[Economia] Abhandlungen, die Elemente des National- Reichthums und die Staatswirthschaft betreffend. Erster Theil [all published].

Göttingen, , 1806. . 18x10,5 cm. . J.F.Röwer, VIII, 519, [1 errata] p. Modern marbled boards, back with gilt calf label, red edges. Last part of the volume faintly waving, cancelled library stamp to title. First edition. Sartorius was professor of philosophy and politics at Göttingen from 1797 until his death. An eminent teacher and educator Sartorius' importance for economics is based upon his introduction of the teachings of Adam Smith at a German university. For this purpose Sartorius published extracts from Smith's work, for the first time in 1796 under the title Handbuch der Staatswirtschaft zum Gebrauch bey academischen Vorlesungen, nach Adam Smith's Grundriss. In the preface to the present volume the author writes that he originally intended to present a new edition of that work, but after all preferred to publish the present series of treatises in which he sets out his own views, despite his great admiration for Adam Smith sometimes different from that renowned author. '[This book is] his most important original work on economics ... in which, whilst adopting Smith's views in the main, he differs from him on several points; where he diverges from him he has been followed by the great majority of later German economists. Acknowledging free-trade as the general rule, he admits exceptions, and holds that the government must interfere in economic life to prevent private interest from compromising the public weal.' *Kress B.5109. Humpert 7719. Palgrave III, p.352.