The Friend of Man, or Treatise on Population rare 18c set both as a form of

both as a form of training and as a way to bring the grandeur of earlier centuries into contemporary interiors

Executed with delicate wash and fine architectural detail

The proportions make it clear this was made for a child — likely used in a 19th-century farmhouse or schoolroom

working with composers like Masini and Auguste Panseron

The Friend of Man, or Treatise on Population rare 18c set both as a form ofThe Friend of Man, or Treatise on Population By Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau A cornerstone of Enlightenment economic thought, The Friend of Man is the Marquis de Mirabeaus sweeping five volume manifesto on population, agriculture, commerce, governance, and social reform. Published between 1756 and 1761, this work marks Mirabeaus full embrace of physiocracythe doctrine that land and agriculture are the true sources of national wealth.