[Chydenius, Anders]

Estimate

1,800 - 2,200 GBP

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Description

Den Nationnale Winsten, wördsamast öfwerlemnad til Riksens Höglofliga Ständer af en deras ledamot. Stockholm: [N. v. Oelreich for] Lars Salvius, 1765, 4to (203 x 163mm.), modern calf-backed boards

Ibid. The National Gain... with an introduction by Georg Schauman. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1931, first edition in english, 8vo, cloth

together 2 volumes

Literature

Kress 4373

Catalogue Note

first edition, very rare. Anders Chydenius (1729-1803), a country parson from western Finland, was one of the most important intellectual forebears of Adam Smith. However, his work was long consigned to obscurity due its being written in Swedish. "Chydenius more completely than anyone up to the time of Adam Smith, and in more sustained fashion, attacked mercantilism in all of its major manifestations, attached it root and branch" (C.G. Uhr, Anders Chydenius 1729-1803. A Finnish predecessor to Adam Smith, 1963).