First edition. A historical treatise on
the commerce and trade of the Dutch Republic, the causes of its prosperity in the past, the reasons for its
present decline, and the means for recovery. Most bibliographers attribute this book to the French lawyer
Accarias de Serionne, an opponent of the ideas of the philosophers and the Physiocrats. It has also been
attributed to the Dutch jurist, philosopher and bookseller Elie Luzac (1723-1796), who published a Dutch
work (
Hollands rijkdom, 1780) which was only nominally a translation from the present French
book. In the preface to this Dutch adaptation Luzac writes that he made it because he wanted to demonstrate
'in which way ... such a book should be treated ... even more so, because ... so many had kept him
[Luzac] for the author of this [French] book'. An 8vo-edition appeared the same year. *Kress B.96. Einaudi
4767. INED 13 & 2987bis. EHB 1245a.
ANDERSON, James (1739-
1808) Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry;
chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, of Scotland. In a series
of letters to a friend.
Dublin, printed for S.Price, W. and H.Whitestone, J.Williams [etc.] 1779.
2 volumes. LXVII,325; [IV],424p., complete with both half titles. From the library of William
Fortescue (?), with his bookplate on paste-downs (rudely removed in the second volume) and his name on
the title of the first volume. Contemp. calf, backs with red and black labels, sides a bit scratched. A very
nice set. (#23406) eur 2250
First Irish
edition. James Anderson was a Scottish gentleman farmer and author of several works on rural economy,
the corn trade and similar subjects, but he is particularly credited
for his (in the present work)
anticipating the Ricardian theory of rent, the first clear formulation of the law of diminishing returns.
These volumes 'show clearly that Anderson had a more correct view of the theory of rent than his greater
contemporary and compatriot Adam Smith. Rent, he says, is a premium for the cultivation of the richer
soils, reducing the profits of the cultivators to an equality with those of the cultivators of the poorer' (James
Bonar in
Palgrave). 'The association of rent with decreasing returns which was to be one of the
most characteristic features of the Ricardian system, was established by Anderson' (Schumpeter).
These volumes also contain one of the earliest criticisms of Adam Smith's
Wealth of nations. In
a
Postscript to letter thirteenth (volume II, p.109-224) Anderson writes: 'I have seen the very
ingenious treatise of Dr. Adam Smith on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations; and am sorry to
find, that I have the misfortune to differ in opinion from an author of such extensive knowledge, and liberal
sentiments, on a subject of so much real importance as that which is here treated of'. Schumpeter considered
Anderson 'one of the most interesting English economists of the late eighteenth century ... he had to an
unusual degree what so many economists lack, Vision'.
The first edition was published in Edinburgh in 1777. *Kress B.170. Goldsmiths' 11772. Einaudi 117 (the
first edition). Schumpeter p.263ff. Palgrave I,p.39-40 & III,p.287.
ANGELOCRATOR, Daniel (1569-
1635) Doctrina de ponderibus, monetis, et mensuris per totum terrarum
orbem usitatis, ex probatissimis scriptoribus conquisita, examinata, & in aphorismos ac tabellas redacta.
Altera iam eiusdem cura prodit multo auctior et emendatior. In calce subiecit auctor contenta sui operis
chronologici per triginta annos elaborati.
Francofurti, Joan-Nicolaus Stoltzenbergerus, Joannis
Bernerus 1628. 4to. [II],14,171p. With fine printer's mark on title, 3 engraved figures and
several tables in the text, and 2 folding tables. Contemp. or somewhat later half calf, red sides. Stamp on
title and verso. Mild browning. (#34458) eur 650
Second enlarged edition. A treatise on ancient and modern weights, in general and of
solid and liquid substances, precious metals and money, measures for surveying, etc., with numerous
references to other writers like Agricola, Snellius, Budelius and Pirckheimer. In the appendix figures
showing Tycho Brahe's
Nova mundani sytematis hypotyposis (first published in his
De
mundi atherei recentioribus phaenomenis, 1588) and a fine compass card, an outline of the author's
works, etc.
The author was a Calvinist minister, a deputy at the Synod of Dordt (1618-19) on behalf of the land-grave
of Hessen-Cassel, and author of various polemic theological works, poetry and an (unfinished) universal
history (
Chronologia autoptica, 1601). *Kress S.455 (the first edition of 1617 counting 81p.
only). Goldsmiths' 459 (another issue dated 1617 but counting 81p. only). ADB I,p.453.
BEAWES, Wyndham. Lex
mercatoria rediviva: or, a complete code of commercial law. Being a general guide to all men in business,
whether as traders, remitters, owners, freighters, captains, insurers, brokers, factors, supercargoes, or
agents. With an account of our mercantile companies; of our colonies and their factories abroad, of our
commercial treaties with foreign powers, of the duty of consuls, and of the laws concerning aliens,
naturalization and denization. To which is added, a sketch of the present state of the commerce of the whole
world; describing the manufactures and products of each particular nation; with tables of the correspondence
and agreement of their respective coins, weights and measures ... The fifth edition, considerably enlarged,
and improved, by Thomas Mortimer ...
London, printed for R.Baldwin [etc.] 1792.
Folio. [IX],1013,[15]p. With folding table. Uppermargin of 1 index leaf torn away with loss
of a few letters. Contemp. calf, rubbed, recently neatly rebacked. (#21790) eur 750
Fifth revised edition. A much used
handbook for merchants based upon Savary's famous
Parfait négociant. It was published
for the first time in 1751, and reprinted, with revisions by Thomas Mortimer, several times. There was one
later edition but according to McCulloch that edition, published by Joseph Chitty, was 'careless and
slovenly'. *Kress B.2251. McCulloch p.130.
BECHER, Johann Joachim (1635-
1682) Politische Discurs, von den eigentlichen Ursachen dess Auff- und
Abnehmens der Städt, Länder und Republicken. In specie, wie ein Land volckreich und
nahrhafft zu machen, und in eine rechte Societatem civilem zu bringen. Auch wird von dem
Bauren, Handwercks und Kauffmannsstand derer Handel und Wandel. Item, von dem Monopolio,
Polypolio und Propolio, von allgemeinen Land-Magazinen, Niederlagen,
Kauffhäusern, Montibus Pietatis, Zucht- und Werckhäusern, Wechselbäncken
und dergleichen ausführlich gehandelt. Zweyte Edition. Mit vier Theilen vermehret, worinnen viel
nutzliche, wichtige und curiose Sachen begriffen.
Franckfurt, Johann David Zunner 1673.
Small 8vo. [XIV],1272,[21]p. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemp. calf, neat repair to
spine ends, a strong copy. (#29811) eur 6000
Second, much expanded edition. The best edition, first published in 1668 as a small
volume of 234 pages only.
The major book of 'the greatest representative of cameralism'
(Roll). Cameralism was the specific form of mercantilism in Germany, practised by men usually closely
connected with the bureaucracies of the German states. Cameralist science included fiscal and economic
policy, legislation, administration and public finance, and its aim was to provide methods for an efficient
administration and a large population, and a well-filled treasury for their noble rulers. Cameralism is usually
divided into an 'older' and 'younger' school, and among the 'older' school Becher's present tract precedes
the two other important works, Hoernigk's
Oesterreich über alles (1684) and Wilhelm von
Schröder's
Fürstliche Schatz- und Rent-Cammer (1686).
Becher was born at Speyer as the son of a Lutheran minister. He qualified himself in theology, philosophy,
medicine and natural sciences, mostly self-taught, became Catholic, and travelled through most parts of
Europe. He worked as a physician and professor in Mainz and Munich and in 1666 became director of the
Commerz-Collegium in Vienna. Failed business adventures and an 'ill-balanced' character made
him leave Austria, and he lived an adventurous life in Holland, Scotland, and again Germany, and died in
London.
Becher was unremitting occupied with technical, commercial, financial and other plans and projects. He
founded a silk-factory in Munich, made plans for foreign trading companies, the economic unification of the
German states, and the regulation of branches of industry, he is credited with the introduction of potato
cultivation in Germany, etc. Becher was also a chemist and his reputation as an economist has suffered from
his many somewhat chimerical works in that field. His
Physica subterranea contains the
fundaments of the phlogiston theory, and for that he has been seen as the first chemist with a comprehensive
theory of the science. His character has been described as ill-balanced, 'morally worthless, insolent, vain,
and mendacious' but 'his vigor and originality were universally recognized even by men like Leibniz and
Stahl' (Schumpeter).
It has been noted that Becher, contrary to the theologians, philologists or jurists that had occupied
themselves with economic subjects before him, was a student of natural philosophy, and that this gave to his
writings a special freshness and a practical character. Schumpeter has written that 'this tract contains the
rudiments of an analytic scheme that turns upon people's expenditure on consumption - the prime mover or,
as Becher said, the 'soul' of economic life. In itself the observation that one man's expenditure is another
man's income - or that consumers' expenditure generates income - is as old as it is trivial. But it can be
turned into a principle of analysis - the principle that Quesnay, a century later, was to embody in his
tableau - just as can the old and trivial observation that a body at rest remains at rest unless
some external force acts on it. We shall call it Becher's Principle, because he seems to have been the first to
realize its theoretical possibilities.'
According to Humpert the first edition was seized. Further editions appeared in 1688, 1721, and in an
edition published and annotated by Georg Heinrich Zincke in 1754 and 1759. *Kress has only our edition,
there is no edition in Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. Kress 1327. Humpert 73 (locating 3 copies of this edition in
German libraries). OCLC locates a single copy of the present edition (NY Public), and 2 copies of the first
edition (Stanford and Wellcome). GBV locates 4 copies of the first, and 5 copies of the present edition.
Schumpeter p.283-284. Palgrave I,p.128. Roll,
A history of economic thought, 1956, p.66.
Becher,J.J. - ERDBERG-KRCZENCIEWSKI,R.VON.
Johann Joachim Becher. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Nationalökonomik.
Jena 1896. VI,141p. (Staatswissenschaftliche Studien VI,2) (#12134) eur 15
BIELFELD, Jakob Friedrich von (1717-
1770) Institutions politiques. N[ouvelle] édition, revue,
corrigée & augmentée.
Leide, chés Samuel et Jean Luchtmans 1767 [Tome
troisième: 1772]. 3 volumes. [VI including the privilege of the States of
Holland],VIII,710,[11]; [VI],736,[8]; XXIV,892,[26]p. With repeated vignette on titles and 2 other
vignettes (1 by R.Vinkeles, with a medallion portrait of Catherine II), portrait of the author, and 5 folding
tables. Contemp. half calf, backs richly gilt with red calf label, paper over boards here and there gone. A
clean and attractive set. (#19992) eur 600
Best edition of a bulky, yet highly successful cameralistic treatise. Bielfeld was a
Prussian state official but he wrote in French and this has made his book the best known cameralistic
treatise outside Germany.
The third volume of the present edition, finished by Bielfeld shortly before his death, is here printed for the
first time. It has a 5-page printed dedication by Bielfeld's widow to Catherine II of Russia, who 'had so
favourably received the first two volumes'. It also includes the (anonymous)
Eloge de M. de
Bielfeld held before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin in 1770. *Carpenter XX,7. Kress
S.4180 (first editions of each volume). Humpert 7491.
[BOISGUILBERT, Pierre Le Pesant de
(1646-1714)] Testament politique de monsieur de Vauban
... dans lequel ce seigneur donne les moiens d'augmenter considerablement les revenus de la couronne, par
l'établissement d'une dixme royale; & suppression des impots, sans apprehension d'aucune
revolution dans l'état.
No place 1708-07. 2 volumes. 12mo. 386; [380:
paginated 1-356, p.193-204 (gathering *R added between Q and R), p.246-255 and p.325-326 appear
twice]p., thus complete/ With portrait of Vauban. Contemp. calf, gilt backs. (#14426) eur 600
Despite its title which suggests a
work by the then much better known Vauban, this is an edition of Boisguilbert's renowned
Détail de la France. Boisguilbert is remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and
one of the founders of classical political economy. His work was published for the first time in 1695 and
reprinted various times under various titles until 1699. It was then not printed again until 1707 when at
least eight editions appeared, again under various titles and together with several other pieces, thus forming
Boisguilbert's 'collected works'.
The first volume here in the only edition dated 1708, the Bibliothèque nationale does not have a
copy of the second volume with that date.
*INED, Pierre de Boisguilbert ou la naissance de l'économie politique, vol.1, p.500 (vol.1) and
p.499 (vol.2). INED 567. Carpenter VIII,14-16. Kress S.2356 (vol.1 1708, vol.2 1707). New Palgrave
I,p.259.
Boisguilbert,P.de. - CADET,F.
Pierre de Boisguilbert, précurseur des économistes 1646-1714. Sa vie,
ses travaux, son influence.
Paris, Guillaumin 1870. X,442p. With double-page
facsimile. Orig. printed wrappers. (#16798) eur 75
Boisguilbert,P.de. - Pierre de Boisguilbert
ou la naissance de l'économie politique.
Paris 1966. 2
volumes. XX,1031p. (#13262) eur 100
1. Préface. Etudes. Biographie. Correspondance. Bibliographies. 2. Oeuvres
manuscrites et imprimées.
BüSCH, Johann Georg (1728-
1800) Grundriss einer Geschichte der merkwürdigsten Welthandel
neuerer Zeit in einem erzählenden Vortrage. Dritte sehr umgearbeitete und bis zu diesen Tagen
fortgesetzte Ausgabe.
Hamburg, C.E.Bohn 1796. XVI,720p. Contemp. half calf, gilt
back with red label, red edges. A very nice copy. (#16879) eur 225
Third much expanded edition. A
chronologically arranged account of the political, diplomatic and military history of Europe from the end of
the fifteenth until the end of the eighteenth century. This third edition is, compared to the second edition of
1783, expanded with about one third dealing with the French revolution and its consequences for the other
European nations. 'Together with the author's history of the Hamburg trade ... probably his most
permanently valuable writing.' *Kress B.3104. Humpert 13244. EHB 1062. Palgrave I,p.196.
BüSCH, Johann Georg (1728-
1800) Praktischer, hamburgischer Briefsteller für Kaufleute.
Altona und Hamburg, G.Vollmer 1798-99. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. XVI,408,[10];
VIII,9-99,80,[8]p. Contemp. half calf, gilt backs with labels, red edges. (#16945) eur 275
First edition. A collection of models
of business correspondence. The second part of the second volume is taken by correspondence with the
French Directory regarding its commercial policy. *Kress B.3567. Humpert 6290. EHB 673.
BüSCH, Johann Georg (1728-
1800) Theoretisch-praktische Darstellung der Handlung in deren
mannigfaltigen Geschäften. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe.
Hamburg,
B.G.Hoffmann 1799. 2 volumes. XXII,[2],367,[1]; [II],446p. (#14868) eur 1250
And: THE SAME.
Zusätze zu seiner theoretisch-praktischen Darstellung der Handlung in ihren mannigfaltigen
Geschäften. Hamburg, B.G.Hoffmann 1797-1800. 3 volumes. XIV,[2],296; X,[2],348;
XIV,[2],452p.
And: THE SAME. Darstellung des in den nördlichen Gewässern üblichen
insonderheit Schleswig-Holsteinischen Strandrechts. Ein Zusatz zu Buch 4. Cap. 4 seiner Darstellung der
Handel. Hamburg, B.G.Hoffmann 1798. 148,[4]p.
Together 6 volumes bound in 5. Small 8vo. Contemp. boards, blank paper labels on backs, spine ends
worn, corners rubbed. Some, roughly contemporary annotations in margins and endpapers of some of the
volumes.
Second revised edition of the main work, and first edition of the four additional volumes. A genuinely
complete set of a very comprehensive manual for businessmen, one of the chief literary outcomes of German
business science (
Handelswissenschaft).
Büsch was professor of mathematics and director of a trade academy at Hamburg. An economist by
experience and observation rather than by study, he became the author of a considerable number of works
on commerce 'of much greater value than the wordy compilations of Büsch's in his time more famous
forerunner J.P.Marperger' (W.Roscher).
As a theoretical economist Büsch advocated liberal principles and free trade, 'though not without
mercantilist errors', and for this as well as for other reasons his work has been regarded as an anticipation
of Friedrich List's 'national system of political economy'. Büsch was critical to Adam Smith, whom
he considered over-estimated, and favoured James Steuart, as so many other German economists of his time
did.
The first edition of the main work was published in 1792. *Humpert 5323 and 5324. Kress B.3804, B.3357
(volumes 1 and 2 only) and cf. B.4084. EHB 454 & 452.
Darstellung ... des Strandrechts: Not
in Humpert, Kress or EHB. Palgrave I,p.195.
BüSCH, Johann Georg (1728-
1800) Ueber das Bestreben der Völker neuerer Zeit einander in
ihrem Seehandel recht wehe zu thun. Vermehrte und ganz umgearbeitete Auflage der Abhandlung: von der
Zerrütung des Seehandels.
Hamburg, B.G.Hoffmann 1800. Small 8vo.
XVI,600,[24]p. Contemp. half calf, gilt back with red label, red edges. A very nice copy. (#16923) eur 350
First edition thus. A treatise on the
differences between the European powers relating to maritime commerce, the differences between French
and English maritime law, the German interest, etc. A much expanded version of an earlier treatise 'on the
disruption of maritime commerce' published in 1793/94. *Kress B.4083. Humpert 10129. This edition not
in EHB.
BURKE, Edmund (1729-
1797) Thoughts and details on scarcity, originally presented to the Right
Hon. William Pitt, in the month of November, 1795.
London, printed for F. & C.Rivington & J.
Hatchard 1800. XVI,48p. Recent marbled wrappers, old sprinkled edges. Old name on title,
mild browning. (#31431) eur 450
First edition, second impression. Burke's most important treatise in the field of
economics. Burke's famous attack on the French revolution seems to have overshadowed the fact that he
was also a skilled economist. He was an ardent advocate of the capitalist market economy and Adam Smith
is reported to have said of him 'that he was the only man who, without communication, thought on these
topics exactly as he did'. In the present work Burke maintains that labour is a commodity like every other,
subject to all the laws and principles of trade. Though he admits that the condition of the labouring classes
can be hard, he still holds that 'it would be pernicious to disturb the natural course of things, and to
impede, in any degree, the great wheel of circulation which is turned by the strangely directed labour of
these unhappy people'. *Todd 74b. Kress B.4086. McCulloch p.71 (at length). New Palgrave I,p.300.
Caffè, Il, ossia brevi e varii discorsi
distribuiti in fogli periodici [... Semestre primo-quarto dal giugno 1764 a maggio
1766].
Milano, presso Giovanni Silvestri 1804. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound in 1
volume. Small 4to. 288; 287,[1]p. Contemp. green calf-backed marbled boards, gilt back. Two old stamps
to title of first part, one old stamp to title of third part. Occasionally paperspotted. Printed in double
columns. (#28983) eur 2250
Third collected edition of a most important journal of the Italian
enlightenment. It was published by the group named
Società dei pugni
(
Society of fists), to which belonged among others the Milanese brothers
Pietro
(1728-1797) and
Alessandro Verri (1741-1816), the great
Cesare Beccaria (1738-
1794) and the mathematician
Paolo Frisi (1728-1784). It covered a great variety of subjects,
but its emphasis was on economics and public policy. It did not exist very long: the first issue appeared
June 1764, at Brescia to avoid censorship, and the last in May 1766. A first collected edition appeared
already in Brescia in 1765-66 and a second in Venice in 1766.
In one of the first parts of 1764, the year in which he published his great
Dei delitti e delle
pene, Beccaria contributed an article on the connection between tariffs and smuggling (
Tentativo
analitico su i contrabbandi, volume 1, p.122-123). This article has been recognized by various authors
as an important early contribution to mathematical economics and lengthy treated by Theocharis. Beccaria
posed the problem of the smuggler who wants to compute the risks of his profession. He attempts to express
in algebraic formulae the relations between the value of goods purchased by the smuggler, the value of
goods left after a part of the goods has been seized by customs, and the value of the confiscated goods. This
article was 'meant to give a slight idea about how economic science can be analytically considered'.
Beccaria reasoned that algebra is 'a precise and quick method of reasoning about quantities, which can be
applied not only to geometry or mathematics but also to economic problems'.
The articles are signed with an initial only, but the present edition has a publisher's notice in which their
identity is unveiled. Both volumes have also an added leaf with a systematic table of contents.
*Kress B.4775. Einaudi 6161 for the original journal. OCLC locates reprint editions only. Schumpeter
p.179. Theocharis p.21-24. Bousquet p.43. New Palgrave I,p.218-219 (Beccaria).
[CAMPOMANES, Pedro Rodriguez de
(1723-1802)] Discurso sobre la educación popular
de los artesanos, y su fomento.
Madrid, en la imprenta de Antonio de Sancha 1775.
Small 8vo. [XXIV],475,[1 errata]p. Finely bound in modern calf, gilt back with red label.
Faint staining in lower margin of first and last leaves, but a fine copy. (#29289) eur 750
First edition. Campomanes was a
distinguished Spanish statesman, jurist and economist who greatly contributed to the improvement of
Spanish commerce and industry, the promotion of agriculture, the reform of the system of taxation and the
diffusion of popular education. His theoretic views and practical efforts strikingly resemble those of his
illustrious contemporary Turgot. Schumpeter notices that in view of the date of publication Campomanes
had little if anything to learn from Adam Smith.
The present volume deals not only with the education of the Spanish working class, including chapters on
apprenticeship, examinations and female labour, but also about guilds, provisions and funds for the disabled
and old aged, etc. It also has a chapter about Spanish foreign trade, particularly with the West Indies,
though it was overlooked by Sabin. This volume appears much rarer than the author's better known
Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular of the previous year.
*Kress 7088. Higgs 6474. Palgrave I,p.208. McCulloch p.361.
[CAMPOMANES, Pedro Rodriguez de
(1723-1802)] Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria
popular.
Madrid, Antonio de Sancha 1774. Small 8vo. [VIII],CXCVIIIp. Contemp.
vellum. Stamp and faint remainders of a removed label on title. (#14402) eur 500
First (only) edition. A plea for the
promotion of popular industry and manufacture, the major writing of the author with respect to its analytical
scope. Campomanes was a distinguished Spanish statesman, jurist and economist who greatly contributed to
the improvement of Spanish commerce and industry, the promotion of agriculture, the reform of the system
of taxation and the diffusion of popular education. His theoretic views and practical efforts strikingly
resemble those of his illustrious contemporary Turgot. Schumpeter notices that in view of the date of
publication Campomanes had little if anything to learn from Adam Smith.
*Kress 6998. Higgs 5957. Schumpeter p.172. Palgrave I,p.208. McCulloch p.361.
CASTELLET,J.B.C.DE. L'Art de
multiplier la soie, ou traité sur les muriers blancs, l'éducation des vers à soie & le
tirage des soies. Par Monsieur C.C. Imprimé par ordre de MM. les procureurs des gens des trois-
états du pays de Provence.
Aix, J. & E. David 1760. 118,[2]p. Recent boards,
back with gilt calf label. Fine copy. (#16864) eur 125
First (only) edition. *Barbier I,291f. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.
[CHASTELLUX, François Jean de
(1734-1788)] De la félicité publique. Ou
considérations sur le sort des hommes dans les différentes époques de l'histoire.
Amsterdam, M.M.Rey 1772. 2 volumes in 1. VI,XVIII,238; [IV],216p., table of
contents of volume 2 inaccurately bound. Contemp. calf, back richly gilt with label, red edges. Apart from
small but clear spots on 2 leaves a very fine copy indeed. (#12773) eur 650
First edition. The principal work of
the author, a plea for human progress for which he has been compared with Condorcet. The object of his
historical investigations into the condition of humanity is not merely to find methods to increase prosperity,
but first of all to find out whether mankind has becomen more happy during the ages. It might not surprise
that Chastellux concludes that indeed enormous progress has been made, and he may state that 'only in our
days the idea of the rights of man and love for humanity has developed itself'. Chastellux considered
agriculture and population the major indications for prosperity, and for that reason various authors have
connected him with the Physiocrats and with Malthus.
*Kress 6846. INED 1075. Einaudi has a later edition only. Palgrave I,p.273. Lichtenberger, Rév.
p.271-272. Schumpeter p.255.
[COQUEREAU, Jean Baptiste Louis (?-
1773)] Mémoires de l'abbé Terrai, controlleur-
général des finances; avec une relation de l'émeute arrivée à Paris en
1775, & suivis de quatorze lettres d'un actionnaire de la Compagnie des Indes
Londres 1776.
12mo. [IV],398p. Contemp. calf, gilt back with label, trifle rubbed, red edges. A good copy.
(#31987) eur 175
First (?) edition.
Apocryph memoirs, the most consulted source for the ill-fated administration of the abbé Terray,
France's minister of finance during the years 1770-1774. Includes an
Historical account of the uprising
in Paris on 3 May 1775 (p.231-272) and
Letters from a shareholder to another shareholder,
containing an account of what has happened in the last meetings of the East India Company (p.273-
398). This volume was issued several times the same year with variant titles. Einaudi records the present
edition as the first. *Kress 7204. Einaudi 1290. INED 1195 (variant title). Stourm p.85.
COYER, Gabriel François (1707-
1782) Oeuvres complettes.
Paris, veuve Duchesne 1782-1783.
7 volumes. 12mo. With engraved oval portrait of the author in volume 1 and another portrait
in volume 6. Contemp. calf, backs richly gilt with double labels, triple line gilt borders on all sides,
marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Faint water stain in upper margin of 3 volumes, minor wear to
extremities. A fine set. (#29666) eur 1250
First and only collective edition. The abbé Gabriel François
Coyer was born in the Franche-Comté from a poor family and educated by the Jesuits. The short
biographical sketch of the author included in the first volume records that he left the order in 1736 'because
of his love for freedom and peace', which resulted in a conflict with his superiors. He became secretary to
the prince de Turenne and chaplain general to the cavalry, which brought him to the battle of Lawfelt
(Lauffeld) and the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1747. He held various other official positions and made
travels to Italy and England, where he became a member of the Royal Society. His biographer characterizes
him as 'an enemy by nature of fanatism, intolerance and superstition'.
Most of his works are of economic interest and well represented in the economic collections of Kress,
Goldsmiths', Einaudi (1381-1390) and INED (1224-1233). *
This collective edition not in Kress,
Goldsmiths', Einaudi or INED. CCFr records 2 sets only (BnF and Médiathèque
J.J.Rousseau, Chambéry). NUC ('3 vols') locates 3 sets. OCLC gives 5 locations (COO, RRR,
EEM, PUL and Oxford). COPAC records the Oxford set only.
Detailed contents of the volumes:
1. Bagatelles morales. Dissertations pour être lues. Discours sur la satyre contre les philosophes.
Lettre au R.P. Berthier sur le matérialisme. De la prédication. Essai sur la
prédication. 2. La noblesse commerçante. Développement et défense du
système de la noblesse commerçante. Chinki, histoire cochinchinois. Epitre d'Héloise
à Abaillard. Lettre au docteur Maty. 3. Plan d'éducation publique. 4. Voyage d'Italie.
5. Voyage de Hollande, en 1769. Nouvelle observations sur l'Angleterre. Discours prononcés dans
la Chambre des communes, à l'occasion de la guerre présente de l'Angleterre avec ses
colonies [Discours de M. Wilkes]. 6 & 7. Histoire de Jean Sobieski.
[DARIGRAND, Jean Baptiste (?-
1771)] 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.
Amsterdam 1764. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. 56,84p. Contemp. calf, gilt
back, painted edges. Back with few worm holes, but a nice copy. (#13307) eur 175
One of various editions following the
original edition of the previous year. A vigorous refutation of the corrupting system of the farming of the
taxes which gained its author a sojourn in the Bastille.
*Stourm p.104. INED 1276. Peignot I,p.90. Cf. Einaudi 1431 and Kress S.4333 for variant editions from
the same year.
DAVANZATI, Bernardo (1529-
1606) Scisma d'Inghilterra con altre operette. Tratte dall'edizion
Fiorentina del MDCXXXVIII. Citata dagli accademici della crusca nel loro vocabolario; e ora con somma
diligenza rivedute, e ricorrette. Edizione II. affatto simili alla prima.
Padova, G.Comino 1754.
[VII],222,[2]p. With an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece, a folding diagram
between p.112/113, and a printer's mark on last page. Old limp boards with ms. title to back. A nice copy
with ample margins. (#23196) eur 350
One of various editions of this collection of treatises of the famous Florentine merchant,
writer and economist Davanzati. It includes his two major economic writings of the 1580's: the
Lezione delle monete and the
Notizia de' cambi. They were published in the present
form and with the present title (referring to his history of the Reformation in England) for the first time in
1638 and went through at least 14 editions (including an English translation) by 1846. Carpenter concludes
that 'this continuing interest reflects Davanzati's significant contribution to monetary theory and the felicity
of his style'. Schumpeter calls it 'the all-time high, also as regards literary elegance, of the metallist theory
of the origin and nature of money'.
*Carpenter I,6. This edition not in Kress, but Kress, Italian 298. Einaudi 1434 for the first edition.
Palgrave I,p.483. Schumpeter p.292.
[DAVENANT, Charles (1656-
1714)] An essay upon the probable methods of making a people gainers
in the ballance of trade.
London, printed for James Knapton 1699. [XVI],312p. With 6
folding tables. Contemp. blind-tooled calf, slightly rubbed. Bookplate of Cholmondeley library on first
paste-down, and signed in ink on title 'R.Walpole'. (#19982) eur 2750
First edition. Davenant's front-rank
position in the history of economics is mainly based upon his insight in the importance of quantitative
arguments, the use of 'political arithmetic', and his contributions to the theories of money, international
trade and public finance.
Charles, son of William Davenant the poet, was a public servant and member of parliament. Having lost his
office as commissioner of excise after the accession of William III he started a career as a pamphleteer and
within a decade published a number of works on economic, financial and political subjects. He did not
develop a coherent system and his work has been characterized as on the one side mercantilist because of the
numerous examples of a regulative policy, and on the other hand showing 'tendencies towards what might
almost be called a free-trade position'.
This copy from the library of Cholmondeley castle, Cheshire. Sir Robert Walpole's daughter Mary married
in 1723 to George 3rd earl of Cholmondeley. *Kress 2114. Goldsmiths' 3580. Einaudi 1436. Wing D309.
Bell D66. Palgrave I,p.484. Schumpeter p.211.
[DECKER, Matthew (1679-
1749)] Essai sur les causes du déclin du commerce
étranger de la Grande Bretagne.
No place 1757. 2 volumes. [II],302; [II],392p.
Contemp. calf, gilt backs with labels, top of spine of first volume trifle damaged, bookplates removed from
endpapers, still a nice set. (#15277) eur 500
First French edition. Matthew Decker was born in Amsterdam but grew up in England
and became a successful merchant, a director of the East India Company and a member of the English
parliament. He also wrote two important books on trade:
Serious considerations on the several high
duties which the nation in general, as well as trade in particular, labors under, with a proposal for... raising
all the publick supplies by one single tax (1743) and the present one, originally published in 1744 as
Essay on the causes of the decline of the foreign trade, consequently of the value of the lands in
Britain, and on the means to restore both.
Decker's supposition implied in the title of this volume that British foreign trade was declining seems
inaccurately, but his arguments were foremost meant to show the possibility of improvement of British
trade. His chief proposal was the abolishment of import duties, and in his book he tried to refute the
objection that this would diminish the value of land. McCulloch stated that 'few if any of the older works
on commerce... have so many well-founded claims to attention... or embody so many enlightened,
ingenious, and original views'.
Adam Smith had a copy of this book, though his library catalogue attributes it to William Richardson, but
present research is strongly in favour of Decker's authorship. This French translation was done by J.P. de
Gua de Malves, a mathematician also credited with other writings on economic subjects.
*Kress 5600. EHB 1336. McCulloch p.46. Palgrave I,p.519.
A catalogue of the library of Adam
Smith p.156.
DIANNYERE, Antoine (1762-
1802) Preuves arithmétiques de la nécessité
d'encourager l'agriculture, et d'abandonner l'approvisionnement des grains à la liberté du
commerce. In: Mémoires de morale et de politique, p. 543-551.
[Paris an IV - 1796.]
4to. [9]p. Fine modern boards, back lettered black. Remainders of red interim wrappers on
verso of p.551. (#30522) eur 275
First printing. Arithmetical investigations into the relations between the number of
patients and deaths in the hospitals of Paris and Lyons and the prices of corn in London, Paris and Lyons.
The author concludes that higher prices of corn result in higher figures for mortality and he argues for the
encouragement of agriculture and free trade. Antoine Diannyère was educated in medicine but
occupied himself with literature and economics. This text, a lecture held before the
Institut on
27 March 1796, was included - with a slightly different title - in the
Collection de divers ouvrages
d'arithmétique politique issued the same year (INED 2690, also including contributions by
Lavoisier, Bénard and La Grange), and also as the first essay in the author's
Essais
d'arithmétique politique of 1799 (INED 1410). Rare.
DU FRESNE DE FRANCHEVILLE, Joseph
(1704-1781) Histoire générale et
particulière des finances, où l'on voit l'origine, l'établissement, la perception & la
régie de toutes les impositions: dressée sur les pièces autentiques.
Paris, De
Bure l'aîné 1738. 3 volumes. 4to. [XX],938,[2]; [VIII],VIII,[2],1022,[2];
[XII],660,[1]p. Contemp. calf, gilt backs with labels, red edges. Light wear to extremities but a fine set.
(#14837) eur 4500
First (only)
edition. A very important source for the financial history of France, of which the third volume constitutes a
history of the
Compagnie des Indes, including a great number of facts and figures difficult to
find elsewhere. The present three volumes are the only published of a project for a complete history of
French finance planned on fourty volumes, compiled in an attempt to make an end to the difficulties with
the practice of the tariff.
The first two volumes give a detailed account of the tariff of 1664 for exportation (volume 1) and
importation (volume 2). The author treats, alphabetically arranged, hundreds of goods imposed (books,
clothing, drugs, gold, ivory, jewels, lace, matches, paintings, printing types, silver, wine, weapons, etc.
etc.). The first volume has an introductory history of duties imposed by earlier regulations since 1304.
The highly interesting third volume, with the half title
Histoire de la Compagnie des Indes avec les
titres de ses concessions & priviléges, deals completely with the French East India Company.
The actual history of the Company, its predecessors in the seventeenth century, the
Compagnie des
Indes Orientales founded by Colbert in 1664, remodelled in 1719 into the
Compagnie des
Indes by John Law, occupies the first part of the volume. The greater part of the volume (p.159-602)
is taken by documentary evidence: official documents, extracts from private memoirs, etc. The volume ends
with extensive indexes: a chronological index of facts and titles and alphabetical indexes of subjects, of
geographical names (with of course numerous references to Asia and America), and of persons.
This the chief work of the author, archeologist, poet and historian. He spent some time at the court of
Frederick II of Prussia and was a member of the Berlin Academy. He was befriended with Voltaire who
published the first edition of his
Siècle de Louis XIV under the name of his friend.
*Einaudi 1639. Kress 4380 (volume 3 only). INED 1533. Stourm p.38. Bourgeois & André 5918
(volume 1 and 2) ('a work of the highest order') & 6031 ('of capital importance'). Sabin 21147 (the third
volume).
Larousse du XIXe VIII,p.755.
[DU PUY, Bernard.]
Eclaircissement nouveau, sur le pre't et les intere'ts. Seconde edition. [Followed
by:] Dissertation sur le prest et la vente du bled, gasailles et bladades, qui peut servir d'addition
à l'éclaircissement du prest & interests, par le même auteur.
Toulouse,
P.Calac 1687. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo. 102; 43,[2]p. Contemp. calf, rubbed, wormhole in inner
margin. (#13563) eur 275
Second
edition of the main work, first edition of the second work. A plea for interest and the application of Roman
civil law relative to interest and usury. The main work, dedicated to the president of the parliament of
Toulouse, was published previously in 1680, the second work is an appendix to the first and hitherto
unpublished. The author's name appears in the approbation at the end of the volume.
*Kress S.1609 and S.1608. Kress S.1501 for the first edition of the main work.
FROUMENTEAU, N. pseud.
Le secret des finances de France, descouvert, & départi en trois livres par
N.Froumenteau, & maintenant publié, pour ouvrir les moyens legitimes & necessaires de payer les
dettes du Roy, descharger ses suiets des subsides imposez depuis trente un ans, & recouvrer tous les deniers
prins à sa Majesté.
[No place, no publisher] 1581. 3 parts in 1 volume.
[LVI],152; 1-472 [i.e. 456]; [VIII],439 [i.e. 435]p. Parts 2 and 3 with own titles. Part 2, pages 17-32
skipped, but without interruption in signature or text. Prelims of part 3 bound at end of part 2. Contemp.
vellum. A fine copy. (#15844) eur 1250
Second expanded edition. A very important source for the economic and
financial history of France during the years 1550-1580. It includes a wealth of detailed statistical
information on taxes, duties, population, etc. and is of particularly interest for its showing of the enormous
losses of France during the religious wars. Hauser praises the author for his professional approach, though
he adds that the statistical data should be used with care, and the book has also been praised by others as an
outstanding achievement in the field of statistics.
The first and second part were published earlier the same year under the title
Le secret des thresors de
France. The present edition includes a reprint of the first part of that edition, a much enlarged version
of the second part, and a completely new third part.
N.Froumenteau is supposed to be a pseudonym of a Huguenote writer, possibly Nicolas Barnaud, the
supposed author of the
Cabinet du Roy de France and
Réveille-matin des
François.
*Einaudi 5204. INED 1932. Kress 146. Hauser 2340. Coquelin & Guillaumin I,p.811/3. Hoefer
XVIII,p.952
GIRAUDEAU, Pierre. La banque
rendue facile aux principales nations de l'Europe. Suivie d'un nouveau traité de l'achat et de la
vente des matières d'or et d'argent: avec l'art de tenir les livres en parties doubles. Dernière
édition, absolument refondue ... et considérablement augmentée dans toutes les
opérations des changes, de commerce, de banque, d'arbitrages, etc. ... par une
Société de Négocians.
Lyon, de l'imprimerie d'A.Leroy 1793. 2
parts in 1 volume. 4to. VIII,LVI,460; [II],II,XII,[2],42,106,46p. With 2 folding tables. Contemp. calf, gilt
back with red label, extremities worn. (#16867) eur 500
A handbook for merchants of which the complete second part (with own half-title) is
dedicated to book-keeping. Originally published in 1740-41 various new editons appeared up to 1802.
*Historical Accounting Literature p.161 (and p.240 for an edition of 1749, p.159 for editions of 1756 and
1769, and p.161 for the last edition of 1802). EHB 1945 (and 1934 for the edition of 1769). Kress B.2526.
Einaudi 2596 for the first edition.
[GRAUMANN, Johann Philipp (1690-
1762)] Vernünftige Vertheidigung des Schreibens die teutsche und
anderer Völker Münz-Verfassung betreffend, der so genanten gründlichen Prüfung
desselben entgegen gesetzet. Nebst einem Anhange, worin die in der Erfahrung gegründete Ursachen
von dem Steigen und Fallen des Gold- und Silber-Preises, und dem darauf sich gründenden Steigen
und Fallen des Wechsel-Courses abgehandelt werden.
Berlin, Christian Friderich Voss 1752.
4to. [VIII],63,[1]p. Contemp. cream boards, back with ms. title. Stamp on verso of title, ms.
library entries on first paste-down and free endpaper. (#28970) eur 450
First (only) edition. Graumann has
been recognized as the greatest monetary theorist of his time in Germany, credited with the successful
reform of the monetary system in Brunswick and Prussia. He published an important treatise on the
currency system and the circulation of money, in fact a theoretical plan for devaluation, in 1749
(
Abdruck von einem Schreiben, die Deutsche und anderer Völcker Münz-Verfassung
betreffend). This was criticized by the Hannover merchant Julius Melchior Strube in 1751 and in the
present volume Graumann replies to this criticism. Much rarer than the author's earlier work.
*Kress S.3920. Humpert 11102. Masui p.802. OCLC does not locate any copy in the US.
[HERRENSCHWAND, Jean (1728-
1812)] De l'économie politique et morale de l'espèce
humaine.
Londres, de l'imprimerie de Cooper & Graham 1796. 2 volumes. 4to.
[XVI],258; [IV],333,[1 errata]p. Contemp. half calf, gilt backs with red and green labels, marbled
endpapers. A limited number of leaves browned. Old German library entries on half-titles. (#16282) eur 750
First edition. The major book of the
author, an economist characterized by Schumpeter as a 'late physiocrat ... perhaps not a physiocrat at all ...
but an able economist'. Jean Herrenschwand was a brother of the Swiss physician Johann Friedrich and he
is believed to have been a judge in the Swiss regiments in the French service, but that seems about all there
is known about him. Also published in 8vo the same year.
*Kress B.3197. Einaudi 2888. INED 2264bis. Schumpeter p.228 (quoting this and another work). Palgrave
II,p.302 (erroneously dating the present work 1786). Spengler p.290-296.
HIRZEL, Hans Karl (1725-
1803) Le Socrate rustique, ou description de la conduite
économique et morale d'un paysan philosophe. Traduit de l'Allemand ... par un officier suisse au
service de France; et dédié à l'Ami des hommes. Seconde édition,
corrigé & augmentée.
Zürich, Heidegguer 1764. 408p. Contemp.
calf, back richly gilt with red label, marbled endpapers, red edges. A very bright copy. (#23148) eur 450
Third and best edition. Hirzel was a
Swiss physician and philosopher with ideas closely related to the Physiocrats. Carpenter states that the
present book, which describes the model farm of the farmer-philosopher Jacob Gouyer, was 'the most
succesful German socio-economic work of the 18th century'. It was written in German and originally
published in 1761, but became widely known through the French translation, also used for the English
translation annotated by Arthur Young. Whereas the original French edition of 1762 and an edition of the
next year counted 208 pages only, the present 'second' (but actually the third) edition has important
additions, including a correspondence with the marquis de Mirabeau to whom the book was dedicated. The
translator has been identified as J.R. Frey des Landres. *Carpenter, Dialogue 15. Kress has the third edition
of 1768 (6561) only. Einaudi has an edition of 1777 and an English translation.
[LA SALLE DE L'ETANG, Simon Philibert
(c.1700-1765)] Prairies artificielles, ou moyens de
perfectionner l'agriculture dans toutes les provinces de France, surtout en Champagne, par l'entretien & le
renouvellement de l'engrais. Troisième édition, augmentée 1e. d'un traité sur
la culture de la luzerne, du trefle & du sainfoin; 2e. d'une dissertation sur l'exportation du bled.
Bruxelles, et se trouve à Paris, Desaint & Saillant 1762. Small 8vo. 330p.
Contemp. calf, gilt back with label. (#14878) eur 225
Third and best edition. A treatise on 'artificial pastures' and other means to improve
agriculture, originally published in 1756 as a volume counting 124 pages only. In the present third edition
the original essay is followed by two other treatises, of which the first deals with the culture of clover, and
the second with the exportation of corn.
La Salle de l'Etang was an official of the city of Reims and deputy at Paris, and author of a popular
Manuel d'agriculture. His formula for a balanced partition of the soil between arable land and
'artifical pastures' was adopted by Quesnay in his famous article
Grains for the
Encyclopédie.
*Higgs 2666. INED 2659. This edition not in Kress or Goldsmiths'. Weulersse I,p.341 and p.XXVII,
listing the
Manuel d'agriculture mentioned above and the first edition of the present work, a
'brochure' slightly erroneously quoted as
Eloge des prairies artificielles.
Quesnay et la
Physiocratie p.481.
LE TROSNE, Guillaume-François
(1728-1780) De l'administration provinciale, et de la
réforme de l'impôt.
Basle, et se trouve à Paris, Pierre J.Duplain 1788.
2 volumes. [IV],XVI,605; [IV],556p. Contemp. calf, gilt backs with red label, marbled
endpapers, red edges, minor wear to extremities. Old names on titles blacked out. (#12959) eur 1250
Second enlarged edition,
posthumously published. A treatise on the project for the creation of a provincial administration in France,
urged by the problematic collection of taxes. It discusses the vices of the present system of taxation, which
took more than half of its yield, and argues for the taxation of the
produit net.
Le Trosne, sometimes written as
Letrône initially occupied himself with the study of
natural law but after his acquaintance with Quesnay became a folllower of the Physiocrats. The present book
was seized shortly after its first publication in 1779. This second edition is enlarged with two pieces
(volume 2, p.438-546):
Dissertation sur la féodalité and
Manière de
simplifier le plan proposé.
*Kress B.1438. Goldsmiths' 13644. Einaudi 3357. INED 2867. Peignot II,p.164.
[LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henri (1736-
1794)] Théorie des loix civiles, ou principes fondamentaux de la
société.
Londres [Paris] 1767. 2 volumes. 12mo. [IV],496; [IV],528p.
Contemp. calf, backs richly gilt with red labels, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, minor defects at
backs. A very nice copy. (#16192) eur 1500
First edition. A refutation of Montesquieu and the theories of the Physiocrats, and one
of the major achievements of early socialist thinking. Linguet's book was highly praised by among others
Karl Marx, particularly because of the theses developed in the second book
On the origin of
laws. 'Linguet wrecked Montesquieu's illusory
esprit des lois with a single word: the
esprit des lois is property' (note to
Das Kapital). 'Moreover, occupying himself
almost entirely with the fate of living people, workers and peasants, and analyzing the mechanism of their
condition, he (Linguet) stands much nearer to the modern industrial socialists than to the first French
socialist school, and he is one of the few writers before 1789 of whom could be said with good reason, that
he is more a predecessor of Karl Marx, than an ancestor of Fourier or Cabet' (Lichtenberger).
*Kress 6459. Einaudi 3420. INED 2930. Lichtenberger p.288-305.
MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de (1709-
1785) Doutes proposés aux philosophes économistes sur
l'ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques.
La Haye, et se trouve à
Paris, chez Nyon & Durand 1768. 12mo. VIII,316p. Contemp. calf, neatly rebacked, old back
strip essentially laid down, gilt tooled initials on both sides, marbled edges and endpapers. (#14377) eur 375
First edition. A refutation of the
doctrines of the Physiocrats as they were exposed the previous year by Mercier de la Rivière. It
rejects the attitudes of the economists towards property and argues for equal conditions and collective
property. It particularly contributed to the reputation of the abbé de Mably as a precursor of
communism.
*Kress 6576. Einaudi 3555. INED 2991. Tchemerzine-Scheler IV,p.251. Lichtenberger p.229. Weulersse
I,p.XXVIII.
[MIRABEAU, Victor de Riquetti de
(1715-1789)] Théorie de l'impot.
[No place]
1761. 12mo. VIII,422p. Contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, gilt back with green label,
marbled sides and endpapers. Some staining through title and margins of first and last leaves, but a nice
copy. (#16852) eur 350
One of
various editions following the original quarto edition of the previous year. An exposition of Mirabeau's
economic ideas, the first book of his own after his conversion to Physiocracy.
*Carpenter XXI,4/5. Kress 5952. Einaudi 3947 (identifying this as second edition). INED 3209.
Tchemerzine-Scheler IV,p.751 a (the quarto edition) and b (the present edition).
MOLINAEUS, Carolus, or Charles du
Moulin (1500-1566) Tractatus commerciorum, contractuum,
et usurarum, redituumque pecunia constitutorum, et monetarum cum nova et analytica explicatione ...
Colinae Agrippinae [Cologne], apud Ioannem Gymnicum, sub Monocerote 1626.
(XXIV],1072p. With folding table between p.58/59. Contemp. vellum. Faint staining in the
beginning. Fine copy. (#24386) eur 1000
A famous criticism of the canonical prohibition of interest. The Paris jurist Molinaeus
agreed with his contemporaries about the existing regulations against the taking of interest, but 'he
distinguished himself with his clear conception of usury itself'. It was written with great freedom and
aroused a storm of protest. The book was put on the Index and its author was forced to leave France. The
first edition of 1546 is notoriously rare, there were two editions or issues in 1555, and various other
editions.
Molinaeus,C. - TAEUBER,W.
Molinaeus' Geldschuldlehre.
Jena 1928. V,90p. (#10078) eur 20
MONTCHRETIEN,A.DE.
Traicté de l'oeconomie politique, dedié en 1615 au roy et à la
reyne mère du roy. Avec introduction et notes par Th. Funck-Brentano. [At head: L'Economie
politique patronale.]
Paris, E.Plon, Nourrit et Cie 1889. CXVII,398p. Modern cloth,
back lettered gilt, orig printed wrappers preserved. (#21371) eur 175
NECKER, Jacques (1732-
1804) De l'administration des finances de la France.
[No place]
1784. 3 volumes. VII,CLIX,352; VII,536; VIII,468p. With folding table to volume 1.
Contemp. grey wrappers, backs with ms. title. Entirely uncut copy measuring 21,8 cm in fine general
condition. (#17722) eur 800
First edition, most likely first issue. 'The only authentic account of the
finances of France previously to the Revolution.' This was no doubt Necker's most successful book which
went through some 20 editions (or issues) within a few years, including translations into English, German
and some other languages. It is said to have sold 80.000 copies, though McCulloch addition 'in the course
of a few days' seems overdone.
Carpenter discriminates seven issues dated 1784, according to him all printed from the same type setting,
but differing in pagination and place and number of errata. The present issue fully agrees the description of
his first item (with respectively 12, 10 and 8 errata on the last preliminary page of each volume), but it
does not show the misnumbering of page VIII of the third volume. The second volume includes the
Supplément (p.533-536) referring to the edict of August 1784 which 'appeared since the
printing of the previous chapters'.
*Einaudi A582. Kress B.752-756. Carpenter XXIX,1. Coquelin & Guillaumin II,p.272. McCulloch p.347.
NEUMAYR VON RAMSSLA, Johann Wilhelm
(1572-1641) Von Schatzungen und Steuren sonderbahrer
Tractat.
Schleusingen, Jacob Hoffmann 1632. 4to. [XII],603,[4]p. with errata on last
p. Title-page printed in black and red with a fine contemporarily handcoloured engraving with a 6-line
verse. Engraved portrait of the author by J.Dürr. Well-bound in modern (but not recent) vellum, back
with ms. title. A corner of the title torn with loss of the last letter of the last line of the verse, the surname
of the publisher and the year (they however are repeated at the end of the volume), paper neatly repaired. A
corner of A2 (the first leaf of the dication) also torn and repaired with loss of the last (recto) and first
(verso) words of most lines, partly added by an old hand. A few marginal repairs, occasionally unobtrusive
worming, some tiny burn holes, else bright and with ample margins. (#24247) eur 3000
First (only) edition. A treatise on
public finances and taxation which counts among the earliest works of its kind in Germany. It is divided
into nine chapters which treat subjects like: the reasons why a ruler can decide to impose taxes, the
advantages of taxes for both the ruler and his subjects, but also the harm that can be done by it, what a
ruler should consider when he wants to impose taxes, what subjects could and even should do if the tax
burden becomes exceedingly high, etc.
The engraving on the title page (12,6 x 6,8cm) depicts a prosperous town and ditto countryside and the
allegorical verse explains that a ruler should impose moderate taxes on poor people in order to enable them
to give more, as a good shepherd who shaves the wool but not the entire skin.
The author Johann Wilhelm Neumayr von Ramssla (his name seems to be written with many variants) was
in the service of the dukes of Saxe-Weimar and the present book has a long dedication, actually a kind of
introduction, to them. He accompanied the younger duke John Ernest during his travels to France, England
and Holland and wrote an account of these travels, and also wrote an account of his travels through Italy
and Spain, published in 1622 by Hans Chilian Neumaier von Ramssla.
*Humpert 441 (with a slightly variant title but without location). Not in Kress, Goldsmiths', Einaudi,
Graesse, etc. GBV locates 6 copies in German libraries. No copy in OCLC.
ONCKEN, August (1844-
1911) Geschichte der Nationalökonomie. Erster Teil [all
published]: Die Zeit vor Adam Smith.
Leipzig, C.L.Hirschfeld 1902. Large 8vo.
IX,[1],516p. With 2 folding facsimiles of Quesnay's Tableau économique. Modern
boards, orig. printed wrappers (somewhat frayed) preserved, back lettered black. (Hand- und Lehrbuch der
Staatswissenschaften in selbständigen Bänden. Erste Abteilung: Volkswirtschaftslehre. II.
Band.)(#23383) eur 225
First edition.
A history of economic analysis from the earliest times through mercantilism to the origins and development
of Physiocracy. Oncken was professor of economics at the University of Bern and is particularly known for
his edition of Quesnay's writings (1888) which greatly contributed to the renewed interest in Physiocracy.
*New Palgrave III,p.708.
[PHOONSEN, Johannes (1631-
1702)] Berichten en vertoogen, raackende het bestier van den omslagh
van de wissel-banck tot Amsterdam. Ingestelt door J.Ph.
Amsterdam, Jan Bouman 1677.
3 parts in 1 volume. [XVI],[2],62,87,[1],86p. Contemp. vellum. A very nice copy. (#29710)
eur 2250
First (only) edition. These
Memoirs and recommendations relating to the Amsterdam exchange bank are among
the
best that has been written on financial matters in Holland in the seventeenth century. The author was
an esteemed authority on matters of commerce and finance, a man of great discernment and erudition, often
consulted by the Amsterdam authorities, particularly when the exchange bank, guaranteed by the city, was
involved. Of his many advises in this field the present three are the only printed, but others remain in
manuscript. The author, whose reputation apparently has not suffered from the fact that he had been a
'book-keeper' in the service of an Amsterdam merchant after he had failed as a merchant on his own
account, is best known for an often reprinted handbook on bill-broking
Wissel-styl tot
Amsterdam, first published in 1676.
The first of these advises is a plea for the establishment of a 'bank-courant', thus enabling merchants to
keep a bank account in currency. The second part contains measures for bettering the security of the bank,
no doubt provoked by serious cases of fraud that had happened the last years. The third part contains
various other recommendations for improvements in the operating and services of the bank, i.a. a proposal
for the pawning of specie and bullion.
*Rare. (According to Van Dillen in 1921 'nowadays very rare'.) EHB 1921. NCC locates 3 copies
(Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Tilburg). Not in BL, NUC, Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. At length: J. van
Dillen,
Een boek van Phoonsen over de Amsterdamsche wisselbank, in: Economisch-historisch
jaarboek VII, 1921.
Preceded by:
Jaques LE MOINE DE L'ESPINE (?-1696)
Den koophandel van Amsterdam, of verhandeling van deszelfs wissel-bank, wissel-handel, bank van
leeninge, Oost en West-Indische maatschappyen ... Amsterdam, Pieter Sceperus 1704. [VIII],212,[3]p. With
an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J.Lamsvelt.The preceding work: Second Dutch edition of a famous
handbook for merchants, the mostly used work of its kind in Amsterdam during the eighteenth century.
There are chapters on bills of exchange, the banks of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the pawnshop,
manufactures of Holland, weights, measures and the coinage, the East and West Indian Companies, the
Greenland fishery, foreign trade (Russia, Norway, the Baltic, Germany, Flanders, England, Scotland and
Ireland, France, Spain, the Spanish West Indies, Portugal, and Italy and the Levant), local taxation, and
practical information about the corn trade, broking, inland navigation, etc. Jacques le Moine de l'Espine
was a French protestant refugee who established in Amsterdam about 1679 as a 'merchant and print dealer'.
He published his work for the first time in 1694, then a volume counting 89 pages only, both in French and
in Dutch. Various expanded editions, since 1714 by Isaac le Long and since 1727 with a second volume,
appeared in the eighteenth century, until the last edition of 1801/2 in four volumes. *EHB 344. Kress has
the first and the sixth edition.
QUESNAY, François (1694-
1774) Essai phisique sur l'oeconomie animale.
Paris, Guillaume
Cavelier 1736. Small 8vo (in 12mo's). [VIII],LVI,[20],296,[15]p. Contemp. calf, gilt back
with label, marbled endpapers, red edges. With old printed bookplate on inside front and 2 old names on
title. (#20040) eur 1750
First edition.
It is generally agreed that Quesnay's fysiological studies formed the basis for his later economic studies,
showing the ulterior development of his practical philosophy or, which is the same for Quesnay, of his
economic philosophy. The present work has a much broader view than Quesnay's other medical books
which merely dealt with problems of the medical practice. 'The
Essai physique is ... an
examination of the necessary scientific basis. With great honesty he exerts himself to assess the results of
contemporary knowledge in the field of chemistry, fysiology and the mental sciences'. *Kress S.3524.
Goldsmiths' 7346. Quesnay et la Physiocratie I,p.207 & 302.
QUESNAY,F. Oeuvres
économiques et philosophiques de F.Quesnay, fondateur du système physiocratique,
accompagnées des éloges et d'autres travaux biographiques sur Quesnay par
différents auteurs. Publiées avec une introduction et des notes par Auguste Oncken.
Francfort s/M, J.Baer & Paris, J.Peelman 1888. [II],XXVII,814,[1]p. Contemp. half
cloth, back lettered gilt, marbled sides. (#19405) eur 350
First edition. The first part (p.3-142) includes biographical contributions by Mirabeau,
d'Albon, a.o. The second part (p.145-718) contains the economic works, including the famous articles
Fermiers and
Grains from the
Encyclopédie, the
Analyse du
tableau économique of 1758, and numerous extracts from the
Journal de
l'agriculture and the
Ephémerides du citoyen, including the important article
Despotisme de la Chine. The third part (p.721-814) contains the philosophical works, including
the
Essai physique sur l'économie animale and a bibliography of the works of Quesnay.
*Einaudi 4589.
[RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas François
(1713-1796)] Histoire philosophique et politique des
établissemens & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes.
Geneve, chez les
Libraires associés 1775. 3 volumes. 4to. [IV],IV,[X],719; [IV],VIII,662;
[IV],VIII,658p. With portrait of the author, 7 plates, 3 vignettes and 4 folding maps. Contemp. calf, backs
richly gilt with red labels, gilt triple-line borders on all sides, gilt edges. A very attractive copy. (#17426)
eur 2000
First 4to-edition. An
esteemed edition of Raynal's popular description of the colonization of Asia and America, a large part of
which is said to have been written by Diderot. Originally published in 1770 the work was in spite of
various condemnations issued again over fifty times.
Raynal's penetrating bibliographer Anatole Feugère notices that the present edition is preferable for
both typographical and textual reasons. Typographically this edition is nicer than the 4to edition of 1780, its
characters being more handsome and its engravings more carefully executed. For textual reasons the present
edition should be preferred because it contains a number of passages of the original text which were
suppressed in other editions.
*Feugère 40. Sabin 68080. Kress 7157. Peignot II,p.71-74.
Recueil de réglemens pour les corps et
communautés d'arts et métiers, commençant au mois de
février 1776.
Paris, P.G.Simon 1779. 4to. 287p. With a fine vignette at head
of p.3. Contemp. marbled calf, back richly gilt, gilt triple-line borders on both sides, red edges. A fine
copy. (#31933) eur 1250
First (only)
edition. A collection of official documents relating to the dissolution of the craft guilds by Turgot, and their
partial revival after Turgot's fall as minister of finance.
The famous preamble has been recognized as
among the most important statements in political economy. Turgot here declares man's fundamental
right to free labour: 'God, by giving to man wants, and making his recourse to work necessary to supply
them, has made the right to work the property of every man; and this property is the first, the most sacred
and the most imprescriptible of all'. It has been noted that this preamble includes arguments against trade
corporations similar to those used the same year by Adam Smith in the tenth chapter of the first book of the
Wealth of nations.
The function of the guilds or
jurandes was to maintain the interests of their members by limiting
the admission of new members, regulating the length of apprenticeship and the issue of
lettres de
maîtrises to those who were qualified for membership. Though the system procured some
security for quality they also prevented free competition and caused increase in prices.
In the beginning of 1776 Turgot presented his famous six edicts to the King. The first contained the
abolishment of the
corvées, the second, third, fifth and sixth the suppression of various
taxes and tolls. The important fourth edict contains the suppression of the guilds, preceded by an important
preamble. Turgot's proposals were accepted by the King, but the parliament refused their registration, and a
lit de justice was needed to compel their submission. It procured Turgot the animosity of many,
and intrigues against him lead to his dismissal shortly after.
The present volume starts with the text of the fourth edict, the
Edit du Roi, portant suppression des
jurandes & communautés de commerce, arts & métiers of February 1776 (p.3-22),
with Turgot's famous 10-page preamble. This edict is followed by several other edicts and numerous
arrêts du Conseil d'Etat du Roi restoring the old corporations, though in a more liberal
sense: the edict of August ordering the establishment of the
Six Corps and 44 other
corporations, the
Lettres-patentes du Roi inviting tenders for supplying the court, the
Déclaration du Roi ordering the establishment of a
Syndic for the free
professions, the
Déclaration du Roi en faveur des artisans du Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine,
the edict reforming the corporations in Lyons, the similar edict for the other towns, the
Déclaration du Roi concerning the pharmacists and chemists, etc.
*Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. OCLC locates 3 copies in US libraries. Coquelin & Guillaumin
II,p.777ff.
Recueil van alle de placaten, ordonnantien, resolutien,
instructien, lysten en waarschouwingen, betreffende de admiraliteyten, convoyen, licenten, en verdere zee-
saaken. Volume 1-11 [of 12].
's-Gravenhage, Jacobus (2), Paulus & Isaac
Scheltus 1701-73. 10 volumes. 4to. Together approx. 10 000p. Contemp. vellum. A well-
bound and bright set from the famous library of J.W.Six. (#25893) eur 3650
A very rare almost complete
set of the major source for Dutch maritime history. It contains over 3000 documents published in the
Republic from 1597 to 1771, including numerous documents relating to the Dutch East and West Indies
Companies. Each volume has an alphabetical and a chronological index.
The first volume was published earlier about 1689, the other volumes are published here for the first time.
An (apparently very rare) twelfth and last volume was published in 1780. *According to the NCC only the
University of Groningen has a complete (12-volume) set, the Navy Staff at The Hague and the Royal Naval
Institute at Den Helder both have the first 11 volumes, other Dutch libraries have the first 4 volumes at the
most. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths', Einaudi, EHB or Sabin.
ROUGIER-LABERGERIE, Jean Baptiste
(1759-1836) Essai politique et philosophique sur le
commerce et la paix, considérés sous leurs rapports avec l'agriculture.
Paris,
A.C.Forget 1797. XIX,479p. Contemp. pink waste paper, lower wrapper laid down to blue
paper. A bright copy with ample (though lightly frayed) margins. Moderate stamp from a German library to
title. (#23932) eur 500
First edition.
An ardent plea for free trade, particularly the free trade in grain, and European peace. 'Free trade increases
the income of the state and produces more wealth for the people ... it also means competition and hence
stable prices of bread, of wages and of everything'. The author then discusses the problems caused by the
present war with England and the benefits that peace would bring for all European nations, ending with a
'call to philosophers, poets, artists, etc. in favour of the peace'. Rougier, baron de La Bergerie, was prefect
of Yonne during the Empire and held various other public offices after the Restoration. He was a member
of several learned societies and author of many books and pamphlets most of which deal with subjects
related to agriculture.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths', though the author is represented there with other works. Not in Einaudi.
*INED 3929. Coquelin & Gaullaumin II,p.553.
SALMASIUS, Claudius (1588-
1653) De modo usurarum liber.
Lugd. Batavor. [Leyden], ex
officina Elseviriorum [B. & A.Elzevier] 1639. Small 8vo. [LVI],891,[92]p. Contemp.
overlapping vellum, spine ends little worn. (#33432) eur 500
First (only) edition. The second of
three works in which the author defended the taking of interest as an indemnity to the lender. Salmasius (or
Claude de Saumaise) was since 1632 successor of the famous Scaliger as professor in Leyden and one of the
best known adversaries of scholastic ideas. He was the most important writer in the debate on the taking of
interest of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Holland and wrote 3 books on that subject within 3
years:
De usuris liber (1638), the present one, and
Dissertatio de foenore trapezitico
(1640).
Laspeyres speaks highly of Salmasius, but Schumpeter thinks that 'so far as the history of economic analysis
is concerned ... even the most famous leaders on the anti-scholastic side such as Molinaeus or Salmasius had
nothing new to say'. *Willems 488. Kress 545. Dekkers p.151,2. EHB 2171. Schumpeter p.106. Laspeyres
B.108 & p.257.
SALMASIUS, Claudius (1588-
1653) Dissertatio de foenore trapezitico, in tres libros divisa.
Leiden, I.Maire 1640. Small 8vo. [CIV],820,[105]p. Nineteenth-century (?) half calf,
gilt back with black label, a bit rubbed but strong and sound. (#28254) eur 450
First (only) edition. The third of
three works in which the author defended the taking of interest as an indemnity to the lender. Salmasius (or
Claude de Saumaise) was since 1632 successor of the famous Scaliger as professor in Leyden and one of the
best known adversaries of scholastic ideas. He was the most important writer in the debate on the taking of
interest of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Holland and wrote 3 books on that subject within 3
years:
De usuris liber (1638),
De modo usurarum liber (1639), and the present one.
Laspeyres speaks highly of Salmasius, but Schumpeter thinks that 'so far as the history of economic analysis
is concerned ... even the most famous leaders on the anti-scholastic side such as Molinaeus or Salmasius had
nothing new to say'. *Kress 558. Dekkers p.151,3. Schumpeter p.106. Laspeyres B.109 & p.257. Not in
EHB.
SCHMALZ, Theodor Anton Heinrich
(1760-1831) Encyclopädie der
Cameralwissenschaften. Zum Gebrauch academischer Vorlesungen.
Königsberg, F.Nicolovius
1797. XII,228p. Modern boards, back lettered gilt. (#24100) eur 450
First edition. Schmalz was professor
of law at various universities and since 1810 rector of the University of Berlin. In politics he held absolutist
views and strongly supported the monarchy. In economics he was an opponent of Adam Smith but he
rejected protectionist tariffs and he was convinced that the doctrines of Quesnay would overcome and he
therefore has been called 'the last of the Physiocrats'. Haney notes that Schmalz, influenced by the
development of political economy in France and England, made cameralism to a science including all
matters pertaining to the property and income of the people, their acquirement and increase, and taxation. A
second edition of this was published in 1819, reissued in 1823. *Kress B.3500. Humpert 842. Palgrave
III,p.363. Haney p.149.
[SCHMID D'AVENSTEIN, Georg Ludwig
(1720-1805)] Principes de la législation universelle.
Amsterdam, M.M.Rey 1776. 2 volumes in 1. XX,389,[3]; [IV],474,[2]p. Contemp.
vellum, back with gilt calf label, small defect at foot. (#14809) eur 750
First edition. A treatise on social
organization and political economy which shows a remarkable resemblance to the theories of the
Physiocrats. Schmid (or Schmidt) was born in Avenstein (Switzerland) and for a long time councillor of the
Duke of Saxe-Weimar. He held relations with many of the French enlightened philosophers of his time,
including Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert.
In the present book the author states that a flourishing agriculture is a distinguishing mark for the prosperity
of a nation, as is an abundant population of which each individual member feels at ease. He favours private
property and inequality of wealth as inherent to the natural order, but rejects luxury, and pleads for direct
instead of indirect taxation. Moreover he argues for the promotion of the arts and sciences, for education
for all classes of society, which presumes liberty of thinking, speaking and writing, and for the
establishment of lasting peace.
*INED 4116 (at length). Einaudi A867. Not in Kress.
SCHMIDT, Johann Ludewig (1726-
1792) Ausführliche Abhandelung der strittigen Rechts-Frage: In
was für Münzsorten ist eine Geldschuld abzutragen? nebst einer Vorrede worin zugleich von
dem Nutzen der gemeinen Meinungen und einer genauern Bibliothek in der Rechtsgelahrheit gehandelt wird.
Jena, J.R.Cröcker 1763. 4to. [XX],338,[17]p. Contemp. grey boards. Neat
repair to title not affecting text. A very nice copy. (#34545) eur 375
First edition. A juridical treatise on
the question in which currency a money debt should be paid off. It is preceded by a short history of money
and an exposition of theory of money and it ends with a bibliographical survey of the subject. Schmidt was
'doctor of law at the Academy of Jena'. A second edition appeared in 1782. *Kress S.4319. Humpert
11167.
[SCHRöDER, Wilhelm von (1640-
1688/9)] Fürstliche Schatz- und Rent-Cammer ...
Leipzig,
verlegts Jacobus Gerdesius, zufinden bey Lorentz Sigmund Còrnern, Merseb[urg] Druckts Christ.
Gottschick ... 1686. Small 8vo. [XII],32,662,[4]p. With engraved allegorical frontispiece and
large folding table. Contemp. vellum. Blank corner of title cut, title underlaid with old paper with 18th-
century ms. dedication to verso. A bright copy. (#29184) eur 3500
First edition. One of the three major
works of older German cameralist school of economics, usually quoted with Becher's
Politische
Discurs of 1668 and Hoernigk's tract of 1684. Schröder was a German by birth but spent the
greater part of his life in Austria and Hungary as an administrator in the service of Leopold I, to whom this
volume is dedicated.
Cameralism as a specific German version of mercantilism was particularly concerned with the political and
economic phenomena of the territorial states. Its aim was an efficient and just administration, via a fiscal
policy and similar financial measures designed to fill the state's treasury, marked by an active and
paternalizing interference in society.
Like the other mercantilist writers the cameralists have been accused of the error of confusing money and
wealth. August Oncken (in Palgrave) notes that this does not seem completely justified for Schröder.
Schröder held that 'it is not the import and export of money, but the equilibrium of the different
trades which causes the wealth or poverty of a country'. In fact, Schröder was among the first of the
German mercantilists who distinctly supported the balance-of-trade theory. He supported free trade which he
regarded as 'the principal and the best means whereby a country may become rich'. Keynes has praised
Schröder for his arguments against the opinion of other mercantilists who advocated the accumulation
of state treasure as a means for the enhancing of the power of the state. Schröder however 'employed
the usual mercantilist arguments in drawing a lurid picture of how the circulation in the country would be
robbed of all its money through a greatly increasing state treasury' (
General theory, p.344).
It has been noticed that this work shows the profound influence of its author's visits to England, where he
became acquainted with among others Thomas Hobbes, William Petty and Robert Boyle, and that it betrays
considerable indebtness to Thomas Mun, even though he does not mention that illustrious author.
There were at least 7 later editions, but no translations. *Kress S.1603. Humpert 84. Carpenter VII,1.
Goldsmiths' has an edition of 1704 only. Not in Einaudi. Zielenziger p.295-334. Palgrave III,p.365.
SONNENFELS, Joseph von (1733-
1817) Politische Abhandlungen.
Wien, gedrukt und zu finden,
bey Joseph Edlen von Kurzböck 1777. Small 8vo. [X],434p. Modern boards, back
lettered black. A nice copy. (#23540) eur 450
First edition. Sonnenfels was professor of police and cameral sciences in Vienna and
together with Justi the major figure in Austrian eighteenth century cameralism. He held several high offices
in the Austrian administration and also was involved in the reform of the penal system and in various
philanthropic activities. His
Grundsätze der Polizey, Handlung und Finanzwissenschaft (2
volumes 1765-67) has been used as an official textbook for decades. Sonnenfels represented 'an improved
version of the mercantilist theory ... in several respects superior to Justi'.
The present volume, published and with a preface by J. de Luc(c)a, collects various essays which are
contradictory to the title mostly concerned with economic and social matters. It opens with an (untitled)
essay 'on the first principles of trade'; the other essays have own half-titles:
Versuch über das
Verhältiss der Stände (Essay on the relations between the ranks in society), Vom Mauth und
Zollwesen (On duties and customs), Ueber das Wort Bevölkerung (On population), Vom
Zusammenflusse (On markets), and
Von der Theurung in grossen Städten und dem Mittel
derselben abzuhelfen (On the increase in prices in the cities and the means for recovery). *Kress
B.84. Humpert 975. Palgrave III,p.446. Schumpeter p.171.
Turgot,A.R.J. - [DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre
Samuel (1739-1817)] Mémoires sur la vie et les
ouvrages de M. Turgot, ministre d'état.
Philadelphie [i.e Paris] 1782. 2 parts
in 1 volume. VIII,[2],148; 268p. With errata on p.III-VIII and an extra errata leaf; the errata have been
corrected in ms. Contemp. gilt calf, slightly defective. Printed on heavy bluish paper. (#12952) eur 1150
First edition. 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
corvées 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.
*Kress B.459. Goldsmiths' 12250. INED 1610. Not in Einaudi. Weulersse I,p.XXXI.
Turgot,A.R.J. - LUNDBERG,I.C.
Turgot's unknown translator. The Réflexions and Adam Smith.
The Hague 1964. VIII,122p. (#19489) eur 15
ULLOA, Bernardo de (1682-
1740) Retablissement des manufactures et du commerce d'Espagne.
Ouvrage divisé en deux parties: La premiere, qui considere principalement les manufactures
d'Espagne. La seconde, qui traite de son commerce maritime. Traduit de l'Espagnol ...
Amsterdam,
et se trouve à Paris, Estienne 1753. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. [VI],139,235p.
Contemp. calf, back richly gilt with label, marbled endpapers, red edges, back and corners little defective.
(#16876) eur 350
First French edition.
A treatise on Spanish industry, commerce and trade of which the second part treats the trade to America.
Translated after the original Spanish edition of 1740 by Plumard de Dangeul.
*Kress 5315. Sabin 97691. Higgs 492. Einaudi has the Spanish edition only.
VAUBAN, Sébastien le Prestre de
(1633-1707) Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la
taille, les aydes, les doüanes d'une province à l'autre, les décimes du clergé,
les affaires extraordinaires; & tous autres impôts onereux & non volontaires ...
[No place]
1708. 12mo. XVI,272p. With 4 folding tables. Contemp. calf, gilt back, little rubbed, label
and free endpapers gone, sprinkled edges. Inside bright and clean. (#30354) eur 350
One of many editions published in
1707/8. *Carpenter X,9.
VAUBAN,S.LE PRESTRE DE.
Projet d'une dixme royale, suivi de deux écrits financiers. Publiés
d'après l'édition originale et les manuscrits, avec une introduction et des notes par
E.Coornaert.
Paris 1933. LVI,296p. With 4 plates. Orig. printed wrappers.
Presentation copy signed by Coornaert. (Collection des principaux économistes. Nouvelle
édition.) (#22619) eur 50
WARD, Bernardo (?-1762/3)
Proyecto económico, en que se proponen varias providencias, dirigidas
á promover los intereses de Espana, con los medios y fondos necesarios para su plantificacion:
escrito en el ano de 1762. Obra postuma. Tercera impresion.
Madrid, D. Joachîn Ibarra 1782.
4to. [IV],XXVIII,319,LXXXp. Contemp. vellum, neat repair to top of back, new endpapers.
Old scraped ownership's entry in ink on title. A few leaves lightly browned, but a bright copy. (#29212)
eur 500
