Commerce.- Cary (John) Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre, 2 vol., first edition in French, translated and augmented by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont, London & Paris, Nyon, 1755.

Commerce.- Cary (John) Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre, first edition in French, translated and augmented by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont, 2 vol., titles with woodcut ornaments, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, vol.1 X12 blank and with errata f. at end, ink stamp of Eugene de Froberville to first title, some spotting and staining, lightly browned contemporary calf, gilt, spine richly so and with double morocco labels, spine heads little chipped, joint starting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Einaudi 920 (Guillyn); Goldsmiths' 9015; Higgs 986; Kress 5424; McCulloch, p. 46], 12mo, London & Paris, Nyon, 1755.

⁂ 'the best discourse I ever read on that subject' (Locke). McCulloch proposes that the additions made by Butel-Dumont make this 'in all respects a more valuable work than that of Cary'. Butel-Dumont was an economist and secretary at the French embassy in St. Petersburg.