Lavoisier, AntoineBiblio.com
LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent deBiblio.com
Resultats extraits d'un ouvrage intitule: de la richesse territoriale du royaume de France.
1819123040Paris: Madame Huzard 1819. Second edition first 1791 of Lavoisier's most important contribution as an economist "a milestone in the history of economic science and national statistics and accounting" Poirier p. 266. The work was reprinted after the Terror to which Lavoisier famously fell victim in Collection de divers ouvrages d'Arithmétique politique 1797. "De la richesse territoriale. de France which was printed in 1791 by order of the National Assembly constitutes an extract from a larger work on which Lavoisier had been engaged since 1784 in an effort to complete and verify an analysis of national income undertaken by Dupont de Nemours. Lavoisier's main argument is that the monetary valuation of national income from different sources leads to double counting; that the only method exempt from such difficulties is that based on an estimate of annual consumption since exports and imports in France balance one another; and that in estimating consumption allowance must be made for the variation in the budgets of different social classes. Thus he estimated that the annual per capita income of the poorest families is from 60 livres to 70 livres but he set the value of average per capita income at 110 livres a figure admittedly similar to that of Quesnay in his Philosophie rurale 1763. The net national income computed by estimating the net revenue in the various branches of agriculture he put at only 1200000000 of which half goes to the treasury in the form of taxes and the rest constitutes the landowners' rent" ESS p. 200. The three works bound in after De la richesse territoriale are: a CHÂTEAUVIEUX Frédéric Lullin de. Lettres de Saint-James. Geneva: J. J. Paschoud 1820. Pp. 103 1. 1 folding plate. First edition of the first of five "Letters" by the influential Swiss agronomist; the remaining four were published between 1821-26. b FAURE Louis-Etienne-Baptiste. Mémoire sur les prairies artificielles. Paris: Fantin & Madame Huzard 1814. Pp. 30. First edition. Faure was the administrator of Hautes-Alpes at the time of the Revolution; in later life he devoted his time to agricultural improvements in Briançonnais. Quérard III p. 71. c LEVAVASSEUR Bernard-Marie-Francis. Mémoire sur les chemins vicinaux adressé A.S.E. le ministre de l'intérieur. Paris: Didot 1819. Pp. 46. A few small ink annotations to the text. First edition; WorldCat and Library Hub locate copies at two institutions the BnF and the University of Michigan. Bound first in a vol. of 4 related works octavo 201 x 125 mm pp. 66. Contemporary tree calf red morocco spine label spine elaborately tooled in gilt with hand written paper label "Lavoisier Richesse territoriale" to third compartment marbled endpapers and edges red bookmarker. Spine ends and corners worn corners bumped head and foot of front joint starting inner hinges cracked but firm contents lightly tanned with occasional spotting and a few leaves thinned overall a very good copy. Martin & Walter 19846; Perrot Histoire intellectuelle de l'Économie politique p. 435; Quérard IV p. 642; cf. INED 2690-1; not in Goldsmiths' or Kress. Jean-Pierre Poirier Lavoisier: Chemist Biologist Economist 1996. unknown
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