Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ECONOMICS.) Souligné, [-] de. The Desolation of France Demonstrated; or, Evident Proofs that one Half of the People of that Kingdom are destroyed. Two Thirds of its Capital Stock Consumed; And the Nation Reduc'd to such a Condition that it cannot be Restored to the Flourishing State it was in Thirty Years ago [etc.]. [16], 280 pages. 8vo, 185x113 mm, contemporary speckled calf with morocco spine label, bottom of front joint expertly restored; contents clean. Signature of J. Hare dated 1700 on title. London: John Salusbury, 1697

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first edition of an attack on French economic policy under Louis XIV. Wing S4718.