L’Ami des Hommes, ou Traité de la Population

by Victor de Riquetti Mirabeau, Marquis de, François Quesnay

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First edition

Six parts bound in two vols. Large 4to, cont. polished mottled calf, spines nicely gilt. Avignon, 1756-1758- 1760 . First edition of all six parts, and a fine copy, of one of the great classics of political economy. This work marks the birth of the physiocratic school and contains the first appearance on a large scale of the “Tableau Economique” of Quesnay portions of Quesnay’s work had been privately printed in a few copies only at the palace

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