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QUESNAY François. PHYSICAL TEST ON ANIMAL OECONOMY....

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QUESNAY François. PHYSICAL TEST ON ANIMAL OECONOMY. PARIS, GUILLAUME CAVELIER, 1736. A volume, in-12, of (8) pp., LVI pp., (20) pp., 296 pp., (15) pp., full contemporary brown calf binding. Spine with 5 nerves cloisonné and fleurné bearing a red morocco title-piece, gilt roulette on the cuts, red edges. Good copy. First edition. After a brilliant career as a doctor - surgeon Quesnay turned in the 1750s to economics. He forms the school of Physiocrats.