QUESNAY, François - DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel (ed.).

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Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement le plus avantageux au genre humain. Second edition of this collection of texts by Quesnay, issued as volumes one and two of a six-volume collection of Physiocratic texts published in Yverdon to promote Physiocratic thought. The text is an almost identical reprint of the original Leiden edition published the year before.This copy is extensively annotated in a contemporary hand, with pencil markings throughout and ink marginalia in French to over 90 pages. The annotations were made prior to binding and have been slightly trimmed in the binding process, but the sense is largely recoverable. Maddeningly, there is no indication of who the annotator was.

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