[Rarebooks] FS: Condillac's work on economics promoting free trade. Paris: 1795

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(ECONOMICS) Condillac, Etienne Bonnet de. LE COMMERCE ET LE GOUVERNMENT, 
Consideres Relativement l’un a l’Autre. Ouvrage Elementaire. Nouvelle Edition. 
Paris: Letellier & Maradan. An III (1795). iv,380pp. Uncut copy, bound in modern 
marbled paper covered boards.     $400.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second edition (the first is 1776). “He believed in agriculture as the 
fundamental source of wealth, in free trade (as against mercantilism) and in the 
power of reason to discover civil laws that would preserve each man’s right 
to enjoy the fruits of his labor.” (ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY, II, p. 180). 
Kress B2907.

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