[MIRABEAU (Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de)]. L'Ami des homme - Lot 86

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[MIRABEAU (Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de)]. L'Ami des homme - Lot 86
[MIRABEAU (Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de)]. L'Ami des hommes, or The People's Treaty. First [- Fifth] part. Avignon, s.n., 1756-1758-1760. 5 parts in 2 volumes in-4, speckled calf, triple filet, spine decorated, red title and brown tomaison pieces, red edges (contemporary binding). INED, n°3194. - Spengler, pp. 129-135. - Weulersse, t. I, pp. 53-55. Extremely rare first edition. Famous work by Mirabeau, which was a real triumph when it was published. The author clearly advocates the need for population growth, the source of all wealth, and considers that agriculture, the first, most useful, most innocent & most precious of the arts (Part III, p. 216), as the foundation of the population, must be stimulated: never before had agriculture aroused such eloquent "apology", Weulersse wrote. In the famous Ami des Hommes, published about a year before he joined the physiocratic school, we find many of the notions developed by Cantillon. ...] in spite of the liberties taken with the orthodoxy of physiocratic theory, Mirabeau's Ami des Hommes was, more than any other, responsible for the interest in population issues in the third quarter of the 18th century: one can already find there, moreover, many of the key ideas expressed in his later physiocratic writings (Spengler). Complete copy of all five parts. The fifth part contains the following texts: Memoir on agriculture sent to the very praiseworthy Agricultural Society of Bern, Extract from the first six books of Thomas Hale's Complete Body of Rustic Oeconomy, and especially the famous Tableau oeconomique with its explanations by Quesnay. Ex-libris armorial engraved by Jean-Baptiste Peyer imHoff, lord of Fontenelle. A frontispiece, found in some copies, is not present here. Lower moulding in volume II. The plates of volume II are wetted, a bit and a cap restored in volume I.
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