[BERTRAND (JEAN), INTER ALIA]: - Essays on the Spirit of Legislation, in the encouragement of Agriculture, Population, Manufactures, and Commerce. Containing Observations on the Political Systems at present pursued in various Countries of Europe, for the Advancement of those essential I
London: Printed for W. Nicoll....and G. Robinson..., 1772. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo, pp. xi [xii blank], 479 [480 blank], contemporary quarter cal, marbled boards, red morocco label; short tear in fore-margin of pp. 475 - 476 (text not affected), joints cracked. These three essays were originally published in Memoires de observations of the Societe Oeconomique de Berne (1772). Jean Bertrand (1708-1777) wrote the first essay; Benjamin Samuel Georges Carrard (1740 - c. 1796) the second; and Gabriel Seigneux de Correvon (1695-1776) the third. Kress 6860. Goldsmiths 10829. Higgs 5445.
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