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COURNOT, Antoine Augustin (1801-1877). Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses. Paris: L. Hachette, 1838. 8°. Half-title, folding engraved plate at end (preliminaries with waterstain at upper corner, some occasionally heavy spotting, faint ownership stamp on half-title). UNCUT in modern wrappers with original printed wrappers cut down at margins and laid down (soiled), modern green half morocco box. Provenance: Georges Lutfalla, editor of the 1938 reprint (his marginal pencil notes, often referring to Irving Fisher).
FIRST EDITION of this very scarce but highly influential work. 'The first consistent and generally successful attempt to apply mathematical analysis to a wide range of economic problems' (Theocaris, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics, p. 131), it became the foundation for the later work of Marshall, Walras and Jevons. Marshall acknowledged Cournot's influence in his preface to the Principles of Economics (see lot 31), suggesting that it was through the Recherches that he discovered the theory of marginal utility. Copies often lack the folding plate. Einaudi 1365.
FIRST EDITION of this very scarce but highly influential work. 'The first consistent and generally successful attempt to apply mathematical analysis to a wide range of economic problems' (Theocaris, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics, p. 131), it became the foundation for the later work of Marshall, Walras and Jevons. Marshall acknowledged Cournot's influence in his preface to the Principles of Economics (see lot 31), suggesting that it was through the Recherches that he discovered the theory of marginal utility. Copies often lack the folding plate. Einaudi 1365.
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