SMITH, ADAM.

Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations.Traduction du Comte Germain Garnier entirement revue et corrigée et précédée d'une Notice Biographique par M. Blanqui. Avec les Commentaires de Buchanan, G. Garnier, Mac Culloch, Malthus, J. Mill, Ricardo, Sismondi; augmentées de Notes inédites de Jean-Baptiste Say et D'éclairrcissements historiques par M. Blanqui. 2 Tomes.

Paris, Guillaumin, 1843. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf, spines gilt, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. One tome-label scratched. Stamps on titlepages. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. LXXIX,520;(4),714,(2) pp. Some leaves with light browning, some scattered brownspots.

Third translation into French of Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". "A third and better translation by Count Germain appeared at Paris An. X (1802) in 5 volumes 8vo, with a portrait of Aam Smith. Other editions were issued in 1809 and 1822, the former in 3 the latter in 6 volumes 8vo, one being a volume of notes. This edition was revised by Jerome Adolphe Blaqui, and was republished in Paris in 1843 in 2 volumes 8vo (the offered item) as volume 5 and 6 of Guillaume's "Collection des Économistes".(David Murray in: Adam Smith across Nations. Edited by Cheng-chung Lai)

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