Apr 19, 2004 - Sale 2003

Sale 2003 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
MANDEVILLE, BERNARD DE. The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits . . . ninth Edition. ix, [1], 374 pages. 12mo, 19th-century 1/2 morocco, worn; contents toned. Edinburgh: W. Gray and W. Peter, 1755

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Controversial satire first published in 1705 as The Grumbling Hive and subsequently revised and enlarged. "Mandeville enunciates a vision of an economy that organizes itself and allocates resources through the market place"--New Palgrave III, 298.