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Paris: Chez les Frères Debure, 1777. First edition. In contemporary leather. Gilt spine with green title vignette. Marbled fore-edge. Occasional underlines and marginal signs in ink and pencil. Binding somewhat worn, overall a good copy.. First edition. In contemporary leather. Gilt spine with green title vignette. Marbled fore-edge. (8º) a-b8, A-Gg8, Hh4; (5), VI-XXXI, (2), 2-488 p. Scarce first edition of Le Trosne's treatise on Physiocracy. In "De l'ordre social", Le Trosne sets out the main principles of Physiocracy, the "Government of Nature", that is considered as the first school of thought in economics. They believed that the wealth of nations was derived from the value of "land agriculture" and the agricultural products should be highly priced. In the second part of the book (Discours [...] sur la liberté du Commerce des Grains) Le Trosne demanding the liberation of grain trade within France. Guillaume-François Le Trosne (1728-1780) was a French jurist and…