Collectible - Good First Edition

Paris: no publisher, 1789. 1st Edition. 43+[1]pp. Thin octavo. 20th century drab brown wrappers. Good book. Some short-tearing and creasing along the edges. Title-page and edges dusty, else a VG, untrimmed copy. Scarce. Weight: 3.0 ounces = 85 grams. Size: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.2 inches = 21 x 14 x 0.5cm. Pamphlet published by Linguet at the beginning of the French Revolution. "[A] clever French barrister, historian, and journalist, [Linguet] threw himself into the midst of the political and philosophical controversies of his time, under the impulse of an innate and quarrelsome love of contradiction. Although he took good care to remain quiet during the Reign of Terror, he perished on the scaffold. Linguet assailed the physiocrats in his Reponse aux docteurs modernes .. avec la refutations du systeme des philosophes economistes (London, 1771). In his pamphlet on bread and corn, Du pain et du ble, London, 1774, reprinted in 1789 under the title Du commerce des grains ... he wages war against the consumption of bread, which he calls a slow poison. He also opposed the cultivation of potatoes, which might acquire the fearful qualities of corn" [Palgrave II: 609]. Inquire if you need further information.