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[VOLTAIRE]. 

L'Homme aux quarante ecus. 

[Genève], s.n., 1768.
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The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

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VEXLIARD, Alexandre. 

Le Clochard, étude de psychologie sociale. 

Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1957.
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75 €

First edition.
Work which always remains a reference on the question.
Sending of the author to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) economist and politician of which we disperse part of the library.

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[Union agricole d'Afrique]. 

Ensemble de Documents et brochures sur le phalanstère fouriéristes d'Algerie. 

s.l., s.n., 1845-1850.
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2500 €

The project of the Agricultural Union of Africa was born from the meeting of French colonial interests in Algeria and the Fourierist desire to found a community following the phalansterian principles. These interests came together in Lyon where there was an active Fourierist group with the meeting of Captain Gautier, an officer of the Army of Africa, with Miss Aimée Beuque, a convinced Fourierist.
The project of a civil joint stock company running a colony in Algeria took shape during the year 1845 and the Agricultural Union of Africa was founded in December 1845. Its goal was to experiment with the Fourierist principle of associating capital, labor and talent.
It has thirty-three members including the members of the organizing committee: Fleury Imbert, François Barrier, Felix Beuque and Sister (Aimée), Captain Gautier...
On November 8, 1846, a royal ordinance authorized the Lyon Committee to found a Civil Colonization Society on the condition that it welcome three hundred European families, at least two-thirds of whom must be of French origin. Louis Philippe allocates three thousand hectares to the Union at the foot of the hills of the Sig Valley, eighteen kilometers from the sea, on the road from Oran to Mascara.
The first settlers will settle in Algeria during the year 1847. Gradually losing the Fourierist essence of the beginning, the Sig colony will nevertheless last until the end of the 19th century.

Inthis volume, are bound a series of documents from the organizing committee of the Agricultural Union of Africa:

- Draft Statutes of a Civil Society, For the Exploitation of a Rural Property in Algeria, Lyon, Dumoulin, 1845. 23 pages.
First edition.
One of the first documents relating to the Union. It presents the draft statutes of the company before its foundation, which would not take place until the end of 1845. The document also presents the members of the organizing committee and the list of the first subscribers.

- The Agricultural Union of... Civil joint-stock company for the exploitation of a rural property in Africa, Lyon, Boitel, [1845]. 16 pages.
First edition.
Work of the organizing committee from its formation until October 25, 1845. The end of the document gives the model of the power of attorney to be sent to subscribers for the founding of the company.

- Letter of application for membership, November 1845. 3 pages
Document in civil character probably sent to the subscribers who, on the eve of the filing of the application for a concession, seek to extend the number of concessionaires from ten to twelve people.
"ten to twelve people capable by their wealth and their position of lending us effective support."

- Plan with caption, (nd). (2) folding plates.
Probably the plan of the colony as it was planned in the early days of the project. It shows an enclosure of 400x300 meters grouping together residential and manufacturing buildings.

- Contract of enrollment of associated workers, Lyon, December 15, 1846. 2 pages.
Exceptional document presenting the contract that linked the Union with the associated workers.
Our copy is completed and countersigned by Félix Beuque (member of the board of directors) and Jacob Held, a 36-year-old ploughman and shoemaker from Geneva. Jacob Held commits for one year and becomes a shareholder with 50 francs.

- Pay scale for associated workers and Supplies scale, (nd). (2) pages.
Fascinating document for understanding the internal economy of the Union. Each worker is both an employee and an associate, the salary scale is defined for all hierarchical levels.
It should be noted that while women can claim a maximum of 70% of a man's salary, they can nevertheless access the position of special director of the 1st class (highest position after the General Director). We also see that a salary of 25 francs per year is provided for children from 0 to 5 years old...
On the back, we find the rate for accommodation and full board (with different meal and accommodation options).
Thus, a Worker's Assistant (14th class) will receive 504 francs per year and will spend at least 360 francs on food and 20 francs on accommodation.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique: Extract from the statutes..., Lyon, Boitel, (nd). (4) pages.
Extracts from the statutes and subscription form published after the founding of the civil society.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company for the founding of an agricultural and industrial commune in the Sig plain, in Algeria, province of Oran, Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus presenting the company.

- Union Agricole d'Afrique joint stock company... Royal concession order. Lyon, Boitel, (nd). 4 pages.
Prospectus reproducing the royal ordinance of concession granted to the Union.

Bulletin of the Union Agricole d'Afrique :

Bulletin intended for the members of the Union to report on the progress of the project and the first steps of the colony in Algeria.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Proof presenting handwritten corrections that will be corrected in the distributed copy. In particular, the name of the correspondent of the city of Nancy is crossed out.
- Bulletin No. 1: 4 pages. Printing distributed with the inclusion of the corrections below, a new layout and the addition of the royal ordinance of Louis Philippe granting the concession.
- List of shareholders, Year 1847: 4 pages.
- Bulletin No. 2: Statutes of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 12 pages.
- Bulletin No. 3: Report of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Union of Africa. 30-(2) pages.
- Bulletin No. 4: 4 pages and 2 plates.
- Bulletin No. 6: Union agricole d'Afrique: Report on the administration, financial year 1847-1848
(2)-8-60 pages.
- Bulletin No. 7: Union agricole d'Afrique. 4 pages.

- Colonisation du Sig, Réponse à Mr le Maréchal Bugeaud, Oran, 1848. 4 pages. Inserted between bulletins No. 4 and No. 6.
Article taken from the Echo d'Oran in which Captain Gautier responds to Marshal Bugeaud who announced the future fall of the Union in an article in the Revue des deux mondes.

- Bulletin de l'Union du Sig. Tome premier - Septembre 1849 - Aout 1850. 282-xliv-[283-298] pages. The first xliv pages bound after page 282.
First year of publication of the Bulletin of the Union of the Sig which replaced the Bulletin of the Agricultural Union of Africa, to report to the members of the activity of the colony in Algeria.

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TRISTAN, Flora. 

L'Union ouvrière. 

Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1844.
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Second edition.
Flora Tristan (1803-1844), is a French socialist and feminist activist. She is a major figure of utopian socialism in the 1840s, she will take part in the first steps of internationalism. The Workers' Union is her political manifesto in which we find one of the first projects of workers' organization.
Five years before the famous "Proletarians of all countries unite" by K. Marx, Flora Tristan wrote: "Workers, you are weak and unhappy because you are divided; unite; unity is strength"
One of the first feminists of the social movement, she also affirms that woman is the proletarian of the proletarian.
Flora Tristan's work is bound at the end with 12 other Fourierist brochures:

- PELLERIN, Notice sur Charles Fourier et sur sa théorie d'association, (extrait de l'annuaire du Doubs pour 1838). 23 pages.

- CHEVALIER, Le 10 octobre à Lyon (troisième anniversaire de la mort de Ch. Fourier - Compte rendu), Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 33 pages.

- Ecole de Ch. Fourier, Union Phalanstérienne, sl, sd, sn. (2)-vii pages.

- AUCAIGNE, Réalisation en mode transitoire, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 43-(1) pages

- PASSOT, Loi des destinées futures || Mélina B....x, La Fée Sociale, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1840-1841. 36 pages.

- [Un Prêtre catholique romain], Accord des prophéties de l'ancien et du nouveau teastament avec la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 87 pages (salissures sur plusieurs feuillets).

- CHEVALIER, Les 27 et 28 aout à Cluny, Cluny, Au centre de l'union phalanstérienne, 1841. 34 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Compte rendu de l'exposition du système sociétaire de Fourier les 18, 20, 21 et 22 février 1841 dans la salle de la société philharmonique à Dijon ( Extrait du journal de la côte d'or, revu et augmenté de notes). 24 pages.

- FESTEAU, Les Progressives, huit chansons nouvelles et inédites, Paris, Vieillot, sd. 24 pages.

- [CONSIDERANT], Petit cours de politique et d'économie sociale à l'usage des ignorants et des savants, Paris, librairie sociétaire, 1844. 72 pages.

- CONSIDERANT, Théorie du Droit de propriété et du Droit au travail,Paris, Librairie phalanstérienne, 1848. 36 pages.

- [Anonyme], Recueil des chants de l'Union industrielle dondée au Palmitar (Brésil), Lyon, Mable ainé, 1842. 11 pages.

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THIRION, Henri. 

La vie privée des financiers au XVIIIe siècle. 

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1895.
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45 €

First edition.

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THIERS, Adolphe. 

De la Propriété. 

Paris, Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848.
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80 €

First edition.
Work written in reaction to the revolution of 1848 and the communist ideas that are beginning to emerge.

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TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de. 

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive. 

Paris, Cherruliez, 1836.
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200 €

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

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[TALLEYRAND, Charles Maurice de]. 

Opinion de M. l'évêque d'Autun sur la fabrication des petites monnoies. 

[Paris], [Imprimerie Nationale], [1790].
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100 €

First edition.

Booklet written by Talleyrand (1754-1838, French statesman, appointed bishop of Autun in 1788) on the subject of the manufacture of coins.

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[SOLIGNAC]. 

Réponse de M. Solignac, aux observations de M. Mirabeau l'aîné, relativement à l'essai de la proportion de l'or à l'argent, qui seroit la plus convenable dans la monnoie de France. 

[Paris], [J. Girouard], [1790].
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50 €

First edition.

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[SOCIALISME]. 

Social Credit Looks Forward. 

Nottingham, The Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre, [1949].
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75 €

First edition.
Report of the conference called by the Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre.
Social Credit is an economic doctrine of socialist inspiration developed by Hugh Douglas in the early 1920s. It aims to index monetary creation not on debt creation but on economic production. The result is the generation of a "national dividend" paid back to citizens in the form of a universal basic income.

Among the contributors we will find: Philip Mairet, Thomas Robertson, H. Norman, T.M. Heron.

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SIBOUR, Ernest. 

Centralisation industrielle excessive ses causes, ses effets : Industries & Métiers disparus ou qui sont en décadence dans le chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Alpes. 

Gap, Jean, 1890.
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60 €

First edition.
Book that studies the upheavals that the steam engine caused in the artisanal fabric of the Hautes Alpes. "In a word, we are trying to bring out the effect produced by this new direction, this irresistible impulse given to industry by the steam engine which has annihilated the manual production of the workman in many localities, without any compensation for them." (from the preface).

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SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique. 

Paris, Rapilly, 1828-1829.
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450 €

First edition.
Jean Baptiste Say is considered one of the fathers of economic science.
This course is a compilation of his teaching given at the chair of industrial economics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
He defends a liberal economic thought: he puts forward private property, free competition and a role of the State as limited as possible. In fact, it is a direct extension of the French school of liberal political economy.

A seventh volume of correspondence appeared in 1833 after the author's death.

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SAY, Horace. 

Histoire des relations commerciales entre la France et le Brésil. 

Paris, Guillaumin, 1839.
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2000 €

First edition.
Following the establishment of the Portuguese court in Brazil (1808) and the opening of ports to foreigners, an immense country opened up to international trade.
Brazil then aroused the interest of French economists who saw it as a testing ground for liberal ideas.
Horace Say predicted an upcoming economic boom in Brazil and drew from it an economic model for the future French colonial empire which then began to develop.

Presentation copy to Philip Taylor, English business manager based in Marseille. The Say and Taylor families, both Protestants, have been friends since the young Says’ study and work stay in England. They found themselves around the sugar industry, Horace Say's uncle founded the Say sugar factory (current Béghin-Say), and Philip Taylor the elder, a British machine designer, sold equipment, particularly in France for sugar refineries.

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SAVARY, Jacques. 

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce. 

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1675.
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3500 €

First edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

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SAVARY, Jacques. 

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce. 

Lyon, Jacques Lyons, 1701.
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150 €

Fifth edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

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SAVARY, Jacques. 

Pareres, ou Avis et Conseils sur les plus importantes Matières du Commerce. 

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1688.
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750 €

First edition.
The “Pareres” follows the “Parfait négociant” by the same author, published in 1675 and which became the bible of trading in the eighteenth century.

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[RIOUX DE MAILLOU]. 

Le voeu de la France accompli, ou le français affranchi d'impôts, de barrières & de banqueroutes frauduleuses, & ses finances solidement à, jamais rétablies. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur - Lescclapart - Garnéry, 1790.
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80 €

First edition.

This book is a proposal for an economic reform for France, written by Rioux de Maillou, Member of Parliament, at the end of the 18th century. It is organized in two parts: the explanation and the goal of this reform, and a detailed decree with 32 articles.
The aim of his reform is to reduce the people's taxes as much as it is possible and to successfully reduce the country's debt. One of its idea is to abolish taxes at internal barriers and customs.

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RAMEL DE NOGARET, Dominique Vincent. 

Des finances de la République française en l'an IX. 

Paris, H. Agasse, An IX [1800].
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250 €

First edition.

Dominique-Vincent Ramel, known as "Ramel de Nogaret" (1760-1829) was a French politician and Minister of Finance during the Directoire.

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POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

Théorie de l'association et de l'unité universelle de C. Fourier. 

Paris, Capelle, 1841.
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300 €

First edition.
Édouard de Pompéry (1812-1895), French political journalist, publicist and essayist. He worked to bring together the work of the Freemason lodges and the theories of Charles Fourier.
This work was the subject of a fierce polemic with the editors of La Phalange (the journal of the Fourierists of the First Circle). The controversy centered on the notion of free will and the ability of each individual to act or not to act on the course of things. Pompéry was accused of promoting a false doctrine, under the guise of societal theory.

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[POLITIQUE]. 

Etudes Contemporaines : 9 essais politiques. 

Paris, Dentu Dumineray, 1859-1861.
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9 political essays published mainly in the Contemporary Studies collection of the publisher Dumineray.
From the year 1860, the emperor gradually left more and more powers to the parliamentary assemblies and political life came alive, as evidenced by these essays.

Volume I :
PRESSENSE, Le Pouvoir temporel est il nécessaire à la religion ? , Paris, Dentu, 1859 (34 pages)
D'HAUSSONVILLE, Lettre aux conseils généraux, Paris, Dentu, 1859 (36 pages)
DE BROGLIE, Une Réforme administrative en Afrique, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 ((6)-242-(1) pages)
PREVOST-PARADOL, Les Anciens partis, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)

Volume II:
[Anonymous], La Liberté religieuse et la législation actuelle, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 ((4)-244 pages)
D'HAUSSONVILLE, Lettre au Sénat, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)
LEONCE DE LAVERGNE, La Constitution de 1852 et le décret du 24 novembre 1860, Paris, Dumineray, 1860 (48 pages)

Volume III:
DELPRAT, L'Administration et la presse, Paris, chez les principaux libraires, 1861 (44-(1) pages)
ODILON-BARROT, De La Centralisation et de ses effets, Paris, Dumineray, 1861 (viii-247-(1) pages).

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NECKER, Jacques. 

Compte rendu au Roi par M. Necker Directeur général des Finances Au mois de janvier 1781. 

Paris, Imprimerie du cabinet du roi, 1781.
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1000 €

First edition.
This first edition was not put on the market but distributed to a privileged few before the publication of the work by the Imprimerie royale. It contains two watercolor folding maps showing the divisions of tax and drafts on French territory and a folded table of Income and expenses carried to the Royal Treasury. The “Report to the King” is one of the “economic bestsellers” of the Ancien Régime. (The printings of the Imprimerie royale were distributed to the public in some forty thousand copies). It remains a source of primary importance for the financial and fiscal history of France. In this famous plea for transparency in public finances, Jacques Necker (1734-1802), Minister of Finance to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1781, details the functioning of royal finances, the principles of its administration and the financial situation of the country. But the author also reveals the lists of pensions paid by the State to certain members of the nobility, with the names of their beneficiaries and their amounts. The scandal that followed the publication of the work led the minister to resign on May 19, 1781.


Bound with the followin pieces :
- Les Comment, ou Abrégé des objections faites contre le compte rendu par M. Necker en forme de questions, En France, 1781
ii-16 pages.
- Mémoire donné au roi par Monsieur Necker en 1778, En France, 1781
32 pages.

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NECKER, Jacques. 

Mémoire de M. Necker. 

s.l., [s. n.], 1787.
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90 €

First edition.

Jacques Necker (1732-1804) was a politician from Geneva and was the Finance minister of Louis XVI.
This book was published in response to the speech of Charles Calonne (1734-1802, Minister and inspector General of Finance of Louis XVI between 1783 and 1787), who accused Necker of having published false informations in his report to the king.

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[Necker, Jacques]. 

"J'ai servi le Roi pendant cinq années avec un zèle auquel je n'ai jamais connu de bornes ; [...]". 

s.l., s.n., [1787].
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75 €

In this essay, Necker (732-1804), financier and politician from Geneva, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI) justified his administration and policy in response to the attacks of Charles de Calonne (1734-1802, Minister and Controller General of Finance of Louis XVI between 1783 and 1787), his successor.
It consists of letters between Calonne and Necker, a letter addressed to Louis XVI and a praise of the former minister.

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NECKER, Jacques. 

Sur le compte rendu au Roi en 1781. Nouveaux éclaircissemens. 

Lyon, Bernuset, 1788.
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90 €

Edition published the same year as the first one.

In this book, Necker (1732-1804, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI) defends his report to the King published in 1781 and reacts to the attacks of Charles de Calonne (1734-1802, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI between 1783 and 1787), his successor.

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[NECKER, Jacques]. 

Suite des observations du citoyen. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1781].
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50 €

This booklet was published after the publication of the "Compte-rendu au roi" by Necker in 1781.
The author questions the management of France's finances by Necker.

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MOULINIER, Jean. 

Le grand trésor des marchands, banquiers et négocians, des financiers, de la noblesse, et de tous Seigneurs tant Ecclesiastiques que Seculiers, du trésor royal, des Officiers de Robe & d’Épée, de la bourgeoisie, et des Arts et Mêtiers.
Avec un nouveau Traité sur le Commerce. 

Bordeaux, Simon de la Court, [1704].
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500 €

First edition.
Moulinier proposes a geometric method of calculating "Inner Discounts" as well as a new journal model for keeping double-entry accounting.
Rare work missing from usual bibliographies (Einaudi, Goldsmith)
Copy signed at the end.

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MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de. 

Dénonciation de l'agiotage au Roi, et à l'Assemblée des Notables. 

s.l., s.n., 1787.
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90 €

This book by Mirabeau (1749-1791, one of the leaders of the French Revolution) is a pamphlet denouncing the "agiotage" (financial speculative practice).

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MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de. 

Lettres du comte de Mirabeau, sur l'administration de Necker. 

s.l., s.n., 1787.
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100 €

First edition.

With these letters, Mirabeau (1749-1791, one of the figures of the French Revolution) was clearly opposed to Necker's administration and denounced his methods of managing France's finances, particularly those concerning loans.

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MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE. 

Compte pour l'année 1827, de l'emploi des crédits affectés à l'inscription des pensions militaires au trésor royal; suivi de l'état des changemens survenus dans les soldes de non-activité et dans les traitemens de réforme pendant la même année. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1828.
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60 €
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[MATHON DE LA COUR, Charles Joseph]. 

Collection des Comptes-Rendus, piéces Authentiques, états et Tableaux, concernant Les Finances de France depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787. 

Lausanne, Cuchet, 1788.
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175 €

First edition.
The public accounts and in particular their deficits were at the center of the political debates of the 1780s.

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