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[CANTILLON, RICHARD.] Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général. Traduit de l'Anglois. 427, [5] pages. 12mo, contemporary sheep gilt; insignificant foxing, institutional stamps on front free endpaper, title, and page 9. London [i. e., Paris]: Fletcher Gyles, 1756
Second edition of a work originally published the year before, "the most complete and systematic treatise on economics before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations" (Mai), "notable for its model building, its analysis of market forces and the role of the entrepreneur, its outline of the circular flow of income, and its monetary theory" (ODNB). Cantillon (circa 1680-1734) was an Irish-born financier active on the Continent who made a fortune speculating against John Law's Mississippi Company scheme in France and the South Sea Company in England; he was later murdered (or believed to have been) in mysterious circumstances. Mai, pages 42-43.
