Projet d'une dixme royale qui supprimant la taille, Les Audes, les Doüanes d'une Province à l'autre, les Décimes du Clergé, les Affaires extraordinaires; & tous autres Impôts onereux & non volontaires: Et diminuant le prix du Sel de moitié & plus, produiroit au Roy 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 considerablement par la meilleure Culture des Terres. Par: Monsr. le Maréchal De Vauban, Chevalier des Ordres du Roy, Commissaire General des Fortifications, & Gouverneur de la Citadelle de Lille.

No place, 1707. Sphere on title. With 4 folding tables. xii, 268 pp. 12mo. Modern vellum, red label with gilt lettering. INED 4397; Bourgeois & André 6702; Stourm 63; Carpenter, Economic bestsellers, X, 3 or 5; Kress 2584 & 2585; Goldsmiths 4432. One of the at least 7 different issues of the 12mo edition, published in the year of the first edition. 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). - Old handwritten ownership's entry in blank portion of title-page.