Dictionnaire universel de commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde, par terre, par mer.par des voyages de long cours .le detail du commerce de la France en general et de la ville de Paris en particulier. Nouvelle edition. 3 vols.

Each vol. with half-title. Titles printed in red and black. With numerous engr. head-pieces and vignettes throughout. (8), xxvii, (1), 544 pp., (545)-1140 double cols. (ie. 294 pp.), (2) pp. (last blank; (4) pp., 1772 cols. (i.e. 886 pp.); (4) pp., 1316, 684 cols. (i.e. 1020 pp.), last leaf blank. Large 4to (280 x 400 mm). Contemporary morocco, spine richly gilt-decorated in 7 compartments (slightly faded and rubbed), gilt fillets and inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. From the library of Wenzel Anton Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg with his gilt heraldic supralibros on both covers showing the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Paris, Chez la Veuve Estienne et fils, 1748. First encyclopaedic dictionary on trade and an important commentary and history on economics. A scarce monumental edition of a popular, often printed work which was first published in 1723 and here finished by the author's brother Louis-Philémon (1654-1727). Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1657-1716), was the Inspector General of the Manufactures for King Louis XIV at the French Custom House of Paris. He was a son of Jacques Savary, the author of "Le Parfait Negociant", a more general work on the same subject. The present work contains long articles on the history of commerce around the four continents, its law, regulations of companies, welfare, etc. and bookkeeping, banking terms, exchange rules and values, or an adequate measure of new values. Special attention is given to the art and business of textile and related crafts as they were basic elements in France and world economy. The term "entrepreneur" first appeared in this dictionary, and has subsequently evolved over time. Savary may be considered as having been one of the first to put forward in his dictionary an explanation in the nature of profit not only when trading. His importance in the history of economics probably lies in the fact that Savary was the first to systematically add the fundamental conceptions on which the science is based.- A nice copy from the collection of Reichsfürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, liberal patron of education and art, and a statesman of the Holy Roman Empire. He was succeded by Prince Klemens von Metternich as State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire.- A nice copy. - Kress 4930; Goldsmiths 08321; Sabin 77273. ECONOMICS ; COMMERCE ; FRANCE ;