228 - LE CHOYSELAT (Prudent). AN ECONOMIC TREATISE, no less useful than entertaining, demonstrating how, by investing five hundred livres at once, one can earn four thousand five hundred livres a year in honest profit—which is the way to make one’s money work for oneself [sic].

LE CHOYSELAT (Prudent). AN ECONOMIC TREATISE, no less useful than entertaining, demonstrating how, by investing five hundred livres at once, one can earn four thousand five hundred livres a year in honest profit—which is the way to make one’s money work for oneself [sic]. Paris, Cussac, Year IX. In-12, [4]-140 pages, aubergine half-maroquin with corner caps, decorated ribbed spine, gilt head (contemporary binding). This work is considered the first “business plan,” in which the author presents a miraculous business model for astronomical profits with a small initial investment: the intensive and sustainable raising of laying hens (flock management, production, profits). Binding has darkened; some foxing. Ex-libris of Jacques and Helene Bon. Included: - MARIOT-DIDIEUX. LUCRATIVE RAISING OF HENS. Paris, Lacroix, n.d. In-8, green shagreen, covers adorned with a romantic gilt design, gilt-embossed spine, gilt edges. 4 plates. Foxing. SET OF 2 VOLUMES.