123 - COSTAZ (Claude-Anthelme). Essay on the Administration of Agriculture, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Food Supplies. Followed by a History of the Factors That Led to the Great Boom in the Arts from 1793 to 1815.

COSTAZ (Claude-Anthelme). Essay on the Administration of Agriculture, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Food Supplies. Followed by a History of the Factors That Led to the Great Boom in the Arts from 1793 to 1815. Paris, Madame Huzard, March 1818, in-8, 419 pages in total. Paperback, plain blue paper cover, entirely untrimmed, printed label. (Condition as published). Fresh copy. A brown stain in the upper margin of the last few leaves. First edition. Agro-economic issues; the grain trade; granaries of plenty; the price of bread... Regulation and arbitration in craft and industrial matters: trademarks and industrial property; freedom to practice professions; apprenticeships; steam and hydraulic engines; general economics; savings and provident funds; “newly discovered machines for the manufacture of cloth.” Included: - TATIN (A.). Reasoned and Practical Principles of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees, Alley Trees, and Forest Trees; Ornamental Shrubs and Bushes; Seeds, Roots, Vegetable Plants, and Legumes; Natural and Artificial Meadows... Fourth edition... Part One [only]. Paris, Published by the author, Mathiot, (c. 1815), 1 volume (of 2) in-8, VIII pp.—273 pp.—Frontispiece. Paperback, plain paper cover. (As published). – Worn cover. Volume 1, alone, of 2. It contains a brief farmer’s almanac and a dictionary of vegetable, cultivated, and ornamental plants. The colored frontispiece shows the flower and fruit of the bamia.