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ADRESSE des députés extraordinaires des manufactures et du commerce de France à l'Assemblée Nationale. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1790). (2), 29 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 759; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Monglond. Survey of the discussions in the various Chambers of Commerce of the most important commercial cities of France on the subject of assignats: most of them opposed the emission of new assignats, of which they outline the various dangers. EUR 150
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ALMANACH de la convention nationale pour l'an III de l'ère républicaine. Où l'on trouve: 1. le véritable décadaire. 2. la connoissance des tems. 3. le langage des signaux à feu et du télégraphe. 4. les noms des 88 départemens et de toutes les villes de districts, avec les changemens des nouveaux noms. 5. la liste des représentans du peuple ..... et leurs demeures à Paris. 6. les moyens faciles de connoître promptement les faux assignats. Paris, Dufart, IIIe année de l'ère rép. (1794). With engraved frontispiece and 1 engraving. (42), 77, (2) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Journaux, 1429 (without calling for the engraving); Cohen-De Ricci, p. 14, also not calling for the engraving: "curieux frontispiece de Quéverdo célébrant la découverte du télégraphe." The engraving contains "Signaux par le feu."- One leaf misbound, pp. 44 with a small repaired tear in the blank inner margin. EUR 225
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ARREST de la Cour des Monnoyes, Qui regle les Fonctions & Salaires des Changeurs, tant titulaires que Commissionnaires, establis dans les Villes du Royaume. Du 14 Decembre 1693. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. EUR 125
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ARREST du Conseil d'Estat, Portant Reglement des Ports de Lettres & Pacquets arrivans dans la Ville de Lyon, tant du dedans que du dehors du Royaume. Du vingt-quatriéme May 1666. A Lyon, Chez Antoine Ivllieron, 1666. 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. - Slightly browned and paperspotted. Settles a conflict between the 'Maistre des Courriers' of Lyon and merchands from the same city 'au sujet des Taxes des ports de Lettres & Pacquets, .....' EUR 175
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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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AU ROI et à nosseigneurs de son conseil. (Drop-head title). No place, (1788). 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. Request by the representatives of Chaalons-sur-Marne asking that commercial representatives be represented in the forthcoming Etats-Généraux, in order to deal with questions pertaining to trade and commerce. EUR 140
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AVENIR heureux du commerce françois, dédié aux fabriques nationales. No place, 1789. 8 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1532; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 2433; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition, rare. Of protectionist vein.Innermargin of title-page strengthened, title-page cut short. EUR 150
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BAIL de la ferme générale des anciennes et nouvelles impositions de la ville d'Avignon, qui doit commencer le premier Janvier 1773, & finir le 31 Décembre 1777. Du Consulat D'Illustres & Magnifiques Seigneurs MM. Paul-Augustin de Salvador de Pertuis, Chevalier, Seigneur de Saint-Amant, Gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi, Consul pour la cinquieme fois, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Michel de Spinardy, Docteur ès Droits agrégé, Avocat en la Cour, Assesseur, François-Agricol Poulle et Paul Gailhard. Avec un Tarif desdites impositions. A Avignon, Chez Pierre-Joseph Roberty, 1772. (4), 39, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. - Waterstained.Leasing of the taxes on 'chair - pourceaux - poisson frais et non salé - pain et farine - huile, beurre vieux et salé et graisses - foin - péage - socquet', and further deals with the Droit de Péage, Tarif des Droits d'Entrée, poids de Farine, Péage et Socquet, Pourceaux, etc. etc. EUR 175
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CAHIER d'objets d'utilité et de réformes nationales à proposer à l'Assemblée des Etats-Généraux. No place, 1789. xxii, 54 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. - Very rare In fact a project for a constitution which stands for freedom of commerce, freedom of corn-trade, freedom for the industry, suppression of religious orders and reform of the tax system. EUR 375
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COLLECTION of 60 bills of lading, 7 of which 'cash on delivery', printed forms, filled in by hand, mostly with mention of value and transport conditions, from the years 1766-1796, mainly destined for Michel Raymond & Compagnie in Bordeaux, some for private persons in Beaucaire, Castres, etc. 60 pieces of 1 leaf each, some with additional notes stiched to the main leaf. Folio and small 4to.Among the shippers we mention: P.M. Courtois & Compagnie (Toulouse), Paul Deferre (Toulouse), M. Mazarin père & fils (Toulouse), P.M.I.A. Pascal (Toulouse), A.M. Marie aîné (Toulouse), Delon frères (Lunel), B. Magnes (Dax), Guinebaud (Orléans), Le Berchedinehinat & fils (Orléans), Chuchet fils (Béziers), Vialet d'Aiguau & Comp. (Montauban). Among the goods transported we mention: tobacco, wine, plum brandy, olive oil, olives & other fruits, ham, flour, mousseline de la Compagnie des Indes, embroidered over-sleeves and handkerchiefs, cloth, painted coton (Indienne), stockings for men and children, porcelain, painted cloth produced in France, white coton made in the Beaujolais, foreign painted cloth, gun-powder.Interesting collection for the history of internal transport in France and of prices and transport conditions in the late 18th century. EUR 1500
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CONSULTATION dans l'affaire de la régie du poids public. Bordeaux, Imprimerie de P. Coudert, 1828. Title within a nice printed ornamental border. (2), 28 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Authorised by an arrêt of Brumaire year IX (1800) 'poid public' was optional. The 'Régie' wished to make it compulsory and to have the right to establish the tarif. EUR 150
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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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DECRET de la Convention Nationale, du 26 Juillet 1793, l'an second de la République Françoise, lu au Directoire du Département des Vosges, et consigné sur ses registres le 4 Août suivant. Contre les Accapareurs. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Epinal, Imprimerie Haener, 1793. 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Measures against those trying to create monopolies. EUR 75
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EXTRAIT du Cayer des doléances présenté au Roy en l'année 1788, par les Députés des Etats du Languedoc. 1788. Contemporary manuscript of 4 pp. Folio. Sewn with a contemporary blue silk ribbon. This "extrait" refers to article 10 of a previously issued Mémoire concerning the postal services. Adressed to the king an answer is asked for a plan to improve postal services between the Languedoc and the Velay or Diocèse du Puy and neighbouring provinces, which are at the moment "difficiles et pénibles", and re-stating the arguments for such an improvement (such as long delays in communication). Written on strong paper. EUR 175
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INSTRUCTION chronologique pour la régie & perception des droits d'amortissemens, francs-fiefs & nouveaux Acquets, sous le nom d'Armand Pillavoine. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1720). 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The 'amortissement' was a special tax due by mortmain when buying buildings. The 'franc-fief' was a tax due by buyers of noble property. This instruction dates of 1720, the first year of Pillavoine's tax-farmers office, which included the Compagnie des Indes and the so-called 'Domaine d'Occident'.Page 15-end contain: RECUEIL des Decisions generales du Conseil Royal, Au sujet des Droits d'Amortissement & de Nouvel Acquest du Recouvrement de 1689. EUR 175
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LETTER, A, from a member of Parliament to his friend in the country, containing his reasons for being against the late Act for preventing the retail of spirituous liquors; inwhich the great increase of the Civil List by this Act will be particularly consider'd. London, H. Haines, (1736). 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, modern blind wrappers. Goldsmiths 7435; Hanson 4985; not in Kress. 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 moyen d'établir une uniformité de poids & mesures. Donnée à Paris, le 30 Mars 1791. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Chateauroux, de l'Imprimerie de Giroud, (1791). 2 pp. 4to. Disbound. The King starts bysaying: the national Assemblee orders, and we wish and order what follows ..... EUR 75
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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 pour les anciens fermiers des messageries. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (At end:) Imprimerie de J. Girouard, (ab. 1790). 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporray blind covers. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9737. The tariffs for public transport and tranport of postal services should not be considered as taxes. EUR 125
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MEMOIRE présenté à l' Assemblée nationale, au nom des Imprimeurs-Libraires, propriétaires des privilèges des diverses liturgies de France. (At end:) A Paris, Chez N.H. Nyon, imprimeur, 1790. 24, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Sewn. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9775. On the transfer of privileges to print liturgies. EUR 180
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MEMOIRE SIGNIFIE. Pour les Gardes des Marchands de la Ville de Tours, appellans. Contre les Jurés, Corps & Métiers des Maîtres Bonnetiers de la même Ville, Intimés. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de J. Chardon, 1760. 23, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. ' ..... les Bonnetiers, n'étant que des Ouvriers, ainsi qu'un Arrêt solemne; de 1688 le décide; ils ne peuvent se qualifier Marchands, ni leurs Jurés Gardes; les Marchands étant les seuls en droit de prendre ces deux qualités.' The hosiers fighting for free enterprise, which is considered to threaten order and peace in all commercial cities. EUR 75
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MOYEN proposé à la France, pour rétablir l'équilibre dans ses finances; pour étendre la circulation dans tout le royaume; pour perfectionner l'agriculture; pour redoubler l'activité du commerce & de l'industrie. Composé en 1786. A Philadelphie, 1787. (4), 82, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1290; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Musset-Pathay; not in Stourm. First edition. Many improvements are suggested, among which a sort of variable salary scale: 'la chose variant de prix, il faut que le prix du salaire suive la même variation ..... - Title and first page guarded and a bit spotted. EUR 250
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OBSERVATIONS sur un projet, de Vente Nationale du Sel, présenté au Comité des Finances. (Drop-head title). No place, (ab. 1790). 15 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 11375. Pp. 5 - end contain pricelists of various kinds of salt, divided into different goups according to the region of origin. EUR 80
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ORDONNANCE de Monseigneur le Premier Président & Intendant; sur la requête à lui présentée par les Sieurs Procureurs des gens des Trois Etats de ce pays de Provence, qui permet aux ouvriers chargez des réparations des ponts & chemins, de prendre dans les fonds voisins les pierres & graviers qui leur seront nécessaires pour lesd. réparations. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Aix, chez la veuve de Charles David & Antoine David, (1700) 3 pp. Folio. Disbound. EUR 100
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PETITION du Corps, et du commerce de l'orfèvrerie. Arrêtée dans l'Assemblée générale du 22 septembre 1790, et présentée à l'Assemblée nationale. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (1790). (2), 46 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Kress S.5294; Goldsmiths 14157; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 13817. On official regulations governing the trade and giving an exposé of the inconveniencies of the actual system, followed by a proposal for a new system. - Complete copy with the 2 preliminary pages containing the Avertissement preceding the main text. EUR 150
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PRECIS pour les actionnaires de la Compagnie des Indes, en réponse à l'adresse présentée à l'Assemblée nationale par les députés extraordinaires des manufactures et du commerce du Royaume. (Drop-head title). No place, 1790. 27 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 14268. Includes details on the trade with China.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 175
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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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REFLEXIONS sur le Mémoire du Régisseur des Cuirs, contenant de nouvelles Observations importantes sur les causes de la décadence du Commerce des Cuirs. (Drop-head title). No place, (ab. 1775). 22 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition ? Deals with the problems of fraud and the taxes. EUR 150
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REPONSE des négociants de la ville de Grenoble. A MM. les juges-consuls de Montauban, Clermont-Ferrand, Châlons, Orléans, Tours, Besançon, Dunkerque et Saint-Quentin, et à laChambre de Commerce de Picardie, de Saint-Malo, et de l'Isle en Flandres. (Drop-head title). No place, (1789). 14 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin &Walter. The 'négociants' of the city of Grenoble oppose their 'chers Confrères' of the other cities in their view that the trading and commercial professions should have the right to appoint their own representatives to the Etats-Généraux. EUR 150
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STATUTS des Bonnetiers, Aulmulciers & Mitonniers, en la ville de Paris. Registrés en Parlement le 4 juillet 1608 & ès Bannières du Chastelet, le 20 aoust audit an. (Drop-headtitle). (On page 12:) Paris, Chez P. Prault, 1736. 14 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Preceded by: MEMOIRE pour les maistres boursiers à Paris, contre les Bonnetiers de Paris. 2 pp.Pages 13-14 of the 'Statuts' contain the 'Arrest de la cour de Parlement' concerning the production of bonnets. - Not quite clean. EUR 175
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TABLEAU général du maximum de la République Françoise, décrété par la Convention Nationale le 6 ventôse (24 Février). A Paris, Chez Belin, Volland, Gueffier, Prault, Rondonneau & compagnie, L'An II de la République (1794). 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green labels with gilt lettering, lightly rubbed and some small imperfections. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 16029; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 17454. Complete set. Volume I: Alimens, boissons, épiceries, et drogueries. (2), 12 pp. No 1: viande fraîche et salée, poisson sec et salé, avec les prix en 1790, augmentés du tiers. 119 pp. - No 2: légumes sec, etc. 83 pp. - No 3: productions d'animaux vivans. 85 pp. - No 4: boissons, etc. 74 pp. - No 5: épiceries et drogueries. 107 pp. and folding table. Volume II: No 6: laines et draperies. 115 pp. - No 7: chanvres et corderies. 36 pp. - No 8: fils et rubans de fil. 21 pp. - No 9: toiles. 55 pp. - No 10: cotons, fils de coton et cotonades. 19 pp. - No 11: bonneterie. 46 pp. - No 12: soies et soieries. 19 pp. - No 13: cuirs et peaux. 79 pp. Volume III: No 14: peaux, poils, chapellerie fine et commune. 23 pp. - No 15: papiers. 42 pp. - No 16: fers et fontes. 4 pp. Folio (folded). - No 17: quincaillerie. 114 pp. - No 18: bois de travail, merrains et boisellerie. 99 pp. - No 19: bois à brûler. 67 pp. - No 20: charbons de bois. 56 pp. Provides a wealth of information.The Law of the Maximum, legislation that established a partially controlled economy during the year II. It was the second of three primary maximum degrees. It aimed at fixing the prices of wheat and flour (maximum of 4 May 1793), the maximum of 29 September 1794 fixed both prices and wages over a wide spectrum of primary commodities and production, the third, the maximum of 24 February 1794, replaced the local prices of the second maximum with a schedule of national prices. On 24 December 1794 the Thermidorians disestablished this system of price and wage controls. These were the basic laws of a complex of degrees and a torrent of administrative reporting that included not just fixed prices but administratively controlled distribution as well, all of it directed theoretically from Paris by the Commission of Subsistence and Provisions and backed by the authority of the Committee of Public Safety. EUR 2000
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TRIBUT PATRIOTIQUE adressé, le premier janvier 1790, à l'Assemblé nationale, aux ministres d'Etat et aux municipalités. A Paris, chez les marchands de nouveauté, 1790. 67 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. At end: 'De l'imprimerie de Momoro, premier imprimeur de la liberté nationale, et soldat-citoyen de la Compagnie des arquebusiers royaux et nationaux de la ville de Paris.' Divided into 3 sections: 1. Causes qui ont nui à l'approvisionnement des grains pour la ville de Paris. 2. Nécessité de prendre sur-le-champ des précautions pour pourvoir à la subsistance de cette année. 3. Moyens de la procurer avec économie, dans les temps de disette, sans recourir à l'étranger. EUR 300
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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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ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, portant suppression du Conseil des prises, au premier avril 1788. Du 5 janvier 1788. (Drop-head title). Lyon, 1788. 2 pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. On an extra blank leaf contemporary annotations concerning among others arrêts and edicts dealing with 'commerce, chemins, affinages' etc. EUR 100
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ARRET du conseil d'état du roi, qui assujetit les couvertures de laine à l'opposition du plomb prescrit par celui du 7 Décembre 1785. Grenoble, Impr. Royale, 1786. Large 4to poster on white paper. EUR 75
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ARRET du Conseil d'état du Roi, qui fixe à neuf lignes de diamètre seulement, les plombs qui, aux termes de celui du 7 Décembre dernier, devoient en avoir quinze; & ordonne qu'il ne sera perçu qu'un sou six deniers pour chacun desdits plombs qui seront apposés sur les étoffes. Du 31 Mai 1786. Grenoble, Impr. royale, 1786. Large 4to poster on white paper. EUR 75
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ARRET du Conseil d'état du Roi, qui renouvelle les anciennes défenses d'introduire dans le royaume, aucunes toiles de coton & mousselines venant de l'étranger, autres que celles de l'Inde apportées par le commerce national: & interdit le débit des toiles peintes, gazes & linons de fabrique étrangère, sauf le délai fixé pour celles existantes dans le royaume. Du 10 Juillet 1785. Lyon, 1785. 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards, with leather label. Not in Wroth & Annan; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. EUR 125
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ARRET du Conseil du Roi, portant confirmation & établissement de ports francs dans le royaume. (Drop-head title). Paris, 1784. 3, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards with leather label. EUR 100
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AU ROY. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de S. Jorry, 1754. 8 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Request by Jacques l'Aîné, sugartrader in Dunkirk, who complains about the new taxes on sugar and tobacco imported from the French colonies, and asks for a privilege for 30 years for the refinery of sugar. EUR 125
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BAIL de la ferme des dix sols par minot de sel. Appartenant à la Chambre Apostolique & Légation d'Avignon, sur tout le sel qui entrera & sera vendu dans la ville d'Avignon & Comté de Venisse, pendant six années, à commencer du premier janvier 1732. Fait à M. François Cornelli. Du 5 janvier 1732. (Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1732). 14 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. - With some very small wormholes, touching an ocassional letter. EUR 125
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BREVET of mastership, name not filled in, dated 9 april 1661. Manuscript document on vellum. Oblong folio, folded. Tear in blank lower margin. This is a diploma or certificate for a master plummer, location faubourg St. Germain, dated in the left upper corner. Verso also the indication of 'plombier fontainier du faubourg St. Germain', followed by the sentence 'Controlle par moy Chauffart' and a signature. A name has not been filled in. EUR 150
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DELIBERATIONS des Conseils Généraux, du Commerce et des Manufactures, établis près du Ministère de l'Intérieur, sur l'Établissement demandé des Corps de Marchands et des Communautés d'Arts et Métiers. (Paris, Imprimerie de Hacquart, 1821). 37, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. EUR 175
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DOCUMENTS relatifs à l'histoire de l'industrie et du commerce en France publiés avec une introduction par Gustave Fagniez. Paris, A. Picard & Fils, 1898-1900. 2 volumes. (4), lxiv, 349, (1) pp.; (4), lxxix, (1, blank), 345, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands, original covers preserved (Collection de textes pour servir à l'étude et à l'enseignement de l'histoire). Einaudi 1598; Paetow p. 285; John Crerar Library, p. 27. First edition. 1. Depuis le Ier siècle avant J.-C. jusqu'à la fin du XIIIe siècle. - 2. XIVe et XVe siècle. EUR 300
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ESSAI sur la marine, ou l'on propose une nouvelle constitution; Par le Chevalier de ***, ancien officier de la marine. A Amsterdam, 1782. With a folding table. (2), xxiv, 298, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary marbled covers. Conlon 82:272; not in Polak; not in Quérard; not in Barbier; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Written by someone who served in the navy for some 20 years and who knew that the navy was an indispensable force in any conflict over the colonies or in any conflict with the English. He proposes in this work a great number of reforms and innovations to make the navy more effective, capable of resisting the English and more effective in both protecting foreign possessions as well as commerce and trade.Contains chapters on divisions of the navy and its officers, several types of ships of the navy, organization on the ships and number of actual employed officers, soldiers etc., dealing with discipline, internal policing, necessity of uniforms, necessary education of officers in various fields, new subjects to be included in educational programs and feeding and provisioning.A copy of this book at the New York Public Library has a manuscript note by which the book can possibly be attributed to Charles François Philippe de Charniéres. The note furthermore states that de Charnieres naval career parallels that described in the preface of the work. - Clear spot in lower outer corner, affecting the front cover and the first three leaves. Name on title, an uncut copy. EUR 500
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ETAT actuel de l'Inde, et considérations sur les établissemens et le commerce de la France dans cette partie du monde, sur les améliorations dont ils sont susceptibles, et sur la meilleure manière d'y faire le commerce. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Madame Veuve Laurent Prault, 1787. iv, 224 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (somewhat worn and damaged). Kress B.1209A; JFBL E154; Conlon 87:425; not in Sabin; not in Muller; not in Howes; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. 'A consideration of the areas in which the newly formed Compagnie des Indes would operate' (JFBL). This anonymous work gives valuable details on French trade with Africa, the Indies, the Philippines, etc. EUR 375
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EXTRAIT des registres du Conseil d'Estat ..... le Roy .....a ordonné que ledit Sieur Marquis de Civrac demeurera conservé & maintenu dans le droit de Péage qu'il perçoit sur le Port & Havre des Salinières de la ville de Bordeaux ..... (Bordeaux), Vve et P. Brun fils, (1728). Folio poster on white paper (torn, without loss of text). Manuscript annotations in right blank margin, signed by Louis Chiquet.Somewhat browned along the fold and with a stain in the left blank margin slightly touching the text. EUR 75
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EXTRAIT du Bail des Fermes Royales-unis, fait à Maistre François le Gendre, bourgeois de Paris, pour six années, commancées au premier octobre 1668, moyennant la somme de trente neuf millions cent mil livres, pour la première, & pour chacune des suivantes, quarante millions cent mil livres. A Paris, Chez Frederic Leonard, 1670. (20), 302 pp. 12mo. Contemporary supple vellum, with handwritten paper label on spine and paper shelfmark. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in BMSTC, French books 1601-1700. Original edition 'Etat des droits contenus en cet Extrait: Les Entrées de Paris & Rouen; Le Passage de Joigny; Consommation du Faux-bourgs de la Conference; Aydes de France; Octrois de Rouen; Moitié des Octrois; Tiers retranché; Fer & Acier; Neuf livres dix-huit sols, & sol pour pot de Picardie; Controlle & Marque des Papiers; Poissons de mer & Bieres; Controlle des Toilles de Paris; Marc d'or; Cent mil livres des Postes; Subventions & Subsistances; Droits des Vendeurs de Vins & Boissons de Rouen; Charges localles; Impots & Billots de Bretagne; Controle des Bieres de Paris; Fret, Pied Fourché du Cotanin, & Tarif d'Alençon.' - Small stamp on title, Ex Libris Joannis-Baptiste Marduel on front paste-down EUR 350
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EXTRAITS de documents divers qui signalent des abus de commerce. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie Royale, novembre 1838. 15, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First and only edition. Deals with the poor quality of wine and manufacture exported by the French to North and South America, the Levant and other areas and which are, due to this poor quality, unable to compete with products from Britain. EUR 150
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LETTRE à un ami, sur ce qui s'est passé à la dernière séance des Notables. (Drop-head title). No place, (at end:) 29 Mai 1787. 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition. Deals with the meeting of the Assemblée des Notables and the plans to put the national finances in order.Recapitulates the measures to be taken ('en abolissant les privilèges du Clergé, qui jusqu'ici, par une magie inconcevable, avoit trouvé le secret de posseder les bénéfices, les places, les récompenses & les dignités de toute espece, de jouir de tous les avantages de la Société, sans presque contribuer en rien aux charges de l'Etat'), but most importantly deals with the question of 'la liberté absolue accordée au commerce des grains.' EUR 150
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MEMOIRE au Roi, pour le commerce de la ville de Paris. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie Royale, (1789). 16 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1661; not in Goldsmiths; notin Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. Argues for a representation in the Etats-Généraux of deputies of the trade. EUR 250
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MEMOIRE pour les actionnaires de la Compagnie des Indes. A Paris, Chez J.R. Lottin, 1790. 29 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1815; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9735. Defends the exclusive rights of the Compagnie des Indes against the arguments of those pleading for free trade.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 200
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MEMOIRE sur la filature. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1759. 7, (1, blank) pp. 4to. Modern boards. INED 4674; Conlon 59:345; notin Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs. First edition, rare. ''L'industrie du peuple et l'âme du commerce et le nerf d'un Etat.' Nécessité de multiplier dans le royaume des écoles de filature de toute éspece, qui forceront le pauvre oisif à travailler et diminueront nos importations de l'étranger. Suivant des considérations techniques sur les dévidoirs.' (INED). Includes a list of proposed prices. EUR 150
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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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MEMOIRE sur les contributions indirectes relatives aux boissons, adressé à S.E. le Ministre des finances, par des propriétaires et délégués des propriétaires de vignes réunisà Paris. Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1830. (4), 65, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress C.2440; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. EUR 75
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NAVIGATION transatlantique. Nécessité et urgence d'une solution. Décembre 1856. Paris, Imprimerie Centrale des Chemins de Fer de Napoléon Chain et Ce., 1856. 16 pp. 4to. Original yellow printed covers. On the necessity for France to create an international shipping company, since France is far behind America, Great Britain and other countries. EUR 150
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NOUVEAU tarif du prix des glaces. 1765. A Paris, Du Fonds de Prault père, chez Prault, (1765). 74, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary boards, spine damaged. Higgs 3413; cf.: Goldsmiths 9339; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. Second edition (?), first published in 1758 (see Conlon 58:292 and Higgs 1689). The contemporary owner has left inside the booklet a few leaves with calculations and prices, as well as some annotations on the verso of two contemporary playing cards. Bound in at end: ARREST du conseil d'état du Roi, du 13 Octobre 1781 (concerning the glass trade). Paris, Prault, (1781). 4 pp.The glass industry started in France under Colbert in 1665. The above price list gives details on formats and prices, as approved by the 'Manufacture privilégée des Glaces' (See also: Savary, Dictionnaire universel de commerce, 1741, vol. ii, columns 1466ff.) Title-page and text within a printed border. EUR 250
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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 d'actes et pièces concernant le commerce de divers pays de l'Europe. Numèro premier, contenant les discours prononcés au Parlement d'Angleterre, dans la Chambre des Pairs, pour et contre la liberté du commerce au Levant, avec le Bill, ou Loi intervenue, qui étand cette liberté à tous les ports & tous les sujets de la Grande Bretagne. A Londres (Paris), 1754. vii, (1), 230 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raisedbands, very lightly rubbed, upper compartment of spine damaged. Kress 5390; Goldsmiths 8921; Higgs 739; INED 4346; not in Hage Chahine; not in Blackmer; not in Einaudi; Conlon 54:309. First edition, all published. 'Huit discours prononcés au Parlement d'Angleterre, à la Chambre des Pairs, pour et contre la liberté du commerce au Levant; bill qui étend cette liberté à tous les ports et à tous les sujets de la Grande-Bretagne' (INED). The translation was done by François-Vincent Toussaint. EUR 500
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REFLEXIONS sur l'objet des différens Mémoires répandus dans le Public, concernant l'impression, la Tolérance & la Permission de l'Usage des Toiles peintes. A Paris, 1758. - (Bound with:) (MORELLET, A.) Réflexions sur les avantages de la libre fabrication et de l'usage des Toiles peintes en France; Pour servir de réponse aux divers Mémoires des Fabriquans de Paris, Lyon, Tours, Rouen, &c. sur cette matiere. A Genève, et se trouve A Paris, Chez Damonneville, 1758. - (Bound with:) (LA SALLE DE L'ETANG, S.P. DE.) Prairies artificielles, ou Lettre à Monsieur de *** Sur les Moyens de fertiliser les Terreins secs & stériles dans la Champagne & dans les autres Provinces du Royaume. A Paris, 1756. Three works in 1 volume. (2), 14 pp.; viii, 228 pp.; (4), 125, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. First work: Conlon 58:353; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs.First edition. Written in the name of the manufacturers from Lyon, Paris, Tours, Rouen, Amiens and others, 'c'est-à-dire de ce qu'il y a de plus considérable en France en fait de Manufacture, si on en excepte celle de Draperie; & ils prétendent prouver que la tolérance de l'impression & de l'usage des Toiles Peintes qui a lieu depuis quatre ou cinq ans, a déjà fait un tort considérable à ces différentes fabriques, & que la permission, si on la donnoit, acheveroit de les ruiner'. Second work: Conlon 58:951; Goldsmiths 9350; Einaudi 4025; INED 3313; Higgs 1694; not in Kress. First edition.'Cette même année (1758), le meilleur disciple de Gournay, celui qui fut, plus fidèlement encore que Turgot, l'héritier de sa pensée, l'abbé Morellet, publiait ses Réflexions sur la libre fabrication des toiles peintes en France. La plupart des conclusions de l'ouvrage mériteront l'approbation de l'École; les principes de l'auteur sont cependant assez différents de ceux de Quesnay' (Weulersse, i, p. 59). Third work: Kress 5534; INED 2658; Higgs 1168; Conlon 56:1008; not in Goldsmiths (933 for the second edition); not in Einaudi. First edition. 'Agronomique. Nécessité de créer un bureau de l'agriculture, re recenser les terres et leurs proriétaires, et de perfectionner les techniques de fertilisation: 'les campagnes ne se dépeupleraient plus au profit des villes; ..... et avec l'accroissement de la population les impôts deviendraient moins lourds.' Le commerce exterieur des grains pourra être libre, si on prend garde d'en stocker dans les greniers' (INED). - Handwritten name on title-page of first work. EUR 1250
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REGLEMENS de la place des changes de la ville de Lyon, proposez par les principaux négocians de ladite ville, et consentis par Messieurs les Prévost des Marchands et Eschevins, Juges, Gardiens, Conservateurs des privilèges royaux de ses foires: Omologuez par sa Majesté en son Conseil de Commerce ..... Lyon, A. Laurens, 1727. 26 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf (corners have suffered a little). Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. - Lower part of first few leaves waterstained. Bound in at end: DE PAR LE ROI, et Messieurs les prévôt des marchands et echevins de la ville de Lyon, présidents, juges-gardiens, conservateurs des privilèges royaux des foires de la même ville. (Drop-head title). Lyon, A. Delaroche, 1755. 13 pp. EUR 125
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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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TARIF au minimum des prix de la façon des étoffes de soie, librement débattu et consenti entre les délégués des fabricans et des ouvriers ..... du 25 octobre 1831, pour recevoir son exécution à partir de Ier novembre prochain. Lyon, J.M. Boursy, (1831). Folio poster on white paper (38,3 x 44,5 cm), folded and bound in a small 4to volume. Modern half morocco. Not in Charléty. Following a slump in production at the beginning of 1831 and following a petition by the weavers and others demanding a new tariff in October, the new prefect of the Rhone, Bouvier Dumoulard, ordered weavers and merchant representatives to negociate new piecework rates. A preliminary agreement was arrived at on October 31. When it became apparent that many merchants ignored it and that some even withheld commission for new work to indicate their displeasure at any attempt to fix the cost of labor, the weavers responded with a strike and when National Guard units composed largely of merchants and their clerks fired on demonstrators a general uprising began. It was suppressed by Marchal De Soult at the cost of 550 lives. During this revolt the first black flags appeared with the devise: Vivre en travaillant, ou mourir en combattant (see: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, p. 654). - Some staining. A document of great importance and of great rarity. EUR 1200
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TARIF complet des droits et restitutions des douanes, sur l'importation, exportation et gabotage dans le royaume d'Angleterre, suivie des tables exactes des droits, restitutions, gratifications, primes & permissions d'accises, avec les additions des sessions actuelles. Traduit de l'Anglais, & revue par M. Laugier, interprête juré de la langue anglaise de la ville de Marseille. A Marseille, Chez Pierre-Ant. Favet, 1788. (8), 105, (1) pp. Oblong 4to. Sewn in blind covers, small damage to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Conlon 88:2248. Very scarce first edition. The 'Epitre Dédicatoire' reads 'De l'Éditeur Anglais à M. Richard Frewin, Ecuyer, un des Officiers des Douanes de Sa Majesté.' Furthermore the text states that this Mr. Frewin has produced the tables, that Mr. Frewin wants to remain in the background but that he must be seen as the principal author of the work. If there ever was an English original is unknown: no English version of this work exists. - With library-stamps on front cover and a few pages: Archives. Chambre de Commerce de Marseille. Bibl. C.C.M. Échange 1934. EUR 350
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TARIF des droits d'octroy, que le Roy en son Conseil veut & ordonne être payez dans la ville, faubourgs & lieux dépendans de la bourgeoisie de Caen, par tous bourgeois & habitans, exempts & non exempts, privilégiez & non privilégiez, conformément à l'arrêt du Conseil du 8 janvier 1718 & à commencer au premier dudit mois de janvier 1718, autorisé & confirmé par autre arrêt du Conseil du premier août 1719. Et lettres patentes données en conséquences audit mois d'août. Caen, P. Chalopin, (1720). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 20:248; Frère, ii, 554. Original edition. EUR 175
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TARIF des droits de pontage, fait et arresté en la Cour des Aydes de Normandie le 30 mars 1689. Rouen, Viret, 1758. 62 pp. Small 8vo. Modern half cloth. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Bourgeois& André 5923; Frère, vol. ii, 554; Conlon 58:424. First edition. EUR 175
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TARIF général des anciens et nouveaux droits rétablis par Arrests du Conseil, & déclaration du Roy des 22 mars, premier avril, et 15 may 1722, dans la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieuë de Paris, sur les marchandises & denrées y entrans par terre & par eau; avec la déduction des salaires accordés sur iceux, aux commis préposés & établis à la police des ports, quays, halles, places & marchés de ladite ville, par Édit du mois de septembre 1719, suivant l'Arrest du Conseil du 20 dudit mois de may 1722, chacun divisés par colomnes, conformément audit Arrest. Du 20 juin 1724; avec l'Arrest du Conseil du même jour, qui autorise ledit tarif. Paris, Ve Saugrain & Pierre Prault, 1724. (2), 38 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 6315. - Scribbling on title. EUR 150
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TARIFS des droits imposez sur toutes sortes d'huilles, pour servir aux commis employez à la perception de ces droits à raison de 12, de 6 & de 3 deniers pour livre, pesant net poids de marc, dans toute l'étenduë du Royaume; déduction faite du sixième ou du cinquième pour les tarres qui ont esté reglez par l'Édit du mois d'octobre 1710. Ensemble l'évaluation des barils d'huiles de navette & rabette. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Saugrain, 1714. With royal coat-of-arms on title. (2), 43 pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporary marbled cover. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Bourgeois & André. EUR 175
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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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(ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, J.) Les intérêts des nations de l'Europe dévelopés relativement au commerce. A Paris, Chez Desain (Leiden, Luzac), 1767. 4 volumes. (8), 411, (1) pp.; (4), 343, (1) pp.; (4), 331, (1) pp.; (4), 396 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, small damage to front joint of vol. 4. Higgs 4071; INED 12; Sabin 3726; Einaudi 55; Echeverria & Wilkie 767/2; JFBL A32; not in Kress (cf.: 6310); not in Goldsmiths. Second edition, originally published in 1766. In this his principal work Serionne rejected the Physiocratic theories of production and taxation; he also refused to accept the prevailing opinion that the population of France was diminishing rapidly. He strongly believed that the discovery of America had stimulated European agriculture and industry, improving levels of employment and that colonial commerce had itself contributed to an increase in the population of Europe (See: Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, pp. 315-321). After having run into serious difficulties in France, the author was forced to leave France. This edition with the 'Paris' imprint was apparently destined for export from Holland. - Half-title and first blanks slightly loose in volume one, a very fine copy, with bookplate of G. de Ste Marguerite, very likely belonging to the family of De Bonnet, seigneurs de la Baume, de Saint-Marguerite et de Costefrède. EUR 900
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(ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, J.) Hollands Rijkdom, Behelzende Den Oorsprong van den Koophandel, en van de Magt van dezen Staat; de toeneemende vermeerdering van deszelfs Koophandel en Scheepvaart; de oorzaken, welke tot derzelver aanwas medegewerkt hebben; die, welke tegenwoordig tot derzelver verval strekken; mitsgaders de middelen, welke dezelven wederom zouden kunnen opbeuren, en tot hunnen voorigen bloei brengen. Uit het Fransch vertaald. Vervolgens overgezien, merkeleijk veranderd, vermeerderd, en van verscheiden misslagen gezuiverd, door Mr. Elias Luzac, Advocaat voor den Hove van Holland, Zeeland, en Westfriesland. Eerste deel (- Vierde deel). Te Leyden, Bij Luzac en van Damme, 1780-1783. 4 volumes. xxii, (2), 370, 144, (38) pp.; xiv, (4), 338, 268, (14) pp.; (10), 416, 128, (16) pp.; (4), 4, 540, 60, (18) pp. 8vo. Near-contemporary boards, spines gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering. EHB 1246; Kress B.252; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First Dutch translation. - Some worming in a few quires of volume 4, in two cases touching text, I2and I3 in the same volume with repair to paper in blank upper margin. 'Considérations économiques et historiques sur les ressources hollandaises. C'est en examinant successivement les sources et les modifications, dues aux siècles, des causes physiques, morales (à savoir: politiques, fiscales et juridiques), et extérieures (progrès de l'agriculture, du commerce et de la navigation), que Luzac conclut à la décadence de ce commerce; moyens de le relever. Nécessité d'une forte population. La révocation de l'Edit de Nantes aurait fait passer en Hollande nombre de familles françaises et aurait été un facteur de son essor démographique' (INED).This first Dutch edition is much more extensive than the original French edition as Luzac added large numbers of documents to the text to support the thesis developped therein. According to the NNBW, volume 1, p. 1289, this is the first complete commercial history of the Netherlands. EUR 900
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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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(ANBUREY, TH.) Journal d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique septentrionale. Ouvrage dans lequel on donne des détails précieux sur l'insurrection des Anglo-Américains, et sur la chute désastreuse de leur papier-monnoie. Traduit de l'Anglois et enrichi de notes par M. Noël. A Paris, Chez La Villette, 1793. With folding map and 3 plates (two folding). 2 volumes. (4), 336 pp.; (4), 453, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartements, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, yellow sprinkled edges. Sabin 1369; Leclerc 802; Howes A.226; JFBL A191; Echeverria & Wilkie 793/1; not in Streeter; Kress B.2444; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi Improved second French edition, published in 1789 in English. A series of 79 letters by an English officer, who observed many aspects of commercial life in America from Quebec to Virginia and details the history of the War of Independence between the years 1776-1781. This work is somewhat anti-U.S., and contains among others significant discussions of Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut, and of Anburey's experiences in those states. EUR 1000
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(ANTHOINE DE SAINT-JOSEPH, A.I.) Essai historique sur le commerce et la navigation de la Mer-Noire, ou Voyage et entreprise pour établir des rapports commerciaux et maritimes entre les ports de la Mer-Noire et ceux de la Méditerranée. Paris, H. Agasse, an XVIII (1805). With the folding map loosely inserted. xvi, 300, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners, sprinkled edges, somewhat rubbed and worn along extremities. Kress B.4881; Goldsmiths 19056 (without the map); Catalogue Russica, i, A-818; Polak 115; not in Einaudi. First edition The author, a merchant at Marseille, proposed a plan for an economic union between France, Russia and Poland. The French government recognized the importance of his ideas and enthrusted him with a mission to Russia, to investigate the possibilities of his plan. EUR 650
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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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(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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(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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(BOUCHER DE CREVECOEUR DE PERTHES, J.) Opinion de M. Christophe, vigneron, sur les prohibitions et la liberté du commerce. Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1830. - (Bound with:) BOUCHER DE (CREVECOEUR DE PERTHES, J.) Opinion de M. Christophe. Deuxième partie, suivi de son voyage commercial et philosophique. Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1831. - (Bound with:) BOUCHER DE (CREVECOEUR DE PERTHES, J.) Opinion de M. Christophe, troisème partie, ou M. Christophe à la Préfecture de Police. Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1832. - (Bound with:) BOUCHER DE (CREVECOEUR DE PERTHES, J.) Opinion de M. Christophe, quatrième partie, ou Le dernier jour d'un homme. Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1834. Togther 4 volumes in 1. (4), 93, (2) pp.; (4), 156, (2) pp.; (4), 159 pp.; (4), 267, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering, marbled boards, a bit rubbed. None in Kress; Goldsmiths 26634 (volume 1 in 2nd edition). All published. All four volumes in the first edition. In favour of free trade, and the author presents his argument in the form of a discussion between a 'vigneron' representing the ideas of the author, and a government representative representing the anti free-trade argument. It is a critical review of protectionism and Napoleon's 'blocus continental.' EUR 700
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(BOUREAU DESLANDES, A.F.) Essay sur la marine et sur le commerce. No place, 1743. 176 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (somewhat rubbed and shaved, small defects to covers.) Polak 1130; Sabin 19744 (English translation only); Alden & Landis 743/67; JFBL D200 (Amsterdam edition from the same year); Conlon 43:288; Kress 4651; Goldsmith 7971; Einaudi 661; INED 737. First edition, one of two different editions; there is also one published at Amsterdam, chez François Changuion, same year, in 189 pages. No priority established. - A few pages with a faint waterstain in upper half, tear in page 47-48 touching some letters but not affecting legibility. 'Place tenue par la marine chez les peuples de l'antiquité et en France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. "La Marine soutenue par l'autorité royale doit servir à protéger le commerce, à l'étendre, à lui donner chaque jour de nouveau accroissemens, et (....) le commerce doit servir à introduire l'abondance et toute sorte de richesses dans le royaume, à le rendre aussi puissant qu'il peut être." Critique de luxe, éloge des manufactures: l'une des plus graves conséquences de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes fut le départ d'ouvriers, il faudrait imiter Edouard IV qui fit venir en Angleterre des ouvriers spécialisés' (INED).Includes interesting details relating to America, particularly the design of Cromwell to become possessor of that country, the expedition of Thomas Gage, etc. Also pleading for the introduction of foreign specialists into France to stimulate industry and trade. The author is also listed under Deslandes in several reference works. EUR 600
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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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(BUTEL-DUMONT, G.M.) Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, Où l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline & de la Géorgie. A Londres, et se vend à Paris, Chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. xxiv, 336 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillets on covers, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering. Kress 5421; Higgs 1030; INED 884; Goldsmiths 9028 (without the preliminaries); not in Einaudi; Conlon 55:545; Sabin 9602; JFBL B635; Howes B.1049; Leclerc 241; Echeverria, pp. 15n and 19; not in Muller. First edition, first issue ('Roman type' issue as identified by Echeverria & Wilkie) and with the errata on page xxiv Butel-Dumont argues that Great-Britain owes her power and wealth to the colonies. He analyses the commerce and trade as well as the population of the British colonies at the time of the Guerre du Canada. With the outbreak of the Seven Years War, many of whose battles were to be fought in the New World, considerable curiosity about the British colonies was excited. This was one of the books profiting from this curiosity. It emphasized the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the colonies. 'This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). According to INED this work was also attributed to Véron de Forbonnais. EUR 1250
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(BUTEL-DUMONT, G.M.) Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, où l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline, & de la Georgie. A Londres, et se vend à Paris, Chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. xxiv, 336 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, somewhat rubbed and shaved. Sabin 9602; JFBL B635; Leclerc 241; Howes B.1049; Echeverria, Mirage in the West, p. 15n and p. 19; Kress 5421; Goldsmiths 9028 (without the preliminaries); INED 884; not in Einaudi; Conlon 55:545. First edition, second issue ('Italic type' as identified by Echeverria & Wilkie) and without errata on page xxiv, all the errata being corrected. Butel-Dumont argues that Great Britain owes her power and wealth to the colonies. He analyses the commerce and trade as well as the population of the British colonies at the time of the Guerre du Canada. With the outbreak of the Seven Years War, many of whose battles were to be fought in the New World, considerable curiosity about the British colonies was excited. This was one of the books profiting from this curiosity, It emphasized the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the colonies. 'This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). According to INED this work was also attributed to Véron de Forbonnais. - Very rare. EUR 750
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(BUTEL-DUMONT, G.M.) Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, Où l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline & de la Géorgie. A Londres, et se vend à Paris, Chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. xxiv, 336 pp. 12mo. Modern marbled boards, red leather label with gilt lettering. Kress 5421; Higgs 1030; INED 884; Goldsmiths 9028 (without the preliminaries); not in Einaudi; Conlon 55:545; Sabin 9602; JFBL B635; Howes B.1049; Leclerc 241; Echeverria, pp. 15n and 19; not in Muller. First edition, second issue ('Italic type' as identified by Echeverria & Wilkie) and without the errata on page xxiv and with the errata corrected. Butel-Dumont argues that Great-Britain owes her power and wealth to the colonies. He analyses the commerce and trade as well as the population of the British colonies at the time of the Guerre du Canada. With the outbreak of the Seven Years War, many of whose battles were to be fought in the New World, considerable curiosity about the British colonies was excited. This was one of the books profiting from this curiosity. It emphasized the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the colonies. 'This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). According to INED this work was also attributed to Véron de Forbonnais. - Tiny hole in half-title and title, modern ex-libris on the front paste-down. EUR 900
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(BUTEL-DUMONT, G.M.) Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, Où l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline & de la Géorgie. Nouvelle édition. A La Haye, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1755. xvi, 246 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5420; Higgs 1029; cf.: INED 884; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon; Sabin 9602; Howes B.1049; cf.: Leclerc 241; Echeverria & Wilkie 755/5. Edition published in the same year as the first edition. Butel-Dumont argues that Great-Britain owes her power and wealth to the colonies. He analyses the commerce and trade as well as the population of the British colonies at the time of the Guerre du Canada. With the outbreak of the Seven Years War, many of whose battles were to be fought in the New World, considerable curiosity about the British colonies was excited. This was one of the books profiting from this curiosity. It emphasized the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the colonies. 'This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). According to INED this work was also attributed to Véron de Forbonnais. EUR 600
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(CARNEY, DE.) Devis général pour la construction des nouveaux chemins. Du 20 Juin 1742. (Drop-head title). No place, (1742). - (Followed by:) (CARNEY, DE). Devis général de l'entretien deschemins de la sénéchaussée de Carcassonne. Du 20 Janvier 1744. (Drop-head title). No place, (1744). 2 pieces bound in 1 volume. 22 unnumbered pp.; 16 unnumbered pp. 4to. Modern boards. Both works not in Conlon; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Both texts are signed at the end 'De Carney'. - A waterstain throughout in the inner and the outer blank margins. Deals with the roads from Carcassonne to Narbonne, Narbonne to Béziers, Béziers to Pézenas, and from Narbonne to Roussillon and are remarkably detailed concerning the construction specifications. EUR 175
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(CLAVIERE, E.) Mémoire du ministre des contributions publiques, sur les messageries. 27 novembre 1792. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1792. 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter, 7643. EUR 175
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(COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, contrôleur général des finances; Avec une relation de l'émeute arrivée à Paris en 1775, & suivis de quatorze lettres d'un actionnaire de la Compagnie des Indes. A Londres, 1776. (8), 398 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards, red label with gilt lettering. Kress 7204; Einaudi 1290; INED 1195; Stourm, p. 85; not in Goldsmiths. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed under Goldsmiths 11455 and Kress 7202 and which was published by John Adamson. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. The Lettres d'un Actionnaire recount what has happened during the last assemblies of the Company. The 'Lettres d'un actionnaire' (pp. 273-398) have been bound before the 'Mémoires'. In the main work the preliminaires have been bound between the half-title and title. EUR 450
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(COSTAZ, C.A.) Corps de marchands et communautés d'arts et métiers. A Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard, 1821. 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards, morocco label with giltlettering. Kress C.696; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Claude-Anthelme Costaz was one of the founders, in 1802, of the Society for the Encourement of National Industry (Société pour l'encouragement de l'industrie nationale.) He was also the one commissioned to produce statistical tables concerning manufactures and industry. He produced three of them which showed the situation and its development with the dates 1789, 1800 and 1812 as the three different points of measurement and comparison. The present text is 'en grande partie, extrait d'un ouvrage que j'ai publié, il y a environ quatre ans, sur l'Administration de l'agriculture, du commerce, des arts, des manufactures, et des subsistances. Lorsque je le rédigeai, je ne prévoyais pas que la France touchait au moment où l'on demanderait le rétablissement des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers' (Avertissement). EUR 150
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(COYER, G.F.) Développement et défense du système de la noblesse commerçante. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez Duchesne, 1757. 2 volumes. - (Bound with:) (BELOT.) Observations sur la noblesse et le Tiers-Etat par Madame ***. A Amsterdam, chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1758. Together 2 works in 1 volume. 151 pp.; 206, (2, publisher's catalogue) pp.; (2), xxiv, 113 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. First work: Kress 5597; Goldsmiths 9241; Einaudi 1383; Higgs 1478; INED 1227; not in Mattioli..First edition.Coyer wrote his famous La Noblesse Commerçante ... in 1756. He outlined in this work the advantages for the noblity if they were to be engaged in commerce, and the advantages of a commercial active nobility for the State: development of commerce and trade, rise in population growth and consumption. The work generated a substantial polemic and against the many criticisms of his system the Abbé Coyer wrote this defense, particularly against the Chevalier d'Arcq's La Noblesse Militaire. Second work: Kress 5563; Goldsmiths 9395; Einaudi 397; Higgs 1793; INED 391. First edition.'C'est en répriment le luxe qui dévore les citoyens, énerve leur courage, dépeuple les provinces et dévaste les campagnes' (INED). - Preliminairies of the second work browned. EUR 700
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(COYER, G.F.) La noblesse commerçante. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Duchesne, 1756. With engraved frontispiece. - (Bound with:) (BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, L.E.) L'une et l'autre ou la noblesse commerçante et militaire. Avec des réflexions sur le commerce & les moyens de l'encourager. A Mahon (Paris), de l'Imprimerie Française, aux dépens de Williams Blakeney, 1756. - (Bound with:) (SAINTE-FOIX D'ARCQ, P.A. DE.) La noblesse militaire ou le patriote françois. (Paris), 1756. 3 works in 1 volume. 215, (1) pp.; (2), 134 pp.; v, (1), 210 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges, extremities a bit worn, minor defect to head and foot of spine. First work: Kress 5504; Goldsmiths 9118; INED 1229; cf.: Einaudi 1387 & Higgs 1203. First edition. Coyer wrote his famous La Noblesse Commerçante ... in 1756. He outlined in this work the advantages for the noblity if they were to be engaged in commerce, and the advantages of a commercial active nobility for the State: development of commerce and trade, rise in population growth and consumption. The work generated a substantial polemic of which two important ones have been bound in with Coyer's work.Second work: INED 504; Einaudi 502; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs.First edition.Billardon here points to the fact that many members of the nobility have in fact entered the commercial activities of France, notably in maritime commerce. He pleads for a ministry of commerce and commercial 'diplomacy' to be sent to the main commercial towns in the world, and the reorganisation and unification of customs.Third work: Kress 5490; Goldsmiths 9138; Einaudi 149; Higgs 1209; INED 80.First edition.Refutation of Coyer's work with the argument that the important profession of the nobility is military in nature. EUR 1200
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(DE FORGES, COMTE.) Des véritables intérêts de la patrie. A Paris, Chez les Libraires Associés, 1764. vi, (2), 194 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spinegilt in compartments, gilt lettering, joint starting to split at foot. Kress 6183 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp.); INED 1869 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp.); Goldsmiths 9943; Einaudi 1929; Higgs 3343; Leblanc 244 (edition published in Rotterdam of 127 pages only); Conlon 64:787 (edition published in Rotterdam of 204 pp). First edition. Apparently there are at least three editions published in the same year, no priority established. Observations concerning economics, finances, justice, the army, education and population (the christian morals are favorable to population whereas luxury is not): deals furthermore with 'L'Argent', 'Du Luxe', 'Des Subsides', 'Des Obligations de la Patrie envers les Citoyens', 'De L'Administration des Finances', 'Des Impôts', 'Des Rentes', 'Des Pensions', 'Des Charges', 'Des Ambassades', 'Des Guerres', 'De la Discipline Militaire', 'Des Réformes', 'Des Désertions', 'Des Grades Militaires', 'Des Fondations', 'De L'Usure', 'Des Loteries', 'Des Monnoyes', 'Des Marchandises', 'Des Voitures & des Postes', 'Des Chemins', 'Des Mines d'Or & d'Argent', 'De l'Agriculture', 'De la Population', 'Du Commerce', 'De l'economie particuliere', etc. EUR 400
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(DECKER, M.) Essai sur les causes du déclin du commerce étranger de la Grande Bretagne. No place, 1757. 2 volumes. (2), 302 pp.; (2), 392 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, small loss of calf to front cover of volume 2, very lightly rubbed. McCulloch 46; Kress 5600; Goldsmiths 9242; Higgs 1465; not in Einaudi; Conlon 57:669; not in Mattioli. First French edition, first published in 1744. Sir Matthew Decker, director of the East India Company, merchant and pamphleteer, was born in Amsterdam. In the present work he urges the replacement of all customs and excise duties by a single tax on the consumption of luxury goods - a kind of income tax with the merits, as it was conceived in the eighteenth century, that the taxpayer voluntarily assesses himself by choosing to consume such articles and to such an extent as he wishes. Decker argues strongly against restrictions on trade, emphasizing the significance of industry and trade to the welfare of the country. He would exempt the houses inhabited by the poor from all duties - not on grounds of social sympathy but because it would necessarily lower their wages and consequently increase the competitive strength of British exports; he advocates the luxury tax because it would check luxury, the bane of virtue and industry. He was opposed to monopolies and bounties and was skeptical as to whether trade can ultimately be forced into 'an unnatural channel,' thus anticipating the discussion on the operation of natural laws in the economic world. In some respects he is considered an important precursor of Adam Smith. 'The first part of the work is devoted to a detailed criticism of the fiscal difficulties under which England is labouring; the second part to showing the intricate connection between the trade of a country and the value of the land; while in the third part Decker displays the great sources of wealth and prosperity possessed by England, and shows how the references he suggests would permit her to avail herself of these, her natural strength' (Palgrave, i, p. 519).The French translator, J.P. de Gua de Malves, added extensive comments and therefore this French version is sought after. EUR 800
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(DUBOS, J.B.) Les intérêts de l'Angleterre mal-entendus dans la guerre présente. Traduits du livre anglois intitulé: 'Englands interests mistaken in the present war'. Sixième édition reveuë, corrigée & augmentée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, Chez J.L. de Lorme, 1704. Title printed in red and black. With 1 folding table. (10), 317, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering. Cf.: Kress 2421; Goldsmiths 4038; Einaudi 1626,note; Sabin 98172n; Alden & Landis 704/56; Echeverria & Wilkie 704/7; not in Howes; not in Streeter; not in Leclerc; not in Muller; not in JFBL. The best edition, with extensive notes added. One of at least 7 editions published in 1704. Originally published in 1703. As a matter of fact there never was an English edition, but the author apparently preferred to pass it off as such to avoid problems with the authorities, since he represented the French court as an ambassador in The Hague. Anti-British work that surveys British trade and commerce in Europe and that with the American colonies and the Indies predicting that the Navigation Acts will result in revolt and independence for the British North American colonies. EUR 800
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(DUBOS, J.B.) Les intérêts de l'Angleterre mal-entendus dans la guerre présente. Traduits du livre anglois intitulé: 'Englands interests mistaken in the present war'. Nouvelle édition reveue et corrigée. A Amsterdam, Chez George Gallet, 1704. Sphere on title. (10), 1-6, 9-274, (2) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Goldsmiths 4038; Einaudi 1626n; cf.: Kress 2421; Alden & Landis, 704/55; Echeverria & Wilkie 704/6; cf. Sabin 98172n; not in Howes; not in Streeter; not in Leclerc; not in Muller; not in JFBL. One of at least 7 editions from 1704, originally published in 1703. The pages 7 and 8 are omitted in the numbering. As a matter of fact there never was an English edition, but the author apparently preferred to pass it off as such to avoid problems with the authorities, since he represented the French court as an ambassador in The Hague. Anti-British work that surveys British trade and commerce in Europe and that with the American colonies and the Indies predicting that the Navigation Acts will result in revolt and independence for the British North American colonies. EUR 600
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(DUBUCQ, J.B. & P.U. DUBUISSON.) Lettres critiques et politiques sur les colonies & le commerce des villes maritimes de France. Adressées à G.T. Raynal. Par M***. A Genève, et se trouve à Paris, 1785. 14, (2), 292 pp. 8vo. Early 19th-century half calf. Kress B.851; cf.: Goldsmiths 12968; INED 1485; Einaudi 1629; Sabin 21032; Echeverria & Wilkie 785/23; JFBL D303; Feugère 278; Hogg 1112; not in Fay; not in Leclerc. One of two editions from the year of the first edition, according to Echeverria & Wilkie there is another edition of (8), 264, 13 pp. which they consider to be the first. The final 13 pages contain the 'Conversation D'Un Officier d'Artillerie' which is lacking in some copies and which was printed as an appendix. A note at the foot of page 264 refers to this addition: 'J'ai cru devoir joindre ici un morceau qui n'est pas étranger aux matières que j'ai traitées.' The Lettres defend the arret of the Conseil d'Etat of 30 August 1784 by a purportedly impartial examination of the related issues. This important arret significantly reversed a basic French colonial policy established in 1727 allowing French West Indian planters to import from the US and other foreign nations certain commodities essential to their economy, which merchants in France were supplying only in insufficient quantities and at high prices, and also to export important products to the US and other foreign markets. It established duty free ports at Saint Lucia; Saint Pierre in Martinique; Point-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe; Scarborough in Tobago; and Cap Français, Port-au-Prince, and Cayes Saint Louis in Santo Domingo. At these ports, foreign ships could sell all kinds of wood and lumber, coal, cattle, salt beef, salt cod and other salt fish, rice, Indian corn, vegetables, hides, furs, resins, and tar; and could purchase molasses, rum, and goods of French origin. The degree provoked a flood of protests from spokesmen for the merchants in French ports, who hitherto had enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the West Indian trade. EUR 1400
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies, et sur le prix des grains, avant et après le Concile de Francfort. A Paris, Chez Nyon, Didot le jeune & Saugrain le jeune, 1762. xxxvii (misnumbered xxxvi), (3), 389,(3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Kress 6015; Goldsmiths 9786; Einaudi 1688; INED 1644; Higgs 2771. First edition of a study on the relationship between the value of coinage, citing numerous sources, grain prices and other vital commodities. The avertissement compares various European currencies and attempts to establish their real value by referring to workers' and soldiers' wages and assessing their purchase powers, while the introduction proposes a way of determining a fair price for wheat. The author's approach is predominantly historical (the title refers to a 794 edict which fixed the price of grain), providing a wide variety of statistical information. EUR 900
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies, et sur le prix des grains, avant et après le Concile de Francfort. A Paris, Chez Nyon, Didot le jeune & Saugrain le jeune, 1762. xxxvii (misnumbered xxxvi), (3), 389,(3) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 6015; Goldsmiths 9786; Einaudi 1688; INED 1644; Higgs 2771. First edition. 'L'avertissement compare les monnoies de quelques pays d'Europe occidentale et estime leur valeur d'après le salaire des ouvriers et la solde des soldats; l'introduction propose un moyen d'attribuer au blé un juste prix. Nombreux chiffres concernant les rapports entre les salaires, les prix des grains et autres denrées essentielles, et commentaire des lois romaines sur les grains. Livre de comptabilité, sans préoccupations doctrinales' (INED). At end: De l'Imprimerie de Didot. - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding. A beautiful copy. EUR 900
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(EDWARDS, B.) Histoire de St.-Domingue, depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1794, traduite pour la première fois de l'Anglais d'Edouard Bryand, témoin oculaire, sur la dernière éditions de Londres in 4to. (par J.B.J. Breton). Paris, P. Blanchard, 1812. 246 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. Sabin 21896 (1802 edition, the present one not listed); Muller 524; this French edition not in JFBL (E53 for the English edition); Chadenat 5174; Kress B.4517 (edition 1802), this edition not in Kress. Second French edition, first published in 1802, while the original English edition appeared in 1797. Includes information on commercial value of the colony, on the revolt of the negroes, the Société des Amis des Noirs, etc. Largely concerned with British military intervention in the island in the 1790s.Edwards was educated in Bristol and immigrated to Jamaica in 1759 to live with a rich uncle, Zachary Bayly, who gave him the means to complete his education, and made him his heir. After the death of his uncle, he became an eminent merchant and prominent member of the colonial assembly. In 1789 he went to San Domingo, the richest French colony, where he spent several years collecting material for the present work. He then returned to England, and from 1796 till his death he was a member of the House of Commons, where he was a zealous defender of the planters against the attacks on slavery and the slave trade. The present account deals among others with the Haitian Revolution which broke out in 1791. This slave revolt, which would last for twelve years, was one of the few successful ones in history, leading to the abolishment of slavery on San Domingo in 1803. Edwards argues in this work that resistance came only from the slaves that had just arrived, and had little to do with overwhelming injustices resented by all blacks. This resistance of Haitian slaves, however, wasn't just an isolated incident, and can be seen in the light of other events, such as the French Revolution in 1789, and the formulation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in the same year, declaring all citizens equal, and claiming the preservation of the natural rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression to be the aim of all political associations. San Domingo was under French law, and the news of the developments in France had reached the planters as well as the slaves. The French translator states in his preface very clearly that the opinion of Edwards is typically English, and in fact opposed to that of most French. On pp. 192-246 of the work an Appendix can be found, containing several letters and reports concerning San Domingo. EUR 350
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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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(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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(HAUTERIVE, A.M. BLANC DE LA NAUTTE, COMTE D'.) De l'État de la France à la fin de l'an VIII. A Paris, Chez Henrics, Brumaire An 9 (octobre 1800). iv, 350, (2) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red label and gilt lettering. Kress B.4197; Goldsmiths 17829; Einaudi 2859; not in Mattioli; INED 2232; Stourm, p. 318; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, iii, p. 211. First edition. Deals with the political situation of France in comparison with the other European nations: The political situation before the war; General thoughts on the present situation of France; Present situation of France considering its allies; Present situation of France considering its ennemies; Present situation of France considering the neutrals; Internal situation of France, followed by two chapters dealing with: 'Population et industrie de la France' and with 'Moeurs et Lois de la France.' According to Barbier the work was composed not only under supervision of Talleyrand but even partly written by him. Alexandre-Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive, was diplomat and economist, born in Aspres (Hautes-Alpes) on 14 April 1754. He went with Choiseul-Gouffier to Constantinopel, spent some years in New York, and returned to France in 1798 and started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the 18th Brumaire to the fall of the Empire he was involved in all the major negociations of the period. - Small hole in half-title, occasional light spotting, small library stamp on half-title, a very attractive copy. EUR 600
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(HAY DU CHASTELET, P.) Traité de la politique de France. Reveü, corrigé, & augmenté d'une Seconde partie. Avec quelques réflexions sur ce Traité par le Sr. Ormegregny. Cologne (Amsterdam), P. du Marteau, 1680. 2 volumes in 1. (12), 13-296 pp.; 135, (1) pp. 12mo. Later morocco, gilt fillets on sides, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (joints, bands and extremeties somewhat worn). Bourgeois & André 2969; Sauvy, Livres saisis à Paris, p. 5; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; cf.: INED 1073. Augmented edition. Upon its first publication in 1669, also anonymously and outside France, the identity of the author was discovered and he was put in the Bastille (for 15 days). The author may be considered as a precursor of Vauban and Castel de Saint Pierre for his revolutionary ideas of reforming the tax system, and for his ideas concerning the clergy, commerce and protestants, etc. 'In Colbert's time Paul Hay, marquis de Chatelet, and forerunner of Vauban, pointed out that extreme poverty conducted to death and disease and thus served to depeople rural regions; that tax reforms were necessary to improve economic conditions. Although he opposed the association of rural with urban workers, on the ground that the former would become insolent and acquire corrupt customs, he asserted, like Colbert, that man's happiness is the end of 'la politique'. He condemned the expulsion of the Huguenots as unchristian' (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus, p. 12). Spengler also points to the fact that this work inspired some of Vauban's ideas on taxation (see also: Vignes, Origines de la dîme de Vauban). The Réflexions added under the pseudonym of Ormegregny are by Pierre Dumoulin. They deal only with the two chapters concerning the clergy and the protestants. EUR 600
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(HENRY III.) Lettres patentes de déclaration du Roy, sur le fait de la marine & admiraulté de France. Publiez en Parlement le troisiesme iour d'Avril, 1576. A Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Martin le Mesgissier, 1612. Royal coat of arms on title. 20 unnumbered pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, i, 2896 (1584 edition); Lindsay & Neu 2777. First collective edition of these offical texts issued during the reign of Henry III with the purpose of confirming and enlarging the rights and prerogatives of the admiralty of France. Handwritten date (12 fevrier 1576) on title-page. EUR 200
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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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(IMBERT, J.B.) Réponse au dernier mémoire adressé à l'Assemblée nationale, par les pêcheurs catalans, résident (sic) à Marseille. Pour les patrons-pêcheurs français établis en la même ville. (Paris, 1790). (2), 58 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 16938. First edition. Against the Catalonian fishermen using French fishing grounds. Signed at end by Imbert, Ardent (second prudhomme) and Ponsard (secrétaire-archiviste). EUR 225
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(J.F. MAHY) DE CORMERE. Mémoire sur les finances et le crédit, pour servir de suite aux 'Recherches et considérations nouvelles sur les finances'. A Paris, Chez l'auteur, Moutard, Desenne, 1789. 32, 176 pp. 8vo. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, vellum corners, label with gilt lettering. Kress B.1655; Goldsmiths 13928; Stourm 190; INED 3007; Martin & Walter, i, 8288; Monglond, i, p. 244, all listing copies in which the 32 preliminary pages are lacking, as almost always. First edition. - First two leaves a little stained. The first 32 pages which are apparently nearly always lacking contain: "Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, ou précis des élémens du plan général." A new financial system proposed, followed by 25 projects of decrees. EUR 500
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(LACOMBE DE PREZEL, H.) Les progrès du commerce. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez A.M. Lottin, 1760. xii, 335, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering (slightly rubbed). Kress 5864; Goldsmiths 9570; Higgs 2216; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 380; INED 2428; not in Einaudi; Conlon 60:867. First edition. 'Deux parties dans cet ouvrage: la première est consacrée au commerce dans l'Antiquité et à l'époque contemporaine; la seconde concerne les diverses branches de la production, les banques et les manufactures' (Leblanc, op.cit.) - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloß Eferding. EUR 600
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(LAIR-DUVAUCELLES, M.A.) Abondance des grains et farines dans Paris, ou La cause de la disette dévoilée. Par un des membres du district de Saint-Gervais (Paris, Chez Desenne, 1789). (2), 19, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; Martin & Walter 18557 (incomplete); Tourneux, i, 1315 (incomplete). First edition. Discusses the problem that despite the requisitioning of grain for Paris there is still not enough coming into the city and proposes solutions. EUR 175
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(LE CORREUR, J.) Traité de la pratique des billets entre les négocians. Par ...... Docteur en Théologie. Seconde édition revûë & augmentée. A Mons (Paris), Chez Gaspard Migeot à l'Enseigne des trois Vertus, 1684. Device on title. (8), 345,(1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, speckled edges, a bit worn. Barbier, iv, 766; Kress 1600; Goldsmiths 2557; Einaudi 3291; INED 2746. Second edition: the work was published in the same year by Thierry in Paris. - Front blank loosening. 'Théologique et juridique. Le Correur se demande si la pratique des billets entre les négociants est une bonne institution. Il s'aide pour cela d'explications et de passages tirés de l'Écriture Sainte, des écrits des Saints Pères, des décrets des Conciles, et des ordonnances royales, que ceux qui condamnent cette pratique allèguent généralement. Il espère avoir ainsi démontré le bien-fondé de cette pratique' (INED). EUR 375
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(LEFEVRE DE BEAUVRAY, P.) Dictionnaire social et patriotique, ou Précis raisonné de connoissance relatives à l'économie morale, civile et politique. Par M.C.R.L.F.D.B.A.A.P.D.P. A Amsterdam, 1770. (12), 557, (5) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands.INED 2756; Einaudi 3297; Goldsmiths 10608; Higgs 5135; not in Kress. First edition. 'Chaque article est accompagné d'abondantes reférences bibliographiques' (INED). Includes long chapters on Holland, Great Britain, political economy, commerce, women, etc. The bibliography on political economy is found under the word 'connoissance' and deals mainly with the physiocratic school. EUR 450
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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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(LONGCHAMPS, P. DE.) Histoire impartiale des événemens militaire et politique de la dernière guerre dans les quatre parties du monde. A Amsterdam et à Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1785. 3 volumes. 564 pp.; 531, (3) pp.; 618 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, red edges. Sabin 41905; Echeverria & Wilkie 785/62; not in Leclerc; cf.: Fay 21 Second issue of the first edition, the errata being corrected. Emphasis on the military operations in North America, but also dealing with political issues and commerce. EUR 750
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, pour l'établissement d'un Conseil de Commerce. Donnée à Vincennes le 14 décembre 1715. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, chez la veuve de François Muguet, 1715. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue des Actes Royaux, v, 26220. The establishment of a seventh special conseil, called 'de commerce' and dealing with 'tout ce qui concerne le commerce intérieur & extérieur & les manufactures du Royaume .....' EUR 175
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(LOUIS XV.) Déclaration du Roy, donnée à Versailles le 2 Août 1729, qui établit des peines contre les contrebandiers. Registrée en Parlement (le 13 Septembre 1729). (Drop-head title) (At end:) Grenoble, G. Giroud, (1729). 8 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Previous measures and punishments against smuggling haven't resulted in the desired effects, hence, in 10 articles, new measures are issued. These measures basically increase punishments and dealamong others with resistence to arrest, corporation between customs officers and smugglers, those dealing in goods being smuggled in, etc. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, par laquelle Sa Majesté renouvelle les dispositions des anciennes ordonnances rendues pour empêcher la contrebande. Donnée à Versailles le deux Septembre 1776. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39302. Measures aaginst smuggling, fraud, etc. EUR 110
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, sur la contribution en cas de déconfiture, dans les établissemens françois de l'Inde. Donnée à Versailles le 22 Février 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39423; not in Wroth & Annan. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, sur l'administration des biens des mineurs dans les établissemens françois de l'Inde. Donnée à Versailles le 22 Février 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, 1777. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39421; not in Wroth & Annan. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI). Lettre du Roi à son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur l'Amiral. Du 5 Juin 1779. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1779) 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf, margins frayed, a bit spotted. The King decided togive the order not to attack, hamper, or confiscate any English fishing boats, nor to disturb the fishermen, as this is their only means of subsistence.Old annotation in ink on the blank page indicates that the leaf has been used as a cover for another pamphlet. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Proclamation du Roi, pour accorder des primes en faveur de l'importation des grains. Du 5 Novembre 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1791. 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. EUR 75
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(LOUIS XVI.) Lettres-patentes du Roi, concernant les manufactures. Données à Marli le 5 Mai 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Lille, Imprimerie de N.J. B. Peterinck-Cramé, 1780. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue général, Bibliothèque Nationale, Actes Royaux, vi, 40157. Deals with the labeling of cloth manufactured in France, of the proper quality, clearly indicating the material used, in an attempt to create uniformity in the rules and regulations throughout the kingdom. EUR 150
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(LOUIS XVI.) Règlement fait par le Roi, pour la formation de son Conseil royal des finances & de commerce. Du 5 juin 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1787. 6 pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 41850. The creation of a Conseil Royal des Finances & de Commerce replacing the two separate council operating at that time: the Conseil du Commerce and the Conseil des finances, which, according to the king, where not operating to his satisfaction. The piece contains 14 articles by which this measure is executed and the newly established conseil is created. EUR 110
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(LOUIS XVI.) Proclamation du Roi, pour accorder des primes en faveur de l'importation des grains. Du 5 Novembre 1789. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1789. 2 pp. 4to. Disbound, outer margin briddle and dampstained. Not in Martin & Walter. Offering a premium to those entrepreneurs importing various products into France, whether they are French or foreign and exempting ships from certain taxes importing "blés & farines". EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Edit du Roi, Qui ordonne une fabrication dans la Monnoie de Paris, d'une certaine quantité d'Espèces de billon, qui ne pourra avoir cours que dans les Isles de France & de Bourbon, où elles seront reçues en toutes sortes de payemens, à raison de Trois sous la pièce. Donné à Versailles au mois d'Août 1779. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1779. With illustration of both sides of the coin. 3, (1blank) pp. 4to. Folded leaf. Actes royaux, vi, 40229; not in Wroth and Annan. Aiming at solving the problem of paper money of small value and the drainage from the colonies of small coins ("pieces de deux sous"). The illustration shows the proposed coins, both sides, with the text "Isles de Fr. et de Bourbon" on one side of the coin. EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, concernant la course sur les ennemis de l'état. Donnée à Versailles le vingt-quatre Juin 1778. A Paris, chez P.G. Simon, 1778. 15, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 39879. Declaration to encourage shipowners and to incite their emulation. The king, aware of their services rendered during the last war, decides to issue special honorary distinctions, financial renumeration, facilitate financial investment, etc. etc. The declaration furthermore gives various instructions on arming the ships, bonusses to be earned upon capturing ennemi ships and its arms ("cent livres chaque canon du calibre de 4 & au-dessus jusqu'à 12 livres"), the right to acquire arms themselves if they can not be supplied in time and be reimbursed, etc. etc. In all, the declaration contains 62 articles. EUR 200
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(LOUIS XVI.) Déclaration du Roi, Qui ordonne que les Comptoirs des Marchands de Vins, revêtus en plomb, ainsi que les Vaisseaux de cuivre dont se servent les Laitières, & les Balances de même métal, qu'employent les Regrattiers de sel & les Débitans de tabac, seront supprimés. Donnée à Versailles le 13 Juin 1777. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Aix, Esprit David, 1777. 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux,vi, 39555-8 (other issues). Forbids the use of led (which was used for transporting wine, milk and the like) as it was discovered that led caused serious health problems. 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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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) Théorie de l'impôt. (Paris), 1760. viii, 520 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back. Kress 5884; Goldsmiths 9603; Higgs 2298; Einaudi 3946; INED 3209 (other issue); Weulersse I, p. xxviii; Peignot I, p. 320. First edition, on of several issues. There was also an edition published in 4to. '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.) EUR 800
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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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(NECKER, J.) Sur la législation et le commerce des grains. A Paris, Chez Pissot, 1775. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 236 pp.; 184, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf,spine gilt in compartments, paper covered boards, a bit rubbed. Kress 7144; Goldsmiths 11267; Higgs 6260; INED 3372; not in Einaudi; Lichtenberger, Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 305-310. First edition. Necker condemned the physiocratic doctrine of free trade and was in favour of government control. In 1789 Necker got a chance to put his ideas into practice, which led to disastrous results. - With bookplate: J.S. Dussi. EUR 750
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(NICODEME, P.J.) Exercise des commerçans contenant Des Assertions Consulaires sur l'Edit du mois de Novembre 1563, le titre XVI de l'Ordonnance du mois d'Avril 1667; ensemble sur l'Edit du mois de Janvier 1718, portant établissement d'une Jurisdiction Consulaire en la Ville de Valenciennes: avec les Déclarations interprétatives, & des Arrêts de Réglement. Des idées, projets & Parères sur la partie des Lettres de change, Billets à ordre & au Porteur, & sur plusieurs autres affaires de Commerce, avec différentes Questions, Remarques & Consultations, suivis d'une chronologie des Ordonnances sur les faillites & banqueroutes. Dédié à Mgr. Hue de Miroménil, Garde des Sceaux de France. A Paris, Chez Vallade, 1776. (8), 724 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 7236; Goldsmiths 11424; Einaudi 2155; Camus 2132; Pardessus, Bibliothèque de Jurisprudence Commerciale, 59; not in INED. First edition. Dedication to Hue de Miromesnil, followed by an Avis du Libraire. The main work is divided into two parts: the first deals with the 'Assertions Consulaires' from the edict of 1563 by which the Juge-Consuls of Paris were created and all following legislation and further creation of similar positions; the second part deals with the 'Lettres de change & billets de Commerce' and contains a collection of (legal and commercial) propositions concerning trade, commerce and business. The author also shows how, based on the same principles, opposing viewpoints and even contradictory legislation has grown in time. This work collects many documents and laws and regulations issued over the previous centuries with the relevant jurisprudence and is a very interesting and useful sourcebook. - Very good copy. EUR 900
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(O'HEGUERTY, P.A.) Essai sur les intérêts du commerce maritime. Par M***. Nouvelle édition. A La Haye, 1754. With 1 folding table. - (Preceded by:) EON DE BEAUMONT, (C.G.L.A.A.T.) D'. Essai historique sur les différentes situations de la France, par rapport aux finances sous le règne de Louis XIV et la régence du Duc d'Orléans. A Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1754. Two works bound in one volume. 258 pp.; (2), xiv, 186 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red labels with gilt lettering, joint lightly rubbed. First work: Kress 5376; Goldsmiths 8914; Einaudi 4196; INED 3409; Higgs 738; not in Mattioli. Second edition, published in the year of its first publication. 'Economique. Richesse acquises par la France depuis Henri IV grâce à son commerce maritime; état de la Grande Bretagne, puis celui de la France de Louis XV comparé à la France de Louis XIV; nécessité du commerce maritime; examen de la traite des nègres, des colonies, du commerce du Nord, etc.' (INED). ). Deals with the colonies both French and English, Canada, etc.'Devenuz assez rare' quoted by Higgs. Pierre-André O'Heguerty, Comte de Magnières (1700-1763), was received in 1718 as 'avocat au Parlement de Paris' and became the President of the 'Conseil supérieur de l'Ile de Bourbon' in 1741. The above work was published in 1754, and reprinted in 1756 at the end of the Discours politiques de Hume. This is the second seperate edition. In this work he gives a translation of the Navigation Act, suggesting that such an Act should also be developped for France (Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 381).The folding plate gives the 'produit du travail des nègres.'Second work: Kress S.3978; Higgs 766 (erroneously claiming 2 volumes); cf.: Goldsmiths 8818; INED 1734 (both listing the 1753 edition); not in Einaudi.Second edition.The first edition appeared in 1753. Includes remarks on the introduction of luxury through the system of John Law. The author's name spelled on the titlepage as: Deon de Beaumont. Copy with the pages 93/4 and 119/20 in the revised version, the cancelled versions removed. Annotations on first flyleaves and title. - Stamp of Ville d'Orange, Bibliothèque Municipale on half-title of second work and on the last page of the first work, second stamp Bibliothèque d'Orange on half title second work, half-title of second work strengthened in inner margin and repaired on verso, armorial ex-libris 'Lud. de Sausin' on front paste-down, a little foxed, author's name in ink on title of first work, and some contemporary handwritten notes on the front free blanks concerning these works and the authors. EUR 1250
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(OBELIN DE KERGAL.) Précis de recherches et observations sur divers objets relatifs à la navigation intérieure de la province de Bretagne. Rennes, Chez Nicolas-Paul Vatar, 1785. With 2 folding plates, and figures. xvi, 164 pp. 8vo. Modernhalf morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering on back. Conlon 85:1645. First edition. Technical reflexions, sometimes with mathematical formulae, in alphabetical order according to subject. The author's name is spelled at the end of the preliminaries as: Obelin de Kgal, on the spine corrected as Obelin de Kergal. EUR 250
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(OUDERMEULEN, C. VAN DER.) Recherches sur le Commerce, ou Idées rélatives aux intérêts des différens Peuples de l'Europe. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey (vol. 4: Chez S.N. van Vlissingue), 1778 (vols. 1-2)-1779 (vol. 3)-1784 (vol. 4). With 5 engraved plates and 10 engraved folding tables and maps. 4 volumes. xvi, 234 pp.; (8), 200 pp.; (4), 250 pp.; vi, 268 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf with gilt ornamental border on sides, spines gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt (very slightly rubbed). Kress B.137; Goldsmiths 11748; INED 3424; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. - INED erroneously lists as dates 1778-1779; a title-edition appeared in 1791 at D.J. Changuion. Somewhat browned throughout, but a fine copy of a rare work. 'Histoire financière: monnaies, prix et salaires, banques, circulation monétaire, usure, monts-de-piété, cours de l'intérêt, etc., principalement en France, Angleterre et Hollande' (INED). Cornelis van der Oudermeulen was administrator of the Dutch East India Company from 1769-1788, served at the board of Directors of the West Indian Colonies in 1792 and was Director of the colony of Surinam.'Les deux ouvrages suivants (among which the present one), ..... , sont très estimés (Coquelin et Guillaumin, vol. ii, p. 300). EUR 1500
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(PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des États. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolis. Seconde édition. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with floral ornaments, red morocco label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5381; Goldsmiths 8916; Higgs 742; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 123; Mattioli 2861; Weulersse, i, p. xix; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (other editions); not in Menger. Second edition. In all, four editions were published in 1754. - Beautiful copy. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. EUR 750
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(PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des États. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolis. Seconde édition. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt with gilt stamped ornaments and gilt lettering, all edges gilt, some very, very light wear, corners lightly bumped, a beautiful copy. Kress 5381; Goldsmiths 8916; Higgs 742; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 123; Weulersse, i, p. xix; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (other editions); not in Menger. Second edition. In all, four editions were published in 1754. - With a handwritten ex-dono by the author on second blank leaf, binding by Derome (?). The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu.' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie.' (INED) 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a 'certain sign' of the 'health of the body politic', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole.' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). EUR 1250
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, par rapport au commerce et autres sources de la puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. Troisième édition. Imprimé à Leyde, et se trouve à Paris, chez les frères Estienne, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 411, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (lightly rubbed, corners a bit bumped). Kress 5382; Goldsmiths 8917; Higgs 743; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); not in INED (listing another edition); Conlon 54:951. At least four editions appeared in 1754, of which two are entitled third edition: the present one and another one published in Dresden and augmented with an Essai sur la Police & le Commerce des Grains. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. EUR 600
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce, & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt back with gilt lettering, gilt triple-line border on sides (very lightly rubbed, some wear to extremeties). Kress 5380; Goldsmiths 8915; Higgs 741; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); Conlon 54:951. First edition. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu.' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie.' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole.' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. EUR 750
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les Avantages et les Desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, Par Rapport au Commerce, & aux autres Sources de la Puissance des Etats. Traduction de l'Anglois du Chevalier John Nickolls. A Leyde, 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 408 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets, all edges gilt, some very, very light wear to extremeties and joints. Kress 5380; Goldsmiths 8915; Higgs 741; INED 3607; not in Einaudi (listing two other editions); Conlon 54:951. First edition. The work was being published as a translation but was actually written by Louis-Joseph Plumart (or Plumard) de Dangeul who used the pseudonym of John Nickolis. 'd'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm, p. 98). 'Documentation particulièrement riche, accompagnée d'observations personnelles sur la population, les classes sociales, le commerce, l'économie' (INED). 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a ''certain sign'' of the "health of the body politic'', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed).' 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). The second part of the work deals with England: advantages of its geographical isolation, its natural ressources, its government and its commerce. - A very good copy. EUR 600
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(PLUMART DE DANGEUL, L.J.) Remarques sur les avantages et les desavantages de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne, par rapport au commerce & aux autres sources de la puissance des états. Traduction de l'Anglois du chevalier John Nickolis. Troisième édition, augmentée d'un Essai sur la police & le commerce des grains. Dresde (Paris), 1754. Title printed in red and black. vi, (8), 478 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering. Kress 5383; Goldsmiths 8918; Einaudi 4479; Higgs 744; INED 3607; not in Menger; Stourm, p. 98; Weulersse i, p. xix; Conlon 54:951. The best and most complete edition augmented with Essai sur la Police & le Commerce des Grains by C.J. Herbert. The work was published as being a translation, but was originally written in French by Louis Joseph Plumart de Dangeul, who used the pseudonym of J. Nickolis. 'D'Argenson admire beaucoup cet ouvrage, qu'il place même audessus de l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu' (Stourm) 'Mid-eighteenth-century populationism is best represented in the works of Plumard de Dangeul, Goyon de la Plambaine and Jaubert. Dangeul was concerned primarily to combat celibacy, the principal check (in his opinion) to population growth; for he looked upon such growth as a 'certain sign' of the 'health of the body politic', as a stimulator of agriculture and manufactures, and as a partial source of relief to the taxpayers (the cost of government being relatively fixed). 'The forces unfavorable to population growth operated more powerfully in some social classes than in others. Both the marriage rate and fertility within marriage were lower in the military class than in any other group; they increased in the following order: magistrates, financiers, merchants, artisans, comfortable laborers, and uncomfortable laborers. In general, Dangeul concluded, the French social system valued least and burdened most heavily the more useful classes, and thereby checked their increase and that of the population as a whole' (Spengler, French predeccessors of Malthus, pp. 82-86). EUR 750
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(POTERAT, MARQUIS DE.) Observations politiques et morales de finance et de commerce. Ou examen approfondi d'un ouvrage de M. R***, de Geneve, sur l'emprunt et l'impot. A Lausanne, 1780. 235, (misnumbered 135), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering, red edges. Kress B.308; Goldsmiths 12044; Einaudi 4508; INED 3645; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 424; not in Mattioli. First and only edition, a reply to Rillet de Saussure's Lettres sur l'imprunt et l'impot, 1779. 'Bonnes doctrines. L'auteur y attaque les emprunts avec une chaleur philosophique; mais il n'en appreciait pas les effets utiles dans des circonstances données' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). 'Economique et financier. Passages sur le luxe et son imposition; sur la nécessité de reculer l'âge minimum de la prononciation de voeux religieux; sur les successions collatérales' (INED). - A very good large paper copy. EUR 1250
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(POTERAT, MARQUIS DE.) Observations politiques et morales de finance et de commerce. Ou examen approfondi d'un ouvrage de M. R***, de Geneve, sur l'emprunt et l'impot. A Lausanne, 1780. 235, (misnumbered 135), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, gilt inside dentelles, spine gilt with red label and gilt lettering. Kress B.308; Goldsmiths 12044; Einaudi 4508; INED 3645; Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 424. First and only edition, a reply to Rillet de Saussure's Lettres sur l'imprunt et l'impot, 1779. 'Bonnes doctrines. L'auteur y attaque les emprunts avec une chaleur philosophique; mais il n'en appreciait pas les effets utiles dans des circonstances données.' (Coquelin & Guillaumin). 'Economique et financier. Passages sur le luxe et son imposition; sur la nécessité de reculer l'âge minimum de la prononciation de voeux religieux; sur les successions collatérales.' (INED). EUR 1500
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(PRADES, P.) Réponse à des Réflexions imprimées en Hollande, sur l'emprunt du Canal Royal de Murcie. A Madrid, De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Marin, (1776). (2), 16, 4 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Conlon 76:1411. First edition. EUR 175
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(REIMARUS, J.A.H.) Die wichtige Frage von der freyen Aus- und Einfuhre des Getreides, nach der Natur und Geschichte untersucht. Hamburg, J.C. Bohn, 1771. 52 pp. 8vo. Sewn (no cover). Kress 6816; Higgs 5229; Humpert 9432; Menger, p. 304; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition and very rare. Reimarus (1729-1814) is labelled by Coquelin & Guillaumin as 'partisan enthousiaste de la liberté du commerce des grains. Son livre est d'ailleurs plein de sens et d'originalité.' EUR 450
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(REMILLAT.) Mémoire relatif aux ouvrages qu'il est urgent de faire pour la facilité et sûreté de la navigation à l'embouchure du Rhône. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791. (2), 65, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, iv, 29002. EUR 150
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(ROY, A.) Exposé des motifs et projets de loi relatif 1. A la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Amérique et réciproquement, transportées par des paquebots aux frais de l'Etat. 2. A la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Angleterre et réciproquement .... 11 mai 1829. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie royale, mai 1829. - (Bound with:) NOAILLES, A. DE. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner le projet de loi relatif 1. à la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Amérique et réciproquement, transportées par des paquebots aux frais de l'Etat. 2. à la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Angleterre et réciproquement ..... 21 mai 1829. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie royale, mai 1829. - (Bound with:) (ROY, A.) Projet de loi relatif à la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Amérique et l'Angleterre, avec l'exposé des motifs ..... 10 juin 1829. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1829). - (Bound with:) DOUDEAUVILLE, (A.F. DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD) DE. Rapport fait à la Chambre (des Pairs) au nom d'une commission spéciale chargée de l'examen du projet de loi relatif à la taxe des lettres de France pour l'Amérique et l'Angleterre. 19 juin 1829. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1829). Together 4 pieces bound in 1 volume. 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 10 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. At head of first pages of first two pieces: 'Chambre des Députés', at head of the next 2 pieces: 'Chambre des Pairs'. EUR 225
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(SAINTARD, P.) Roman Politique sur l'État présant Des affaires de l'Amérique, ou Lettres de M***. à M***. Sur les moyens d'établir une Paix solide & durable dans les Colonies, & la Liberté générale du Commerce extérieur. A Amsterdam, Et se trouve à Paris chez Duchesne, 1756. xlvii, (1), 352 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Echerverria & Wilkie 56/40; Sabin 75520; Chadenat 4121; JFBL S61; INED 4034; Higgs 1501; Kress 5567; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, very rare. 'There are several issues of this edition occasioned by cancellanda (D4-5, D11-12, E10, G11, and I5-8, all of which are present in this copy). No copy is known, however, that is not a mixture of both canellanda and cancellantia: thus, what the original text was as first printed is problematic. (.....) In the two BN copies, (....), the imprint date has been alterted in manuscript to read M.DCC.LVII. (This is also the case with the present copy where the second 'I' has been added in manuscript.) This is a series of letters dated July-September 1756, forming an essay on international power politics with special reference to European colonial systems in America' (Echeverria & Wilkie).'Intéressant pour l'origine de la guerre du Canada' (Chadenat). 'A consideration of Europe's involvement in North America with a view to establishing a balance of power among the colonizing nations which would eliminate war and encourage commerce' (JFBL). 'Déterminer la nature des divers équilibres propres aux différentes colonies septentrionales et méridionales des peuples de l'Europe, en étudiant les variations de leurs cultures, leur commerce, leur population, leurs différentes distances, etc.' (INED). - Contemporary signature and author's name in blank portion of title. EUR 3500
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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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(SCHOMBERG, A.C.) Remarques, historiques et politiques sur le tarif du Traité de Commerce, conclu entre la France et l'Angleterre, avec des Observations préliminaires. Traduit de l'Anglais parM.D.S.D.L. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Buisson, 1788. 174 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Goldsmiths 13594; Einaudi 5168; not in Kress (see B.1334 for the English edition); not in Black (see 1549 for the English edition). First French edition, the first English edition was published in 1787. Translated by De Serres de la Tour with notes by Mallet du Pan. Deals with the Anglo-French Commercial treaty concluded in 1786. EUR 275
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(SCHOMBERG, A.C.) Remarques, historiques et politiques sur le tarif du Traité de Commerce, conclu entre la France et l'Angleterre, avec des Observations préliminaires. Traduit de l'Anglais parM.D.S.D.L. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Buisson, 1788. 174 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Goldsmiths 13594; Einaudi 5168; not in Kress (see B.1334 for the English edition); not in Black (see 1549 for the English edition); not in Mattioli. First French edition, the original English edition was published in 1787. Translated by De Serres de la Tour with notes by Mallet du Pan. Deals with the Anglo-French Commercial treaty, concluded in 1786. EUR 225
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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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(TOURNON.) Moyens d'acroissement de matelots pour la marine. (Paris, J. Giouard, 1790). 15 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Martin & Walter. Signed at end by deputees of the fishermen of Marseille: Tournon, Floux and Ponsard. EUR 175
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(VENTO DES PENNES, L.N.) La Noblesse ramenée à ses vrais principes, ou Examen du dévelopement de la Noblesse commerçante. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint et Saillant, 1759. iv, 307, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5819; Einaudi 5860; Higgs 1981; INED 4410; Leblanc 217; Conlon 59:1259; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. 'Sans partager l'opinion de Coyer, l'auteur de La Noblesse Commerçante, Vento admet cependant la nécessité de développer le commerce, et expose quelques moyens aptes à le favoriser. En outre, Vento juge le célibat des prêtres et des officiers nécessaire, raison qui etaye encore sa théorie selon la noblesse ne doit pas déroger en s'occupant de commerce' (INED). EUR 400
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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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ALSACE - APERCU sur le reculement des barrières jusqu'au Rhin. No place, (1789). 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1165; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. The author explains that the customs reform would be very profitable for the commerce and industry in the Alsace. EUR 150
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ARNOULD, (A.M.) Histoire générale des Finances de la France, depuis le commencement de la Monarchie; pour servir d'introduction à la loi naturelle ou Budget de l'Empire français. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie ordinaire du corps législatif, et se vend chez Rondonneau, mars 1806. xii,224, iv, 164, (4, advertisments) pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners, very lightly rubbed. Kress B.5003; Goldsmiths 19258; Einaudi 162; INED 94 (only the last iv, 164 pp.); Martin & Walter, 545. First edition. 'Ambroise-Marie Arnould (1750-1812), a French economist, was director of the board of commerce under the Revolution. His works contain valuable information upon the theory of trade, the state of the balance of trade in Europe during the 18th century, French finances, etc. He advocated the division of France into departments according to their homogeneous economical nature; and appealed to all maritime nations to confederate against the menacing power of England' (Palgrave, i, p. 58). The last 164 pages contain the 'pièces justificatives', with tables throughout the text. EUR 900
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BARERE (DE VIEUZAC), B. Rapport sur l'Acte de Navigation, fait au nom du Comité de Salut Public, avec les deux décrets rendus dans la séance du 21 Septembre de l'an II de la République Française, une & indivisible. Paris, (1793). 39, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, contemporary blind orange covers, handwritten title on front cover. Martin & Walter 1631; JFBL B52 (uncertain, listed as 'Rapport fait au nom du comité de salut public'); not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie. First edition. Includes: MAREC, P. Rapport sur un projet d'acte de navigation de la République Française. Includes also details on the Anglo-American trade.'Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, held legal office at Tarbes, prosperous, eloquent, ingratiating manners and literary taste, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1789, moved steadily to the left, gained influence in the Convention as a local orator. Member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was arrested after the riots of 12 Germinal (1 April 1795) when the new majority in the Convention decided to dispose of the alledged suporters of the riot: Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varenne and Barère. Barère survived and died a poor pensioner of Louis-Philippe. When David, in 1832, went to see the aged Barère, to discuss the plan of portraying the great men of the Revolution, the old revolutionary sat up and declared: 'Do not forget Robespierre!' He was a man of pure integrity, a true republican' (A. Cobban, A History of Modern France, vol. i). In 1789 he brought out the first issue of his 'Point du Jour', one of the best and most nearly impartial of the newspapers of the day; it continued to appear until the end of the Constituent Assembly. Barère was a man of great charm, and he quickly made a place for himself in Parisian society. He was one of the circle surrounding the duke of Orléans. He joined, but rarely attended, the Jacobins, the more conservative 'Society de 1789', and the Abbé Fauchet's masonic 'Société des Amis de la Vérité'. He supported Robespierre's proposal that free Negro proprietors become citizens, as well as political rights for Jews and Protestants. It was due largely to Barère's efforts and those of Danton that the Committee of Public Safety was created, and he was the first to be elected to it. He later served the committee above all as its principal rapporteur. After a long discussion late at night, Barère could summarize a question rapidly and luminously, posing it so clearly that it could be easily resolved. EUR 250
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BARON. Mémoire sur le canal d'Aigue-Mortes à Beaucaire. No place, Imprimerie de Pierre Beaume, 1785. 19, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Conlon 85:826. First edition. EUR 75
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BASTIAT, F. Harmonies économiques. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1850. (4), 463, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards, original printed covers preserved. Goldsmiths 36728; Einaudi 325; Mattioli 213. First edition. Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist and publicist. He later works show great familiarity with the works of French, American, Italian and British authors, among them Say, Smith, Cournay, Turgot, Ricardo, Mill, Bentham, Senior, Franklin, Carey, Custodi, Donato and Scialoja. After learning of Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League he became an ardent free-trader..... 'Bastiat was one of several writers (Quesnay, Smith, Say and Carey were others) who formed the doctrines of Harmonism, or the optimistic idea that class interests naturally and inevitably coincide so as to promote economic development. The major challenge to this view came from Ricardo and Malthus, whose theories cast a sinister shadow over the prospect of economic progress' (New Palgrave, i, pp. 204-205). 'In this brilliant work, unhappily never finished, Bastiat shows the contrast between the internal weakness of the artificial organisations which are founded on constraint, and the prosperity spontaneously arising in an economic condition in which the equilibrium of individual and collective forces results from their free and repciprocal balance.' 'Political economy has been indebted to him, both during his short life, and after it, for some of its worthiest followers' (Palgrave, i, p. 123 ff.)Bastiat was, as Schumpeter wrote, not a bad theorist, he was no theorist at all. But he was unrivalled at exposing economic fallacies wherever he found them, and he found them everywhere. He was quite simply a genius of wit and satire, frequently described as a combination of Voltaire and Franklin. In the late 20th century his ideas became more popular among libertarian economists dissatisfied with Keynesian orthodoxy and Marxist alternatives. - A very nice copy. EUR 750
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BEGOUIN, (J.F. DE.) Opinion sur le tarif et la prohibition des marchandises étrangères. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 11 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; INED 368; Martin & Walter I, 2399. The author demonstrates the advantages of the prohibitive system, referring to the British example. EUR 150
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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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BERGASSE, (N.) Considérations sur la liberté du commerce; par M. Bergasse. A Londres, 1788. 60 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress S.5169 and Goldsmiths 13568 both describe an edition in 4to, both with different pagination; INED 405; Einaudi 441 (first edition, 1780). Second edition. The pages 57-60 contain LETTRES-PATENTES du Roi, Concernant le Courtage du Roulage, & l'Entrepôt des marchandises. Données à Versailles le 16 Février 1785. Registrées en Parlement le douze Avril 1785.'Rapide historique sur la régie des Messageries; conséquences du privilège exclusif du 'roulage', réclamé par les Fermiers, ou régisseurs des Messageries, Rôle néfaste de tout monopole: rien n'est plus nuisible à la propriété, au commerce et au progrès que cet impôt sur l'industrie. Bergasse réclame la liberté de commerce' (INED). Nicolas Bergasse (1750-1832), lawyer, politician, and writer. Born in Lyon to a bourgeois family, Bergasse became a lawyer and in 1775 began pleading cases before the Parlement of Paris. At first he mixed in the circles of the philosophes, but he increasingly came to emphasize the religious bases of society. EUR 400
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BERRYER, (P.A.) Discours de M. Berryer Fils, Député de Marseille, dans la discussion du projet de loi pour l'allocation d'un crédit de 25 millions en exécution du traité passé le 4 juillet 1831, entre la France et les Etats-Unis. Session de 1833. (Recueilli par sténographe, et revu d'après le Moniteur). Paris, Imprimerie-Librairie de G.-A. Dentu, 1835. (2), 70 pp. 8vo. Modern boards with leather label. Not in Sabin; not in Howes; not in Leclerc; not in Muller; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Deals with the consequences of a treaty between the USA and Napoleon Bonparte in 1800 to settle the undeclared corsair war: the practice to persue warfare against vessels of a declared enemy: commercial raiding. During the French-British struggle there were many problems concerning obligations and duties of neutrals and what was, and what was not, considered to be contraband. Berryer here disputes the consequences the French governement draws from this treaty and the various claims from the USA. Deals also with the Anglo-American treaty of 1794 (the Jay treaty), the sale of Lousiana, etc. EUR 250
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BERTIER DE SAUVIGNY, L.J. Autograph Letter Signed, dated Paris, 18 Décembre 1751. 3, (1 blank) pp. Small folio. The letter head is printed: Louis-Jean Bertier de Sauvigny, Chevalier, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, Maître des Requêtes ordinaire de son hôtel, Intendant de Justice, Police & Finance de la généralité de Paris', then follows the handwritten letter dealing with the desperate state of the roads in and around the village Ormeaux, and ordering the immediate repair of the roads in and around Ormeaux and announcing penalties in case of default.Ormeaux is a village in Seine-et-Marne, near Melun. EUR 125
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BIGWOOD, G. Le régime juridique et économique du commerce de l'argent dans la Belgique du Moyen Age. (Bruxelles, Lamertin & Hayez, 1921-1922). With many tables, of which 2 folding. 2 volumes. (6), 683pp.; (6), 496, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering, original covers preserved (Académie Royale de Belgique. Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques. Mémoires. Deuxième série, vol. XIV). Pirenne 1907. Includes many details on legal procedures and legal aspects of money lending and trade. This is the trade-edition of the work. EUR 400
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BORDEAUX - EXTRAIT des registres du Conseil d'Estat (du 16 mars 1715). (Drop-head title). (Bordeaux), Imprimerie de R. Brun, (1715). Large folio poster. Tear in left side repaired. On taxeson corn for the profit of the city. Recto an extensive contemporary handwritten note (very difficult to read). EUR 75
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BOSSUT, C. & D. (J.) LEROI. Examen des projets de canaux de navigation entre la rivière d'Oise, et la Seine au bastion de l'Arsenal à Paris, fait par ordre du Comité des travaux publics de la Conventionnationale. Paris, Imprimerie de la république, prairial an III (1795). 21, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter 4370. EUR 100
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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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BOURGES - PRECIS des délibérations de l'administration provinciale du Berri, approuvées par le Roi (Louis XVI), relatives à la confection des chemins et à la suppression des corvées. Extrait de ses procès-verbaux, imprimés avec permission de Sa Majesté. (At end:) Paris, P.G. Simon, 1785. With large folding table. 27 pp. Small 4to. Disbound The folding table contains: 'Relevé des adjudications faites dans les trois années 1781, 1782 & 1783, sur les différentes routes de la Généralité de Bourges.' EUR 175
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BRISSON, B. Essai sur le système général de navigation intérieure de la France, suivi d'un essai sur l'art de projeter les canaux a point de partage. Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1829. With tables and 1 large folding engraved map, highlighted in color. (4), xxviii, 172 pp. 4to. Contemporary blue wrappers (partly detached), uncut, slightly worn Kress C.2240; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'The idea of a rational system of inland navigation which had been taking shape since the 17th century received fresh impetus after the Revolution, gathering momentum through the first decades of the 19th century. Brisson was very much in the forefront of this movement ..... 'In this remarkable work he proposes a comprehensive scheme dividing the country into nine regions served by three classes of canal; those connecting Paris with the major commercial centres; those which distribute the produce of the various districts; and those of small dimensions for less well-endowed areas. They were intended to link in with existing canals and river navigations on which the work is a useful source of information. The estimated costs of the enterprise are tabulated with an account of how the figures were arrived at ..... It was the outcome of his collaboration with Dutens and with Becquey, Inspector General of the Ponts et Chaussées, whose crucial report of 1820 got the navigation system underway. Brisson's contribution lay in the planning of the network while Dutens advised on the financial aspects. The two men were appointed members of Becquey's Commission des Canaux of 1821. Brisson's 'Essai' was published posthumously at a time when the whole project was coming in for severe criticism. It was edited for publication by Duleau who contributed a long introduction. He also included the fundamental report, 'Essai sur l'art de projeter les canaux à point de partage', written by Brisson with Dupuis de Torcy in 1801. It shows how the best line for any summit level may be laid out by the use of contoured maps (then in their infancy), particularly those of Cassini. This they proposed as an alternative to surveying on the ground... "Charles Dupin said of the work as a whole 'C'est un vaste répertoire que les administrateurs, les ingénieurs et les capitalistes pourront consulter avec fruit et devront souvent consulter.''' The color highlighting of the map depicts projected canals throughout France. Paperspotted, copy with good margins. EUR 600
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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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BRUAT, F.J. Député du Haut-Rhin, contre la pétition du commerce de Mulhausen, à l'Assemblée nationale. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 31, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 5405. First edition. 'Le commerce de Mühlhausen n'a jamais été regardé comme étranger à la France .....' EUR 100
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BUTENVAL (CH.A.H.) Etablissement en France du premier tarif général de douanes 1787-1791. Etude d'histoire et d'économique comparées. Paris, Guillaumin, 1876. xvi, (17)-205 pp. 8vo. Sewn in orginal printed covers, uncut, discoloured along edges, slightly worn (Traditions économiques de France, II). First edition. The Comte de Butenval was a diplomat before the French Second Empire with a short interruption after the February revolution, which brought him to Portugal, Turkey and Belgium. Between 1853 and 1865 he was 'conseiler d'État.' In 1865 he became a senator in which position he proved to be a ardent adherant of economic liberalism, and also a liberal in politics. EUR 100
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CAB-SERVICES - ORDONNANCE de police, concernant les carosses de place. Du 18 août 1780. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (at end:) Ph.-D. Pierres, imprimeur ordinaire du Roi, 1780. 7, (1) pp. 4to. Disbound. Prices per hour, price per ride, in and outside of Paris, daily rates and night rates for the different sorts of coaches available. EUR 75
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CHAPTAL (DE CHANTELOUP), J.A.C. De l'industrie françoise. A Paris, Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1819. With 4 folding tables. 2 volumes. xlviii, 248 pp.; (4), 462, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, head and foot with gilt ornaments, black labels at head with gilt stamped name of the author and title and at foot with gilt volume numbering and between the labels a gilt rectangular surrounding smaller rectangular with in the corners floral ornaments, marbled edges. Kress C.252; Goldsmiths 22294; Einaudi 1033. First edition. - Some occasional scattered spotting, copy with the bookplate of Jules Delalain. A very nice copy. This work is important as one of the earliest comprehensive surveys of French industry; it compares the dominant agriculturalism of France with the intense industrialism of Britain. France was lagging behind England in its development of industry due to the still apparent effects of the revolution: shortage of capital, skilled labour and raw materials which kept it from switching from manual to industrial production. It deals also with French industry and commerce and contains substantial sections on dyeing and textile industries, as well as a section on commercial relations between France and the United States. A comprehensive study by the famous French chemist and industrialist, founder of the 'Ecole des Arts et Métiers' and Minister of the Interior under Napoleon. EUR 1500
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CHEVALIER, M. Des intérêts matériels en France. Travaux publics. Routes. Canaux. Chemins de fer. Deuxième édition. Paris, Gosselin & Coquebert, 1838. With 1 folding coloured map. (8), 440, (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Walch-Gerits, Supplement, 85; Kress C.4584; Goldsmiths 30493; Einaudi 1051 (6th edition). This second as well as the third edition were both published in the same year as the first. Both are title-editions with the same errors and the same errata-leaf as in the first edition. The present work brings together into one series those articles of Michel Chevalier which had appeared before, on different occasions and in different places, on these different subjets. He intended to publish also two other parts, one on credit institutions and one on professional eduction, but these were never published.Michel Chevalier was undoubtedly one of the most eminent 19th-century French economists and belongs to that typical brand of engineer-economists (New Palgrave, i, p. 412). Chevalier was sent to the United States in 1832 to study the railways there and he foresaw with rare intelligence the future of these new methods of communication. - Somewhat spotted throughout. EUR 450
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CLAVIERE, E. & J.P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE. De la France et des États-Unis, ou De l'importance de la Révolution de l'Amérique pour le bonheur de la France, des rapports de ce royaume et des États-Unis, des avantages réciproques qu'ils peuvent retirer de leurs liaisons de commerce, et enfin de la situation actuelle des États-Unis. Londres, 1787. - (Followed by:) CLAVIERE, (E.) Opinions d'un créancier de l'Etat, sur quelques matières de finance importantes dans le moment actuel. A Londres et se trouve à Paris, Chez Buisson, juin 1789. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xxiv, xlviii, 344 pp.; (4), 69, (1), (8), 151 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, green paper covered boards, a bit shaved. First work: Sabin 13516; Fay 23; JFBL B542 (under Brissot); Echeverria & Wilkie 787/3; Monaghan, 303; not in Muller; not in Leclerc; Kress B.1169; Goldsmiths 13307; Einaudi 1121; INED 809 & 1123. First edition, quite scarce. Probably printed in Paris. In January 1787 Brissot, St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, Clavière and Bergasse founded in Paris the Société Gallo-Américaine with the purpose of advancing mutual understanding and trade between France and the U.S. This survey of the actual situation in the United States deals with: De la guerre contre les sauvages. - Des troubles de l'État de Massasuchets. - etc. At the end: 'pièces justificatives'.'Économique et démographique. Principes généraux qui doivent diriger le commerce extérieur des nations, et des rapports commerciaux pouvant unir la France et les États-Unis .... (INED).Dedicated to the American Congress, this work is a systematical treatise on the mutual advantages that the new American republic and France will gain from their commercial relations. It further contains an argument in favour of the American political system where there is anarchy nor slavery.Second work: Stourm 183; Kress B.1564; Goldsmiths 13874; Einaudi 1119; INED 1126.In this work Clavière refutes the opinions of the day concerning the French finances and suggests measures to improve the situation. The first 69 pages contain 'réflexions préliminaires'. EUR 1500
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COLBERT - (BRUNY DE.) Examen du ministère de Colbert. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de d'Houdry, 1774. (2), xvi, 295 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spinegilt with raised bands. Kress 6996; Goldsmiths 11130; Einaudi 726; INED 859; Higgs 5973. First edition. The author was director of the Compagnie des Indes. The work is entirely in favour of colbertism. EUR 225
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COLBERT - PELLISSERY, R.A. Eloge politique de Colbert, Qui n'a point été présenté à l'Académie Française pour le Prix de la St. Louis 1773. Seconde édition. A Londres, 1777. With 4 folding tables. 2 volumes. - (Bound with:) (FABRE DE CHARRIN). Tableau du Ministère de Colbert. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez Lejay, J.F. Bastien, Angot, 1774. - (Bound with:) (NECKER, J.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Discours Qui à remporté le Prix de l'Académie Françoise en 1773. A Paris, chez Demonville, 1788. - (Bound with:) COSTER, (J.F.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Discours Qui a obtenu le premier Accessit, ou jugement de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. A Paris, Chez J.B. Brunet, & Demonville, 1773. - (Bound with:) (BRUNY, DE.) Examen du Ministère de M. Colbert. A Paris, Imprimerie d'Houry, 1774. 5 works in 2 volumes. xxiv, 16, 214 pp.; (2), 132 pp.; (4), 152 pp.; 135, (1) pp.; 64 pp.; (2), xvi, 295, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, contrasting labels on spines with gilt lettering (slightly worn, some splitting along joints but solid). First work: INED 3512; Kress, Goldsmiths, Einaudi, Higgs all cite the 1775 edition in one volume; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9. Second work: Kress 7009; INED 1768; Higgs 5974; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Third work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs; not in Leblanc, all citing the 1773 edition. Fourth work: Kress 6926; Einaudi 1339; Higgs 5714; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9; not in INED; not in Goldsmiths. Fifth work:Kress 6996; Goldsmiths 11130; Einaudi 726; INED 859; Higgs 5973; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, p. 9. Second, fourth and fifth work in first edition, first work in second edition, third work in third edition. - Some very light browning but a good copy indeed. Copy from the library of the Baron Zangiacomi with his armorial bookplate. Interesting collection of works on Colbert (1619-1683), the famous Ministre et Sécretaire d'Etat and Contrôleur général des Finances. The first work contains after the preliminairies 16 pages entitled 'Maximes générales d'un bon gouvernement suivant les opérations Economiques et Politiques de Jean Bapt. Colbert, Ministre d'Etat, Contrôleur Général des Finances. Par Mr. de Pellissery', no place, no date. There are copies with a title-page with a titlevignette giving Philadelphie, 1777 as place and date. The text is separately listed in INED 3513bis where it is remarked that this text was not published with the first edition (Lausanne 1775, 1 volume only), which edition was seized and destroyed by the police. The text forms integral part of the Eloge politique de Colbert in spite of the separate titlepage and 'ces maximes constituent une charte du colbertisme.' (INED). EUR 1400
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COLLOGNON, CH. Rapport fait au Conseil Municipal de Nancy, sur le tracé du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg. A Nancy, Chez A. Paullet, 1841. With large folding map. 67, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers a bit damaged, uncut. Cole, The pioneer period of European railroads, p. 50; Jouffroy, Recherches sur les sources de la création d'une grande ligne de chemin de fer, 212. Fundamental document on the subject. EUR 175
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COLONIES - (LEMESLE, C.) Réflexions d'un vieillard du pays de Médoc, sur l'arrêt du Conseil du 30 août dernier, qui permet l'admission des étrangers dans nos colonies. No place (but probably Bordeaux), 1785. With two large folding tables. (4), 52 pp. 4to. Sewn, disbound. Kress B.896; Conlon 85:1447; Sabin 40001 (Lemesle); JFBL R127 (under Réflexions); Echeverria & Wilkie 785/58; not in Mattioli. Original edition, atrributed to Charles Lemesle based on a manuscript note on the title-page (Kress) and the catalogue of Bordeaux (Conlon). Sabin, undoubtedly rightly, supposes the work to have been printed privately. - Uncut copy, the folding tables almost loose but complete and intact. The second table with some reinforcement on verso and small piece torn away in upper blank margin not touching text. Against the admission of foreign ships into the American colonies, written by a merchant from Bordeaux. 'The work contains references to trade between US and French West Indies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). Lemesle deals with the various products produced, exported, with the trade and imports to the various islands of negro slaves, and the various consequences of the decree which liberated trade for France and the colonies. A very interesting and rare work dealing with the colonial economy.The important decree of August 30, 1784, significantly reversed a basic French colonial policy by allowing French West Indian planters to import from the US and other foreign nations certain commodities essential to their economy, which merchants in France were supplying only in insufficient quantities and at high prices, and also to export important products to the US and other foreign markets. The decree provoked a flood of protests from merchants in French ports, who hitherto had enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the West Indian trade.The two large folding tables are entitled: Tableau du commerce de l'Amérique. - Tableau du commerce de la pêche de la morue. EUR 1500
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COMPAGNIE DES INDES - MEMOIRE pour le Sieur Dupleix. Contre la Compagnie des Indes. Avec les pieces justificatives. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P.A. Le Prieur, 1759. - (Bound with:) (NECKER, J.) Réponse au Mémoire de M. l'Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes, Imprimèe en exécution de la Délibération de Mrs. les Actionnaires, prise dans l'Assemblée générale du 8 Août 1769. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1769. 2 volumes in 1. (4), 294, (2), 124 pp.; (2), 50 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, green label with gilt lettering, worn and rubbed, spine damaged, joints split, but solid. First work: Kress S.4166; Goldsmiths 9478A; Einaudi 1659; Higgs 2007; JFBL D341; not in INED; not in Sabin. First edition. Joseph François Dupleix (1697-1763), French colonial administrator. Dupleix revolutionized the policy of the European powers during the critical period of their expansion in to India and the Far East. Taking advantage of temporary French superiority of sea power in Indian waters he was able by means of skilful diplomatic intervention among the Indian princes to make himself the leading European influence in India. He changed the hitherto merely commercial interests of the French and British East India companies into a rivalry for territorial and political control. His ambition developed from the conviction that he could extend French influence beyond the coastal trading ports into the interior and erect there a political hegemony which would not only pay its own way but also vastly expand trading opportunities and produce for France and the French East India Company a revenu 'fixe, constant et abondant'. His ambitious policy failed in the end and he had to return to France where he was received with honour untill he submitted 'ses créances', which were considered disappointing. The ensuing trial ruined Dupleix who died in 1763, poor. 'Dupleix avait offert à la France l'Empire des Indes; on se refusa à cueillir ce beau fruit. Cet homme exceptionnel périt victime de politiciens à courtes vues et de marchands pour lesquels tout gain est immédiat.' In 1763 appeared a work with the title: 'Mémoire pour la Compagnie des Indes. Contre le Sieur Dupleix.'The second leaf (after the title-page and preceding the text) contains the errata to the Mémoire and the Pièces Justificatives.Second work: Kress 6665; INED 3370; Higgs 4701; Sabin 52216; JFBL N25; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths.First edition.Morellet's Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes was an assault on the monopolistic priviliges of the Compagnie des Indes which was published in June 1769. Necker replied with the present work in August 1769 and Morellet responded with his Examen de la réponse de M. N*** au Mémoire de l'Abbé Morellet .... in September 1769. Morellet's succes with his campaign is shown by the suspension of that Company's charter from 1769 to 1785. - Internally a good and sound copy with wide margins. EUR 1200
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COMPAGNIE DES INDES - LETTRE de M. le baron de B**** à M. l'Abbé Morellet. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. 7, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in JFBL; not in Sabin; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. The anonymous author, being in favour of the liquidation of the Compagnie des Indes, explains in this text how this should be achieved without damage and loss for the shareholders: the fact that the resulting proceeds of this liquidation will go to the Royal treasure while the shareholders receive shares to be paid out at a later date and with the risk of loosing money in the process, leaves the impression that the entire operation of liquidation has no other object than to reinforce the financial situation of the monarchy instead of furthering the interests of free trade. The author points to several ways in which the Royal Treasure can receive money, how the shareholders can be honestly and justly compensated and the government not be accused of trying to enrich the state at the expense of those shareholders. EUR 250
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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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COYER, (G.F.) Développement et défense du système de la noblesse commerçante. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Duchesne, 1757. 2 volumes in 1. 152 pp.; 206, (2) pp. 12mo.Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5597; Goldsmiths 9241; Einaudi 1383; INED 1227; Higgs 1478; not in Mattioli. First edition. Coyer wrote his famous La Noblesse Commerçante ... in 1756. He outlined in this work the advantages for the noblity if they were to be engaged in commerce, and the advantages of a commercial active nobility for the State: development of commerce and trade, rise in population growth and consumption. The work generated a substantial polemic and against the many criticisms of his system the Abbé Coyer wrote this defense, particularly against the Chevalier d'Arcq's La Noblesse Militaire. EUR 450
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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. Rapports 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 boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, 8873; not in Monglond. First edition. Made up on December 8, 1792, the report concluded against 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 225
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CREUZE-LATOUCHE, J.A. Rapports des députés de la Convention nationale réunis, pour présenter leurs idées en faveur de la liberté entière du commerce des grains. (Drop-head title). At end: A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé-Vatar Delaroche, 1793. 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter, 8873; not in Monglond; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. Second edition, first published in 1792 with 48 pages. Made up on December 8, 1792, the report concluded against 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 225
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CREUZE-LATOUCHE, J.A. Rapports 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 boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, 8873; not in Monglond. First edition. Made up on December 8, 1792, the report concluded against 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 250
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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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DAMOREAU, E. Traité des négociations de Banque, et des monnoyes étrangeres; contenant L'Analyse du titre de fin, poids, & valeurs des Especes d'Or & d'Argent, tant anciennes que courantes, dans les Etats des Princes & Republiques de l'Europe; avec une Explication historique de celles des Princes, Comtes, Barons, Villes libres du Saint Empire, & d'Italie. L'Eplication des Changes Etrangers par le titre de fin, poids, & valeur des Especes réelles, & des noms de celles de Change en termes François. Les valeurs relatives des Especes de Change entre elles. La methode facile d'operer les conversions des Especes d'un Royaume en celles d'un autre, suivant le cours des Changes. L'Eplication analytique des negociations de Banque qui se sont journellement sur les Places de commerce de l'Europe, avec la methode facile d'en faire les operations, & d'en concevoir l'intrigue, sans le secours des Maîtres. Ouvrage enrichie des representations des dudites Monnoyes, gravées en Taille-douce. A Paris, Chez Guillaume Cavelier et Pissot, 1727. With engraved title and 31 plates. Engraved title, vii, (1), 303, (1) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, somewhat rubbed and worn. Kress 3686; Goldsmiths 6537; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. - Somewhat browned throughout, scribbling onto title-page and page 1. The Kress entry gives 33 plates, this copy has 31 plates depicting the various coins in use in Europe. Good example of early eighteenth century French work on exchange and also dealing with the common European banking systems. EUR 500
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DEBENOIT, L.G. Factum pour la ville d'Avignon, au sujet du Commerce, Servant de Réponse aux deux Mémoires presentez de la part des Marchands de Lyon. Par Noble Louis Gabriel Debenoit, Acteur de la Ville. Estants consuls Illustres et Magnifiques Seigneurs Messieurs Joannis, Chevalier, Seigneur de Verclos, Gentilhomme Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy. Charles Olivier, & Joseph-Marie Blachery, estant Assesseur Noble & Illustre Personne Pierre-Joseph Pezenas, Docteur és Droits. A Avignon, chez François-Sebastien Offray, 1712. (2), 55 pp. Folio. Contemporary boards, worn and rubbed. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon. Defense of the commercial privileges of the Comtat Venaissin against the Languedoc, Provence and Dauphiné by whom the Venaissin is surrounded at all sides. These priviliges dated back to François I permitting the city of Avignon to live of its commerce and manufacturing industry. These privileges are threathened by the vehement protests of the merchands from Lyon, whose principal grief is the fact that they are obliged to offer their merchandises which are acquired abroad first in Avignon before they can distribute them through the rest of the province. Debenoit responds to these protests from Lyon citing in the course of his text from many sources and thus giving an excellent short economic and legal history of both the province and Lyon.The printer, François-Sebastien Offray was the son of one of the most important printers from Avignon in the 17th century whom he succeded in 1692. After him, his brother Philippe also exercised the profession of printer in Avignon. - Pastedowns and first and last blank browned, internally a very good copy. EUR 1000
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DU BOIS-AYME, (J.M.J. AIME DUBOIS, DIT:) Examen de quelques questions d'économie politique et notamment de l'ouvrage de M. Ferrier intitulé 'Du gouvernement dans ses rapports avec le commerce'. A Paris, Chez Pelicier, 1823. (4), 248 pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, original blind covers preserved. Kress C.1052; Goldsmiths 23733; Einaudi 1625; Mattioli 1052. First edition. A scathing attack on Ferrier in which Du Bois-Aymé deals with the four parts which constitute the work by Ferrier: sur les richesses des peuples - sur l'argent - sur le commerce - le systême commercial. The author was one of the very first economists to use mathematical formulae, a most important and widely overlooked contribution. In this work he develops a number of mathematical formulae in his discussion of 'value' (pp. 102-103). For a detailed discussion see Theocharis, p. 80. EUR 900
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DUPIN, C. Forces productives et commerciales de la France. Paris, Bachelier, 1827. 2 volumes. (8), iv, viii, xxxx, 330 pp.; (6), 336 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards, spines with red labels and gilt lettering. Kress C.1876; Goldsmiths 25162; not in Einaudi; Quérard, ii, 700. First edition. In Le petit producteur français Dupin announced this work and described it as having 2 folding maps. These maps are also mentioned by Kress, but not by Goldsmiths nor Quérard. We have had a copy of this work before without maps, and his copy does not have the maps either. Important statistical and documentary source.Dupin, François-Pierre-Charles (1784-1873), engineer, mathematician, politician, peer of France, and senator of the Second Empire. He was appointed a representative of the people after the revolution of 1848, and Napoleon III made him senator. Although Dupin began in 1827 a ten-year career as a deputy and a forty-three-year career in French political life he continued to publish throughout the 1830s and 1840s a large number of important books, most of them dealing with economic questions, the condition of the working class, and colonial affairs. EUR 600
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS - CONVENTION additionnelle et explicative du Traité de Commerce avec l'Angleterre. Du 15 janvier 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, N.H. Nyon, 1787. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Addition to and further explanation of the Treaty of 26 September 1786, negotiated by Dupont de Nemours. The liberal character of this treaty provoked strong protest from the manufacturers and industrialists. EUR 175
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, (P.S.) Rapport fait au nom du comité des finances, à l'Assemblée nationale, Par M. Du Pont, Député de Nemours. Le 14 août 1790. Sur la répartition de la contribution en remplacementdes grandes gabelles, des petites gabelles, des gabelles locales et des droits de marque des cuirs, de marque des fers, de fabrication sur les amidons, de fabrication et de transport dans l'intérieur du Royaume sur les huiles & savons. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Baudouin, 1790). With tables in the text. 80 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Schelle 41l; Kress B.1832; Goldsmiths 14299; Einaudi 1678; Stourm, p. 167; Martin & Walter 12191; not in INED First edition. 'It was not so much his physiocratic doctrine as his general grasp of macroeconomics that led Du Pont to take a strong stand against the Revolutionary government's growing resort to the issuance of paper money. In March 1790 he prepared a report for the Committee on Finance, whihc warned against the Assembly's resort to financing revolution through the use of paper money. As an alternative to printing money Du Pont recommended that the government reduce a proportion of its increases in spending on new programs and that it temporarily retain, though at a reduced rate, the taxes on salt, bouillon, and furs, which it was about to abolish. If any deficit remained in the government's budget after these actions, it was to be made up by a surcharge on all other remaining taxes. The following month he restated his case, citing the dangers of inflation, but by then the paper money, or assignats, had already been printed' (James J. McLain, The Economic Writings of Du Pont de Nemours, p. 148). EUR 350
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ESCHASSERIAUX AîNé, (J.) Opinion sur les causes de l'état présent du commerce et de l'industrie, et les moyens de les rétablir sur les véritables bases de l'économie politique. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1794). 26 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 12789; not in Monglond. First edition. Joseph Eschassériaux (1753-1823), showing sympathy for the new ideas, was elected into several posts as representative for his department before he elected into the Legislative Assembly and after that into the Convention. He sided with the Mountain, voted for the death of the King, published several reports on justice, administration, subsistances, the reunion with Belgium, agriculture, etc. After Thermidor he became member of the Comité de salut public. EUR 150
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ESTANCELIN, (L.) De l'Importation en France des fils et tissus de lin et de chanvre d'Angleterre. (Paris), Imprimeur de la Chambre des Députés, 1842. 77, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards (original printed covers preserved.) Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Louis Estancelin served for many years in parliament and was mostly interested in questions pertaining to the navy, commerce and the colonies, on which subjects he wrote a number of small works. In this work he argues for import-tax on products from England. EUR 175
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FABRE, (J.A.) Essai sur la théorie des torrens et des rivières, contenant les moyens les plus simples d'en empêcher les ravages, d'en rétrécir le lit & d'y faciliter la navigation, le hallage & la flottaison. Accompagné d'une discussion sur la navigation intérieure de la France, et terminé par le projet de rendre Paris port maritime, en faisant remonter à la voile, par la Seine, les navires qui s'arrêtent à Rouen. A Paris, Chez Bidault, an VI - 1797. With 8 folding plates. (4), xxxii, 284 (misnumbered 482) pp. 4to. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, corners (marbled paper on rear cover damaged, slightly worn). Goldsmiths 17083 (without the plates and the preliminaries); not in Kress; Martin & Walter, ii, 12975; Tourneux, iii, 11960, note; Brunet, ii, 1148. First edition. - Outer margins of plates slightly waterstained. The political consequences of the Revolution precipitated a wave of activity in technology for the use of the new and embattled government of France. The state transport was an important concern, including the navigable waterways of France. Fabre, who had supervised the digging of canals and taught mathematics and physics at Aix, was a good jacobin and put himself at the service of the Revolution. In the year of this publication he was appointed engineer in charge of bridges and roads, including embankments, dikes, and causeways, in the Var district. This is his great work on the engineering of navigable waterways, although his other works deal with different aspects of hydraulic engineering. Flooding was naturally one of the most important issues. Fabre discusses the causes of floods in close connection with the geography and ecology of rivers. He also comments at length on dikes and other means of flood control. In these and in all his topics he comments less in terms of mathematics and theory and more from his own experience in engineering river transport. EUR 900
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FERREIRA BORGES, J. Observacoens sobre um opusculo intitulado 'Parecer de dous concelheiros da Coroa Constitucional sobre os meios de restaurar o governo representative en Portugal'. Londres, Impresso por Bingham, 1832. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Revista critica da segunda edicçao do opusculo: 'Parecer de dous concelheiros de coroa constitucional sobre os meios de se resaurar o governo representativo en Portugal'. Londres, Impr. por R. Greenlaw, 1832. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Representaçao de conselheiro d'estado honorario. Lisboa 1836. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Memoria en refutaçao do relatorio e decretos do ministro das justicas o rev. Antonio Manoel Lopez Vieira de Castro, na parte relativa a administraçao commercial pelo author de codigo. Lisboa 1837. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Exame critico do valor politico das expressoes soberania do pove, e soberania das cortes: e outro sim das bases da organisaçao do poder legislativo no systeme representtativo, e da sançao do rei. Lisboa, Typografia transmontana, 1837. - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Defeza da legislaçao conteuda nos artigos 115 e 116 do docigo do processo commercial portuguez, ou demonstraçao do que é hoje o recurso de revista segundo as cathegorias do Poder judicial marcadas na carta constitucional da monarchia portugueza. (Lisboa, na impressao de Galhardo e Irmaos, 1836). - (Bound with:) FERREIRA BORGES, J. Das fontes, especialidade, e excellencia da administraçao commercial segundo o codigo commercial portuguez. Porto, Typographia commercial Portuense, 1835. 7 works bound in 1 volume. 22 pp.; (2), 19, (2) pp.;8 pp.; viii, 46, (1) pp.; 27 pp.; (2) 14 pp.; xix, (1), 23, (1), 123 (appendices) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gil lettering, small damage to head of spine, lightly rubbed. Da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico Portuguez, 3246-3247 and 3255-3259. First editions. José Ferreira Borges (1786-1838), Portuges economist and jurist. He studied law at the University of Coimbra and was a practising attorney at Oporto from 1802 until 1820. He was forced to emigrate in 1823 because of his activities in the constitutionalist movement. He lived in London until 1827 and again from 1828 to 1833. He was the author of the Codigo commercial portuguez of 1833, known as the 'Commercial Code of Ferreira Borges' and which served as the commercial law of the country for almost fifty-six years. As civil servant he served at many posts: Membro da Junta provisional do Governo Supremo do Reino (proclamed August 24, 1820); Advogado na Cidade do Porto; Deputado as Cortes Constituintes en 1821. EUR 700
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FERRIER, F.L.A. Du gouvernement consideré dans ses rapports avec le commerce. Ou de l'administration commerciale opposée à l'économie politique. Seconde édition. Paris, Pélicier; Lille, L. Danel, 1821. (4), xliii, (1, blank), 581 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Goldsmiths 23105; Einaudi 1878; not in Kress; not in Mattioli. Second edition, first published in 1805, and a very interesting work and constituting an early and severe criticism of Adam Smith. Includes chapters on: Du commerce de l'Inde; Du commerce des colonies; De la France et de l'Angleterre comparées dans l'esprit de leur commerce; De la doctrine des économistes comparée à celle de Smith; De l'argent considerée comme moyen d'échange; Du systême commercial. EUR 425
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FERRIER, F.L.A. Du gouvernement consideré dans ses rapports avec le commerce. Paris, de l'Imprimerie d'A. Egron, chez Perlet, An XIII-1805. (4), 400 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards and marbled edges. Kress S.5806; Goldsmiths 18996; Einaudi 1877; INED 1828. First edition. Includes chapters on: Du commerce de l'Inde; Du commerce des colonies; De la France et de l'Angleterre comparées dans l'esprit de leur commerce; De la doctrine des économistes comparée à celle de Smith; De l'argent considerée comme moyen d'échange; Du systême commercial. Constitues an early criticism of Adam Smith and is in general critical of the economists from the preceding era and provoked the indignation of Say, Blanqui and Daire.- Occasional spotting. EUR 375
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FLACHSLANDEN, (J.B.A.) DE. Réflexions sommaires et impartiales sur l'utilité de l'ordre de S. Jean de Jerusalem, et sur les dangers de sa suppression en France. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (At end:) De l'Imprimerie de P.F. Gueffier, (1789). 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Martin & Walter. The author was 'Grand-Turcopolier de l'Ordre de Malthe', and deputy from Alsace.On the necessity to preserve the religious order, which protects all who deal with maritime commerce in the Levant and the mediterranean areas against piracy. EUR 175
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FLAVIGNY, (M.A.CH.) DE. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargé d'examinier le projet de loi tendant à assimiler les navires chiliens entrant dans les ports de France ou en sortant, aux navires français, en ce qui concerne les droits de navigation et autre taxes portant sur la coque des navires. (Drop-head title). (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, no date. - (Followed by:) SCHNEIDER, (J.E.) Projet de loi tendant à assimiler les navires chiliens entrant dans les ports de France ou en sortant, aux navires français, en ce qui concerne les droits de navigation et autres taxes portant sur la coque des navires. Précédé de l'exposé des motifs. (Drop-head title). (At end: Paris), Imprimerie de l' Assemblée Nationale, (1851). 2 pieces. 8 & 6, (2 blank) pp. 8vo. Uncut, unopened. At head of first page: No 1642 and No 1610 respectively with the heading: République Française. Assemblée Nationale Législative.Concerning a law which aimed to protect the French commercial interests. The 'coque' of a ship is its hull. EUR 125
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FLOQUET, (J.A.) Traité ou analise d'un canal projetté pour deriver une partie des eaux de la Durence, pour Aix, Marseille & Tarascon. Contenant la preuve de sa possibilité; l'estimation de sa dépense & de son produit; les avantages qu'il procurera à Sa Majesté, à cette province & aux personnes qui le feront construire. A Marseille, De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Boy, 1742. (14), 212, (2) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, gilt fillet on sides, sprinkled edges, very lightly worn. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; INED 1848; Conlon 42:423. First edition. Deals with the canal now known as the Canal de Candenet. EUR 350
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FLOQUET, J.A. Canal de Provence, ou canal d'Aix et de Marseille. Son utilité, sa possibilité. Sa nature: avantages qui en reviendront au Roy, à la Provence & à la Compagnie des propriétaires: différence entre cette entreprise & les autres de pareille nature: moyens employés pour en accélérer la réussite. Réponse aux principales difficultés qui ont été proposées contre son exécution. Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1750. With folding map. - (Followed by:) (IDLINGER, BARON D'ESPULLER & GIRODAT.) Prospectus du canal de Bourgogne, pour la jonction des deux mers par le centre du Royaume. Paris, C.F. Simon, 1763. With folding map. - (Followed by:) (GIRODAT.) Projet d'emprunt et d'aliénation arrêté par le sieur d'èspuller, propriétaire de la faculté de construire le canal de Bourgogne, de l'avis de son corps syndical. (Drop-head title). No place (ab. 1763). - (Followed by:) MEMOIRE sur les finances contenant un moyen certain pour rembourser la dette de l'Etat, & assurer la diminution des impôts. Paris, Butard, 1774. With 4 folding tables. Together 4 works bound in 1 volume. (6), 170 pp.; 14 pp.; 16 pp.; iv, 56, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, front joint split at head and foot, a bit worn. First work: Goldsmiths 8549; not in Kress; Conlon 50:559.First edition. - Tear in map repaired. Second work: Kress S.4305; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 63:938.First edition. Third work: Kress S.4302; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 63:872.First edition.Fourth work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs; Conlon 74:332.First edition. EUR 600
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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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GARONNE AINE. Réflexions sur le commerce de France; Par M. Garonne aîné. Sur nos manufactures. Sur les Douanes. Sur le Traité de Commerce fait avec l'Angleterre en 1786. Sur les Franchisesdes Ports. Sur la possibilité de former à Paris un Entrepôt, qui offrirait de grands avantages et beaucoup de facilités au Commerce de cette Ville. A Paris, Chez P. Mongie, Capelle et Compagnie, An XII-1804. (4), 134, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed and worn, one joint with short split). Goldsmiths 18857; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED. First edition. 'Ancien député de la ville et du commerce du Cote près l'Assemblée constituante, de la Société royale de littérature et des Beaux-Arts de Gand' (Quérard, La France Littéraire). The last leaf (with a small part of the outer lower blank margin cut away) contains a number of errata. EUR 225
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GAUTIER, (J.E.) De l'établissement d'un entrepôt à Paris. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de A. Henry, Avril 1825. 68 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition, rare. Critical analysis of the project to create a Entrepot in Paris destined for merchandise (sucre, cacao, indigo, coton, thé, tabac, café) from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue, Ile Bourbon, etc. Gautier (1781-1858) was a French financier, deputy of the Gironde, sous-gouverneur of the Banque de France and minister of finance. EUR 225
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GAUTIER, (J.E.) Observations sur le projet de loi concernant les douanes. Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. (4), 68 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Camus; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Sabin. In favour of a progressive relaxation of the protectionist system in order to stimulate commerce and trade with the colonies and the United States. EUR 250
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GEE, J. Considérations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, de M. Joshua Gee, sur la quatrième édition. A Londres, chez A. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, S. Birt, 1749. - (Bound with:) (MONTESQUIEU, Ch.L. DE SECONDAT DE.) Défense de l'Esprit des loix, à laquelle on a joint quelques éclaircissements. A Genève, chez Barrilot & fils, 1750. 2 works in 1 volume. xxviii, 268 pp.; 207, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red title-label with gilt lettering. First work: Goldsmiths 8382; Sabin 26828; Alden & Landis 749/110; Echeverria & Wilkie 749/5; Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XII (5); not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition in French. Translated by J.B. de Secondat, son of Montesquieu. Reviews England's commercial situation, indicating trade carried on with many regions, and includes suggestions for improvement. A large part relates to the trade of the plantations in America and contains discussions of British trade with Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. The first English edition appeared in 1729.Second work: Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, p. 931; Le Petit p. 498; Cabeen 93 (a 80 page work bound with the 1749 edition of the Esprit des Loix; Cabeen does not list the present original edition!); Conlon 50:793; INED 3552.First edition.The work ends on page 196 and is followed by Éclaircissements sur l'Esprit des Loix (unnumbered leaf forming the pages 197-198, text covering the pages 199-207). The Esprit des Loix was severely attacked and the present work is a dignified 'Défense'. Montesquieu died not long after it was published while on a visit to Paris. Despite the success of the Esprit des Loix and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu's main work continued with Jansenists, Jesuits and others attacking the author. The Esprit des Loix was eventually placed on the Index (29 November 1751) and condamned by the Sorbonne. EUR 1250
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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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GERMAIN, A. (C.) Histoire du commerce de Montpellier, antérieurement à l'ouverture du porte de cette, rédigée d'après les documents originaux, et accompagnée de pièces justificatives inédites. Montpellier, Impr. de Jean Martel aîné, 1861. With 1 folding map. 2 volumes. (4), x, 539 pp.; (4), 569 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half hard-grained morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. - Inscribed by the author for his colleague Prof. Combal. The 'pièces justificatives' occupy the major part of both volumes and cover the period from the 11th century upto the end of the 16th century. Germain's works are important and esteemed. EUR 500
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GIRARD, P.S. COLLECTION of various publications on canals and river navigation, published between 1820-1827, all except one by P.S. Girard. 8 works bound in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with giltlettering, marbled boards and marbled edges. Contains: MEMOIRE sur les canaux de navigation, considérés sous le rapport de la chute et de la distribution de leurs écluses. Four parts and a supplement. Together 5 pieces. (Paris, 1821-1826). With plates. (2), 33, (1) pp.; (2), 44 pp.; (2) 50 pp.; (2) 53 pp.; 8 pp. (Offprints from the Annales de Chimie et de Physique). - (Followed by:) CONSIDERATIONS sur les canaux et sur le mode de leur concession. Seconde édition. Paris, Carillian-Goeury, 1824. (4), 48 pp. - (Followed by:) MINARD, Ch.J. Observations sur un systême d'écluses à petites chutes, proposé par P.S. Girard. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Hocquet, 1821. With one folding plate. 32 pp.- (Followed by:) MEMOIRE sur le nivellement général de la France et les moyens de l'exécuter. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Imprimerie d'Everat, 1825). 15, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) RENSEIGNEMENTS utiles sur l'embouchure du canal de Duc d'Angoulême, à Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. 16 pp. - (Followed by:) RENSEIGNEMENTS utiles sur le canal de l'Ourcq et la prise des eaux qui doivent l'alimenter. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. With folding plate. 30 pp. - (Followed by:) RENSEIGNEMENTS utiles sur l'arrivée des eaux de l'Ourcq à Paris. (Drop-head title). (Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Rignoux, no date). With folding plate. 23, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) RAPPORT verbal fait à l'Académie royale des Sciences, dans sa séance du 19 mars 1827. Paris, Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, 1828. 16 pp. EUR 750
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GODART, J. L'Ouvrier en soie. Monographie du tisseur lyonnais. Etude historique, économique et sociale. Première partie. La réglementation du travail. Le maître ouvrier en draps d'or, d'argent et de soie, de l'établissement de la manufacture à Lyon (1466) au décret des 2-17 mars 1791 portant suppression de toutes les maîtrises et jurandes. Lyon, Bernoux & Cumin, 1899. With engraved frontispiece and 2 engravings. (8), iii, 542, (2) pp. 4to. Sewn in original printed covers, uncut. Bourgeois & André 5793; Maitron 12, p. 295; Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 1369. All published. - A large paper copy, 17 copies were issued for the author, numbered 14-30: this is number 15. Standard work. 'L'industrie de la soie a donné lieu à des ouvrages importants. Il faut mettre à part celui de J. Godart ..... qu'il convient de regarder comme ayant la valeur d'une source' (Bourgeois & André). EUR 175
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GODART, J. L'Ouvrier en soie. Monographie du tisseur lyonnais. Etude historique, économique et sociale. Première partie. La réglementation du travail. Le maître ouvrier en draps d'or, d'argent et de soie, de l'établissement de la manufacture à Lyon (1466) au décret des 2-17 mars 1791 portant suppression de toutes les maîtrises et jurandes. Lyon, Bernoux & Cumin, 1899. With engraved frontispiece and 2 engravings. (8), iii, 542, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled boards, corners, top edge gilt, original covers preserved, a bit rubbed. Bourgeois & André 5793; DBMOF, vol. xii, p. 295; Charléty, Bibliographie de Lyon, 1369. All published. Standard work. 'L'industrie de la soie a donné lieu à des ouvrages importants. Il faut mettre à part celui de J. Godart ..... qu'il convient de regarder comme ayant la valeur d'une source' (Bourgeois & André). - Printed on 'grand papier de Hollande', number 52, signed by Godart. One of only 110 copies of a 'tirage de luxe.' EUR 250
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GONNET, L.M.A. Mémoire sur la Caisse de Poissy. Au Roi. Paris, Imprimerie de Brasseur aîné, juillet 1815. (2), 14 pp. 4to. Contemporary blind cover. Marion, Dictionnaire des institutions, p. 68; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. The Caisse de Poissy raised tax on animals destined for the slaughterhouse. The tax was abolished by Turgot in 1776, re-established by Necker in 1779, again abolished by the Constituante and again re-established in 1811. EUR 175
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GOSCHLER, C. Traité pratique de l'entretien et de l'exploration des chemins de fer. Paris, Librairie Polytechnique, J. Baudry, 1868-1867. With illustrations and 1 folding table. 4 volumes of text and an atlas of 35 plates. xxvii, (1), 704 pp.; xvi, 746, (1) pp.; xvi, 672 pp.; xx, 688 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering. - Volumes 3 and 4 with an authograph dedication by the author. Vols 1-2: Service de la voie. Deuxième édition, considérablement augmentée.Vol. 3: Service de la locomotion.Vol. 4: Service de l'exploitation. Administration.Vol. 5: Atlas. Deuxième édition considérablement augmentée. EUR 600
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GOUDARD, (P.L.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom de Comité du commerce et d'agriculture, sur la suppression des droits de Traite perçus dans l'intérieur du Royaume, le reculement des douanes aux frontières, & l'établissement d'un tarif uniforme. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. (2), 49, (1 blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Martin & Walter, ii, 15250d. The text by Goudard is bound at the front of an odd volume, numbered 74, of the Proces verbal de l'Assemblée Nationale, which contains 27 reports by among others Goudart, Poncin, Regnault d'Epercy, Moreau de Saint-Mery, Roussillon, Allarde, Aubry, Barrère, Curt a.o., on customs, a canal between Somme-Voire and Chalettes, trade with Africa, on the fabrication of objects in gold or silver, on a navy basis in Cherbourg, on disabled people, etc. EUR 450
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GOURAUD, CH.(-M.CL.) Histoire de la politique commerciale de la France et son influence sur le progrès de la richesse publique depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Auguste Durand, Dentu, 1854. 2 volumes. (4), 388 pp.; (4), 459, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, front joint of volume 2 a bit rubbed at top. Einaudi 2664. First edition. - With a handwritten and signed dedication by the author to Monsieur le Chancelier du Pasquier on half-title. EUR 250
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HAGEMEIERUS, J. De foedere Civitatum Hanseaticarum commentarius. Francofurti ad Moenum, apud Ioannem Beyerym, 1662. 51 unnumbered leaves. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Cut short, touching the author's name on title-page with loss, very close to headlines but nowhere else with loss. Some leaves browned. The Hanseatic League, an association of German towns which during the 13th and 14th centuries secured the entire trade of the countries surrounding the Baltic, exporting their produce to Germany, England, and the markets of western Europe, and carrying back the manufactured goods of the west and the special products of warmer climats. Monopoly was the watchword of the Hanseatic from beginning to end of their career; but while their policy enabled them, in the infancy of European nations, to amass wealth and gain power, their blind adherence to the same aims and methods in face of the discoveries, new economic views, and developed political life of the 16th century, led to the final destruction of their organisation. EUR 350
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ISORE, (J.) Rapport sur l'approvisionnement de Paris, fait au Comité de Salut public. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1794). With folding table. 18 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter 17007; Tourneux, ii, 6539. First edition. Dated 26 Thermidor an II (13 August 1794).Jacques Isoré (1758-1839), born in Chateaurouge, died in Liancourt. He entered the convention on 5 September 1792 and took his place with the Mountain, became a member of the Jacobin club a few days later, voted for the death of the king 'sans sursis'. EUR 125
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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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KAHL, W.F. The development of London livery companies. An historical essay and a select bibliography. Boston, Baker Library, 1960. With 1 plate. viii, 104 pp. 4to. Sewn, original printed covers (Publication number 15 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics). Contains an essay on the development of London Livery Companies (origin, Characteristics of Guild Organization, etc.) and is followed by a select list of books, pamphlets and broadsides on the Livery Companies. EUR 75
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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 MILLIERE, (J.L. CHAUMONT DE.) Mémoire sur le département des ponts et chaussées, Janvier 1790. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1790. - (Followed by:) LA MILLINIERE, (J.L. CHAUMONT DE.) Supplément au mémoire sur le département des ponts & chaussèes ou réponse à deux écrits relatifs à ce mémoire, qui ont paru depuis la publication. Septembre, 1790. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. - (Followed by:) LA MILLINIERE, (J.L. CHAUMONT DE.) Observations sur un écrit de M. Biauzat, député à l'Assemblée Nationale, relatif à l'organisation des ponts et chaussées. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie de Laurens Aîné et Compagnie, (1791). 3 works bound in 1 volume. vii, 144, (1, errata, 1 blank) pp.; (2), 67, (1) pp.; 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Martin & Walter 18992, 18993, 18994; Tourneux 17434, 17438, 17446. The author, engineer at the Ponts & Chaussées, asks for a confirmation of the abolition of the 'corvée', and for a regulation on transport; for laws on plantations, nurseries and the alignment, and for a general scheme for work related to navigation. EUR 750
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LAKANAL, (J.) Rapport sur le télégraphe du citoyen Chappe, fait au nom du Comité d'instruction publique & de la Commission nommé par décret du 27 avril dernier. (Drop-head title) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 4 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 18586. First edition. Report on the invention of Chappe (1793) In 1794 a chain of telegraphs was constructed to connect Paris with Lille. Claude Chappe (1763-1805) was the first to construct an efficient telegraph. Lakanal lived for 21 years in the USA, where he was president of the College of New Orleans (1822-23). EUR 300
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LALANNE, L. Collection de tables pour abréger les calculs relatifs à la rédaction des projets de routes et de chemins de toutes largeurs. Paris, Carilian-Goeury et Vor. Dalmont, 1843. With 2 folding plates of technical figures and many tables in the text. xlviii, 56 pp. 4to. Modern boards, orginal printed covers preserved, rear printed cover contains a catalogue from the publishers. Published as "Appendice nr 4" to volume 1 of the 4th and last edition of the Cours de construction by M.J. Sganzin and edited by M. Reibell (1839). EUR 250
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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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LAUTARD, L. Mémoire sur les questions: 1. Déterminer le véritable cause des pertes dont le commerce se plaint aujourd'hui? 2. Déterminer le moyen le plus efficace pour procurer au commerce les avantages nécessaires? Sujet mis au concours par l'Académie de Marseille, sur la proposition de son Exc. Mgr. le Baron de Damas. A Marseille, chez les principaux libraries, A Paris, Chez Lenormand fils; C.J. Trouvé, 1824. (2), 134 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Quérard, La France Littéraire, iv, p. 627. Only edition. - Last leaf repaired. Laurent Lautard, born in Marseille in 1763, entered into a commercial profession and was arrested during the revolution. He retired after the Revolution from public life devoting his time to scholarly and literary works and activities for the Académie marseillaise. The present work won the second price as is indicated on the title. EUR 250
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LAVELEYE, A. DE & A. DE GRANDSAGNE. Nécessité et moyen d'occuper les ouvriers qui manquent d'ouvrage en France. Mémoire présenté au Roi et aux Chambres. Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant, 1831. With one folding map. 78, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Goldsmiths 26898; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Jouffroy, Recherches sur les sources de la création d'une Grande Lignes de Chemin de Fer au XIXe siècle; not in The Pioneer Period of European Railroads. First edition. - Very lightly spotted. Discusses the problems of unemployement, and proposes to put the unemployed to work by developping large-scale railroad projects, which in its turn will greatly contribute to the economy, and discusses the financial implications of the project. The folding map shows France indicating railroads in red (north-south) and blue (east-west). EUR 225
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LE COUTEULX (DE CANTELEU, J.B.) Pétition du commerce de Paris. Adhésion à cette pétition, des députés extraordinaires du commerce de France, présentée à l'Assemblée nationale, à la séance du 10 février 1790au soir. Par M. Le Couteulx, député de Rouen. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Martin & Walter, iii, 20389; Tourneux, iv, 26514. - Slightly damp-stained, wormhole in blank inner margin. Deals with the question whether or not 'les porteurs des billets à ordre doivent s'assujétir à les faire enregistrer, qu'ils doivent payer le droit progressif d'enregistrement.' EUR 125
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LE COUTEULX DE CANTELEU, (J.B.) A ses Compatriotes les Négocians, Manufacturiers, Fabricans, du département de la Seine-Inférieure. (Paris), De l'Imprimerie J.G. Guyot an IV (1796). 35, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Kress S.5515; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 20374. Original edition. Pp. 1-16 contain an expose on the utility of a bank which is followed by Procès-verbaux de l'Assemblée des citoyens réunis pour l'établissement de la banque of 6 and 8 february 1796 (pp. 16-35). 'Jean-Barthélemy Lecouteulx de Canteleu, homme politique, né en 1749, mort à Paris le 18 septembre 1818. Premier échevin de Rouen (1789), il fut envoyé aux États généraux, où il s'occupa presque uniquement de finances. Membre du Conseil des Anciens, il devint sous l'Empire sénateur et comte, puis pair de France sous la Restauration (Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, ii, p. 1109). EUR 300
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LEBER, (J.M.) C. Essai sur l'appréciation de la fortune privée au moyen age, relativement aux variations des valeurs monétaires et du pouvoir commercial de l'argent: suivi d'un examen critique des tables de prix du marc d'argent, depuis l'époque de Saint-Louis. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée de nouvelles recherches. Paris, Guillaumin, 1847. vii, (1), 340 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Kress C.7129; Goldsmiths 35162; Einaudi 3279. The second, and best, edition. First published in the Mémoires des Savants Étrangers, printed by authority of the French Academy of Inscriptions. - Name on title. Original covers preserved. This 'essay' was long considered as an authority on the subject of prices in France during the middle ages, and comprises sundry tables of prices, offical salaries, etc., with the corresponding modern figures (Palgrave, ii, p. 588). EUR 375
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LEBER, (J.M.) C. Essai sur l'appréciation de la fortune privée au moyen age, relativement aux variations des valeurs monétaires et du pouvoir commercial de l'argent: suivi d'un examen critique des tables de prix du marc d'argent, depuis l'époque de Saint-Louis. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée de nouvelles recherches. Paris, Guillaumin, 1847. vii, (1), 340 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Kress C.7129; Goldsmiths 35162; Einaudi 3279; not in Mattioli. The second, and best, edition. First published in the Mémoires des Savants Étrangers, printed by authority of the French Academy of Inscriptions. This 'essay' was long considered as an authority on the subject of prices in France during the middle ages, and comprises sundry tables of prices, offical salaries, etc., with the corresponding modern figures (Palgrave, ii, p. 588). EUR 325
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LEVASSEUR, E. Histoire du commerce de la France. Paris, A. Rousseau, 1911-12. With 10 folding tables. 2 volumes. xxxiii, 611 pp.; xlv, 869, (2) pp. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled baords, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Guide to Historical Literature, (8th ed.) VC 596. First edition, rare. Vol. 1. Avant 1789. - Vol. 2. De 1789 à nos jours. Important and valuable work with extensive bibliography.Levasseur was a French historian and economist and the author of a number of very important works and one of the first to apply the historical method to the study of economic phenomena. - Avery fine copy. EUR 500
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LOUIS XV - ARREST du Conseil d'Estat du Roy, qui ordonne que les sucres rafinez à Cette, qui seront destinez pour l'étranger, ou pour les Provinces d'Alsace & de Franche-Comté, seront exempts des droits de la doüane de Lyon & de la doüane de Valence, nonobstant les formalitez prescrites par l'Arrêt & Lettres-Patentes du 14 février 1730. Du 12 février 1732. (Drop-head title). No place, (1732). 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Concerns the sugar originating from the French American possessions, in transit through the harbour of Sète. EUR 175
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LOUIS XV - (ARRET) du 18 juillet 1754, qui homologue la délibération prise par le corps des maîtres boulangers de Marseille. (Drop-head title). Marseille, chez la veuve de J.P. Brebion, imprimeur du Roy, 1754. Large folio poster, made up out of two leaves pasted together. Folded. - Upper margin with first line of title cut off, left outer margin short. Brown stain where the two leaves were pasted together. EUR 75
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LOUIS XVI - ARRET du Conseil d'Etat de Roi, qui permet l'entrée des mousselines rayées & quadrillées, provenant du commerce françois, qui sont actuellement à l'Orient, & de les débiter dans le royaume jusqu'au 1er janvier 1789. (Drop-head title). Grenoble, Imprimerie royale, 1788. Large 4to poster. Signed by De Breteuil, Caze de la Boue and Jourdan. EUR 75
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LOUIS XVI - ARRET du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, qui déclare de nul effet, après un délai de trois mois, les passeports expédiés par la Compagnie des Indes pour l'entrée des toiles de coton blanches & peintes. (Drop-head title). Grenoble, Imprimerie royale, 1786. Large 4to poster. EUR 100
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LOUREIRO, A.J. DA SILVA. Codigo Mercantil de França, Traduzido do Francez e Offerecido ao Muito alto e Muito poderoso Senhor D. Pedro I., Imperador Constitucional e Defensor Perpetuo do Imperio do Brasil ..... Rio de Janeiro, Na Typographia Nacional, 1825. (8), 163, (1 blank, 3 Indice, 1 blank) pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (spine somewhat damaged, outer corners very slightly rubbed, title-page slightly foxed). Not in Bosch catalogue; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Sabin; no copies in NUC; no copies in RLIN and OCLC. First Brazilian edition of the commercial code between France and Brazil. As printing in Brazil was suppressed by the Portuguese until the throne was transferred there in 1808, this is one of the earliest Brazilian imprints. Pedro I became Brazilian emperor in 1822 after leading a succesful revolution. His name is linked indissolubly with national independence; he gave independant Brazil a monarchial form of government and thus assured the unity of the country. His constitution of 1824 remained the fundamental law until the republic. Although essentially liberal, it gave much power to the emperor and most of his reign was marked by absolutism in government. EUR 7500
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LYON - DELIBERATION du Conseil-Général de la Commune de Lyon, sur le pain. (Drop-head title). A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie d'Amable Leroy, 1793. 1 leaf, verso blank. Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half marocco binding, gilt lettering on spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Charléty. Rare poster. - Fine copy with full margins. Dated 13 July 1793 and dealing with the difficulties of supplies to the city of grain and the taxes imposed on the import of grain, which led to the withhelding of grain to the city by the surrounding areas upon which the city depended for its supplies. EUR 350
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LYON - REPRESENTANS DU PEUPLE, LES, envoyés dans la Commune-Affranchie, pour y assurer le bonheur du peuple avec le triomphe de la République, dans tous les départemens environnans,et près l'Armée des Alpes. (Drop-head title). A Commune-Affranchie, De l'Imprimerie républicaine, (1794). 1 leaf (verso blank). Folio. Folded andmounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Charléty. At head of title: Au nom du peuple français. Decree dated 15 Nivôse, year II (4 January 1794), signed by Fouché de Nantes, Albitte and Laporte, announcing the measures taken to assure the free import of food and supplies into the city. EUR 325
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LYON - CHARLIER ET POCHOLLE, représentans du peuple, à Lyon, et dans les départemens du Rhône et de la Loire, à la municipalité de Lyon, et aux citoyens de cette commune. (Drop-headtitle). A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie républicaine, (1794). 1 leaf (verso blank). Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Charléty. At head of title: Au nom du peuple français. Decree of 11 Brumaire, year III (11 November 1794) announcing, in 16 articles, which measures will be taken to assure both quality and distribution as well as rationing of bread. - A little paperspotted. EUR 275
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MABLY, (G. BONNOT) DE. Des principes des négociations, pour servir d'introduction au droit public de l'Europe fondé sur les traités. A La Haie (Paris), 1757. viii, 278 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments,label with gilt lettering, red edges. Tchemerzine-Scheler, iv, 249; INED 2990; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; Higgs 1601. One of two editions published in 1757, the other edition being printed in Amsterdam in 8vo. The present work was intended as a long 'introduction' to his earlier published work Le droit public de l'Europe, published in 1746 and revised in 1748 and 1764. - Fine copy. 'Mably's writings on diplomacy were of course deeply marked by the record of French performance in the international arena (.....) - the striking failure of the Bourbon monarchy, for over a century, to achieve any rational strategic goals, or even to maintain its position relative to its principal rivals in Europe.' The chief strategic goal was to maintain its position against Spain and England. This policy barely survived the adventurism of the War of the Austrian Succession -the period of Mably's own involvement in French diplomacy - which produced minimal gains in Europe and ominous setbacks in the rest of the world. (.....) The present work is Mably's balance sheetof the record of international relations in Europe in 1757, summarizing the lessons of his diplomatic work. (.....) Far from being a mere handbook for diplomats, the work is a sustained critique of the whole practice of modern European warfare, of the type whose greatest example was to be the Seven Years' War.'Mably argues that it is pointless for any European power, of whatever rank, to undertake a project of purely military expansion the main reason being that there was no longer anything to be gained from war. Power in postfeudal Europe was the result of wealth, wealth was the result of commerce-and commerce depended on peace.Mably's goal was to try to found a rational science of diplomacy, making it into an effective tool of political agency-exactly what it had never been, in his eyes. The work furthermore contains a direct attack on commercial ideology, of the type that occurs again and again in his mature writings. The question first arises in chapter XVII of the Principes, whose subject is commercial treaties between states and what follows is essentially a dialogue with David Hume, whose Political Discourses on the 'vulgar subjects' -the phrase is Hume's- of commerce, money and trade had appeared in a number of French editions after 1752. (see for an elaborate analysis: Johnson Kent Wright, A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-century France. The Political Thought of Mably, pp. 52 ff.) EUR 750
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MALOUET, (P.V.) Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale sur les dépenses & le régime économique de la marine. Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1790. - (Bound with:) DEPENSES générales de la marine. No place, (1790). Together 2 works in 1 volume. (2), iv, 65 pp.; 20, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First work: Martin & Walter 22707; JFBL M89; not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Tourneux; not in Monglond; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. A detailed discussion of the expenses of the navy protecting French coasts and colonies, with proposals for reducing this amount.Pierre-Victor Malouet (1740-1814), naval intendant, moderate monarchist, émigré. From 1758 he filled a variety of positions in the French government, including a brief and disillusioning stint in an administrative assignment with marshal de Broglie's army during the Seven Years War. From 1767 to 1773 he held administrative posts in Santo Domingo, where he married and acquired considerable property. As an experienced official of the Ancien Régime, Malouet recognized the need for reform but believed that it should issue from strong monarchial initiative. Along with J.J. Mounier and others, he championed a bicameral legislature somewhat on the English model, though his conception of the upper (more conservative) chamber was considerably different from theirs. Malouet was active in the Naval Committee of the Assembly and delivered several substantial reports on the funding and organization of the navy. On 10 August 1792 he left for England, fearing for his life, and did not return until 1801. On 3 October 1803 Napoleon brought him out of his obscurity by assigning him the post of commissioner general of the navy at Antwerp, a post he filled commendably until 1810, when Napoleon honoured him by appointment to the Council of State and the title of baron. The emperor's opinion of him changed abruptly in 1812 when Malouet opposed the Russian campaign and was forced to retire. The restauration of Louis XVIII brought Malouet an honor he had long before disired, that of appointment as minister of navy on 13 May 1814. (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, ii, pp. 626-627).Second work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1538; not in JFBL; not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Tourneux; not in Monglond.First edition.Includes details on the French American colonies. EUR 325
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MANGIN, A. De l'Usurpation des Titres commerciaux. Paris, Librairie de Cournol, 1863. 63, (1) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, uncut and unopened. First edition. Deals with the law, discussed in 1863, to modify to a certain extent the Code de Commerce by creating a new commercial enterprise in addition to those already recognized by the law: the société à responsabilité limitée. Those already legally known were: sociétés anonyme, sociétés en commandite, and sociétés en nom collectif. Page 25-end contain the 'pièces justificatives.' - With the stamp 'timbre imperial' on verso title-page and on a number of other pages. EUR 175
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MANUSCRIPT - BRETAGNE. Blanchissage des toiles. Mémoire. Undated manuscript written around the middle of the 18th century. 6 pp. Folio. Sewn. Detailed survey of all the procedures necessary for laundering cloth after its weaving. Devoted especially to the trade and laundering of cloth called 'Bretagne'. Also a price indication is mentioned at the end of the report. EUR 325
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MARSEILLE - ARRETE portant établissement d'un entrepôt de marchandises étrangères dans le port de Marseille. Du 6 Messidor an X de la République française, une & indivisible. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1802). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Concerns soap, tobacco, salted fish, wines, oil, sugar, coffee, cacao and other products from the colonies. EUR 75
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MARSHALL, A. Money, Credit and Commerce. London, MacMillan & Co., 1923. xv, (1), 369, 3 (blank, advertisments) pp. 8vo. Original publisher'scloth, gilt lettering on spine, spine with light spots. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 150-3. First edition. Third volume of Marshall's study of the direction of man's efforts for the attainment of material ends. Principles of Economics appeared in 1890, Industry and Trade in 1919, and finally, in 1923, the third volume Money, Credit & Commerce appeared. The postponement of this only treatise on money untill after he was eighty years of age was an extraordinary example of Marshall's hesistation in allowing his work to reach the world, especially since much of this material had been written forty years earlier. The importance of his writings is to be seen in the achievements of his pupils as a result of his teaching. In 1888 Professor Foxwell claimed that Marshall's pupils already occupied half the economic chairs in the United Kingdom. Alfred Marshall is one of the most perplexing of all great economists. He was the dominant figure in British economics from the 1890s right up to the 1930s. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was born in Bermondsey, a London suburb and died at Balliol Croft, his Cambridge home for many years at the age of 81. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge from 1885 to 1908, he was the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics which rose to great eminence in the 1920s and 1930s: A.C. Pigou and J.M. Keynes, the most important figures in this development, were among his pupils. EUR 300
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MAUROY, P. Du commerce des peuples de l'Afrique septentrionale dans l'antiquité, le moyen-âge et les temps modernes comparé au commerce des Arabes de nos jours. Ouvrage faisant suite à la question d'Alger en 1844. Paris, Au comptoir des imprimeurs-unis, 1845. xi, (1), 199, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spinegilt with raised bands (original covers preserved). Kress S.6843; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Gay, Bibliographie de l'Afrique et de l'Arabie, 309. First edition. Mauroy (1806?-1860) was a lawyer, secretary of the public prosecutor of the 'Cour d'appel de Paris', and head of the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. Deals with the trade of Carthago and the trade with Africa, the Romans, Vandals and Greek trades and the Arab trade with Africa. - Signed dedication by the author for Félix Ravaisson, on upper cover. Both covers browned, front cover with a repaired tear. EUR 250
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MELON, (J.F.) Essai politique sur le commerce. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. A Amsterdam, Chez F. Changuion, 1754. Title printed in red and black, with charming engraved title vignette. (8), 367, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, a very good copy. Kress 5374; Goldsmiths 72010; Einaudi 3820; Weulersse, i, p. xx; cf.: INED 3123; Mattioli 2356. Revised edition of one of the earliest theoretical works on mercantilism. The first edition appeared in 1734. Melon, though a metallist, quantity theorist, and exponent of other neomercantilist views, anticipated certain opinions of the physiocrats and the philosophes. He had been secretary to John Law and exercised considerable influence in his time. The depressed state of economic affairs during the period of the Regency (1715-1723) provided John Law with an opportunity to apply his theories, and contributed to the formation of the views of his onetime secretary, J.F. Melon, and of Melon's critic and Law's defender, Charles Dutot, cashier of Law's Company of the Indies. Law believed monetary control to be the key to the solution both of economic problems in general and -in so far as interested him- of the population problem. Dutot agreed in substance. Melon presented views which, though mercantilistic, are somewhat at variance with those of Law and which, according to E. Daire, reflect French upper-class opinion following the failure of Law's system (Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus). Melon's experiences were finally expressed with the publication of his Essai sur le commerce. 'A partir de 1734, une période nouvelle s'ouvre sous de meilleurs auspices. Les treize années précédentes n'avaient vu se produire aucun ouvrage économique considérable; en 1734 paraît l'Essai sur le commerce de Melon. Les purs Physiocrates porteront sur cette oeuvre des jugements sévères' (Weulersse) But in due course the book was recognized as a very important work: in 1759 the editor of the Journal du Commerce, the future 'économiste' Roubaud, wrote: 'M. Melon est le premier auteur français qui a consideré le commerce comme une science.' His views on demography were important: 'he held that the population which a kingdom can support increases in the same proportion as the grain supply expands. Melon suggested that there was alway an upper limit to the number of people which a state could support, but he did not consider this upper limit to be fixed, nor did he believe that population would always approximate this limit. Despite his approval of certain population-stimulating measures of colonial and domestic slavery (Melon defended slavery in the colonies on the ground that it was necessary to colonial development), Melon did not advocate the attainment of maximum populousness, saying that happiness and the achievment of a supra-subsistence level of existence were also important. Melon defended both liberty in consumption and the view, as yet uncommon and often under attack, that luxury is economically and morelly necessary and useful in a well-ordered society, serving therein as a growing source of employment, as a stimulus to ambition and solvent of idleness, and as a 'new motive to work'' (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus). EUR 900
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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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MEXICO - MANUSCRIPT reproduction of about 1866, with several contemporary manuscript corrections, containing the conclusion of the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris concerning the indemnities to be paid to Chéron, contractor of public works, and to be paid by Paulon due to the transfer of the project already started to a British company by the name of Smith & Knight. (1866). 26 pp. Small folio. Sewn. Interesting contemporary document concerning the first investments for the construction of a railway from Vera-Cruz to Mexico, and for which Chéron claims reimbursement of 1.031,794 francs with specifications of various investments: salaries paid, instruments bought, direction and assistants in Mexico, costs of travel, etc. EUR 500
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MICHEL, F. (X.) Histoire du commerce et de la navigation à Bordeaux, principalement sous l'administration anglaise. Bordeaux, Imprimerie de J. Delmas, 1867-1870. With folding map. 2 volumes. (6), viii, 535, (2) pp.;(4), 574 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards, top edge gilt, original covers preserved. Bourgeois & André 5996; not in Sabin. First edition. Important source for the commercial history, 12th-17th centuries. Includes chapters on corn trade, American commerce and trade, Jews in Bordeaux, etc. EUR 450
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MIRABEAU, (H.G. RIQUETTI DE.) De la Monarchie Prussienne, sous Fréderic le Grand; avec un appendice contenant des recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales contrées de l'Allemagne. A Londres, 1788. With 56 engraved (partly folding) tables, many tables in the text. 4 volumes in 4to and 1 atlas in folio. (6), xliv, 522 pp.; (4), 566 pp.; (4), 710 pp.; (14), 560 pp. + 1 atlas with 10 engraved double page maps and 93 engraved plates (some folding). Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with green labels with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets on sides, marbled edges, with the name 'Mr. Richier L'Ainé' in gilt stamped on front cover od all volumes, the atlas in contemporary half calf, rubbed, not identical to text volumes. Kress B.1448 & 1449 (listing 8vo edition); INED 3190 (8vo edition); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. The very rare first edition in 4to. An edition in 8vo was published in the same year and is also scarce.This work deals with its history, geography, economics, commerce and trade, both national and international, administration, military organization, legislation and political and civil institutions and the educational system, the whole preceded by a 25 page long excellent catalogue of books dealing with the same subject. Mirabeau was assisted in writing this work by the German physiocrat Jacob Mauvillon and by J. Thibaut de Lavaux. 'Oeuvre maîtresse de Mirabeau, ce grand rapportage contient un certain nombre de considérations sur la population (livre second). Elles situent leur auteur dans le prolongement direct des physiocrates, l'originalité de sa pensée résident moins dans une théorie générale, quasiment inexistante, que dans la critique farouche des moyens, sinon des fins, du 'populationisme'. Outre ses considérations, et des données statistiques sur les habitants de la Prusse, on trouve dans les autres volumes des renseignements d'ordre économico-politique. Livre III: productions agricoles et richesses naturelles; livres IV et V: manufactures et commerce, constitution civile et politique, revenus et dépenses; système militaire et religion. Dans les derniers volumes, situation économique et politique de quelques-uns des principaux états de l'Allemagne (Saxe, Bavière, etc.)' (INED). The tables of the second and the fourth volume have been bound with the atlas.Especially important are the sections on education: the Prussian educational system was much advanced compared to the French which later led to the observation that the "Prussian schoolmaster has won the Franco-Prussian war" and the section devoted to the Prussian army illustrated with 93 plates depicting military activities and manoeuvres. There are also 10 douple-page maps giving in much detail the various regions of Germany. - Of great rarity. EUR 3500
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MIRABEAU, (H.G. RIQUETTI) DE. Dénonciation de l'agiotage de Paris. Au Roi et à l'Assemblée des Notables. No place, 1787. viii, 103 pp. 8vo. Later half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Notin Kress (listing two other issues under B.1281 & B.1282); not in Goldsmiths; cf.: INED 3185; Martin & Walter, 24437. One of three issues of the first edition. 'La partie technique de cet écrit bâclé fut l'oeuvre de Clavière assisté par Panchaud. La partie politique est entièrement de Mirabeau: c'est une véritable déclaration de premier ministre proposant un programme de gouvernement' (Duc de Castries, Mirabeau, (1986), p. 251).At the end: Plan des opérations de l'abbé d'Espagnac, pour soutenir et continuer le monopole des actions de la nouvelle Compagnie des Indes. - A second part was published in 1788. - Lightly dampstained in blank margin of last few leaves, last to leaves with a marginal repair. EUR 175
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MIRABEAU, (H.G. RIQUETTI) DE. Dénonciation de l'agiotage au Roi et à l'Assemblée des Notables. No place, 1787. viii, 143, (3, blank, errata, blank) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1282; Einaudi 3931; not in Goldsmiths; INED 3185. One of several edition from the year of first publication, no priority established 'La partie technique de cet écrit bâclé fut l'oeuvre de Clavière assisté par Panchaud. La partie politique est entièrement de Mirabeau: c'est une véritable déclaration de premier ministre proposant un programme de gouvernement' (Duc de Castries, Mirabeau, (1986), p. 251).At the end: Plan des opérations de l'abbé d'Espagnac, pour soutenir et continuer le monopole des actions de la nouvelle Compagnie des Indes. - A second part was published in 1788. EUR 175
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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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MIRABEAU, H.G. RIQUETTI DE. De la monarchie Prussienne, sous Frederic le Grand; avec un appendice contenant des recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales contrées de l'Allemagne. A Londres, 1788. With 38 engraved maps, 93 engraved plates and 43 tables, mostly folding. 4 text volumes in 4to, one atlas in folio. (6), xliv, 522 pp.; (4), 566 pp.; (4), 710 pp.; (14), 560 pp. Contemporay half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine with black labels and gilt lettering, the initials H.C.S. gilt stamped at foot of spines, some corners ligthly bumped. Kress B.1448 (8vo edition) and Kress B.1449 (for the atlas); INED 3190 (8vo edition); not in Goldsmiths, not in Einaudi. The very rare first edition in 4to. An edition in 8vo was published in the same year and is also scarce.This work deals with its history, geography, economics, commerce and trade, both national and international, administration, military organization, legislation and political and civil institutions and the educational system, the whole preceded by a 25 page long excellent catalogue of books dealing with the same subject. Mirabeau was assisted in writing this work by the German physiocrat Jacob Mauvillon and by J. Thibaut de Lavaux. 'Oeuvre maîtresse de Mirabeau, ce grand rapportage contient un certain nombre de considérations sur la population (livre second). Elles situent leur auteur dans le prolongement direct des physiocrates, l'originalité de sa pensée résident moins dans une théorie générale, quasiment inexistante, que dans la critique farouche des moyens, sinon des fins, du 'populationisme'. Outre ses considérations, et des données statistiques sur les habitants de la Prusse, on trouve dans les autres volumes des renseignements d'ordre économico-politique. Livre III: productions agricoles et richesses naturelles; livres IV et V: manufactures et commerce, constitution civile et politique, revenus et dépenses; système militaire et religion. Dans les derniers volumes, situation économique et politique de quelques-uns des principaux états de l'Allemagne (Saxe, Bavière, etc.)' (INED). The tables of the second and the fourth volume have been bound with the atlas.Especially important are the sections on education (the Prussian educational system was much advanced compared to the French which later led to the observation that the "Prussian schoolmaster has won the Franco-Prussian war") and the section devoted to the Prussian army illustrated with 93 plates depicitng military activities and manoeuvres. There are also 10 douple-page maps giving in much detail the various regions of Germany. - Copy from the Furstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding, with discrete stamp on the fly leaf. EUR 7500
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NOEL, O. Histoire du commerce du monde depuis les temps les plus reculés. Paris, 1891-1906. With numerous plates and maps (many folding). 3 volumes. (6), xxvii, (1), 332, (4) pp.; (4), 446, (2) pp.; (4), 684, (4) pp. Large 8vo. Modern cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Einaudi. First edition. Standard work. Deals with: Temps anciens. - Moyen Age. - Depuis les découvertes maritimes du 15e siècle jusqu'au la Révolution de 1789. - Depuis la Révolution Française jusqu'à la guerre franco-allemande 1870-1871. EUR 600
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PAETUS, L. De mensuris, et ponderibus Romanis, et Graecis, cum his quae hodie Romae sunt collatis libri quinque. Eiusdem variarum lectionum liber unus. Venetiis, (Aldine Press), 1573. (16), 4 pp., 4 numbered leaves, pp. 13-88, (89-96), 97-127, (128, blank). 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine partly repaired, remains of original handlettering, small repair to outer margin. Brunet, iv, col. 308; BMSTC (Italian), p. 484; Adams P.26; Renouard, Aldus, i, 385; Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, nr 609; Kress S.212; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. Second edition and published in the same year as the first edition; the first edition was printed in folio (see: Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, nr 608.) - Some scribbling onto title-page, contents-leaf with small hole in upper blank margin, first few leaves with light unobtrusive staining, a stain in the outer blank margin of a number of leaves. The pages (89-96) signed G and H contain the plates: G is a large double page with illustrations on recto and verso, H has two leaves with plates recto and verso; the four unnumbered leaves at the end, containing the index (3 leaves) and the errata (the last leaf with text recto, verso blank), have been bound after the preliminaries and contents-leaf.Rare work on the Greek and Roman standards of measurement (dry as well as wet), relevant to ancient mathematics, economy and trade, as well as architecture and numismatics. The work's purpose is to clarify the technically confusing systems of measurement appellation, and, as often with such antiquarian endeavors, to reform contemporary practice after the ancient model. The handsome woodcuts include amphora of different sizes, measuring rulers and standard weights. "Le traité De mensuris est rempli d'érudition" (Michaud). "Although not an arithmetic, this work is a scholarly and interesting contribution to the history of weights and measures of Greece and Rome, and the symbols inherited by the Middle Ages" (Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p. 346.) EUR 1800
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PARIS - MUNICIPALITE DE PARIS. Par le maire et les officiers municipaux. Extrait du registre des délibérations du corps-municipal. Du samedi 17 Août 1793, l'an second de la République. (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris, (1793). 1 leaf (verso blank). Folio. Folded and mounted in a 4to modern half morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux. Poster printed on grey paper. Order, signed by Pache, mayor, by which the transport in the city of goods belonging to the 'première nécessité', is forbidden between 10 pm and 5 am since it has become clear that many goods are being transported from one warehouse to the other during the nights, goods the merchants do not wish to declare. EUR 275
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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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PELOUX, P. Mémoire sur les ports francs, approuvé par la députation & par Messieurs les députés du commerce de cette ville (Marseille). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Baudouin, (1790). 42 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress 4044 (with wrong date); Goldsmiths 13835; not in Martin & Walter. First edition. In favour of maintaining the free ports, and especially the one of Marseille. EUR 175
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PICARD, R. Les Cahiers de 1789 au point de vue industriel et commercial. Paris, M. Rivière et Cie, 1910. (4), 276 pp. 8vo. Modern cloth. Detailed study on industrial developments, wages paid, commerce, taxes, etc. EUR 100
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PIGEONNEAU, H. Histoire du commerce de la France. Paris, Librairie Léopold Cerf, 1885-1889. With folding map and illustrations. 2 volumes. (2), viii,468 pp.; (4), 486 pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Bourgeois & André 5885, note. 1. Depuis les origines jusqu'à la fin du XVe siècle. - 2. Le seizième siècle. Henri IV. Richelieu. - With the bookplate of the 'Banque de Syrie et de Liban'. EUR 300
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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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POSTAL SERVICES - ARREST de la Cour de Parlement, portant reglement général des taxes des ports de lettres & pacquets, tant pour le dedans que pour le dehors de ce Royaume; avec le tarif de cequ'il faut payer pour chaque port desdites lettres & pacquets. Du 24 Mars 1651. Paris, par les imprimeurs & libraires ordinaires du Roy, 1651. 8 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Includesrates for post to England, Belgium, Holland, Madrid. EUR 75
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POSTAL SERVICES - MEMOIRE à consulter et consultation, pour le nation de Normandie, sur la propriété des nations qui composent le Faculté des arts en l'Université de Paris, de leurs messageries, & sur la destination de leur produit. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (At end:) Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, 1772. 12 pp. 4to. Disbound. Deals with the division of postal revenues which return to the Faculty of Arts. EUR 75
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POSTAL SERVICES - ARREST du Conseil d'Estat concernant le port des lettres & pacquets, soit par terre, ou par eau dans le royaume de France. Ensemble l'Ordonnance de Mr. l'Intendant (du Languedoc), du 12 février 1683. Toulouse, Jean Boude, imprimeur du Roy, 1683. 8 pp. 4to. Disbound. - Slightly waterstained. EUR 75
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RAILWAYS - PROCES-VERBAL et avis de la commission d'enquête du Tarn sur les tracés comparatifs du chemin de fer de Toulouse à la ligne du Lot à Montauban. Albi, Imprimerie de Maurice Papailhiau, 1861. 23 pp. 4to. Sewn, original blue covers (small part ofupper innermargin torn off). EUR 75
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RAMEL (DE) NOGARET, (D.G.V.) Ponts et chaussées. 2 Août 1791. Opinion. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1791. 12 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter 28705a. EUR 75
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RAMON, G. Histoire de la Banque de France d'après les sources originales. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1929. Title printed in red and black, with 9 plates and a portrait-frontispiece of Mollien. 501, (2) pp. 4to. Original printed covers, kept in the original publisher's marbled holder and box. Only edition. One of 84 copies printed on 'Grand Papier' of which this is one of 60 copies printed on 'Papier vélin pur fil' and with a handwritten and signed dedication on the half-title, an uncut and unopened copy in mint condition. EUR 750
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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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RENNES - BAIL général des devoirs, consenti en la ville de Rennes, le 2 Février 1785, pour les années 1785 & 1786. Rennes, N.P. Vatar, 1785. Coat of arms on title. - (Followed by:) TARIF de l'impôt et billot et devoirs des Etats, sur les boissons débitées en Bretagne, y compris le cinquième en sus, dont la perception doit être faite au profit des Etats; duquel Tarif l'impression a été ordonnée par Nosseigneurs des Etats, pour l'instruction du public, par plusieurs délibérations, dont la dernière est du 22 Janvier 1783. Rennes, N.P. Vatar, 1785. Coat of arms on title. 2 pieces bound in 1 volume. 60, (6) pp.; 42 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. The taxes on drinks were the main source of income for the budget of Bretagne. The last 6 pages of the first piece contain: "Tarif des droits sur les eaux-de-vie, vins & autres boissons qui se débitent." EUR 200
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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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RICARD, S. Traité général du commerce, contenant des observations sur le commerce des principaux Etats de l'Europe; les productions naturelles, l'industrie de chaque païs ..... le frêt des navires, & les primes d'assurance ..... des détails sur les monnoies ..... le cours des changes ....., enfin les ordonnances et usages établis à Amsterdam touchant les assurances et le règlement des avaries. Edition entièrement refaite d'après un plan nouveau, rédigée et considérablement augmentée par Mr. de M** (T.A. de Marien). A Amsterdam, Chez E. van Harrevelt, 1781. 2 volumes. vii, (1), 619, (5) pp.; (4), xvi, 531, (4) pp.4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, a bit rubbed. Kress B.415; Einaudi 4732; Goldsmiths 12154; INED 3814; McCulloch 63; not in Mattioli. Last and best edition, first published in 1700. - Fine copy on heavy paper. This work has been reprinted through the whole of the 18th century. The author was a well-informed merchant of Amsterdam. During the 18th century the book was constantly revised and enlarged, so that by the end of the century little remained of the original work except the title. The 1781 edition was by far the best counting-house guide that had appeared, being, in this respect, infinitely superior to the dictionaries of Savary and Postlethwayt (McCulloch). EUR 1500
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RICHARDSON, J. The cruisers: being a letter to the Marquis of Lansdowne, in defence of armed coercion for the extinction of the slave trade. London, Hatchard & Son, 1849. 40 pp. 8vo. Modern boards with leather label. Sabin 71016; Hogg 3370.First edition. 'Defence of the squadron against critics in Britain, with consideration of alternative schemes' (Hogg). EUR 150
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ROAD MAINTAINMENT - CORVEES 1781, 1782. No place, 1781-1782. 2 pieces of 4 pp. each. Folio. Folded. Partly printed, partly in contemporary manuscript, these pieces order the inhabitants of Saint-André (Dauphiné) to repair the road between Gap and Embrun, of which details are noted down at the end of each piece. EUR 175
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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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RUBIGNY (DE BERTEVAL, J.A.) DE. Réflexions patriotiques présentées à la Convention nationale, sur le maximum, le commerce et les approvisionnemens. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie française de Mnémozyne, (1793). 23 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 3991; Martin & Walter, 30396. First edition. - On the title the author's name is spelled: Derubigny. 'Au début de cet opuscule, considérations générales sur le commerce, 'un des principaux nerfs du Corps Politiques et Social' grâce auquel les Empires se peuplent et se soutiennent contre les fléax de la guerre, de la famine ou de la stérilité.' (INED). Trade will always escape from oppression and can flourish only in complete freedom. The 'maximum' should be abolished. The Law of the Maximum (29 September 1793) was legislation which established a partially controlled economy during the Year II. There were in all three of such laws issued: the first on 4 May 1793, fixing prices on wheat and flour, the second one (29 September 1793) fixing both wages and prices over a wide spectrum of primary commodities and production, while the third (24 February 1794 or 6 Ventôse Year II) replaced the local prices of the second maximum with a schedule of national prices. EUR 200
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SAINT-ALBINE, (J.B.) DE. Projet d'une banque nationale à établir en France. No place, 1789. (2), 36 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not inGoldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 30643. First edition. J.B. Duplain de Saint-Albine, born in 1748, merchant in Lyon, came to Paris in 1784, one of the principal shareholders of the Caisse d'Escompte. The present work pleads in favour of freedom of trade and commerce. EUR 180
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SAINT-JUST, (A.L.L.) Opinion du citoyen Saint-Just sur les subsistences. A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie Vatar-Delaroche, 1793. 14 pp. Small 4to. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 30709; Soboul, Saint-Just, 39. Speech first delivered (and printed) at the Convention on 29 november, 1792, this is a provincial printing of this famous speech. This speech was given by Saint-Just on November 29, 1792 and opens with the sentence "Je n'aime point les loix violentes sur le commerce ....' The speech evoked much enthusiasm and its printing was decreed. On December 8, 'la liberté la plus entière du commerce' was announced. This discussion was held amidst much turmoil: there was a political crises due to the trial of the king which was aggrevated by an economical crises. Bread was not only expensive, it was even scarce. Although the harvest had been good, nobody wanted to bring it on the market because he would be paid in devaluated, and still devaluating, paper-money. The adopted policy led to a further deepening of the economic crisis: 'Le mécontentement populaire s'exprima dans les revendications des Enragés. Le 1er décembre l'abbé Jacques Roux .... dénonçait les agioteurs, les accapareurs et les traîtres. Dès le début de 1793, il s'avéra que la politique économique de non-intervention voulue par les Girondins, tolérée par les Montagnards, avait fait faillite.' The Mountain continued for a time to continue its policy of free trade but finally gave in, after much popular pressure on September 29, 1793 (Soboul, op.cit., p. 85). EUR 250
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SALZADE, DE. Recueil des Monnoies tant anciennes que modernes, ou Dictionnaire Historique des Monnoies qui peuvent être connus dans les quatre parties du Monde, avec leur Poids, Titre & Valeur. Divisé en Quatre Parties, Savoir: Pour les Hébreux, Pour les Grecs, Pour les Romains, Pour les François. Avec des Tarifs à la suite du Dictionnaire, pour celles qui ont présentement cours en Europe. A Bruxelles, Chez Jean-Joseph Boucherie, 1767. With three large folding tables. (6), 404, (2) pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, corners, spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners bumped, somewhat rubbed, small split at foot of upper joint. Kress 6489; Goldsmiths 10346; Higgs 4158; Conlon 67:1260; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. Apart from the historical part dealing with Hebrew, Greek, Roman and French currency, the work deals among others with: Nature de l'or; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies d'Or; Nature de l'Argent; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies d'Argent; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies de Billon; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies de Cuivre; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies d'Etain; Dictionnaire historique des Monnoies de Plomb; Monnoies de Compte; Monnoies courantes de France; De Strasbourg; De Nancy; De Barcelone; De Lisbonne; D'Angleterre; D'Hollande; De Stockholm; Rome; Venise; Berlin; Riga; Petersbourg; etc. etc.The last 2 pages contains the approbation and the errata. - Title-page browned, with offsetting of the corners in blank portion, somewhat browned throughout. EUR 750
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SAVARY DE BRUSLONS, J. Dictionnaire universel de commerce, contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde, par terre, par mer, de proche en proche, & par des voyages au long cours, tant en gros qu'en détail. L'explication de tous les termes qui ont rapport au négoce, les monnayes de compte qui servent à y tenir les livres et écritures des marchands .... les productions .... les étoffes, ouvrages et manufactures .... les Compagnies de commerce tant français qu'étrangères .... avec l'histoire de leur établissement .... les banques .... les Chambres d'Assurances, le détail du commerce de la France .... l'établissement des six corps marchands et des cent-vingt-quatre communautés des Arts et métiers .... Les Édits, déclarations, ordonnances, arrêts et réglements. Ouvrage posthume, continué sur les mémoires de l'auteur par Ph.L. Savary. Nouvelle édition. Tome Premier [-Tome Troisième]. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Estienne et Fils, 1741. 3 volumes. (8), xxvii, (1), 544 pp., (545)-1140 numbered columns; (4) pp., 1772 numbered columns; (4) pp., 1316, 684 numbered columns. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering. Kress 4584; Goldsmiths 7819; not in Einaudi; not in INED. -Very small damage to head of spines of volumes 1 and 2. Jacques Savary (1622-1690) was for some time director of the French Royal Domains, and later became general business agent to the Duke of Mantua. He had such sound notions about commerce and was so successful in his operations that Colbert appointed him in 1670 in the "Conseil de la Reforme", which was to reform and refine the rules of commercial practice. The "Commercial Code" of 1673 resulting from it was called after him "Code Savary". He was then also pressed to write down and publish all his commercial knowledge, which pressure led to the publication of the famous Le parfait Négociant (1675). It taught everything a merchant should know, but only his left papers revealed to the world the immense and universal knowledge on commerce Savary possessed. The dictionary was immensely successful and covers all aspects of commerce and trade as well as legal and historical matters. Deals among others with: trading cities throughout the world, their manufactures, operation of foreign trade, trading companies (including a short history of the South Sea Company), banking (including an account of John Law's Bank), bookkeeping, etc. etc. The dictionary was the first of its kind to appear in Europe, and has furnished the principal part of the material for most of the dictionaries that were to follow. The project was sponsored by the French government who justly considered that such a dictionary, if well executed, would be of national importance. Hence a considerable, and indeed the most valuable portion of the work is compiled from memoirs sent to the author, by order of government, by the inspectors of manufactures in France and by the French consuls in foreign countries (see: McCulloch, p. 61). The dictionary is preceded, in volume one, with an elaborate, long (upto column 544) separate essays on the "État général du commerce de l'Europe" (and followed by the other continents Africa, Asia and the Americas). EUR 2500
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SAY, J.B. Lettres à M. Malthus, sur différens sujets d'Économie Politique, notamment sur les causes de la stagnation générale du commerce. A Paris, Chez Bossange, père et fils; A Londres, chez Martin Bossange, 1820. (8), 184 pp. 8vo. Contemporary paper covers, spine with small loss of paper, inner corner of front cover gone, small loss to upper outer corner of front cover, and front cover somewhat loosening, paper label to spine. Teilhac, p. 376; Kress C.617; Goldsmiths 22780; Einaudi 5115. First edition. A collection of five letters written by Say upon reading Malthus' Principles of Political Economy in defence of his own theories. Its success was considerable, an English translation was published a year later. Fundamental for the discussion between the classical approach and the opponents. Later Keynes would side with Malthus.Schumpeter remarked judiciously: 'Say's work is the most important of the links in the chain that leads from Cantillon and Turgot to Walras.' Say opened up new paths, but later authors followed them with more succes than he. This was the case with the members of the marginalist school -Carl Menger, Stanley Jevons, and especially Léon Walras- who were able to employ the notion of utility in a much more precise and scientifically valid manner than their common precursor (Walras tended to minimize his debt to Say, but it was nevertheless important). Say is seen primarily as the author of the law of the markets, one of the favorite butts of Keynesian and neo-Keynesian criticism, and this 'law', interpreted and misinterpreted as it has been, may remain his chief title to fame. But perhaps he will be remembered for his power to build on established intellectual traditions and to stimulate other thinkers: there lay his true merit, which only time will confirm (Gaston Leduc in IESS). - Some very light browning and occasional scattered spotting, small stamp on blank portion of title-page. Verso half-title old ownership's entry, verso half-title also the indication that the book was printed by 'Firmin Didot, père et fils'. EUR 1000
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SAY, J.B. Lettres à M. Malthus, sur différens sujets d'Économie Politique, notamment sur les causes de la stagnation générale du commerce. A Paris, Chez Bossange, père et fils; A Londres, chez Martin Bossange, 1820. (8), 184 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt with gilt lettering (Ateliers Laurenchet). Teilhac, p. 376; Kress C.617; Goldsmiths 22780; Einaudi 5115; Mattioli 3231. First edition. A collection of five letters written by Say upon reading Malthus' Principles of Political Economy in defence of his own theories. Its success was considerable, an English translation was published a year later. Fundamental for the discussion between the classical approach and the opponents. Later Keynes would side with Malthus.Schumpeter remarked judiciously: 'Say's work is the most important of the links in the chain that leads from Cantillon and Turgot to Walras.' Say opened up new paths, but later authors followed them with more succes than he. This was the case with the members of the marginalist school -Carl Menger, Stanley Jevons, and especially Léon Walras- who were able to employ the notion of utility in a much more precise and scientifically valid manner than their common precursor (Walras tended to minimize his debt to Say, but it was nevertheless important). Say is seen primarily as the author of the law of the markets, one of the favorite butts of Keynesian and neo-Keynesian criticism, and this 'law', interpreted and misinterpreted as it has been, may remain his chief title to fame. But perhaps he will be remembered for his power to build on established intellectual traditions and to stimulate other thinkers: there lay his true merit, which only time will confirm (Gaston Leduc in IESS).Somewhat spotted. EUR 1400
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SCHNEIDER, E. Wirtschaftlichkeitsrechnung. Berne, A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr, 1951. With 33 diagrams. viii, 156 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth with dustwrapper (Hand- und Lehrbücher aus dem Gebiet der Sozialwissenschaften). New Palgrave, iv, pp. 258-259; not in Mattioli. First edition. In substance, this work is the German version of the work published in 1944 in Danish Investering og Rente. Erich Schneider's works were instrumental in narrowing the wide margin by which German economists had fallen below international standards during the Hitler era, but also even before that due to the dominance of the Historical School.Disappointed by the Historical School, he found encouragement with the important business economists in Frankfurt. To gain his own access to Walras and to modern economics, he subsequently studied mathematics. From 1925 until 1936 he made a living as a school teacher in mathematics, which enabled him to keep in close contact with Joseph Schumpeter in Bonn during economically hard times. He earned his habilitation in 1932, under Schumpeter's supervision, with work on monopolistic and oligopolistic competition. This continued to be his favourite area of research, ranking him among the important pioneers of the theory of imperfect competition.In 1936, Schneider was appointed professor of managerial economics at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he stayed untill 1945. It was in this period that he wrote his important contributions to the theory of production, investment and corporate planning which anticipated many later developments. With microeconomic problems as a point of departure, he found his way to J.M. Keynes who, together with Marshall, was to influence him much more than his mentor Schumpeter. Important work on fiscal theory was also completed in Denmark (the mentioned work Investering og Rente). EUR 150
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SEDAN CHAIRS - ORDONNANCE de police, concernant les porteurs & tireurs de chaises. Du 31 mai 1782. (Drop-head title). (Paris), (at end:) Ph.-D. Pierres, imprimeur-ordinaire du Roi, 1782. 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Reglementation in 10 articles of prices (during the day and during the night) and the obligations of the 'porteurs and tireurs' of chairs in Paris. EUR 75
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SEE, H. L'évolution commerciale et industrielle de la France sous l'Ancien Régime. Paris, Alcan, 1925. 396, 24 (catalogue) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, uncut. Bourgeois & André 5571, note. Includes a bibliography listing 243 items. EUR 75
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SEE, H. L'évolution commerciale et industrielle de la France sous l'Ancien Régime. Paris, M. Girard, 1925. 396 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, a bit discoloured, frayed, front cover with a small spot, uncut (Bibliothèque Internationale d'Économie Politique). Bourgeois & Amdré 5571, note. Includes a bibliography listing 243 items. EUR 75
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SEGUIN, J. Recours pour le sieur Jules Seguin, entrepreneur du pont suspendu du Pertuis, dans le département de Vaucluse; contre l'administration générale des ponts et chaussées. (Paris, Imprimerie de Félix Locquin, 1834). 18 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Deals with a conflict about jurisdiction: the administration, claims the author, has imposed on itself the right to judge his work while a clause in the contract mentions the right for the administration of 'surveillance'. EUR 125
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SEINE-INFERIEURE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée administrative du département de la Seine-Inférieure, aux mois de novembre et décembre 1791. Seconde session. Rouen, Imprimerie de Louis Oursel, 1791. With 28 folding tables. 485, (1), (19), 4 pp. 4to. Modern cloth. Lecestre 160; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 16559 (both without listing the tables). Important source, including material concerning the French colonies in America. EUR 450
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations on the commerce of the American States. With an appendix containing tables of the import and export of Great Britain to and from all parts, from 1700 to 1783. Also, the export of America, &c. with remarks on those tables, on the trade and navigation of Great Britain, and on the late Proclamations, &c. The sixthe edition, enlarged with a complete index to the whole. London, printed for J. Debrett, 1784. With 16 tables (mainly folding). (4), xlvii, 345, (30), 24 pp. and 4 lvs of publisher's catalogue. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Sabin 32633; JFBL S290; Howes H.616; not in Streeter; Kress B.784; Goldsmiths 12623; cf.: Black 1348 (Dublin edition); not in Einaudi. Much expanded edition. - Inscribed by the author in upper margin of the title-page, slightly touched by the binder's knife. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might.The tables provide extensive statistical information, giving a comparative export and import survey of the trade between the United States and other countries. This translation from the English original was due to De Rumare, magistrate at Rouen. The later Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables. EUR 700
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations sur le commerce des États d'Amérique, pour servir de suite aux Révolutions des États-Unis d'Amérique. Traduites de l'Anglais par Mirabeau. Nouvelle édition fort augmentée, avec un Supplément. A Paris, Chez Moutardier, an V, 1796. xvi, 335 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed, vellum corners. Howes H.616; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in Sabin; not in Leclerc; not in Fay; not in Goldsmiths; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. Improved edition of De Mirabeau's translation. This Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables to be found in other editions. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might. EUR 500
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations sur le commerce des États Américains, par le Lord Sheffield. A Londres, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1789. Engraved title within border, 16 tables, some folding.vi, (7)-230 pp. 4to. Modern half calf. Cf.: Sabin 32638; not in Echeverria & Wilkie (listing 4 diferent 8vo editions); not in Leclerc; not in Fay; not in Howes; cf.: Kress B.1719; cf.: Goldsmiths 13832; not in Einaudi. Only edition in Quarto, very rare, probably the first French edition. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might.The tables provide extensive statistical information, giving a comparative export and import survey of the trade between the United States and other countries. This translation from the English original was due to De Rumare, magistrate at Rouen. The later Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables. - Large paper copy. Titlepage a little browned. EUR 1400
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SHEFFIELD, J. (BAKER HOLROYD.) Observations sur le Commerce des États Américains, par le Lord Sheffield. A Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Dame Besongue, 1789. With 16 tables, some folding, one covering 7 separate pages, and one covering 24 pages. vi, (7)-238 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Sabin 32638 (incomplete copy); not in Leclerc; Fay 25; not in Howes; Kress B.1719 (incomplete copy); Goldsmiths 13832; not in Einaudi. The first French edition, the rare Quarto edition, translation was due to De Rumare, a magistrate in Rouen. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might.The tables provide extensive statistical information, giving a comparative export and import survey of the trade between the United States and other countries. This translation from the English original was due to De Rumare, magistrate at Rouen. The later Mirabeau translation did not include the statistical tables.Probably the second issue, containing at the end the 'Table des Matières' which has not been printed for the edition published in the same year 'A Londres, aux dépens de la Compagnie.' EUR 1200
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STRASBOURG - WIR DER MEISTER und Rath samt unsern Freunden den beständigen Räthen thus hiermit Jedermann kund und zu wissen, dass ..... die Ammlungmacher hauptsächlichen angewiesen sind "zur Fabrizirung der Ammlung nur Kleyen, Gerstengrätze, Siebmehl und den Abfall von den Mehl, welches die Becker brauchen, anzuwenden ....." (First part of text, headed by coat of arms). (At end) Strassburg, den 2ten Novembris 1789. 1 page. Folio. Folded, disbound. Signed: Ex mandato, Trombert, Secret.Regulating the ingredients and raw materials to be used in bakeries. EUR 75
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TAXATION OF CLOTH - MANUSCRIPT by an anonymous author containing a report on the taxation of woolen cloth and other cloths, of which a number date from the 16th century and which have fallen into disuse since long. (ab. 1764) 17 pp. Folio. Sewn. A marginal contemporary note reads: 'Extrait d'observations faites par M. Bruyard. Affaire terminée par l'Edit d'avril 1764, qui supprime toutes les amendes, &.' Interesting document concerning the taxation of cloths. EUR 400
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TAXES - MANUSCRIPT dating from the 18th-century listing taxes and levies on various kinds of goods. (ab. 1773). 45 leaves. Folio. Contemporary calf, worn. Composed as follows: 6 pages of which 4 pages filled with tarifs for paper and cardboard, last 2 leaves empty.1 leaf of tables of measures: Toise, Pieds, Pouces and Ligues. On verso of this leaf: Tarifs des droits qui sont dûs aux entrées de Paris sur toutes les différentes espèces de verreries cristaux.37 leaves of tables of taxes and levies, written within single or double line borders, for: vin commun - quartraux d'Orléans et de Champagne - vin de liqueur - vin hors barrrière - eau-de-vie simple - eau-de-vie double - esprit de vin - cidre entrant à Paris - cidre hors barrière - poire entrant à Paris - bierre entrant où fabriqué à Paris - vinaigre - verjus le muid - cendre gravelée - potasse - souts - cendre (of specified composition) - boeufs - vaches - veaux - porcs vifs - porcs morts - mouton - boeuf et mouton en livre - veaux en livre - porc en livre, frais, ou salé, et fromage de porc - jambons gros, moyens et jambonneaux - têtes issus etc. - drogeries - draperie, bonnetrie, dantelles, etc. - petites mercerie, quincaillerie, etc - toile à canevas - papier et cardboard - laines - beures frais - oeufs avec détail - lies voutes pour les champillons - droits sur le foin - droits sur la paille - foin de crû - paille de crû - droits sur l'avoine - droits sur la vesce - droits sur les grainailles - droits sur les légumes - droits sur l'orge - avoine en somme - orge en somme - avoine de crû - bois à bruler - bois de crû - volaille - bois quarés - etc.Verso of leaf 37 - end: various others tarifs, primarily on linen. EUR 1750
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TERRAI - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires concernant l'administration des finances, sous le ministère de M. l'abbé Terrai, contrôleur général. A Londres, Chez John Adamson, 1776. With engraved portrait (added). (2), (v)-viii, (9)-427 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt triple fillet on sides, spine richly gilt, red label with gilt lettering, corners a bit bumped. Kress 7202; Goldsmiths 11455; Stourm 85; cf.: INED 1195; cf.: Einaudi 1290. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed by Einaudi under 1290 and in Kress under 7204, both listing a copy of 328 pages and without mention of a publisher, and the present copy, published by Adamson. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. Divided into three parts. The second part is entitled: Relation historique de l'émeute arrivée à Paris le 3 Mai 1775, et de ce qui l'a précédé et suivi', and the third part is entitled: 'Lettres d'un actionnaire à un autre actionnaire, contenant la Relation de ce qui s'est passée dans les dernières Assemblées de la Compagnie des Indes'. EUR 650
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TERRAI - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires concernant l'administration des finances sous le ministère de M. l'abbé Terrai, controleur général. A Londres, Chez John Adamson, 1776. (2), (v)-viii, (9)-427 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with raised bands, green label with gilt lettering, gilt fillet on sides. Kress 7202; Goldsmiths 11455; Stourm, p. 85; cf.: INED 1195; not in Einaudi. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed by Einaudi 1290 and Kress 7204. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. Divided into three parts, the second is entitled: 'Relation historique de l'émeute arrivée à Paris le 3 Mai 1775; et de ce qui l'a précédé et suivi.' The third part is entitled: 'Lettres d'un actionnaire à un autre actionnaire, contenant la Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans les dernières Assemblées de la Compagnie des Indes.' - Engraved armorial bookplate of Middleton Park on front paste-down. EUR 600
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TERRAI - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, contrôleur général des finances; Avec une relation de l'émeute arrivée à Paris en 1775, & suivis de quatorze lettres d'un actionnaire de la Compagnie des Indes. Londres, 1776. (4), 398 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards, marbled edges. Kress 7204; Einaudi 1290; INED 1195; Stourm, p. 85; not in Goldsmiths. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed under Goldsmiths 11455 and under Kress 7202 (both listing 427 pages) which was published by John Adamson, and the present edition without a publisher. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. - Small piece torn off from first flyleaf. EUR 400
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TERRAI - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, controleur général, contenant sa vie, son administration, ses intrigues et sa chûte. Avec une Relation de l'émeute arrivée à Paris en 1775. No place, à la Chancellerie, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. 386 pp.; 212 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, red edges, tiny damage to head of spine, two corners a bit bumped. Cf.: Kress 7203; Goldsmiths 11453; not in Einaudi; Stourm, p. 85; cf: INED 1195. The best edition, and undoubtedly the rarest of the three editions. Other editions were published at London, John Adamson, and London, no publisher see respectively Goldsmiths 11455, Kress 7202 and 7204 and Einaudi 1290. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai.Volume 2 contains: 'Relation historique de l'émeute arrivée à Paris le 3 mai 1775' and 'Lettres d'un actionnaire à un autre actionnaire, contenant la Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans les dernières Assemblées de la Compagnie des Indes' and 'Lettre de l'abbé Terray à M. Turgot' (INED 4292). EUR 700
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TERRAI - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires concernant l'administration des finances, sous le ministère de M. l'abbé Terrai, contrôleur général. Londres, John Adamson, 1776. With engraved portrait (added). (2), (v)-viii, (9)-427 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, red morocco label on spine with gilt lettering, spine gilt with raised bands, corners, red sprinkled edges (a trifle damaged at lower band). Kress 7202; Goldsmiths 11455; Stourm 85; cf.: INED 1195; cf.: Einaudi 1290. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed by Einaudi under 1290 and in Kress under 7204, both listing a copy of 328 pages and without mention of a publisher, and the present copy, published by Adamson. - Copy from the Bibliothèque de M. Laplagne Barris. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai.Divided into three parts. The second part is entitled: 'Relation historique de l'émeute arrivée à Paris le 3 Mai 1775, et de ce qui l'a précédé et suivi' and the third part is entitled: 'Lettres d'un actionnaire à un autre actionnaire, contenant la Relation de ce qui s'est passée dans les dernières Assemblées de la Compagnie des Indes.' EUR 600
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TERRAY - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, controleur général, contenant sa vie, son administration, ses intrigues et sa chûte. Nouvelle édition. No place, à la Chancellerie, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. (2), vi, 320 pp.; (4), 266 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled edges. Kress 7203; Goldsmiths 11454; not in Einaudi; Stourm, p. 85; cf: INED 1195. The best edition. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. Vol. 2 contains: Relation historique de l'émeute arrivée à Paris le 3 mai 1775. Includes also: 'Lettres (14 in all) d'un actionnaire à un autre actionnaire, contenant la Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans les dernières Assemblées de la Compagnie des Indes'. - 'Lettre de l'abbé Terray à M. Turgot'. This is an apocryphal letter attacking Maupeou and the financial policy of Terray (see INED 4292). EUR 750
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TERRAY - (COQUEREAU, J.B.L.) Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, contrôleur général des finances; Avec une relation de l'émeute arrivée à Paris en 1775, & suivis de quatorze lettres d'un actionnaire de la Compagnie des Indes. Londres, 1776. (4), 398 pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, joints a bit rubbed, small damage to head of spine. Kress 7204; Einaudi 1290; INED 1195; Stourm, p. 85; not in Goldsmiths. One of three editions published in the same year: there is copy published 'A la Chancellerie' (Goldsmiths 11453) and the copy listed under Goldsmiths 11455 and under Kress 7202 (both listing 427 pages) and which was published by John Adamson and the present edition without a publisher. Apocryph memoirs, aiming to demonstrate the bad management of Terrai. - Small piece torn off from first flyleaf. EUR 400
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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. L'abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, PUF, 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, 3). EUR 75
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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. L'abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, PUF, 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, 3), a bit discoloured. EUR 75
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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. L'abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, PUF, 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, 3). EUR 75
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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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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. L'abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, PUF, 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Original printed covers (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, 3), a bit discoloured. EUR 75
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TERRAY - GIRARD, R. L'abbé Terray et la liberté du commerce des grains, 1769-1774. Paris, PUF, 1924. xxix, 131, (4) pp. 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers (Université de Paris. Bibliothèque de la Faculté des Lettres. Deuxième série, 3). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - ARRETE additionnel à celui du 7 frimaire an X, sur l'entrepôt à Bordeaux des tabacs en feuille venant de l'étranger. Du 9 Thermidor an X de la République française, une et indivisible. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1801). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound, folded, uncut. (Bulletin des Lois, no 204.) Signed: Bonaparte. EUR 75
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TOBACCO - LOI relative au droit d'entrée sur les tabacs en feuille, et celui qui sera perçu pour leur fabrication. Du 29 Floréal an X de la République française, une et indivisible. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1802). 7, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. (Bulletin des lois, nr 192). Bonaparte, Premier Consul, proclame ..... EUR 75
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TOBACCO - ARRETE portant établissement à Baïonne d'un entrepôt de tabac en feuille venant de l'étranger. Saint-Cloud, le 21 Fructidor an XI de la République française. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1803). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. (Bulletin des lois, no 312.) EUR 75
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TOBACCO - ARRETES relatifs aux douanes. Du 2 Thermidor an X de la République française. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, de l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des Lois, (1802). 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. 1. qui comprendla ville d'Anvers au nombre des ports pour l'introduction du tabac en feuilles. -2. qui détermine les cas où il sera accordé réduction de droits pour cause d'avaries. - 3. relatifs aux droits sur le poisson de mer, venant de l'étranger. - 4 relatif aux relations commerciales de l'île de Noirmoutiers avec l'étranger. EUR 100
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TOBACCO - REPORT for the board of tobacco at Nantes, concerning the entrepot Paimbeuf (sic). (1765). 7 pages, partly printed, partly manuscript. Folio. Folded. On the lefthand side of each page the questions asked are printed, the replies are given on the rightside in manuscript.The questions asked are very detailed, as are the replies, including those concerning 'faux tabac', smuggling, control, etc.Page 6 contains a table of recipe and dispense of tobacco for the period 1 october 1764 - 18 august 1765. EUR 250
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TOBACCO - COLLECTION of 2 invoices, partly printed, partly filled in by hand, from the tobacco factory of Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne), dated 9 Ventôse an III and 24 Germinal an V (30 september 1794 and 13 april 1797). 2 pieces. 1 page each. Small 4to. EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I) Décret impérial qui proroge le délai fixé pour l'obtention des licences relatives aux fabriques de tabac. Au palais de Fontainebleau, le 4 Frimaire an XIII (1804). (Drop-headtitle). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des lois, (1804) 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des Lois, no 21). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décret impérial qui établit un entrepôt de tabac étranger à Toulouse. Au palais des Tuileries, le 9 Frimaire an XIII. (1804). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Dépôt des lois, (1804). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 23). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décret impérial concernant l'admission des tabacs en feuille par le bureau de Moock, direction de Clèves. A Milan, le 10 Prairial an XIII.(1805). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Rondonneau, (1805). 1, (3 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 47). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décret impérial relatif à la déclaration et à la marque des tabacs dépourvus du type prescrit par les lois des 22 brumaire an VII et 5 ventôse an XII. Au palais des Tuileries, le 3 nivôse an XIII (1804). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Rondonneau, (1804). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 48). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décret impérial portant création d'une régie pour l'approvisionnement et la vente du sel et du tabac dans les 27. et 28e divisions militaires. Au Palais de Saint-Cloud, le 2 Thermidor an XIII (1804). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Rondonneau, (1804). 4 pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 53). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décret impérial qui assujettit les marchands ou commissionnaires de tabacs en gros à prendre une licence de débitant. A Bologne, le 4 Messidor an XIII (1805). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Rondonneau, (1805). 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 55). EUR 75
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TOBACCO - (NAPOLEON I). Décrets impériaux relatifs aux droits réunis. Des 26 Fructidor, 2e et 4e jours complémentaires an XIII (1805). (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, Chez Rondonneau, (1805). 4 pp. 4to. Folded. (Bulletin des lois, no 58). EUR 75
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TOURTEREL, (M.) DE. Dissertation sur le choix que l'on doit faire entre les principaux projets donnés pour la jonction des deux mers par la construction d'un canal en Bourgogne, Présentée au Roi, ....., Avec une carte de la France, où est décrite la Route de cette Jonction. A Dijon, Chez De Fay, 1727. With folding map. (8), 28 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards, gilt lettering on spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Conlon 27:736. First edition. - Inner margin of title restored. The first plan for a canal between the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean was made under Henry IV. In 1666 Riquet was ordered to study again the project, which was several times improved, rejected and again improved. In 1834 the canal was finally opened. EUR 275
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TURGOT - EDIT du Roi, portant suppression des jurandes et communautés de commerce, arts & métiers. Donné à Versailles au moi de février 1776. Registré en Parlement le 12 Mars audit an. (Drop-head title). (A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 19, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, giltlettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 2205 (edition printed in Lyon); Catalogue des Actes Royaux 38962. First edition of this extremely important document. The preamble is edited by Turgot and is a wellknown manifest proclaiming the right to work, in fact the very first appearance of this notion of the right to work which was later taken up by Louis Blanc!, and one of the most interesting texts of the 'école physiocratique.' It calls for the suppression of the jurandes (the government of privileged corporations) and formed number 4 of six projects of edicts. The first aimed at the suppression of the corvée, 2, 3, 5, and 6 for the suppression of several regulations, duties, and offices interfering with the provision of Paris, and the present one. The edicts on the suppression of the corvée and the jurandes were the most important reforms Turgot aimed at and over these two the principal battle between Turgot and his enemies was fought. 'As an indirect consequence of the Reformation, some breaking up of the system of trade corporations had been more or less general in almost all countries. But in France, at the period we are touching, the old trade customs and laws still held almost unmitigated rule. Turgot then proceeds to make a declaration of the 'rights of industry', worthy of being placed alongside of the best declarations of political independence: 'God, by giving to man wants, and making his recourse to work necessary to supply them, has made the right to work the property of every man, and this property is the first, the most sacred, the most imprescriptible of all.' The Parlement was against the edicts but the King sided with Turgot and had them compulsorily registered by the Parlement at a lit de justice. Turgot had gained a victory, but by the victory he lost his ministry. The Parlement was exasperated by its defeat. His enemies drew reinforcements, from all sides, in order to crush the man who, because he suppressed some flagrant abuses, was accused, as usual in such circumstances, of 'unsettling everything.' A Grande dame of the Court is said to have expressed the general feeling of 'everybody' when she exclaimed: 'Why these innovations? -are we not well enough as we are?' (Walker Stephens, W., The life and writings of Turgot, pp. 124 ff.) EUR 1250
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TURGOT - PROCES VERBAL de ce qui s'est passé au Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roi (Louis XVI) au Château de Versailles, le vendredi 5 mai 1775. A Lyon, De l'Imprimerie de P. Valfray, 1775. 12 pp. 4to. Disbound. Deals with the 'guerre des farines' and the riots caused by Turgot's edict on the freedom of corntrade. These riots occured in different parts of the kingdom, but especially in Versailles and Paris where barns were burnt and boats with corn were sunk by insurgents. In Versailles flour stores were pillaged after which they walked on Paris and pillaged the bakers' shops everywhere the next day:.see at length: J.P. Poirier, Turgot. Paris, Perrin, 2000, pp. 232 ff. This Lit de Justice forced the Parlement of Paris to register a proclamation of the king, ordering the pillagers to be tried at the courts of the Provost-Marshal. EUR 450
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TURGOT - PROCES-VERBAL de ce qui s'est passé au Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roi au château de Versailles, le vendredi 5 mai 1775. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1775. 12 pp. 4to. Disbound Deals with the 'guerre des farines' and the riots caused by Turgot's edict on the freedom of corntrade. These riots occured in different parts of the kingdom, but especially in Versailles and Paris where barns were burnt and boats with corn were sunk by insurgents. In Versailles flour stores were pillaged after which they walked on Paris and pillaged the bakers' shops everywhere the next day. (See at length: J.P. Poirier, Turgot.) EUR 350
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TURGOT - EXTRAIT du procès-verbal du Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roi au Château de Versailles, le vendredi 5 mai 1775. Paris, P.-G. Simon, 1775. 15, (1, blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Deals with the 'guerre des farines' and the riots caused by Turgot's edict on the freedom of corntrade. These riots occured in different parts of the kingdom, but especially in Versailles and Paris where barns were burnt and boats with corn were sunk by insurgents. In Versailles flour stores were pillaged after which they walked on Paris and pillaged the bakers' shops everywhere the next day (See at length: J.P. Poirier, Turgot.) EUR 450
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TURGOT - (LOUIS XVI.) De par le Roi. Il est défendu, sous peine de la vie, à toutes personnes de quelque qualité qu'elles soient, de former aucun attroupement. D'entrer de force dans la maison ou boutique d'aucun boulanger, ni dans aucun dépôt de grains, graines, farine & pain .... Paris, Imprimerie royale, (4 mai) 1775. - (Followed by:) (LOUIS XVI.) De par le Roi. Il est ordonné que toutes personne, de quelque qualité qu'elles soient, qui étant entrées dans les attroupemens .... ne pourront être arrêtées .... pourvu qu'elles rentrent sur le champ dans leurs paroisses, & qu'elles restituent en nature ou en argent, suivant la véritable valeur, les grains, farines, ou pain qu'elles ont pillés .... (At end:) (Paris), Imprimerie Guillaume Desprez, (1775). - (Followed by:) (LOUIS XVI). Déclaration du Roi, qui révoque celle du 5 mai dernier, rendue à l'occasion des émeutes sur les grains. Donnée à Versailles le vingt-quatre novembre 1778. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, P.G. Simon, 1775. 3 pieces of 2 pp.; 2 pp.; 4 pp. 4to. Disbound. Poirier, Turgot (1999), pp. 232 and ff.; D. Dakin, Turgot and the Ancien Regime in France, chapter xii. The texts of these royal documents were drawn up by Turgot. Deals with the 'guerre des farines' and the riots caused by Turgot's edict on the freedom of corntrade. The freedom of grain trade was a central element in Turgot's politics but unfortunatley the bad harvest of 1774 caused prices to rise: the population thought it was the consequence of Turgot's policy. These riots occured in different parts of the kingdom, but especially in Versailles and Paris where barns were burnt and boats with corn were sunk by insurgents. In Versailles flour stores were pillaged after which they walked on Paris and pillaged the bakers' shops everywhere the next day. EUR 500
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VALAZE, (C.E. DUFRICHE DE.) Opinion sur les subsistances. (29 novembre 1792). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 23 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 33072. First edition. Very hostile to the ideas of the 'economists' concerning free corn trade. 'Valazé, Charles-Eléonor Du Friche de, conventionnel. D'abord officier, puis avocat à Alençon, il fut député de l'Orne à la Convention, s'y rangea parmi les Girondins, et vota dans le procès du roi pour l'appel au peuple, la mort et le sursis. He studied Rousseau, Montesquieu and Beccaria and wrote a work against the death penalty, Le Cri de l'humanité, which remained in mauscript until 1785. He published with his brother a pamphlet entitled Idées d'un citoyen sur un système possible des finances. See: A. Kuscinski, Dictionnaire des Conventionnels, pp. 220-221). EUR 112
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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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VETILLART (DU RIBERT, M. FR.) Douanes. Augmentation de droits sur les toiles étrangères. Réduction de droits sur les cotons. Paris, Adrien Egron, juillet 1824. 22 pp. 8vo. 2 folded leaves, uncut, unopened. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Black; Michaud, Biographie universelle, 43, p. 267. Original edition. The author was manufacturer in Mans. He opposed the plans of the government to increase the import taxes on foreign cloth. EUR 175
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VITAL-ROUX. Rapport sur les jurandes et maîtrises; et sur un Projet de statuts et règlemens pour MM. les marchands de vin de Paris. Paris, Imprimerie de Stoupe, 1805. - (Followed by:) DELIBERATIONS des conseils généraux, du commerce et des manufactures, établis près du Ministère de l'Intérieure, sur le rétablissement demandé des corps de marchands et des communautés d'arts et métiers. (Paris), Hacquart, (1821). - (Followed by:) LEGRET, G.P. Sur les corporations. Paris, J.L. Scherff, 1818. - (Followed by:) PILLET-WILL. Réponse au mémoire de M. Levacher-Duplessis, ayant pour titre: Requête et mémoire sur la nécessité de rétablir les corps des marchands et les communautés d'arts et métiers. (Paris), Didot l'aîné, (1817). - (Followed by:) (LEVACHER-DUPLESSIS.) Réponse des délégués des marchands en détail et des maîtres artisans de la ville de Paris. Aux rapport et délibérations des Conseils généraux du Commerce et des manufactures établis auprès de Son Excellence le Ministre de l'Intérieure. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Dondey-Dupré, 1821). 5 works bound in 1 volume. (4), 180 pp.; 37, (1) pp.; iv, 32 pp.; 8 pp.; 27, (1) pp. 4to (first and last piece, the others being in 8vo). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, vellum corners, spine gilt in compartments, rear joint rubbed, front joint almost loose and spine partially detached. First work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 4465. Large paper copy. The other 4 works not in Kress or Goldsmiths. EUR 300
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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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WINTER, P.J. VAN. Het aandeel van den Amsterdamschen handel aan den opbouw van het Amerikaansche Gemeenebest. 's Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1927-1933. With 4 folding maps. 2 volumes. xxxvi, 240 pp.; xxiv, 500 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering (Het Nederlandsche Economisch-Historisch Archief. Werken, 7 & 9). EUR 125
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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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