Jacob-Friedrich Von Bielfeld, Political Institutions. A La H - Lot 114

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Jacob-Friedrich Von Bielfeld, Political Institutions. A La H - Lot 114
Jacob-Friedrich Von Bielfeld, Political Institutions. A La Haye, chez Pierre Gosse Junior, 1760. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-4 of (4)-IV-(2)-358-(6) pp. and (6)-344-(6) pp., glazed Havana calf, spine decorated with nerves, red edges (contemporary binding). First edition. In this work of political economy, Bielfeld (1717-1770), German publicist, adviser to Frederick II of Prussia, wants to reduce politics to a system, to transform it into a science that can be taught. His work is divided into two parts: 1. everything that concerns the interior of a state: politics, laws, police, finance, manufacturing, trade, navigation, army, navy, its forces. 2. The State in general, and its relations with other Powers: The Political Conduct of Sovereigns, The Council of Ministers, Foreign Affairs, Alliances & Treaties, War & Peace, Political Calculus, The Decline of States. Remarkable study on population movements. Portrait of the Baron of Bielfeld in frontispiece drawn by F. Stein and engraved by Houbraken, mark of Pierre Gosse at the title and large vignette half-page at the head of the dedication to Prince Auguste Ferdinand of Prussia. 4 folding paintings : Second Table Containing the proportional quantity of those who died, in a Province, at each age of Human Life, & drawn up on the Parish Mortuary Extracts. Isle of France; Table One Containing the state of the Population of a Province by its increase & decrease for the Year 1759. Isle of France; Third Table, called in English The Table of Casualties, drawn up on the Registers of all the Parishes of a Province, & serving to show at a glance the proportional quantity of those who were carried away in the extent of this Province by the various species of Diseases which most commonly affect the Human Body, the progress, or the decrease, of each of these Diseases, the Violent Deaths, the Fortuitous Events, &c. the whole written in Alphabetical order. Year 1759. Isle of France; General Table, For the Population o
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