[Industry]. Chamber of Commerce of Paris. Statistics of industry in Paris resulting from the survey made by the Chamber of Commerce for the years 1847-1848. Paris, Guillaumin, 1851. 3 parts in a large vol. in-4, 204 pp. [General results], [78] ff. [tables]; 1008 pp. [Results by industry], with a colored map, half red morocco, spine decorated with cold filets (period binding). A good copy. Uncommon, this monumental survey of the industrial activities of the capital was conducted only twice by the Paris Chamber of Commerce: in 1847-48 (publication in 1851); in 1860 (publication in 1864), at the time when France was (finally) beginning to be affected by the wave of industrialization of the first industrial revolution.

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