Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe, for the advancement of those essential interests.

Jean Bertrand; Benjamin-Samuel-Georges Carrard; Gabriel Seigneux de Correvon

London : Printed for W. Nicoll; and G. Robinson, 1772

[French Predecessors of Malthus] Bound in contemporary calf.  Hardcover. Minor splitting at joints.  Clean, unmarked pages.  xi, [1], 479 p. "The original essays ... were published in the Memoirs collected by the Oeconomical Society at Berne"--Translator's preface.  Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 10829.  Hoefer 5, 762 p. First published in 1766 as, "Essais sur l'esprit de la legislation favorable a l'agriculture, a la population, au commerce, aux arts, aux metiers" 

Early bookplate of E. Lloyd, Rhagatt.