DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR (Nicolas-François)]. Essai sur les monno - Lot 54

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DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR (Nicolas-François)]. Essai sur les monno - Lot 54
DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR (Nicolas-François)]. Essai sur les monnoies, ou Réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées. Paris, Veuve Méquignon, 1746. 2 parts in one volume in-4, marbled basane, spine decorated, red title, red edges (Binding of the time). INED, n°1643. First edition of the author's main work, decorated with a large folding table. Without being an economist, this scholar has rendered services to political economy, by gathering with a commendable patience the materials necessary for the composition of [this work] (Coquelin & Guillaumin, t. I, p. 626). The second part, in separate pagination, gives the variations in the price of things during five centuries, from 1202 to 1742: a pound of cinnamon, ginger, liquorice, pepper, saffron, rice, butter or even sugar, a barrel of wine, a sheep, a horse, an ox, a pig, a "man's day," the wages paid to 6 grape-pickers for harvesting 1/2 an acre in 1515, a woollen glove, a pair of shoes, a setier of barley, bran or oats, etc. Light staining at the corner of several quires, some foxing. Binding badly restored.
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