[METHODICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA]. DICTIONARY encyclopaedic trade di - Lot 63

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[METHODICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA]. DICTIONARY encyclopaedic trade di - Lot 63
[METHODICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA]. DICTIONARY encyclopaedic trade dictionary (Volume I). ENCYCLOPEDIA methodical. Trade (Volumes II and III). Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1789; Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, 1789-84. Three volumes in-4 of xxx pp., (1) ff., 766 pp., 2 folding pictures, oblique; (2) ff., 798, (1) pp., 2 folding pictures, oblique; (2) ff., 831, xvi pp., early 19th century binding in fawn half calf, spine decorated with crossbindings with full arms (Meslant). Complete part devoted to trade within the huge enterprise of the Methodical Encyclopedia. Unlike Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia, the volumes are here grouped by subject. At the head of Volume I, first published in 1783, are the New France of commerce, which served as a preliminary discourse for the new writing of Savari's Dictionary for the Methodical Encyclopedia, by Abbé Baudeau, and, on pages 559-643, the Memoir on the current situation of the Compagnie des Indes, by Abbé Morellet. Enclosed, in the same binding: ENCYCLOPEDIA methodical. Finances. Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, 1784-87. Three volumes in-4 of (1) ff., 12, lx, 685 pp.; (2) ff., 787 pp.; (2) ff., 797, xvii pp., early 19th century binding in fawn half calf, spine decorated with full arms. The Finance part of the Methodical Encyclopedia. In volume III, article "Maîtrises" by Vincent de Gournay and Cliquot-Blervache, taken from the Amsterdam edition, 1754. Together six volumes in-4. Fine copies in beautiful bindings signed by Meslant with the coat of arms of Louis-Henri-Joseph de Bourbon-Condé pushed at the bottom of the spine, accompanied by the gilt Chantilly inscription. Some rubbings and restorations on the bits.
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