Hamish Riley-Smith

LAW,John Considerations sur le commerce et sur l'argent. La Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme 1720

2 works in 1 volumes, small octavo, contemporary calf, gilt rope fillet to covers, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpaper, engraved portrait of John Law + 4 leaves + 187pp + (19pp) catalogue des livres, title printed in red and black, bound with Vauban Project d'une dixme royale. Brusselles 1709

First edition in French of John Law's principal theories on money and banking giving a detailed account of his plan to replace specie with paper currency based on land and of his proposals for a state bank. Money and trade considered was first published in Edinburgh in 1705.
Kress 3235, 2637. Goldsmith 5820. Carpenter, Economic bestsellers before 1850, Law ix,4. Vauban x,15. Schumpeter, pp.321-2. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.125-126.

£2500

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