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manufacturing industry had been organised in 1839, to be repeated every third year.
However, this second exhibition already took place in 1841, to coincide with the
national conference of Italian scientists.
The report begins with a running account of the various fields included, naming
winners in the difference categories, but also pointing out general developments in
industry. Covered are silk, felt, leather, straw hats, wool, cotton and linen fabrication,
paper manufacturing, metal works, chemical production, glass manufacture, optical
instruments, and luxury goods. The industrial exhibition is clearly designed to
represent 'unique' industrial products, rather than similar items from a variety of
producers. At the end the 120 exhibitors are listed, with their special product, and
where applicable the prizes won.
Not in Carpenter, European Industrial Exhibitions Before 1851 and their
Publications, where the reports of the 1839 and the 1844 exhibitions are listed.
Uncommon, KVK lists just one copy at Oxford…??
St. Petersburg Printing
41.
JOVELLANOS, Gaspar Melchior. L'Identité de l'Intérêt général avec
l'Intérêt individuel, ou la libre action de l'Intérêt individual est la
vraie source des richesses des nations. Principe exposé dans le
rapport sur un projet de loi agraire, adressé au conseil supreme de
Castille au nom de la société économique de Madrid. St. Petersbourg,
Drechsler, 1806. £ 750
8vo, pp. [x], 282, printed on thick paper; contemporary full calf, spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, sides with gilt rue; a.e.g;
extremities a little rubbed, but a fine copy.
First edition in French of this landmark in liberal reform in the Spanish
enlightenment. First published in 1795, Jovellanos' 'Informe .. en el expediente de la
ley agraria', is translated by Rouvier and dedicated to the Russian minister of the
Interior, count de Kotchoubey. Together with Campomanes, Jovellanos was is the
main exponent of Spanish economic Liberalism, a heroic statesman dedicated to
progressive change in a conservative society.
The present work is in fact a report made to the Supreme Council of Castille for the
Sociedad Económica of Madrid. 'The document, still a classic in Spain contains a
clear and methodical exposition of the obstacles to Spanish agricultural progress,
obstacles including not only the nature of the soil and adverse climatic conditions,
but also existing law and custom. To remedy the situation he advocated irrigation
and improved roads, the break up, for sale of lease, of the commons and waste lands,
the abrogation of the privileges of the Mesta and the education of the peasants. He
favoured free trade in grain within the country but objected to its export and
believed that its importation should be limited.' (IESS). Jovellanos was strongly
influenced by Adam Smith whom he cites here, and in fact he translated parts of the
Wealth of Nations. 'Jovellanos wrote boldly and extensively on other questions of