Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf.
by ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'
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[4], LXVIII, 108; [4], 216 pp.Second edition of an interesting financial history by an even more interesting, extravagant and intriguing author. Louis Pierre Mortier published the first edition in 1758 at London (= Paris). The full name of the author - referred to on the title as 'Mr. Deon de Beaumont' - is Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Thimothée d'Eon de Beaumont, a French diplomat, writer, spy, and Freemason, a member of the elite Dragoons and one of the best swordsmen of France, whose true gender was a source of speculation and provoked public bets in the late 18th century. Many believed that d'Eon was born female, but had started to dress as a man in his childhood, and changed back from a bad boy into a good girl when his secret was revealed decades later. After his death it turned out that he was a man who had dressed as a woman. D'Eon is often called the patron saint of transvestites.With manuscript owner's inscription P. Lemarie 1861 on first blank. Spine slightly damaged, otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress Library 9587; Higgs, Bibl. of economics 2320; STCN (2 copies); for the author: André Frank, D'Eon: chevalier et chevalière (1953); Edna Nixon, Royal spy: the strange case of the Chevalier d'Eon (1965); Cynthia Cox, The enigma of the age: the strange story of the Chevalier d'Eon (1966); M. Cadéac, Le Chevalier d'Eon et son problème psychosexuel (1966); Gary Kates, Monsieur d'Eon is a woman (1995); and Mark Brownell, Monsieur d'Eon (2001).
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- Memoires pour servir a l'histoire generale des finances.Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1760. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. Two title-pages printed in red & black. Contemporary calf.
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- ÉON DE BEAUMONT, Charles G.L.A.A.T. d'
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- Used
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- [7F0260752519] EUROPE|[7F0260752519] EUROPE -> [5C534DC5B117] France, Greece & Italy|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY -> [0082959459A5] Economics, Numismatics & Trade|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPH
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- 00068 - Economics & History of Commerce
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