J. 49
1815 Catalogue, page 99. no. 75, as above.
i. [MIRABEAU,
Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de.]
Théorie de l’impôt.
m. dcc. lxi
. [Without name of place or printer,
Paris, 1761.]
HJ2650 .M4
12mo. 215 leaves.
Barbier IV, 702.
This edition not in Quérard.
Seligman X, 530 (not this edition).
Palgrave II, page 774.
McCulloch, page 346.
French calf, gilt back, with label lettered Theorie / de / L’Impot /, marbled endpapers, blue silk bookmark, r.e. Initialled
by Jefferson at sig. I. The name of the author written on the title, not by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
3.0.
Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de Mirabeau, 1715-1789, French social and political critic and physiocrat. This work, originally published in 1760, contains a defence
of the physiocratic single tax.
[2375]
ii. [PESSELIER,
Charles Étienne.]
Doutes proposés à l’auteur de la Théorie de l’impôt.
m. dcc. lxi
. [Paris, 1761.]
HJ2650 .M4 P4
First Edition. 12mo. 141 leaves: a
6, A-Z in alternate eights and fours.
Barbier I, 1118.
Quérard VII, 81.
Similarly bound to Mirabeau’s work, with a label similarly lettered on the back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Charles Étienne Pesselier, 1712-1763, was a member of the academies of Nancy, Rouen, Amiens and Angers.
[2376]