GRIVEL, Guillaume.

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Mélanges de philosophie et d'économie politique. First edition, unopened in the original wrappers, of this scarce collection of political essays, published shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution. The folding table analyses the commercial yields of a forest of 10,000 trees.Guillaume Grivel (1735-1810), a prolific essayist, Encyclopédiste, and physiocrat, corresponded with Benjamin Franklin and was nominated by him to the American Philosophical Society in 1790.

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