Panckoucke - Encyclopedie Methodique. Commerce. - 1783-1784

[First edition, commerce, political economy]

ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE. Commerce. 3 Volumes (Part 1–3). Paris, Panckoucke, 1783–1784.

Rare first edition of the commerce section of the Encyclopédie Méthodique – three complete volumes, Paris, Panckoucke, 1783–1784.

Detailed description:

The present offering comprises the three volumes of the Commerce section from the monumental Encyclopédie Méthodique, published 1783–1784 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in Paris (with parallel editions by Plomteux in Liège).

The Encyclopédie Méthodique was from 1782 onwards issued by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke as a systematically arranged successor work by subject areas to the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert – one of the grandest publishing projects of the Enlightenment, which ultimately encompassed more than 200 volumes and continued until 1832. The Commerce section is among the early issues published immediately after the appearance of the complete work and covers commercial law, trading practices, currencies, measures, weights, as well as international trade in goods of the late Ancien Régime.

27 x 21 cm. 766 + 798 + 831 pp. Rubbed full leather bindings of the period with brown and green spine labels. Interior in very good condition; hardly browned, occasional foxing. Good spine, solid block.