[MAUBERT DE GOUVEST, Jean-Henri].

Ephraïm justifié. Mémoire Historique et Raisonné sur l'État passé, présent, et futur, des Finances de Saxe. Avec le parallele de l'Oeconomie Prussienne & de l'Oeconomie Saxonne. Ouvrage utile aux Créanciers & Correspondans, aux Amis & aux Ennemis de la Prusse & de la Saxe. Adressé par le Juif Ephraïm de Berlin à son Cousin Manassès d'Amsterdam.

Erlangen, ‘à l’Enseigne du Tout est dit’, 1758. Small 8vo, pp. 112; slightly browned as usual, veryoccasional light foxing, else a good copy in contemporary paper-backed boards, small paper label to the spine, extremities slightly bumped, MS library shelf mark to the front pastedown. First edition; another issue appeared the same year, but no priority has been established. Maubert de Gouvest (1721–1767), ‘successivement officier d’artillerie, capucin, calviniste, directeur des comédiens français en Allemagne’ (Quérard), fulfilled the first of these roles at the Electoral court of Saxony in 1745, when he took part in the Battle of Dresden against Prussia. The present work compares these two nations, now engaged in the Seven Years War, in the form of a letter from a German Jew to his cousin in The Netherlands.Barbier II, cols 140–1; Goldsmiths’ 9385; Quérard V, 629; not in Einaudi, Higgs, Kress, Masui (see p. 408 for a 1766 edition) or Stammhammer.

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