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BOULAINVILLIERS (Henri, comte de). Memoires presented...

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BOULAINVILLIERS (Henri, comte de). Memoires presented to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Regent of France. Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très puissant et d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roi et du Peuple. The Hague and Amsterdam, at the Company's expense, 1727. Two volumes in one in-12 of (6), ff. 161 pp ; 226 pp. 1 ff. of table, brown calf, spine gilt and decorated with nerfs, gilt edges, red edges (period binding). Counterfeit of the same date as the original. Important analysis of France's financial difficulties and various taxes. AP