ESSUILE, Jean-François de Barandiéry-Montmayeur (Count of). - Lot 226

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ESSUILE, Jean-François de Barandiéry-Montmayeur (Count of). - Lot 226
ESSUILE, Jean-François de Barandiéry-Montmayeur (Count of). Traité des communes, ou Observations sur leur origine et état actuel, d'après les anciennes ordonnances de nos rois, les coutumes, édits, déclarations, arrêts et règlements intervenus sur cette matière ; les droits qu'y ont les seigneurs, les communautés et chacun des habitants ; où, joignant la politique à l'économique, on démontre leur inutilité, le préjudice qu'elles font à l'agriculture, et l'avantage que l'on retireroit de leur aliénation ou partage, Paris : Colombier, 1777. In-8 of XVI, 395 p., 2 folding plates. Full glazed speckled calf (contemporary binding). A good copy. Important contribution to the advancement of physiocratic ideas. Complete with the two folding plates concerning Beauvaisis. Interesting handwritten note in the upper endpaper: "One could add to this work two small pamphlets, one of which is entitled Avis importants au seigneur et propriétaires de terres (*) and the other, celuy de la Concorde. The first of the two was badly placed by the binder at the end of the third volume of my history of St Domingue. This work can be used as a follow-up to the treaty of the communal goods of the cities, boroughs and villages, in 4to by the Sr de la Poix de Fréminville, printed in Paris at Giffey street of the Vielle boucherie in 1760. (*) The above work is found at the end of the 3rd volume of the hist. De St Domingue. With also a learned handwritten note of about twenty lines p. 186, by the same hand, entitled "Note on p. 178". Provenance: Armorial stamp on title ("Sig. Dom. De Recourt"). Barbier, IV, 775f; Einaudi, 789 (1779 ed.); Goldsmiths, 11547; INED, 1752; Kress, 6726 (1st ed.); Quérard, II, 535. Unknown to Mattioli.
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