ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE. Commerce.

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A Paris, Chez Panckoucke; Liège, chez Plomteux, 1783-1784. With numerous tables among which 4 folding. Three volumes. xxx, (2), 766 pp.; (4), 798 pp.; (4), 831, (1, blank), xvi pp. 4to. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners, spines gilt with raised bands, contrasting labels with gilt lettering. Kress B.574; Goldsmiths 12380; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Mattioli. First edition. The Encyclopedie Méthodique was a reworking of the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, containing most of the articles from that work with additions and corrections. Its chief novelty was that the whole was divided into subject categories, making every subject thus more easily accesible. All these parts form independent works on particular subjects. At the head of vol. I: Nouveau élémens du commerce servant de Discours préliminaire à la nouvelle rédaction du Dictionnaire de Savari, pour l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, de Nicolas Baudeau and on pages 559 (misnumbered 459) to 643 Le mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes, de l'abbé Morellet.

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