SMITH, Adam.

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Essais philosophiques. First edition in French, this a superior copy, preserving the half-titles and the fine portrait frontispiece, often missing."The writings that Joseph Black and James Hutton brought together in 1795 under the title Essays on Philosophical Subjects, together with Dugald Stewart's 'Account' and Smith's 1755 letter to the Edinburgh Review, were translated and published by Pierre Prévost as Essais philosophiques in 1797. Prévost added ten notes in the form of commentary directed to specific points, as well as a more general essay 'Reflexions sur les oeuvres posthumes d'Adam Smith'" (Tribe).

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