Quelques Idéés sur la Nature du Numéraire,: Et sur la necessité de combiner l'intéret du cultivateur avec celui du négociant, au moment ou l'on établit un nouveau plan de finances.
by WADSTROM, Carl Bernhard
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About This Item
[Paris:] Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts,, [1793]. First edition of this scarce economic treatise from the prominent abolitionist. Like his associate Thomas Clarkson, Carl Bernhard Wadstrom (17461799) undertook first-hand investigations into the realities of the slave trade. As with Clarkson, his testimony was cited by Wilberforce in the great parliamentary debates of 1789-91. Here, Wadstrom reflects on the economic tensions between traders and farmers in the nascent French republic. Octavo (192 x 116 mm). Modern red straight-grain quarter morocco by Atelier Laurenchet, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled paper sides, green morocco tips. A couple of spots of foxing: a very good copy indeed. Not in Goldsmiths' or Kress.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172267
- Title
- Quelques Idéés sur la Nature du Numéraire,
- Author
- WADSTROM, Carl Bernhard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- [Paris:] Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts,
- Date Published
- [1793]
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Peter Harrington
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