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Cider, Mead and Salt. Product Supply during the French Revolution. Four documents. Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Qui homologue une Deliberation de la Communaute des Maitres Chaircuitiers de la Ville & Faubourgs de Paris ... Du 18 Mars 1762. Paris, Imprimerie de Prault, 1762 4to. 255x190 mm. 4 pp. Slight foxing. First edition. The decree allows butchers and delicatessens in Paris to sell their products during the four major holidays of the year and on the feasts of the Virgin "as long as their shops are closed and the doors are only ajar, so that people passing in front of them do not notice the sale and do not see the merchandise." Measure adopted "par veneration de la Fete du jour." Bound with: Decret de la Convention Nationale, Du 5 Octobre 1792 ... Achats de Boeufs & Porcs sales en Irlande, en Hollande & a Hamburg.Paris, Imprimerie Nationale Executive du Louvre, 1792 4to. 257x197 mm. Pp. 2, 2 blanks. Slight foxing. Good condition. First edition. Supply for the foreign meat on proposal Ministry of War. Bound with: Lettres Patentes du Roi, Sur un Decret de l'Assemblee Nationale, du 4 Juillet, relatif a la Forniture de Sel a l'Etranger.Rouen, Louis Oursel, 1790 4to. 257x197 mm. Pp. 3, 1 blank. Illustrated headpiece with crown and lilies of France. Slight foxing, good condition. First edition. Supply of salt from abroad, a product of strategic importance for the nation. Bound with: Loi portant reduction du Droit de circulation sur le Cidre, le Poiré et l'Hydromel. In Paris, le 1 Mars 1827.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 14 Mars 1827 8vo. 220x140 mm. 8 leaves with pagination 161-176. On the last page the woodcut seal with crown and lilies of France. Good condition. First edition. Law on the taxation of cider and mead. Inserted on the first two pages of the Bulletin des Lois (No. 146); the other pages contain the titles of numerous Orders of the King from 1821 to 1826.
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