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[Economy - Spanish Netherlands] - [CARDON, Pieter] - Den oorspronck vande ruïne en aermoede der S...

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[Economy - Spanish Netherlands] - [CARDON, Pieter] - Den oorspronck vande ruïne en aermoede der S...
[Economy - Spanish Netherlands] - [CARDON, Pieter] - Den oorspronck vande ruïne en aermoede der Spaensche Nederlanden. Als-mede de aenwijsinghen der hulpmiddelen om de selve landen wederom te herstellen (...) [2nd. ed.]. Liège, Gérard Chockier, 1686, 8vo, loose in boards covered with marbled paper (spine dam.), gilt leather title label on front cover, in slipcase (covered with marbled paper), [8]-80 p. (browning and soiled). Good copy. € 500/800 Extremely rare and probably first edition (or a reprint; the 1699 issue was also called '2nd ed.') of a dialogue between a Brabant nobleman and a Flemish merchant on the economic situation in the Spanish Netherlands in the late 17th c. The solution proposed is mercantilism, arguing that gold and silver (hence also trade and industrial products) are a country's wealth, and not agriculture. This booklet is so interesting for the economic history of the Spanish Netherlands, that in 1991 R. Beutels & R. De Schrijver published a study on it and its author: 'Over het mercantilisme in de Spaanse Nederlanden' We join here this study as well as a facs. of the 1699 ed. Ref. Not in De Theux. Not in Matagne (Namur). Not in BL London, BN Paris, NUC.