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600 - SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [...]. New translation, with notes and observations [...]. Paris: H. Agasse, Year X—1802, 5 vols., in-8°: [4]-cxxvii-[1]-368-[1], [4]-493-[3 blank pages-1], [4]-564-[1], [4]-556-[1], [4]-588-[1] pp. (slight browning at the bottom of the half-title page of vol. I). Marbled, glossy calfskin of the period, rat-tooth pattern and wavy fillet encircling the covers, smooth spines adorned with gilt grotesque designs featuring green title labels and volume numbers, gilt chain on the edges, yellow endpapers speckled with red (slightly rubbed, some page corners partially split, corners somewhat rounded, spines slightly faded). A fine copy, fresh and with wide margins. First edition of the translation by economist Germain Garnier, and the definitive edition of this great classic, far superior to previous ones. Rare copy of the first printing, characterized by the presence of an errata sheet at the end of each volume, absent from the reprint published the same year; complete with the full-page frontispiece portrait, engraved by B.-L. Prévost. Ref. Brunet V:414. - Goldsmith 18412. - Kress B.4604. - Einaudi 5340.
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [...]. New translation, with notes and observations [...]. Paris: H. Agasse, Year X—1802, 5 vols., in-8°: [4]-cxxvii-[1]-368-[1], [4]-493-[3 blank pages-1], [4]-564-[1], [4]-556-[1], [4]-588-[1] pp. (slight browning at the bottom of the half-title page of vol. I). Marbled, glossy calfskin of the period, rat-tooth pattern and wavy fillet encircling the covers, smooth spines adorned with gilt grotesque designs featuring green title labels and volume numbers, gilt chain on the edges, yellow endpapers speckled with red (slightly rubbed, some page corners partially split, corners somewhat rounded, spines slightly faded). A fine copy, fresh and with wide margins. First edition of the translation by economist Germain Garnier, and the definitive edition of this great classic, far superior to previous ones. Rare copy of the first printing, characterized by the presence of an errata sheet at the end of each volume, absent from the reprint published the same year; complete with the full-page frontispiece portrait, engraved by B.-L. Prévost. Ref. Brunet V:414. - Goldsmith 18412. - Kress B.4604. - Einaudi 5340.
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