(Melon,J.F.).
Essai politique sur le commerce. Nouvelle édition augmentée de sep…

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(Melon,J.F.). Essai politique sur le commerce. Nouvelle édition augmentée de sept chapitres, & où les lacunes des éditions précédentes sont remplies. O. O. and Dr. (Paris) 1736. Cl.8°. 2 vols, 399 pp; leather binding with gilt spine and label, gilt edges and red edges. Goldsmiths 7371; Kress 4288; Einaudi 3821. - Probably the second legitimate edition; a pirated edition was published in Amsterdam in 1735 between the first version of 1734 and the present expanded edition. Main work of the French economist Jean François Melon (1675-1738), mastermind of the Physiocratic movement and secretary to John Law.

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