"Simonde De Sismondi - History Of The Italian Republics Of The Middle Ages. 1826, 16 Volumes."
SIMONDE DE SISMONDI (Jean Charles Léonard) - History of the Italian Republics of the Middle Ages. Paris, Chez Treuttel et Würtz, 1826; in-8, approximately 500 pp. per volume, period hardcover, brick-colored, smooth spine, bookplate at the end of the volume V. Guébin. The 16 volumes. Scattered foxing. New edition, revised and expanded. Swiss historian and economist (Geneva 1773-Geneva 1842). Interested in economic science, he first adopted the ideas of Adam Smith, then came to denounce, in 1803, in De la richesse commerciale, the error of the classical liberal economists who advocated wealth above all.