[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis). Essai analytique sur la riches - Lot 344

Lot 344
Go to lot
Estimation :
1200 - 2000 EUR
[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis). Essai analytique sur la riches - Lot 344
[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis). Essai analytique sur la richesse et l'impôt, Où l'on réfute la nouvelle doctrine économique, qui a fourni à la Société Royale d'Agriculture de Limoges les principes d'un Programme qu'elle a publié sur l'effet des Impôts indirects. London, s.n., 1767. In-8, granite calf, smooth spine richly decorated, red edges (Binding of the time). Goldsmiths, n°10266. - INED, n°2126. First edition, rare. Tax collector in Nantes, Graslin (1727-1790) was one of the most brilliant and fierce detractors of Quesnay and the physiocrat school. It was in this Analytical Essay... that he published, before Adam Smith, with whom he had studied political economy, a theory of wealth based on labor: His main work is a critique of the physiocratic conceptions of wealth, production, and taxation, to which he prefers a kind of progressive income tax. He refuted the physiocratic theory that a tax on subsistence or an increase in the price of wheat is necessarily accompanied by an increase in wages (Spengler, pp.291-292). A nice copy in an attractive quality binding. Bookseller's label stuck to the verso of the first blank page. Angular paper loss without affecting the text on folio Aa1. Traces left by the return of the skin in the margins of the last 2 table leaves. Small rubs to the binding.
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue