VAUBAN (Sébastien Le Prestre de). Projet d'une dixme royale. - Lot 136

VAUBAN (Sébastien Le Prestre de). Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la taille, les aydes, les doüanes d'une province à l'autre, les décimes du Clergé,... produiroit au Roy un revenu certain et suffisant... S.l., s.n., 1708. In-8, [1] f., p.V-XVI, 272 p., tabl., contemporary fawn basane, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title, speckled edges (flaws including stains on covers, 2 corners worn; tiny worm tract in margin of table, one introductory leaf probably lacking). One of the forgeries bearing the author's name and in in-12 format published the year after that of the extremely rare original edition published in 1707 in in-quarto format, printed in very small numbers and ordered destroyed by the King's Privy Council. Four folding tables off-text. Old signatures on endpapers, including Darcy 1745. (In French in the text, 134).