Ordre naturel et essentiel des soci?t?s politiques.
London and Paris: Chez Jean Nourse and Chez Desaint, 1767.
An Important and Representative Physiocratic Work
[LE MERCIER DE LA RIVI?RE, Pierre Paul]. L?Ordre naturel et essentiel des soci?t?s politiques. London: Chez Jean Nourse, Libraire; & se trouv? ? Paris, Chez Desaint, Libraire, 1767.
First quarto edition, published in the same year as the first (twelvemo) edition. (Measures 10 x 7 3/4 inches). [6], [viii], 511pp, [1,blank].
Contemporary French mottled calf, spine elaborately gilt-stamped with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers, all edges red. Previous owner's old ink notes on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped.
One of the most important French economic texts of the period, representative of physiocratic views and concepts. This work brought about the attack by Mably in his Doutes propos?s aux philosophes ?conomistes sur l?ordre naturel et essentiel des soci?t?s politiques (1768).
Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 3980. Goldsmiths? 10270. Higgs 3980. Kress 6475 (quarto edition). Marsh/Hollander 1992 (quarto edition). BM XV, p. 9, col. 468 (quarto edition).
HBS 66881.
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