QUESNAY, François. Essai phisique sur l'Oeconomie animale. - Lot 346

QUESNAY, François. Essai phisique sur l'Oeconomie animale. Published in Paris by Guillaume Cavelier in 1736. In-12, brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilt irons, red edges. LVI, 10 ff.n.ch., 296 pp. 8 ff.n.ch. (table). pages. A few stains, epidermure on the second plate, wrinkled spine. Staining to last six leaves. First edition of one of the earliest works by Quesnay (1694-1774). Originally a physician, François Quesnay is best known for having cured the Dauphin of smallpox, earning him ennoblement by Louis XV. His career then turned to economics in the 1750s, when he made a major contribution to the Encyclopédie and founded the first school of economics. A fine testimony to the early publications of this illustrious man.