Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la taille, les Aides, les Doüanes d'une Province à l'autre, les Décimes du Clergé, les Affaires extraordinaires, & tous autres Impôts onéreux & non volontaires: Et diminuant le prix du Sel de moitié & plus, produiroit au Roi un revenu certain et suffisant, sans frais; & sans être à charge à l'un de ses Sujets plus qu'à l'autre, qui s'augmenteroit considérablement par la meilleure culture des Terres. Huitième édition, faite sur un Exemplaire corrigé & augmenté en plusieurs endroits de la main propre de l'Auteur. Où l'on a ajouté la vie de l'Auteur par Mr. de Dontenelle, Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences.

No place, 1708-09. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 270, (2) pp.; 21 pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, label with gilt lettering, joints rubbed and with short splits, corners lightly bumped, red edges. INED 4397; Kress 2606; cf.: Goldsmiths 4432; Stourm 63; Bourgeois & André 6702; Carpenter, Economic bestsellers X, 13. Collation: *4, A-2, M4,; A12 (last blank). The second part with a separate titlepage, with sphere on title.The Projet d'une Dixme Royale is an outstanding work in the field of public finance. Its two most notable features are its understanding of the central role of fiscal policy in economic reform - the result of an exceptionally comprehensive grasp of the economic process - and its use of detailed numerical data to substantiate conclusions. Schumpeter called the work 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument ..... Purposefull marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the work, and a forerunner of modern tendencies' (Schumpeter, History of Economic analysis, p. 204).