J. 265
Baldwin’s survey of the British customs.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 405, Baldwin’s British customs, or rates of merchandise, 4to.
BALDWIN,
Samuel.
A Survey of the British customs; containing the rates of merchandize as established by 12 Car. II. C. 4, II, Geo. I. C. 7,
and other statutes; with tables of the net duties, drawbacks, bounties, &c. payable thereon, under all circumstances of importation
and exportation. Also a distinct and practical account of the several branches of the revenue called the customs. With an
Appendix, containing an abstract of all the laws now in force relative to the customs. The whole continued to the end of the
session of 9 Geo. III. By Samuel Baldwin, of the Custom-House, London.
London: printed for
J. Nourse,
mdcclxx
. [1770.]
HJ6192 .A5
First Edition. 4to. 2 parts in 1, 122 and 155 leaves (together 277 leaves), the tables at the beginning printed horizontally across
the page.
Not in McCulloch.
Not in Palgrave.
Old calf, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
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Excise tracts.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 360, as above.
A collection of 21 pamphlets bound in two volumes 8vo., the first in ruby buckram (bound in 1904), lettered in gilt on the
back:
Financial /
Pamphlets /
26 /; the second in old calf, later labels on the back lettered
Financial /
Pamphlets. /
27. / and with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
HG139 .F5 Vol. 26, 27
The pamphlets were originally numbered continuously through the two volumes; later hands have changed this and numbered the
contents of the two volumes separately.
Jefferson’s definition of
excise, as distinguished from
impost, written from Paris on April 3, 1789, to the Comte de Sarsfield, was as follows: “
. . .
Impost
is a duty paid on any imported article in the
moment of it’s importation,
and of course it is collected in the seaports only. Excise is a duty on any article, whether imported or raised at home,
and paid in the hands of the consumer or retailer: consequently it is collected through the whole country. these are the true
definitions of these words as used in England, and in the greater part of the United States . . .
”
1.
A Letter to a freeholder, on the late reduction of the land tax to one shilling in the pound. By a Member of the House of
Commons.
London: printed for
J. Peele,
mdccxxxii
. (Price
one shilling.) [1732.]
32 leaves, Erratum at the foot of the last page.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Seligman, page 408.
Vol 1 written on the title-page.
In 1731 Sir Robert Walpole reduced the land tax from two shillings to one shilling in the pound.
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2. D’ANVERS,
Caleb,
pseudonym.
An Argument against excises, in several essays, lately published in the Craftsman, and now collected together. By Caleb D’Anvers of Gray’s-Inn, Esq . . . The
second edition.
London: printed by
H. Haines, at Mr.
Francklin’s,
1733. (Pr.
1s.)
