Panckoucke - Encyclopedie Methodique. Commerce. - 1783-1784

[FIRST EDITION, TRADE, ECONOMICS]

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

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

Detailed description:

The present offer includes the three volumes of the Commerce section from the monumental Encyclopédie Méthodique, published 1783–1784 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in Paris (as well as a parallel edition by Plomteux in Liège).

The Encyclopédie Méthodique was from 1782 onward published by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke as a systematically topic-ordered successor to the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert – one of the greatest publishing projects of the Enlightenment, which ultimately comprised over 200 volumes and continued until 1832. The Commerce section belongs to the early issues published shortly after the overall work appeared and covers commercial law, trading practices, currencies, measures, weights, as well as the international flow of goods and commodities of the late Ancien Régime.

27 x 21 cm. 766 + 798 + 831 pp. Worn full leather bindings of the period with brown and green spine labels. Interior very well preserved; hardly browned, occasional flecks. Good cut, solid block.