French Finances
[TAXATION.]
Le financier hermite.
Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1789.
8vo, pp. [2], 125, [1 (blank)]; a little creasing to fore-edges, a few small spots; a very good, clean, wide-margined copy, uncut and partly unopened, stab-stitched in contemporary plain wrappers; small loss to one corner, light marks and staining.
Rare first edition of this anonymous work reviewing the existing system of taxation in France and making suggestions for its improvement, written on the eve of the French Revolution during the economic crisis that was one of its principal causes.
OCLC records 2 copies in the US (Harvard and NYPL) and 1 in the UK (British Library).
