Beschrijving
Leyden, Luzac en Van Damme, 1781-1783, complete in four volumes, Vol. I: xxii, (2), 370+144+(38), Vol II: xiv,(4)+338+268+(14), (waterstain on top of pages) vol. III: (10)+416+128+(16), vol. IV: (8)+540+60+(17) and large fold out engraved chart showing Impost op de Waag, contemporary tooled half leather bindings, paste paper boards, written titletickets on front, leather corners, spines rubbed, top of spine of vol. I damaged, bottom and top of spine of vol. III damaged, top of vol. IV minor damage. Armorial bookplate and collectors stamps of A. de Kluijs, Tilburg. Very early economic history of the Netherlands, written by Elie Luzac (19 October 1721 in Noordwijk – 11 May 1796 in Leiden) who was a Dutch jurist, journalist, writer of philosophical, historical and political literature, and book-seller, who was considered an important ideologue of the ‘democratic wing’ of the Orangist movement, both after the Orangist restoration in the Dutch Republic in 1748, and during the Patriottentijd.