SAVARY DES BRUSLONS, JAQUES - SAVARY, PHILEMON-LOUIS. (4). Dictionnaire universel de commerce: d'histoire naturelle, & des arts & metiers... Nouvelle edition. I-IV. Geneve (chez les freres Cramer & Claude Philibert) 1750. Folio. Titles printed in red and black. Contemporary brown half calf, worn, spines in six compartments, damages at head and foot, darkened spine labels, speckled edges. 2 leaves in vol. III creased in outer margin, 1 leaf in vol. I with some loss of paper in outer margin. Some minor foxing or spotting. 4 volumes. First published in Paris, 3 volumes, in 1723 (Kress 3538), this edition in 4 volumes not in Kress. Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1657-1716) was the French Inspector General of the Manufactures for the King at the Paris Customs in the 18th century, and a lexicographer who wrote the Dictionnaire universel de commerce. He was the son of the famous writer on economics Jacques Savary. For his personal use, Savary prepared an alphabetical list of all objects subject to duty, and then of all the words relating to commerce and industry. To this, he added information on the ordinances and rules regarding commerce in France and abroad. This work formed the basis for his Dictionnaire du Commerce, prepared with his brother Louis-Philémon Savary, which was unfinished at the time of his death. Louis-Philémon finished the work and published it in 1723. The work was successful and useful in the commercial world. Among the subjects covered are trading cities throughout the world and their manufactures, fisheries, colonies and plantations in America, trading companies and corporations (including histories of the South Sea and East India Companies), currency and banking (including an account of John Law's Mississippi Bank) etc. (Wikipedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
SAVARY DES BRUSLONS, JAQUES - SAVARY, PHILEMON-LOUIS. (4). Dictionnaire universel de commerce: d'histoire naturelle, & des arts & metiers... Nouvelle edition. I-IV. Geneve (chez les freres Cramer & Claude Philibert) 1750. Folio. Titles printed in red and black. Contemporary brown half calf, worn, spines in six compartments, damages at head and foot, darkened spine labels, speckled edges. 2 leaves in vol. III creased in outer margin, 1 leaf in vol. I with some loss of paper in outer margin. Some minor foxing or spotting. 4 volumes. First published in Paris, 3 volumes, in 1723 (Kress 3538), this edition in 4 volumes not in Kress. Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1657-1716) was the French Inspector General of the Manufactures for the King at the Paris Customs in the 18th century, and a lexicographer who wrote the Dictionnaire universel de commerce. He was the son of the famous writer on economics Jacques Savary. For his personal use, Savary prepared an alphabetical list of all objects subject to duty, and then of all the words relating to commerce and industry. To this, he added information on the ordinances and rules regarding commerce in France and abroad. This work formed the basis for his Dictionnaire du Commerce, prepared with his brother Louis-Philémon Savary, which was unfinished at the time of his death. Louis-Philémon finished the work and published it in 1723. The work was successful and useful in the commercial world. Among the subjects covered are trading cities throughout the world and their manufactures, fisheries, colonies and plantations in America, trading companies and corporations (including histories of the South Sea and East India Companies), currency and banking (including an account of John Law's Mississippi Bank) etc. (Wikipedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
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