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5 works: - [MASSON (Philibert-Joseph)]. *Instruction des negocians, Tirée des Ordonnances, Edits, Déclarations, Arrêts, & des Usages recus*. New expanded edition. Blois, Published by the author, 1748, in-12, 2 parts with continuous pagination: 4ff.-388pp. Speckled fawn calfskin, smooth decorated spine, title label, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). - A fine copy. The author was a printer and bookseller in Blois. Details on bankers, stockbrokers, merchants’ wives, companies, ledgers, transfers, discounts, creditors... At the end of the volume are templates for bills of exchange and negotiable notes. (Barbier II, 932 for the first edition; Ined 3093 for the first edition—Einaudi, 3788 cites another work by this author). - [DUTOT (Charles)]. Political Reflections on Finance and Trade. In which we examine the effects of increases and decreases in the monetary value of currencies on revenues, commodities, foreign exchange, and, consequently, on our trade. Volume II [only]. The Hague, Vaillant & Prevost, 1738, in-12, 1f.-XIIpp.-456pp.- 8 folded tables. Contemporary brown calfskin binding, ribbed spine, richly decorated panels, red title labels, red edges. – Volume in good condition. - BARREME (François). The Book of Calculations, or Where One Finds the Calculations Performed by Multiplication, for the Value of Anything One Can Imagine, and to Whatever Sums They May Amount. New edition, carefully corrected and expanded... Clermont-Ferrand, Delcros, 1798, in-16, unpaginated. Marbled brown calfskin, smooth spine, red edges. (Contemporary binding). - Modest binding. - ANONYMOUS. The Most Humble Remonstrances of the Parliament to the King, dated April 9, 1753; to which have been appended: 1° an account of events demonstrating the system of independence that the Bishops have followed throughout the ages, and the necessity of putting an end to their enterprise... 2. A collection of ordinances issued by the kings of the three dynasties concerning evocations, interdictions... 3° A collection of the various rulings and decrees of Parliament... from December 16, 1752, until the suspension of the Inquiries and Petitions. 4° The King’s Declaration transferring the Grand Chamber to the city of Pontoise. No place or date, 1753, in-12, 1f.-8pp.-468pp. Bound in contemporary fawn half-basane, ribbed spine, decorated panels, title label, red edges. - A tear at the bottom of the front cover with some leather missing; otherwise in good condition. - PROYART (Abbé Liévain-Bonaventure). On Public Education, and the Means to Carry Out the Reform Proposed at the Last General Assembly of the Clergy of France. Paris, Hérissant, Barrois, 1785, in-12 (9.7 x 17.6 cm), XVI pp., 220 pages, 1 folio. Contemporary binding in fawn-colored sheepskin with grain, smooth spine with decoration, title label, marbled edges. - Slight water stain on the first few leaves and in the inner margins. First edition.