Journal de l'Académie de l'Industrie [puis : Journal des travaux de l'Académie de l'Industrie] agricole, manufacturière et commerciale, fondée à Paris par M. César Moreau, le 26 décembre 1830 (…) dans le but de réunir, d'améliorer et de comparer ce que le laps de plusieurs siècles a fait connaître de plus utile et de plus certain, chez tous les peuples de la terre, sur l'état de l'industrie agricole, manufacturière et commerciale [titre de départ]

Rare collector’s head volume of this fascinating economic, agricultural, and industrial journal founded by economist and statistician César Moreau (1791–1860), who also established the "Société française de statistique" (cf. BNF, "Catalogue collectif des périodiques", III, p. 157. Not in Hatin.)

Text printed in three columns.

Contemporary half brown sheepskin binding, smooth spine gilt-ruled with decorative panels, joints rubbed and professionally restored, marbled paper-covered boards, corners worn, yellow edges speckled with red.
Issue no. 23 of the second year is lacking from our set, which collation is as follows:

• 1) 8 pp. comprising the society’s statutes and a personalized "Diplôme provisoire" issued to a member of the Académie (Jean Antoine Barthe, architect and former inspector of Public Works: one folding plate). These two documents bear several autograph signatures, including that of César Moreau.
• 2) 8 pp. listing the members of the Académie.
• 3) First year: 154 pp. covering issues 1 to 12 (January–December 1831), 2 plates including 1 folding: "Pompe à comprimer l'air et les gaz inventée par M. Jobard" and 27 models of ploughshares and ploughs. Pages 105 to 122 (supplement to the first year) have been bound at the end of the volume.
• 4) Second year: 192 pp. covering issues 13 to 24 (January–December 1832). Issue no. 23 (pp. 161–176) is missing.
• 5) 72 pp. for the "Recueil supplémentaire des mémoires", 4 parts, issues I to IX.

Born in Marseille, Moreau began his career in the Westphalian administration before moving to Spain in 1810, where he served in the offices of the French army’s general intendant. He later became French vice-consul in London. In 1829, he returned to Paris, undertook various assignments for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and subsequently founded the "Société française de statistique universelle" and this "Académie de l’industrie". César Moreau published numerous synoptic statistical tables. Cf. Coquelin and Guillaumin.