Einleitung zu den Oeconomischen Politischen und Cameral-Wissenschaften, worrinen für dieses mal die Oeconomico-Cameralia von den Domainen- oder Cammer- auch andern Gütern, deren Administration und Anschlägen, so wol des Ackerbaues als anderer Pertinentien halber, samt den Regalien angezeiget und erläutert werden. Nebst einem Vorbericht von der Fundation der neuen conomischen Profession, und des Allerdurchlautigsten Stifters eigentlichen allergnädigsten Absicht.

Halle, Wäysenhaus, 1729. Title printed in red and black. (viii), 24, 347, (1) blank + 2 folding plates. 4to. Vellum-backed boards, uncut, very small ink inscription to the fore-edge of the title, a very good and clean copy. Humpert 783; Kress 3799; Stammhammer, p. 32; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths or Mattioli; NUC records only three copies (NNC, MH-BA, MiU). First edition. Simon Peter Gasser (1676-1745) was appointed by Friedrich Wilhelm I to the first chair of economy to be founded in Prussia, at the University of Halle in 1727, where Gasser had until then been a lecturer in law. The present work, an introduction to the science of cameralism, and dedicated to his patron, the king - 'great conomus, and still greater soldier' - is his only work of the kind (he published numerous books in Latin on law). It represents an important landmark of cameralism, above all for its commentary on the king's desire to promote that science as a professional discipline in the universities, as signified by the new chair at Halle. See A. W. Small, The Cameralists, pp. 206-221; Palgrave, ii, 187; Roscher, Geschichte der Nationale-Oekonomik, pp. 371-6.