DUCREST, Charles-Louis, Marquis. Memoire sur l’administration des Finances, par… Chancelier de S.A.S.Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans.
Londres, F.J. Donaldson, 1788.

Small 4to; Contemporary binding in boards; pp. XII incl. Title page, 110 error numbering. 112, 2 nn.

Rare edition. It is an original analysis of the tax system in France, with proposals to rationalize it in the light of the economic theory of the physiocrats, published on the eve of the French Revolution. Ined: "Financial and economic. Nineteen general principles on taxation, namely: the most perfect tax system is the one under which the distribution is more equal, and picking the less arbitrary; these should not allocating that relate to the excess of what is needed in each to live; it is only the earth that provides all the living; taxation must not be imposed on the first source of wealth, etc. Vices and quality of the different taxes on people, commerce, land, utilities, housing and rents ... Interesting observations on mortality caused by poverty, also produced by the tax system. ".Nice specimen, uncut.

INED 1522.