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1824628319Berlin, Trautwein, 1824. VIII, 196 S., 1 Bl. Bedruckter Originalumschlag mit handschriftlichem Rückentitel. [2 Warenabbildungen]
18329A Paris, Chez Durand Neveu, 1775. (4), 457, (1, blank), (6) pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, lightly rubbed and shaved along extremities. Goldsmiths 11324; Higgs 6218; not in Kress (citing the 1751 edition 5127); not in Einaudi; not in INED. Last and best edition. Louis-François de Jouy specialized in canonical law and gained a reputation of such high learning that the clergy of France nominated him into one of their councils. The present work is a detailed survey of the history of the Dîme, its various definitions such as the Dîmes ecclésiastiques, the Dîmes inféodées, the Dîmes personelles, etc., etc.
32 pages. Features: Cover illustration representing the waking up of the old American dances; News Bits; How Deadly Snake Venom is Collected to Save Lives; Peddling U.S. Citizenship Rights - the farce of making American citizens in bunches - forcing a hyphenated allegiance i.e. "Induced Naturalization" should be stopped; Gain, Not Glory, Guides the Chinese Soldier - their military tactics are beginning to change under the impact of modernism (with photos); Dr. Joseph Collins Gives "My Definition of a Freudian" (part 3) - the monstrous doctrine of Freud is further and brilliantly exposed; Researching the Colossus of Rhodes - did this statue bestride the harbor entrance?; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - Industry's service is social, and so must be judged; Editorial comments on censorship of pictures sent abroad (after recent Japanese revulsion), concern of Colonel House visiting the Whitehouse, and more; A Shylock Nation? - Here are the facts about American financial support to foreign nations; How Connecticut Handled the Movies - Movie trust faces defeat on taxes and the showing of immoral pictures; The Tichborn Claimant, by Charles J. Finger; Helping the Blind to See - photo-illustrated article shows how boys and girls use their fingers to see; Sidelights on Richard Harris Barham, author of Ingoldsby Legends; The Signers - 56 of 1776 - three from New Hampshire including Dr. Josiah Bartlett, Dr. Matthew Thornton, and Willian Whipple; The "Comeback" of Artist H.L. (Harry Loud) Bridwell; Items read in the papers; Instructions for Waltz dancing, including piano sheet music for "An Old Southern Waltz"; Back cover devoted to excellent Daniel Webster quote about showing the world that an elected government can maintain public liberty. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Contents: The President (F.D. Roosevelt) Allows Congress a Chance to Find Own Salvation: Hill Rebels on Spending, Bogs Down on Farm and Labor, Pushes Housing; Pat Harrison: The Portrait of a Politician from Jokes to Taxes; Labor Front: Dearth of Money Weakens Resistance in Ranks; Jury Scandal: Despite Faith of 2 Sheriffs, Frenchy (George Andre) Can't Go Straight; 'Mr. and Mrs. Gregory': The (Charles) Lindberghs Come Home - and Aviation Lobbies Buzz; Japan Hastens Campaign to Control All Shanghai: A Flag and a Grenade Embroil Tokyo With Powers and U.S. Marines; Spain: Zero Hour - Cold and Politics Prolong Gen. (Francisco) Franco's Worries; Imperial Purge: A 'Soldiers' Soldier' (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker) Becomes Chief of British Army; Rumanian Compromise: Liberals Make Puzzling Deal with Fascists; Mexico: a Celebration - Cardenas' New Deal Goes Ahead Despite Fiscal Troubles; Presenting the 1937 All-American Team - Strong, Versatile, Fast in the Head and Feet; Winter Brings an Enemy: New York Opens Five Clinics to Fight Pneumonia; (Rev. William Norman) Guthrie: Hero Rector of Peter Stuyvesant's Church Decides to Rest; Railroads Want to Spend - With What, Remains Mystery; The Voice of Industry Speaks: N.A.M. (National Association of Manufacturers) Opens 42nd Congress; Farm Puzzle: Both House and Senate Bills Assailed for Complexity; Cure for Coal: Industry Doubts Efficiency of Federal Medicine; and Perspective: Searching for Peace. Camel cigarette color Christmas ad on back cover. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
184020238Boston : Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1840. Broadside. Near Fine. Single folio sheet printed recto approximately 17.5 x 13.675 inches; one horizontal and three vertical folds; near fine. Broadside. An Act passed by both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Senate Governing the valuing of poll and property taxes in Massachusetts. The first section tasks Assessors to submit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office a "true and perfect list" of all male polls age sixteen and up together with "all rateable estate both real and personal lying within their Cities Towns and Districts" with a value of more than twenty dollars. A poll tax is a tax on a person. The Act also establishes an oath which each Assessor must agree to swear by along with penalties for either refusing the oath or not abiding by its terms. Section Seven of the Act details the correct type of form on which information for listing polls and property must be recorded. Even by today's standards this form might be considered comprehensive to the point of being intrusive. To give a few examples: "Number of ounces of plate of all kinds exceeding twenty dollars in value. Number of bushels of wheat. of rye. of Indian corn. of flax. of hemp. of hops. of tons of hay. of cow rights. of horses one year old and upwards. of mules and asses. of oxen. of steers and heifers. of sheep. of swine." and much much more. It was during this decade that Henry David Thoreau was jailed for not paying his taxes ostensibly on the grounds of his objection to slavery and the Mexican war. Signed in type by Robert C. Winthrop Speaker of the Massachusetts House; Daniel P. King President of the Senate and John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth. <br/><br/>WorldCat records only one institutional holding AAS of a four-page pamphlet of the same title with very similar although not identical content. No broadside printings are recorded by WorldCat. Commonwealth of Massachusetts unknown books
055346Pars Bureau du Journal des Douanes Nationales de France 1791 in 8 (19,5x12) 1 volume reliure basane foncée de l'époque, dos lisse orné, tranches teintées rouge, XXIV et 180 pages, cachet du Bureau du Journal des Douanes Nationales de France, fente sur le plat supérieur. Bon exemplaire
13187Lettre patente du Prince de Chimay donnée à Paris le 12 mai 1722 par laquelle il confère ses pouvoirs et la perception des ses droits au chevalier de Lisogne dans ses terres seigneuriales de Révins et Fumay. Document de 4 pages entièrement manuscrit sur vélin 495 x 360mm . Signature du Prince CHIMAY (sans le sceau) .
54 pages. Features: Attractive cover illustration of lady in swimwear; Let's Have Direct Relief for Our Real Forgotten Man - Editorial against high real estate taxes; Death Looks for Cinderella (part 1); Is Father Coughlin Anti-Semitic? - His Own Answer - article with photo; Country Club Scandal (short story); I Was a Showman Too - Volatile Ex-New York Mayor James J. Walker talks of brass bands and ballyhoo; Hearts in Danger (fiction); How to Win Sick Friends and Influence Them - flowers are lovely but show a little originality!; The Good Earth Answers (pioneer family fiction); Purge in Hot Springs (conclusion); Matinee Today (short story); To the Ladies; Hell's Bargainers - Traitors to the Law - Sam Leibowitz exposes the method of lawyer-criminals; Rancher-Artist Augustus (Gus) Kenderdine - candidate for the Canadian Hall of Fame (article with photo); Tennis is a Dub's Game - words of cheer from champion Helen Hull Jacobs; Toronto's Royal York Hotel is featured prominently inside back cover; Colour back cover ad for the Physical Culture Hotel, Dansville, New York. Somewhat above-average external wear. Light pencil doodling to cartoon on page 46 and art contest blank on page 51. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
Contains Acts relating to: Assessment; Power of Attorney; Breeding Stock; Cattle Ranges; Choses in Action; Civil Causes; Foreign Companies; Voluntary Conveyances; Debentures; Debts and Choses in Action; Elections; Execution against Lands; Fences; Gold Mining; Jurors; Land; Licences; Loan; Methodist Church of Canada; Mining; Municipalities; Public Parks; Procedure; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Road Tolls; Roads; Public Schools; Supply; Taxes; Tolls; Trustees; Victoria and Esquimalt Railway (E&N); Voluntary Conveyances. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
112 pages. Features: Marvelous cover art by John Little illustrates fall leaves being burned just north of Lafontaine Park in Montreal's east end; Nice colour-photo ad for GWG features beige fashions for him and her; Eddie Shack top NHL rookie, say coaches; Funky colour-photo GE ad for Coloramic Light Bulbs; Fantastic two-page colour ad for Moirs Pot of Gold Chocolates; Lin Yutang says "Let's stop being polite to the Russians"; Marconi TV ad; Matinee cigarette ad features one-page colour photo of formal couple; Beverley Baxter's article discusses Lady Rhondda and how taxes wrecked her estate; Nice one-page colour-illustrated ad for Canadian Stemsphip Lines (CLS) features the vessels T.R. McLagan, Georgian Bay, James Dunn, and others; The Cloak-and-Dagger struggle to keep new cars secret - photo-illustrated article; A.Y. Jackson - The Memories of a Great Canadian Painter - article with large wonderful colour photo of Mr. Jackson and an assortment of Group of Seven paintings; Holiday Weekend in Halifax - nice tourism-related photo-illustrated article; Where Did Rafe Madison Go? (RCAF novelette); The Short Violent Reign of Soapy Smith - photo-illustrated article by Pierre Berton on Jefferson Randolph Smith, one-time uncrowned king of Skagway, Alaska during the Klondike gold rush; The Land that Time Forgot - Long Point, Ontario; Why Canadians Can't Leave Pickles Alone - how we became among the world's champion pickle-snatchers - article with photo of pickle judges at the CNE; Herman Geiger-Torel - photo-illustrated article on Opera's happy rebel; Great vintage one-page colour-photo Massey-Ferguson ad features their Work Bull backhoe and multi-purpose tractor loader at work; One-page Hammond Organ ad with Christmas theme; Excellent colour two-page ad for the 1959 Buick features a white Electra 225 4-door hardtop; Cinci beer colour-photo ad features couples singing at piano; Before and after photos of Catherine Ann Johnson who lost 39 pounds with the Knox Gelatine diet plan; Nice colour centrefold ad for RCA Victor Hi-Fi products features orchestra (loose but present); Interesting Royal Bank ad shows middle-aged man hankering for a Hi-Fi so he can listen to classical music - the point is that he is encouraged to *save* for his purchase, rather than take out a loan!; Nice one-page colour ad for Labatt's 50 ale - when it came in a tall green bottle; Hertz ad features multiple colour photos of two-tone gold Chevrolet; Excellent colour-photo O'Keefe beer ad inside back cover shows two gents clinking glasses; Back cover Aquascutum men's fashion ad features three gents in 'Britain's finest woollens'; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
17155Londres (Paris?), 1751. 3 parts in 1 volume. (6), 112 pp.; 175 pp.; 171 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges, spine somewhat rubbed, slightly damaged at head and foot. Stourm 81; Conlon 51:499; INED 1094 (one part only); not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First edition. Legal and historical work dealing with Machault's plans to tax the ecclesiastical properties. The clergy maintained that they were exempt from tax and that whatever they paid was a voluntary gift. Chauvelin maintains that the clergy can not be exempt from taxes if the king thinks he ought to ask a contribution from them. The issue was hotly debated at the time, as the long list of works cited by Stourm shows. The work was condamned, Machault's plans failed and the exempt position of the clergy was maintained upto the revolution.
17615Paris, 1649. 2 volumes in 1. 32 pp.; 32 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Moreau 652; Kress 788; Goldsmiths 1019; INED 4055; not in Einaudi. First edition of this very rare pamphlet offering thoughts on the power of the king in financial matters and on the organisation of the collecting of the taxes. 'Très remarquable pamphlet' (Moreau). See for an elaborate account of the man and his works Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, xii, 2e partie, col. 2042-2044. - Very rare, especially with the second part.
183510721Paris, Carilian-Goeury (Corbeil, Bary éditeur et Crété imprimeur), 1835 ; in-8, broché ; (4), 200 pp., couverture bleue imprimée.
17357Londres, 1787. 88 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Kress B.1266 (other edition); Goldsmiths 13454 (other edition); Einaudi 3412 (other edition); INED 2915 (other edition); Stourm, pp. 145-146 (other edition). One of three editions from the same year, no priority has been established. The French crown faced bankruptcy when the Controller-General, Calonne, presented a financial scheme to end the crisis. The keystone in his program was a tax to be levied on all property owners without discrimination of estate. Calonne also proposed liberating commerce in grains from all internal tariffs. When Calonne was unable to pass this in the Assembly of Notables, he was replaced by Loménie de Brienne. 'Linguet lent the support of his publicity to the Calonne property tax and published this work just after the Notables had turned down Calonne's master plan. (.....) Linguet viewed it as a means by which the government, provisioned in grains, could compete with entrepreneurs, control the market price of wheat, and in that way guarantee the lives of an impoverished and progressively more restless population of dispossessed persons. Linguet saw the unpopular tax program as a key government stratagem for warding off two spectres: bankruptcy and a people's revolution' (D. Gay Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, p. 240). - Name on title.
26200A Aix, Chez André Adibert, Imprimeur du Roi, vis-à-vis le College, 1782. Five works on one volume. 46 pp.; 46 pp.; 31, (1) pp.; 24 pp.; 9, (1) pp. Small folio. Modern boards. None of these items in Conlon. Each work has a very nice engraved head-piece, and the place, name of printer and date are printed in these head-pieces. The head-piece of the fourth work depicts a castle and a house. Deals with the right of tax collecting (tax-farming) by Chabert and the predicted amounts of money to be collected. Chabert won the right to collect the taxes among the members of the guild, and for which right he paid the guild of cobblers, but revenues fell far behind what was predicted/expected. At least one of the reasons was the emigration of vast numbers of "garçons" as a response to measures taken by the guild itself, another the departure of many cobblers after a large fleet had left Marseille. The question here is if Chabert is entitled to discounts or refunds of money he already paid to the guild and if he is to be held accountable for failing to collect the predicted/expected sums of money.The first text is preceded by a handwritten summary of the entire matter of two pages, the second piece has handwritten annotations at the end stating the Chambre de Tournelle affirmed the verdict by arret of 16 july 1782: the second piece finds the guild (the Maîtres Cordonniers) guilty.
103403A Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1768, 1 volume in-12 de 172x105 mm environ, 102 pages, demi maroqui à coins cerise, dos à nerfs portant titre et date dorés, tranche de tête dorée, gardes marbrées. Ex-libris du libraire-éditeur H. Baillière sur le premier contreplat. Petits frottements sur le cuir, sinon bon état.
173928067Paris: De Nully 1739. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf gilt spine leather label marbled endpapers. Previous owner's signature on title otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Comprehensive treatment on the origine rationale collection and and evolution of various taxes by this "Conseiller du Roi Lieutenant Général en chef au Siège des Elections de Xaintes." Kress 4476 De Nully unknown
173928067Paris: De Nully 1739. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf gilt spine leather label marbled endpapers. Previous owner's signature on title otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Taxes in the Ancien Régime. Comprehensive treatment on the origine rationale collection and and evolution of various taxes by this "Conseiller du Roi Lieutenant Général en chef au Siège des Elections de Xaintes." Kress 4476 De Nully unknown books
24695A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1785. With three folding tables. (2), 106 pp. 4to. Modern boards. Conlon 85:615; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Signed at end by Le Roy, Tillet and Desmarest.The contents can be best summarized by giving the drop-head title on page one: Rapport fait à l'Académie, Relativement à l'advis que le Parlement a demandé à cette Académie, par arrêt du 6 Septembre 1793. Sur la contestation qui s'est élevée à Rochefort, au sujet de la taxe du Pain; sur les Expériences qui ont été faites dans cette Ville à ce même sujet, en exécution d'un arrêt du Parlement du 7 Juin 1781; & sur les moyens d'établir le prix juste du Pain, proportionnément à celui du Blé, suivant la quantité de Farines différentes qu'une quantité de livres de Blé peut rendre, & suivant la quantité de Pain que ses Farines doivent donner. - Small brown spot in inner blank margin of title-page, else a fine copy.
26760Paris Chez Durand Neveu, Libraire 1775 in 12 (17,5x10,5) 1 volume reliure plein veau fauve marbré de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches marbrées, faux-titre, titre, 457 pages, et 2 faux-feuillets non chiffrés d'approbation in fine, toute petite trace claire sur l'extrémité de la marge supérieure, petite usure au niveau de la coiffe supérieure, supra libris sur le plat supérieur: Lascoux. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
17894A Paris, 1776. (2), 155, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Kress 7193; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; this edition not in INED; Camus 1566; Peinot, Livres Condamnés, i, p. 43 (with wrong date). Third edition, published in the same year as the first edition, the other two having only 48 and 72 pages respectively. Pierre-François Boncerf, French writer on agrarian subjects. While a clerk in the ministry of finance under Turgot he published a pamphlet, Les inconvénients des droits féodaux. According to Palgrave the work was published with the consent of Turgot. In it he attacked the contemporary system of feudal dues as ruinous to those who pay them, of little advantage to its benificiaries and contrary to the principles of freedom. The solemn condemnation of the pamphlet by the parlement of Paris, which the king vetoed, and the ensuing controversy in the press, in which Voltaire took a prominent part, established Boncerf's reputation and resulted in the translation of the work into many European languages. The pages 70-end contain the relevant texts by Montesquieu. The work was first published anonymously, a second edition was published with the pseudonym M. Francaleu.
1631PHO-1968Paris, chez Toussainct Quinet, 1631. In-8 (173x114mm), 7ff.-872pp.-8ff., vélin époque, manque au dos, travail de ver avec atteinte à qlqs lettres sur une trentaine de feuillets, petites rousseurs.
17358No place, (1788). 2 works in 1 volume. 144, (2) pp.; 12 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. First work: Kress B.1266 (other edition); Goldsmiths 13454 (other edition); Einaudi 3412 (other edition); INED 2915 (other edition); Stourm, pp. 145-146 (other edition). One of three editions from the same year, no priority has been established. The French crown faced bankruptcy when the Controller-General, Calonne, presented a financial schem to end the crisis. The keystone in his program was a tax to be levied on all property owners without discrimination of estate. Calonne also proposed liberating commerce in grains from all internal tariffs. When Calonne was unable to pass this in the Assembly of Notables, he was replaced by Loménie de Brienne. 'Linguet lent the support of his publicity to the Calonne property tax and published this work just after the Notables had turned down Calonne's master plan. (.....) Linguet viewed it as a means by which the government, provisioned in grains, could compete with entrepreneurs, control the market price of wheat, and in that way guarantee the lives of an impoverished and progressively more restless population of dispossessed persons. Linguet saw the unpopular tax program as a key government stratagem for warding off two spectres: bankruptcy and a people's revolution' (D. Gay Levy, The Ideas and Careers of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet, p. 240).Second work: Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; not in Stourm.Calonne's reforms failed, Brienne's attempts failed, and the King gave in, recalled Jacques Necker to face the acute financial crisis, recalled the parlements and annulled all judicial reforms. Linguet answered with number 116 of his Annales again proposing fiscal reform. The parlements answered by ordering this number 116 to be lacerated and burned. The present work is Linguet's protest against these decisions by the parlement. - Inner margin of the first title and last leaf of the second work strengthened.
173459334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown
173459334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown books