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Examen du livre intitulé réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce.
Published by The Hague: Vaillant & Nicolas Prevôt, 1740, 1740
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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First edition, handsomely bound in contemporary morocco, of this refutation of Dutot's Réflexions politiques sur les finances et le commerce (1738), a favourable consideration of John Law's paper currency system. Pâris-Duverney (the third of the four brothers Pâris, whose financial plans were accepted under the Regency in 1716) fell into disgrace with the rise of Law, then rose again with Law's fall in 1720. In the Examen, Pâris-Duverney and Deschamps make a clear and tersely argued refutation of Dutot and Law, warmly praising the Visa, and providing a detailed history of the Mississippi scheme and its collapse. Adam Smith thought favourably of the work's treatment of the Mississippi scheme, writing in The Wealth of Nations that "the different operations of this scheme are explained so fully, so clearly, and with so much order and distinctness, by Mr. Du Verney in his Examination of the Political Reflections upon Commerce and Finances of Mr. Du Tot, that I shall not give any account of them". Kress 4519; Goldsmiths' 7784; Einaudi 1538; INED 1359; Mizuta, Adam Smith's Library: A Catalogue, 1244. Two volumes, duodecimo (171 x 99 mm). Contemporary red morocco, spines lettered in gilt, compartments tooled in gilt, triple gilt fillet to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk bookmarks. With folding letterpress table to vol. II. Half-titles and terminal errata leaves present. Bindings lightly rubbed, occasional light foxing to contents. A superb, well-margined copy.
