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economic advance had been promoted by her public debt and public credit. He takes Hume to task on this matter, and comments on a number of other contemporary authors, such as Berkeley, Boisguilbert, BuVon, Colbert, Diderot, Mirabeau, Petty, Rousseau and Voltaire. He is also well known for his criticism of the agricultural enthusiasm of Boisguilbert, as expressed in his Le Detail de la France and the physiocrats. ‘Pinto’s Traité is written from a national as well as an international perspective. His experience as a merchant and Wnancier in the Republic, along with his knowledge of French and English economic thought, laid the foundations for his European economic model. Pinto wanted above all to convince his readers of the soundness of the British system of public debt. With the adoption of improvements in the redemption policy proposed in his book, the system would achieve a high degree of perfection. In France the physiocratic opinions of the elder Mirabeau in particular required Pinto to respond, and in England the otherwise admiring Hume was in disagreement. By means of a critical discussion of the work of these and other authors, Pinto propagated a Wnancial policy that he thought would beneWt both the State and the individual’ (Nijenhuis). This copy contains the sheet H*, entitled L’Etat des Finances en Angleterre à la fin de la session du Parlement en 1770, which is not always present and not mentioned by Einaudi. It does not contain the Addition au Traité (pp. 369–384) and the errata leaf, which were later inserted in some copies. Einaudi 4447; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10791; Higgs 5282; INED 3603; Mattioli 2851; Stourm, p. 42; Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica, 868; for an elaborate analysis of Pinto’s work see I. J. A. Nijenhuis, Een Joodse Philosophe. Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787), Amsterdam, NEHA, 1992. A Jew’s Defence of Religion 92 PINTO, Isaac de. Der Jude für die Religion oder Kern der Beweisgründe wider die Materialisten, nebst neuen Anmerkungen über die natürliche BeschaVenheit unserer Kenntnisse das Daseyn Gottes, und das Unkörperliche Wesen und die Unsterblichkeit der Seele. Frankfurt, Leipzig, van Düren, 1776. £1500 8vo, pp. 19, [v] contents and advertisement, 164; engraved vignette on title; title dust-soiled, paper restoration to upper outer corner of Wrst four leaves, lightly browned and spotted throughout, due to paper quality; recently rebound in modern marbled boards; mss number to upper corner of title. First edition in German, very rare, of Pinto’s philosophical and psychological defence of monotheistic religions against the attacks of the ‘materialists’. The Précis des arguments contre les matérialistes was Wrst published in the Hague in 1774. Pinto here was inspired by Hemsterhuis’s earlier anti-materialist Lettre sur l’Homme et ses Rapports (1772), and borrowed his argumentation against the materialist principle that physical causes deter- susanne schulz-falster rare books
mine a person’s mental faculties. He concentrated on the dangerous political and social implications of works like d’Holbach’s Système de la Nature (1770), and displayed, without explicitly referring to a Christian or Jewish God, a theistic view of the world in which the universe needed its divine maker to keep going. (see Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Dutch Philosophers). Pinto (1715–1787) was born in Amsterdam into an aristocratic Sephardic family. A highly successful businessman, he is best known as an economist and advisor to the Stathouder William IV. See Fürst III, p. 104 for the second German edition of 1778 and Higgs 6552 for the Wrst French edition; NUC records two copies, at Harvard and Hebrew Union College; OCLC lists copies at Fulda and Munich. The Earliest Printed Book on Economics 93 PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum usuarum et excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm Fratrem Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon:] Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January 1477. £8800 catalogue fourteen
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