Davanzati, Bernardo.

4to (199 x 140mm.), woodcut coat-of-arms on title-page, woodcut portrait of the author on verso of title-page, nineteenth-century half vellum, lacking A1 (additional title-page), some light foxing, old library stamped on title-page deleted

Goldsmiths 687; Kress 531; Einaudi 1434; Gamba 429

rare first edition of this collection of economic writings by Davanzati (1529-1606), a Florentine merchant and historian of the English Reformation. It includes his two most famous economic writings: Lezione delle monete (first published in 1588), which contains an analysis of the mechanics of exchange and an explanation of the commercial vocabulary of the period; and Notizia de cambi (first published in 1582), written at the request of the Accademia Fiorentina for a solution to the monetary disorder of the period.