Essays on the spirit of legislation, in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures and commerce
Subtitle: containing observations on the political systems at present pursued in various countries of Europe for the advancement of those essential interests : interspersed with various remarks on the practice of agriculture, societies of agriculture, rewards, bounties, the police, luxury, industry, machines, exportation, taxes, inoculation, marriage, naturalization, &c.
By: translated from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the Oeconomical Society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject.
Contributors: Bertrand, Jean, 1708-1777.; Carrard, Benjamin-Samuel-Georges, b. 1740.; Seigneux de Correvon, Gabriel, 1695-1776.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Pennington & Dodge, for William Reid, Patterson [i.e. Paterson, N.J.]
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Newark [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Industrial policy -- Early works to 1800.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Wm. Nelson, 1872.
Evans 35186
The first essay is by Jean Bertrand, the second by Benjamin Carrard, the third by Gabriel Seigneux de Correvon.
Other issues, by the same printer, appeared in 1798 and 1800.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-V⁴ W⁴ X-2V⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3N⁴ 3O⁴(-3O4).
"Subscribers names": p. [2-6] at end.