FISCHER, Heinrich August.

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Versuch einer historisch-pragmatischen Beschreibung des alten deutschen Oekonomie, und des, in der Folge der Zeit, daraus erwachsenen deutschen fürstlichen Kammerwesens. First edition of Fischer's history of the old German economy from the earliest times, and of the recent development of Cameralism, comprising a valuable survey of the historical literature from the 17th century onwards. Including treatises on agriculture, arts and manufactures, as well as law and Fischer gives a 126-page bibliography, two columns per page, "Repertorium von denen zum Oekonomie und Cameralwesen gehörigen Schriften und Abhandlungen", with sections on calculation, farming, poor and poor houses, construction, forestry, mining, population, bee-keeping, brewing, bookkeeping, calendars, cameralism, canals, commerce, compensation, contracts, duties, evictions, exemptions and expenses, factories, dyeing, surveying, finance, fisheries, rivers, gardening, coinage, corn, mortgages, hunting, incorporation, interest, merchandise, lending, pawnbroking, liquidation, weights and measures, markets, monopolies, milling, economic subjects, obligations, horses, planting, policy, prescription, procuration, receipts, restitution, salt, sheep, shipping, smelting, damages, silk, sequestration, silver, coal, taxes, streets, taxation, toleration, textiles, usury, livestock, water, wine, purchasing, widows, tolls, etc. Many titles are in Latin, with others in German (Becher, Dithmar, Gasser, Justi, Marperger, etc), Frenc

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