LIST (Friedrich).

Système national d'économie politique. Traduit de l'Allemand par Henri Richelot, avec une préface, une notice biographique et des notes par le traducteur.

First edition in French. 8vo. [4], lii, 583, [1] pp. Contemporary quarter green calf with marbled calf covered boards, flat spine lettered and ruled in gilt with gilt ornaments, marbled endpapers (faint spotting to endpapers, with just a hint of faint foxing to blank fore margins of opening leaves, contents otherwise notably clean and fresh; only minor shelf wear to extremities, else a very fine, attractive copy). Paris, Capelle, 1851.

£750.00

The first French translation of List’s major work in a pleasing contemporary binding, originally published in German in 1841 under the title Das national System der politischen Oekonomie.

The French translation was undertaken by Henri Richelot (1811-1864), Chef de bureau in the Ministry of Trade and author of the book L’Association douanière allemande (1845). ‘According to Richelot, apart from the Wealth of Nations, Système national d’économie politique was the most important book about the theory of international trade’ (Potier, ‘The reception of the German Historical Schools among French economists’, p. 25).

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