CONDORCET (Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis... Lot 47

[CONDORCET (Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de). Life of Turgot. London, s.n., 1787. 2 parts in one volume in-8, marbled basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page, spotted edges (Binding of the time).INED, n°1186. New edition of this biography and eulogy of the great minister and economist, first published in 1786. According to Spengler, p. 242, if Condorcet made only a small contribution to economic theory, he was however an excellent popularizer of the physiocratic doctrine, in particular those of Turgot. In this work, Turgot's tax theory is expressed in mathematical terms. Browning of the endpapers, small crack in one of the spines.