[PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph (1684-1770) and François Michel Chretien DESCHAMPS (1688-1747)]. Examen du livre intitule Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce. The Hague: Vaillant et N. Prevôt, 1740. 2 volumes, 12° (157 x 91mm). Half-titles, title-pages in red and black, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol.II, errata for both volumes in vol.I. (Upper margin of first table very lightly cropped.) Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces (spines slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed). Provenance: Fideikommissbiblioteket (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this reply to the Réflexions of Dutot (1738, see lot 27), which had continuedto favour the economic system of John Law despite his fall in 1720. Writing in co-operation with Deschamps, Paris-Duverney refuted the views of Dutot and Law, warmly praised the alternative operation of the 'Visa', and provided a detailed history of the Mississippi scheme and its collapse. Einaudi 1538; Goldsmiths' 7784; Kress 4519.
[PARIS-DUVERNEY, Joseph (1684-1770) and François Michel Chretien DESCHAMPS (1688-1747)]. Examen du livre intitule Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce. The Hague: Vaillant et N. Prevôt, 1740. 2 volumes, 12° (157 x 91mm). Half-titles, title-pages in red and black, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol.II, errata for both volumes in vol.I. (Upper margin of first table very lightly cropped.) Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces (spines slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed). Provenance: Fideikommissbiblioteket (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this reply to the Réflexions of Dutot (1738, see lot 27), which had continuedto favour the economic system of John Law despite his fall in 1720. Writing in co-operation with Deschamps, Paris-Duverney refuted the views of Dutot and Law, warmly praised the alternative operation of the 'Visa', and provided a detailed history of the Mississippi scheme and its collapse. Einaudi 1538; Goldsmiths' 7784; Kress 4519.
