[Economics. France] Sur les finances. Ouvrage posthume de Pierre André ******

Fils d'un bon laboureur, mis au jour par Mr. *, curé D*. London, n.publ., 1775. 293 p. W. unique large fold. engr. map of France, 4 large fold. tables (2 letterpress and 2 engr.), contemp. hcalf, gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece. Occas. waterst., 1 table loose, upper joint of binding splitting, top of spine and outer corners worn.

1st ed. of this unusual and anonymously published work on financial politics and taxation in 18th cent. France. It was censored in 1776, as it is a fierce diatribe by French farmers against sharecropping and the contemp. system of taxation. Probably published under the patronage of the Ministry (i.e. the Ministry of Turgot and Malesherbes).