[DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR, Nicolas François].

Essai sur les Monnoies, ou Reflexions sur le Rapport entre l'Argent et les Denrées.

Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard and De Bure, 1746. 4to, pp. xxi, [3] approbation and errata, 220, 188; with one folding table; a clean copy bound in contemporary calf, covers ruled gilt, extremities slightly worn, spine ruled gilt in compartments, joints and spine-ends skilfully restored, with new contrasting morocco label. First edition of a work that proved an important source of statistical data for the physiocrats, containing information on a wide variety of commodities, including the price of wheat, from 1202 to 1740. ‘It is full of elaborate researches with respect to the value of money at different periods; and contains tables exhibiting the successive variations on the quantity of silver in the coins … Dr Smith has borne testimony to the “diligence and fidelity” with which M. de Saint-Maur has formed his table of prices (Wealth of Nations, p. 85)’ (McCulloch, p. 188).Goldsmiths’ 8235; Kress 4804; Einaudi 1687; INED 1644.

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