J. 91
La richesse de l’etat (de France) par de la Tour.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 356, Richesses, Dette, Finance, Population, par de la Tour, Baudeau, Coyer, &c. 8vo.
[ROUSSEL
de La TOUR.]
La Richesse de l’Etat. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
Paris?
1763.]
JA36 .P8 vol. 86
8vo. 16 leaves.
Barbier IV, 365.
Quérard VIII, 240.
Original calf, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved on the new endpapers, blue silk bookmark. This
tract is bound with other relative pieces as indicated in the 1815 catalogue entry though not by Jefferson in his manuscript catalogue. On Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue Roussel de la Tour’s work appears as a single entry with the price
9.0. s. The volume now contains 8 tracts, and on the fly-leaf Jefferson has listed the names of three of the authors:
la Tour
Baudeau
Coyer
Roussel de la Tour, fl. 1763-1790, French politician and lawyer, published all his writings anonymously. The first edition of
La richesse de l’état appeared in 1763 in quarto; a duodecimo edition was also issued.
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ii. [DARIGRAND.]
La Patrie vengée, ou la juste balance. Conclusions des richesses de l’Etat. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [?
1763.]
8vo. 8 leaves: A
6, a
2; no title-page, caption title; the last two leaves contain the
Epitre aux critiques des richesses de l’Etat.
Barbier III, 806.
Not in Quérard.
The author of this tract was one of the brothers Darigrand, French lawyers, of whom Jean Baptiste, the more famous, died in
1771.
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iii. [MOREAU,
Jacob Nicolas.]
Entendons-nous, ou le radotage du vieux notaire; sur la richesse de l’Etat. [
Amsterdam,
1763.]
8vo. 16 leaves, no title-page, caption title.
Jacob Nicolas Moreau, 1717-1803, French publicist, held many offices including those of librarian to Marie Antoinette, and historiographer of
France.
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iv.
Mes reveries sur les doutes modestes, a l’occasion des richesses de l’État. Par M. B***. Ecuyer, maitre chirurgien de Paris & de Londres. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [?
Paris,
1763]
8vo. 8 leaves; the above is the caption title, which is preceded by a leaf with half-title.
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v. [BAUDEAU,
Nicolas, abbé.]
Idées d’un citoyen sur l’administration des finance du Roi . . . A
Amsterdam,
m.dcc.lxiii
. [1763.]
First Edition. 8vo. 80 leaves (misbound), chiefly in fours. The name of the author written on the title-page, and the misbound portions noted in ink in a French hand.
Barbier II, 882.
This edition not in Quérard.
Several of the works of Baudeau occur in this catalogue.
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