Sempere y Guarinos, Juan
Historia del luxo, y de las leyes suntuarias de España
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Madrid: Imprenta real, 1788. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 24 200, [2] 219 pp., contemporary Spanish reddish-brown quarter sheep, smooth spines gilt in compartments, marbled paper sides, old ink-stamps to title-pages and shelf marks to endpapers [Kress B.1489] (2)
Footnote
First and apparently only contemporary edition of an important work on luxury and sumptuary laws, picked out by Schumpeter in his History of Economic Analysis as the principal work on the subject. The author, a leading political economist of the Spanish Enlightenment, is also known for his four-volume Biblioteca española económico-política (1801-10).