REF. 0272

Mémoires présentés à Monseigneur le Duc d’Orléans, Régent de France. Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très puissant et d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roi et du Peuple.

Henri de Boulainvilliers

Publisher: No publisher
Place: La Haye et Amsterdam
Date: 1727
Format: In-12 (169 x 110 mm)
Binding: François Koehler
Collation: (3) ff., 158-(1)-230 pp.
Language: French
Century: 18th century
Distinctive features: From the library of the Pavée de Vandeuvre family

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BOULAINVILLIERS (de), Henri. Mémoires présentés à Monseigneur le Duc d’Orléans, Régent de France. Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très puissant et d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roi et du Peuple.

La Haye et Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1727.

In-12 (169 x 110 mm), 2 volumes in 1 volume: [3] ff. 158-[1]-230 pp. Half blond calf, arms on boards, spine with false-nerves, red title page, olive green endpaper (Koehler).

First edition.

Boulainvilliers advocated consulting the Estates-General, reducing the numerous taxes to a few that were easy to collect, various measures to encourage trade rather than financiers, and solutions to the problem of farms and the abuses that depreciated the revenues of the royal estate.

From the library of the Vandeuvre family, with their arms on the boards.

I.N.E.D., Bibliographie Générale Commentée, Cahier 28, n°714.

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