MIRABEAU, Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de.

Les Économiques. Par L['Ami] D[es] H[ommes].

Amsterdam and Paris, Lacombe, 1769. 4to, pp. xii, 388; two preliminary leaves misbound after p. 386, but a fine, wide-margined copy bound in nineteenth-century half calf. Rare first edition of parts one and two. A further volume of two additional parts was published in 1771. Mirabeau, who seems to have taken the title of this work from the Économiques of Xenophon, here gives various methods of economic instruction for the various levels of society; he also suggests the method of approach in the instruction of heads of government.Higgs 4568; INED 3196; Kress S.4574; this edition not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’.

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