SUMMER FAIR HIGHLIGHT – Ian Kidman Rare Books

IAN KIDMAN RARE BOOKS – will be at Stand 17 at the forthcoming London Summer Book Fair; highlights amongst the books he will be bringing to the Fair include:

[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel] Mémoires sur La Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Turgot, , Ministre d’Etat. Philadelphie [in fact Paris, no printer], 1782

£250.00

First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo, pp.xii.395, contemporary full calf, spine gilt ruled and ornamented, armorial bookplate, few minor marginal stains.

Goldsmiths’ Library 12250. Kress B.459. Dupont de Nemours, 1739-1817, French economist and government official. His writings on the national economy attracted the notice of Voltaire and Turgot and his advocacy of free trade influenced Adam Smith.