CHEVALIER, Michel. On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: the commercial and social consequences which may ensue, and the measures which it invites. Translated from the French, with preface, by Richard Cobden Esq. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 18

CHEVALIER, Michel. On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: the commercial and social consequences which may ensue, and the measures which it invites. Translated from the French, with preface, by Richard Cobden Esq. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1859.

211[1] pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine, some wear to top and bottom of spine. First edition in English.

The substance of this work first appeared in the Revue des deux Mondes in 1857; in 1859 the enlarged French and English editions appeared simultaneously, the French edition as De la baisse probable de l'or. Cobden's preface occupies 9 pages. Chevalier (1806-1879) and Cobden shared similar opinions, and Chevalier presented Cobden to the French emperor in 1859. In 1860 Chevalier induced Napoleon III to sign a commercial treaty with England, introducing free trade into the public international law of Europe.