Wealth of Nations
SMITH, Adam; BLAVET, Jean-Louis (translator).
Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations: traduit de l'Anglais d'Adam Smith, par le citoyen Blavet.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de Laran et Co, 1800-1801.
'This translation was revised with the assistance of Abraham Guyot, incorporating the alterations made by Smith to his 3rd edition and including a translation of the index' (Tribe). The original translation was made by Jean-Louis Blavet (1719-1809), librarian to the Prince de Conti, and recommended to Smith by Madame de Boufflers, a correspondent of David Hume's who was an important figure among the anglophiles at court.
First Laran edition; 4 vols; 8vo (20x 12.5 cm); text in French, half-titles and titles to each vol.,vol. I title and half-title browned, spotting throughout; contemporary brown morocco backed blue marbled boards,spines lettered in gilt, corners bumped, covers slightly abraded with minor loss, very good; xxvii, [1], 500; [4], 521, [1]; [4], 460; [4], 456pp.
Tribe 70; Cujas 34061.
Stock code 116821
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