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Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

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.

Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

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.

Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

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.

Photo MOULINIER, Jean. 

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.

Photo DAMOREAU, Estienne. 

DAMOREAU, Estienne. 

Traité des négociations de banque et des monnoyes étrangères. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier-Pissot, 1727.
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400 €

First edition.

A practical book for bankers, traders and merchants working in Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. Its subjects are numismatics, the explanation of exchange rates and conversions and the explanation of bank negotiations, illustrated by many plates.

Photo LA POIX DE FREMINVILLE, Edme (de). 

LA POIX DE FREMINVILLE, Edme (de). 

Instruction générale pour un régisseur d'une grande terre seigneuriale. 

Paris, Gissey, 1760.
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300 €

First edition.
Uncommon brochure giving short instructions for the proper management of a domain. La Poix de Fréminville remained one of the most widely read jurists of his time until the Revolution.

Photo BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de). 

BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de). 

Institutions politiques. 

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1760.
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450 €

First edition.
Baron Bielfeld was an advisor to Frederick II of Prussia, his work consists mainly of reflections on national governance.
His work had a significant impact on both political science and statistics. He would be the first to introduce the word "statistics" to replace the term political arithmetic.

Photo [ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, Jacques]. 

[ACCARIAS DE SERIONNE, Jacques]. 

Les Intérêts des Nations de l'Europe, dévelopés relativement au Commerce. 

Leide, Elie Luzac, 1766.
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1000 €

First edition.
Work written in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War when Europe was seeking a new political balance. For Accarias this had to go through trade, he proposed a program of specific reforms – lowering of customs duties, reduction of tax pressure, in particular on essential goods, control of public credit and liberalization policy. agriculture and national economies... This economic program was based on pre-Smithian French and British literature and promoted radical liberalism.

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[VOLTAIRE]. 

L'Homme aux quarante ecus. 

[Genève], s.n., 1768.
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1750 €

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.

Photo [GALIANI, Ferdinando] || [DIDEROT, Denis]. 

[GALIANI, Ferdinando] || [DIDEROT, Denis]. 

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. 

Londres, s.n., 1770.
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1200 €

First edition.
Book revised and published by Diderot from a manuscript by Ferdinando Galiani, in which the latter expresses reservations about the free trade in grain adopted by the edicts of 1763 and 1764.
Galiani is indeed opposed to the export of wheat outside France, while French regions may still experience periods of famine.
This is one of the first criticisms of nascent economic liberalism.
What will be worth to him to be strongly attacked by the spirit of time, Turgot judging that the step of Galiani is representative of the stubborn refusal, and obscurantist, of the scientific novelty.

Photo JUSSIEU DE MONTLUEL, François Joseph Mamert de. 

JUSSIEU DE MONTLUEL, François Joseph Mamert de. 

Instructions faciles sur les conventions ou Notions simples sur les divers engagements qu'on peut prendre dans la société & leurs suites. Ouvrage utile aux gens d'affaires, bourgeois, négociants, & à tous chefs de famille. Et aux jeunes gens qui se destinent au Palais. Suivi des Réflexions sur les Principes de la Justice. 

Riom, Leclerc, 1777-1779.
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70 €
Photo [NECKER, Jacques]. 

[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.

Photo [ANONYME]. 

[ANONYME]. 

Lettre d'un ami à M. Necker. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1781].
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60 €

The publication of Necker's "Compte-rendu au roi" (Report to the King) in 1781, intended to inform Louis XVI about the state of France's finances, provoked many controversies against the minister. Anonymously, the author criticized Necker's management of the finances and the fact that he published false statements in his famous "Compte-rendu".

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

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.

Photo MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de. 

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.

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

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.

Photo CALONNE, Charles-Alexandre de. 

CALONNE, Charles-Alexandre de. 

Mémoire justificatif, en forme de requête, adressé au Roi
[suivi de]
Développemens et pièces justificatives adressés au Roi, pour faire suite au Mémoire. 

s.l., s.n., 1787.
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150 €

First editions.

Charles de Calonne (1734-1802) was Necker's successor as finance minister to Louis XVI between 1784 and 1787.
After his resignation, the former minister fell out of favor and faced many attacks on his administration and France's growing deficit. In this book, he explained his defence to the king, facing five charges against the subjects of acquisitions and exchanges, operations in the revision of currencies, funds from the royal treasury provided clandestinely to support the "agiotage" (financial speculative practice), extensions of loans, and abuses of authority and other abuses of authority of all kinds.
The second book, published shortly afterwards, is the sequel in which Calonne provides many in-depth insights.

Photo [Necker, Jacques]. 

[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.

Photo MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de. 

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).

Photo [MATHON DE LA COUR, Charles Joseph]. 

[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.

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

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.

Photo CALONNE, Charles-Alexandre de. 

CALONNE, Charles-Alexandre de. 

Réponse de M. de Calonne à l'écrit de M. Necker, publié en avril 1787; contenant l'examen des comptes de la situation des finances, rendus en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787; avec des observations sur les résultats de l'Assemblée des Notables. 

Londres, T. Spilsbury, 1788.
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70 €

This edition was published the same year as the first one.

Charles de Calonne (1734-1802) was Necker's successor as finance minister to Louis XVI. In this book, he presented his administration and responded to Necker's violent attacks.

Photo [LACRETELLE, Pierre-Louis]. 

[LACRETELLE, Pierre-Louis]. 

Mémoire sur l'institution des bureaux des finances, et l'utilité de leurs fonctions. 

s.l., s.n., 1789.
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60 €

First edition.

Book on the history of the institution of the finance corps by Pierre-Louis Lacretelle (1751-1824), who was a member of Parliament during the Revolution and the French Consulate.

Photo MAHY DE CORMÉRÉ, Guillaume-François de. 

MAHY DE CORMÉRÉ, Guillaume-François de. 

Mémoire sur les finances et sur le crédit, pour servir de suite aux Recherches & considérations nouvelles sur les finances. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur - Moutard - Desenne, 1789.
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150 €

First edition.

Guillaume-François de Mahy, Baron de Cormeré was a civil servant in the general control of finances during the Necker administration. In this book, he gave his analysis of the functioning of finance in France during the monarchy.

Photo [SOLIGNAC]. 

[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.

Photo [TALLEYRAND, Charles Maurice de]. 

[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.

Photo [RIOUX DE MAILLOU]. 

[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.

Photo RAMEL DE NOGARET, Dominique Vincent. 

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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Barème Des Droits Réunis, approuvé par M. Le Conseiller d'État à Vie, commandant de la Légion d'Honneur, Directeur général de la Régie des Droits Réunis. 

Paris, J.H. Stone, 1806.
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75 €
Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte. 

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.
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3500 €

First edition.
Founding work of Fourierism.
It is in this book that Charles Fourier sets out for the first time his theories on the organization of human societies. Discoveries, which, according to him, is on a par with Newton's theory of gravitation. Fourier defines four phases of universal history (ascending chaos, ascending plenitude, descending plenitude, descending chaos), each phase subdivided into a multitude of times. Humanity is currently going through the fifth time of the first phase: Civilization. The revelation to humanity of "passionate attraction" will bring about Harmony, a phase of bliss in which Fourier's Utopia is realized.
When it was published, no one understood anything about this work, riddled with neologisms, divisions and subdivisions, extravagant considerations... the press passed over the book in silence and Fourier, annoyed that he was not recognized as a Genius, would not publish again for fourteen years.

Rare untouched copy.

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