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‎Preisschriften und Abhandlungen der Kayserlichen freyen ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg. Erster Theil (all).‎

‎Gotha und St. Petersburg, Gerstenberg, 1796. 4to. Uncut in contemporary (original?) boards, spine reinforced. Light occassional brownspotting, otherwise a good copy. XXXII, 281, (3) pp. + 11 folded plates. ‎

Reference : 60117

‎Second edition (the first being published the year before in 1795) of papers published by the ""Imperial Free Economic Society of St. Petersburg"", one of the first economic societies in the world. It was a voluntary association of Russian aristocrats, domestic and foreign scholars, citizens with means of production, merchants and peasants and it lasted from 1765 to 1919.‎