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‎Principes de la Législation universelle. Tome Premier [- Tome Second].‎

‎A Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1776. 2 volumes. xx, 389, (3) pp.; (4), 474, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red labels and gilt lettering, red edges. INED 4116; Einaudi A.867; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; Leblanc 113; Mattioli 3269. First edition of this very interesting expostion dealing with the laws of society, the relation between men, man and society, natural and positive law, the role of economics, demography, luxury, property, religion, individual liberty, liberty of the press, free speech, etc. etc. and how society should be organized, governed and managed, this is both a work of sociology, economics, politics and legislation seeking the well-being and happiness of societies and population through proper and rational legislation and organization. 'Économie politique. Doctrine plus agrarienne que populationniste, très proche de celle des physiocrates' (INED, giving a long and extensive analysis of the work). There are sections discussing population (Schmid advocates a continuous increase), family life, property (he defends private ownership of land), luxury, religious toleration, (Schmid is in favour), taxation (Schmid favours direct over indirect taxation), commerce (he advocates, among other things, free trade for the colonies and an autonomous government) and war. One of the best expositions of the body of economic thought of the time.Further sections deal with: De l'Autorité souveraine; Des Forces de la Société; Des Rapports d'une Société avec les autres Sociétés; Du bonheur de la Société; Des Loix positives. George-Louis Schmid (or Schmidt), born in Avenstein in 1720, entered the service of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and retired in 1757 to Nyon in the Vaud. He had close relations with Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert and the other leading philosophes of the 18th century. He belonged, together with authors such as Rillet de Saussure, Delolme and Iselin to a group of important Swiss authors actively participating in the European debates of those days and historians now believe that Swiss authors like these were unique in their attempts to reconcile traditional republican and Christian standards of social justice with the imperatives of economic growth. For this reason, they came to occupy a central position in European debates and the essay competitions of the Economic Society of Bern were closely watched elsewhere in Europe. - Some occasional browning. An excellent copy of a scarce work. ‎

‎Principes de la LÈgislation universelle.‎

‎Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1776 2 volumes in-8 de XX, 389, (3) pp. - (2) ff., 474 pp., (1) f., demi-basane, dos lisse ornÈ de palettes et de fleurons dorÈs, tranches marbrÈes (reliure du dÈbut du XIXe siËcle).‎

‎…dition originale de ce vaste traitÈ qui exerÁa une influence dÈcisive sur Benjamin Constant. Argovien, sujet de la RÈpublique de Berne, Georges-Louis Schmid (1720-1805) dit d'Avenstein - du nom de son village natal - , fut d'abord au service de la cour de Weimar, conseiller de lÈgation "employÈ ‡ l'inspection de l'Èducation du jeune duc". De retour en Suisse aprËs 1756, il se consacra ‡ l'Ècriture et spÈcifiquement ‡ l'Èconomie politique. FixÈ ‡ Nyon dans les annÈes 1770, c'est l‡ qu'il rÈdige en franÁais son grand ouvrage, Les Principes de la lÈgislation universelle. "DÈdiÈs ‡ son ancien ÈlËve, le duc rÈgnant de Saxe-Weimar, les Principes constituent un exposÈ de la doctrine physiocratique, systËme Ètendu ‡ presque tous les domaines de la vie en sociÈtÈ, comme aux relations des sociÈtÈs entre elles. Pour lui la lÈgislation embrasse un champ plus vaste que celui qui lui est ordinairement assignÈ. La science de la lÈgislation se fonde uniquement sur les rapports de l'homme avec la nature et la sociÈtÈ, soit donc sur les lois universelles, invariables, Èternelles qui leur sont prescrites, et en fin de compte sur l'ordre naturel dont le XVIIIe siËcle devait la rÈvÈlation ‡ la physiocratie" (P. Cordey, "Benjamin Constant, Gaetano Filangieri et la Science de la LÈgislation", Revue EuropÈenne des sciences sociales, Benjamain Constant, 1980, n∞ 50, pp. 57-58). Bel exemplaire. I.N.E.D., 4116.‎