‎GIRAUDEAU Pierre :‎
‎La Banque rendue facile aux principales nations de l'Europe. Troisième édition. Revue, corrigée..augmentée..à la suite de laquelle , On trouve le Traité de l'Achat des Matières & Espéces d'Or & d'Argent , a la manière de tenir les Livres en partie doubles.‎

‎15. Lyon, chez Regnault, 1769, in-4°, (viii) pp + (24) pp (lettered A-&) + 478 pp + (6)nn pp + xii pp + (2)nn pp + (pag 13) + (Fol.I) + (Fol 12)(x2) + p.38 + (4)nn pp +(pag 41) + (3)nn pp + (Fol.30)(x 2) + (1)nn pp + (pag.7) + (fol 9)(x2) + pp 26-50. (Complete, but a very complicated collation because the author-printer changed pagination in line with the bookkeeping examples in the second part of the book). Bound in contemporary full leather , raised gilt spine, lower headcap missing, lower joint broken over 3 cm, leather with some serious old worming markings, interior fine and crisp but for a few quires at the end which have waterstains at the inner margin, a few pages with more extensive stains. General aspect of binding still very acceptable and sound. Text in French. This is the third edition of a very successful work on banking and bookkeeping. The first edition was from 1740 and it was re-edited up till the 19th century. (See Einaudi 2596 for the first edition).‎

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