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⁂ The first is a translation of Lauderdale's celebrated Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth published in 1804. The last item is in fact the complete section on finance of Panckoucke and Agasse's vast rearrangement of the contents of Diderot's Encyclopédie as a series of separate dictionaries. A monumentally ambitious scheme, the project ran to some 196 quarto volumes published between 1782 and 1832; it was never completed.