Ferdinando Paoletti

Firenze, Per Gio. Batista Stecchi, e Anton-Giuseppe Pagani, 1769. in_8° (210x140 mm). 6, XX, 168 p., 1 folded table. Author's name at the bottom of the dedication to Francesco Rosenberg Orsini. Woodcut mark on the front. (Florentine lily on a pedestal, with two winged cherubs holding, and motto: Nil candidius), intaglio vignette signed "Ago. Rosi inv. Tom. Piroli scul", woodcut initials and friezes, Dumb hardback binding. Marbled edges.
First edition of the physiocratic study by the Tuscan economist Paoletti, sensitive to the conditions of the peasant class.

Paoletti's work was also recognized by Karl Marx, who dedicated a paragraph to him in his "Theories of Surplus Value", underlining the importance of Paoletti's contribution in the context of reflections on physiocracy