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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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EVALUATION ET TARIF des espèces, vaiselle & matières d'or & d'argent. Fait & arresté en la Cour des Monnoyes, le vingt-huitième jour de septembre 1699. Paris, Imprimerie de Fr. Leonard, 1699. Royal coat of arms on title. 24 pp. Small 4to. In folded leaves. Deals not only with French money, but also with foreign money (English, Venetian, Portuguese, Flemish, Italian, gold powder from Guinea, German, etc.) EUR 150
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LETTER, A, from a member of Parliament for a Borough in the West, to a noble Lord in his neighbourhood there, concerning the Excise-Bill, and the manner and causes of losing it. London, J. Roberts, 1733. 32 pp. 8vo. Sewn, modern blind wrappers. Kress 4105; Goldsmiths 7122; Hanson 4563. EUR 175
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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 Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1791. 2, (2 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. The King starts already by stating: The National Assemblee has ordered, & we wish and order what follows ..... EUR 75
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MEMOIRE sur l'assiete, la perception et la comptabilité des sommes à lever annuellement pour le besoin de l'Etat. A Paris, Chez Gattey, (1789). (2), 38 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Stourm, p. 191; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9809. Pleads for another distribution of taxes to ease the burden on the poor and labourers. EUR 150
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MOYEN de faire reparoître le numéraire dans Paris, adressé à l'Assemblée nationale. Paris, G. de Bure l'âiné, (1790). 13, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 14394; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 10378; Tourneux 12697. EUR 75
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MOYEN à prendre pour prévenir la contrefaçon des assignats. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont de Nemours, 1791. (2), 14 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress;not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 10368. First edition, printed on the press of Dupont de Nemours and proposes measures to combat the circulation of counterfeited "assignats." EUR 125
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OBSERVATIONS sur les prétendues immunités du clergé, relativement à l'impôt; suivies de l'état général des biens du clergé de France, avec un plan de réforme soumis à la délibération des Etats-Généraux. Par un citoyen impartial. No place, 1789. 78 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 11347. Project of appropriation of ecclesiastical properties, which together with the royal properties will bring in, according to the author, an annual benefit of 500 million. EUR 225
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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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OPINION et moyens en matière de finance. (Opinion de M. T***, représentant de la Commune de Paris, sur la question relative à la Caisse d'escompte et à la circulation de ses billets. Présentée à l'Assemblée générale des représentans de la Commune. Le 17 février 1790). Paris, Ve Delaguette, 1790. (2), 50 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Martin & Walter; not in Tourneux; not in Stourm. - Contemporary name (Monsieur Créniere) on title. EUR 225
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OPINION sur les assignats, et proposition d'un autre mode de libération, prononcée à la Société de 1789, par un de ses membres. (Paris), Impr. L. Potier de Lille, 1790. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 14406; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 11522; Tourneux 9995. EUR 125
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OUVERTURE des Etats-Généraux, faits à Versailles le 5 Mai 1789. Discours du Roi; Discours de M. le Garde des sceaux; Rapport de M. le Directeur général des finances, fait parordre du Roi. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1789. 103, (1), (10) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards.Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 6407; not in Tourneux; not in Kress; Goldsmiths 13899 (8vo issue only). First edition. - This 4to issue is of great rarity. The first Estates General since 1614, this assembly was summoned to meet at Versailles on 27 April, although the date was later changed to 5 May, in order to propose solutions to financial problems, to reduce the treasury's deficit, and to relieve the public debt, problems that the two Assembly's of Notables in 1787 and 1788 had failed to resolve. The opening session was preceded, on 4 May, by a slow, very formal, anachronistic procession. In the presence of the king and court, the members of the three orders heard Mass. Then, on 5 May, they 'submitted' to speeches by the keeper of the seals, C.-L.-F. Barentin, and J. Necker, which contained neither program nor promises. The dissapointment of the Third Estate was intense and was manifested from the beginning by the verification of credentials, which was done by separate orders and not in common. Of capital importance for the history of financial situation of France at the eve of the Revolution. Necker's report to the King covers the pp. 21-103 and is followed by the tables giving the details of the financial situation, with separate titlepage État Général des Revenus et des Dépenses fixes. EUR 600
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REGLEMENT fait par le Roi, pour la formation de son Conseil royal des finances & du commerce. Paris, Imp. Royale, 1787. - (Followed by:) REGLEMENT fait par le Roi, pour l'administration de ses finances & du commerce. Paris, Imp. Royale, 1787. 2 pieces in 1 volume. 6 pp; 6, (2, blank) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Catalogue des Actes Royaux, vi, 41850, 41852. Very rare original edition of the two primordial texts without which the financial and economic administration of France at the eve of the Revolution is difficult to understand. EUR 600
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SUR LES FINANCES. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André******, fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr *, Curé D *. A Londres, 1775. With 1 folding map and 4 folding tables. viii, 293, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets on sides, red edges. Kress 7170; Goldsmiths 11330; Einaudi 5517; INED 4798; Higgs 6403; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 141. First edition. Severely prosecuted attack on the Fermiers-Généraux, forbidden already in 1776. 'Diatribe sanglante contre les fermiers généraux et les abus scandaleux de leurs agents. L'auteur met en scene un malheureux dont les 'suppôts de la ferme' ont ruiné la famille et fait périr le père de chagrin' (INED). According to a manuscript note in the Kress copy: '..... l'on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel (celui de Turgot & Malesherbes).' EUR 900
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TABLEAU général des biens nationaux et particuliers, qui sont à vendre dans les quatre-vingt-trois départemens de la France. (Paris), Imprimerie du Patriote François, (1790). Nrs 1-4 (octobre 1790). 16 pp. 4to. Old boards. Martin & Walter, Journaux, 1354a. Four numbers from this journal of which forty-two numbers in all were published. EUR 125
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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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ALMANACH, L', des douze ministres. No place, (1790). With engraved frontispiece. 120 pp. 12mo. Old blind cover, uncut. Martin & Walter, Journaux et Almanachs, 1457. Richelieu - Mazarin - Louvois - De Bois - Fleury - Saint Florentin - Terray - Meaupou - Saint Germain - Calonne - Brienne - Lamoignon. EUR 200
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COLLECTION of 4 pamphlets dealing with the discussions raised by Roussel de la Tour's 'Richesses de l'Etat'. No place, (about 1763). 4 pieces, bound in 1 volume. 16 pp.; 16 pp.; 8 pp.; 16 pp. Small 8vo. Modern supple boards. CF.: INED 3967. Separate editions, three of them later collected as additions to a re-edition of the Richesses in 1764. Contains: 1. TOUT est dit. - 2. TOUT n'est pas dit. Réponse de Candide au docteur Pangloss sur son optimisme des finances. - 3. LE BOUTTE-SELLE. - 4. (DARIGRAND). La Patrie vengée, ou La juste balance. Conclusions des Richesses de l'Etat.The first text is a criticism on the Richesses, the second work defends the Richesses, the third piece discusses the Richesses, and the fourth work considers the positive elements of the Richesses of sufficient value to accept some of the weaker points. EUR 450
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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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ETAT OU TARIF de la difference des prix auxquels l'eau-de-vie a été vendue au lot ou pot dans les Cantines de la Flandre maritime, & principalement dans la dépendance de Bergues, par les fermiers des droits des quatre membres de Flandres, réunis à la province par arrêt du Conseil du 13 novembre 1759; & des prix auxquels elle devoit seulement être vendue, eu égard tant au prix marchand, qu'auxdits droits des quatre-membres & aux droits d'entrée dans la province; avec le calcul à chaque mois de ce qu'elle a étévendue au pot au-delà du prix qu'elle devoit l'être, depuis & compris le premier janvier 1760, jour que ladite réunion a eu son exécution, jusques & compris le dernier décembre 1765; premièrement en florins, patars, deniers, argent de Lille, sans fort denier, & ensuite en florins, patars, liards, pareil argent, avec le fort denier, tel qu'il paroìt pouvoir être perçu. (Drop-head title.) No place, (at end:) Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, 1766. 8 (unnumbered) pp. 4to. Disbound. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs. EUR 125
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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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HANDWORTERBUCH der Staatswissenschaften. Vierte, gänzlich umgearbeitete Auflage. Edited by L. Elster, A. Weber & F. Wieser. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1923-1929. 9 volumes. xvi, 1068 pp.; viii, 1094 pp.; viii, 1044 pp.; viii, (2), 1281, (1) pp.; viii, 1022 pp.; x, 1244, (2, advertisements) pp.; viii, 1240 pp.; viii, 1368 pp.; viii, 1199, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Original morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettering on spines, corners. Fourth, best and -under this title- last edition of this monumental encyclopaedia of political economy, still an indispensable reference work due to the quality of the contributors: Max Weber, Weinberger, Böhm-Bawerk, Ehrenberg, von Mises, Mayer, Röpke, Spann, Ritter, Zahn, Grünberg, Stammler, etc. etc. "The most comprehensive German work, and in some respects the finest encyclopaedia of political science in any language" (Winchell CI 27). EUR 600
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IMPOT, DE L', territorial en nature chez les Romains. A Paris, Chez Froullé, 1787. 43, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spine, marbledboards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. 'Je n'entends pas assurer que dans une nation aussi policée & aussi éclairée que la nation françoise, l'on verroit reparoître tous les abus que l'impôt en nature à produits chez les Romains; j'indique ce qui est arrivé, sans prétendre prévoir ce qui arriveroit' (Préface). EUR 150
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MEMOIRE et observations sur quelques impôts indirects. At end: Paris, Imprimerie de Prault 1789. With two folding tables. 4, 35, 11, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 9670; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Tables deal with: 'Subvantion nationale sur les vins et boissons de toute espèce' and a 'Tableau comparatif de la perception des droits de courtiers-jageurs, inspecteurs aux boissons et inspecteurs aux boucheries'. The last 11 pp. contain 'Observations additionelles'. In the preface that anonymous author states that the work was written on request of 'un ministre de finances' and that the silence which followed the submission of his work is a proof of prejudice: he therefore decided to publish the manuscript. EUR 300
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MEMOIRE 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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NOUVELLES recherches sur la France, ou recueil de mémoires historiques sur quelques provinces, villes et bourgs du royaume. Ouvrage qui peut servir de supplément à l'Etat de France de M. de Boulainvilliers, & à la description du Royaume, par M. Piganiol. A Paris, Chez Hérissant fils, 1766. 2 volumes. xii, (4, approbation, privilège du Roi), 528, (3, corrections et additions pour le premier volume) pp.; (8), 530, (2, corrections et additions pour le second volume) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red morocco labels with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillet on sides. Conlon 66:949 (listed under Hérissant); Kress S.4454; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Higgs. First edition. Edited by Louis Théodore Hérissant. Interesting collection dealing with cities such as Annonay, Avalon, Avesnes, Bourg de Charenton, Mantes, Milly-en-Gatinois, Montargis, etc., etc., their history, culture, natural history, wine and so forth. According to the 'Avertissement', the work is based on material not used in the 1768-1778 edition of Lelong's Bibliothèque Historique, also published by Hérissant. Much material for that work was obtained through correspondance with 'des sociétés savantes' but Lelong did not use all of it. Quérard lists the work under Frevet de Fontette. EUR 750
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NOUVELLES recherches sur la France, ou Recueil des mémoires historiques sur quelques provinces, villes et bourgs du Royaume. Ouvrage qui peut servir de supplément à l'État dela France de M. de Boulainvilliers, & à la description du Royaume par M. Piganiol. A Paris, Chez Herissant fils, 1766. 2 volumes. xii, (4), 528 pp.; (8), 530, (2, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners, red edges, slightly worn. Conlon 66:949 (under Hérissant); Kress S.4454; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs. First edition. Interesting collection dealing principally with numerous cities and villages and important persons in the kingdom of France. According to the 'Avertissement', the work is based on material not used in the 1768-1778 edition of Lelong's Bibliothèque Historique, also published by Hérissant. Much material for that work was obtained through correspondance with 'des sociétés savantes' but Lelong did not use all of it. Quérard lists the work under Fevret de Fontette. EUR 750
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OBJETS des remonstrances du Parlement, au sujet des sept édits qui lui ont été envoyés pour être enregistrés. 3 Septembre 1759. (Paris, 1759). 16 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Against new taxes and in favour of limiting the expenses of the State. EUR 75
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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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REQUETE des Etats-Généraux de France au Roi. A Londres, 1772. (2), 92 pp. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon. First edition. - Title slightly spotted. Defends the rights of the Parlements and contains strong criticism of the financial situation of the country. EUR 125
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SUR LES FINANCES. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André ******, fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr *, Curé D *. A Londres, 1775. With 1 folding map and 4 folding tables. viii, 293, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed). Kress 7170; Goldsmiths 11330; Einaudi 5517; INED 4798; Higgs 6403; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 141. First edition. - Two tables and the map loosely inserted, bookblock broken but cords intact and not loosening, good margins. Severely prosecuted attack on the Fermiers-Généraux, forbidden already in 1776. 'Diatribe sanglante contre les fermiers généraux et les abus scandaleux de leurs agents. L'auteur met en scene un malheureux dont les 'suppôts de la ferme' ont ruiné la famille et fait périr le père de chagrin' (INED). According to a manuscript note in the Kress copy: ' ..... l'on croit que cette sanglante diatribe des fermiers généraux a été composée, imprimée et répandue sous les auspices du ministère actuel (celui de Turgot & Malesherbes).' EUR 500
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TAILLE REELLE, LA. (Drop-head title of page 1 reads:) Lettre d'un avocat de Paris à un de ses Confrères en Province, contenant des Réflexions sur l'escrit qui a pour titre, Richesses de l'Etat. (Anvers & Paris, Vallat, 1763). 38 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress S.4323; Goldsmiths 9907; INED 4802; Einaudi 5528; Higgs 3008. First edition. Roussel de La Tour had suggested to tax all the subjects of the kingdom, the author of this work suggests to tax only the capitalists ('n'assujettir à l'impôt que les seuls capitalistes'). Suggests which taxes to abolish (ferme générale, aide, gabelle, etc.) and which to maintain (douanes extérieures, paulette, etc.) in order to fix a 'taille réelle sur tous les immeubles, contrats de rentes et pensions royales.' Only 'les négociants, classe la plus utile à l'état' will be exempted from any taxation.The place of printing and printer are given by INED. EUR 175
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VOYAGE de Robertson aux Terres Australes, traduit sur le manuscrit anglois. Amsterdam (France), 1767. (4), 474 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Hartig 59; Trousson pp. 161-162; Gove p. 356; INED 3858; cf.: Negley 979. The first edition appeared in 1766. Utopian account of which it is suggested that it is a translation from the English. The work is evidently inspired by the Physiocratic ideas and draws also inspiration from Rousseau's Contrat Social. Contains also political, economical and moral ideas, points to the importance of agriculture and population, and pleads for the nationalization of the trade. The Encyclopedists appear as the 'Pansophistes' and are criticized (pp. 146 and ff.) The main story is that the hero has sailed with Sir Francis Drake to South America and, by his narrative, to have inspired William Penn to found an ideal city in North America. EUR 800
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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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(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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(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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(BEAURIEU, G.G. DE.) L'élève de la nature. Nouvelle édition avec figures. A Paris, Chez J.G. Mérigot jeune, 1793. With 3 engraved frontispieces. 3 volumes. 195 pp.; 196 pp.;204 pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Gove, pp. 350-352; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme Utopique, chapitre IV; cf.: Hartig & Soboul, p. 58; Valette 16; Kress 6522; cf.: INED 348; not in Negley; not in Versins. Integral re-edition published during the Revolution, of this utopian account of physiocratic inspiration. Including also the 'Lettres à l'auteur des Ephémérides du Citoyen (P.S. Dupont de Nemours) sur un pays très florissant où il n'y a point de villes', dealing with 'Nouvelle Yorck', 'La Virginie' and 'Williams-Burg'. The work was first published in 1763 and was clearly inspired by Rousseau's Emile.'(Beaurieu) avait la passion des enfants et s'occupait sans cesse de leur éducation (.....). Il conçut l'idée d'exécuter pratiquement 'L'Elève de la Nature' en faisant des expériences sur deux couples séparés (.....). C'est comme un exemple singulier de ces illusions morales, pédagogiques et humanitaires, dont le rôle effectif fut considérable, que j'ai cru pouvoir rappeler le nom oublié du pauvre Beaurieu' (Lichtenberger). EUR 500
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(BOSSE, R.H.B. VON.) Essai sur l'Histoire de l'Économie Politique des Peuples modernes jusqu'au commencement de l'année 1817. Première [-Deuxième] Partie. Paris et Londres, 1818. With one folding table. Two parts in one volume. xii, (4), 263, (1) pp.; (8), 224 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners, label with gilt lettering, joints lightly rubbed. Kress C.16; Goldsmiths 2207; INED 669; not in Einaudi; Holzmann & Bohatta, ii, 2186. First edition. Economic history of Asia, Africa, America and Europe. States that there are only three 'systems' in economics which are being applied among the different populations: the Chinese, the 'mahométan', and the European system. All three find their basis in the 'vertus doméstiques', but they differ in the way these are applied to make these 'systems' function. The first part deals with the development of these upto the moment where the European system becomes dominant, the second part collects the data indicating the establishment of this system in the next phase and presents an overall view of the current situation in political economy at the present date, 1817. - Somewhat browned throughout. EUR 450
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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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(CHASSEPOL, F. DE.) Traité des finances et de la fausse monnoie des Romains, auquel on a joint une Dissertation sur la Manière de discerner les Médailles Antiques d'avec les contrefaites. A Paris, Chez Briasson, 1740. xlviii, 238, (2), (239)-293 (misnumbered 269), (5) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, all edges red. Kress 4491; Goldsmiths 7783; Einaudi 1037; Conlon 40:387; not in Mattioli. First edition. The work by Chassepol (or Chassipol) is followed by the Dissertation written by Guillaume Beauvais.'Ce petit traité fut commandé par Colbert, desireux de connaître le système financier des Romains. On y trouve quelques faits précieux' (Coquelin & Guillaumin, i, p. 335). - From the Bibliothèque de Mr. le Baron Zangiacomi and the Bibliothèque de Mr. Laumonier. EUR 350
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(CHASTELLUX, F.J. DE.) De la félicité publique, ou considérations sur le sort des hommes dans les différentes époques de l'histoire. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de notes inédites de Voltaire. Paris, A.A. Renouard, 1822. 2 volumes. (4), 350 pp.; (4), 332 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, paper covered boards, corners. Not in Kress (cf.: 7197); not in INED (cf.: 1075); Goldsmiths 23385; Einaudi 1038. 'Chastellux's analysis of American society was both more searching and influential. A member of the French Academy, one of the founders of the social sciences, and major general on Rochambeau's staff, he was easily the foremost intellectual in the French forces in America. In ..... De la Félicité, he had sought to determine whether "society is susceptible, if not of perfection, at least amelioration," that is, of an increase in human felicity. (.....) The only possible answer was in social reform. The function of government, he posited, was to achieve "the greatest hapiness of the greatest number." Man must create through the free and enlightened use of his reason a liberal government midway between the extremes of of pure democracy and pure absolutism, based upon a true understanding of economic principles (Physiocracy), which would guarantee a high standard of living, adequate leisure, and the right to private property. In this work Chastellux had cited America as an example of man's ability to progress through liberty, reason, equality and agriculturism" (See at length: D. Echeverria, Mirage in the West, p. 110-14). - Very lightly paperspotted. EUR 450
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(CHASTELLUX, F.J. DE.) De la félicité publique, ou considérations sur le sort des hommes dans les différentes époques de l'histoire. A Amsterdam, Chez M.-M. Rey, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. (4), xxii, 272, (2) pp.; (2), 247, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands. Cf.: Kress 7197; Goldsmiths 11375; INED 1075; Echeverria & Wilkie 776/6; not in Sabin; not in JFBL. Second edition, the work had been first launched in Amsterdam in 1772 before a French publisher dared to bring it on the market in France. That French publication was simultaneously with the present publication. 'Chastellux's analysis of American society was both more searching and influential. A member of the French Academy, one of the founders of the social sciences, and major general on Rochambeau's staff, he was easily the foremost intellectual in the French forces in America. In an earlier work, De la Félicité, he had sought to determine whether "society is susceptible, if not of perfection, at least amelioration," that is, of an increase in human felicity. (.....) The only possible answer was in social reform. The function of government, he posited, was to achieve "the greatest hapiness of the greatest number." Man must create through the free and enlightened use of his reason a liberal government midway between the extremes of of pure democracy and pure absolutism, based upon a true understanding of economic principles (Physiocracy), which would guarantee a high standard of living, adequate leisure, and the right to private property. In this earlier work Chastellux had cited America as an example of man's ability to progress through liberty, reason, equality and agriculturism" (See at length: D. Echeverria, Mirage in the West, p. 110-14). EUR 750
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(CLICQUOT DE BLERVACHE, S.) Le Réformateur. A Amsterdam, Chez Arkstée & Merkus (Paris), 1756. With 1 folding table. 2 volumes in 1. xxxiii, (4), 240 pp.; vii, 268 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt double fillets on sides with gilt flower designs in the corners, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. INED 1141; Higgs 1476; Einaudi 1137; Weulersse, Mouvement physiocratique, i, xxv; not in Kress. First edition. 'Cliquot de Blervache, s'inspirant de quelques-unes des considérations qui avaient dicté à Vauban son projet de Dîme Royale, et à Boulainvilliers son plan de réforme financière, pose en principe 'que ce qui est le plus simple approche le plus de la perfection', et prétend réduire tous les impôts à deux au plus' (Weulersse, ii, p. 348). The attribution is still uncertain. See: J. de Vroil, Étude sur Cliquot de Bervache, p. xxxiii. EUR 750
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(COPPONS, DE.) Critique de la théorie et pratique de M. Necker, dans l'Administration des finances de la France. No place, 1785. With folding table. 2 volumes in 1. 240 pp; 295 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, somewhat worn and rubbed. Kress B.841; INED 4582; Stourm, p. 168; cf.: Goldsmiths 12982; not in Einaudi. First edition. Extensive refutation of Necker's ideas. Also published as: Examen de la théorie et pratique de M. Necker. EUR 450
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With frontispiece. - (Bound with:) SUPPLEMENT à l'anti-financier ou exposé de quelques nouveaux abus commis par les employés dans la partie des domaines & contrôles. No Place, (1763?). - (Bound with:) REPONSE à l'auteur de l'antifinancier. A La Haye, 1764. Together 3 volumes in 1. (4), 60, 107, (1) pp.; (2), 26 pp.; 24 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges, lightly worn, some spots. First work: Kress 6086; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017; Conlon 63:751. First issue of the first edition. In this vehemently written work, the fermiers-généraux were accused of corruption. It caused the author's imprisonment in the Bastille. The volume was printed by Lambert and distributed by Ormancy, who also were arrested. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices. Second work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10025; Higgs 3018; INED 4797; Conlon 63:752.First edition.According to Goldsmiths this is not by Darigrand, but a reply to Darigrand's work, INED also believes this work to be written by another, anonymous, author, Conlon lists it under Darigrand.Third work: Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10020; Higgs 3268; INED 4778; Conlon 64:441.First edition.Loosely inserted: ARRET de la cour du parlement de Rouen, qui ordonne que la brochure intitulée: Réponse à l'auteur de l'anti-financier, fera lacerée & brulé par l'exécuteur de la Haute-Justice, au pied du grand escalier de palais; enjoint à ceux qui en auroient des exemplaires, de les apporter au Greffe de la Cour, pour y être pareillement lacérés & brulés, &c. Du 9 Avril 1764. (Drop-head title). A Rouen, Chez J.J. le Boullenger, (1764).Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 10017; Higgs 3252. EUR 750
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(DARIGRAND, E.F.) L'anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces: servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Lettre servant de Réponse aux remonstrances du Parlement de Bordeaux. Précédée d'une épitre au Parlement de France, accompagnée de notes historiques. A Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1763. With frontispiece. - (Followed by:) AIGUILLON, A.E. DE VIGNEROT-DUPLESSIS-RICHELIEU, DUC D'. Correspondance de Monsieur le Duc d'Aiguillon, au sujet de l'Affaire de M. le Comte de Guines & du Sieur Tort, & autres intéressés. Pendant les années 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Quillau, 1775. - (Followed by:) LETTRES à M. l'abbé Raynal sur l'Histoire de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, qu'il se propose de publier. No place, 1782. - (Followed by:) (BONNER DE VALGUIER & MAISONVAL). Etat abrégé des loix, revenues, usages et productions de Grande-Bretagne. A Londres et se vend à Paris, Chez la veuve Delormel & Fils, 1757. Together 4 works bound in 1 volume. (4), 60, 107, (1) pp.; xxiv, 224 pp.; 109, (1) pp.; 57, (1) pp. and 1 table. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt triple fillets on sides, red label with gilt lettering (very slightly worn). First work: Kress 6086-7; Goldsmiths 9873; INED 1276; Higgs 3017. First issue of the first edition. In this vehemently written work, the fermiers-généraux were accused of corruption. It caused the author's imprisonment in the Bastille. The volume was printed by Lambert and distributed by Ormancy, who also were arrested. Four years after its publication the book was still sold secretly at high prices.Second work: Not in Kress; Conlon 75:640 (claiming two volumes).First edition.Of importance for the history of the years preceding the Revolution.Third work: Conlon 82:401.First edition.Fourth work: INED 620; Conlon 57:547.First edition. EUR 750
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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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(DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Philosophie de l'univers. Troisième édition, augmentée de plusieurs notes, et d'une table des matières. A Paris, Chez Goujon fils, Fructidor an VII (1799). With a fine portrait engraved by Cathelin afterJ. Ducreux. 399, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards (uncut). Schelle 64; Einaudi 1673; Mattioli 1081 (2nd edition); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Third, enlarged edition. Because Dupont de Nemours sided with the King in 1792, he was imprisoned in the observatory of the Mazarin College, from which he succeeded in escaping to the country-side. During the time that elapsed before he was discovered and arrested again, he wrote the above work in the form of a letter to Lavoisier. This enlarged edition starts with 'Oromasis. Poëme'. The main text starts on page 37/38 with a separate titlepage reading 'Principes et recherches sur la philosophie de l'univers. Lettre à Mr. et Mme. Lavoisier.' The titlepage bears the date 1792. See: Schelle, Du Pont de Nemours, pp. 331 ff. EUR 1250
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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.) Essai sur les monnoies, ou Réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées. A Paris, Chez J.B. Coignard & De Bure, 1746. With numerous tables in the text, and 1 folding table.2 parts in 1 volume. xxi, (3, approbation, privilège du Roi, Fautes à corriger dans la première partie; Fautes à corriger dans les Variations des Prix), 220 pp.; 188 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering (somewhat rubbed and worn). Kress 4804; Goldsmiths 8235; Einaudi 1687; INED 1643; Stourm 42. First edition. Very interesting for the medieval history, giving details on money and extensive information on prices for various commodities, including cornprices, for the period 1202-1746. The Physiocrats used his work often and abundently for statistical details: 'Dupré de Saint Maur, leur guide habituel en matière de statistique .....' (Weulersse, ii, p. 622.)'This work would, perhaps, have been more properly placed along with works on prices. It is full of elaborate researches with respect to the value of money at different periods; and contains tables exhibiting the successive variations in the quantity of silver in the coins, and the prices of a great variety of commodities from the early part of the 13th down to near the middle of the 18th century. Dr. Smith has borne testimony to "the diligence and fidelity" with which M. de Saint Maur has formed his table of prices' (McCulloch, p. 188). EUR 900
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Essai sur les monnoies, ou Réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées. A Paris, Chez J.B. Coignard & De Bure, 1746. With numerous tables in the text, and 1 folding table.2 parts in 1 volume. xxi, (3, approbation, privilège du Roi, Fautes à corriger dans la première partie; Fautes à corriger dans les Variations des Prix), 220 pp.; 188 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, slightly damaged at foot of spine and at top of upper joint. Kress 4804; Goldsmiths 8235; Einaudi 1687; INED 1643; Stourm 42. First edition. Very interesting for the medieval history, giving details on money and extensive information on prices for various commodities, including cornprices, for the period 1202-1746. The Physiocrats used his work often and abundently for statistical details: 'Dupré de Saint Maur, leur guide habituel en matière de statistique .....' (Weulersse, ii, p. 622.)'This work would, perhaps, have been more properly placed along with works on prices. It is full of elaborate researches with respect to the value of money at different periods; and contains tables exhibiting the successive variations in the quantity of silver in the coins, and the prices of a great variety of commodities from the early part of the 13th down to near the middle of the 18th century. Dr. Smith has borne testimony to "the diligence and fidelity" with which M. de Saint Maur has fromed his table of prices' (McCulloch, p. 188). EUR 1000
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Essai sur les monnoies, ou Réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées. A Paris, Chez J.B. Coignard & De Bure, 1746. With numerous tables in the text, and 1 folding table.2 parts in 1 volume. xxi, (3, approbation, privilège du Roi, Fautes à corriger dans la première partie; Fautes à corriger dans les Variations des Prix), 220 pp.; 188 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering. Kress 4804; Goldsmiths 8235; Einaudi 1687; INED 1643; Stourm 42. First edition. - A very fine copy. Very interesting for the medieval history, giving details on money and extensive information on prices for various commodities, including cornprices, for the period 1202-1746. The Physiocrats used his work often and abundently for statistical details: 'Dupré de Saint Maur, leur guide habituel en matière de statistique .....' (Weulersse, ii, p. 622.)'This work would, perhaps, have been more properly placed along with works on prices. It is full of elaborate researches with respect to the value of money at different periods; and contains tables exhibiting the successive variations in the quantity of silver in the coins, and the prices of a great variety of commodities from the early part of the 13th down to near the middle of the 18th century. Dr. Smith has borne testimony to "the diligence and fidelity" with which M. de Saint Maur has fromed his table of prices.' (McCulloch, p. 188). EUR 1500
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(DUPRE DE SAINT-MAUR, N.F.) Essai sur les monnoies, ou Réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées. A Paris, Chez J.B. Coignard & De Bure, 1746. With numerous tables in the text, and 1 folding table.2 parts in 1 volume. xxi, (3, approbation, privilège du Roi, Fautes à corriger dans la première partie; Fautes à corriger dans les Variations des Prix), 220 pp.; 188 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, marbled edges. Kress 4804; Goldsmiths 8235; Einaudi 1687; Mattioli 1091; INED 1643; Stourm 42. First edition. Very interesting for the medieval history, giving details on money and extensive information on prices for various commodities, including cornprices, for the period 1202-1746. The Physiocrats used his work often and abundently for statistical details: 'Dupré de Saint Maur, leur guide habituel en matière de statistique .....' (Weulersse, ii, p. 622.)'This work would, perhaps, have been more properly placed along with works on prices. It is full of elaborate researches with respect to the value of money at different periods; and contains tables exhibiting the successive variations in the quantity of silver in the coins, and the prices of a great variety of commodities from the early part of the 13th down to near the middle of the 18th century. Dr. Smith has borne testimony to "the diligence and fidelity" with which M. de Saint Maur has fromed his table of prices' (McCulloch, p. 188).- Copy from the library of Léon Say, with his engraved bookplate. EUR 2000
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(ESSUILE, J.F. DE BARANDIERY-MONTMAYEUR DE.) Traité des communes, ou Observations sur leur origine & état actuel, d'après les anciennes ordonnances de nos rois, les coutumes, édits, déclarations, arrêts & réglements intervenus sur cette matière; les droits qu'y ont les seigneurs, les communautés & chacun des habitans; ou joignant la politique à l'économie, on démontre leur inutilité, le préjudice qu'elles font à l'agriculture, & l'avantage que l'on retireroit de leur aliénation ou partage. A Paris, Chez Colombier, 1777. With two folding tables. 395, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering. Cf: Kress 6726 (listing the 1770 edition only); Einaudi 789 (listing the 1779 edition only); Goldsmiths 11547; INED 1752; not in Mattioli. Second edition, title-edition, brought on the market 7 years after the first edition by another publisher who only changed the title and apparently using the unsold copies of the first edition. 'Des biens communaux: origine historique, étendue, répartition géographique; l'on ne peut, dans l'état actuel de ces communes, en tirer aucun profit, notamment pour l'agriculture. Au contraire, leur stérilité nuit de 'la manière le plus dangereuse autant à la population et à la subsistance des hommes qu'à la multiplication et à la nourriture des bestiaux.' Essuile propose de les partager et d'en faire bénéficier les pauvres; ce partage avantageux est tout à fait confomre aux désirs des législateurs.' With the 'pièces justificatives' in both French and Latin.For the importance of this work and the development of physiocrat ideas see: Weulersse, i, pp. 411-12. EUR 1000
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(FREMINVILLE, E. DE LA POIX DE.) Traité historique de l'origine et nature des Dixmes, Et des biens possedés par les Ecclésiastiques en franche Aumône, & de leurs charges. Par M. E.D.L.P.D.F. Bailly des Ville& Marquisat de la Palisse. A Paris, Chez Valleyre père, 1762. (2), x, (4), 468, (20) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges, corners very lightly bumped. Kress 6021; INED 2614; Higgs 2669; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Leblanc; not in Masui; not in Stammhammer, Bibliographie der Finanzwissenschaft; not in Camus; Conlon 62:879. First edition. Historical and juridical treatise which studies the dîmes in relation to religion, law and the origins of the monarchy and stating that the dîmes were not, at the outset, due to the church. Edme de la Poix de Fréminville studied law. His main interests were related to feudal questions and his works were of importance. - Occasional light browning. Rare. EUR 600
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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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(GILLOT, J.) Le caton français. Au Roy. No place, 1614. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Lelong 20235; Bourgeois & André 2124; Lindsay & Neu 3027; Welsh 500. Giving council on political and economic matters to Louis XIII, and also opposing the Spanish alliance and the Jesuits, and in favour of De Condé. Jacques Gillot was one of the authors of the famous 'Satyre Menipée.' EUR 175
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(GILLOT, J.) Le caton français. Au Roy. No place, 1614. 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Lelong 20235; Bourgeois & André 2124; Lindsay & Neu 3027; Welsh 500. Giving council on political and economic matters to Louis XIII, and also opposing the Spanish alliance and the Jesuits, and in favour of De Condé. Jacques Gillot was one of the authors of the famous 'Satyre Menipée.' EUR 275
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(GODEFROY, E.) Banque de crédits fonciers et agricoles. (Drop-head title). Paris, Decourchant, (about 1850). 40 pp. 8vo. Sewn in contemporary blind green cover. The statutes of this proposed bank follow after the 16 pages of introduction, at the end of the introduction the name of the author has been printed. EUR 125
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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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(GRIMOARD, P.H.) Lettre du Marquis de Caraccioli à M. d'Alembert. No place, (ab. 1780). (2), 37 pp. - (Bound with:) DISCOURS au Roi. No place, (ab. 1780). 4 pp. - (Bound with:) (CALONNE, C.A.de.) Les comments. No place, no date. Paginated (33)-52 pp. - (Bound with:) REQUETE au roi, sur la retraite de M. Necker. Par un ancien résident à la Cour de France. No place, (ab. 1780). Paginated (53)-60. - (Bound with:) (SAINT-VINCENT, P.A.R. DE.) Observations modestes d'un citoyen, sur les opérations des finances de M. Necker, & sur son Comte rendu, adressées à MM. les pacifiques auteurs des Comment, des Pourqoui & des autres pamphlets anonymes. No place, (ab. 1780). (2), 3-55 pp. - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Mémoire donné au Roi, en 1778. No place, (ab 1781). (4), 27 pp. - (Bound with:) (DU TILLET DU VILLARS.) Précis d'un projet d'établissement du cadastre dans le Royaume. Par M.D.T.D.V. Paris, Imprimerie Clousier, et chez Pissot, Barrois, 1781. (4), 80 pp. - (Bound with:) M. TURGOT à M. Necker, & sur l'administration de M. Necker. Par un citoyen français. Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez les libraires qui vendent les nouveautés, 1780. With 1 large folding table. 86 pp. 8 works bound in one. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, one corner bumped, lower part of front cover with a dark stain. First work: Goldsmiths 12189; INED 2154 (bound with item 4); not in Kress; cf.: Einaudi 1178; Mattioli 1518.First edition.Sometimes attributed to Galiani. Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmith; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Mattioli 1518. Third work: Goldsmiths 12168 (anon. attribution); Einaudi 795; not in Kress; not in INED; Stourm, p. 127; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker").First edition.Fourth work: INED 2154; Einaudi 4697; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Fifth work: Kress B.422; Goldsmiths 12200; cf.: Einaudi 4963; INED 4066; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Sixth work: Cf.: Kress B.389; Goldsmiths 12233; Einaudi 4105; INED 3865; Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker.")First edition.Seventh work: Kress S.4977; INED 1693; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli.First edition.Eight work: Mattioli 728 & 729 (as part of volumes "pour & contre Necker."); Einaudi attributes the first part to Turgot (see 1178), and the second is generally attributed to Doigny du Ponceau. However, although both parts are often listed as separate publications, here there is one titlepage, continuous pagination and signatures; half-title to the second part "Sur l'administration ...." and no title lacking as is evident from the signatures and pagination. For Doigny du Ponceau see: INED 1439. Interesting collection of works dealing with Necker and his policies. EUR 1250
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(HAUTERIVE, A.M. BLANC DE LA NAUTTE, D'.) Elémens d'économie politique, suivis de quelques vues sur l'application des principes de cette science aux règles administratives. A Paris, Chez Fantin, 1817. (8), xxi, (3), 384 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, covers decorated with gilt ornamental border, spine richly gilt with red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Kress B.6941; Goldsmiths 21694; Einaudi 2860; INED 2231. First edition. ' ..... expose avec beaucoup de lucidité les graves inconvéniants d'une mauvaise répartition de l'impôt ..... Nous ne connaissons pas d'adversaires plus énergique des lois prohibitives, et son opposition est d'autant plus courageuse que l'auteur appartient à l'administration' (Blanqui).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. EUR 350
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(HILLIARD D'AUBERTEUIL, M.R.) Histoire de l'administration de Lord North, ministre des finances en Angleterre, depuis 1770 jusqu'en 1782, et de la guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale, jusqu'à la paix: suivie du Tableau historique des finances d'Angleterre, depuis Guillaume III jusqu'en 1784. Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez l'auteur, chez Couturier, 1784. With folding map. 3 parts in 1 volume. (4), (vi)-xx, 276 pp.; (4), 180 pp.; 80 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt back. Sabin 31901; Fay 19; Howes N.190; JFBL H182; Echeverria & Wilkie 784/51; not in Muller; not in Leclerc; not in Streeter; Kress B.737; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Mattioli. First edition. The author states, after having translated the View of the History of Great Britain during the administration of Lord North, he thought he might substitute in its place a less prolix and more complete history, preserving all that was useful, agreeable, and interesting in the English work; and adding a narrative of events which would comprise a complete account of the American War. The last 80 pages concern the finances of Great Britain from William III to 1784, with a separate titlepage. The work also includes interesting statistical information of English import duties, and deals also with the 'Affaires de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales'. EUR 900
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(HILLIARD D'AUBERTEUIL, M.R.) Histoire de l'administration de Lord North, ministre des finances en Angleterre, depuis 1770 jusqu'en 1782, et de la guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale, jusqu'à la paix: suivie du Tableau historique des finances d'Angleterre, depuis Guillaume III jusqu'en 1784. Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez l'auteur, chez Couturier, 1784. With folding map. 3 parts in 1 volume. (4), (vi)-xx, 276 pp.; (4), 180 pp.; 80 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled boards, very lightly rubbed. Sabin 31901; Fay 19; Howes N.190; JFBL H182; Echeverria & Wilkie 784/51; not in Muller; not in Leclerc; not in Streeter; Kress B.737; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. The author states, after having translated the View of the History of Great Britain during the administration of Lord North, he thought he might substitute in its place a less prolix and more complete history, preserving all that was useful, agreeable, and interesting in the English work; and adding a narrative of events which would comprise a complete account of the American War. The last 80 pages concern the finances of Great Britain from William III to 1784, with a separate titlepage. The work also includes interesting statistical information of English import duties, and deals also with the 'Affaires de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales'. EUR 700
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(HURAULT, M. DE BELESBAT ET DU FAY.) Le recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat présent de la France. Imprimé nouvellement. No place, 1606. 11 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. 18th-century marbled calf, spine gilt (slightly worn, head and lower bands slightly damaged). Adams H.1196; not in BMSTC (French); cf.: Alden & Landis, 606/65 (listing 3 parts only); not in JFBL; not in Sabin; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. The separate pieces are listed as follows: 1-2: Hauser 3040; cf.: Lindsay & Neu 1321; 3-6: Hauser 3061, 2931; cf.: Lindsay & Neu 1835; 7: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 1330; 8: Cf.: Hauser 3031; Lindsay & Neu 2333; 9: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 2334; 10: Cf.: Hauser 3187; Lindsay & Neu 2332; 11: Not in Hauser; Lindsay & Neu 2314. Originally published in 1588, and called by Allen, in his Political thought in the Sixteenth Century, 'the most clear-sighted and fair-minded of all the writers of that troubled time. (....) It contains far the best contemporary appreciation of the situation ....' (p. 343). Contains: (HURAULT, M.) Discours sur l'estat présent de la France. - (Followed by:) (HURAULT, M.) Second discours sur l'estat présent de la France. 2 parts. (1592). Together 162, (2, blank) lvs. - (ARNAULD, A.) La Fleur de Lys. Qui est le discours d'un François retenu dans Paris, sur les impiétez & desguisemens contenus au manifeste d'Espagne publié au mois janivor (sic) dernier, 93. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) L'anti-espagnol, et exhortation de ceux de Paris, qui le se veulent faire Espagnols: à tous les François de leur party, de se remettre en l'obeyssance du Roy Henry IIII. & se délivrer de la tyrannie de Castille. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) Discours des grands effects qui ont suivy la conversion du Roy. - (Followed by:) (ARNAULD, A.) Libre discours sur la délivrance de la Bretagne. (1593-98). 4 parts. Together 64, (1) lvs. - (Followed by:) MAILLARD, A. Apologie de maistre André Maillart, conseiller du Roy & maistre des requestes ordinaires de sa Maiesté. No place 1588. 72 pp. - (Followed by:) (MAILLARD, A.) Le Francophile pour très-grand, très-chrestien, très-mananime et très belligieux Prince Henri Auguste IIII, Roy de France & de Navarre. Contre les conspirations du Roy d'Espagne, du Pape & des rebelles de France. No place 1606. 115 (misnumbered 113) pp. - (Followed by:) (MAILLARD, A.) La fulminante pour feu très-grand et très-chrestien Prince Henry III, Roy de France & de Pologne. Contre Sixte V soy disant Pape de Rome & les rebelles de la France. No place, 1606. 58 pp. - (Followed by:) (LESCHASSIER, J.) La maledie de la France. (ab. 1606). 45 pp. (Caption title). - (Followed by:) COPIE d'une lettre escrite au Roy par un gentil-homme François. Sur les bruits qui courent que sa Majesté veut aller assieger Sedan. No place 1606. 27 pp.These 11 parts are preceded by a general titlepage as given above, and by preliminaries containing an Avis de l'imprimeur and an index giving the titles of all 11 parts. The first two parts include references to Spanish control of Indian riches and to Spanish treasures of the Indies. The texts by Arnauld refer to Spanish cruelties and to Spanish expulsion of the French from Florida. Extremely rare and interesting 'recueil', which may also be considered as the first book in which having colonies is regarded as necessary for economic development. See at length: Noel, Histoire du commerce du monde, vol. 2, pp. 192ff. EUR 2500
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(HURAULT, M. DE BELESBAT ET DU FAY.) Le Recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat prèsent de la France. Imprimé nouvellement. No place, 1598. 6 parts in 1 volume. (4), 162, 65 leaves. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum (ties gone). Adams H.1196; not in BMSTC (French); European Americana 598/55; not in JFBL; not in Sabin. Originally published in 1588, and called by Allen, in his Political thought in the Sixteenth Century, 'the most clear-sighted and fair-minded of all the writers of that troubled time. (....) It contains far the best contemporary appreciation of the situation ....' (p. 343). - With a small wormtrack in the lower blank margin of the first 5 leaves, a few leaves with a small dampstain in the lower outer corner, name handwritten in blank portion of title-page. An interesting collection and extremely rare. Collection of 6 pieces re-issued under a general title, the separate works are listed as follows: 1-2. (HURAULT, M.) Discours sur l'estat présent de la France. - (Followed by:) (HURAULT, M.) Second discours sur l'estat présent de la France. 2 parts. (1592). Together 162, (2, blank) lvs. (Hauser 3040; Lindsay & Neu 1321).3. (ARNAULD, A.) La fleur de lys. Qui est le discours d'un François retenu dans Paris, sur les impiétez & desguisemens contenu au manifeste d'Espagne publié au mois de Janvier denier. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). 19 leaves and recto of leaf 20. (Cf. Hauser 2931; cf: Lindsay & Neu 1835).4. (ARNAULD, A.) L'anti Espagnol, et exhortation de ceux de Paris, qui ne se veulent faire Espagnols: à tous les François de leur party, de se remettre en l'obeyssance du Roy Henry III & se délivrer de la tyrannie de Castille. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). Leaf 20 verso-leaf 48 recto. (Cf. Hauser 3061; Lindsay & Neu 1834).5. DISCOURS des grands effects qui ont suivy la conversion du Roy. Tiré d'une Harangue faicte à .....sur la réduction de la ville de Lyon. Envoyée à Monsieur De Revol. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). leaf 48 verso-leaf 58. (Not in Lindsay & Neu).6. LIBRE DISCOURS sur la délivrance de la Bretagne. (Drop-head title). No place, (1594). Leaf 59-(65). (Not in Lindsay & Neu).The first two parts include references to Spanish control of Indian riches and to Spanish treasures of the Indies. The texts by Arnauld refer to Spanish cruelties and to Spanish expulsion of the French from Florida. EUR 1750
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(JUMELIN, J.B.) Lettre écrite au Bonhomme Richard, concernant les assignats. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Courier de la librairie, (1795). 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in INED; Stourm, p. 200; Martin & Walter 17668; Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, ii, p. 660 (giving 1791 as date). First edition. The Journal du Bonhomme Richard was published by Lemaire from Messidor an III (1795) up to Brumaire an V (1796). The date given by the Bibliothèque Nationale in the Catalogue de l'Histoire de France is clearly not correct. EUR 150
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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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(LALOURCE, J.C.) Mémoire à consulter, et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, créancier & syndic de la masse de la raison de commerce établie à Marseille sous le nom de Lioncy frères & Gouffre, contre le corps et Société des PP. Jésuites. (Marseille?), De l'Imprimerie de P. Allex, Le Prieur, 1761. (4), 531, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label with gilt lettering, a bit worn. Gazin, p. 274; JFBL L64; not in Sabin; not in Echeverria & Wilkie; Higgs 2484; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon. First editon. Le Père La Valette was sent to Martinique where he engaged in business transactions which were not authorized by his superiors nor by the ecclesiastical authorities. He went bankrupt for total of 3 millions and his bankruptcy caused that of the Marseille based tradinghouse of Lioncy frères et Gouffre. They filed a complaint not only against the Père La Valette and the Jesuits of Martinique, but also against the 'Province des jésuites de Paris' which, as they claimed, had shown solidarity, and were therefore also responsible for the claim. EUR 400
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(LAUZIERES DE THEMINES, A.A.J. DE.) Instructions et cahier du hameau de Madon. (Blois), 1789. 2 parts in 1 volume. 140 pp.; 60 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Stourm, p. 154; Martin & Walter 19727 (other edition). One of two different editions from the year of the first publication. - Lower outer corner waterstained. The first part is entitled Instructions, the second part Observations sur le rapport fait au Roi dans son conseil par le ministre des finances, le 27 décembre 1788. Pp. 73-75 of the first part treat the abolition of slavery under certain conditions. EUR 300
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(LAUZIERES DE THEMINES, A.A.J. DE.) Instructions et cahier du hameau de Madon. A Blois, Chez J.P.J. Masson, 1789. With a charming title vignette depicting rural life. 2 parts in 1 volume. (4), 119 pp.; 60 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Stourm, p. 154; Martin & Walter 19727. One of two different editions from the year of the first publication. The first part is entitled Instructions, the second part Cahier. Pp. 65-68 of the first part treat the abolition of slavery under certain conditions. EUR 400
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(LAUZIERES DE THEMINES, A.A.J. DE.) Instructions et cahier du hameau de Madon. (Blois), 1789. 2 parts in 1 volume. 140 pp.; 61 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Stourm, p. 154; Martin & Walter 19727 (other edition). One of two different editions from the year of the first publication. The first part is entitled Instructions, the second part Observations sur le rapport fait au Roi dans son conseil par le ministre des finances, le 27 décembre 1788. Pp. 73-75 of the first part contains arguments in favour of the abolition of slavery under certain conditions. Discusses the various reforms deemed necessary for France: criminal justice, the parlements, the meeting of the estates general, the procedure for voting, the ancient constitution, legislation, financial matters, the various trading compagnies, royal power and authority, freedom of the press, etc. etc. all with remarkable short historical references. EUR 425
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(LAVAUX, C.) Mémoire à l'Assemblée nationale, pour les vingt salpêtriers du Roi, établis dans la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieue de Paris. (Drop-head title). (Paris), N.H.H. Nyon, (1790). 67, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 19769. Original edition. Includes detailed information on the costs of exploitation during the year 1786. EUR 225
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(LAVOISIER, A.L.) Observations adressées à MM. les représentans de la Commune de Paris, par l'administration de la Caisse d'Escompte, le 17 Février 1790. (A Paris, chez Clousier, 1790). 23, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 10915; Duveen & Klickstein 255. First edition. Lavoisier outlines the history of the Caisse d'Escompte and of its operations, particularly during the last two years, and emphasizes the devotion and the patriotism of its administration (See: Duveen & Klickstein). EUR 500
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(LAVOISIER, A.L.) Rapport sur la Caisse d'Escompte, fait à l'Assemblée nationale, le 4 Décembre (1789) par ses commissaires. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1789). With three tables, of which 2 on 1 folding leaf. 56 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1553; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 4742; Stourm, p. 173; Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1914; Tourneux, iii, 13715; Duveen & Klickstein 251. First edition. This interesting report details the continuous pressure on the Caisse which the government maintained during 1788-1789 to make ever increasing funds available to them -against the judgement of the administrators of that body and, eventually, against its clearly defined statutes (Duveen & Klickstein). EUR 600
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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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(LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIERE, P.P.F.J.H.) l'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques. A Londres, Chez J. Nourse, & se trouve à Paris, Chez Desaint, 1767. (2), vii, (1, Fautes à Corriger), 511, (1) pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, paper label in upper compartment of spine, marbled edges. Weulersse, i, p. xxviii; Kress 6475; Goldsmiths 10269; Higgs 3979; INED 2794; Einaudi 3307 (the 8vo edition in 2 volumes). First edition, the rare 4to edition. The rare 4to edition by 'the ablest expositor of this (the physiocratic) system' (McCulloch). Adam Smith and Diderot praised it among many others, Catherina II of Russia invited the author to her court, and according to Palgrave, the work was at the time considered more highly than l'Esprit des Loix by some contemporaries. It provoked Voltaire's l'Homme aux quarante écus and Mably's vehement criticism in his Doutes proposés aux Philosophes économistes. Schumpeter lists this work as the second text-book of physiocrat orthodoxy (the first being Mirabeau's Philosophie rurale). - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek, Schloss Eferding, small stamp on title reading 'Aus Schloss Haus 1893.' EUR 4000
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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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(LOUIS XVI.) Règlement fait par le Roi, pour l'administration de ses finances & du commerce. Du 5 juin 1787. (Drop-head title). (At end:) Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1787. 6 pp. 4to. Disbound. Catalogue générale de la Bibliothèque nationale. Actes royaux, vol. vi, 41852; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Conlon. Original edition. Reform in nine articles of the Conseil royal des Finances: the numerous offices are expensive and due to the fact that the "conjonctures présentes ne pouvoient plus comporter" the various services are reduced and simplified: four financial departments headed by an Intendant des Finances, and one for commerce, equally headed by a Intendant. EUR 125
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(LOUIS XVI.) Ordonnance du Roi, Pour régler les quantités de Sel & de Tabac de Cantine, qui doivent être fournies aux Troupes. Du 27 novembre 1778. (Drop-head title). (At end:) A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1778. 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. Actes royaux, vi, 40007bis. The supply of salt as ordered by Ordonnance of October 1, 1743, has proven to be insufficient, while the quantity of tobacco distributed in the army is too large: only part of it is being consumed. This ordonnance adresses both thewse problems: increasing the sell quantity and decreasing the tobacco supply. EUR 125
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, C.J.) Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Cuchet, Gattey, 1788. xii, 231, (1) pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering. Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' (Stourm). Financial reports of fundamental importance, which would certainly have remained unknown if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains the reports by Boullogne (1758), de Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772-1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc. EUR 450
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(MATHON DE LA COUR, C.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. - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Mémoire donné au roi en 1778. (Paris, 1778). - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Compte rendu au Roi, Par M. Necker, ..... Au mois de janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de Sa majesté. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi, 1781. With 1 large folding leaf, 2 coloured folding maps. - (Bound with:) CARACCIOLI. Lettre du marquis de Caraccioli à M. d'Alembert. (Paris, 1788). - (Bound with:) NECKER, (J.) Sur le compte rendu du roi en 1781. Nouvelle éclaircissements. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. - (Bound with:) (LOMENIE DE BRIENNE, E.C. DE.) Compte rendu au roi au mois de mars 1788 et publié par ses ordres. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1788. - (Bound with:) RESULTAT du Conseil d'État du roi tenu à Versailles le 27 décembre 1788. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1788). 7 works bound in 1 stout volume. xii, 231, (1) pp.; 27 pp.; (4), 116 pp.; 44 pp.; viii, 284 pp.; (2), xiv, (2), 183, (1) pp.; (2), 26 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, paper covered boards, front joint with short split. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. - Copy from the library of Mr. Brossays Duperray, with his armorial bookplate. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder' (Stourm). Highly important financial reports which would certainly have remained unknown if it was not for the unflagging courage of Mathon de la Cour. Contains the reports by Boullogne (1758), de Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772-1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc.Second work: Einaudi 4105; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm; INED 3365.One of three editions published in the same year.Third work: Kress B.360; Goldsmiths 12183 & 12184; Einaudi 4094; not in INED.First edition, the scarce edition printed at the Cabinet du Roi, intended for Royal use only and not put in the trade. There were two further printings in the same year at the Imprimerie Royale.The publication had an astonishing succes with the public and did much to establish Necker's reputation. It is of great importance for being the first public report of government economic policy in France.Fourth work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Stourm 127; Barbier 642.First edition.Attributed to the Comte de Grimoard by Barbier, and to Galiani or the Comte de Grimoard by Stourm. Fifth work: Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; INED 3373; Stourm 126; not in Einaudi.First edition.Rather violent work criticizing the financial administration of Calonne.Sixth work: Goldsmiths 13636; Stourm 143; Einaudi 2245; cf.: Kress S.5185; not in INED.First edition.The minister was Loménie de Brienne, the text was drawn up by Souffloy de Mercy. 'Le successeur de Calonne, Loménie de Brienne, fit imprimer en 1788 l'important compte rendu de la situation des finances, dans lequel on a coutume de rechercher les derniers chiffres des budgets de la monarchie. Ces chiffres n'en sont pas moins utiles à consulter, à défaut d'autres, surtout en raison des nombreux commentaires qui les accompagnent' (Stourm). These comments on the details were supplied by Souffloy de Mercy.Seventh work: Goldsmiths 13733; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm.First edition.On the composition of the forthcoming meeting of the États-Généraux. EUR 1250
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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 jusq'en 1787. Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Cuchet & Gattey, 1788. With numerous tables in the text. - (Followed by:) (NECKER, J.) Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. 2 works bound in 1 volume. xii, 231, (1) pp.; viii, 284 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red labels with gilt lettering, blue srinkled edges, tiny defect to foot of spine. First work: Kress B.1446; Goldsmiths 13646; Einaudi 1179; Stourm 27. First edition. 'Ouvrage indispensable à posséder.' (Stourm). Highly 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 Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772, 1773 and 1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781), etc. Second work: Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; INED 3373; Einaudi 4112; Stourm 126.Original edition of this violent work, criticizing the financial administration of Calonne of 1784-87. EUR 1000
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE. & F. QUESNAY.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinquième édition. Together 8 parts bound in 6 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, the volume labels somewhat faded. Higgs 2160; cf.: INED 3194 & Kress 5882 (incomplete); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Improved edition. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Cinquième édition. Hambourg, Chez Chr. Hérold, 1764. 3 volumes. (4), viii, 308, (2) pp.; (4), 423, (1) pp.; (4), 422, (2) pp.IV: Précis de l'organisation ou Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. Sixième édition. Hambourg, Chez Chr. Hérold, 1764. - (Includes): Dialogue entre le surintendant d'O et L.D.H. Utilité des Etats provinciaux. - and: Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. Réponse aux objections contre le Mémoire and Questions intéressantes sur la population, l'agriculture et le commerce. (par Quesnay). 3 parts in 1 volume. (4), 208, (4), 336 pp. V: L'ami des hommes. Nouvelle édition. Augmentée des Lettres sur les corvées et la milice. 1762. - Mémoire sur l'agriculture. Extrait des six premiers Livres d'un ouvrage anglais, intitulé: Corps complet d'Economie Rustique. (8), vi, 281 pp. - including: Réponse à l'essai sur les ponts et chaussées, la voirie et les corvées. (4), 206 pp. VI: Tableau économique avec ses explications. With 6 folding tables (erroneously bound in vol. 1). (8), 192 (misnumbered 162) pp. - (Followed by:) Lettres pour servir de suite à l'Ami des Hommes (sur les corvées et la milice).The main work of the Physiocratic school. - Fine complete set. EUR 1250
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(MIRABEAU, V. RIQUETTI DE.) L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. Together 8 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spines gilt with contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, red edges, a few corners lightly bumped, front cover of volume 1 with a small damage to corners, rear cover of volume 8 with a few scratches. Higgs 2160; cf.: INED 3194 & Kress 5882 (incomplete); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. I-III: L'Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population. A Avignon, 1756. With engraved frontispiece and portrait of Mirabeau (added, lower edge shaved). 3 volumes. 431, (1) pp.; 578, (2) pp.; 577, (1) pp. IV: L'Ami des Hommes. Quatrième Partie. Précis de l'organisation ou Mémoire sur les Etats provinciaux. No place 1758. (8), 285, (1) pp. V: L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la Quatrième Partie. No place, 1758. Réponse aux objections sur les Etats provinciaux. (2), 313, (1) pp. - (Followed by:) Questions intéressantes sur la population, l'agriculture et le commerce proposés aux Académies et autres Sociétés sçavantes des provinces (par Quesnay). 150 pp. - (Followed by:) (BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, P.J.) L'ami des femmes. No place 1758. (4), 188, (2) pp. VI: L'Ami des Hommes. Cinqième Partie. Mémoire sur l'agriculture. Envoyé à la très-louable Société d'Agriculture de Berne, Avec l'Extrait des six premiers Livres du Corps complet d'Oeconomie Rustique de feu M. Thomas Hale. No place, 1760. xii, 298, (6) pp. VII: L'Ami des Hommes. Sixieme Partie. Réponse a l'essai sur les Ponts et Chaussées, la Voierie et les Corvées. No place, 1760. (4), 228, (2) pp. - (Bound with:) L'Ami des Hommes. Suite de la VI. Partie. Tableau Oeconomique avec ses Explications. No place, 1760. With 6 engraved folding tables. (4), 228, (4) pp.VIII: Théorie de l'impôt. No place, 1760. viii, 520 pp.The main work of the Physiocratic school, with the rare Ami des femmes and Mirabeau's Théorie de l'impôt added. - A nice copy. EUR 1400
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(MULLER & CO.) Au corps législatif. Fabrication d'un nouveau billon blanc, plus parfait, en pièces de 10 et 5 sols (cinq décimes et vingt-cinq-centimes) pour satisfaire au besoin des appoints dans les transactions journalières; et sa prompte émission dans onze caisses, où tout le papier-monnoie pourrait être échangé à bureau ouvert; avec offre de faire au gouvernement toutes les avances nécessaires. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Lycée des Arts, (prairial an IV - 1796). 30 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Martin & Walter, 25482; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Stourm. EUR 175
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(NECKER, J.) Eloge de Jean-Baptiste Colbert, discours qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Preceded by:) CHAMFORT, (S.R.N.) DE. Eloge de Molière. Discours qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise en 1769. Paris, Ve. Regnard & Demonville, 1769. - (Followed by:) LA HARPE, (J.F.) DE. La navigation. Ode qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Françoise, en 1773. Paris, J.B. Brunet & Demonville, 1773. - (Followed by:) LE BEAU. Eloge de M. le comte d'Argenson, lu à la rentrée de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres. A Paris, Chez Panckoucke, 1765. 4 works bound in 1 volume. (8), 135 pp.; 15, (3) pp.; 14 pp.; 30 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, gilt coat of arms of Aurengre on both sides, slightly worn and bumped. First work: INED 3360; Conlon 73:1090; Kress 6958; Goldsmiths 10954; Higgs 5713; not in Einaudi. First edition. 'It has been noted that Necker retired from active direction of his bank in 1772. From that date his goal was evidently a career in the government. The appearance a year later of his Eloge de Colbert was widely recognized as his bid for the post of finance minister, as well as his reform program if appointed. He entered the book in competition for the prize of eloquence annually offered by the Académie française. The Academy conferred the prize on the Eloge de Colbert after it was read to them by d'Alembert in August 1773. (.....) the Eloge de Colbert is an important document in Necker's political and ministerial career. It provides an introduction to the themes he was to expound later. It also indicates the nature of his ambition, for he unveiled himself in it' (Robert D. Harris, Necker. Reform Statesman of the Ancien Régime, pp. 47ff.)- Handwritten name in blank outer margin of title-page.Second work: Conlon 69:648.First edition.Third work: Conlon 73:950.First edition.Fourth work: Conlon 65:962.First edition.- For the coat of arms on the binding see: Olivier, xi, pl. 1106. EUR 700
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(NECKER, J.) Compte général des revenus et des dépenses fixes, au 1er de mai 1789. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1789. With three folding tables. (2), 201 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; Goldsmiths 13906 (without the tables); Stourm, p. 156 (also without the tables); not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. With this work, basically containing a recapitulation of Necker's official report on the financial situation of France as presented at the opening of the Estates General, Necker also produced a financial planning which could serve as the start for a new period. EUR 750
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(NOVI DE CAVEIRAC, J.) Apologie de Louis XIV, et de son Conseil sur la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes pour servir de réponse à la lettre d'un patriote sur la tolérance civile des protestans de France avec une dissertation sur la journée de la S. Barthelemi. (Paris?), 1758. Vignette on title. (2), vi, (4), 565, (1, advertisment), lxiii, (1, blank), (1, errata) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. INED 3400bis; Higgs 1869; Perry, From Theology to History, appendices 11 (listing a 12mo edition only); Sauvy, Quelques démographes ignorés, 362 ff; Conlon 58:966; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. According to Sauvy the work was originally published as Paradoxes intéressans sur la cause et les effets de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, le dépopulation et la répopulation du royaume, l'intolérance civile et rigoureuse d'un gouvernement, pour servir .... and 'sur certains exemplaires, le titre est modifié Apologie de Louis XIV.' According to Conlon however, the Paradoxes intéressans.... is the re-edition of the present work. - Very good copy. 'L'auteur fait un grand étalage d'érudition et de science en matière d'économie politique. La Dissertation offre des recherches curieuses' (Michaud). The Lettre d'un patriote was written by Antoine Court. 'Fanatiquement intolérant, Caveirac a fourni aux évêques du Languedoc, consultés par Voyer d'Argenson, les arguments propres à rejeter l'adoucissement du sort du protestants. La principale raison invoquée en faveur de cet adoucissement étant la dépopulation et l'appauvrissement qui résultaient de la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, l'abbé fut amené à étudier le problème général de la dépopulation et il le fit avec soin. Nous nous trouvons donc non devant un savant cherchant la vérité, mais devant un avocat cherchant l'argument nécessaire à une démonstration' (Sauvy, op.cit). 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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(ORLEANS, L.P.A. D') De la situation des Ouvriers en Angleterre. Mémoire présenté à la commission d'enquête sur les conditions du travail par M. le Comte de Paris. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, Librairie Nouvelle, 1873. With tables in the text. (4), 297, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, corners, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, very lightly rubbed. Einaudi 4221. First edition. Louis-Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris, Orleanist pretender and publicist. He became heir to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1842. After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 he sought fusion with the Bourbon house in which understanding Chambord would be the pretender with the count of Paris as his successor. Chambord consistently rejected. In 1886 the count was expelled and from then on lived in England until his death. - First and last leaves with some spotting. With handwritten and signed dedication by the author to C. Fortescue (?) on the half-title and the bookplate of Barlingford on front paste-down. EUR 425
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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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(PHILLIPPOT, P.) Instruction générale sur la jurisdiction consulaire, avec un Recueil des édits, déclarations, lettres-patentes du Roi, donnés en faveur de Messieurs les juges & consuls de laCour de la Bourse Commune des Marchands de la ville de Bordeaux. Ensemble l'établissement de deux foires franches, & le nom de tous les bourgeois qui ont été juges & consuls depuis l'installation de la Cour de la Bourse jusqu'à présent. Nouvelle édition. A Bordeaux, Chez Pierre Phillippot, 1791. (4), pp. 1-126, 129-144, 143-206, 127-128, 207-392, 403-537, followed by 10 unnumbered pages and again 42 numbered pages. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, front joint split at foot, joints slightly worn. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Stourm; not in Camus. Apparently made up from separately published pieces and brought together with a general title, hence the irregular pagination. The last (10) and 42 pp. form a supplement with 'arrests' etc., up to 1788. - Scribbling and name, the latter crossed out, on title. On first fly-leaf ownership's entry from Jean Serre, professor at the University of Bordeaux. EUR 600
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ABEILLE, (L.P.) & LE FEBVRE & TESSIER. Observations de la Société Royale d'Agriculture sur la question suivant, qui lui a été proposée par le Comité d'Agriculture & de Commerce de l'Assemblée Nationale. L'usage des domaines congéables est-il utile ou non au progrès de l'agriculture? Rédigées par MM. Abeille, l'Abbé Le Febvre & l'Abbé Tessier. Lues le dix-sept Mars 1791. No place, (1791). (2), 64 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Musset-Pathay 1414; INED 8; Kress S.5337; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli. First edition. Detailed definition of the 'domaine congéable', its usages and customes in Bretagne where they have survived. Abeille demontrates with the use of the 'Coutume de Bretagne' that the farmers with a 'domaine congéable' were doing well and contributed to the prospering of agriculture and the population. Abeille concludes that this system of 'withdrawable property' is favorable to the multiplication of property and that this farming-system is by consequence contributing to the progress of agriculture.A 'domaine congéable' was the system whereby land was leased for a period of usually nine years. If the contract was not renewed the farmer had a right to be reimburesed for all that he had constructed, improved etc. The advantage of the system was that the farmer benefitted from his work and the improvements he introduced on the land he had leased. Nevertheless, the insecurity of the system caused many complaints and these were clearly present and voiced in the cahiers of 1789. The system survived principally in the 'Basse Bretagne.' EUR 350
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France, comparé avec celui des autres Etats, suivies d'un nouveau plan d'administration. Deuxième édition, corrigéesur ces manuscrits. Amsterdam (Paris), 1784. (4), vii, (1), (9)-301, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, monogram in compartment at foot made black, red edges. INED 87; Stourm, p. 107; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Carl Menger; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. The rare second and improved edition, edited by de Paulmy, son of Argenson and printed in a limited number of copies. This is the first issue of the edition, with the errata at the end. There is another edition which lacks the errata while these have been corrected. 'Le texte de 1764 et celui de 1784 sont si dissemblables qu'ils ne peuvent pas être considérés de prime abord comme exprimant tous deux la pensé de d'Argenson.' (Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales). It is thus important to have both editions. In the preface to the second edition de Paulmy stresses the influence the work has had on the 'économistes', a fact that is confirmed by INED: 'Ces quelques examples montrent que sa doctrine économique a de nombreux point communs avec celles des disciples de Quesnay.'René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). EUR 1250
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ARGENSON, (R.L. DE VOYER) D'. Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France, comparé avec celui des autres Etats, suivies d'un nouveau plan d'administration. Deuxième édition, corrigéesur ces manuscrits. Amsterdam (Paris), 1784. (4), viii, (9)-301 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf, blind and gilt decorations to spine, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards and marbled edges. INED 87; Stourm, p. 107; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Carl Menger; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 31-36; Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 93-103. The rare second and improved edition, edited by de Paulmy, son of d'Argenson and printed in a limited number of copies. This is the second issue of the edition, without the errata leaf of the first issue while the errata have been corrected. The first issue of this edition is extremely scarce. - With handwritten note on fly-leaf by Jules Renouvier stating 'édition originale et publié par le marquis de Paulmy, fils de l'auteur.' 'Le texte de 1764 et celui de 1784 sont si dissemblables qu'ils ne peuvent pas être considérés de prime abord comme exprimant tous deux la pensé de d'Argenson' (Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales). In the preface to the second edition de Paulmy stresses the influence the work has had on the 'économistes', a fact that is confirmed by INED: 'Ces quelques examples montrent que sa doctrine économique a de nombreux point communs avec celles des disciples de Quesnay.'René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson (1694-1757), French writer on economic and political subjects. The main principle in d'Argenson's philosophy was universal liberalism- 'not too much government' (pas trop gouverner). In politics the 'democracy' which he wished to 'admit into the monarchic state' depended primarily on the abolition of inherited distinctions between the estates and on the decentralization of administration. In the economic sphere he demanded the cessation of all interference with the production and circulation of goods (G. Weulersse in ESS, vol. 2, p. 182). 'En matière sociale et politique les idées de d'Argenson sont à la fois hardies, brutales et timorées... d'Argenson tend vers une sorte de socialisme imposé et surveillé par une aristocratie qui n'en prendrait que ce qu'elle voudrait' (Mornet, Les Origines Intellectuelles de la Révolution Française). - With handwritten note on fly-leaf by Jules Renouvier stating 'édition originale et publié par le marquis de Paulmy, fils de l'auteur.' EUR 900
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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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AVENEL, G. D'. Histoire économique de la propriété, des salaires, des denrées et de tous les prix en général, depuis l'an 1200 jusqu'en l'an 1800. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913-1926. 7 volumes. (6), xxviii, 619, (1) pp.; (4), 534 pp.; (4), 701, (1) pp.; (4), 603, (1) pp.; (4), 732 pp.; (4), 690 pp.; (4), 474 pp. Royal 8vo. Modern cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Einaudi; Mattioli 155. The best and most complete edition of this monumental work, which is rarely found with the volumes 6 and 7. The book received the Prix Rossi in 1890 and 1892. - Last leaves of volume 5 slightly damaged at upper blank margin. J.A. Schumpeter states that d'Avenel's work does not receive today all the credit it deserves: 'd'Avenel had an eye for the wider implications for social and political history of prolonged and pronounced price changes' (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 782). I & II: L'argent. (Second editions); III & IV: Le travail. (Second editions); V: Les classes riches et bourgeoises. VI & VII: Les dépenses privées. EUR 1500
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BAS-RHIN - PROCES-VERBAL des séances du Conseil général du département du Bas-Rhin. Année 1791. Strasbourg, Imprimerie de Levrault, 1792. (4), 209, (2), ciii pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf. Lecestre 142; not in Martin & Walter. Original edition. The sessions were held 15 November - 14 December. The last pages numbered ciii contain the pièces justificatives, including many tables and financial details. EUR 600
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BAUDEAU, N. Privilège à lui délivré par le roi, en date du 29 novembre 1787, et enregistré à la Chambre royale et syndicale le 18 décembre 1787, pour 'faire imprimer et donner au public les Ephémérides économiques de sa composition.' (1787). 1 leaf, printed on vellum (45 x 25 cm), signed Le Bègue. Oblong folio. Privilege with which Baudeau received permission to publish the last - and rarest of all - physiocratic publications, entitled 'Ephémérides'. This journal was published by Baudeau from January - March 1788. This 'privilège' is an exceptional physiocratic document. - Piece of blank lower margin torn off and lost but not touching the text. EUR 2000
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BERRI - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale du Berri, tenue à Bourges en septembre et octobre 1780; précédé de détails relatifs aux principaux objects qui ont occupéles assemblées de 1778 et 1779. 2ième édition. Bourges, 1787. - (Followed by:) PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée provinciale du Berri tenue à Bourges en octobre et novembre 1783. 2ième édition. Bourges, 1787. - (Followed by:) PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée provinciale du Berri tenue à Bourges, octobre 1786. Bourges, 1787. With 11 tables. 3 volumes. (12), 19, 345, (10) pp.; (4), 287, (12) pp.; (2), 48, 262pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Lavergne, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 33-66. Complete set of the best edition with subject indexes, of the proceedings of the very first Assemblée Provinciale, as planned by Turgot and created by Necker. The distinction between the three orders was practically neglected and the voting was by call. This Assemblée was, together with the one of Haute-Guienne, the only one to survive until the revolution. During the years of its existence, the Assemblée made important decisions: the corvée was abolished and in this respect Berri became the example for all other provinces; improvement of waterways, extensively dealt with in the proceedings, was promoted because of the high costs of transport by land; the new doctrine of Turgot of 'liberté du travail' was adopted. Important document as the Berry was a sort of experiment for the futur provincial assemblies. In these minutes one finds essais on agriculture, industry, various taxes in use, the Ponts et Chaussees, the future construction of the canal and its navigation. - Rare in this complete state. The first two volumes with the half-title: 'Collection des procès-verbaux de l'Assemblée provinciale du Berri'. EUR 1500
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BERRI - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale du Berri, tenue à Bourges dans les mois de septembre & d'octobre 1780 (- Octobre 1783). Précédé du projet de Réglement proposé pour cette Administration, & des détails relatifs aux principaux objets qui ont occupé les Assemblées de 1778 & 1779. Bourges, B. Cristo, 1781-1784. With 11 folding tables. 2 volumes. iv, 315, (1) pp.; 304 pp. 4to. Half calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering (first volume somewhat rubbed). De Lavergne, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 33-66. First edition. Proceedings of the first session of the Assemblée provinciale of Berri, the very first to be held as planned by Turgot and created by Necker. During the years of its existence, the Assemblée made important decisions: the corvée was abolished and in this respect Berri became the example for all other provinces; improvement of waterways, extensively dealt with in the proceedings, was promoted because of the high costs of transport by land; the new doctrine of Turgot of 'liberté du travail' was adopted. Sessions were held also in November 1783 and in October 1786. - Copy from the library of Laussat, with bookplate. EUR 600
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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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BIRKBECK, M. Lettres sur les nouveaux établissemens qui se forment dans les parties occidentales des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique. Par Morris Birkbecks. Traduit sur l'édition originale de Philadelphie. Paris, Chez L'Huilier, Delaunay, 1819. With engraved map. (4), xvi, 156 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. Sabin 5568; Howes B.467; not in Streeter sale; not in Muller; not in Leclerc. The only French version. The name of the author is misspelled as Birkbecks on the title. Birckbeck purchased 6.000 acres of land on English Prairie, Illinois, in 1816, founding thereon the city of New Albion. The author did much to inspire and direct British emigrants into that area. The French translator considers the wealth of information supplied also of great interest for French people who might wish to emigrate to the United States. The work includes a wealth of information on economic and social conditions in that part of the United States. - One leaf (pp. 63/64) neatly repaired, without loss of text, and some small loss of paper in outer blank margin of half-title and title. EUR 450
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BLANC, L. Organisation du travail. Cinqième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée d'une polémique entre M. Michel Chevalier et l'auteur, ainsi que d'un appendice indiquant ce qui pourrait être tenté dès à présent. Paris, au Bureau de la Société de l'Industrie fraternelle, 1848. (4), 284 pp. 12mo. Sewn, original printed covers, spine a bit damaged, uncut, unopened. Kress C.7283; Goldsmiths 36031; not in Einaudi. Important edition of this famous text, containing supplements not reprinted in later editions. Louis Blanc's leading economic ideas are those of 'association' and 'the right to work'. In the present work he looks to the State to ensure that the opportunity to work under reasonable conditions of payment and employment shall be available for every citizen. Although Blanc wishes the State to institute this new system he does not wish it to take over the running of industry. It was here that Blanc and the Fourierists held opposing views; to Blanc the Fourierists wished to run the State and industry and control everything by means of a hierarchy of industrial administrators chosen from above (G.D.H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, i, p. 170). EUR 250
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BLANQUI, (A.) Histoire de l'économie politique en Europe, depuis les anciens jusqu'à nos jours, suivie d'une bibliographie raisonnée des principaux ouvrages d'économie politique. Troisièmeédition. Paris, Guillaumin, 1845. 2 volumes. (4), xxiv, 383, (1) pp.; (4), 430 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards, corners, gilt lettering to spine, one corner bumped very light signs of wear. New Palgrave, i, p. 253; Einaudi 524. Third edition. The first serious history of political economy. 'In addition to doctrinal history it covered an enormous amount of economic history from the ancient world to the early 1840s .... Blanqui's treatment of history reflects his support of free trade and sympathy for the working class. It may be said that the whole of his life was spent in one long and laborious inquiry, principally directed to the solution of those questions relating to the working classes, the importance of which he had realised more clearly than most of his contemporaries. The brilliancy and vigour of his language added an additional attraction to his teaching' (New Palgrave).Lightly browned throughout, binding of volume two slightly loose. EUR 150
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BOURGOIN, J. La chasse aux larrons, ou avant-coureur de l'histoire de la Chambre de Justice. Des livres du bien public, et autres oeuvres faits pour la recherche des financiers, & de leurs fauteurs. Paris, 1618. With title-engraving depicting hanging speculators and usurers, the usurers also beingchased while throwing away money. Title printed in red and black. (14), 96 pp. Small 4to. Later speckled calf, gilt triple fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Goldsmiths 470; Lindsay & Neu 4039 (other issue); Welsh, Second Checklist, 609 (edition of (8), 85 pp). Bourgeois & André 2440; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli; not in INED. First edition. In the same year also an edition in 8vo was published. - Unobtrusive brown spot on title-page. The author wrote several works of a vehement nature, against the financiers and provoked lively polemics. He demands the re-establishment of the Chambre de Justice which had been created under Henry IV. The Chambres de Justice were 'Commissions extraordinaires établies dans des circonstances spéciales pour juger de cas particuliers: notamment commissions destinées, après de temps de désordres et de malversations graves, à punir et à dépouiller les fianciers enrichis par ces malversations' (Marion, Dictionnaire des Institutions). Three years earlier Jean de Beaufort had already insisted on investigations against financial malversations in his Trésor des trésors. The 'Dédicace au Roy' starts: 'Sire, De tous tems ceux qui manient les fiances n'ont pas esté seulement soupconnez d'y mal verser, mais convancus de les voller ouvertement, artistement. Dont est venu ce vieil proverbe qui roulle encor entre le vulgaire: l'Argent du Roy est sujet à la pince.' EUR 1500
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BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J.P. Collection of 25 pamphlets, dated between 1790 and 1793. 25 items, bound in 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering on spines. Interesting collection pertaining to Brissot's political activities. 'Brissot's rise from an impoverished and little-known writer to one of the most important politicians in revolutionary France is remarkable. He deserves praise for his commitment to liberty and political equality, for his abolitionist and humanitarian causes, and for his political talents in leading the Girondins' (G. Kates in Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, 126.)Contains: 1. DISCOURS sur la rareté du numéraire, et sur les moyens d'y remédier. Prononcé à l'Assemblée générale des représentans de la Commune de Paris, le 10 février 1790. Paris, au bureau du Patriote François, 1790. vi, 64 pp.INED 806; Martin & Walter, i, 5256. 2. A STANISLAS CLERMONT (ci-devant Clermont-Tonnerre), sur la diatribe de ce dernier contre les Comités de Recherches, et sur son apologie de madame Jumilhac, et des Illuminés. Paris, Imprimerie du Patriote François, 28 august 1790. (2), 52 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5221 (without the titlepage?) 3. REPLIQUE à Stanislas Clermont, concernant ses nouvelles Observations sur les Comités de Recherches, sur les causes des troubles, les Folliculaires, le long Parlement d'Angleterre, M. Necker, etc. Paris, Imprimerie du Patriote François, 8 october 1790. (2), 59, (1) pp. (Titlepage repaired with loss of a few words in the name of the printer)Martin & Walter, i, 5253 (without the titlepage?) 4. DISCOURS prononcé à la section de la bibliothèque, dans son assemblée générale du 24 octobre 1790, sur la question du renvoi des ministres. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Patriote François, (1790). 30 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5227. 5. DISCOURS sur la question de savoir si le Roi peut être jugé, prononcé à l' Assemblée des Amis de la Constitution, dans la séance du 10 juillet 1791. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1791). 27, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5262. 6. REPONSE à tous les libellistes qui ont attaqué et attaquent sa vie passée. Paris, au bureau du Courier de Provence, 10 august 1791. (2), 48 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5254 (without the titlepage?) 7. REPLIQUE à Charles Theveneau Morande. Paris, Imprimerie du Patriote François, 30 august 1791. (2), 31, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5252 (without collation). 8. DISCOURS sur la nécessité de maintenir le décret rendu le 15 mai 1791, en faveur des hommes de couleur libres, prononcé le 12 septembre 1791 à la séance de la Société des Amis de la Constitution, séante aux Jacobins. (Drop-head title). (Paris, 1791). 28 pp.INED 803; Martin & Walter, i, 5265. 9. DISCOURS sur l'utilité des sociétés patriotiques et populaires, sur la nécessité de les maintenir et de les multiplier par-tout; prononcé, le 28 septembre 1791, à la séance de la Société des Amis de la Constitution, séante aux Jacobins. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Patriote François, (1791). 23, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5266.10. DISCOURS sur les émigrations, et sur la situation de la France relativement aux Puissances étrangères, prononcé, le 20 octobre 1791, à l'Assemblée nationale. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791. (2), 31, (1, blank) pp.Not in Martin & Walter (cf.: i, 5272, listing the same title for 21 october 1791 of 29 pp.)11. PROJET de déclaration de l'Assemblée nationale aux puissances étrangères. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 7, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5286.12. DISCOURS sur les dispositions des Puissances étrangères, relativement à la France, et sur les préparatifs de guerre ordonnés par le Roi. Prononcé à l'Assemblée nationale, le 29 décembre 1791. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 48 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5276.13. DISCOURS sur la nécessité d'exiger une satisfaction de l'Empereur, et de rompre le Traité du premier Mai 1756. Du 17 Janvier 1792. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 28 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5277.14. DISCOURS sur l'office de l'empereur du 17 février 1792, et dénonciation contre M. Delessart, Ministre des affaires étrangères; prononcé à l'Assemblée nationale, le 10 mars 1792. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 44 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5279.15. DISCOURS de MM. Brissot et Guadet, prononcés à la séance de la société des amis de la constitution, le 25 avril 1792, l'an 4e de la liberté. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Patriote François, (1792). 21, (1, blank) pp.Not in Martin & Walter.16. DISCOURS sur le dénonciation contre le comité autrichien et contre M. Montmorin, ci-devant Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, prononcé à l'Assemblée nationale, à la séance du 23 Mai 1792. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1792. (2), 32 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5280 - lacks pp. 33-38, containing an 'extrait'. 17. LETTRES à M. Dumouriez. (Ministre de la guerre). (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie du Patriote François, (1791). 7, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5232.18. DISCOURS sur les causes des dangers de la Patrie, et sur les mesures à prendre, prononcé le 9 juillet 1792, l'an 4e de la Liberté. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 51, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5281.19. OPINION sur les mesures de Police générale proposées par M. Gensonné; prononcée le 25 juillet 1792, l' an 4e de la liberté. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 19, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5283.20. OPINION sur la marche à suivre en examinant la question de la Déchéance et les autres mesures. Prononcé le 26 juillet 1792, l' an IVe de la liberté. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, 1792. 11, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5284.21. DISCOURS sur les dénonciations relatives au général Lafayette, prononcé le 10 août 1792, l'an 4e de la liberté. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 27, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 528222. RAPPORT fait au nom de la Commission extraordinaire et du Comité diplomatique, sur les réclamations des cantons de Berne et d'Uri, relatives à l'évacuation des défilés de Porentrui. Le 3 octobre 1792. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1792). 10 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5292.23. J.P.BRISSOT, député à la Convention nationale, à tous les républicains de France; sur la Société des Jacobins de Paris. Paris, Imprimerie du Patriote François, 29 octobre 1792, l'an Ier de la République. 47, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5219.24. EXPOSE de la conduite de la nation Française envers le peuple Anglais, et des motifs qui ont amené la rupture entre la République Française et le Roi d'Angleterre. Précédé du rapport prononcé par Brissot, au nom du comité Diplomatique & du Discours de Ducos. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1793. (2), 34, 95, (1, blank) pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5290. The second part is entitled: Exposé historique des motifs qui ont amené la rupture entre la République Française & S.M. Britannique. Martin & Walter call for another 10 pp. in between these two parts, which are not present here.25. J.P. BRISSOT, député du département d'Eure et Loire, à ses commettans, sur la situation de la Convention Nationale, sur l'influence des Anarchistes, et les maux qu'elle a causés, sur la nécessité d'anéantir cette influence, pour sauver la République. Paris, Imprimerie de P. Provost, (1792). iv, 128 pp.Martin & Walter, i, 5218. EUR 2250
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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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CALONNE, (C.A.) Réponse de M. de Calonne à l'écrit de M. Necker, publié en avril 1787; contenant l'examen des comptes de la situation des finances rendus en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787. Avec des observations sur les résultats de l'Assemblée des Notables. Londres, de l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury, Janvier 1788. With 4 folding tables. viii, 204, 89 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, a bit rubbed. Kress B.1375; Goldsmiths 13617; Einaudi 800; not in INED; Martin & Walter 5814. The rare original edition in 4to which invited numerous counterfeited editions. Stourm (p. 126): 'Ce volume, qui récapitule toute l'administration de Calonne ..... et fournit des situations financières rétrospectives inédites ..... mérite d'être lu en entier.' - Large paper copy with the gilt stamped arms of the Duc La Rochefoucauld d'Enville in upper compartment of spine and discrete stamp on title. EUR 2000
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CALONNE, (C.A.) DE. Requête au Roi. Adressée à Sa Majesté. No place, 1787. (2), 212, (2), 98 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1177; Stourm, p. 134; cf.: Einaudi 801; this edition not in Goldsmiths (cf: 13433-4); not in INED. One of several editions from the year of the first publication, no priority established, of his defence of his conduct and actions as minister of state. 'Sa fameuse Requête au Roi, si souvant invoquée, dans laquelle figurent en relief, sous un jour évidemment partial, mais avec des détails très instructifs, les actes incriminés de son administration' (Stourm). The last 87 pages contain the Eclaircissements et pièces justificatives. EUR 300
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CARLOW, GEORG HERZOG ZU MECKLENBURG, GRAF VON. Richelieu als merkantilistischer Wirtschaftspolitiker und der Begriff des Staatsmerkantilismus. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1929. viii, (2), 232 pp. 8vo. Original printed covers, very slightly worn, uncut and unopened (Beiträge zur geschichte der Nationalökonomie). EUR 75
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CARRA, (J.L.) M. de Calonne tout entier, tel qu'il s'est comporté dans l'administration des finances, dans son commissariat en Bretagne, &c., &c. Avec une analyse de sa 'Requête au Roi' etde sa 'Réponse à l'écrit de M. Necker'. Ouvrage critique, politique & moral. Bruxelles, avril 1788. viii, 370, 36 pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting labels with gilt lettering, some scratches to boards. Kress B.1377; INED 957; Stourm, p. 137; not in Goldsmiths; not in Mattioli; cf. Einaudi 913. One of several editions published in 1788, year of first edition, no priority established. The author violently criticizes minister Calonne. The last 36 pages contain 'pièces justificatives'. Jean-Louis Carra (1742-1793), editor and conventionnel. With the advent of the Revolution, he flung himself into Parisian politics. In 1787-1788, he dashed off works vilifying the finance minister, C.A. de Calonne, and the former police-lieutenant, J.B. Lenoir. He was founder of the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, an abolitionist organization. His meteoric rise to national prominence commenced with the foundation of the Annales Patriotiques et Littéraires. As the principal editor of this daily newspaper and a highly visible member of the Paris Jacobins, he had an incalculable impact on the departemental Jacobin clubs (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, i, pp. 156-157). EUR 300
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CASSEL - ECONOMIC essays in honour of Gustav Cassel. October 20th, 1933. London, Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1933). 720 pp. 8vo. Original publishers cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Contributions by: James W. Ingell, J.M. Clark, Sven Brisman, Leon H. Dupriez, Luigi Einaudi, Karel Englis, Jean Lescure, A. Loveday, Gunnar Myrdal, Josiah C. Stamp, G.M. Verryn Stuart, Gustavo del Vecchio, and others and also includes Nobel Laurate Ragnar Frisch's pathbreaking essay Propagation problems and Impulse problems in Dynamic Economics. - With modern bookplate on front paste-down. EUR 175
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CHARENTE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances du Conseil général d'administration du département de la Charente Inférieure. Réuni à Saintes le 16 novembre 1791 & jours suivans; l'an troisième dela liberté française. A Saintes, de l'Imprimerie de Pierre Toussaints, 1792. - (Bound with:) COMPTE-RENDU par le directoire du département de la Charente inférieure, au Conseil général d'administration, réuni en session les 16 novembre 1791 & jours suivans. A Saintes, de l'Imprimerie de Pierre Toussaints, 1792. - (Bound with:) PROCES-VERBAL des séances du Conseil général d'administration du département de la Charente inférieure, réuni à Saintes, le 10 novembre 1792, et jours suivans, l'an 1er de la République Française. A Saintes, Chez Vincent Cappon et Michel Marechal, imprimeurs, 1793. All three title-pages with engraved revolutionary symbols as vignettes. Together 3 works in 1 volume. 46 pp.; 168 pp.; 483 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled half calf, marbled paper over boards, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, red edges, small damage to head of spine. Lecestre p. 35 (first two works) and p. 36 (last work). Lecestre has the third work in an edition of 202 pages only. First editions. Rich source containing a wealth of financial and economical information. EUR 900
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CHERUEL, A. Histoire de l'administration monarchique en France depuis l'avénement de Philippe-Auguste jusqu'à la mort de Louis XIV. Paris, E. Magdeleine et Cie., Libr.-Éditeurs, (1855). 2 volumes. (4), iv, lxxi, (1, blank), 399, (1, errata) pp.; (4), 512, (1, errata), (1, blank) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, somewhat rubbed and worn. Catalogue de l'Histoire de France, vii, p. 179. First edition. Pierre-Adolphe Chéruel became Professor of History in Rouen in 1830, and in 1849 he was appointed to the Chair of Ancient History, and retreated in 1874. 'Il fit alors paraître les grands ouvrages qui l'ont rendu célèbre et lui ont valu son élection à l'Académie des sciences morales et, à quatre reprises, le grand prix Gobert, triomphe sans précédent à l'Académie française' (Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 8, pp. 1031-1032). With handwritten and signed dedication to 'mon ami M. Fustel.' EUR 250
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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 - 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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COLE, A.H. & G.B. WATTS. The handicrafts of France as recorded in the 'Description des Arts et Métiers' 1761-1788. Cambridge (Mass), Baker Library, 1952. With illustrations. (4), 43 pp. 4to. Sewn, original printed covers (Kress Library of Business and Economics. Publication 8). EUR 75
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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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CORPORATIONS - ARREST de la Cour de Parlement en la Chambre de l'Edict, pour la réception de Iean & Marc Henry Chabrol, en la maistrise de potier d'estain de la ville de Lion, du 26 juin 1666. (Drop-head title). No place, (1666). 4 pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Not in Charléty. EUR 100
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DARIER, H. Tableau du titre, Poids et Valeur, des différentes Monnaies d'or et d'argent, qui circulent dans le Commerce. Avec Empreintes auquel on a joint diverses tables, tarifs et règles utiles à ceux qui travaillent ou font le commerce des matières d'or et d'argent, ainsi que la loi du 19 Brumaire an 6, relative à la surveillance du titre et aux droits de garantie, avec les loix, arrêtes et décrets qui y ont rapports. Par Hugues Darier père Essayeur du commerce. Genève, chez l'auteur et chez Pre. Escuyer, 1807. With engraved titlepage. (10), 86, (6, blank), 4 (supplément au tableau des monnaies) pp.; 52 leaves. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, paper covered boards, corners. Goldsmiths 19426; Kress C.1870 (second edition (1827) only); Masui p. 467; Quérard, ii, p. 392 (the second edition); NEHA 292; not in Einaudi. Original edition. The last 52 leaves depict coins from many European states, 4 to 8 coins shown per leaf, in many instances both sides of the coin (titre - poids). - Fully interleaved copy. EUR 900
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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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DIJON - EXTRAIT des registres des délibérations de la Chambre du Conseil & de Police de la ville & commune de Dijon. Du Mercredi 23 décembre 1778. (Drop-head title). (Dijon), Imprimerie de Causse, (1778). 4 unnumbered pages. Small 8vo. One folded leaf, no covers. At head of first page: 'Boulangers'.Bakers are not allowed to produce more then two kinds of bread, white and brown. EUR 75
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DUBOIS, A. Précis de l'histoire des doctrines économiques dans leurs rapports avec les faits et les institutions. Tome premier. L'époque antérieure aux Physiocrates. Paris, A. Rousseau, 1903. (4), 342 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, original covers preserved. All published. Important work, containing a wealth of information. The author thought economics at the faculty of Law in Lille, and became Professor of Political Economy at the faculty of Law in Poitiers in 1903. EUR 150
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DUCLOZ-DUFRESNOY, (C.N.) Origine de la caisse d'escompte; ses progrès, ses révolutions, les changemens survenus dans le régime de son administration: ses statuts: son organisation: ses droits à la confiance publique, ou Lettre à M. le Comte de Mirabeau, sur sa motion concernant la Caisse d'escompte. No place, (At end: A Paris, Chez Clousier), 1789. (2), 95, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1579; Goldsmiths 13880; Stourm 193; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter, 11475; Monglond, i, p. 245; Tourneux, iii, 13708. First edition. - Copy with wide margins. The author was one of the 'commissaires des actionnaires' of the caisse. Charles-Nicolas Ducloz-Dufresnoy, writer of a number of works on the finances of France, in favor of the creation of 'papier-monnoie' which he promoted through a number of tracts and pamphlets. EUR 250
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DULION, (R.) Grand tarif des réductions de la monnoie de France, courant de Brabant, et argent des Pays-Bas, et vice versa; ainsi que des espèces d'or et d'argent contenues dans les décrets de 1810. Suivi du tarif de l'évaluation des espèces, fixée par arrêté royal du 8 décembre 1824, en argent de France, courant de Brabant et des Pays-Bas. Nouvelle édition. On y joint le tarif des couronnes de France calculées à 64 sols argent courant de Brabant. Anvers, A. Grangé, (1825). 95, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, extra. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; NEHA 293 (Dutch edition). First published in 1810, with 63 pages. Gives, in tables, the exchange rates of the currencies of France, Brabant and the Netherlands. With printed tabs for each section. EUR 225
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS - SCHELLE, G. Du Pont de Nemours et l'Ecole physiocratique. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1888. With portrait. (4),456 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and red label with gilt lettering, a bit worn at corners. McLain, p. 236; Jolly, p. 294. The scarce, first and only edition of this exhaustive and fundamental biography on Dupont de Nemours and the physiocrats. The work contains at the end an impressive bibliography and index covering the pages 399-end.Ex-libris Georges Lioret and ticket of Librairie Raymond Clavreuil. EUR 300
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ESPINAS, A. Histoire des doctrines économiques. Paris, A. Colin, (1891). (4), 359 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, raised bands. Say & Chailley, ii, 1195: "ouvrage de premier ordre". First edition. Contains: L'économie chez les Grecs. - Les doctrines économiques au Moyen-Age. - A la renaissance. - L'économie politique dans les temps modernes (les Physiocrates, Adam Smith, système mercantile, socialisme). The author was among the very first to recognize the importance of Cantillon. EUR 150
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FREUDENBERGER, H. The Waldstein woolen mill. Noble entrepreneurship in eighteenth-century Bohemia. Boston, Baker Library, 1963. With 1 map and 20 plates. xi, 68 pp. 4to. Sewn in original printed covers (Publication number 18 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics). Original edition. The present brochure deals with an eighteenth-century textile works and, of course, primary materials for industrial enterprises of that period is not abundant. Another important feature is that this industry was founded and administered by successive generations of am aristocratic family, and moreover, the enterprise was a progressive one: the family was very succesful in introducing the Dutch method of cloth making, a method which was superior to any other in the 18th century, into Bohemia, thus being a typical example of the migration of advanced technology to an under-developed country. The study is based on a collection of engravings depicting the production process in detail, and archival materials which, among others, gives insight into a little-known but important business practice, and one even used today, namely internal contracting. EUR 75
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FROUMENTEAU, N. Le secret des finances de France, descouvert, et départi en trois livres ..... & maintenant publié, pour ouvrir les moyens légitimes & nécessaires de payer les dettes du Roy,décharger ses sujets des subsides imposez depuis trente un ans, & recouvrer tous les deniers (sic) prins à sa Majesté. No place, 1581. 3 parts in 1 volume. (56), 152 pp.; (2), 3-472 pp.; (8), 435 (misnumbered 439) pp. 8vo. 18th-century calf, spine gilt with gilt lettering, gilt triple fillets on both sides, very lightly rubbed, joints tender. Kress 146; INED 1932; Einaudi 5204; Mattioli 1340; not in Goldsmiths; Haag, La France protestante (2e éd.) vi, pp. 747 ff.; BM STC French 189; Adams F-1084. Augmented edition of Le secret des thrésors de France, also published in 1581, and hence the best edition of this valuable statistical analysis of public finances of the years 1550-1580. There are at least three different issues of the book: there are copies with 'Le' from the title printed in Italics and with an 'Epitre' at the beginning of the second book of either 16 or 30 pages, which copies are ordinarely found, and their are copies with 'Le' printed in Roman type and with the 'Epitre' in 16 pages, the scarcer copies. In all copies the 'Epitre' contains the same text, the difference being whether or not the text is printed in larger or smaller type. The present copy is with 'Le' printed in Roman type. Includes a statistical analysis of public finances of the years 1550-1580 and criticizes the 'régime fiscal' of the period. The author herewith anticipates writers as Boisguilbert, Vauban and Boulainvilliers, as well as the physiocrats. Froumenteau, the pseudonym of a protestant, gives also statistics on population and the damage caused by the wars of religion. Sometimes attributed to Barnaud. This version is an augmented edition of the Secret des thrésors de France, also published in 1581, and hence this is the best edition of this valuable source.- The preface of part 2 is here printed in a small type, hence the preface has fewer pages than in other issues: to keep pace with the pagination of the rest of the volume, the numbering jumps from 16 to 33. EUR 1600
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G(UDIN) J(EU)NE. De la possibilité d'améliorer les transactions immobilières et commerciales; par l'introduction dans les contrats de l'ordre et de la garantie et par l'économie des ressources. Précédé d'observations sur l'état actuel des affaires et sur l'insuffisance des moyens pratiques jusqu'à ce jour. Divers propositions organiques applicables à des cas particuliers. Lyon, Lithographie Lepagnez, 1855. Lithographed manuscript of 86 pp. 4to. Modern boards. The author has written his name in full himself on the title of this copy, which has on verso of the title also an autograph dedication from the author to Victor Schoelcher. The text is entirely lithographed, apparently in a small number of copies and not put into the trade, as is stated in the first lines: 'Ce travail n'est point destiné à la publicité, il est adressé à quelques amis intimes .....' It contains a project for the organisation of general credit facilities. EUR 250
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GALIANI - RUBEN, M. Ferdinando Galiani. Der politische Ökonom des Ancien Régime. Leipzig, Frommhold & Wendler, 1936. 88, (2) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed cover (Inaugural Dissertation, Universität Basel). EUR 100
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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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GANILH, CH. Essai politique sur le revenu public des peuples de l'Antiquité, du Moyen Age, des siècles modernes, et spécialement de la France et de l'Angleterre, depuis le milieu du 15e siècle jusqu'au 19e. A Paris, chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. 2 volumes. 420 pp.; (4), 503, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary halfcalf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled boards, green corners, some offsetting to boards, sprinkled edges. Kress B.5046; Goldsmiths 19270; INED 1953; Humpert 12952; not in Einaudi; Mattioli 1391. First edition. Important work 'sur les recettes publiques' which contains a financial history and a theory of tax. 'En faveur de l'industrie et du bien-être, et contre le populationisme agricole et l'impôt direct' (INED). EUR 750
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GARD - PROCES-VERBAL de la première session de l'Assemblée administrative du département du Gard, séante à Nismes. A Nismes, chez C. Belle, 1791. With engraved vignette. (2), 182 pp. 4to. Sewn, contemporary marbledcovers, some loss of paper to spine, a nice uncut copy with large margins. Lecestre p. 65 (folio edition); not in Martin & Walter. Very rare original edition. Deliberations of the period 3 November through 11 December 1791 and dealing with a great variety of subjects: Entrepreneurs des Chemins - Juges de Paix - Tranquilité publique - Canal de Beaucaire - Tribunal de Commerce - Mendicité dans la ville de Nismes - etc. etc. With an elaborate index at the end. EUR 750
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GARGILESSE - ARREST du Conseil dÉtat du Roi, qui permet au Sieur Dubost de Gargilesse (Indre, arr. de La Châtre), d'établir un marché, le Mardy de chaque Semaine, dans le Bourg de Gargilesse. Du 21 octobre 1771. Blois, Imprimerie de P.P. Charles, (1771). Folio poster. The 'Lettres patentes du Roi' confirming the arrest, dated 29 november 1771, is not in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Catalogue des Actes Royaux. EUR 150
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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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GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, J.F. Doléances sur les surcharges que les gens du peuple supportent en toute espèce d'impôts; Avec des Observations Historiques & Politiques sur l'origine & les accroissemens de la Taille; sur l'assujettissement du Tiers-Etat au paiement de la totalité de ce Tribut, & sur les moyens légitimes de soulager les Taillables, & de rétablir les Finances, sans recourir à de nouveaux Impôts. No place, 1788. viii, (3, errata, 1 blank), 248 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Kress B.1420; Goldsmiths 13636.1; Einaudi 2418; INED 1990; Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, 354; Martin & Walter 14448; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, i, pp. 393-395; Stourm, p. 148. First edition, copy with errata leaves. 'Un des meilleurs exposés de l'état financier de l'époque. Les gens du peuple donnent au fisc les trois cinqième de leur revenu. Histoire de la taille. Nécessité de revenir à l'égalité et de décharger le peuple. Cet brochure de 248 pages eut beaucoup de retentissement.' (Stourm).'Critique du système fiscal s'appuyant sur l'histoire. Gaultier étudie surtout la taille pour montrer que c'est le Tiers-État qui supporte le poids des impôts' (INED).'Cette brochure fit une grande impression sur l'opinion contemporaine. Elle donne de précieux renseignements sur le système fiscal de l'Ancien Régime, qu'elle critique, en montrant que les gens du peuple supportent tout le poids de l'impôt. L'auteur réclame une égalité proportionnelle dans sa répartition et s'élève contre les exemptions et les privilèges' (Leblanc, op.cit). EUR 650
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GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, J.F. Doléances sur les surcharges que les gens du peuple supportent en toute espèce d'impôts; Avec des observations historiques & politiques sur l'origine & les accroisemens de lataille; sur l'assujettissement du Tiers-Etat au paiement de la totalité de ce tribut, & sur les moyens légitimes de soulager les taillables, & de rétablir les finances, sans recourir à de nouveaux impôts. No place, 1788. vi, (7)-151, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, red label with gilt lettering, somewhat warped. Kress B.1420 (other issue); Goldsmiths 13636.1 (other issue); Einaudi 2418 (other issue); INED 1990 (other issue); Leblanc, 354; Martin & Walter 14448; Lemay, Dictionnaire des Constituants, i, pp. 393-395; Stourm, p. 148. Second edition, textually identical to the first edition, but newly set, no errata leaf and the errata corrected. Probably very rare issue, since only Leblanc lists this copy all other reference works citing the first issue of the first edition. It is one of the best expositions of the actual financial situation of that era and had considerable influence on contemporary opinion. 'Un des meilleurs exposés de l'état financier de l'époque. Les gens du peuple donnent au fisc les trois cinqième de leur revenu. Histoire de la taille. Nécessité de revenir à l'égalité et de décharger le peuple. Cet brochure de 248 pages eut beaucoup de retentissement' (Stourm). 'Critique du système fiscal s'appuyant sur l'histoire. Gaultier étudie surtout la taille pour montrer que c'est le Tiers-État qui supporte le poids des impôts' (INED). 'Cette brochure fit une grande impression sur l'opinion contemporaine. Elle donne de précieux renseignements sur le système fiscal de l'Ancien Régime, qu'elle critique, en montrant que les gens du peuple supportent tout le poids de l'impôt. L'auteur réclame une égalité proportionnelle dans sa répartition et s'élève contre les exemptions et les privilèges' (Leblanc, op.cit). EUR 700
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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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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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GIBERT-DESMOULIERES, (J.L.) Rapport fait au nom de la Commission des Finances, composée des représentans Dauchy (de l'Oise), de La Hante, Duchatel (de la Gironde), Ozun, Lemarcis, Huchet-Dreux et Gibert-Desmolières; sur la situation des finances. Séance du 26 prairial, an V. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, Messidor an V (1797). (2), 34 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED: Stourm, p. 273; Martin & Walter 14805; not in Monglond. First edition. 'Nécessité de faire rentrer les impôts, de cesser toute déliverance d'ordonnances d'urgence, d'arrêter les anticipations, de renoncer à toute faveur dans l'ordre des payements, etc. Etat approximatif du revenu et des dépenses ordinaires de l'an VI.' (Stourm). Jean-Louis Gibert-Desmoulières (1746-1799), born into a family of lawyers and historians originating from Aix-en-Provence. Was elected into the Conseil des Cinq-Cents and became one of its secretaries. He was a prolific speaker on financial and economical questions. He belonged to the 'Clichyens' a group opposing the Directoire and Bonaparte, was arrested and deported to Guyenne where he died. EUR 125
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GIRARD, P. DE. Décret qui accorde un prix d'un million à l'inventeur de la meilleure machine à filer le lin. 7 mai 1810. (Manuscript copy on paper of the Depot des Lois). 2 pp. 4to. - (Bound with:) AMPERE, J.J. M. Philippe de Girard. (Corbeil, Typ. de Créte), no date (around 1845). 16 pp. 8vo. - (Bound with:) INVENTION de la filature méchanique du lin. Notice chronologique. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Imprimerie de Guiraudet et Jouaust), no date (1851). 24 pp. 4to. - (Bound with:) RAPPORT et loi avant pour objet d'accorder aux héritiers de Philippe de Girard inventeur de la filature méchanique du lin, une Pension A titre de récompense nationale. Paris, Typographie Panckoucke, 1853. 13, (1) pp. 8vo. - (Bound with:) DUPIN, Ch. Rapport fait Au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner le projet de loi qui confère, à titre de récompense nationale, des pensions aux héritiers de feu Philippe de Girard, inventeur de la filature méchanique du lin. (Drop-head title). (Paris, Imprimerie du Senat et du Corps legislatif, no date (1853?). 14 pp. 8vo. - (Bound with:) RECLAMATION d'un million et les intérêts par Madame la Comtesse de Vernède de Corneillan, née de Girard, Nièce et Héritière de M. le Chevalier Philippe de Girard, Inventeur de la filature méchanique du lin (1856). Paris, Imprimerie de Guiraudet et Jouaust, 1856. (4), 71, (1) pp. 4to. - (Bound with:) TRES RESPECTUEUX recours à sa Majesté l'Empereur soumettant à son èquité souveraine les erreurs de dates et de faits source et base de la décision du Conseil d'État contre le droit de Madame la Comtesse de Vernède de Corneillan, née de Girard, Nièce et héritière de M. le Chevalier Philippe de Girard, Inventeur de la filature mécanique du lin. (1860). Paris, Imprimerie de Ch. Jouaust, (1860). 7 pieces in 1 volume. 2 pp.; 16 pp.; 24 pp.; 13, (1) pp.;14 pp.; (4), 71, (1) pp.; 40 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Not in Siegelaub, Bibliographica Textilia historiae; Hoefer, vol. xx, cols. 668-678; Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. 16, cols 168-170. - A few pieces have contemporary underlining and handwritten notes and comments in the margins, three texts have been bound with their original, printed covers, the last text has a handwritten dedication to Monsieur Gudin or Godin by the Comtesse Vernède de Corneillan, née de Girard. Philippe de Girard invented the machine for spinning linen along principles still valid today. He was awarded a million francs by Napoléon and, in anticipation started three factories. But due to political circumstances and the fact that Napoléon did not keep his promise, his factories, very succesful from the start, faced soon ruin and de Girard was imprisoned. Ruined and betrayed by two collaborators, he accepted an invitation by the Austrian government. He again set up a factory and was again succesful. When de Girard was awarded the gold medal given by the Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie nationale, he returned to France. Despite his brilliant discoveries (de Girard was the inventor of many more novelties) and the intervention on his behalf by journalists, politicians and intellectuals, the government refused to give him any financial help or reward. De Girard died in 1845 and his niece continued to find a way to get the money once awarded to de Girard. Also Charles Dupin appealed to the government, but all to no avail. EUR 800
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GIRONCOURT, (H.A. REGNARD DE.) Traité historique de l'État des trésoriers de France et généraux des finances, avec les preuves de la supériorité de ces offices. Le tout enrichie de notes. Divisé en deux parties. Premiere (-Seconde) Partie. A Nancy, Chez la veuve Leclerc, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. (16), 349, (1) pp.; (2), 358, (16) pp. 4to. Modern vellum, red label with gilt lettering. Kress S.4854; Masui, i, p. 404; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Franklin, Les Sources de l'histoire de France; not in Catalogue de l'Histoire de France; Conlon 76:1033. First edition. - Very good copy and rare. Henri Antoine Regnard de Gironcourt (1719-1786), became a lawyer at Epinal in 1746 and published several Mémoires dealing with taxes on merchandise to be levied on behalf of religious orders, a practice which existed since the tenth century. He also wrote a number of works and articles on the history of the Lorraine. The present work was his most important and is an esteemed historical treatise on French finances and the responsible officers. EUR 900
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GOMEL, CH. Les causes financières de la Révolution française. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1892-1893. 2 volumes. - (Followed by:) GOMEL, Ch. Histoire financière de l'Assemblée Constituante. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1896-1897. 2 volumes. (Followed by:) GOMEL, Ch. Histoire financière de la Législative et de la Convention. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1902-1905. 2 volumes. Together 6 volumes. xxxi, 548 pp.; xix, 645 pp.; xxxv, 565 pp.; 586 pp.; xxiv, 517 pp.; xx, 576 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, spines with gilt lettering and with raised bands. Guide to Historical Literature, (8th. ed.), VC 634-636. Original edition. Indispensible standard work. Deals with: Les Ministères de Turgot et Necker; Les derniers Controleurs Généraux; L'Assemblée Constituante 1789; L'Assemblée Constituante 1790-1791; La Législative et la Convention, 1792-1793; La Législative et la Convention 1793-1795.Marcel Marion, in the ESS, volume vi, p. 696, writes: 'Of no less significance are his writings on the financial causes of the French revolution; they deal in a most elucidating manner with the administrations of Turgot and Necker and the last of the controllers general and with the financial history of the Constituent Assembly, the Legislative Assembly and the Convention.' - Very fine copy. EUR 1250
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GORET, CH. La lanterne sourde, accompagnée de notes lumineuses. Paris, J. Grand, & chez Lacloye, 1791. (12), 118 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 15168; Tourneux iii, 14845; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. Original edition, scarce. Deals with the supplies for Paris, abuses and the near-monopoly of the mills of Corbeil and the Leleu brothers. In praise of the policy of Turgot. EUR 400
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GOUGES-CARTOU, (A.) Mémoire sur les subsistances, Par M. Gouges Cartou, Député du Quercy & Membre du Comité des Subsistances. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1789. 55, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 15301. First edition. - Inner top margins towards the end with a waterstain, not touching text. On corn prices. The first 8 pp. are numbered i-viii and form the 'Avertissement'. The text starts on page 9 with the more appropriate caption title: Mémoire sur les causes de la cherté des grains, et sur les moyens de soulager la misère publique. At the end a Projet d'arrêté. The author favors free trade: his proposed 'projet' reads (article II): 'La circulation des grains & farines sera entièrement libre dans toutes les parties du Royaume, dont la Corse & les Colonies Françaises font partie.' EUR 250
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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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GOUY D'ARCY, (L.M.) DE. Opinion sur le projet de M. Necker; prononcée dans la séance du 21 novembre 1789, matin. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1789. 32 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Goldsmiths 13909; Stourm, p. 175; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 15488. First edition. On the creation of national notes and a special bank, and patriotic contributions. EUR 200
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GUIRAUD, P. Études économiques sur l'antiquité. Paris, Hachette, 1905. (4), 297 pp. 8vo. Half cloth. Deals among other matters with: L'impôt sur le capital à Athènes. - La population en Grèce. - L'évolution du travail en Grèce. - L'impérialisme Romain - etc. EUR 75
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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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HALL, H. The antiquities and curiosities of the Exchequer. Illustrated by Ralph Nevill. Preface by Sir John Lubbock. London, Elliot Stock, 1891. With illustrations. xvii, 230 pp. 8vo. Quarter maroon gilt-stamped cloth over green cloth boards. First edition. A title in The Camden Library Series that is valuable for its account of the Domesday Book and other early public records. Hall explores the ancient treasury of the kings of England, the design of their budgets and how they assessed taxes.Contents: 'The Ancient Treasury of the Kings of England;' 'Treasure and Records;' 'The Exchequer House;' 'the Officers of the Exchequer;' 'The Chess Game;' 'Exchequer Problems;' 'The Making of the Budget.' EUR 175
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HAUTE-GUIENNE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée Provinciale de Haute-Guienne, tenue à Villefranche, dans les mois de septembre & d'octobre 1779. Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Imprimerie de Vedeilhié, 1780. viii, 251, (1) pp. 4to. Modern cloth. Lavergne, Assemblées provinciales, pp. 67-99. First edition. Proceedings of the first session of the Assemblee as planned by Turgot and created by Necker.The second of the Assemblées provinciales as planned by Turgot and created by Necker, and, together with the first (Berri), one of only two to survive until the Revolution. There was no indemnity for its members. The freedom of the wine-trade was one of the important issues. Another important matter was the reorganisation of the cadastral administration by Henri de Richeprey, the author of the article 'Imposition' in the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. Also agricultural problems were extensively dealt with and old feudal laws concerning landed property were abolished. The meetings and discussions were influenced by the president, Champion de Cicé, a friend and disciple of Turgot. EUR 450
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HAUTE-NORMANDIE - PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée provinciale de la généralité de Rouen, tenue aux Cordeliers de cette ville, aux mois de novembre et décembre 1787. A Rouen, Chez Pierre Seyer, 1787. With 6 folding tables. - (Followed by:) PROCES-VERBAL des séances de l'Assemblée du département de Rouen. A Rouen Chez Jac. Jos. Boullenger, 1787. 2 volumes in 1 (4), 416 pp.; 24 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges, rear joint split at top, spine-ends damaged, two corners bumped, some light scratches to binding. Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, 196 ff. First edition. Rare with the proceedings of the preliminary session of September 1787. President was the cardinal La Rochefoucauld, but the meetings were dominated by Thouret, who gained more and more influence, to become later, in August 1789, president of the Assemblée Nationale. A sixth table, originating from an other publication, has been added to the 5 tables belonging to the first volume. This added table contains: Etat de situation des routes pour 1789. EUR 650
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HERRENSCHWAND, (J.F. DE.) De l'économie politique moderne. Discours fondamental sur la population. Paris, Maradan, An III (1795). 16, 279 (misnumbered 289) pp. 8vo. Modern marbled calf (ancient style), spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress B.2969; Goldsmiths 16208; Einaudi 2890; not in INED; Mattioli 1620. Original edition published in 1786, London, T. Hookham. 'The dynamic aspects of population growth were treated more fully by Herrenschwand, a Swiss-born sometime French official, than by any other French author. Throughout his work runs the view that although man's procreative power is without inherent limit, population 'can multiply only in proportion to its support', and does increase as man's cultural progress enables him to increase the available food supply. He seems to have believed, moreover, despite his great faith in man's capacity for intellectual and cultural progress, that unless appropriate economics policies were persued by statesman, population pressure and misery would be the lot of the lower classes, who comprised about three quarters of the population' (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus). Herrenschwand borrowed his conception of nature from Shaftesbury, was influenced by Adam Smith and Arthur Young, and apparently knew the works of Franklin, Steuart, Decker, Price, Davenant, and Temple, and was a critic of Necker's views and policies. Arthur Young praised Herrenschwand's works highly. - Occasional spotting, and throughout interleaved. EUR 800
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HIGGS, H. Bibliography of economics, 1751-1775. Prepared for the British Economy. London, EMO Press, 1990. xix, 742 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Reprint of the 1935 edition. Important bibliography, each year is subdivided into General Economics; Agriculture, etc.; Shipping; Manufactures; Commerce; Colonies; Finance; Transport; Social Conditions and Miscellaneous. - Book bound upside down in cover. The entire work has 6567 entries, a further 200 additions, an Index of Authors and an Index of Anonymous Titles. EUR 110
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JOBARD, J.B.A.M. Nouvelle économie sociale, ou monotaupole industriel, artistique, commercial et littéraire, fondé sur la perrenité des brevets d'invention, dessins, modèles et marques de fabrique. Paris, Mathias, 1844. xii, (5)-475 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering. Kress C.6356; Goldsmiths 33698; Einaudi 3076; not in Mattioli. The only edition. Jobard, 1792-1861, had always been passionately interested in technology, social reform, and patents and copyright. Being himself an inventor and strenuous upholder of the maintenance of copyright, he published, besides many pamphlets on the subject, the above work. 'Si vos nobles efforts .... n'ont pas répondu à toutes vos espérances, vous ne devez en accuser que la mauvaise constitution de l'industrie, qui livre, de nos jours, le travail et la production à l'anarchie la plus déplorable, déjoue les meilleurs calculs, trompe les plus sages prévisions (.....), au milieu de cette guerre impie de la libre concurrence, qui ravage les pays de liberté, sous le séduissant mais fatal drapeau du laisser faire et laisser passer' (pp. vi-vii). The motto on the titlepage reads: Ne laissez pas tout faire. Ne laissez pas tout passer.Jobard worked for a couple of years in the Netherlands and became Belgian citicizen in 1815. He introduced lithography into Belgium and opened an important shop. In 1839 he founded the Courrier belge and was appointed curator at the Musée de l'Industrie in 1841. He died in Brussels in 1861. - Name on title and half-title, half-title strengthened at innermargin. EUR 375
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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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KEYNES, J.M. A revision of the treaty, being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace. London, MacMillan, 1922. 8, 223 pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Mattioli 1840; not in Einaudi. First edition. In June 1921 Keynes had proposed to Harcourt 'a final revised edition' of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, to include a new introduction of 40 pages, and footnotes or appendices dealing with new criticisms and recent events. Harcourt suggested rather that a new book should be made out of the new material, on the grounds that the public would not read a revision but merely note the changes from reviews. Keynes agreed and the first English edition -this one- appeared in January 1922. Harcourt Brace published a separate edition for the American market. The work was reprinted in February, with minor corrections and the addition of a document on the Cannes Moratorium. It has been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish. EUR 225
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KEYNES, J.M. A revision of the treaty, being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace. London, MacMillan, 1922. 8, 223 pp. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. In June 1921 Keynes had proposed to Harcourt 'a final revised edition' of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, to include a new introduction of 40 pages, and footnotes or appendices dealing with new criticisms and recent events. Harcourt suggested rather that a new book should be made out of the new material, on the grounds that the public would not read a revision but merely note the changes from reviews. Keynes agreed and the first English edition -this one- appeared in January 1922. Harcourt Brace published a separate edition for the American market. The work was reprinted in February, with minor corrections and the addition of a document on the Cannes Moratorium. It has been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish. EUR 250
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LA COSTE, J.A. DE. Rapport fait au nom de la commission nommée pour l'examen de la résolution du 30 Germinal dernier (19 avril 1797) sur les transactions entre particuliers, relative à la confection des tablaux de dépréciation du papier-monnaie. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1797). 15, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 18064. First edition. P.S. Dupont de Nemours was member of the commission and participated in the drawing of the present text. EUR 150
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LANGUEDOC - REGLEMENT fait par les gens des Trois-Etats du pays de Languedoc, assemblés par mandement du roi en la ville de Montpellier, au mois de Novembre 1768. Pour servir à l'exploitation de la ferme du droit d'équivalent. A Montpellier, De l''Imprimerie de la veuve de Jean Martel, 1768. 32 pp. Small 4to. Sewn. The 'droit d'quivalent' was a tax operative in the Languedoc, which was due mainly on alimentation such as fresh meat, fresh and salted fish, wines, etc. EUR 175
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LE COUTEULX (DE CANTELEU, J.B.) Essai sur les contributions proposées en France pour l'an sept, sur celles qui existent actuellement en Angleterre, et sur le crédit public. (Paris), (at end:) De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont, an VII (1799). (2), iii, 104 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco. Kress B.3676; INED 2748; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; Stourm, p. 309; Martin & Walter 20373. First edition. - A faint waterstain in outer margin throughout. 'Remarquables considérations sur l'impôt direct et indirect, sur l'impôt réel, sur les taxes frappant les objets de luxe et celles qui sont assises sur les objets de première nécessité, en France et en Angleterre,. Traité à la fois théorique et pratique, qui n'a certainement pas vieilli.' (Stourm) '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, and Dictionnaire des Constituants, ii, pp. 566-8.) EUR 300
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LE COUTEULX (DE CANTELEU, J.B.) Rapport du Comité des finances, sur l'échange des assignats, contre les billets de la caisse d'escompte, ou promesse d'assignats. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1790. 8 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Goldsmiths 14295; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 20385. First edition. Includes a 'projet de décret'. '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 175
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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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LE COUTEULX DE CANTELEU, (J.B.) Discours et motion sur le plan de banque nationale du premier ministre des finances. Prononcé à l'Assemblée nationale le 6 décembre 1789. A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1789. 18 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1647; Goldsmiths 13920; INED2747; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 20378. First edition. The author is in agreement with Necker's ideas.'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 and Dictionnaire des Constituants, ii, pp. 566-8). EUR 175
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LE COUTEULX DE CANTELEU, (J.B.) Rapport des commissaires nommés pour l'examen des projets de banque, et conférer, à leur sujet, avec le Premier ministre des finances, et les Administrateurs de la Caisse d'Escompte. Suivi des décrets de l'Assemblée Nationale, rendus le 19 décembre 1789. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, 1789. 36 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1648; Goldsmiths 13921; INED 2747; Stourm, p. 172; Martin & Walter 20379. First edition. The projects under discussion emanated from Mirabeau, Talleyrand, La Borde and Dupont de Nemours. '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 150
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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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LEBER, (J.M.) C. Mémoires sur l'appréciation de la fortune privée au moyen age, relativement aux variations des valeurs monétaires et du pouvoir commercial de l'argent. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1842. (4), 109 pp. 4to. Modern half morocco, original blind covers bound in, offprint from: Mémoires présentées par divers savants à l'Académie Royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1. Goldsmiths 32243; not in Kress; not in Einaudi. First edition. 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). - With modern ex-libris. EUR 225
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LECOINTE-PUYRAVEAU, (M.M.) Rapport sur les projets de banques. 12 germinal an 7 (1er Avril 1799). (Drop-head title). (Paris), De l'Imprimerie Nationale, (1799). 50 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 20286. First edition. The author is in favour of the creation of private banks. In collaboration with P.S. Dupont de Nemours he founded a mortgagebank. 'Michel Matthieu Lecointe (1750-1825), homme politique. Député des Deux-Sèvres à l'Assemblée législative, puis à la Convention, il vota la mort du roi avec appel au peuple, fit partie du Conseil des Cinq Cents et s'y montra un violent adversaire du parti royaliste.' (Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, ii, p. 1109).At head of title: Corps Législatif. Conseil des Cinq-Cents. EUR 300
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LEMONTEY, P.E. Oeuvres. Édition revue et préparée par l'auteur. Paris, A. Sautelet, Brissot-Thivars & A. Mesnier, 1829. 5 volumes. - (Bound with:) LEMONTEY, P.E. Histoire de la Régence et de la minorité de Louis XV, jusqu'au ministère du Cardinal de Fleury. Paris, Paulin, 1832. 2 volumes - Together 7 volumes. xxiv, (2), 423 pp.; (4), 431 pp.; (4), 398 pp.; (4), 364 pp.; (4), 448 pp.; (4), 464 pp.; (4), 486 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards with red labels. Goldsmiths 27717 (last 2 vols only); not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First edition. Complete set. The Histoire de la Régence was not included in the 'Oeuvres'. These 2 volumes contain interesting 'pièces justificatives' and form an essential source for the history of John Law and his system, since they include texts by John Law of which the original documents were lost since.The minority of Louis XV was one of the most scandalous and corrupt periods in French history. Among the ruinous errors of the regent's administration, discussed here at some length, was his adoption of the financial system of the banker John Law, whose bankruptcy led to a disastrous crisis in the public and private affairs of France. Also included are chapters on the slave trade and the plague in Marseilles and Provence in 1720-21.Pierre-Edouard Lemontey was a man of letters and historian. He revealed his liberal opinions by defending in a 1787 essay the right of Protestants to full political rights, in the days immediately preceding the revolution, he helped draft the cahier of the Third Estate and served in the new municipal government of Lyon. He fled Lyon in the year 1792 during the course of the insurrection and went to Switzerland. In 1818 he published a history on the reign of Louis XIV which proved to be a great and controversial success and has been praised as one of the first good histories written during the nineteenth century. In it, he traced the origins of the Revolution back to the absolutism of Louis XIV and thereby opened a new path for the study of the French monarchy. Because Lemontey emphasized the continuity between the monarchy of the Old Regime and the institutions created by the revolution, his book stands as a worthy predecessor of de Tocqueville's L'Ancien régime et la Révolution (Robert Brown in: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, pp. 621 ff.) - Fine set. EUR 1750
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LILLE - MARQUANT, R. La vie économique à Lille sous Philippe le Bon. Paris, H. Champion, 1940. 350 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed cover (Bibliothèque de l'école des hautes études). Includes chapters on: Les pouvoirs publics, La réglementation. La vie corporative. At end: 'pièces justificatives'. - Modern bookplate in lower blank portion of half-title. EUR 75
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MANUSCRIPT - COTON SPINNING - MEMOIRE sur l'état actuel de la filature de coton. Undated manuscript in a very legible hand, with the contemporary manuscript note: Remis au Bureau du Commerce le 25 avril 1790. (1790). 9 pp. Folio. Sewn. The anonymous author compares the situation of the coton spinning industry in France with that in Great Britain and stresses the improvements in British production brought about by copying techniques introduced by the French manufacturers in their own industry. He pleads for assistance to foreigners who wish to start workshops in France.English manufacturers mentioned are Jennys, Muljenny, Dickford, a.o. and the spinning machines known as Roving Billey, Bolton Whekl, a.o. EUR 450
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MARTIN, G. La grande industrie en France sous le règne de Louis XV. Paris, Ancienne Librairie Thorin et Fils, Albert Fontemoing, 1900. (4), 402 pp. Large 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering (Bibliothèque de la Société des Études historiques. Fascicule III. Fondation Raymond). L'administration - Les manufactures et les inventions. - Patrons et ouvriers. EUR 125
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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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MERCIER, (L.S.) Lettre au Roi, contenant un projet pour liquider en peu d'années toutes les dettes de l'Etat, en soulagement dès-à-présent le peuple du fardeau des impositions. Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1789. 125, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, contemporary blind covers preserved. Conlon 99:9942; Kress B.1666; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 23901. First edition. Bound in: a manuscript letter from the author, unsigned, to 'Messieurs les députés amis du bien général' concerning this work. 2 pp. - Small hole in last leaf affecting one letter. EUR 750
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MESNIL-MARIGNY, (J.) DU. Histoire de l'économie politique des anciens peuples de l'Inde, de l'Egypte, de la Judée et de la Grèce. Troisième édition, revue, augmentée et annotée par l'auteur. Paris, Plon et Cie., 1878. 3 volumes. xlviii, 344 pp.; (4), 295, (1) pp.; (4), 399, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spines with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Not in Einaudi. Last and best edition. 'The avowed scope of (this work) is to prove 'in an irrefutable way, and by a great number of instances, that the system of protecting national manufactures .... was very often followed in antiquity'' (Palgrave, vol. ii, pp. 736-737). EUR 450
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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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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, 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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MITTIE, (S.C.) A l'Assemblée nationale. Plan de sécularisation de tous les ordres religieux, suivi d'un projet d'administration générale des biens et revenus de l'Eglise, pour augmenter ceux de l'Etat. Paris, Nyon le jeune, 1789. 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 24694. First edition. 'Stanislas Mittié, né à Paris en 1737. Il fut d'abord contôleur des domaines du Roi et de la généralité de Paris, puis receveur général des domaines' (Michaud). - Three inner margins strengthened. EUR 100
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MONIER AINE. Banque de crédit public et universel, propre à devenir la première banque de l'Europe, et à ce titre digne de la grande nation; ou Pétition présentée au Conseil des 500 et renvoyée à la Commission des banques, le 3 ventôse an VII (21 février 1799). Contenant les moyens infaillibles de faire cesser les causes rapides des banqueroutes, dans toute la République. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1799. 14 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 24435. First edition. The aim is to establish a national bank of such importance that it will become the leading European Bank. EUR 300
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MONTCHRETIEN - DUVAL, J. Mémoire sur Antoine de Montchrétien, sieur de Vateville, auteur du premier Traité d'économie politique. Paris, Guillaumin, 1868. (5)-197, (1) pp. 8vo. Half cloth, original covers preserved. Bourgeois & André 5490, note. Extract of a meeting of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, hence the irregular beginning of the pagination. Printed in a very small number of copies. EUR 125
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MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) DE. Opinion sur la liquidation de la dette publique. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). 36 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Goldsmiths 14388; Stourm, p. 176; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24963. Original edition. Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1739-1798), writer and general. In April 1792 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and a month later was dispatched to the marquis de Lafayette's army. A year later Dumouriez selected him as commander for the Armée du Midi. With this army he crossed the Italian frontier to Savoy. A dispute with the Convention led to the accusation of compromising the Republic's dignity, and choosing not to face a trial, Montesquiou withdrew to the canton of Zürich where he remained until after 9 Thermidor. In 1797 he returned to France a became a member of the Constitutional Circle, which opposed the Clichyens, a right-wing political grouping (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, vol. ii, pp. 676-677). EUR 225
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MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) DE. Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du comité des finances. Le 18 novembre 1789. Paris, Baudouin, 1789. With 7 tables (nrs 5-7 on 8 separate pages) - (Bound with:) MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) de. Rapport fait au nom du comité des finances, à la séance du 12 mars 1790, sur le Mémoire de M. le premier ministre des finances, du 6 du même mois. (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1790). - (Bound with:) MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) de. Rapport sur la dette publique, fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du comité des finances. Le 27 août 1790. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1790. Together 3 pieces bound in 1 volume. (2), 63, (1) pp.; 28 pp.; (2), 20 pp. 4to. Modern boards. First work: Not in Kress (cf.: B.1606); not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24968; Stourm, p. 162: 'Grand rapport souvent cité. Exposé général de la situation. Enumération des dettes du pays, spécialement des dettes 'criarde'. Recettes et dépenses annuelles. Nouvelle contribution des privillégies évaluée à 30 millions. Gestion des biens du clergé. besoins extraordinaires'. Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24971; Stourm, p. 163: 'Important étude de la situation financière'. Stourm knows an 8vo edition only. Third work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24972; Stourm, p. 163: 'Les origines de la dette actuelle sont entachées de faillites. Tableaux des capitaux exigibles et de leurs intérêts'. All first editions. Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1739-1798), writer and general. In April 1792 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and a month later was dispatched to the marquis de Lafayette's army. A year later Dumouriez selected him as commander for the Armée du Midi. With this army he crossed the Italian frontier to Savoy. A dispute with the Convention led to the accusation of compromising the Republic's dignity, and choosing not to face a trial, Montesquiou withdrew to the canton of Zürich where he remained until after 9 Thermidor. In 1797 he returned to France a became a member of the Constitutional Circle, which opposed the Clichyens, a right-wing political grouping (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, ii, pp. 676-677.) EUR 750
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MONTESQUIOU-(FEZENSAC, A.P.) DE. Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale au nom du Comité des finances. Le 18 novembre 1789. Paris, Baudoin, (1789). (2), 25, (1) pp. + 36 pages containing 7 tables 8vo. Modern boards. Kress B.1606; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Martin & Walter 24968; Stourm, p. 162. First edition. 'Grand rapport souvent cité. Exposé général de la situation. Enumération des dettes du pays, spécialement des dettes 'criardes'. Recettes et dépenses annuelles. Nouvelle contribution des privilégies évaluée à 30 millions. Gestions des biens du clergé. Besoins extraordinaires' (Stourm). Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1739-1798), writer and general. In April 1792 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and a month later was dispatched to the marquis de Lafayette's army. A year later Dumouriez selected him as commander for the Armée du Midi. With this army he crossed the Italian frontier to Savoy. A dispute with the Convention led to the accusation of compromising the Republic's dignity, and choosing not to face a trial, Montesquiou withdrew to the canton of Zürich where he remained until after 9 Thermidor. In 1797 he returned to France a became a member of the Constitutional Circle, which opposed the Clichyens, a right-wing political grouping. (Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, ii, pp. 676-677). EUR 900
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MOREAU, G. Le syndicalisme, les mouvements politiques et l'évolution économique. Paris, Rivière, 1925. (4), 355 pp. 8vo. Sewn, original paper covers, uncut, a bit discoloured, small spot on front cover (Bibliothèque générale d'économie politique). - Copy inscribed by the author 'à mes bons amis: Madame & Monsieur Yon'. EUR 100
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NECKER - APPERÇU des dépenses extraordinaires de l'année 1790. (Drop-head title). No place, (At end: 15 Décembre 1789). 3, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Folded. Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 1224. Printed at end: 'Vu & approuvé comme un simple apperçu. Necker.' EUR 150
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NECKER, (J.) Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. viii, 284 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, paper covered boards, spine green and gilt in departments, green corners INED 3373; Stourm 126; Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; Einaudi 4112 (Lyon edition). First edition. Critical work dealing with the Calonne administration of finances (1784-1787). Necker was in office from 1776 to 1781 and again in 1788. Calonne had published a memoir in 1787 which was directed against Necker and which dealt with his Compte-rendu of 1781. The present work is a rather violent defence and answer to Calonne and contains furthermore new justifications. EUR 400
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NECKER, (J.) Mémoire donné au Roi en 1778. En France (Paris?), 1781. - (Preceded by:) NECKER, (J.) Compte rendu au Roi. Au mois de janvier 1781. Paris, Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi, 1781. With 1 large folding leaf of tables and 2 coloured folding maps. 2 works bound in 1 volume. 31 pp.; (4), 116 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt. First work: Stourm 124-126; Kress B.389; Goldsmiths 12233; Einaudi 4107; Renouvin, Assemblées provinciales, p. xii; INED (other issue).First edition, one of several issues from the same year (see Einaudi 4105-4107). Of great interest with regard to the ideas Necker had in mind when creating the Assemblées provinciales. See at length: Renouvin, op. cit. pp. 46 and ff. Second work: Kress B.360; Goldsmiths 12183 & 12184; Einaudi 4094; not in INED.First edition, the scarce edition printed at the Cabinet du Roi, intended for Royal use only and not put in the trade. There were two further printings in the same year at the Imprimerie Royale.The publication had an astonishing succes with the public and did much to establish Necker's reputation. It is of great importance for being the first public report of government economic policy in France. The Compte rendu was published in Monday, February 19 and fell on such fertile soil that even Necker must have been astonished at the eagerness with which the public seized upon the treatise, noting minutely every figure in the account, toting up the sums of revenue and expenditure, seeing how much the king spent on favors and pensions, and what the royal household cost, and exactly what tribute was levied upon the people. .... But there was much more than figures in the treatise. Necker surveyed for the king (and the public) everything he had accomplished during his ministry. He expressed his ideas on reform and summarized what had been accomplished, and what he hoped to accomplish when the war (the American War of Independence) ended. The principles of moderate reform generated strong public support.The Compte rendu has a damaged frontispiece added. EUR 900
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NECKER, (J.) Compte rendu au roi, par M. Necker, Directeur général des Finances. Au mois de Janvier 1781. Imprimé par ordre de sa Majesté. Paris, De l'imprimerie royale, 1781. With 1 folding table and 2 folding engraved coloured maps. (4), 116 pp. 4to. Contemporary catspaw calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering, corners and extremities a bit worn, spine with some light damage, rear cover with some scratches. Kress B.360; Goldsmiths 12183 & 12184; Mattioli 2550; not in Einaudi (listing an issue without a printer's name, and the issue printed at the 'Imprimerie du Cabinet du Roi'); not in INED. In 1781 there appeared at least three different issues of the work: two printed at the Imprimerie Royal in two different settings and one printed at the Cabinet du Roi. This one was meant for Royal use only and not put in the trade. The Compte rendu was published in Monday, February 19 and fell on such fertile soil that even Necker must have been astonished at the eagerness with which the public seized upon the treatise, noting minutely every figure in the account, toting up the sums of revenue and expenditure, seeing how much the king spent on favors and pensions, and what the royal household cost, and exactly what tribute was levied upon the people. .... But there was much more than figures in the treatise. Necker surveyed for the king (and the public) everything he had accomplished during his ministry. He expressed his ideas on reform and summarized what had been accomplished, and what he hoped to accomplish when the war (the American War of Independence) ended. The principles of moderate reform generated strong public support. - Small tear in folding table. EUR 600
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NECKER, (J.) Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788. viii, 284 pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, front joint partially cracked, in general a bit rubbed and worn. INED 3373; Stourm 126; Kress B.1452; Goldsmiths 13648; cf.: Einaudi 4112 (edition published in Lyon in the same year). First edition. Critical work dealing with the Calonne administration of finances (1784-1787). Necker was in office from 1776 to 1781 and again in 1788. Calonne had published a memoir in 1787 which was directed against Necker and which dealt with his Compte-rendu of 1781. The present work is a rather violent defence and answer to Calonne and contains furthermore new justifications. - Copy from the Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding. EUR 450
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NEYMARCK, A. Colbert et son temps. Paris, E. Dentu, 1877. 2 volumes. (4), 474 pp.; (4), 514 pp. 8vo. Modern half calf, corners, raisedbands, marbled boards. Not in Einaudi. Standard work. EUR 300
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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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ORESME, N. Traictie de la première invention des monnoies de Nicole Oresme. Textes français et Latin d'après les manuscrits de la bibliothèque impériale et 'Traité de la monnoie' de Copernic. Texte latin et traduction française publiés et annotés par M. L. Wolowski, membre de l'institut. Paris, Libr. de Guillaumin et Cie., 1864. lxxii, cxxxix, 83, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, very slightly rubbed along joints. Einaudi 4141; Mattioli 2622; no editions in Kress or Goldsmiths. Oresme's (1320?-1382) treatise on money is usually seen as the first treatise entirely devoted to an economic problem, published ca. 1350. After having met with great succes in its own time, his views had fallen into oblivion from which they were rescued in the nineteenth century only, especially by the German economist Wilhelm Roscher, who extolled its merits, particularly its originality, beyond all reason (Schumpeter, A History of Economic Analysis pp. 94vv). The French translation of Roschers lecture, Ein grosser Nationalökonom des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, held before the Academie des sciences morales et politiques in 1862 and in which he relates about his discovery, is printed on pp. xi-xvii. The text of Oresme is known to be published in 3 Latin and one very rare French version only from the 15th century onwards: further editions were mere re-editions of one of the Latin editions. The texts by Wolowski are the first critical, authorative Latin and French versions based on manuscripts from the Bibliothèque imperiale, and the ones that brought Oresme to the attention and appreciation of the historians of political economy. The spirit that breathes through the writings of Oresme is that of a much later age. 'Gain derived from debasement is worse than usury. Debasement is considered as a concealed tax which leads to dislocation of trade and impoverishment' (C. Roll, A history of Economic Thought.) Oresme's economic principles relating to money found a remarkable defender in Copernicus' Monaetae cudendae ratio written in 1526. It was published for the first time in 1816 and taken into the collected works of 1854 together with a Polish translation. It is an exposition of the principles which were proposed to reform the currency of the Prussian provinces of Poland. 'L'opinion de Copernic, si remarqable par la connaissance exacte de la matière, la clarté de l'exposé et l'équité des propositions inspirées par l'amour éclairé du bien public, ne fit qu'exciter contre lui les murmures..., qui entraînèrent le vote contraire de la noblesse' (p. 5). The eminence of Copernicus in other fields suggests special notice of his monetae cudendae ratio. It deals a.o. with coinage, foreign exchange and credit in a way that would merit more attention and that compares favorably in some points with much later performance (Schumpeter, p. 101). See at length: É. Bridrey, Nicole Oresme. Étude d'histoire des doctrines et des faits économiques. Paris, Giard & Brière, 1906. - Scarce on the market. Fine copy. EUR 1500
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PHILIPPOVICH, E. VON. Die Entwicklung der wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen im 19. Jahrhundert. Sechs Vorträge. Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1910. viii, 144 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper covers, slightly soiled and worn at top of spine. New Palgrave, iii, p. 856; Schumpeter p. 853. First edition. Six lectures delivered the previous year at the Berlin Vereiniging für staatswissenschaftliche Fortbildung. They discuss economic liberalism, conservatism and socialism, agricultural economics, social policy and the contemporary state of capitalism. Philippovich (1858-1917), Viennese by birth and working there a great part of his career, succeeded through his works to bridge the gap between the Austrian school and German economical theory. When he published the first volume of his Grundriss der politischen Ökonomie, which was destined to become the leading German textbook on general economics for the next quarter of a century, it proved to be the kind of compromise between the two opposing schools which would make it acceptable to both. Because Austrian ideas became known in Germany through the Grundriss, he came to be considered as one of the leading members of the Austrian school. While this is not strictly correct, it is true that during his activity in the University of Vienna, where he held one of the chairs of political economy until his death, his increasing interest in theory made him more critical of many of the schemes of social reform. This is clearly evident in Die Entwicklung der wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, which is perhaps his most brilliant and mature publication. The influence which Philippovich and the group called the Austrian Fabians, of which he was the leading spirit, have exercised on social legislation in Austria is very considerable. (ESS XII, p. 116). EUR 275
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PHILIPPOVICH, E. VON. Die Entwicklung der wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen im 19. Jahrhundert. Sechs Vorträge. Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1910. viii, 144 pp. 8vo. Near-contemporary half calf, marbledboards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, rubbed and shaved, calf from spine partially gone New Palgrave, iii, p. 856; Schumpeter p. 853; Mattioli 2804. First edition. - Library and discarded (ausgegangen) stamps on title, front blank and some pages. Six lectures delivered the previous year at the Berlin Vereiniging für staatswissenschaftliche Fortbildung. They discuss economic liberalism, conservatism and socialism, agricultural economics, social policy and the contemporary state of capitalism. Philippovich (1858-1917), Viennese by birth and working there a great part of his career, succeeded through his works to bridge the gap between the Austrian school and German economical theory. When he published the first volume of his Grundriss der politischen Ökonomie, which was destined to become the leading German textbook on general economics for the next quarter of a century, it proved to be the kind of compromise between the two opposing schools which would make it acceptable to both. Because Austrian ideas became known in Germany through the Grundriss, he came to be considered as one of the leading members of the Austrian school. While this is not strictly correct, it is true that during his activity in the University of Vienna, where he held one of the chairs of political economy until his death, his increasing interest in theory made him more critical of many of the schemes of social reform. This is clearly evident in Die Entwicklung der wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, which is perhaps his most brilliant and mature publication. The influence which Philippovich and the group called the Austrian Fabians, of which he was the leading spirit, have exercised on social legislation in Austria is very considerable (ESS, xii, p. 116). EUR 250
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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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PROVENCE - REMONSTRANCES de la Cour des Comptes, Aides et Finances de Provence. Au Roi. No place, 1758. (2), 251, (1) pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Conlon 58:388; Higgs 1762; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. On the role and the rights of the Cour des Comptes in matters of taxes and expenses of the Provence. EUR 225
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PUY-DE-DOME - PROCES-VERBAL des séances du Conseil Général du Département du Pui-de-Dôme, tenu à Clermont-Ferrand, dans les mois de novembre et décembre 1790. A Clermont-Ferrand, De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Delcros, 1791. (10), 368 pp. 8vo. Sewn in original cover, held in a half morocco slipcase, a very nice copy. Lecestre 135; not in Martin & Walter; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Printed in a very limited number of copies, this procès verbal gives a wealth of information concerning the economic and financial administration of the Département de Pui-de-Dôme. EUR 1200
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PUY-DE-DOME - PROCES-VERBAL des séances du Conseil Général du Département du Pui-de-Dôme, tenu à Clermont-Ferrand, dans les mois de novembre et décembre 1790. A Clermont-Ferrand, de l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Delcros, 1791. (10), 368 pp. 4to. Modern half vellum,corners, marbled sides, handwritten title on spine, with the gilt stamp of the Bibliothèque du Chateau de Theix on front cover. Lecestre 135; not in Martin & Walter; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Original edition. Printed in a very limited number of copies, this procès verbal gives a wealth of information concerning the economic and financial administration of the Département de Puy-de-Dôme. - With the small stamp of the Bibliothèque du Chateau de Theix on the title. EUR 800
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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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ROBERT, A. Quatre livres des arrests et choses jugées par la Cour. Oeuvre composée en Latin. Mis en François par I. Tournet, avec plusieurs additions de l'auteur. Cinquième et dernière édition, reveuë, corrigée et augmentée de quinze célèbres arrests et plaidoyez totables du mesme autheur, extraicts des audiences. Rouen, Estienne Vereul, 1642. Engraved vignette on title. (16), 630, (78), 2 (blank), 72 (misnumbered 74) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt double fillet on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, upper joint somewhat split at foot. Cf.: Camus 1308; Gavet p. 300; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. The original Latin edition appeared in 1599. This is the best French edition. The author was murdered during the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. He was lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. One of his pleas deals with: 'a diversité du prix des monnoyes et scavoir si en cas de payement il faut suivre le prix et la valeur des espèces telles qu'elles estoient au temps du contract.' - Large paper copy from the library of Louis François Neel, with engraved bookplate. EUR 800
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ROLLAND, P. Deux tarifs du tonlieu de Tournai des 12e et 13e siècles (avec leurs traductions en dialecte Picard du 15e siècle). Lille, Emile Raoust, 1935. With 1 plate. 135, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn in original printed covers, nice uncut copy (Mémoires de la Société d'histoire du Droit des Pays Flamands, Picards et Wallons, 1). 'Droit seigneurial, analogue au droit de plaçage, et dù pour les places occupées par les marchandises mises en vente dans les foires et marchés' (Marion, Dictionnaire des Institutions de la France, p. 537). EUR 75
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ROSCHER, W. (G.F.) Geschichte der National-Oekonomik in Deutschland. München, R. Oldenbourg, 1874. viii, 1085, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards, corners, gilt lettering. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, p. 208; Einaudi 4860. First edition. 'Roscher may be considered as one of the most important German economists of his time. He was one of the founders as well as one of the leading exponents of the German 'Older' Historical School. He did not develop any new theory: his main contribution to political economy lay in the field of method. He adhered to what he called the 'historical-psychological method' as opposed to the 'idealistic method.' This inductive method intended to provide a description of the actual course of economic development and of real economic life. Thus, Roscher tried to analyse laws of economic development by comparing the history of different people and nations and showing analogies in stages of their development .... His compendium on the history of political economy in Germany (the present work) was his most outstanding work and has remained important. Roscher may be regarded as the most eminent historian of cameralism and early German political economy' (New Palgrave, p. 221). Schumpeter called the present work 'the fruit of enormous labor', while Blaug writes: 'Roscher was closer to the ideas of the English classical economists than were Hildebrand and Knies, and he alone ... carried out fundamental research in the history of economics, best represented by his still valuable Geschichte der Nationaloekonomik in Deutschland.Copy with the general title (preceding the title-page): Geschichte der Wissenschaften in Deutschland. Neuere Zeit. - With handwritten ex-libris in upper outer blank corner of the title-page and the engraved bookplate of Th. Limpberg on the front paste-down. EUR 600
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ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR - REFLEXIONS d'un solitaire Sur ce qui peut procurer le plus grand bien de l'Etat. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Pyre, 1774. 15, (1) pp. 4to. Modern marbled boards (Lobstein-Laurenchet). INED 4761; Conlon 74:476; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; not in Mattioli. First edition. Critical of Roussel de la Tour's Richesse de l'État and project for fiscal and economic reforms: 'lever un dixième sur les fruits de la terre, les maisons des villes, les rentes et les professions lucratives. Réflexions populationnistes, éloge de la liberté du commerce; la prison perpétuelle est conseillée pour les mendiants, qui seront employés aux travaux publics ou particuliers' (INED). Title-page has as date M.DLXXIV. In the txt there is a reference to Messange and his important work Recherches sur la Population. The analysis and criticism are given in 32 short chapters. EUR 175
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SALMASIUS, C. (L.) De usuris liber. Leiden, Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1638. Title printed in red and black, with printer's mark 'non Solus'. (56), 686, (72) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Willems 471; Einaudi 5085; Kress 536; Mattioli 3214; not in Goldsmiths; not in BMSTC, French Books 1601-1700. First edition. One of the best early works on the subject. Salmasius (or Claude de Saumaise, 1588-1653) spent the greater part of his life as a professor at the University of Leyden. In spite of many attractive offers from the French, he preferred to stay in Holland, because of "la liberté que j'ai chez les étrangers, de dire, d'escrire et de faire ce que je voudrai, le repos et la tranquilité de ma conscience." Salmasius defends here, as in other works, the taking of interest, not only by explaining the passages in the Bible that seemingly forbid it, but also as a matter of principle. Interest, he argues, being a remuneration for the use of money, is nothing else but an indemnity to the person who lends it out; for, when using it himself, he could get fruits from it; though this might not be directly, nevertheless it would be obtained by buying productive objects (Böhm-Bawerk, Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzinstheorieën, 1884, pp. 37, 40-45, quoted in Palgrave, iii, p. 348). EUR 800
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SAY, J.B. Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume publié par Charles Comte. Paris, Chamerot, 1833. (4), xxviii, 472 pp. 8vo. Contemporary black half morocco, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Teilhac, p. 377; Kress C.3603; Goldsmiths 27875; not in Einaudi. First edition. - Some scattered and unobtrusive spotting. Contains correspondance with Du Pont de Nemours, Jefferson, Malthus, Ricardo, Tooke and Say's Essai sur le principe de l'utilité.The present work is sometimes considered as a supplementary volume to Say's Cours complet .... published in 1828-1829. EUR 500
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SAY, J.B. De l'Angleterre et des Anglois. Troisième édition, revue et augmentée. Paris, Arthus Bertrand; Londres, Bertoud et Wheatley, 1816. (4), 63 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Teilhac, p. 376; Kress 6796; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. Say was sent to England after the fall of the Napoleontic empire to examen the economic state there. He met many leading economists among which Bentham and Ricardo. EUR 200
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SAY, J.B. Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume publié par Charles Comte. Paris, Chamerot, 1833. (4), xxviii, 472 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards. Teilhac, p. 377; Kress C.3603; Goldsmiths 27875; not in Einaudi. First edition. Contains correspondance with Du Pont de Nemours, Jefferson, Malthus, Ricardo, Tooke and Say's Essai sur le principe de l'utilité.The present work is sometimes considered as a supplementary volume to Say's Cours complet .... published in 1828-1829. EUR 500
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SAY, L. & J. CHAILLY. Nouveau dictionnaire d'économie politique. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1891-1892. 2 volumes. (4), 1148 (misnumbered 1448) pp; (4), 1205 pp. Royal 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine (somewhat worn at corners). First edition. Say introduced many improvements to the up to then classical dictionary by Coquelin & Guilaumin. Both dictionaries are still widely used and are both in many respects indispensable for the scholar and complementary to each other. EUR 600
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SCHACHT - SCHACHT IN DER KARIKATUR. Im Auftrage des Reichsbankdirektoriums zusammengestellt in der Volkswirtschaftlichen und Statistischen Abteilung der Reichsbank. Zum 22. Januar 1937. Berlin, Druckerei der Reichsbank, 1937. With 91 illustrations. (208) pp. Large 8vo. Original publishers half cloth, textile boards, spine with gilt lettering. New Palgrave, iv, pp. 254-255. Privately printed, not in the trade. Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970) was once a member of the liberal German Democratic Party but he became Reichsbank President and Minister of Economics under Hitler. Due to the rivalry between economists and politicians he lost his influence and was fired as Reichsbank President in 1939. In 1944 he was imprisoned for his involvement with the attempted assasination of Hitler in July 1944. After the war he was cleared of charges as a war criminal. This book was published to honour Dr. Schacht on his 60th birthday. EUR 125
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SCHNEIDER, E. Einführung in die Wirtschaftstheorie. (With:) Aufgaben und Übungen zur Wirtschaftstheorie. Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1962-1965. With diagrams. 5 volumes. viii, 143,(1) pp.; viii,447, (1) pp.; x, 350 pp.; viii, 423, (1) pp.; (6), 144 pp. 8vo. Cloth, with dustwrapper, 'Aufgaben'-volume sewn. New Palgrave, iv, pp. 258-259; Mattioli 3274. First editions. 1. Theorie des Wirtschaftskreislaufs. 10. revidierte Aufl. - 2. Wirtschaftspläne und wirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht in der Verkehrswirtschaft. 8. durchgesehene und erweiterte Aufl. - 3. Geld, Kredit, Volkseinkommen und Beschäftigung. 7. verbesserte Aufl. - 4. Ausgewählte Kapitel der Geschichte der Wirtschaftstheorie. 1 (all published). Added: AUFGABEN und Übungen. 'Above all other textbooks, this work was instrumental in narrowing the wide margin by which German economics had fallen below international standards during the Hitler era, but also even before that due to the dominance of the Historical School. The impact of Schneider's personality and work reached well beyond the academic domain' (New Palgrave).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. EUR 150
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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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SENAC DE MEILHAN, (G.) Du gouvernement, des moeurs, et des conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec le caractère des principaux personnages du règne de Louis XVI. A Hambourg, Chez B.G. Hoffmann, 1795. - (Bound with:) ESSAIS historiques sur la vie de Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, reine de France; pour servir à l'histoire de cette princesse. A Londres, 1789. - (Bound with:) MAYER, (Ch.J.) DE. Vie publique et privée de Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, ministre d'Etat; discours couronné par l'Académie d'Amiens, le 25 août 1788. A Paris, Chez Maradan, 1789. With portrait. - (Bound with:) LE COMTE DE VERGENNES, première cause des Etats-Généraux. No place, (1789). 4 volumes in 1. (6), 216 pp.; viii, 83, (1) pp.; (8), 226, (2) pp.; 86 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with raised bands, green label with gilt lettering, (joints split at foot and top and small damage to head and foot of spine). First work: INED 4142; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths (cf.: 16217); not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter 31376. First edition. Chapters on privileges, debts, taxes, etc. Deals with a.o. Machault, Terray, Turgot, Necker, Pesay, etc. The author states in this work, that the growth of wealth in France under Louis XVI had dissolved the social barriers and contributed to the breakdown of the French class system: see at length: Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus. Second work: Martin & Walter, Anonymes, 6299; Tourneux, iv, 21049b (other issues). Third and fourth work: Martin & Walter 23638, not in Martin & Walter.Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, French diplomat and statesman. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by Louis XVI and dedicated himself to the task of restoring the international prestige which France had lost during the period from 1757 to 1763. He followed a firm pro-American policy at a time when the other ministers of Louis XVI were hesistant, a liberal commercial policy, which reached its climax in the bold treaty with England in 1786 establishing in effect a regime of free trade. He was the last great minister of the French monarchy and was the only one, with the exception of Richelieu, who understood the role of international opinion (Bernard Fay in ESS). - Upper outer blank margin of half-title of the third work with loss. Copy from the library of the Baron Zangiacomi, with bookplate. EUR 900
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SENAC DE MEILHAN, (G.) Du gouvernement, des moeurs, et des conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec le caractère des principaux personnages du règne de Louis XVI. A Hambourg, Chez Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1795. vi, 216 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spinegilt in compartments, label with gilt lettering. INED 4142; Mattioli 3343; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths (cf.: 16217); not in Einaudi; Martin & Walter, 31376. First edition. Chapters on privileges, debts, taxes, etc. Deals with a.o. Machault, Terray, Turgot, Necker, Pesay, etc. The author states in this work that the growth of wealth in France under Louis XVI had dissolved the social barriers and contributed to the breakdown of the French class system (See at length: Spengler, French predecessors of Malthus). EUR 750
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SMITH, A. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Traduction nouvelle, avec des notes et observations par Germain Garnier. Avec le portrait de Smith. Paris, H. Agasse, an X, 1802. With engraved portrait by Prevost. 5 volumes. (4), cxxvii, (1), 368, (2) pp.; (4), 493, (5) pp.; (4), 564, (2) pp.; (4), 556, (2) pp.; (4), 588, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, red title-labels with gilt lettering, gilt stamped border on sides, sprinkled edges. Vanderblue, p. 25; Kress B.4604; Goldsmiths 18412; Einaudi 5340; Mattioli 3408. First edition with the errata-leaves in each volume. Classic translation, which became the standard French text, with the valuable notes by Garnier. His notes and observations were frequently reprinted after they had been translated for the Glasgow edition of 1805. EUR 1500
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SMITH, A. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Traduction du comte Germain Garnier, entièrement revue et corrigée et précédé d'une notice biographique parM. Blanqui, avec les commentaires de Buchanan, G. Garnier, MacCulloch, Malthus, J. Mill, Ricardo, Sismondi; augmenté de notes inédites de Jean-Baptiste Say, et d'éclaircissements historiques par M. Blanqui. Paris, Guillaumin, 1843. With portrait. 2 volumes. lxxix, (1), 520 pp.; (4), 714 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, corners, marbled edges, gilt decorated and lettered spines, somewhat rubbed, front joints starting to split, small damage to head of spine of volume 1, gilt stamped name at foot of spines: Léopold Orban. Vanderblue, p. 25; Kress C.6167; not in Goldsmiths; Einaudi 5342. Garnier published a translation of Smith's work already in 1802, which was recognised as technically the best available. The present volumes are based on that translation to which have been added unpublished notes by Say and selective notes from earlier editions, the whole supervised by A. Blanqui. - Slightly browned and paperspotted. EUR 500
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SMITH, A. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Seconde édition, avec des notes et observations nouvelles par le marquis Garnier. Paris, Veuve Agasse, 1822. With engraved portrait. 6 volumes. (4), xxix, clvi, 368 pp.; (4), 493 pp.; (4), 573 pp.; (4), 556 pp.; (4), 670 pp.; (4), 572 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, black leather labels with gilt lettering, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments. Vanderblue, p. 25; Kress C.977; Goldsmiths 23448; Einaudi 5341; this edition not in Mattioli. The best edition of the best translation, still a classic to-day. The translation by Garnier not only became the standard French text, but his notes and observations were translated for the Glasgow edition of 1805 and frequently reprinted thereafter. - With a marginal stain around the portrait. EUR 1500
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SMITH, A. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations. Traduction nouvelle, avec des notes et observations par Germain Garnier. Avec le portrait de Smith. A Paris, Chez H. Agasse, an X, 1802. With engraved portrait by Prevost. 5 volumes. (4), cxxvii, (1), 368 pp.; (4), 493, (1) pp.; (4), 564 pp.; (4), 556 pp.; (4), 588 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, vellum corners, spines gilt in compartments with labels with gilt lettering. Vanderblue, p. 25; K.E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France, p. 175; Kress B.4604; Goldsmiths 18412; Einaudi 5340. Apparently a rare edition. All editions usually having at the end of each volume an errata-leaf. Here, however, all the errors have been corrected and the errata leaf is not present. Our copy is identical with the one described by Einaudi. Compared with copies usually appearing on the market it is clear that this edition was entirely newly printed. It is the improved version of the first edition of this classic translation, which became the standard French text, with the valuable notes by Garnier. His notes and observations were frequently reprinted after they had been translated for the Glasgow edition of 1805. - Front blank in first volume loosening. EUR 1500
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SOMBART, W. Der moderne Kapitalismus. Historisch systematische Darstellung des gesamteuropäischen Wirtschaftslebens von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. München und Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1928. 3 volumes in 6. xxiv, 462 pp; x, 919, (1) pp.; xii, 585, (1) pp.; xi, (3), 589-1229, (1) pp.; xii, 514, 514a (errata leaf)pp.; x, (2), 517-1063, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Original red cloth gilt. Thinkers of the Twentieth Century (Editor: R. Turner), p. 716-718. First published in 1902 and substantially enlarged in 1916 (vol. I and II) and 1927/28 (vol. III). This is the first publication of the entire work incorporating all the revisions. The work 'shocked professional historians by its often unsubstantial brilliance. They failed to see in it anything that they would call real research - the material in the book is in fact wholly second-hand- and they entered protests against its many carelessnesses. Yet it was in a sense a peak achievement of the historical school, and highly stimulating even in its errors' (Schumpeter, p. 816).Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist. His early ideas on capitalism showed the influence of the works of Karl Marx. Sombart, however, did not retain his enthusiasm for socialism or the productive capacities of capitalism and his ideas changed considerably in the next few years. Like Max Weber, Sombart maintained that the development of capitalism could not be explained in purely economic terms, and like Weber, Troeltsch and Max Scheler, he was interested in the connection between religious morality and capitalist spirit. Against Weber, Sombart postulated that Protestantism, and not Calvinism, and Puritanism in particular, had played a key role in creating the spirit of modern capitalism. After the advent to power of National Socialism, many of Sombart's theories changed, in order that he might present 'a unified view of the various social problems of the time from the point of view of the national socialist way of thinking.' Nevertheless, official National Socialism never accepted Sombart as its interpreter. - Some library stamps on first pages and titles. Some lead-pencil underlinings. EUR 350
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SPIEGEL - COLLECTION of 192 small publications and offprints or abstracts (of which 37 inscribed by the authors) on economics and political economy, from the working room of Prof. Henry Spiegel. Published between 1893 and 1974. Includes texts by: A. Bergson, K.E. Boulding, M. Bronfenbrenner, E.H. Chamberlin, R. Eisner, Milton Friedman, G. Haberler, B. Higgins, Ch.P. Kindleberger, R.R. Kuczynski, F. Machlup, R.L. Meek, L.A. Metzler, O. Morgenstern, G. Myrdal, A.C. Pigou, Joan Robinson, W.J. Samuels, P. Samuelson, G. von Schmoller, J.A. Schumpeter, G.L.S. Shackle, G.J. Stigler, a.o.Including modern economics as well as a few historical contributions on Galiani, Jean Bodin, Keynes and Proudhon, Fr. Quesnay. Complete list of titles available on request. EUR 1000
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STAEL (-HOLSTEIN, A.L.G. NECKER, DE.) Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution Françoise. Ouvrage posthume. Paris, Delaunay, Bossange et Masson, 1818. 3 volumes. x, 440 pp.; (4), 424 pp.; (4), 395, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled boards and marbled edges, a bit rubbed. Martin & Walter 31988; Tourneux, i, 14; Escoffier, 302. First edition. 'Le plan en est immense; il comprend trois objects distincts: la vie politique de M. Necker, l'histoire de la période révolutionnaire, enfin l'exposé d'une théorie des gouvernements divers' (Biographie Universelle).Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein (1766-1817), daughter of Suzanne Curchot and Jacques Necker, finance minister to Louis XVI. Her interest in philosophy began with a study of Rousseau, whose fervent admirer she remained throughout her life. Mme de Staël never questioned the absolute value of personal liberty. This belief she attributed to Protestantism, her family religion. To her, Protestantism rested on the principle of personal interpretation, and the source of one's convictions was to be looked for in the heart, just as it was in the teachings of Rousseau's Savoyard vicar. A true daughter of the eighteenth century, Madame de Staël was at once a passionate lover of France and a cosmopolitan, and she adhered firmly to the current faith in the indefinite perfectibility of the liberated spirit. "Germaine de Staël was the first women intellectual: she wrote novels and plays as well as works on history, philosophy, and politics. She always proclaimed the women's right to speak and be heard. Her constant and paramount concern was liberty, for which enlightenment was necessary, but which must also stem from a heartfelt commitment" (Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, volume 4, pp. 121-124). - Tear in title-page of volume 1, touching the names and addresses of the publishers. EUR 450
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SULLY (M. DE BETHUNE DE.) Memoirs of the prime minister of Henry the Great; with the trial of Fr. Ravaillac, for the murder of Henry the Great; and an appendix containing refutations of the abbé de l'Ecluse's correctional notes, exculpatory of the Jesuits. New edition, carefully corrected. Edinburgh, Printed for Stirling and Slade,....... 1819. With portrait-frontispiece in each volume. 5 volumes. xxix, (1), 483, (15) pp.; (2), 473, (7) pp.; (2), 502, (10) pp.; (2), 554, (14) pp.; (2), 267, (209, index) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, spines richly gilt, raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges, very lightly rubbed. 'Nous possédons peu de monuments historiques aussi précieux que les mémoires de Sully' (Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 685).Sully's influence was widespread; he encouraged agriculture, urged free circulation of produce, promoted stock raising, planned a system of canals and forbade the destruction of the forests. He strengthened the French military establishment, promoting the construction of great lines of defences on the frontiers. He represented Henry at the Court of King James I, arranged Henry's marriage to Marie De Medicis, and helped to put down several revolts by the nobility. Sully's political power and influence ended with assassination of Henry IV in 1620. While he was unpopular with his colleagues, he nonetheless exhibited a gifted executive ability throughout his career as well as an unbending loyalty to the King. Sully was largely responsible for the transformation in France between 1598-1610, when agriculture and commerce improved, and foreign peace and internal order were maintained. Sully left a curious collection of memoirs, first published in English in 1756. They are very valuable for the history of the time, as an autobiography of Sully and as a record of his remarkable career. - Very fine copy. EUR 750
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SULLY, (M. BETHUNE) DE. Mémoires du Duc de Sully. Nouvelle édition. A Paris, Chez Étienne Ledoux, 1822. With 2 portraits. 6 volumes. (4), xxxi, (1), 490 pp.; (4), 515,(1) pp.; (4), 494 pp.; (4), 532 pp.; (4), 495, (1) pp.; (4). 405, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt and blind stamped fillets on both sides, spines gilt with raised bands, gilt outside dentelles, a very nice copy. Hauser 2574; not in Kress. Blanqui: 'Le livre sera éternellement digne d'être consulté comme le point de départ des réforme économiques qui ont mis fin aux abus du moyen-âge et qui ont abouti à la Révolution Française.' Guillaumin & Coquelin: 'Nous possédons peu de monuments historiques aussi précieux que les mémoirs de Sully ..... C'est une narration étendue des événements du règne d'Henry IV, des opérations du gouvernement, surtout de celui Sully dirigea.' Schumpeter: 'Maximilien de Béthune, created Duke de Sully by Henry IV, the latter's minister of finance, was a much greater, and especially stronger man than was the most famous of his successors, Colbert. He reformed the fiscal system of France most succesfully and saw much beyond the range of what he actually accomplished. Moreover, he knew - which is the criterion of greatness in a fiscal administrator - how to make fiscal policy an element and tool of general economic policy.'The sixth volume contains at the end the following: ÉLOGE de Sully, Née à Rosni, en 1559; mort au Chateau de Villebon, le 21 décembre 1641. Par M. le Comte Daru. 40 pp. - Ex libris Bruno Monnier, Chateau de Mantry, Jura. EUR 650
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SULLY, M. DE BETHUNE DE. Mémoires, ou Oeconomies royales d'Etat, domestiques, politiques & militaires de Henri le Grand. A Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1725. Titles printed in red and black, sphere on title. 12volumes. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with raised bands, labels with gilt lettering, some spines slightly worn at top or foot, red sprinkled edges. Cf.: INED 4259; this edition not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. Blanqui: 'Le livre sera éternellement digne d'être consulté comme le point de départ des réforme économiques qui ont mis fin aux abus du moyen-âge et qui ont abouti à la Révolution Française.' Guillaumin & Coquelin: 'Nous possédons peu de monuments historiques aussi précieux que les mémoirs de Sully ..... C'est une narration étendue des événements du règne d'Henry IV, des opérations du gouvernement, surtout de celui Sully dirigea.' Schumpeter: 'Maximilien de Béthune, created Duke de Sully by Henry IV, the latter's minister of finance, was a much greater, and especially stronger man than was the most famous of his successors, Colbert. He reformed the fiscal system of France most succesfully and saw much beyond the range of what he actually accomplished. Moreover, he knew - which is the criterion of greatness in a fiscal administrator - how to make fiscal policy an element and tool of general economic policy.' - Handwritten old name and date in blank portion of title. 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, 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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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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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 - (CONDORCET, J.M.A.N. DE CARITAT DE). Vie de Monsieur Turgot. Londres, (Paris), 1786. With engraved portrait. iv, (5)-287 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Kress B.1031; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; INED 1186. Rare first issue of the second edition. A biography of the great French statesman and economist, published a few years after the other contemporary work about him by Dupont de Nemours. Condorcet in sketching Turgot's financial operations, largely approved of his economic ideas and those of the physiocrats. In the beginning of the second part one finds Condorcet's early attempt to apply mathematics to economics: Condorcet expresses Turgot's fiscal theories in mathematical terms, in a footnote on pp. 158-167, where he discusses the various ways 'in which indirect taxation could be replaced by direct taxation and the effects of such a change' (Theocharis, p. 65). EUR 800
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TURGOT - (CONDORCET, J.M.A.N. DE CARITAT DE). Vie de Monsieur Turgot. Berne, Kirchberger & Hatter, 1787. (6), 285 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, yellow edges (small loss of calf at foot of spine, very lightly rubbed). Goldsmiths 13300; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in INED. Published one year after the original edition, and the first (?) Swiss edition. A biography of the great French statesman and economist, published a few years after the other contemporary work about him by Dupont de Nemours. Condorcet in sketching Turgot's financial operations, largely approved of his economic ideas and those of the physiocrats. In the beginning of the second part one finds Condorcet's early attempt to apply mathematics to economics: Condorcet expresses Turgot's fiscal theories in mathematical terms, in a footnote on pp. 158-167, where he discusses the various ways 'in which indirect taxation could be replaced by direct taxation and the effects of such a change' (Theocharis, p. 65). EUR 750
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TURGOT - (DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Mémoires sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Turgot, Ministre d'Etat. Philadelphie, (Paris, Barrois l'ainé), 1782. 2 volumes in 1. viii, (2), 148 pp.; 268 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards. Schelle, p. 24; Kress B.459; Goldsmiths 12250; INED 1610; not in Einaudi. First edition, with the additional errata-leaf. Very rare. Described by Gustave Schelle as the best documentation of Turgot's financial statesmanship during the first years of Louis XVI.The first part treats the youth of Turgot, his successful administration as intendant for the generality of Limoges where he earned great popularity by his abolishment of the 'corvees' and the introduction of a great deal of other reforms, and his administration as secretary of state for the navy, a position he held for five weeks only but of particular interest for his enlightened views on colonial policy. The second and larger part treats Turgot's administration as controller- general and minister of finance from August 1774 until May 1776. It contains a striking account of the numerous reforms introduced by him: the abolishment of abuses, privileges and crushing taxes, the purification of the financial administration, the abolishment of many limitations on trade and labour, etc. - Fine complete copy, printed on heavy paper with generous margins. EUR 1500
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TURGOT - (DUPONT DE NEMOURS, P.S.) Mémoires sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Turgot, Ministre d'Etat. Philadelphie, (Paris, Barrois l'ainé), 1782. 2 volumes in 1. viii, (2), 148 pp.; 268 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, spine richly gilt with raised bands, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Schelle, p. 24; Kress B.459; Goldsmiths 12250; INED 1610; not in Einaudi. First edition, with the additional errata-leaf. The major contemporary documentation on the life and work of the great minister by one of his best friends. The first part treats the youth of Turgot, his successful administration as intendant for the generality of Limoges where he earned great popularity by his abolishment of the corvees and the introduction of a great deal of other reforms, and his administration as secretary of state for the navy, a position he held for five weeks only but of particular interest for his enlightened views on colonial policy. The second and larger part treats Turgot's administration as controller-general and minister of finance from August 1774 until May 1776. It contains a striking account of the numerous reforms introduced by him: the abolishment of abuses, privileges and crushing taxes, the purification of the financial administration, the abolishment of many limitations on trade and labour, etc. - Very fine copy, printed on 'grand papier' with generous margins. EUR 4000
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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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TURGOT - SAY, L. Turgot. Deuxième édition. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1891. With portrait. 208 pp. Small 8vo. Sewn, original printed covers, short tear in front cover (Les grands écrivains français). Say considered Turgot to be the founder of French political economy. EUR 125
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VERNIER, (T.) Le vrai bilan de la République Française, mis en évidence par tous les citoyens, en réfutation du faux bilan publié par un anonyme. (Drop-head title). (Paris), Imprimerie nationale, (1793). 16 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmith; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm; Martin & Walter 33377. First edition. Théodore Vernier (1731-1818) studied in Besançon. He later became a barrister and was elected deputy for the third estate at the Estates General where he dealt mainly with financial questions. He was elected president of the Assemblée constituante on the 26th of August 1791. Vernier's writings, in which he showed himself to be an ardent and intelligent defender of a progressive tax, were certainly influential and among the best written on the subject in the period (see: A. Soboul, Dictionnaire Historique de la Révolution Française, pp. 1085-1086 and the entry Impot Progressif, p. 562.) The present work is a survey of the financial situation of France in refutation of a 'vrai bilan' produced by an unknown author predicting a deficit of 12 milliard at the end of 1793. EUR 150
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VILLERME, (L.R.) Rapport à l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, sur l'État physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les fabriques de soie, de coton, et de laine; par M. Villermé. (Drop-head title). No place, no date (Paris 1839). With numerous tables throughout the text. Pp. (229)-594. 4to. Modern half cloth, marbled boards. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Granier, Bibliographie Charitable; not in Dada. First edition. Published in the 'Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques', this report served as the basis for the second part of the Tableau de l'État Physique et Moral des Ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie, Paris, 1840. Louis-René Villermé (1782-1863), French physician and statistician. He obtained his medicial degree in 1814. His twofold interest in the laboring classes and in social and economic statistics led to a wide range of published works. He was elected a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1823 and of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1832. When the manufacturers of Mulhouse took the initiative in calling public attention to the child labor prevalent in the silk mills, the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques invited Villermé to an investigation of the conditions. His report served as the basis for the law of 1841 extending a measure of protection to children in industry. - Very good copy, with wide margins. EUR 600
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VILLERS, (F.T.) Rapport au nom d'une commission spéciale, sur le message du Directoire exécutif, du 11 vendémiaire dernier, relatif à la poste aux lettres. Séance du 26 frimaire an 7 (16 décembre 1798). (Drop-head title). Paris, Imprimerie nationale nivôse an 7 (1798). 74 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Martin & Walter 33651. EUR 100
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VISSERING, G. On Chinese currency. Preliminary remarks about the monetary reform in China. With the co-operation of W.A. Roest. Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, (1912-1914). 2 volumes. ix, (1), 215 pp.; xvii, 299, (1) pp. 8vo. Original cloth. First edition. Vissering was a leading authority on the subject and his works are still much sought after. Vol. 2 deals especially with banking problems. Discusses currency reform, but also the organisation of a central bank. - Very rare. EUR 300
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VITAL-ROUX. Analyse historique de l'établissement du crédit public en France. Paris, Bossange père, 1824. With 6 folding tables. (4), 234 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. Kress C.1330; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED. First edition. - Also listed under Roux. This is a history of public finances during the Restoration and of the establishment of public credit in France. The author was born in Bellay, around 1760, and died in Strasbourg in 1846. He started his career with a trading company in Lyon, and after that went to work for the house of Delessert in Paris. He founded himself a trading company but with little success. He became regent of the Banque de France, member of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris and one of the editors of the Code de Commerce (Coquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 560). EUR 300
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WALCH, J. Michel Chevalier. Economiste Saint-Simonien 1806-1879. Lille, Université de Lille III, 1974. (2), 527 pp. 4to. Modern red cloth, label with gilt lettering(These. Université de Paris IV). Original edition printed in a limited number of copies. Essentially a contribution to the history of ideas in the nineteenth century. The first part of the book is an elaborate account of Chevalier's ideas about America, his analysis of population, transportation and communication, industrial activities, the American economy, politics, civil rights and civil liberty, etc. Furthermore the work deals with his ideas on political economy, money, industrial politics, free trade, and Chevalier's social ideas. EUR 150
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WALRAS - CORRESPONDENCE of Léon Walras and related papers. Edited by William Jaffé. Amsterdam, 1965. With 3 frontispieces. 3 volumes. xliii, 799 pp.; xxvii, 763 pp.; xxiii, 538 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Covers the correspondence from 1857 upto 1909. The third volume contains indexes. The correspondence with contemporary economists like Cournot, Jevons, Menger, Gide, Leon Say, Böhm-Bawerk, Marshall & Pareto, etc. EUR 300
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