[ROUBAUD, Pierre-Joseph-André, Abbé].

Répresentations aux magistrats; contenant l'exposition raisonnée des faits relatifs à la liberté du commerce des grains, & les résultats respectifs des reglemens & de la liberté.

[Paris, Lacombe,] 1769. 8vo, pp. [iv], 504, [4]; with 8 folding tables; a very good copy in full contemporary mottled calf, marbled endpapers, red edges, spines decorated gilt in compartments, raised bands, with a gilt morocco lettering-piece; from the library of Louis-Paul Abeille, with his distinctive gilt monogram of a bee stamped in the compartments on the spine. First edition of the Abbé Roubaud’s vehement defence of a free corn trade. ‘Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud (1730–91) early allied himself with the Économistes of the school of Quesnay, to whose ideas he constantly adhered. He worked principally as a journalist. In conjunction with Le Camus he edited the Journal du Commerce, from 1759 to 1762; in January 1765 he took part in editing the Journal d’Agriculture, du Commerce et des Finances, his chief being Dupont de Nemours’ (Palgrave III, 329).Provenance: Louis-Paul Abeille (1719–1807) was secretary of the Agricultural society of Brittany in 1757. An ardent physiocrat for many years, he argued, along with Quesnay, Mirabeau and, of course, Roubaud, for free trade in corn. Einaudi 4895; Goldsmiths’ 10534; Higgs 4641; INED 3926; Kress 6676.

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