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SUPPRESSING POVERTY IN GHENT

[POVERTY]. [VAN BEUGHEM, Charles Antoine Francois de Paule]. Suppressio mendicitatis, sive specimen staturoum stimulorumque pro ea abolenda.

Gandavi, [i.e. Ghent]. e Typographia Philippi Gimblet & Fratum, in Foro Granorum, 1778. First edition.
8vo. 24pp. Original marbled paper wrappers. Slightest creasing to extremities, else a fine copy.
A rare collection of the tenets of a Flanders poverty relief scheme, in the original state.

OCLC locates only two copies, at BNF and Columbia.
Voisin 689.
£ 400.00 Antiquates Ref: 14803