JOURNAL DE L'AGRICULTURE, du commerce et des finances. Paris - Lot 66

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JOURNAL DE L'AGRICULTURE, du commerce et des finances. Paris - Lot 66
JOURNAL DE L'AGRICULTURE, du commerce et des finances. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Knapen, July 1765-December 1766. Set of 16 monthly issues in 7 volumes in-12, calf porphyry, gilt roulette, ornate spine, title and tomaison coins, gilt edges (stapled for one of the monthly issues) (Period binding). Sgard, number 650. Head of the collection of this important economic journal, cradle of the doctrine of the physiocrats. The Journal de l'agriculture, published from July 1765 to 1783, was created as a supplement to the Gazette du commerce with the ambition to constitute the richest & most interesting repository on economic matters (t. I, pp. III-IV). Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours was its editor until November 1766, when he was dismissed by the owners. His friends, Quesnay, Le Trosne and Mirabeau in particular, until then regular contributors to the journal, were also dismissed. They all turned to Abbé Baudeau, who welcomed them favourably in Les Éphémérides du citoyen, his own journal which, in January 1767, would become the new propaganda organ of the physiocrats. As for the Journal de l'agriculture, it would henceforth be clearly hostile to economists. The monthlies of these two years, July 1765 to November 1766, are thus capital publications in the history of the physiocratic school. In particular, there are several articles by Quesnay in the original edition, which are listed in François Quesnay, INED, pp. 309 et seq. The subjects mainly dealt with in this review are related to the questions of grain prices, free competition of trade, colonies, etc. We should mention an interesting memoir on the art of making red wine (t. II) and another on the depopulation of the Loire rivers (t. V). 3 folding boards in the V volume, representing a plough, a seed drill and a machine for lifting bundles. Nice set, nicely bound and coming from the library of the Marquis d'Aligre (1770-1847) (ex-libris), future ge
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