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152 - [LA PORTE (Abbé J.-Barthélemy de)].
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[LA PORTE (Abbé J.-Barthélemy de)]. Theological, Canonical and Civil Principles on Usury, Applied to Commercial Loans between Merchants, to the Trading of all kinds of negotiable instruments, and in general to all interest on money: With six Letters to a Friend, in response to a work recently published under the title: Treatise on Commercial Loans or on the Lawful and Unlawful Interest on Money. Paris, Delevacque, 1769, 3 volumes in-12, LXXXII–458 pp. – XII–536 pp. – VIII–571 pp.–2ff. Bound in marbled fawn calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with gold-lined panels, gold tassels and palmettes, title labels, red edges. (Contemporary bindings). – A fine copy, in very fresh condition, but missing the fourth volume. “The aim is to combat the new endeavours of the human mind and the refinements of a greed that assumes an air of triumph unprecedented in history” (preface). Bibliographies indicate a fourth volume, published in 1772. (Barbier III, col. 1040 – Quérard IV p. 551 – Einaudi II p. 483 does not mention this title – Dictionnaire des Lettres II p. 43 – not in Cioranescu).
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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