PMM. Economy. RICARDO. Des principes de l'économie politique et de l'impôt

2 Volumes in 8vo. 195x120 mm. Contemporary quarter leather binding, marbled boards, gilt rules and titles on the spines, sprayed edges. Pages X, (2), 431, 1 blank; VI, 375, 1 blank. Slight widespread foxing, good copy.

Rare and important first French edition, edited by J. B. Say. This is the most important work in the history of economic doctrines, published in English in London in 1817, which influenced the political economy of the 19th century and was used by Marx to formulate the labor theory of value. Ricardo is the first scientific economist, and goes beyond Smith, proceeding in his study in a rigorous manner, sometimes with the help of mathematical models, thus anticipating the modern techniques of economic analysis. The volume is studded with dense and timely explanatory and critical notes by Jean Baptiste Say, the main French classical economist. Translation from English by Portuguese physician Francisco Solano Constancio (1777-1846).

Quérard, VIII, 502; Coquelin, 739; Printing and the mind of man, 277.