‎VAUBAN (Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de).‎
‎Projet d'une dixme royale qui, supprimant la taille, les aydes, les doüanes d'une province à l'autre, les décimes du Clergé, les affaires extraordinaires... produiroit au Roy un revenu certain et suffisant...‎

‎ Projet d'une Dixme Royale qui supprimant la taille les Aydes les Douanes d'une Province a l'autre les Decimes du Clerge les Affaires extraordinaires; & tous autre Impots onereux & non volontaires: Et diminuant le prix du Sel de moitie & plus produiroit au Roy un Revenu certain et suffisant sans frais; & sans etre a charge a l'un de ses Sujets plus qu'a l'autre qui s'augmenteroit considerablement par la meilleure Culture des Terres ‎

‎ 1707 Par Monsieur le Marechal de Vauban Chevalier des Ordres du Roy Commissaire General des Fortifications & Gouverneur de la Citadelle de LilleSans lieu.: Sans éditeur 1707. "A la sphere" - 268 pages; 3 planches dépliantes. Reliure d'epoque plein veau parfait etat , dos à nerfs largement decorés caissons dorés -superbe- Premiere edition in-12 parue sous la date de l'originale , dans lequel se trouve un tableau saisissant des miseres des classes inferieures à cette epoque. Il fut saisi et detruit sous l'ordre de Louis XIV ‎

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‎Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la taille, Les Aydes, 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 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 considérablement par la meilleure Culture des Terres.‎

‎No place (Rouen?), 1707. With one folding table. (8), 204, (20) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilding faded, a bit rubbed, inner hinge front cover cracked but binding solid. En Français dans le Texte, 134; Bourgeois & André 6702; Stourm 63; Kress 2583; Goldsmiths 4431; McCulloch, p. 342f; Masui, p. 396; Carpenter X (1); this edition not in INED and Einaudi, OCLC and RLIN locate only three copies at Keio, Yale and Minnesota. Very rare first edition, with B4 in cancelled state: on p. 16, a setier is correctly given as weighing 240 pounds, and a notable rarity, of 'an erudite economic work much in advance of its time, and distinguished both by accuracy of method and breadth of view' (Palgrave), 'creditable alike to the heart and the head of its illustrious author' (McCulloch). 'Though the book was published anonymously, and only a few copies issued (for circulation among friends), Vauban had to submit to the mortification of seeing it 'pilloried' by the parliament, while he himself incurred the displeasure of the king (Louis XIV). A few weeks later he died' (Palgrave). The copy of the author himself contained four pages of manuscript in which statements were to be found which could not be printed and in which Vauban, among other things, clearly distinguishes between nobles which have earned their title and position by their actions, whether by their ancestors and by themselves and are an honour to the State, and those who have purchased their titles and are of no use at all to the State. 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 classis in the eulogistic sense of the work, and a forerunner of modern tendencies' (Schumpeter, History of Economic analysis, p. 204).According to Boislisle, the first edition was printed in Rouen in 1706 at the initiative of the Abbé de Beaumont (who is actually credited with the authorship of the work by Boisguilbert). Vauban had the sheets bound by the widow of a certain Fétil, and took great pains that the book did not have any public circulation. It was prohibited on 14 February 1707, but apparently the police were only able to seize two copies. To the police, the binder declared she had had 264 copies in total, 12 bound in morocco, the rest in calf. The two copies seized at the Abbé de Beaumont's were described as in 'veau fauve' and marbled parchment. See Arthur Michel de Boislisle, La Proscription du projet de Dime Royale et la mort de Vauban (Mémoire lu à l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques), Paris, 1875. - The folding plate is a very well done xerox on old paper. ‎

‎Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la taille, Les Aydes, les Doüanes d'une Province à l'autre, les Décimes du Clergé, les Affaires extraordinaires; & tous autres Impôts one reux & 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, & Gouverneur de Lille.‎

‎No place, 1707. Quaerendo tree on title. With 4 folding tables. xii, 264 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, joints and extremities somewhat worn, covers somewhat shaved, short split in upper joint. INED 4397; Bourgeois & André 6702; Stourm 63; Carpenter, Economic bestsellers, X, 2; Kress 2584-5; 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). ‎

‎Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la Taille, les Aydes, les Doüanes d'une Province à l'autre, les Décimes du Clergé, les Affaires extraordinaires ; & tous autres Impôts onéreux et 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 considérablement par la meilleure culture des Terres‎

‎ 1708 Sans lieu ni date, 1708, in-12 de XVI-272 pp., 3 tableaux dont 2 sur une même page dépl., rel. d'ép. de plein veau brun foncé, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, la coiffe sup. manque, 1 tableau manque entre les page 220 et 221, sinon bon ex.‎

‎Contrefaçon vraisemblablement imprimée aux Pays-Bas, de cet ouvrage paru un an auparavant dans le format in-4, qui valut à Vauban sa disgrâce. L'ouvrage fut censuré par les deux arrêts du Conseil privé (14 février et 14 mars 1707) qui ordonnèrent la saisie et la destruction des 276 exemplaires de l'originale. Louis XIV estima qu'un tel projet pouvait provoquer la chute de la monarchie. ‎