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[DUTOT, Charles (born c.1671).] Réflexions politiques sur les finances, et le commerce. The Hague: Les frères Vaillant et Nicolas Prevost, 1738. 2 volumes, 12° (160 x 92mm). Half-titles, title-pages in red and black, 10 folding letterpress tables. (Headline of one table a little cropped, small hole in outer margin at beginning of vol.II, lightly browned and spotted.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments, lettering-pieces (both lettering-pieces chipped, joints of vol. II starting to split). Provenance: Cholmondeley Castle Library (bookplate with shelf-mark).
FIRST EDITION of this important work, written three years earlier, in the form of three letters to Jean François Melon, John Law's private secretary. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law whose system the author examines favourably in the present work where he also explains the reasons for its collapse in 1720. A work valued as a source of information on the economic life of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Goldsmiths' 7596; Kress 4381.
FIRST EDITION of this important work, written three years earlier, in the form of three letters to Jean François Melon, John Law's private secretary. Little is known of Dutot, save that he was a cashier in the Compagnie des Indes, founded by Law whose system the author examines favourably in the present work where he also explains the reasons for its collapse in 1720. A work valued as a source of information on the economic life of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Goldsmiths' 7596; Kress 4381.