![[DUTOT, Charles (born c.1671)]. Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce. The Hague: V. & N. Prevost, 1738. 2 volumes, 12°. Titles printed in red and black, 10 folding printed tables, half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with morocco lettering and numbering pieces (head of lower joint of vol.II skilfully repaired).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CSK/2007_CSK_05136_0073_000(014341).jpg?w=1)
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[DUTOT, Charles (born c.1671)]. Reflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce. The Hague: V. & N. Prevost, 1738. 2 volumes, 12°. Titles printed in red and black, 10 folding printed tables, half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with morocco lettering and numbering pieces (head of lower joint of vol.II skilfully repaired).
FIRST EDITION of this important work, first 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. It is also valuable as a source of information on the economic life of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was reprinted in Economistes français in 1843. Goldsmiths' 7596; Kress 4381; this edition not in Einaudi. (2)
FIRST EDITION of this important work, first 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. It is also valuable as a source of information on the economic life of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was reprinted in Economistes français in 1843. Goldsmiths' 7596; Kress 4381; this edition not in Einaudi. (2)
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