BEAUSOBRE (Louis de). General introduction... - Lot 25 - Rossini

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BEAUSOBRE (Louis de). General introduction... - Lot 25 - Rossini
BEAUSOBRE (Louis de). General introduction to the study of politics, finance and trade. New edition, corrected and expanded. Amsterdam, Schneider, 1765. 2 vols. in one volume in-12, marbled basane, spine decorated, red title coin, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Goldsmiths, number 10061. - INED, n°352 (for the 1791 edition). Second edition, published after the original given in Berlin a year earlier. After giving a definition of the state, Beausobre (1730-1790), royal counsellor and member of the Berlin Academy, discusses agriculture in general, with information on the cultivation of vines, tobacco, cotton, wood, saffron, sugar, fruit, etc., as well as the cultivation of the land. The second volume, in continuous pagination, contains many details on the colonies of America and trade with Africa, Asia, the Levant and China. Ex-libris manuscript of the time on the titles: Henchoz. Freckles, small consolidated slit in the margin of the two foreword leaves. Missing from the lower cap.
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