Essai sur les consuls. On y a joint les Traités de commerce et de navigation les plus récens comme aussi l'ordonnance du Roi de France pour les consulats du Levant du 3 Mars 1781

First edition, illustrated with a folding plate bound at the end of the volume (cf. Quérard IX, 259).

Contemporary full boards covered with marbled paper, smooth spine heavily rubbed, a label with a now-effaced manuscript title affixed at the head of the spine, surface abrasions with paper losses to the boards, snags to the edges, bumped corners, sprinkled edges; a period binding.

Following general remarks on the designation, status, quality, and responsibilities of consuls, the work presents the texts of ordinances, treaties, and conventions relating to the Levant and Barbary trading posts (1781), prizes brought into foreign ports (1784), navigation and commerce between France and Russia (1787), trade between Portugal and Russia (1787), commerce between Russia and the King of the Two Sicilies, and that between Germany and Russia (1784–1785), Denmark and Russia (1782), etc.

The author served as Privy War Councillor in Berlin.