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Three documents on Tax Collection in the Ancien Regime.

Lettres Patentes du Roi, Portant confirmation de Privileges en faveur des Habitans du Comte de Venise. Donnees a Versailles au mois de Decembre 1774. Paris, P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1775 4to. 255x195 mm. Pp. 8. Large illustrated woodcut headpiece with shield surmounted by crown and lilies of France, with signature "Papillon sculp." Good condition. First edition. Recognition by the King of special privileges for the inhabitants of the County Venaissin and the city of Avignon, whose representative at the Etats Generaux was Joseph François Xavier de Seytres Caumont. The beautiful allegorical head, with the emblems of France surrounded by four putti representing science and the arts, is engraved by Jean Michel Papillon, a very renowned artist; long linked to the Royal Printing House in the function of "de graveur en taille de bois." Papillon produced, both for this establishment and for booksellers and printers, a considerable number of ornaments of all kinds, as well as articles on his art from the Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert. Bound with: Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, Qui commet le sieur Leroy a la recette de Capitation des communautes d'Arts & Metiers. Du 4 Decembre 1753.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1753 4to. 252x198 mm. Pages 3, 1 blank. Adorned headpiece. Good condition. First edition. Appointment of Charles Leroy to head the tax collection offices of the arts and crafts guilds. The Capitation, a sort of per person tax created in 1695 to increase state revenue, was abolished by the Constituent Assembly in 1791. Bound with: Arrest de la Cour des Aydes de Montpellier. Du quatorzieme Juillet 1701. Portant Reglement des Cabaux & Industries...Montpellier 1701. 4to. 225x178 mm. Pp. 7, 1 blank. Adorned woodcut headpiece. Good condition. First edition. Decree of the Cour des Aides, Sovereign Court of Appeal for tax disputes, of Montpellier, relating to compensation for taxes on livestock and industries in the territory of Grisolles, in the Montauban region.

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Three documents on Tax Collection in the Ancien Regime.

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