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2 volume set, first English edition, “First edition in English, second impression (following the first on 1934), of one of the seminal books of 20th-century economic history, acclaimed as “the outstanding historical study of mercantilism in all its phases” (Blaug, p. 31), and “a pioneering effort to delineate the major themes of economic ideas and policy in Western Europe during some four or five centuries” (Coats, p. 35). The work first appeared in Swedish in 1931; this translation was prepared from the German edition and revised by the author. An uncommon work, and scarce in the jackets. Mark Blaug, Economic History and the History of Economics, 1986; A. W. Bob Coats, On the History of Economic Thought, 2005. Two volumes, octavo. Original green linen-grain cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges green. With dust jackets.”