[PELISSERY (Roch Antoine de). Le Caffé politique d'Amsterdam - Lot 358

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[PELISSERY (Roch Antoine de). Le Caffé politique d'Amsterdam - Lot 358
[PELISSERY (Roch Antoine de). Le Caffé politique d'Amsterdam, ou Entretiens familiiers d'un François, d'un Anglois, d'un Hollandois, et d'un Cosmopolite, sur les divers intérêts économiques & politiques de la France, de l'Espagne, & de l'Angleterre. Amsterdam, 1776. 2 volumes in-8, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red title and giblets, marbled edges (Binding of the period). INED, n°3511. First edition, decorated with 8 folding tables. It was published under the pseudonym of Charle [sic], Élie, Denis Roonptsÿ, maître du Caffé. The political Caffé exposes in the form of five lively dialogues the economic debates and the international politics of the time. The fifth dialogue, which occupies the whole second volume, is a discussion on the ruling by Turgot establishing the liberalization of the grain trade: this ruling gives rise to contrasting reactions, in particular from the Cosmopolite, masque de Pellissery, who criticizes this measure. Old note on the title, signed Noel, which attributes the work to Necker or Pellissery. Tear without missing a table (t. II, p. 142). A few stains in volume I, book C. Restorations to the binding (headbands, spines and corners).
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