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160 TUCKER, Beverley. The Principles of Pleading. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1846 PLEADING IN AMERICA First edition of the pro-slavery professor’s treatise on the principles of pleading in court, which particularly stresses the importance of procedure. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1748–1851) was a strong proponent of states’ rights and pro-slavery positions, who, upon taking up his father’s old post as professor of law and government at the college of William and Mary, enthused his students with his fiery southern nationalism and secessionist rhetoric. However, his broad approach to legal education also led to calm and valuable contributions to the study of law and government, as with the present work. Octavo (195 × 125 mm). Contemporary sheep, discreetly rebacked, red morocco label to spine. Refurbished with edges and corners repaired, minor marking to covers, pencilled jottings to endpapers, botanical specimen inserted at p. 102, lightly toned, occasional light foxing. A very good copy. ¶ Ely & Bond, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 10: Law and Politics , p. 134. £1,250 [114660] 161 TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses. [No place: no printer,] 1788 FROM THE LIBRARY OF MICHEL CHEVALIER First edition in book form of Turgot’s Réflexions , a milestone in the history of economic thought, which exerted a major influence on Adam Smith, from the library of French economist and follower of Saint-Simon, Michel Chevalier.
Written in 1766, it first appeared in 1769–70 in the Ephémérides du citoyen . “The Réflexions is a remarkable book, containing not only the skeleton of the structure of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations , particularly the concept of the division of labour, the distinction between the market and the natural equilibrium price of commodities, and the stress on the volume of real savings as the prime determinant of an economy’s rate of growth, but going beyond Adam Smith in the analysis of the relation between profit and interest and the clear statement of the law of diminishing returns in agriculture” (Blaug, Great Economists Before Keynes , pp. 254–255). “Undoubtedly one of the most eminent 19th-century French economists, Chevalier belongs to that most typical brand of engineer-economists. First in his class (major) at the École Polytechnique in 1830 and member of the Corps des Mines as an economist, Chevalier came very early under the spell of Saint-Simon’s utopian doctrine.” (P. Bridel in The New Palgrav ). Octavo (205 × 130 mm). 19th-century quarter calf, spine richly decorated in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, silk bookmarker. With the engraved bookplate of Michel Chevalier to front pastedown. Joints cracked and neatly strengthened, corners rubbed, occasional light spotting and the odd rust mark. A very good copy. ¶ Einaudi 5772; En français dans le texte , 165; Goldsmiths’ 13536; INED 4362; Kress B.1506; Mattioli 3673; McCulloch, p. 7 (“‘This is the best of all the works founded on the principles of the Economists; and it is in some respects the best work on the science published previously to the ‘Wealth of Nations’”). £12,500 [142055] 162 URQUHART, David. Wealth and Want: or, Taxation, as influencing Private Riches and Public Liberty: being the substance of Lectures on Pauperism. London: John Ollivier, 1845
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