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[GALIANI, FERDINANDO.] Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bleds. [4], 314, [2] pages, including half-title. 8vo, later 19th-century 1/4 leather with shelf labels, spine chipped at top; occasional pencil underscoring and marginal markings, owner's notes on front endleaf, institutional stamps on half-title and title, last few leaves torn in blank upper margin just touching headlines on one leaf. "Londres" [i. e,. Paris], 1770
first edition of a controversial critique of the 1764 French royal edict liberalizing grain exports, arguing against the free trade policy advocated by the Physiocrats. Galiani (1728-1787) was an Italian priest and writer on economic and political subjects who was posted to the Neapolitan embassy in Paris. Mai, page 92.
