London: J. Roberts, 1734.
Only Edition. Robert Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and most influential politician in Great Britain, had come about his power by avoiding foreign wars, and had elevated his popularity (at least among the landed gentry) by reducing the land tax from £4 to £1 over.....
Mexico City: Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui. 1809.
The Triumphant Mamluks and the Vanquished Paparos is a most peculiar and fabulous anti-Napoleonic satire in the form of an allegorical short story, told from the point of view of a Spanish patriot who encounters a strange scene along his journey on.....
Paris? 1578?
A request directed to Henri III of France to reduce the tax burden on the good subjects of Burgundy, arguing by virtue of case studies of suffering Burgundians that existing taxes and obligatory tributes are too large a strain on the tax base. The treshumble request is framed.....
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568. Octavo, 159 x 97 x 1 mm; A4, [8] pp. Binding of old, heavy, fawn paper wraps, slightly worn. Leaves toned, small hole in tail gutter margin, not near text, evidence of guarding to gutter margins. At one time a member of a Sammelband; ink numbering.....