BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

De l'esprit du gouvernement économique. First edition of the principal work of the French economist Paul Boesnier de l'Orme (1724-1793), "one of the most systematic and comprehensive expositions of economics of its period" (Higgs). This copy has the imprint of Delalaine; the Mattioli and Sraffa copies have the imprint of Debure: "no priority established" (Sraffa Library). It is both institutionally and commercially scarce as the book was "suppressed because it attacked the Fermieres Généraux" (Sraffa Library). Library Hub locates just four copies with the Delalain imprint in British and Irish institutional libraries (two at Cambridge, Senate House, and Sheffield), and WorldCat adds nine more worldwide.

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