First edition of this revolutionary project
First edition of this revolutionary project.
En Français dans le texte, 134.
VAUBAN, Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de. Projet d’une dixme royale : qui supprimant la taille, les Aydes, les Douanes d’une Province à l’autre, les Décimes du Clergé, les Affaires extraordinaires ; & tous autres Impôts onéreux & non volontaires : Et diminuant le prix du sel de moitié & plus, produirait au Roy un revenu certain et suffisant, sans frais ; & sans être à charge à l’un de ses Sujets plus qu’à l’autre, qui s’augmenterait considérablement par la meilleure Culture des Terres.
[Rouen], 1707.
4to [244 x 178 mm], (1) bl.l., (4) ff., 204 pp., (10) ff. of table, (1) bl.l. and 1 large folding table.
Bound in contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, sprinkled edges.
Rare first edition of this revolutionary project that could have changed the course of French history.
En Français dans le texte 134 ; Rahir, La Bibliothèque de l’amateur, p. 667 ; Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. le baron Pichon, 158.
In this political work, the famous field marshal addresses to Louis XIV and recommends the creation of a fixed-rate income tax, the “dixme royale”.
Vauban’s book was attacked by the court and the edition was pulped. The importance of this work is obvious; that’s an overwhelming evidence about the economic and political situation in France at the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
A fine copy of this rare book that was forbidden and destroyed from the very beginning, preserved in its contemporary unrestored decorated binding.
Unrestored copies of the “Dixme” are very rare.
Price: € 39 000
