, (1) pp.; (4), 236 pp.; 184, (2, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges. First work: Kress 7140; Goldsmiths 11266; INED 3297; Higgs 6270; Leblanc, 122; not in Einaudi. First edition. The rare refutation of Necker. 'L'on sait combien Necker fut critiqué par l'École économiste. Morellet, après avoir montré l'incohérence des idées de Necker, démontre sans mal que la doctrine générale de ce livre est "diamétralement opposée à la liberté du commerce des grains.'' Cette opposition est particulièrement manifeste lorsqu'il s'agit de la propriété' (INED).Second work: Kress 7147; Goldmsiths 11270; Higgs 6263; INED 3372; not in Einaudi.Identical to the first edition, with all the misprints corrected in the errata.Necker condemned the physiocratic doctrine of free trade and was in favour of government control. The physiocrats attacked his ideas with much energy. In 1789 Necker got a chance to put his ideas into practice, which led to disastrous results. EUR 1750
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(NECKER, J.) Sur la législation et le commerce des grains. Troisième édition. A Paris, Chez Pissot, 1775. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 236 pp.; 184, (2, errata for both volumes) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, red leather label with gilt lettering. Kress 7147; Goldsmiths 11270; Higgs 6263; INED 3372; not in Einaudi. Conform the first edition, with all the misprints corrected in the errata. Necker condemned the physiocratic doctrine of free trade and was in favour of government control. The physiocrats attacked his ideas with much energy. In 1789 Necker got a chance to put his ideas into practice, which led to disastrous results. EUR 450
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1759. With 3 engraved plates. xii, 285, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering. Higgs 1925; Kress 5804; Musset-Pathay 600; Goldsmiths 9457; Weulersse, i, xxviii; this edition not in Einaudi. Second edition, first published in 1758. The dedication, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented. (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France, vol. i, p. 52-53). EUR 400
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1758. With 3 engraved plates. xi, (1), 284, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. INED 3483; Higgs 1656; Kress 5745; Einaudi 4321; Musset-Pathay 600; not in Goldsmiths; Weulersse, i, xxviii. First edition. The dedication to Madame de Pompadour, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53). - Outer top corner towards the end waterstained, handwritten ex libris Roger Picard on verso front blank. EUR 750
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1758. With 3 engraved plates. - (Followed by:) (DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, H.L.) Ecole d'agriculture. A Paris, Chez les frères Estienne, 1759. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xi, (1), 284, (2) pp.; 190 pp. (numbered 1-168, 159-180), (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, corners lightly bumped. First work: INED 3483; Higgs 1656; Kress 5745; Einaudi 4321; Musset-Pathay 600; not in Goldsmiths; Weulersse, i, xxviii. First edition The dedication, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine. Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented (Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53).Second work: Goldsmiths 9452; Higgs 1926 (with erroneous collation); INED 1546 (82 pp. only); Musset-Pathay 536.First edition.'Sur les études et expériences agricoles à développer dans toute la France. Critique d'abus et d'erreurs, notamment de la durée trop courte des affermages, qui n'incite pas la fermier à donner toute sa mesure' (INED). He estimated that France could feed and sustain a population of about 28 million and estimated the population between 16 and 21 million souls. EUR 900
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1759. With 3 engraved plates. xii, 285, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Higgs 1925; Kress 5804; Musset-Pathay 600; Goldsmiths 9457; Weulersse, i, xxviii; this edition not in Einaudi. Second edition, first published in 1758. The dedication to Madame de Pompadour, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented. (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53). EUR 600
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1765. With 3 engraved plates. xii, 285, (3) pp. 12mo Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, somewhat rubbed. Goldsmiths 10077; Higgs 1925; Kress 5804; Musset-Pathay 600; Weulersse, i, xxviii; this edition not in Einaudi and not in Mattioli. Third edition, first published in 1758 and 1759. The dedication, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay. It forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented: see: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ....., p. 52-53. EUR 450
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1759. With 3 engraved plates. xii, 285, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering. Higgs 1925; Kress 5804; Musset-Pathay 600; Goldsmiths 9457; Weulersse, i, xxviii; this edition not in Einaudi. Second edition, first published in 1758. The dedication to Madame de Pompadour, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented. (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53). - Calligraphed name (Mr Le president Dela Calmette ?) on verso first flyleaf. EUR 600
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1758. With 3 engraved plates. xi, (1), 284, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt with raised bands. INED 3483; Higgs 1656; Kress 5745; Einaudi 4321; Musset-Pathay 600; not in Goldsmiths; Weulersse, i, xxviii. First edition. The dedication, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay. It forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented. (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53). EUR 800
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(PATULLO, H.) Essai sur l'amélioration des terres. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1758. With 3 engraved plates. xi, (1), 284, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, red edges. INED 3483; Higgs 1656; Kress 5745; Einaudi 4321; Musset-Pathay 600; not in Goldsmiths; Weulersse, i, xxviii. First edition. The dedication to Madame de Pompadour, although signed by the author, was written by Marmontel under the supervision of Fr. Quesnay and forms an excellent résumé of the Physiocratic doctrine.Patullo was a friend of François Quesnay and the present work is largely based on an unpublished article by Quesnay. It was at Quesnay's instigation that Patullo was allowed to dedicate the Essai to Madame de Pompadour. The first half of the books discusses the crops the author believes should be grown in France, the second half discusses the ensuing prosperity if his plans are implemented. (See: Weulersse, Le mouvement Physiocratique en France ..... , p. 52-53). EUR 750
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(PERREAU, J.A.) Le Roi voyageur, ou Examen Des abus de l'Administration de la Lydie. A Londres, Chez T.P. Cadel, 1784. (8), 211, (5) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled boards. INED 3522; Kress S.5048; Conlon 84:1625; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; Hartig & Soboul, p. 68; not in Valette; not in Negley. First edition of this utopian work in the usual fashion: after a so-called translated manuscript on the institutions of "Lydia" are analysed while in fact the work contains criticism of contemporary society and institutions. In favour of freedom of trade, agriculture and work, and analysing the financial and economic institutions of France.Perreau (died in Toulouse in 1813) was professor of 'droit de la nature et des gens' at the Collège de France, and later became professor of law at the l'École centrale du Panthéon. He edited in 1791 the 'Journal du vrai citoyen' founded with the aim of protecting the constitutional principles. EUR 750
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(RENDU.) Essai d'une loi populaire-agraire. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Impr. des Frères Chaignieau, (about 1790/91). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Martin & Walter. First (and only?) edition. Tries to formulate an agrarian law in which a limitation of agricultural land is being set: no one can own more land than he is able to cultivate himself. EUR 125
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(ROUX, A. & J. GOULIN & P.A. AUBERT DE LA CHESNAYE-DES-BOIS.) Dictionnaire domestique portatif, contenant toutes les connoissances relatives à l'oeconomie domestique & rurale; où l'on détaille les différentes branches de l'agriculture, la manière de soigner les chevaux, celle de nourrir & de conserver toute sorte de bestieux, celle d'élever les abeilles, les vers à soie; et dans lequel on trouve les instructions nécessaires sur la chasse, la pêche, les arts, le commerce, la procédure, l'office, la cuisine, etc. Par une Société de gens de lettres. A Paris, Chez Vincent, 1762-1764. 3 volumes. (4), xvi, 284, 313 pp.; (2), (313)-592 & 192 pp.; (4),193-640 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, red edges. Musset-Pathay 430; INED 3975; Kress 6058; not in Goldsmiths; cf.: Higgs 5359; Conlon 62:1263. First edition. - Lacks letter C. A very good copy. EUR 350
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(RULIE, P., TURGOT, A.R.J., AND GOUTTES, J.-L.) Théorie de l'intérêt de l'argent, tirée des principes du droit naturel, de la théologie et de la politique, contre l'abus de l'imputation d'usure. A Paris, Chez Barrois l'aîné, 1780. xxiii, 306, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine giltin compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges, two corners lightly bumped, rear joint starting to split (nearly visible). Kress B.319; Goldsmiths 12046; Einaudi 2667 (under Gouttes); INED 2104 (Gouttes) and 4000 (Rulié); Barbier, iv, 702b; Quérard, iii, 436. First edition of this interesting and unusual work offering a detailed history of the debate about the legality of charging and paying interest. The Aristotelian position, which equated interest with usury and thus condemned it, was still prevalent in the eighteenth century. After the initial historical chapters, the argument runs clearly along the lines of Turgot's Sur les Prêts d'Argents, in defence of interest, which Schumpeter had classified as 'by far the greatest performance in the field of interest theory the eighteenth century produced' (Schumpeter, p. 332). Turgot established the necessity of interest for commercial and industrial purposes, and persuasively argued that the taking of interest should be legalised, and the rate left to be settled between borrower and lender. He also stated that interest was an indispensable prerequisite of production, a point which is argued in great detail in chapter XI. Turgot had written Sur Les Prêts d'Argent because of a commercial crisis in Angoulême in 1769 (see Palgrave vol. 2, p. 433 for further details), and the legislation regarding Angoulême is reprinted at the end of the volume. - This is the work of three authors, originally composed by Pierre Rulié, this treatise was substantially rewritten by Jean Louis Gouttes, and is actually attributed to him in Einaudi, he in turn drew heavily on the assistance of Turgot and quotes extensively from his work, in particular from Sur les Prêts d'Argent and Reflexions sur la Formation et la Distribution des Richesses and also from an unpublished manuscript. EUR 750
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(RULIE, P., TURGOT, A.R.J., AND GOUTTES, J.-L.) Théorie de l'intérêt de l'argent, tirée des principes du droit naturel, de la théologie et de la politique, contre l'abus de l'imputation d'usure. A Paris, Chez Barrois l'aîné, 1780. xxiii, 306, (4) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress B.319; Goldsmiths 12046; Einaudi 2667 (under Gouttes); INED 2104 (Gouttes) and 4000 (Rulié); Barbier, iv, 702b; Quérard, iii, 436. First edition of this interesting and unusual work offering a detailed history of the debate about the legality of charging and paying interest. The Aristotelian position, which equated interest with usury and thus condemned it, was still prevalent in the eighteenth century. After the initial historical chapters, the argument runs clearly along the lines of Turgot's Sur les Prêts d'Argents, in defence of interest, which Schumpeter had classified as 'by far the greatest performance in the field of interest theory the eighteenth century produced' (Schumpeter, p. 332). Turgot established the necessity of interest for commercial and industrial purposes, and persuasively argued that the taking of interest should be legalised, and the rate left to be settled between borrower and lender. He also stated that interest was an indispensable prerequisite of production, a point which is argued in great detail in chapter XI. Turgot had written Sur Les Prêts d'Argent because of a commercial crisis in Angoulême in 1769 (see Palgrave vol. 2, p. 433 for further details), and the legislation regarding Angoulême is reprinted at the end of the volume. - This is the work of three authors, originally composed by Pierre Rulié, this treatise was substantially rewritten by Jean Louis Gouttes, and is actually attributed to him in Einaudi, he in turn drew heavily on the assistance of Turgot and quotes extensively from his work, in particular from Sur les Prêts d'Argent and Reflexions sur la Formation et la Distribution des Richesses and also from an unpublished manuscript. EUR 750
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(SCHATTENMANN, C.H.) Observations sur les résultats du monopole des tabacs, et sur la nécessité d'admettre immédiatement la modification proposé dans un mémoire présenté au Roi et communiqué aux chambres par le commerce de Strasbourg et les cultivateurs de l'Alsace. Paris, Foucault, 1816. - (Bound with:) DELIBERATION du commerce de Strasbourg. (Drop-head title). (Strasbourg) F.G. Levrault, 5 novembre 1817. - (Bound with:) TABACS Maintien du monopole de la vente. Libre culture. Libre fabrication. Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1818. - (Bound with:) MONOPOLE des tabacs. Pétition sur l'inexécution de la loi du 28 avril 1816, en ce qui concerne les achats de la Régie; et de la loi du 25 mars 1817, en ce qui concerne sa comptabilité: suivie de quelques observations sur la marche du monopole des tabacs. Paris, Le Normant, avril 1818. - (Bound with:) PETITION sur la modification du régime actuel du monopole des tabacs, présentée à la Chambre de commerce de Strasbourg. Paris, Le Normant, 1818. Together 5 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 26 pp.; (4) pp.; 87, (1) pp.; (2), 17, (1) pp.; 9, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Interesting details, including statistics, on the tobacco trade. EUR 325
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(SCHMID D'AVENSTEIN, G.L.) Principes de la Législation universelle. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1776. 2 volumes. xx, 389, (3) pp.; (4), 474, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red labels and gilt lettering, red edges. INED 4116; Einaudi A.867; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Leblanc 113; Mattioli 3269. First edition. 'Économie politique. Doctrine plus agrarienne que populationniste, très proche de celle des physiocrates' (INED, giving a long and extensive analysis of the work). There are sections discussing population (Schmid advocates a continuous increase), family life, property (he defends private ownership of land), luxury, taxation (Schmid favours direct over indirect taxation), commerce (he advocates, among other things, free trade for the colonies and an autonomous government) and war. One of the best expositions of the body of economic thought of the time.George-Louis Schmid (or Schmidt), born in Avenstein in 1720, entered the service of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and retired in 1757 to Nyon in the Vaud. He had close relations with Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert and the other leading philosophes of the 18th century. - Some occasional browning. An excellent copy of a scarce work. EUR 2500
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(SERVAN, J.M.A.) Discours sur le progrès des connoissances humaines en général, de la Morale, et de la Législation en particulier; Lu dans une Assemblée publique de l'Académie de Lyon. Par M.S**, ancien Magistrat. No place, 1781. viii, 159, (1) pp. 8vo. Original blind wrappers, uncut copy. INED 4168; Cioranescu 60152; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Deals with moral questions and legislation, finances (pp. 41-43, 100-112) and in praise of Forbonnais, Silhouette and Turgot. 'L'esprit général de notre fiscalité moderne est de favoriser les gains énormes et le luxe vicieux, d'écraser l'état enfin sous le poids unique de l'inégalité des richesses.' Also thoughts on commerce and agriculture: 'l'agriculture est le bras de l'état, le commerce en est la main.' In favor of economic liberty and condamnation of slavery and religious fanaticism which drives the protestants out of France. EUR 600
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(SERVAN, J.M.A.) Discours sur le progrès des connoissances humaines en général, de la Morale, et de la Législation en particulier; Lu dans une Assemblée publique de l'Académie de Lyon. Par M.S**, ancien Magistrat. No place, 1781. viii, 159, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartements, marbled edges, somewhat rubbed. INED 4168; Cioranescu 60152; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Deals with moral questions and legislation, finances (pp. 41-43, 100-112) and in praise of Forbonnais, Silhouette and Turgot. 'L'esprit général de notre fiscalité moderne est de favoriser les gains énormes et le luxe vicieux, d'écraser l'état enfin sous le poids unique de l'inégalité des richesses.' Also thoughts on commerce and agriculture: 'l'agriculture est le bras de l'état, le commerce en est la main.' In favor of economic liberty and condamnation of slavery and religious fanaticism which drives the protestants out of France. Servan (1737? - 1807) was an orator and magistrate, admired by Voltaire among others. In this work where he broadly assesses human understanding with a particular focus on legal systems and finance, he also discusses the ideas of Rousseau, Helvétius, Locke and Shaftesbury. EUR 600
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(TILLET, M.) Précis des Expériences faites par ordre de Roi à Trianon, sur la cause de la Corruption des blés, Et sur les moyens de la prévenir; à la suite duquel est une Instruction propre à guider les Laboureurs dans la manière dont ils doivent préparer le Grain avant de le semer. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. viii, 32 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Conlon 87:898 (anonymous); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Musset-Pathay 1567. Probably an expanded edition of the essay published in 1756 with a slightly different title. Conlon lists this as an anonymous work, Musset-Pathay gives the 1756 edition, DSB also lists the 1756 edition. Matthieu Tillet, agronomist, born in Bordeaux in 1720, died in 1791. He was a meticulous agricultural researcher and obtained important results with his experiments. He was admitted to the Académie des Sciences in 1758 where he worked together with Duhamel de Monceau. He is best remembered for his investigations of wheat smuts and bunts (DSB, volume 13, p. 411). EUR 150
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(VILLELE, J. DE.) Projet de loi sur le tabac, présenté à la Chambre des Députés dans la séance du 6 avril 1824. Paris, Impr. Royale, avril 1824. 58 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not inEinaudi. First edition. The Comte Joseph de Villele was head of the longest ministry of the Restoration era. In domestic affairs Villele put France on a stable financial basis, his most important achievement and one which lasted throughout the nineteenth century. In foreign affairs France regained her prestige during the Villele ministry. He was one of the ablest, if not the ablest, of the Restoration statesmen and his administrative and financial abilities were considerable.Includes statistical tables. EUR 175
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ABEILLE, (L.P.) & LE FEBVRE & TESSIER. Observations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture sur la question suivant, qui lui a été proposée par le Comité d'Agriculture & de Commerce de l'Assemblée Nationale. L'usage des domaines congéables est-il utile ou non au progrès de l'agriculture? Rédigées par MM. Abeille, l'Abbé Le Febvre & l'Abbé Tessier. Lues le dix-sept Mars 1791. No place, (1791). (2), 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Musset-Pathay 1414; INED 8; Kress S.5337; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli. First edition. Detailed definition of the 'domaine congéable', its usages and customes in Bretagne where they have survived. Abeille demontrates with the use of the 'Coutume de Bretagne' that the farmers with a 'domaine congéable' were doing well and contributed to the prospering of agriculture and the population. Abeille concludes that this system of 'withdrawable property' is favorable to the multiplication of property and that this farming-system is by consequence contributing to the progress of agriculture.A 'domaine congéable' was the system whereby land was leased for a period of usually nine years. If the contract was not renewed the farmer had a right to be reimburesed for all that he had constructed, improved etc. The advantage of the system was that the farmer benefitted from his work and the improvements he introduced on the land he had leased. Nevertheless, the insecurity of the system caused many complaints and these were clearly present and voiced in the cahiers of 1789. The system survived principally in the 'Basse Bretagne.' EUR 350
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BEGUILLET, E. Traité des subsistances et des grains qui servent à la nourriture de l'homme. Contenant Les Principes sur la connoissance & l'achat des Grains; leurs qualités, culture & usages; leurs maladies; leur conservation; l'histoire des Greniers d'abondance, &c. Le commerce & la législation des Grains, &c. Le Méchanisme & la construction des diverses sortes de Moulins à eau ou à vent; la nouvelle Méthode de moudre les grains par économie, ses avantages comparés, &c. L'analyse du corps farineux, & des végétaux qui le fournissent; la conservation & le commerces des Farines économiques, &c. Avec un grand nombre de Planches. Dédié au Roi. A Paris, Chez Prault fils, 1780. With 41 engraved folding plates. 2 volumes. viii, xxiv, (iii)-x, 141, (1), 411, (misnumbered 413) pp.; x, (2), 776 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red label with gilt lettering, joints partly split and quite weak, cords still holding, rubbed. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi and INED (listing a later edition). The very rare first edition, INED, Quérard, and Musset-Pathay all listing the 1782 and 1802 editions of this work. Important treatise dealing with the culture of cereals and their conservation, storage, etc, as well as dealing with legal and economical aspects. An important part is also devoted to mills, their construction and usage, and the conservation of the farinaceous products. The plates deal with technical construction of the various storage places and the like. - In the first volume the half-title and title are followed by 'Précis Analytique du Traité Général des Grains et de La Mouture par Économie' (xxiv pp.), followed by the 'Avertissement' and the 'Table des Chapitres Du Discours sur la mouture économique' (iii-x pp.), then follows the 'Discours sur la Mouture économique' (pp. 1-141) which is followed by the 'Table du Premier Volume' (iii-viii). The 'Précis Analytique .....' is almost certainly a later or last-minute insertion as it is clearly printed on different paper, the 'Table du Premier Volume' is probably misbound, first fly-leaf loose. At the end of volume one a waterstain in the inner blank margin; with the bookplate of M. Boulton (sale Christie's, december 1986). EUR 1500
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BELLE-ISLE, (C.L.A. FOUQUET, DE.) Testament politique du Maréchal Duc de Belle-Isle. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens des Libraires Associés, 1761. 12mo. - (Bound with:) (TIXEDOR, F.X.) Nouvelle France, ou France commerçante. Par Mr. F. X. T. (Tixedor) Juge de C. (Conflans). A Londres, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 216 pp.; (4), viii, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. First work: Goldsmiths 9713 (listing it under Chevrier); INED 379; Higgs 2627; Einaudi 1076 (listing an edition from 1762, also under Chevrier); Conlon 61:576 (Chevrier); not in Kress. First edition. First work: 'Politique et social. Réflexions sur l'intolérance, qui est parfois nécessaire (mais dommages causés par l'émigration des protestants); les impôts, qui sont moins lourds que mal répartis; la néfaste célibat des prêtres; la nécessité des lois somptuaires, bien que `le luxe qui perd un petit état en enrichit un grand'; le duel, qui peut mener à la destruction de l'espèce humaine; l'exemption d'impôts des pères de famille qui favoriserait la population; .....' (INED). According to Querard, the work is by Chevrier where indeed several reference works list it.Second work: Kress 6305; Goldsmiths 10097; INED 4337; Higgs 3430; Leblanc 384; Conlon 65:1299; not in Einaudi.First edition. Kress states the work was published first in 1755, for which statement no evidence could be found, nor does Kress have this 1755 edition, nor does Goldsmiths and Conlon lists it under 1765 thereby indicating that there is no 1755 edition.'Cet ouvrage comporte quatre parties: Du commerce en général; Des avantages qui reviendront à la France par l'établissement d'un solide commerce; De la facilité des établissements de commerce et marine dans la France; Des obstacles qui peuvent s'opposer à un solide établissement de commerce dans la France. Cette dernière rubrique se termine par des considérations sur l'établissement du commerce propre à la monarchie française. (Leblanc). 'Economique. Réflexions sur le commerce en général et sur ces avantages. Intérêt de la France à posséder un 'solide commerce', d'autant plus que notre pays offre des conditions particulièrement favorables à son développement et à celui de la marine. Défense du systême des douanes intérieures' (INED). - With the engraved bookplate of Alexis de Lamothe, Avocat. EUR 750
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BERNARD, (P.J.) Mémoire sur les engrais que la Provence peut fournir; qui a remporté le prix au jugement de l'Académie en l'année 1778. A Marseille, Chez Antoine Favet, 1778. With folding mineralogical map of the Provence, and a folding table. 199, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Musset Pathay 1213 (listing a 1780 edition); Conlon 78:642. First edition. Title on page 3 reads: Mémoire sur les Engrais que la Provence peut fournir, et sur la manière de les employer, suivant les diverses especes de Terreins.The folding table gives an extensive survey of the various kinds of natural fertilizers used, with indication of utility on various sorts of soil. The title and text are all printed within a printed border. EUR 175
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BERTEZEN, S. Réflexions sur les moyens d'améliorer la culture de la soie en France, et d'augmenter sa production; suivies d'un plan pour y parvenir. Paris, Imprimerie de la Feuille du Cultivateur, 1792. (2), 33 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Musset-Pathay 1708; Martin & Walter 2898; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. EUR 175
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BESSON, A. Rapport au nom de la Commission nommée par arrêté du 22 Frimaire, an 4 (13 Décembre 1795), pour présenter un projet de résolution sur l'administration forestière. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, Thermidor an 4 (1796). 63 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 3109. EUR 115
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BONGUYOD, M.F. Essai sur les élémens d'agriculture, pour les écoles primaires. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie Nationale, (ab. 1795). 40 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 4037; not in Musset-Pathay. First edition. An essay on the instruction of children in primary school in the virtues of agricultural life, the advantages of agriculture, work in agriculture, means of improvement, usages and customs of rural population, the animals, their health and the disseases and other threats for their well-being and means of prevention and curing. EUR 200
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BORGNIS, J.A. Traité complet de méchanique appliquée aux arts. Contenant l'Exposition méthodique des théories et des expériences les plus utiles pour diriger le choix, l'invention, la construction et l'emploi de toutes les espèces de machines; Des Machines d'Agriculture. Paris, Bachelier, 1819. 28 folding engraved plates. (4), viii, (2), 288 pp. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, gilt ornamental border on sides, spine gilt with red and green labels and gilt lettering, a few minor imperfections. Quérard, i, p. 418-419; Hoeffer 6, p. 716-717. First edition. The author was 'professeur de mécanique à l'université de Paris, membre de l'Académie Royale de sciences de Turin'. He published, between 1818 and 1820 an 8 volume work Traité de Mécanique of which this is volume 5. The author's aim was to provide a descriptive inventory of all exisitng machines. Nowadays these volumes are almost always offered separately, complete sets are of great rarity. The other volumes were: De la Composition des Machines; Du mouvement des Fardeaux; Des Machines qu'on emploie dans les constructions diveres; des machines hydrauliques; des machines employées dans diverses fabrications; des machines qui servent à confectionner les étoffes; des machines qui imitent ou facilitent les fonctions vitales des corps animés. - Very nice copy. EUR 450
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BOURDON (DE LA CROSNIèRE, L.J.J.) L. Organisation des greniers nationaux, décretée par la Convention nationale, et imprimée par son ordre. Présentée au nom des Comités d'agriculture et de salut public. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 11 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter 4764. First edition. Of great interest for the corn trade and the distribution of corn. EUR 150
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BOURDON-DESPLANCHES, (L.J.) Projet nouveau sur la manière de faire utilement en France le commerce des grains. Par M. Bourdon Desplanches, ancien premier Commis dans les Finances. A Bruxelles, et se trouve à Paris, Chez la Veuve Esprit, 1785. 152 pp. 8vo. Modern half citron morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards, top edge gilt, a lovely copy. Kress B.820; Goldsmiths 12849; INED 735bis; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 132; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'C'est une réponse à l'ouvrage de Roubaud: Représentation aux Magistrats ...... L'auteur expose le régime des blés en France et critique la liberté absolue de son commerce et de sa circulation. Il propose le maintien de la législation en vigeur, mais il la tempère en proposant la création de Compagnies de Commerce, qui auront seules la faculté de faire sortir ou entrer les blèes du royaume. Celles-ci devront créer, dans les villes importantes, des greniers où les cultivateurs et propriétaires pourront porter les grains invendus, qui leur sont achetés à un prix fixe. L'auteur termine son étude par une critique du Traité de l'Administration des Finances de Necker en ce qui concerne les paragraphes relatifs aux grains contrarient les propositions exposées dans cet ouvrage' (Leblanc, op.cit). 'La liberté illimitée du commerce des grains présente de multiples inconvénients pour l'economie et la population. Bourdon propose un système plus modéré: créer une compagnie de commerce chargée exclusivement de l'exportation et de l'importation des grains, de l'établissement de greniers publics, de la fixation en chaque endroit du prix du pain, etc. Ce système, en outre, permettrait de supprimer les impôts sans diminuer les revenus du roi: perception d'un droit sur le quintal de blé' (INED). EUR 1250
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BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deux siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. A Versailles, Chez Blaizot, et se trouvent à Paris, Chez tous les Libraires, 1789. - (Followed by:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. 2 volumes in 1. 96 pp.; 184 pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporaryblind covers, uncut. INED 771; Stourm, p. 191; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Cohen-de Ricci, col. 186: "... curieux frontispiece inventé par l'auteur, dessiné par Brion de la Tour et gravé par C.-F. Le Tellier." First edition. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité, et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raisons des propriétés' (INED). - Copy with the general half title for the two parts. EUR 750
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BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deux siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. No place, 1789. - (Followed by:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. 2 volumes in 1. 96 pp.; 184 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. INED 771; Stourm, p. 191; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Cohen-de Ricci, 186: "contient un curieux frontispiece inventé par l'auteur, dessiné par Brion de la Tour et gravé par C.-F. Le Tellier." First edition. - There was a general half-title for the two parts which the binder did not preserve. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité, et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raison des propriétés' (INED). EUR 700
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BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deux siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. No place, 1789. - (Followed by:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. 2 volumes in 1. 96 pp.; 184 pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporarymarbled covers, uncut. INED 771; Stourm, p. 191; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Cohen-de Ricci, 186: "contient un curieux frontispiece inventé par l'auteur, dessiné par Brion de la Tour et gravé par C.-F. Le Tellier." First edition. - Copy with the general half-title for the two parts. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité, et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raison des propriétés' (INED). EUR 750
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BREMOND, J.B. Premières observations au peuple françois, sur la quadruple aristocratie qui existe depuis deux siècles, sous le nom de haut Clergé, de possédants fiefs, de Magistrats, & du haut Tiers; & vues générales sur la constitution & la félicité publique. No place, 1789. - (Followed by:) BREMOND, J.B. Secondes observations au peuple françois. Compte rendu à la Nation, de la somme de sa contribution, du produit net de sa recette & de sa dépense. Dénonciation du travail en finance, & restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition & du recouvrement. Suite des vues générales sur la constitution & sur la félicité publique. No place, 1789. With engraved frontispiece. 2 volumes in 1. 96 pp.; 184 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. INED 771; Stourm, p. 191; Martin & Walter 5071; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. - First few leaves a bit browned, frontispiece with a small stain in lower corners and a bit spotted. Copy with the general half-title for the two parts. 'Dénonciation du travail en finance, et restauration de la chose publique, par la seule réforme des abus de l'impôt, de sa répartition et du recouvrement. Vues générales sur la constitution et la félicité publique. Bremond veut relever l'agriculture, supprimer la mendicité, et répartir proportionnellement l'impôt à raison des propriétés' (INED). EUR 700
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BRISTED, J. Les Etats-Unis d'Amérique, ou Tableau de l'agriculture, du commerce, des manufactures, des finances, de la politique, de la littérature, des arts, et du caractère moral et religieux du peuple anglo-américain. Paris, chez Alexis Eymery, 1826. 2 volumes. 380 pp.; 320 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments, rear cover of volume one loose, joints weak, somewhat damaged at head of spines. Sabin 8084; Leclerc 216; Howes B.785; not in Muller; Kress C.1610; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First and only French translation. The first English edition was published in 181 in New York. Bristed was born in England (1778) and died in the US in 1855. He held ideas that were considered radical at the time. He arrived in New York City in 1806 and practised law, lectured and wrote. His writings show diligent and exhaustive study: interest in history, economic questions and religion (see: Dictionary of American Biography.) EUR 300
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COINZE, M. Introduction à un plan général d'administration civile et de colonisation agricole en Algérie. Paris, Frey, 1847. 62 pp. 8vo. Modern red half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, original printed covers preserved. Not in Kayser; not in Gay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. - Somewhat spotted, with a waterstain in the lower inner margin throughout, the original yellow printed covers preserved. Pleads for the further colonisation of Algeria by introducing European civil government and attracting European (French) colonists to develop the country. EUR 175
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CONDILLAC, (E. BONNOT DE). Le Commerce et le Gouvernement, considérés relativement l'un à l'autre. Ouvrage élémentaire .... A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Jombert et Cellot, 1776. 2 parts in 1 volume. ix, (1, blank), 587, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets on sides, marbled edges (very lightly rubbed). Kress 7201; Einaudi 1208; INED 1162 (edition of 586 pp.); Leblanc 109; Lebeau, Condillac économiste, pp. 45-52; this edition not in Goldsmiths. Second edition, published in the same year as the original edition, with the errata corrected and also continuous pagination although differing from the first edition. There is a third edition from the same year in two volumes and separately paginated, without the errata while the errata are only partially corrected (Goldsmiths 11373; Einaudi 1209; and not in Kress). The present edition was newly set and printed. This is the French philosopher's only economic work, in which he sought to define the principal concepts of value, exchange, and price, and succeeded in constructing a utility theory of value. It has been described by Jevons as 'original and profound' and by H.D. Macleod as 'infinitely superior to A. Smith'. Schumpeter felt their praise to be exaggerated, but states that it 'is a good if somewhat sketchy treatise on economic theory and policy and much above the common run of its contemporaries'. Important text in which the author precedes modern theories of commerce and trade. Although Condillac obtained a 'permission tacite' to publish his work in Paris, it was nevertheless done with an Amsterdam imprint. Nevertheless it was seized by the 'Chambre Syndicale' and the sale was interrupted. See at length: Belin, Le Commerce des Livres prohibés. Higgs 5396 lists 1772 as the year of publication, which is a ghost, the work was reviewed by Baudeau in the Ephémérides du Citoyen of 1776. EUR 900
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CONDILLAC, (E. BONNOT DE.) Le Commerce et le Gouvernement considérés relativement l'un à l'autre. Ouvrage élémentaire. Nouvelle édition. A Paris, Chez Blanchon, An IIIe (1795). 2 volumes in 1. (4), 236 (last page misnumbered iii) pp.; (4), 148, iii (publisher's advertisments) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, blind stamped ornaments on spine with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First published in 1776, this second edition is scarce. Both Kress and Goldsmiths have an edition of 380 pages, published by Letellier in 1795.This is the French philosopher's only economic work, in which he sought to define the principal concepts of value, exchange, and price, and succeeded in constructing a utility theory of value. It has been described by Jevons as 'original and profound' and by H.D.Macleod as 'infinitely superior to A. Smith'. Schumpeter felt their praise to be exaggerated, but states that it 'is a good if somewhat sketchy treatise on economic theory and policy and much above the common run of its contemporaries'.Important text in which the author precedes modern theories of commerce and trade.Although Condillac obtained a 'permission tacite' to publish his work in Paris (for the 1776 edition), it was nevertheless done with an Amsterdam imprint. Nevertheless it was seized by the 'Chambre Syndicale' and the sale was interrupted. See at length: Belin, Le Commerce des Livres prohibés. Higgs 5396 lists 1772 as the year of first publication, which is a ghost, the work was reviewed upon publication by Baudeau in the Ephémérides du Citoyen of 1776. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 500
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CONDILLAC, (E. BONNOT DE.) Le Commerce et le Gouvernement considérés rélativement l'un à l'autre. Ouvrage élémentaire. Premiere Partie [- Seconde Partie]. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Jombert & Cellot, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 273, (1) pp.; (4), 180 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards, morocco label with gilt lettering, corners lightly bumped. Goldsmiths 11373; Einaudi 1209; Mattioli 741 (one of the other issues); INED 1162 (first edition); Kress 7200-7201 (first edition and the edition without errata but with the errata corrected); Leblanc 109; Lebeau, Condillac économiste, pp. 45-52. There are three editions from 1776 of this work: one with errata on page iv, which we consider to be the first edition; another edition (Kress 7201) without errata and the errata corrected, also continiously paginated as the first edition, and the present edition which is in two separately paginated volumes, with two title-pages, no errata but the errata only partially corrected. This is the French philosopher's only economic work, in which he sought to define the principal concepts of value, exchange, and price, and succeeded in constructing a utility theory of value. It has been described by Jevons as 'original and profound' and by H.D.Macleod as 'infinitely superior to A. Smith'. Schumpeter felt their praise to be exaggerated, but states that it 'is a good if somewhat sketchy treatise on economic theory and policy and much above the common run of its contemporaries.' Important text in which the author precedes modern theories of commerce and trade.Although Condillac obtained a 'permission tacite' to publish his work in Paris, it was nevertheless done with an Amsterdam imprint. Nevertheless it was seized by the 'Chambre Syndicale' and the sale was interrupted. See at length: Belin, Le Commerce des Livres prohibés. Higgs 5396 lists 1772 as the year of publication, which is a ghost, the work was reviewed by Baudeau in the Ephémérides du Citoyen of 1776. EUR 750
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CORN - RAPPORT de la commission nommée par la Société d'Agriculture du Département de la Seine pour l'examen du Mémoire du cit. (J.) Barré de Saint-Venant. 6 ventôse an VII (1799). Manuscript signed by Silvestre, sécretaire-adjoint, of 11 pp. Small folio.A.F. Silvestre was the author of numerous articles published in the 'Mémoires' of the 'Société d'Agriculture.' J. Barré Saint-Venant - who later would publish an excellent work on Saint Domingue - exposes in the memoir in question the deplorable situation of the culture of corn, its causes and means to improve it. The commissaires who examined Barré Saint-Venant's exposition were Poullain-Grandpré, Dussieurs, Duquesnoy, Rougier La Bergerie, a.o.This text analyses the causes of the low prices for corn, the conditions of export, compares in- and export of the years before the Revolution and the actual situation, the best way of raising taxes on corn, etc. EUR 300
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CREUZE-LATOUCHE, J.A. Discours et projet de décret de J.A. Creuzé-Latouche, Député de la Vienne, sur les subsistances, proposés Dans la Séance de la Convention Nationale, du 28 avril 1793, l'an deuxième de la République. (Drop-head title). A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering. Martin & Walter 8870; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, i, pp. 244-245; not in Monglond; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Jacques-Antoine Creuzé-Latouche, representative of the Tiers état, member of the Jacobins (with a short period in which he moved over to the Feuillants), elected member to the Convention nationale in 1792, supporter of full liberty of the trade in grain which he considered the best guarentee against want. This is his speech concerning the subject on which he also published a volume of 144 pages in which he praised Sully and Turgot. During the trial of Louis XVI he voted for the deathpenalty, voted also for bringing charges to Marat. EUR 175
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CREUZE-LATOUCHE, J.A. Rapport des députés de la Convention Nationale réunis, pour présenter leurs idées en faveur de la liberté entière du commerce des grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 48 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 8873. First edition. Read on December 8, 1792, the report proposes the interdiction of export of corn, but complete freedom within the Republic. Includes average prices for corn in each department since the first weeks of October 1792. The author refers several times to the ideas of Saint-Just and gives a historical survey of the theories on corn-trade of the 18th century. EUR 300
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DALPHONSE, (F.J.B.) Mémoire statistique du département de l'Indre, adressé au Ministre de l'Intérieur d'après ses instructions, par Cen Dalphonse, préfet de ce département. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de la République, an XII (1804). With 3 folding tables and 1 coloured map of the departement loosely inserted, and with numerous tables. 367, (1) pp. Folio. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, some wear, slightly damaged at foot of front joint, small stain on cover at bottom. Perrot 297. First edition. After many interruptions during the Revolution, the governments of the Directory, the Consulate and Empire intensified statistical efforts. Lucien Bonaparte and Jean Chaptal established the Bureau of Statistics, which lasted until 1812. It launched a massive statistical description of France in 1801. Prefects of each department were instructed to secure from subprefects, mayors, and local savants and societies of agriculture detailed descriptive (verbal) and quantitative data on the topography, population, agriculture, industry and commerce of their jurisdiction in 1789 and 1801. This was to become a vast cooperative inquiry with a twofold purpose: to discover what change had occured during the Revolution, and to establish for 1801 a cross-sectional description of France from which later demographic and economic movement could be measured. However, the reports came in slowly or not al all. Only thirty-five were ultimately submitted, and they were uneven in completeness and accuracy. The art of phrasing questionnaires to secure precise information was just being developed. The bureau was asking too much of slender prefectoral staffs. Some harried prefects, subprefects and mayors worked hard and carefully to answer the questionnaires, others did not. Nevertheless, a mass of data was accumulated that has not yet been fully exploited by historians. (See: Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, pp. 455-6). The volume deals with: topography, population, agriculture, industry, and 'l'état des citoyens'. EUR 750
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DAUBENTON, (L.J.M.) Mémoire sur le Premier Drap de Laine superfine du crû de la France. Lû à la rentrée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le 21 Avril 1784. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1784. - (Followed by:) DAUBENTON, (L.J.M.) Observations sur la comparaison de nouvelle laine superfine de France avec la plus belle laine d'Espagne, Dans la Fabrication du Drap. Lûes à la rentrée publique de l'Académie royale des Sciences, le 16 Novembre 1785. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1786. Two works in one volume. 15, (1) pp.; (2), 24 pp. Small 8vo.Modern boards. Kress B.699 (the edition printed in Lille) and S.5104; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First editions. - A few leaves in the second work with a faint dampstain in the upper blank margin. The second work contains from page 13-end the 'Additions aux Observations ..... le 26 mars 1786.'Louis-Jean Marie Daubenton wrote several articles for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert and also supervised part of the Encyclopédie Méthodique devoted to the animal kingdom. He had a phenomenal career: starting as garde et démonstrateur of the natural history collection at the Jardin du Roi, he became adjoint botaniste, associé botaniste, associé anatomiste and finally pensionnaire anatomiste. He also became membre résident of the anatomy and zoology section of the First Class of the Institut National, and became member of all the major foreign academies and of the Société de Médecine and the Société d'Agriculture during his career. Around 1766 Daubenton was commissioned to investigate 'by a series of well-conceived and carefully executed experiments the most favorable natural arrangement for improving wool.' Daubenton travelled to Spain to study the breeding of the merino sheep and in France to learn current breeding practices. He erected a sheepfold near Montbard in 1767, and he had a second one built at Alfort veterinary school when he began teaching there in 1783. He also persued his wool experiments at the Jardin du Roi. He used the microscope to examine the fineness of the wool obtained and concluded in the first memoir that the wool produced was of similar quality as the wool produced in Spain. See: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume xv, p. 111 ff. EUR 225
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DAUBENTON, (L.J.M.) Mémoire sur le Premier Drap de Laine superfine du crû de la France. Lû à la rentrée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le 21 Avril 1784. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 15, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.699 (the edition printed in Lille); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Louis-Jean Marie Daubenton wrote several articles for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert and also supervised part of the Encyclopédie Méthodique devoted to the animal kingdom. He had a phenomenal career: starting as garde et démonstrateur of the natural history collection at the Jardin du Roi, he became adjoint botaniste, associé botaniste, associé anatomiste and finally pensionnaire anatomiste. He also became membre résident of the anatomy and zoology section of the First Class of the Institut National, and became member of all the major foreign academies and of the Société de Médecine and the Société d'Agriculture during his career. Around 1766 Daubenton was commissioned to investigate 'by a series of well-conceived and carefully executed experiments the most favorable natural arrangement for improving wool.' Daubenton travelled to Spain to study the breeding of the merino sheep and in France to learn current breeding practices. He erected a sheepfold near Montbard in 1767, and he had a second one built at Alfort veterinary school when he began teaching there in 1783. He also persued his wool experiments at the Jardin du Roi. He used the microscope to examine the fineness of the wool obtained and concluded in this memoir that the wool produced was of similar quality as the wool produced in Spain. See: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume xv, Supplement I, p. 111 ff. EUR 175
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DAUBENTON, (L.J.M.) Mémoire sur le Premier Drap de Laine superfine du crû de la France. Lû à la rentrée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le 21 Avril 1784. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1784. - (Followed by:) DAUBENTON, (L.J.M.) Observations sur la comparaison de nouvelle laine superfine de France avec la plus belle laine d'Espagne, Dans la Fabrication du Drap. Lûes à la rentrée publique de l'Académie royale des Sciences, le 16 Novembre 1785. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1786. Two works in one volume. 15, (1) pp.; (2), 24 pp. Small 8vo.Modern boards. Kress B.699 (the edition printed in Lille) and S.5104; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First editions. The second work contains from page 13-end the 'Additions aux Observations ..... le 26 mars 1786.'Louis-Jean Marie Daubenton wrote several articles for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert and also supervised part of the Encyclopédie Méthodique devoted to the animal kingdom. He had a phenomenal career: starting as garde et démonstrateur of the natural history collection at the Jardin du Roi, he became adjoint botaniste, associé botaniste, associé anatomiste and finally pensionnaire anatomiste. He also became membre résident of the anatomy and zoology sectio of the First Class of the Institut National, and became member of al the major foreign academies and of the Société de Médecine and the Société d'Agriculture during his career. Around 1766 Daubenton was commissioned to investigate 'by a series of well-conceived and carefully executed experiments the most favorable natural arrangement for improving wool.' Daubenton travelled to Spain to study the breeding of the merino sheep and in France to learn current breeding practices. He erected a sheepfold near Montbard in 1767, and he had a second one built at Alfort veterinary school when he began teaching there in 1783. He also persued his wool experiments at the Jardin du Roi. He used the microscope to examine the fineness of the wool obtained and concluded in the first memoir that the wool produced was of similar quality as the wool produced in Spain. See: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume xv, Supplement I, p. 111 ff. EUR 225
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DAUPHINE - REMONSTRANCES du Parlement de Dauphiné au Roi, au sujet de l'Édit du mois d'Avril dernier, & de la déclaration de 24 du même mois. Du 17 Août 1763. (Grenoble), 1763. 34 pp. 12mo. Modern boards, with leather label and gilt lettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 63:461. First edition. Against the taxes which are too heavy a burden on agriculture and the peasants. 'Le laboureur épardu, dépouillé des fruits de ses peines & de ses travaux, déchiré des plaintes & des murmures de ses enfans ..... déteste un lien dont la fécondité l'attache encore à la Patrie.' EUR 200
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DECHALOTTE, J.F. Traité sur les subsistances et projet d'un approvisionnement de réserve en grains pour toute la France, sans qu'il en coûte rien au Trésor. Paris, Mme Huzard, 1829. vii, 90 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Goldsmiths 25845 (without the preliminaries); not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition. EUR 150
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DICKSON, A. De l'agriculture des anciens. Traduit de l'anglois (par P.A. Paris). A Paris, Chez H.J. Jansen, an X (1802). With 2 frontispieces and 1 engraved plate. 2 volumes. (2), xiv, 470, (2) pp.; (2), iv, 478, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering. Kress B.4507; Musset-Pathay 23; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition. The Rev. Adam Dickson is best known for his Husbandry of the Ancients of which this is the first French translation, derived from the Scriptores rei rusticae and other writers, and compared with the modern system. Palgrave mentions that his practical knowledge enabled him to clear up many difficulties but 'his scholarship was imperfect.''A good classical scholar, and an excellent practical farmer' (McDonald, Agricultural Writers, p. 211.) Fussell, in his More Old English Farming Books, writes that none of Dickson's publications was so important as the present work. EUR 450
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DORIA, LUIGI ROMANO. Elementi della Coltivazione de' Grani ad uso dell'Agro Romano, Dedicati alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Pio Sesto... In Roma, pel Salomoni, 1777. With five engraved plates (three folding) at the end; title printed inred and blue. With portrait medallion of Pope Pius VI and a medallion showing an overflowing grain vat surrounded by the words 'spes publica'. xvi (imprimatur leaf misbound), 236 pp. 8vo. Contemporary richly and elaborately gilt tooled calf with in the center of both sides gilt stamped coat-of-arms, in the center of arms three rows with stars, above the arms a crown, spine richly gilt, small expertly repair to head of spine. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi, not found in NUC; see Re, Dizionario ragionato di libri d'agricoltura, p. 207, for 1798 edition only, commenting that he never saw the first edition. First edition, rare, of this attractively illustrated reform proposal for Roman agriculture in a wonderful binding. Doria begins with advice on the assessment of different types and qualities of soil and prospective harvests, which need to be taken into account when assessing the viability of estates and their leases. This is followed by detailed advice on the whole process of practical agriculture, such as how to organise and arrange the fields for maximum efficiency, how the fields are prepared, manure applied and ploughed under, then ploughing, sowing, hoeing, etc. up to the harvesting. He makes some useful suggestions for the more efficient use of existing fields and the incorporation of fallow ground.Doria also supplies a detailed calendar of projects by month, and an interesting glossary of agricultural terms and procedures, with labour prices where appropriate. A final section gives an account of salaries paid in farming, and the average maintenance cost for various farm workers.Particularly attractive are the emblematic plates, showing scenes of farming and agriculture, common wind directions, field divisions, and planting instructions."These were the years which saw a stepping up of specifically agronomic propaganda, in the manner of Giovanni Salvini's Instructions to his land agent (1775). Here too we can detect a Tuscan and also a Venetian influence and it is apparent that the proposed agrarian changes (introduction of Tarelli's method, etc.) would necessitate modifications in economic relationships and mentality ...... Above all, one great hope: "We are ever on the point of achieving the impossible .... so that the structure of property will be transformed and the workers will no longer be poor." In 1777 Luigi Doria's Principles of Cereal Growing for the use of the Agro Romano was published (the present work). "A time of enlightenment like the eighteenth century", said the preface, "and a most cultured capital city like my own would take it amiss if I thought it necessary to convince them of the importance of that art which is the subject of the present instructions" (Venturi, Italy and the Enlightenment, Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, pp. 245-246).Doria's work was reprinted in 1798, and this first edition appears to be very rare.The arms are most likely those of the Roman noble family Altieri as they seem to be the only ones with six stars in their arms. The Altieri family produced over the centuries a pope, Clemens X, cardinals, and other important personages in Rome. The artist who made the binding was almost surely a Roman binder. EUR 4500
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DUVAURE, (A.) Mémoires divers d'agriculture, couronnés ou approuvés par la Société royale d'agriculture de Paris, ou par l'Académie de Valence en Dauphiné. A Paris, Chez Delalain, A Lyon, Chez Jacquenod, A Grenoble, Chez J.L.A. Giroud, A Valence, Chez Aurel, Et chez les principaux Libraires du Royaume, 1789. (8), xxxi, (1), 258, (2, errata, blank), iv pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, marbled edges. Musset-Pathay 1270; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition, rare. The best known of these memoirs: 'celui sur la culture du mûrier blanc greffé, a puissamment contribué à multiplier dans le département de la Drôme les plantations de cet arbre précieux' (Rochas, Biographie du Dauphiné). EUR 350
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DUVAURE, (A.H.E. BUFFEL.) Mémoires divers d'agriculture, couronnés ou approuvés par la Société Royale d'Agriculture de Paris, ou par l'Académie de Valence en Dauphiné. Paris, Delalain, 1789. - (Followed by:) DUVAURE, A. (H.E. BUFFEL.) Lettre adressée aux rédacteurs de la Feuille du Cultivateur, et aux cultivateurs du département de la Drôme, sur l'ensemencement des terres. Valence, J.J. Viret (vendémiaire an VI, septembre 1797). - (Followed by:) DUVAURE, A. (H.E. BUFFEL.) Mémoire sur les avantages ou les inconvéniens de la culture du mûrier blanc greffé. Valence, Bénistant et Gallet, nivôse an IV, janvier 1796 v(ieux) s(tyle). 3 works bound in 1 volume. (8), xxxi, (1), 258, (2), iv pp.; 12 pp.; (2), iv, 60 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, paper covered boards, corners, spine gilt in compartments, slightly damaged at head and foot of spine, lower front joint with short split. First work: Musset-Pathay 1270; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Second work: Not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Third work: Musset-Pathay 1200; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths.Antoine Henri Etienne Buffel du Vaure was an esteemed agronomist whose main merit was that he had 'le grand mérite de vulgariser la culture du mûrier blanc greffé' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, vol. vii, p. 623). - Handwritten dedication by the author to Chabaud-Latour (A.G.F. de Chabaud-Latour) on titles of first and third work. EUR 300
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ESCHASSERIAUX (AINE, J.) Rapport au nom du Comité d'Agriculture. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 48 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Musset-Pathay 1644; not in Kress;not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. First edition. Measures proposed in order to improve agriculture and to expand cattle-breeding. Dated 7 floréal an II (26 April 1794). EUR 175
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GALIANI, F. Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. A Londres (Paris), 1770. - (Bound with:) (MORELLET, A.) Réfutation de l'ouvrage qui a pour titre 'Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds.' A Londres, 1770. Two works in one volume. (4), 314, (1, errata) pp.; 8, 360 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges. First work: Weulersse, i, p. xxvi; Kress 6730; Goldsmiths 10640; Einaudi 2334; Mattioli 1376; INED 1948; Higgs 4941; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 138; Conlon 70:926. First edition of this epochal work. 'At the age of twenty-two, Galiani published anonymously the first of his two major works on political economy. This was his treatise, Della Moneta (1751), one of the outstanding works of economic theory of the eighteenth century. In 1759 he was sent to Paris as Secretary of the Neapolitan Embassy, where he stayed for ten years. His friends included many of the leading figures of Parisian intellectual society, most importantly Diderot, Grimm, and Mme d'Epinay. He won great renown as a wit and satirist, at a period when Parisian brilliance was at its most scintillating. Moreover, it was in the 1760s, the decade of Galiani's stay in Paris, that political economy became the great fashionable interest of the day, thanks, mainly, to the challenging, dogmatic crusade of the physiocratic school, led by Quesnay. Policy towards the grain trade, long the most vital branch of domestic economic affairs, became more than ever the dominant issue, with the lifting of the ban on exports in 1764. The debate came to a head just before Galiani was brusquely summoned back to Naples (1769). With the aid of his friends, however, he managed to complete his second major work on political economy, his Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, a scathing attack on the physiocrats and their policies, and surely one of the most brilliant and profound policy tracts ever written ....... Ultimately, what was the most important in the Dialogues was their methodological significance, with regard to the complex relationships between economic theory and policy, and the importance of the historical-institutional dimension. Galiani provided the first profound criticism of deductive theorizing in economics from an historical standpoint' (T. Hutchinson, Before Adam Smith, pp. 255-256 and p. 269).Second work: Weulersse, i, p. xxviii; Kress S.4633; Goldsmiths 10642; Einaudi 4026; Mattioli 2483; INED 3314; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 120; Higgs 4942; Conlon 70:1235.First edition.The very rare refutation of Galiani's work. 'd'Après Weulersse Morellet, pour combattre Galiani, invoquait beaucoup les principes de l'école (physiocratique); mais dans la question des manufactures d'exportation, et sur le point essentiel de la productivité de l'industrie, il n'hésistait pas à soutenir des thèses contraires à celles de ces nouveaux amis. Morellet reprochait aux disciples de Quesnay l'abus de l'esprit de système' (INED). - With ex-libris of Theodore Lissgignol on front paste-down. EUR 3500
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GENOVESI, A. Lezioni di commercio o sia d'economia civile con un ragionamento sull'agricoltura e un altro sul commercio universale. Milano, della Societa Tipogr. de'classici italiani, 1824-1825. With portrait. 2 volumes. lxiii, (1), 392, (1) pp.; 398, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt lettering. Carpenter, Economic bestsellers, XXII, (16); cf.: Kress C.1246; Italian economic literature in Kress, ii, 866; this edition not in Mattioli. Both reference works state that the titlepage of volume 1 reads: Opere scelte di Antonio Genovesi. However, our copy has on its titlepage in both volumes the same text as described above. Also the portrait is not called for by both reference works. Quire 8 (the pages 113-128 in volume 1 is a blank quire: the text has been added in xerox made from another copy. 'This work is one of the best that has been written on the narrow and hollow principles of the mercantile system, and without the author having any clear idea of the real sources of wealth' (McCulloch, p. 64).He was 'the most distinguished and the most moderate of all Italian mercantilists ... Commerce was for him not an end only, but also a means by which the products of industry at large were brought to the right market. He, moreover, distinguished between useful commerce which exported manufactured goods and brought back in return raw material, and harmful commerce which exported raw material and imported foreign goods; he also insisted that useful commerce calls rather for liberty than for protection, while upon harmful commerce the stricest embargo should be laid, or at least it should as far as possible be bound hand and foot' (Cossa, Introduction to Political Economy, p. 235). EUR 500
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GOUGES-CARTOU, (A.) Mémoire sur les subsistances, Par M. Gouges Cartou, Député du Quercy & Membre du Comité des Subsistances. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1789. 55, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 15301. First edition. - Inner top margins towards the end with a waterstain, not touching text. On corn prices. The first 8 pp. are numbered i-viii and form the 'Avertissement'. The text starts on page 9 with the more appropriate caption title: Mémoire sur les causes de la cherté des grains, et sur les moyens de soulager la misère publique. At the end a Projet d'arrêté. The author favors free trade: his proposed 'projet' reads (article II): 'La circulation des grains & farines sera entièrement libre dans toutes les parties du Royaume, dont la Corse & les Colonies Françaises font partie.' EUR 250
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HAUTE-GUIENNE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale de Haute-Guienne, tenue à Villefranche, dans les mois de Septembre & d'Octobre 1779. Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Imprimeriede Vedeilhié, 1780. - (Followed by:) PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale de Haute-Guienne, tenue à Villefranche dans les mois de Septembre et d'Octobre 1780. Villefranche en Haute-Guienne, Imprimerie de Vedeilhié, 1781. With 2 folding tables. Two volumes inone. viii, 251, (1) pp.; (2), 304 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, slightly rubbed. Lavergne, Assemblées provinviales, pp. 67 ff. Original edition. Proceedings of the first and second session of the Assembly as planned by Turgot and created by Necker. The second of the Assemblées Provinciales as planned by Turgot and created by Necker, and, together with the first (of Berri) the only two that survived until the Revolution. The freedom of wine trade was one of the important issues. Another important matter was the reorganisation of the cadastral administration by Henri de Richeprey, the author of the article Imposition in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The meetings and discussions stood under strong influence of the president, Champion de Cicé, a friend and disciple of Turgot. EUR 900
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HIRZEL, (H.K.) Le Socrate rustique, ou Description de la conduite économique et morale d'un paysan philosophe. Traduit de l'allemand de M. Hirzel, premier Médecin de la République de Zurich, par un Officier Suisse au Service de la France (J.R. Frey de Landres) et dédié à l'Ami des Hommes. Troisième édition, corrigée et augmentée. Zürich, Chez Fuesslin & Comp., 1768. 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt with green label with gilt lettering, all edges marbled, very lightly rubbed. Musset-Pathay 1772; Kress 6561; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 2905 (edition of 1777); Higgs 4312; Carpenter, Dialogues in Political Economy. Translations from and into German in the 18th century, p. 14 and no. 15. Third French edition of 'Die Wirtschaft eines philosophischen Bauern'. Hans Kaspar Hirzel (1725-1803), town physician of Zurich, describes the model farm of Jakob Gujer (1716-1785), known as 'Chlijogg', a farmer-philosopher who attained European fame through this account. Goethe came to see him twice and thought him one of the most wonderful creatures on earth. He was portrayed by Lavater in his famous work on physiognomy. The first German edition of this work was published in 1761 by Heidegger as part of Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich; he also published the first French edition, the first to be in book form, in 1762. 'This was the most succesful German socio-economic work of the 18th century. It shows the importance of French as an intermediary language. (.....) More importantly, through the French translation it came to the attention of Arthur Young who had it translated and published as an appendix to his Rural Economy (1770) which went through several editions. The translation made for Arthur Young was also published several times in the American colonies and in the early years of the new republic. The myth it fostered of the superior virtue of the agricultural life has been a powerful and persistent force in American life' (Carpenter).Includes the correspondence of the author with De Mirabeau. EUR 600
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HIRZEL, (J.G.) Le Socrate rustique, ou Description de la conduite économique et morale d'un paysan philosophe. Traduit de l'allemand par un officier suisse au service de la France (J.R. Frey de Landres) et dédié à l'Ami des Hommes. Seconde édition, corrigée et augmentée. Zürich, Chez Heidegger & Comp., 1764. 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges (a trifle worn). Musset-Pathay 1772; not in Kress (cf.: 6511); not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 2905 (edition of 1777); Carpenter, Dialogues in Political Economy. Translations from and into German in the 18th century, p. 14 and no. 15; Mattioli 1639 (later edition). Second French edition, all editions are rare. Hans Kaspar Hirzel (1725-1803), town physician of Zurich, describes the model farm of Jakob Gujer (1716-1785), known as 'Chlijogg', a farmer-philosopher who attained European fame through this account. Goethe came to see him twice and thought him one of the most wonderful creatures on earth. He was portrayed by Lavater in his famous work on physiognomy. The first German edition of this work was published in 1761 by Heidegger as part of Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich; he also published the first French edition, the first to be in book form, in 1762. 'This was the most succesful German socio-economic work of the 18th century. It shows the importance of French as an intermediary language. (.....) More importantly, through the French translation it came to the attention of Arthur Young who had it translated and published as an appendix to his Rural Economy (1770) which went through several editions. The translation made for Arthur Young was also published several times in the American colonies and in the early years of the new republic. The myth it fostered of the superior virtue of the agricultural life has been a powerful and persistent force in American life' (Carpenter).Includes the correspondence of the author with De Mirabeau. EUR 600
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IVERNOIS, F. D' Tableau historique et politique des pertes que la Révolution et la guerre ont causées au peuple Français, dans sa population, son agriculture, ses colonies, ses manufactures et son commerce. A Londres, De l'Imprimerie de Baylis, Se vend chez P. Elmsley et D. Bremner, ...... Mars - 1799. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 304 pp.; (4), 312 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners, very lightly rubbed. Goldsmiths 17528; Kress B.3894 (first edition); INED 2324; not in Mattioli; Sabin 35302 (for the English edition); not in JFBL; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; Stourm, p. 305. Second, revised and enlarged edition. - Very small tear in blank outer margin of the title-page. 'Particulièrement instructif' (Stourm). 'Matériaux historiques et économiques servant à réfuter l'assertion du Directoire, selon laquelle nos ressources sont entières. Pour Ivernois, un seul moyen d'en sortir: restituer nos récentes conquêtes territoriales' (INED). EUR 800
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JOHANNOT, (J.J.) Rapport et projet de décret ..... sur les moyens de rétablir les finances, et le crédit public. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, nivôse an III (1795). - (Followed by:) JOHANNOT, (J.J.) Rapport fait au nom des Comités de salut public, de législation et des finances, réunis (sur les moyens d'améliorer les finances publiques.) (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie national, germinal l'an III (1795). - (Followed by:) JOHANNOT, (J.J.) Supplément au rapport fait au nom des Comités de salut public, de législation et des finances, réunis. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1795). 3 pieces bound in 1 volume. 23, (1) pp.; 52 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo.Modern half morocco. None in Kress; none in Goldsmiths; none in Einaudi; none in INED; Martin & Walter 17334-6; Stourm, pp. 226-7. First editions. First work: Evaluation des biens nationaux à 15 millards.Second work: Classification des dépenses et moyens d'y pourvoir. Estimation des biens nationaux. Valeur portée à 15 millards passés, sans compter 3 millards en Belgique. Hypothèque des assignats garantie par une caisse spéciale. Includes 16 pages of decrees.Third work: Création de cédules qui ouvriront à l'agriculture, au commerce et aux manufactures de nouvelles sources de régénérations. Includes 16 pages of proposed decrees. EUR 450
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L(INDET, R.TH.) Opinion de M. L..... député du bailliage d'E(vreux), sur le commerce des grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1789). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 21587. Original edition. Robert-Thomas Lindet (1743-1823). 'Homme politique. Curé à l'époque de la révolution, il fut député du clergé d'Evreux aux états généraux, puis en mars 1791 fut élu évêque constitutionnel de l'Eure, et envoyé à la Convention, où il vota le mort du Roi'. (Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, ii, p. 1144; see also Dictionnaire des Constituants, ii, p. 599). Recommands the absolute ban of any exports of corn and demands severe punishments of those who refuse to supply corn to the home market. EUR 200
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LA VICOMTERIE (DE SAINT-SAMSON, L.T.H.) Du peuple et des rois. Augmenté de notes et précédé d'une notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de l'auteur. 3ième édition. Paris, Rouanet, 1833. - (Bound with:) MARCELLIN, E. Quelques mots sur les crimes de l'Asie. Ouvrage publié au profit de l'agriculture en Grèce. A Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, Jules Renouard, Delaunay, 1829. - (Bound with:) (AUBERNON, J.) Considérations historiques et politiques sur la Russie, l'Autriche et la Prusse, Et sur les Rapports de ces trois puissances avec la France et les autres États de l'Europe. Paris, Ponthieu et Cie., Janvier 1827. 3 works in 1 volume. (2), xvi, 115, (1) pp; (iii)-viii, 128 pp.; (8), 152 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards. First work: Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, ii, p. 1102. Originally published in 1790. Violently attacking monarchy. The author was representative of Paris at the Convention and voted for the death of the king 'sans appel ni sursis' and served also on the Committee of Public Safety.Third work: Aubernon was Pair de France and worked as financial controller of the military administration. The present work saw three editons in its first year. In it he argues that France should liberate itself from the Holy Alliance. - Small stamp on title-page of first work, second work lacks the half-title and with a waterstain in outer blank margins. EUR 350
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LAMERVILLE, (J.L.TH. HEURTAULT DE.) De l'impôt territorial, combiné avec les principes de l'administration de Sully et Colbert, adaptés à la situation actuelle de la France. A Strasbourg, De l'imprimerie de Rolland et Jacob, 1788. With 15 folding tables. - (Bound with:) ALLEMAND. Mémoire sur la navigation intérieure; Observations sur l'opération particulière ordonnée par le gouvernement pour préparer l'opération générale présentée ici sous tous ses rapports. Suite de l'ouvrage préliminaire au Traité général. A Paris, Chez Prault, 1785. 2 works bound in 1 volume. (2), xx, 211, (misnumbered 215) (1) pp.; 80 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, contrasting lables with gilt lettering, marbled boards, somewhat rubbed and worn. First work: Kress B.1437; Goldsmiths 13642; Einaudi 3185; INED 2556; Leblanc 356. First edition. 'Plan d'administration des finances basé sur la justice et la simplicité, pour abolir le déplorable systême actuellement en vigeur. Lamerville se fait fort de couvrir le déficit sans augmentation d'impôts, et de délivrer le peuple des gabelles. aides, etc. L'exécution de ce projet développera les ressources de l'impôt territorial, et rétablira l'equilibre recettes-dépenses' (INED). 'Plan de restauration générale des finances, avec un discours préliminaire sur la nécessité d'un changement dans les principes de l'administration financière. Il comporte trois parties: 1. Précis des principes constitutifs de ce plan de l'administration. 2. Discussion des principes. 3. De la libération des dettes de l'Etat. Adaption et combinaison des systèmes de Sully et Colbert, critique des impôts directs et indirects qui seraient remplacés par un impôt territorial, une taille réelle, une subvention générale. Ces projets de réforme sont basés sur l'existence d'Assemblées provinciales qui assurent la perception et la répartition de l'impôt. Mirabeau, Turgot, Le Trosne, Condorcet ont les mêmes objectifs concernant les Assemblées provinciales' (Leblanc, op.cit). - The half-title reads: 'Plan d'une restauration générale dans les finances'. Good copy with very generous margins.Second work: Kress B.813; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 37.Plans for improvement of communication and transport over water. The communication and transport system through rivers and canals is considered as a major factor in public wealth. EUR 1500
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LAMERVILLE, (J.M.) HEURTAULT (DE.) Avant-propos de la discussion du projet de décret sur le déssechement des marais du royaume, lu à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du Comité d'Agriculture et de Commerce, le 22 Avril 1790. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Baudouin, (1790). 26 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1853; not in Goldsmiths (cf.: 14123);Martin & Walter 18918; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. EUR 125
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LAMERVILLE, (J.M.) HEURTAULT (DE.) Réflexions sur le revenu net du territoire. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; not in INED; Martin & Walter 18928. First edition. 'l'Eplication du revenu net, de ce système que les économistes ont tant célébré, de cette opinion aussi désuisante en théorie, que délicate en exécution, n'est pas très facile à ..... donner'. EUR 200
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LAVERGNE, L. DE. Economie rurale de la France depuis 1789. Paris, Librairie économique de Guillaumin et Cie, 1860. With tables in the text. (4), iii, (1), 485, (2, errata & index) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Einaudi 3264. First edition. Louis-Gabriel Léonce de Lavergne, French economist and politician. He became interested in agricultural economics while professor at the Institut Agronomique at Versailles from 1850 to 1852 and is important chiefly as innovator in developing the separate study of the economic structure of agricultural life. His vivid descriptions of contemporary rural economy in Great Britain and France are based on sound statistical data, regional and geographical investigations and historical method; and his discussions of the theory of gross income in agriculture led to the development of new accounting methods in that field. EUR 75
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LAVERGNE, L. DE. Essai sur l'économie rurale de l'Angleterre, de l'Ecosse et de l'Irlande. Paris, Guillaumin, Dusacq, 1855. xiii, (1), 486 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt stamped monogram at foot of spine. Einaudi 3266; not in Mattioli. The second edition, first published in 1854. Louis-Gabriel Léonce de Lavergne, French economist and politician. He became interested in agricultural economics while professor at the Institut Agronomique at Versailles from 1850 to 1852 and is important chiefly as innovator in developing the separate study of the economic structure of agricultural life. His vivid descriptions of contemporary rural economy in Great Britain and France are based on sound statistical data, regional and geographical investigations and historical method; and his discussions of the theory of gross income in agriculture led to the development of new accounting methods in that field. EUR 75
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LE NOBLE, (P.M.) Examen général et détaillé des récoltes et des consommations de blé en France. Avec indication de moyens propres à remédier à la surabondance et aux disettes. A Paris, Chez les Principaux Libraires, 1822. With 1 folding table. vi, (2), 150 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress C.895; INED 2803; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. The author had published earlier a 'Projet sur l'établissement des gréniers d'abondance', (1792). This is the 'mature' book dealing with the same subject: how to form 'des réserves pour parer aux mauvaises récoltes, .....' - With a clear waterstain almost throughout EUR 175
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LINGUET, (S.N.H.) L'impôt territorial, ou la dime royale, avec tous ses avantages. Londres, 1787. - (Bound with:) LINGUET, (S.N.H.) Protestation contre les arrêts du Parlement de Paris des 25 et 27 Septembre 1788. (Drop-head title.) No place, (1788). 2 works in 1 volume. 144, (2) pp.; 12 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First work: Kress B.1266 (other edition); Goldsmiths 13454 (other edition); Einaudi 3412 (other edition); INED 2915 (other edition); Stourm, pp. 145-146 (other edition). One of three editions from the same year, no priority has been established. - Inner margin of the first title and last leaf of the second work strengthened. The French crown faced bankruptcy when the Controller-General, Calonne, presented a financial schem to end the crisis. The keystone in his program was a tax to be levied on all property owners without discrimination of estate. Calonne also proposed liberating commerce in grains from all internal tariffs. When Calonne was unable to pass this in the Assembly of Notables, he was replaced by Loménie de Brienne. 'Linguet lent the support of his publicity to the Calonne property tax and published this work just after the Notables had turned down Calonne's master plan. (.....) Linguet viewed it as a means by which the government, provisioned in grains, could compete with entrepreneurs, control the market price of wheat, and in that way guarantee the lives of an impoverished and progressively more restless population of dispossessed persons. Linguet saw the unpopular tax program as a key government stratagem for warding off two spectres: bankruptcy and a people's revolution' (D. Gay Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, p. 240).Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm. EUR 400
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LINGUET, (S.N.H.) L'impôt territorial, ou la dime royale, avec tous ses avantages. Londres, 1787. 88 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1266 (other edition); Goldsmiths 13454 (other edition); Einaudi 3412 (other edition); INED 2915 (other edition); Stourm, pp. 145-146 (other edition). One of three editions from the same year, no priority has been established. - Name on title. The French crown faced bankruptcy when the Controller-General, Calonne, presented a financial scheme to end the crisis. The keystone in his program was a tax to be levied on all property owners without discrimination of estate. Calonne also proposed liberating commerce in grains from all internal tariffs. When Calonne was unable to pass this in the Assembly of Notables, he was replaced by Loménie de Brienne. 'Linguet lent the support of his publicity to the Calonne property tax and published this work just after the Notables had turned down Calonne's master plan. (.....) Linguet viewed it as a means by which the government, provisioned in grains, could compete with entrepreneurs, control the market price of wheat, and in that way guarantee the lives of an impoverished and progressively more restless population of dispossessed persons. Linguet saw the unpopular tax program as a key government stratagem for warding off two sepctres: bankruptcy and a people's revolution' (D. Gay Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, p. 240). EUR 450
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MESSANCE, (M.) Recherches sur la population des généralités d'Auvergne, de Lyon, de Rouen, et de quelques provinces et villes du royaume, avec des réflexions sur la valeur du bled tant en France qu'en Angleterre, depuis 1674 jusqu'en 1764. A Paris, Chez Durand, 1766. With numerous tables in the text. (8), 330, (6) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, spine gilt with with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards, top edge gilt, a very nice copy. Kress 6364; Goldsmiths 10185; Einaudi 3852; INED 3152; Higgs 3885; Weulersse i, xxviii. First edition. Very important work in which several of the opinions of Quesnay and Mirabeau are criticized. It notably criticizes the validity of Mirabeau's assertion that the French population had decreased and was not increasing. Messance, an eminent statistician, wrote this work with a view to disproving this theory by giving the results of enumerations of the people in various parts of the kingdom, with extracts from parish registers, etc., for periods of ten to upwards of forty years prior to 1760. These returns showed beyond doubt that instead of decreasing, the population had increased very considerably during the period to which they extended; they also supplied valuable data with respect to various matters of interest connected with the state of the population. In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith speaks highly of Messance's investigations, calling him 'A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity'.The work also deals with the possibility of checking population growth (Messance thought it in general impossible to control population growth by legislative control). He also deals with luxery and urbanization which he did not consider as checks to population growth. Messance was an anti-physiocratic economist and his work includes a criticism of the physiocratic doctrine that freedom of trade in grain would elevate grain prices and therefore would be beneficial to the masses: Messance showed that the money wages of domestics and laboreres had risen despite the fall in grain prices. For a detailed analysis of the above work, see: Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 264-268. - Last 6 pages include the errata and the publisher's catalogue, as usual. EUR 3000
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MEURTHE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'administration du département de la Meurthe. Session ouverte le 3 novembre 1790, & close le 15 décembre suivant. Nancy, H. Haener, 1791. 505, (3) pp. 4to. Modern cloth. Lecestre 117; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. Original edition. Interesting source for agricultural and commercial history. The compte-rendu of the Directoire has been inserted in the procès-verbal of the meeting of November 3. EUR 400
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MICHEL (D'EYGUIERES), J.E. Lettre à M. Tessier, éditeur-propriétaire des Annales de l'agriculture française; contre la fixité invariable de la contribution foncière en argent. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Valade, an XII (1804). 39, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Musset-Pathay; Martin & Walter 24229; not in INED (listing other works on the same subject by the author). First edition. Michel d'Eyguières was in favour of an "impôt en nature" and wrote several works outlining and defending his position, of which this is one and, given it is is lacking in the major bibliographies, apparently scarce. - Repair to title-page, somewhat paperspotted EUR 200
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MICHEL, J.E. Suite du meilleur mode de contribution. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Hy, An IX (1801). 88 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, red label with gilt lettering. Kress B.4234; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. Published to refute criticism on his Du meilleur mode de contribution, published the previous year. Among those who wrote critical about Michel's first work is a certain I.B.S. who wrote in the 'Décade Philosophique': it is likely that this is Jean-Baptiste Say who indeed published in the journal and Michel discusses his criticism at length. - With a small red stamp on title. EUR 225
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MIRABEAU, (V. RIQUETTI DE & F. QUESNAY.) Philosophie rurale ou économie générale et politique de l'agriculture, pour servir de suite à l'ami des hommes. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1766. With 4 folding tables. 3 volumes. (4), xlviii, 420, (8) pp.; (8), 374 (misnumbered 378, pagination jumps from 360 to 365), (6) pp.; (8), 325, (9) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, all three volumes with minor repairs to head and foot of spines. Kress 6208; Goldsmiths 9946; Higgs 3124; Einaudi 3949 all listing the 1764 edition except Einaudi where the 1763 edition is listed. Originally published in 1763 in 4to and in 12mo, the second edition appeared in 1764. The cited reference works contain descriptions of the 1764 edition, and do not indicate clearly if they have tables, and if so, how many and which tables. In fact, our copy contains the table Tableau Economique in all three volumes, and in the second volume also the table Progression du profit des cultivateurs. Our copy also contains the 'Amsterdam, chez les Libraries Associés, 1764' title-pages and half-titles (except in volume one where the title-page of the Libraires Associés is present but the half-title lacking). This edition is probably a title-edition, with an interesting change in the sub-title which suggests that the work is a continuation of the l'Ami des Hommes whereas the 1764 edition reads, after the word 'agriculture': 'Réduit à l'ordre immuable des Loix physiques & morales, qui assurent la prosperité des Empires'. 'C'était l'exposition pure et simple, magistrale et complete, d'une doctrine pleine de ressources sans doute, mais d'une vérité supérieure, dont les principes devaient s'appliquer à tous les pays et à tous les époques' (Weulersse). Weulersse also describes the book as the 'Pentateuque de la future secte.'The pagination jumps in volume two, but the book is complete, page 360 being P12, page 365 being Q1. EUR 3000
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MIRABEAU, (V. RIQUETTI) DE. Mémoire sur les États provinciaux, ou Précis sur l'organisation et la formation des Assemblées provinciales. No place, 1787. (8), (21)-184 pp., 3-207 pp., 102 pp. 12mo. Sewn, contemporary marbled paper covers, spine lighty damaged, uncut. Cf.: Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, xi and pp. 10-18; Weulersse xx; Leblanc, 73. Separate re-edition of the text as published in the Ami des hommes, to which has been added a new titlepage and an 'Avis', especially printed for this edition. The 'Mémoire' is followed by the 'Réponse aux objections contre le Mémoire' (of which the separate title was suppressed), and the 'Questions intéressantes sur la population, l'agriculture & le commerce' both by Fr. Quesnay. - Attractive copy, as issued. After quire B the signatures are in conformity with those in vol. 3 of the Ami des hommes. We have found no mention of this separate re-edition in any of the bibliographies. This rare edition seems to have remained unrecorded up to now. 'Les avantages des Etats provinciaux sont examinés relativement à l'autorité royale, aux finances, au bonheur des peuples.' (Leblanc). EUR 600
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MONTVERT, (P.E.S.) DE. Observations sur les divers degrés de fertilité ou de dégradation du sol du royaume, suivant l'état des propriétaires, dans lesquelles on indique les vrais moyens d'augmenterl'une et de diminuer l'autre, par une grande division des possessions rurales. Paris, Hardouin & Gattey, 1787. 48 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1288; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Musset-Pathay 1460 (listing an edition of 1788); not in INED (listing two other works by Montvert). First edition, rare. EUR 175
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PARMENTIER, A.A. Mémoire sur les avantages que la province de Languedoc peut retirer de ses grains, considérés sous leurs différens rapports avec l'agriculture, le commerce, la meunerie et laboulangerie. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie des Etats de Languedoc, 1786. With 10 folding plates. (4), 447 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, front joint at top slightly split. Kress B.1106; Goldsmiths 13164; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus. Scarce first edition. Parmentier's ideas and research caused an important progress in the quality and distribution of food, especially bread. 'Depuis les travaux de cet illustre savant, on a su faire un pain léger, savoureux, facile à digérer et salutaire' (Musset-Pathay). Frankly utilitarian in his scientific orientation, Parmentier in his life and work personified the best sentiments and aspirations of the Enlightenment. He was a member of many learned societies, he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1795 and in 1801 was one of the founding members of the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. He was instrumental in founding, with his colleague Cadet de Vaux, the first government-sponsered school of baking in France, he evinced a strong interest in public health and was active in the movement to provide free smallpox vaccinations to the poor. Apart from all these achievements, he was a prolific writer of important works, alone or in collaboration with others. - Large paper copy on papier vélin. First 4 pages with small waterstain. EUR 900
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PEPIN, S. Sur les subsistances. Moyens à employer pour étendre les propriétés, donner du travail à ceux qui n'en ont pas, et pour éviter à l'avenir la disette réelle ou factice des grains. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 19 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter 26767. First edition. Discussing possibilities to make the cultivation of land attractive, to employ the unemployed while at the same time aiming at the preservation of the rights of private property. Dated 12 april 1793. EUR 100
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PHILIPPAR, F. Voyage agronomique en Angleterre, fait en 1829; ou Essai sur les cultures de ce pays comparées à celles de la France. Paris, Rousselon, 1830. With 20 plates (several folding). viii, 188 pp. 8vo. Contemporary blue hard-grained morocco, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering, gilt double fillet on sides. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Musset-Pathay. First edition. Emphasis on gardening. Includes a list of "Plantes de l'Amérique du Nord dont la plupart sont cultivés dans le loam."François Philippar was a French agronomist, born in Austria. He travelled to England in 1829 with the purpose of making a comparative study of the methods used in England and in France. EUR 350
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POIVRE, (P.) Voyages d'un Philosophe, ou Observations Sur les Moeurs & les Arts des Peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie & de l'Amérique. Par M. Poyvre, ancien Intendant de l'Isle de France. A Maestricht, Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1779. (4), 154 pp. 12mo. Sewn in contemporary blind covers, an uncut copy. Kress B.222; JFBL P328; INED 3616; Higgs 4261 (1768 edition); Goldsmiths 10399 (1768 edition); Sabin 63718; Cordier, Bibliotheca Indosinica, p. 2495. Third or fourth edition. Kress and Sabin erroneously call for maps and a frontispiece. The work was first published in 1768 without the knowledge of Poivre. 'Full of physiocratic ideas independently arrived at' (Higgs).The experiences of Poivre (1719-1786) of his travels to the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Siam, Cambodia, China and other countries in Africa and to America, a comprehensive discourse on Isle de France and the Isle de Bourbon, Coromandel, and comparative essays in the field of agriculture.Pierre Poivre (1719-1786), traveller and naturalist, became in 1767 intendant of the isles de France and Bourbon where he developped the growing of spices imported from India and the Moluccas or Spice Islands; he eased the treatment of the slaves and put an end to the excesses in their treatment. EUR 500
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PONCIN, P. (A.J.) Rapport du projet du canal de navigation présenté à l'Assemblée nationale par le sieur Brullée, fait au nom du Comité d'agriculture et de commerce (Drop-head title). Paris, Impr. nationale, (1790). - (Followed by:) PONCIN, P.A. (J.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité d'agriculture et de commerce, relatif au canal de Givors. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1791. - (Followed by:) PONCIN (P.A.J.) Rapport fait au nom du Comité d'agriculture & de commerce, sur le canal souterrein (sic), dit de la Picardie; par M. Poncin, Député du Département du Nord. (Drop-head title). Paris, Impr. nationale, (1791). 3 volumes in 1. 32 pp.; 12 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Goldsmiths 14468 (the first piece only); not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 27775, 27776, 27777 First editions. In the first report, which deals with the canal between Paris and St.Denis, Poncin refers to the report of the commission of the Académie des sciences made in 1786, due to Condorcet, Lavoisier, Bossu, Perronet and Borda. (Cf. Duveen & Klickstein, 330). The third piece deals with the several projects for the 'canal de Picardie' in France which would also connect Amsterdam with several places in France: 'vous aurez uni Amsterdam Paris, Rouen et Nantes' (p. 2); Examinons d'abord s'il est convenable d'établir un rapport direct entre Nantes, Rouen et Amsterdam, par une navigation intérieure qui traverse Paris.' (p. 3). EUR 300
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REGNAULD D'EPERCY, (P.I.) Rapport des comités réunis de Constitution, d'Agriculture & de Commerce, des Finances, des Impositions & des Domaines. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. (2), 53, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 28886; Kress S.5353; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. Séance du 20 mars 1791. Important report concerning the mines, in which the foundation is laid for the actual legislation: mines are such a national interest that they should be explored by the state and not by private enterprise. Contains a reference to Turgot (p. 14).Pierre-Ignace Regnauld d'Epercy, representative of the Third Estate. 'Dans le débat sur la question des assignats, il informe l'Assemblée des noms des villes de commerce qui sont contre ce papier-monnaie: Lyon, Nantes, Le Havre, La Rochelle, Rouen, Dunkerque, Orléans, Montpellier et d'autres; et des villes qui sont en faveur: Bordeaux, Louviers, Saint-Malo, Lorient, Rennes, Tours, Auxerre' (Dictionnaire des Constituants, ii, p. 796).Regnauld d'Epercy was one of those who warned against the unhealthy issuing of 'assignats' which resulted in the rapid depreciation of the currency and the similarly rapid insurrection of the mob. As Alfred Cobban puts it, the flood of paper currency 'primed the pump of continued revolution. Inflation was to be the root cause which perpetuated economic distress and so provided the raw material for future further upheavals' (A. Cobban, A History of Modern France, i, p. 173). EUR 300
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REGNAULD D'EPERCY, P.I. Rapport des comités réunis de Constitution, d'Agriculture & de Commerce, des Finances, des Impositions & des Domaines. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1791). 53, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Kress S.5353 (lacks the title); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 28886. Important report concerning the mines, in which the foundation is laid for the actual legislation: mines are of such a national interest that its exploitation should be conducted by the state and not by private enterprise. Contains a reference to Turgot (p. 14). Pierre-Ignace Regnauld d'Epercy, representative of the Third Estate. 'Dans le débat sur la question des assignats, il informe l'Assemblée des noms des villes de commerce qui sont contre ce papier-monnaie: Lyon, Nantes, Le Havre, La Rochelle, Rouen, Dunkerque, Orléans, Montpellier et d'autres; et des villes qui sont en faveur: Bordeaux, Louviers, Saint-Malo, Lorient, Rennes, Tours, Auxerre' (Dictionnaire des Constituants, ii, p. 796).Regnauld d'Epercy was one of those who warned against the unhealthy issuing of 'assignats' which resulted in the rapid depreciation of the currency and the similarly rapid insurrection of the mob. As Alfred Cobban puts it, the flood of paper currency 'primed the pump of continued revolution. Inflation was to be the root cause which perpetuated economic distress and so provided the raw material for future further upheavals' (A. Cobban, A History of Modern France, i, p. 173). - Lacks the title. EUR 150
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RHODES, DE PLAISANCE, J.B. La Paix universelle, ou le Mariage philosophique du commerce avec l'agriculture et sa famille entière, Reposant sur l'Empire universel des intimes et légitimes liaisons qui existent naturellement entre la nature, l'homme, l'agriculture, les arts, les sciences, les commerces, les gouvernans, les potentats, les nations, l'ensemble des sociétés civilisées, en un mot, entre les prinicipales et fondamentales bases qui soutiennent, aliementent et perpétuent le majestueux et systématique édifice de la civilisation et du pacte social. A Tarbes, chez R. Lagarrique, imprimeur de la Préfecture, Août 1830. 95, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, gilt lettering on spine (original printed covers preserved). Goldsmiths 26117; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. The author published a number of tracts on agriculture in 1822. The greater part of the work details the situation after the 'Philosophical mariage between commerce and agriculture': 'Les droits respectifs de ces nouveaux époux', 'Leur langage', 'Leur éducation', 'Leurs lois fondamentales', etc. EUR 250
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RODOCANACHI, E. Les corporations ouvrières à Rome depuis la chute de l'Empire romain. Paris, A. Picard & Fils, 1894. With coloured frontispiece and 1 plate of seals. 2 volumes. cx, 478 pp.; 470 pp. Royal 4to. Original boards, a bit rubbed and worn, lightly damaged at head and foot of spine, uncut. Original edition of this important study of the corporations between the Middle Ages upto and including the nineteenth century. The general introduction of 110 pages is followed by a history, statutes and bibliography of each corporation. The corporations have been divided into groups: agriculture, alimentation, commerce du vin, fourniture ménagères, industrie du batiment, commerce et transport, fabrication des tissus et habillement, industries de luxe, arts libéraux, diverses. - Copy inscribed by the author for J. Monod. EUR 500
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ROMME, G. Annuaire du cultivateur, pour la troisième année de la République, présenté le 30 pluviôse de l'an IIe à la Convention nationale, Qui en a décreté l'impression et l'envoi, pour servir aux Écoles de la République. Paris, Chez Debray et Desenne, Francart, Firmin Didot, an III (1795). (24), 240 pp. 8vo. Boards. Martin & Walter 29839. Original edition. Interesting notes on plants, vegetables, trees, animals, agricultural instruments, harvest of various products, etc. linked to the days of the revolutionary calendar. Collaborators were among others Cels, Vilmorin, Thouin, Parmentier, Lamarck, Daubenton. EUR 200
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ROUGIER-LABERGERIE, J.B. Essai politique et philosophique sur le commerce et la paix, considéré sous leurs rapports avec l'agriculture. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de A. C. Forget, 1797. (iii)-xix, (1), 479, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt, gilt ornamental border on sides, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed, some discolouring to front cover. Musset-Pathay 591; INED 3929; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. The present volume starts with an ardent plea for free trade, particularly the free trade in grain: 'free trade increases the income of the state and produces more wealth for the people ..... it also means competition and hence stable prices of bread, of wages and of everything'. Rougier then discusses the problems caused by the present war with England and the benefits that peace would bring for all European nations. He ends with a 'call to philosophers, poets, artists, etc. in favour of the peace'. The work deals in various ways with England: it discusses the last trade agreement with the English, it discusses and favours "prohibitisme" (protectionism) drawn from the English example, he discusses the free trade in grain in England, discusses the financial systems of England and Holland and the effects on the prosperity in both countries, and discusses the reasons that would make England accept a peace treaty. Contains furthermore numerous considerations on tarif-barriers, credit, population and longevity. Jean Baptiste Rougier, baron de La Bergerie was passionately occupied with agriculture at the time the revolution broke out. He represented the department of the Yonne at the Assemblé Législative. He became prefect of the Yonne in 1800. He was member of many learned societies, among which the Société centrale d'agriculture, and corresponding member of the 'Institut.' - Small tear in half-title without affecting the text. - Lacks the half-title, tiny wormhole in outer blank margin of first few leaves. Verso front blank handwritten 'L. de la Bédollière 1867' and a handwritten purchase notice dated 1917. EUR 600
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SAUSSURE, (N.) DE Essai sur la cause des disettes de bled, qu'on a éprouvées dans une grande partie de l'Europe, pendant les sept ou huit années qui ont précédé cette dernière 1775, & sur les moyens qui pourroient prévenir ou diminuer du moins dans la suite ces calamités. A Genève, Chez Barth. Chirol, 1776. 132 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Kress 7252; Musset-Pathay 602; Conlon 76:1511; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. Work by the Swiss agronomist Nicolas de Saussure, member of many scientific academies. A number of his works were published in the collection published by the Société de Berne. EUR 175
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TATIN, A. Principes raisonnés et pratiques de la culture des arbres, arbrisseaux et arbustes, fruitiers, d'ornement, d'alignement et forestiers; ainsi que des grains, racines, plantes légumineuses, des prairies artificielles, avec diverses méthodes et recettes pour le perfectionnement de l'agriculture; ouvrage utile à tous les propriétaires, les agriculteurs et les jardiniers. Quatrième édition, remplaçant les trois premières connues sous le titre de catalogue raisonné. Paris, Chez l'Auteur, et chez tous les Libraires, pour les ouvrages d'Agriculture, 1811. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 273, (1) pp.; (4), 270, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering. Not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Fourth edition. EUR 375
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TCHERNICHEWSKY, N.G. La possession communale du sol. Traduction et notice biographique de E. Laran-Tamarkine. Paris, M. Rivière, 1911. (4), 26, 265, (3) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands with gilt lettering, marbled boards, original covers preserved (Études sur le devenir social, IX). Cf.: Zaleski, i, 469; Stammhammer, iii, p. 331. Second French edition. Includes the Lettres sans Adresse.'Herzen created Populism; Chernyshevski was its politician. He provided Populism with its most solid content, and not only gave it ideas but inspired its main course of action. This course was modified during the 'sixties and 'seventies, but it undoubtedly originated in the short but brilliant publicizing activities undertaken by Chernyshevsky between 1853 and 1862' (Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution, chapter 5).The author was born in 1829 and he was mainly active around the period of the reforms by Alexander II around 1860. He worked for the journal "Sovremenik" (the Contemporary) which was founded in 1847 among others by Nekrassoff. It is in this journal that he introduces the work of John Stuart Mill: in 1869 he published the first part of Mill's work to which he adds notes and comments. He also wrote political reviews and mainly through his inspiration and energy the journal became a voice of the opposition, reason why Tourgeneff had already stopped working for the journal. While his initial inspiration was Hegel, although he became acquinted with his thought through reading Feuerbach, he steadily became more and more inspired by the French anarchist P.-J. Proudhon. Tchernichewsky belonged more to the socialist tradition as was common before 1850; he was no adherent of Marx. During the revolutionary troubles in 1861 in Petersburg, Tchernichewsky was arrested and placed in the Peter-Pauls prison where he stayed for two years and where he wrote his famous book What's to be done. He was exiled to Siberia in 1864 where he stayed to 1884. Shortly after his release he died, in 1889, at the age of 60, of which he had spent 23 years in prison and exile.The present work is a reply to the liberal economists who claimed that with the abolition of servitude the communal ownership of the soil would dissappear. Tchernichewsky, who stood sympathetic to the institution of communal ownership, opposes this thesis. The basis of the reforms of 1861 was to maintain this ancient institution of communal ownership. EUR 350
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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. l'Abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, P.U.F., 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Cloth. (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, III). EUR 75
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TOULOUSE - REMONSTRANCES du Parlement de Toulouse au Roi, concernant les déclarations du nouveau vingtième, & celle des deux sols pour livre du dixième. Du 27 Septembre 1756. No place, 1756. (2), 29, (1 blank) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not inEinaudi; Conlon 56:465. Original edition. Discusses the taxes and the influence of several taxes on agricultural developments. EUR 175
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TOULOUSE - TRES-HUMBLES, et tres-respectueuses remonstrances, du Parlement de Toulouse au Roi, Concernant les Déclarations du nouveau Vingtième, & celle des deux sols pour livre du Dixième. (Drop-head title). No place, (1756). 36 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. See: Conlon 56:465; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs. First edition? Text is identical to the one listed under Conlon 56:465 but clearly newly set and without a title-page and a re-phrasing of the title. 'Le dixième va porter le dernier coup à l'agriculture, elle périt de jour en jour.' Dated at end: 27 Septembre 1756. EUR 100
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TROTZ, CH.H. Jus Agrarium Foederati Belgii. Franeker, 1751-1754. 3 volumes. (12), iii-xx, (10), 683, (1) pp.; (4), 672, (106) pp.; (4), 603, (1), (54) pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, extremities shaved, two joints with some loss of calf, but in all a decent copy. Kress S.3904; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Ahsmann 355; Dekker, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica, p. 172, nr 8. First edition. This is the most important work by Trotz. He was born in Kolberg (Germany) in 1703, studied in Halle, Leipzig, Marburg and Utrecht, where he became 'doctor juris' in 1730. He became professor at the University of Franeker in 1741. These three volumes are the fruit of the public disputes he presided over in Franeker. It is still an important historical work of which the first two volumes deal with local law and the third with Roman law. His contributions to public and constitutional law are of great value and importance.The third volume is entitled: 'Jus Agrarium Romanum.' The first volume contains, after the title-page: Dedication (Regiae Magnae Britanniae Principi ...), 5 leaves; Adlocutio ad Studiosos Juris, pp. iii-xx (possibly lacking a divisional title); one leaf entitled 'Nomina Eorum, Qui huic Disputationum Collegio Subscripserunt, ut aetatem ferant, hic subjicere placuit', containing twenty names and the same leaf with the same title again, now with 22 names; followed by JCto Clarissomo Viro Celeberrimo, Christ. Henr. Trotz ..... of three leaves and one leaf contaning recto 'Conspectus Dissertationum et Capitum' and verso Corrigenda.- A very large paper copy. EUR 1250
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VAUBLANC, (V.M.V.), COMTE DE. Du commerce de la France en 1820 et 1821. Par M. le Comte de Vaublanc, Ministre d'État, Député du Calvados. A Paris, Chez C.-J. Trouvé, et chez Goujon, 1822. - (Bound with:) (MATHIEU DE DOMBASLE, C.J.A.) De l'Avenir industriel de la France; un rayon de bon sens sur quelques grandes questions d'économie politique. Nancy, Imprimerie d'Haener, no date (1835). 2 volumes in 1. vi, 207, (1, blank) pp.; (2), 82 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with green label and gilt lettering (very lightly rubbed, old paper label with number on spine). First work: Kress C.1001; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi.First edition.Vincent Marie Viennot de Vaublanc, born in Champagne in 1756, served in the army. Representative for the Seine-et-Marne departement in the Assemblée Législative where he was one of the speakers for the right, although many of his views were liberal. After de coup d'État of the 18 Fructidor, he fled to Germany. After the second restauration he was appointed minister of the Interior which post he did not held for very long. Second work: cf: Kress 3993; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition with this title. - The second work lacks the cover-title, the first leaf is the 'Table des Matières' which suffered from loss of paper in the outer margin affecting one letter. This work was originally published as Des intérêts respectifs du midi et du nord de la France dans les questions de douanes; de l'importance relative de l'industrie intérieure et du commerce extérieur; des intérêts spéciaux du commerce et de l'avenir industriel du royaume in 1834. Christophe Jospeh Alexandre Mathieu de Dombasle was born in Nancy and became a famous agricultural writer: 'Mathieu de Dombasle est un des hommes qui ont rendu les plus grands services à l'agriculture française' ..... il entreprit une industrie alors toute nouvelle, la fabrication du sucre de betteraves, et s'adonna en même temps à l'agriculture.' He founded, together with M. Bethier and Alban de Villeneuve, 'l'établissement de Roville (1822). C'était la première école d'agriculture française; mais elle acquit bientôt une célébrité européenne' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). Kress lists a fourth edition, the original edition was published a year earlier. EUR 600
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VITAL-ROUX. De l'influence du gouvernement sur la prosperité du commerce, par Vital-Roux, de Lyon, Négociant. A Paris, Chez Fayolle, An 9-1800. 2 parts in 1 volume. (4), 286 pp.; (2), (287)-484, (4) pp. 8vo. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, morocco label with gilt lettering, corners INED 4463; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Économique. Première partie: idées générales sur les principes du crédit et sur les questions qui intéressent le commerce dans ses rapports avec les opérations financières du gouvernement; influence du systême politique sur l'industrie; institutions qui doivent faciliter la connaissance de ses progrès ou de sa décadence, et rendre au commerce l'influence qu'il doit avoir. Seconde partie: des transactions commerciales et des moyens de leur donner une régularité plus uniforme; nécessité d'un code de lois qui défende l'indépendance du commerce; proposition d'une garantie publique contre les banqueroutes et la mauvaise foi des faillis; indication des moyens d'instruction les plus propres à ceux qui se destinent au commerce; projet d'écoles oú les principes et la comptablilité commerciale seraient mis à la portée de tout le monde. Voir surtout, dans la première partie, les chapitres sur l'impôt, le luxe, les privilèges, maîtrises et corporations. Vital-Roux précise qu'il n'a parlé de l'agriculture, dans le cours de son ouvrage, 'que par indication, et comme pour rappeler qu'elle doit être comprise dans toutes les institutions en faveur du commerce'. Vital-Roux s'est également interdit toute espèce de discussion sur les colonies' (INED). EUR 600
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VOLTAIRE (F.M. AROUET DE.) L'Homme aux Quarante écus. No place (Genève, Cramer), 1768. (2), 120 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Bengesco 1478; Le Petit, p. 557; Peignot ii, p. 188; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 317; no copies in Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs and INED although they record other editions from this year. First edition, with the errata uncorrected and listed on page 120. 'The Homme aux Quarante Ecus is in fact the only one of Voltaire's publications on a distinctly economic subject. The dogmatic and often pompous and heavy style of the Physiocrats had probably bored him, as well as their abstract and subtle mode of reasoning. L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus, directed against Mercier de la Rivière's Ordre naturel et essentiel des societies politiques, is the history of the owner of a small estate yielding a net income of forty crowns a year, who has been frightened by the appearance of several edicts promulgated "by a few gentlemen who, having some leisure, have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides.'' Overflowing with wit and sarcasm, the book consists of conversations between the man with the forty crowns and the most motley succession of people and, with the author's usual unfairness, is not free from misrepresentations and gross exaggerations of Mercier's real meaning' (Palgrave, iii, p. 632). 'Mercier avait prétendu que, dans un Etat organisé selon la doctrine physiocratique, une somme moyenne de cent vingt francs (quarante écus) devait suffire à l'existence de chaque citoyen. De là le titre que Voltaire donne à la réfutation burlesuqe de leur système. Il y ridiculise surtout l'impôt unique sur la terre réclamé par les Economistes, et qui réduira l'homme aux quarante écus à n'en avoir plus que vingt, tandis que prospèreront à côté de lui de gros financiers inexpugnables à l'impôt' (Coquelin et Guillaumin, ii, p. 855).The book is a brilliant parable, which had an enormous success immediately on its appearance. It was quickly condamned and forbidden and most editions appearing from then on were published without indication of either place or printer. - Copy without the half-title. EUR 1400
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YOUNG, A. Voyage en Irlande, contenant des observations sur l'étendue de ce pays, le sol, le climat, les productions, les différentes classes d'habitans, les moeurs, la religion, le commerce, les manufactures, la population, les revenus, les taxes, le gouvernement, etc., etc., etc. Traduit de l'Anglais par C. Millon, et suivi de Recherches sur l'Irlande, par le traducteur. A Paris, Chez Moutardier, Cerioux, (an) 8 (1799-1800). With 2 engraved plates. 2 volumes. (2), 8, 368 pp.; (2), 356 (last page misnumbered 561) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, green and red labels with gilt lettering. Not in Musset-Pathay; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 6099 (for the English edition). First French edition. Mainly devoted to agriculture, but also supplying useful information on population, commerce, industry. The first English edition appeared in 1780. The additional Recherches by the translator cover the pages 83-end of volume 2. For the period before 1790 the travel accounts as given by Young form an important part of the economic literature, owing to the absence of regular reporting by permanent agencies: see at length: Schumpeter, History of economic analysis. - With an engraved bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume. Copy from the library of Edmond Vallée, with his small owner's stamp on flyleaves. EUR 950
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YOUNG, A. Le cultivateur anglois, ou Oeuvres choisies d'agriculture et d'économie rurale et politique. Traduit de l'Anglois par les MM. Lamarre, Benoist et Billecocq; avec des notes par le citoyen Delalauze, coopérateur du 'Cours d'agriculture' de l'abbé Rozier. Avec des planches en taille-douce. A Paris, Chez Maradan, an IX, 1800-1801. With 72 plates and 6 tables (mostly folding). 18 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels with gilt lettering, and with gilt lettered on upper sides: 'Ferme expérimentale'. Musset-Pathay 308; Kress B.4312; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First French translation of Young's works. - Added: the prospectus for the volumes 15-18. 11 pp. Sewn. A very fine copy. Complete set of Young's most important works to which are added Delalauze's valuable notes. Of fundamental interest for the history of agriculture. Contains: Voyages au sud, à l'ouest, au midi de l'Angleterre. - Voyage au nord de l'Angleterre. 2 volumes. - Voyage à l'est de l'Angleterre. 3 volumes. - Voyage en Irlande. 2 volumes. - Lettres d'un fermier. 2 volumes. - Guide du fermier. - Expériences d'agriculture. 2 volumes. - Annales d'agriculture. 3 volumes. - Voyage en France. - Arithmétique politique.It is in the diffusion and popularisation of new and improved practices that the merit of Arthur Young's works lies. His descriptions of the tours he made through France and Ireland, the general descriptions as well as those of roads, commerce, manufactures, arts, country houses and palaces are still used as a source for the study of eighteenth-century conditions. EUR 1750
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