8vo (214x133 mm), xvi-584 pages and two plates. binding : Contemporary quarter chagreen, spine in six compartments. Tear on title page.
First edition in French. Work devoted to the quantitative theory of money, its history, its method of calculation. Although these notions had already been explained by Bodin in the 16th century, Irving Fisher was the first to clearly express the quantitative theory of money in the form of an equation: MV=PT.