Author: Droz, Joseph.
Title: Économie politique ou principes de la science des richesses.
Description: Bruxelles, Librairie Le Charlier, 1829. Hardcover. Four books in one volume. Small octavo. Pp. xvi, 365. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full leather, spine gilt, with the original printed wrappers laid-down. Handsome, untrimmed copy in general fine condition (light sporadic foxing). ~ First Bruxelles edition. The Paris edition (Jules Renouard) appeared earlier that year. Later editions appeared in 1837, 1841, 1846, 1854, and 1874. Francois Xavier Joseph Droz (1773-1850), French economist and historian. His "Économie politique" contains the widely-quoted remarks, "Certain economists seem to think that products are not made for men, but that men are made for products" and "Capital left to itself is an idle toll." Of his historical writings, "Histoire du regne de Louis XVI" (1839) is well known. Palgrave 1894-1901. Goldsmith 25751. Kress C.2268. Not in Einaudi. KVK lists copies in British Union Catalog, Union Catalog of Canada, National Library of Australia, and Library Network of Western Switzerland only. Four other copies are located in Germany (Union Catalogs Hesse, Northern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria), OCLC 10574462 (all with reference to the French edition). I-2 OUT .

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