Principes de tout Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur o

[AUXIRON (Claude-François Joseph d’).]

Principes de tout Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur ou de la foiblesse de tout État considéré en lui-même, & indépendament des mœurs.

First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo. lxxx, 213, [3, blank]; [4], 314, [4, privilège], [2, blank] pp., woodcut vignettes to titles, woodcut head and tail pieces throughout. With the half titles and terminal blanks to both volumes. Contemporary green-dyed vellum, spine with five single raised bands, second panel lettered in gilt on red morocco label, red edges, marbled endpapers (light foxing to endpapers with a few occasional instances of faint spotting throughout, small contemporary printed book label of ‘Pérille, Avocat à Auxerre’ to title page of Vol. 1.; light wear to extremities, long split from foot of front joint, rear joint just starting to split at head, covers slightly bowed with some minor marking and a few ink splash marks). Paris, J. Th. Hérissant fils, 1766.

£750.00

An influential work responding to eighteenth century economic debates regarding population by Claude François Joseph d’Auxiron (1728-1778), a major opponent of the physiocrats and an early advocate of the importance of mathematical economics.

‘Auxiron’s work is significant chiefly because of his analysis of the determinants of population capacity, and his treatment of the relation between population growth and the interoccupational and interclass movements and balance in society’ (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 296).

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Principes de tout Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur ou de la foiblesse de tout État considéré en lui-même, & indépendament des mœurs.

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