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1812113624Paris: Le Normant Firmin Didot 1812. Stated second edition but apparently the first printed. Schelle cites a "Philadelphia 1800" edition no. 74 but we have been unable to locate a copy and it is apparently unrecorded. Dupont had published in 1793 a work of 47 pages entitled Vues sur l'éducation nationale par un cultivateur ou moyen de simplifier l'instruction de la rendre à la fois morale philosophique républicaine civile et militaire sans déranger les travaux de l'agriculture et des arts auxquels la jeunesse doit concourir and it is possible that he called the present work a second edition because of that. There is no mention of an earlier edition in the preface however where Du Pont speaks only of the manuscript "made in 1800." That manuscript completed at the request of Thomas Jefferson in August 1800 the year Du Pont arrived in the United States is dated at the end "A Good-Stay pres New York 15 juin 1800." According to the note in the Hagley record the manuscript or a copy thereof was sent to Jefferson who did not act upon it until 1816 when he gave it to Francis Walker Gilmer. The latter was working on a translation in 1817 at the time of Du Pont's death. The copy sent to Jefferson and the translation have never been located. Hagley has an undated manuscript copy in an unidentified hand with Du Pont's corrections which was acquired at some point by Pierre S. Du Pont. But it was from this printed edition published in 1812 that Mrs. Bessie Gardner Du Pont made the English translation published in 1923. Octavo 196 x 120 mm. Large folding table opposite page 66. Late 19th or early 20th century half calf and marbled boards by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn spine decorated gilt in compartments morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of Rencourt to front pastedown. Folding table trimmed at foot with slight loss of text. Schelle 99. hardcover
1804113554Paris: Veuve Goujon fils 1804. First and only edition. A very rare book printed in only a few copies for private distribution as stated in the preface. Written originally in 1788 in opposition to regressive internal tax policy specifically the tax on hides and leathers it remained unpublished until this moment when that and other reactionary fiscal measures were about to be revived. A virtual treatise on taxation it is a good illustration of the immense practical and theoretical knowledge that Du Pont and his fellow Physiocrats were able to bring to the debate over public policy. Octavo 196 x 120 mm. Large folding table opposite page 28. Late 19th or early 20th century half calf and marbled boards by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn spine decorated gilt in compartments morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of Alexis and Elizabeth du Pont of Rencourt to front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout one or two spots; an excellent copy. Schelle 82. Not in Saricks and no copy listed in the Kress Goldsmiths' Einaudi or Mattioli catalogues. OCLC lists only two copies: Yale and Hagley Museum Library. hardcover
1817161589Philadelphia: P. M. Lafourcade 1817. Dupont's final work Very rare first edition of Dupont's final work published in America where he died the same year: according to Gustave Schelle it is among his writings one of his best and unknown in France. The work is remarkable as a commentary on the development of political economy in Britain and France since the great ferment of half a century earlier in which Dupont himself had been a key figure. It includes a translation of the final four chapters of Malthus's book which had been omitted from the original French translation and a letter to Jean-Baptiste Say whose Traite d'économie politique Dupont had read aboard the ship Fingal in 1814. Octavo 196 x 120 mm. Recent half morocco and marbled boards to style top edge gilt by Ateliers Laurenchet. Very occasional light spotting else a very good copy crisp and clean with uncut fore and lower edges. Einaudi 1666; INED 1603; Schelle 104; not in Goldsmiths' or Kress but located at Kress not in Mattioli or Sraffa. Schelle Du Pont de Nemours et l'Ecole physiocratique 1888 p. 375ff. hardcover
