Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

68 69 68 c DUPUIS, FRANÇOIS. Cathena aurea super Psalmos. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide; full-page woodcut of the Six Days of Creation on 2B4r. [10], 262 leaves. Folio, 313x213 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties; title soiled with blank lower margin excised and restored, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, worming in gutters in second half of volume generally not impairing legibility. Branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top edges. [Paris]: Poncet Lepreux, 1529 [250/350] first edition of a commentary on Psalms with the full Vulgate text; issue with Lepreux imprint. 69 c (ECONOMICS.) [Boisguilbert, Pierre Le Pesant de.] Le Detail de la France, la cause de la diminution de ses biens et la facilité de Remede. [2], 245 pages. 12mo, 157x90 mm, later mottled sheep gilt, top of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; scattered minor foxing, later owner’s note about the author on title, lower outer corner torn off G5 with text loss; marbled edges. Booklabel of E. Pelay and armorial monogram bookplate of Charles Lormier, both of Rouen. [Rouen], 1696 [500/750] first edition of an analysis of the deterioration of the French economy under Louis XIV, proposing tax reform and free trade as remedies. “Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive . . . A wealth of embryonic tools and concepts can be found in his work”—New Palgrave I, 508.