ACCARIAS DE SÉRIONNE (Jacques)]. Les Intérêts des nations de - Lot 307

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ACCARIAS DE SÉRIONNE (Jacques)]. Les Intérêts des nations de - Lot 307
ACCARIAS DE SÉRIONNE (Jacques)]. Les Intérêts des nations de l'Europe, dévelopés [sic] relativement au commerce. Paris [Amsterdam], Desain, 1766. 2 volumes in one in-4, blond calf, spine decorated, crowned arms (mace and ermine spot) repeated, red edges (Binding of the time). Sabin, n°79234. - Borba de Moraes, t. I, p 9 (for the edition in 4 volumes in-12 of 1767). First edition, of which there are three editions published in 1766, all in-4 and with the same collation: this one, with the address of Paris [Amsterdam], by Desain, one at the address of Leipzig, by the heirs of Weidmann and Reich, and one at the address of Leiden, by Élie Luzac (cf. Goldsmiths-Kress, n°10188). The work, dedicated to Empress Catherine II of Russia, is interesting for all the information it contains on trade and its importance for the balance between nations. The author, historian and economist born in 1706 and died in 1792, examines in particular the institutions necessary for the development of trade (banks, public credit, money, interest, trading companies, etc.) (cf. Marguerite Leblanc, From Thomas More to Chaptal, p. 134). Chapters concern the Compagnie des Indes, trade and colonies in Portugal, Spain and America, with details on the slave trade. Chapter XXVI of volume II (pp. 105-146), entitled Des Découvertes, is OF GREAT INTEREST FOR THE HISTORY OF TRAVEL: the author is Indeed, the author invites the nations to discover and open a commercial passage through the North-East, starting from Copenhagen to reach Japan and China, and to join Japan and China, and takes up, ten years after the president Charles de Brosses in his History of the navigations in the Southern Lands, the idea of creating a permanent trading post in the Southern Lands. A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY IN BLOND CALF WITH THE PIECES OF ARMS OF CHARLES DE ROHAN, PRINCE OF SOUBISE. It then belonged to to prince Radziwill (1866, II, n°309). From the library of Eugène Chaper, with bookplate. The false title of volume I seems to be missing, several leaves are foxed.
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