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Uitgever Composé en latin par Theophile Reinaud, Jesuite, sous le nom de Renatus à Valle, & nouvellement traduit en françois. A Amsterdam : chez Pierre Brunel, sur le Dam, 1714. Contemp. mottled paper over boards. With engraved frontispiece and engraved...

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Extra informatie - Rare copy of first Dutch edition, a new French, more free after the text, translation of the controversial treatise against trade by members of the church by Théophile Raynaud (1583-1663). Originally published in 1642 under the name Renato Valle and title : Hipparchus; de religioso negotiatore disceptatio ..., first translated into French in 1645. The book was placed on the Index. The frontispiece contains 4 scenes of clergyman trading. The vignette on the title-page has the motto : Hollandia: pia et sapiens hospita (Holland: wise, caring and hospitable). It shows a scene where a wealthy citizen welcomes a poor old man as the first of a whole crowd, sitting in front of the City Hall of Amsterdam, now the Royal Palace at the Dam in Amsterdam. Goldsmith's-Kress library of economic literature, no. 5191; STCN 303932295. Only one copy found in the Netherlands (UB Amsterdam).