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1769ref. 135496Amsterdam: et se trouve A Paris chez L. Cellot imprimeur-libraire grande Salle du Palais & rue Dauphine 1769. First edition. Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet 1736-1794 was a French journalist and lawyer "whose delight in taking views opposing everyone else's earned him exiles imprisonment and finally the guillotine" Encyclopaedia Britannica online. In this period he is notable for being perhaps the most vocal opponent of the ascendant physiocrats with this book attacking their ideas within the framework of his support for the establishment of new canals. "Linguet's 1769 book was not an engineer's but rather a project designer's who discussed the usefulness assets and flaws of existing canals. He submitted several constructions in different French provinces. The epistolary form of his work allowed him to change subjects frequently and broach peripheral questions" Kaplan & Sophus Reinert The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe. It was from these peripheral questions that he could attack the physiocrats and their "agromania & the passion to write these past few years on economic matters" those who "pretended to be shepherds in the middle of Paris" and "sowed their seeds on their own writing tables". That said at this stage Linguet does not fundamentally oppose phyisocrat arguments to liberalize the grain trade and he does not offer detailed economic assessments of physiocratic thought - in keeping with his controversialist ways he mainly opposes physiocracy as he saw it as the latest fad and disliked its adherents. Duodecimo 185 x 97 mm. Contemporary calf brown morocco label lettered in gilt spine gilt to compartments marbled endpapers red edges. Terminal leaf with errata and author's books present. Lightly rubbed some light browning and foxing to contents pencilled marginal lines. A very good copy. Einaudi 3408; Goldsmiths' 10587; Higgs 4765; INED p. 399; Quérard V p. 316; Kress 6654. unknown

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