152 - [LA PORTE (Abbé J.-Barthélemy de)]. Theological, Canonical, and Civil Principles on Usury, Applied to Commercial Loans Between Merchants, to the Trading of All Types of Securities, and in General to All Interest on Money: With Six Letters to a Friend, in Response to a Work Recently Published Under the Title: Treatise on Commercial Loans or on Legitimate and Illegitimate Interest on Money.

[LA PORTE (Abbé J.-Barthélemy de)]. Theological, Canonical, and Civil Principles on Usury, Applied to Commercial Loans Between Merchants, to the Trading of All Types of Securities, and in General to All Interest on Money: With Six Letters to a Friend, in Response to a Work Recently Published Under the Title: Treatise on Commercial Loans or on Legitimate and Illegitimate Interest on Money. Paris, Delevacque, 1769, 3 volumes in-12, LXXXII-458 pp. - XII-536 pp. - VIII-571 pp.-2ff. Bound in marbled fawn calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with gold-lined panels, gold tassels and palmettes, title labels, red edges. (Contemporary bindings). - A fine copy, in very fresh condition, but missing the fourth volume. “The aim is to combat the new endeavors of the human mind and the refinements of a greed that assumes an air of triumph unprecedented in history” (preface). Bibliographies list a fourth volume, published in 1772. (Barbier III, col. 1040—Quérard IV, p. 551—Einaudi II, p. 483 does not cite this title—Dictionnaire des Lettres II, p. 43—not in Cioranescu).