COMPAGNIE DES INDES DUPLEIX, Joseph François Lot n° 22

Memory for Sieur Dupleix. Against the East India Company. With supporting documents. Paris, Imprimerie de P.A. Le Prieur, 1759. In-4, (4) 294, (2) 124 pp., half-sock. fawn. ep., spine with ornate nerves, epid. ss., upper carn. partly split. KRESS S.4166. GOLDSMITHS 9478A. EINAUDI 1659. HIGGS 2007. Original edition. Dupleix had been Governor of Pondicherry for the East India Company from 1742 to 1754. After his disgrace, he tried in vain to recover the money he had advanced to the company. His colonial enterprise, which would have given France an immense empire in India, remained misunderstood. NECKER, J.] - Answer to Father Morellet's Memorandum on the Compagnie des Indes, printed in execution of the Deliberation of Mrs. the Shareholders, taken in the General Assembly of August 8, 1769. In Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1769. (2) 50 pp. KRESS 6665. INED 3370. HIGGS 4701. SABIN 52216. Original edition. Morellet had accused the company of exercising a monopoly.