Le Chemin de la fortune ou les bonnes règles de la vie pour acquérir des richesses en toute sorte de conditions et pour obtenir les faveurs de la cour, les honneurs & le crédit , entretiens d'Ariste sur la vraye science du monde

First edition. Rare. One copy at the university library of Tours, absent from the BN de France and the British Library, one copy in Edinburgh. Brunet does not cite this book among the works of Sorel.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep. Decorated spine with raised bands. Headcaps worn, upper joint cracked one-third down, corners slightly bumped. Attributed to Sorel by Barbier in the dictionary of anonymous works, the book treats an uncommon subject and a very free manner of making money in all trades and disciplines, from artisans to bankers and men of letters, the work extends its reflection to less official means such as court favors, inheritances. The whole constitutes an economic and moral portrait of 17th-century society quite interesting, and perhaps for the first time, considers money as a good destined to do good.