[18TH-CENTURY COMMERCE] RICARD, Samuel. General Treatise on - Lot 105

[18TH-CENTURY COMMERCE] RICARD, Samuel. General Treatise on Commerce, containing observations on the commerce of the principal states of Europe; the natural products and industry of each country... An important 18th-century commercial encyclopedia, expanded and revised by Thomas-Antoine de Marien. Amsterdam, published by D.J. Changuion, 1781. 2 tomes in 2 in-4 volumes, each bound in brown half-calf, spine ribbed and highlighted with a double gilt fillet, gilt volume numbers, and a black leather title label. VII and 619 pp., table of contents; 2 ff. n.ch., XVI and 532 pp., table of contents. Normal wear and scuffing; caps of Volume I partially missing; corners worn; some foxing. An edition revised, reworked, and expanded by Thomas-Antoine de Marien of this famous treatise by the Castres merchant Samuel Ricard (1637–1717), first published around 1700. A fine set.