QUESNAY (Francois). Essai physique sur l'oeconomie animale. Seconde édition augmentée de deux volumes, & de tables fort amples. Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1747, 3 strong vol. in-12, marbled havana calf, ribbed spines with partitions and fleurons, title and appendix, framed with a simple cold fillet on the sides, red edges (period binding). The original of this treatise on physiology and philosophy of life appeared in 1736, where it formed a single volume. AT THE END OF VOLUME II: HÉVIN (Prudent): Remarks on the extraction of essential salts from mixtures. S.l.n.d. [1746], 23 pp. with a few handwritten overprints from the period. (Four headpieces trimmed, corners dulled).