PIERRE ANDRÉ ******. [ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES TURGOT, BARON DE L'AULNE].

Sur les finances. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André ******, fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr.*, curé D*.

Londres, 1775. Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 293. Charming woodcut device to title, end-piece to the Préface, and a large head-piece to the first page. Plus folding engraved grid-map of France, incorporating title within elaborate cartouche, and 4 other folding tables, all printed on deckle-edged rug paper. Hardcover, bound in recent full olive-green calf, gilt-stamped lettering to spine, faint armorial stamp to title. Excellent wide-margined, untrimmed deckle-edged copy, preserved in the original state. Overall in fine condition, crisp folding plates.
¶ First edition. Based on a much quoted manuscript note in the Library of Congress' 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]') the book is often attributed to Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (1727-1781), controller-general of France under Louis XVI. However, the attribution to Turgot is doubtful if not false. (For that matter see: Quérard: La France littéraire. Paris, Bibliothèque National, Catalogue géneral des livres imprimés; and also: Higgs, H. Bibliography of economics, 6403.) Also the imprint is false, and the book was probably printed in Paris or Amsterdam (see British Library Catalogue entry). COPAC lists just 4 copies in the UK (London School of Economics, University of London, National Library of Scotland, and British Library). KVK locates further copies in Library Network of Western Switzerland, National Library of France, and Union Catalogs Northern Germany and Canada. Other holdings are in microform only. Noteworthy, some of the copies listed have 3 plates only in addition the the map. Provenance: Bibliotheca Comitum de Goertz.

-- Librarium of The Hague

Book number: 3400

Catalogue: History of Economic Thought: Important Books on the Theory & History of Economics

Keywords: Economics economy economic economist wealth material labor labour finance social political cultural international history theory studies science industrialization industrialisation Wirtschaftswissenschaft Sozialwissenschaft Wirtschaftsgeschichte - -

TURGOT ANNE ROBERT JACQUES BARON D'AULNE - EUGÈNE DAIRE - HIPPOLYTE DUSSARD -

Oeuvres de Turgot. Nouvelle édition classée par ordre de matières avec les notes de Dupont de Nemours augmentée de lettres inédites des questions sur le commerce, et d'observations et de notes nouvelles par MM. Eugène Daire et Hippolyte Dussard et précédée d'une notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Turgot par M. Eugène Daire.

Paris, Guillaumin, 1844, 2 vols large in-8°, engraved frontispiece portrait + cxviii + 675 pp ; (4) + 844 pp. 19th century green half-morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt supralibro on frontcover (Stuttaford Collection), binding rubbed , corners a bit worn, inventory number in white ink on lower end of spine, but still a good copy. Published as tôme 3 and 4 in the series; '' Collection des Principaux Economistes'' (See Kress C.6500 , Goldsmiths 33121 , Einaudi 5770 ). This is the second publication of the complete works of Turgot. The first collected edition by Dupont in 1811 was considered by Daire, author of the present edition, as totally inadequate.." .

-- Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij

Book number: 6367

TURGOT [ANNE ROBERT JACQUES].

Oeuvres de Turgot. Nouvelle edition, classee par ordre de matieres avec les Notes de Duponz de Nemours. Augmentee de lettres inedites, des questions sur le commerce et d'observations et notes nouvelles par Eugene Daire. et Hippolyte Dussard et precede d'une notice sur la vie et les Ouvrages de Turgot par M. Eugene Daire.

Paris, Guillaumin 1844. gr.-8°, CXVIII, 675 S.; 844 S.; HLdrbde. d. Zt. auf 4 Blindbünden, m. Rückenvergold., marmor. Schnitt., berieb., Leder beschabt, an den Kap. kl. Läsuren, von Bd. I ist die hintere Rückenkante vom Buchblock geplatzt, Ecken bestoss., Leimschatten auf allen Vorsätzen, sauberes und gutes Exemplar.
¶ In Französisch. - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, baron de l’Aulne (1727-1781), französischer Staatsmann und Ökonom der Aufklärung, wird zur vorklassischen Ökonomie gezählt. Beschrieb die Grundzüge des Ertragsgesetzes.

-- Antiquariat Löcker

Book number: WIR0854

Catalogue: Wirtschaft

Keywords: Geschichte, Frankreich, Politik, Wirtschaft, History, France, Policy, Economy