Pierre le Pesant de Boisguilbert, Le Détail de la France, un - Lot 116

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Pierre le Pesant de Boisguilbert, Le Détail de la France, un - Lot 116
Pierre le Pesant de Boisguilbert, Le Détail de la France, under the present reign. Augmented in this new edition of several Memoirs & Treatises, on the same subject. Sans lieu, 1707. 2 parts in 1 vol. petit in-8 of 276 pp. ; 264 pp., brown calf, spine decorated with nerves (contemporary binding). Edition described at length in Boisguilbert et la naissance de l'économie politique, p. 498: "Boisguilbert brought together in this edition, published before March 14, 1707, the most important of these earlier works and added new texts: Traité du mérite et des lumières de ceux que l'on appelle Gens habiles dans la Finance, ou Grands Financiers, et, Sentence du Châtelet de Paris, qui fixe le prix du pain". This edition differs from the previous ones, among other things by the addition of an extra comma to the title, the reunification of the two volumes into a single volume, the inclusion of the Sentence du Châtelet de Paris, which sets the price of bread in the first volume, and the pagination of the Supplement, which is integrated into the general pagination and is printed in the same body as the rest of the work. Good copy despite some minor flaws. Printing defect with a small gap in 2 leaves of Volume I (pp. 43-44 and 79-80).
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