Paris, Bachelier, 1827. Two volumes. (8), iv, viii, xxxx, 330 pp.; (6), 336 pp. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards, spines with red labels and gilt lettering. Kress C.1876; Goldsmiths 25162; McCulloch, 224; not in Einaudi; Quérard, ii, 700. First edition of this important statistical and documentary source. Dupin, François-Pierre-Charles (1784-1873), engineer, mathematician, politician, peer of France, and senator of the Second Empire. He was appointed a representative of the people after the revolution of 1848, and Napoleon III made him senator. Although Dupin began in 1827 a ten-year career as a deputy and a forty-three-year career in French political life he continued to publish throughout the 1830s and 1840s a large number of important books, most of them dealing with economic questions, the condition of the working class, and colonial affairs.
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