Adam Smith - Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations - 1781

ADAM SMITH: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Yverdon Edition. 1781. Second edition of the first French translation, by the Abbé Blavet. Complete in six volumes, in-12, bound identically, full Havana morocco, spine with five raised bands, title pieces on orange leather, corners in green leather, compartments ornamented with tooling, three red jasper edges, headcaps trimmed, except for Volume II, and damage at the tail of Volume VI, Volume III damaged, significant loss to the back, beginning of a hinge crack in Volume V. Interiors fresh for each volume. The first work of modern economics and liberalism."} } } )???** (Note: stray characters removed)