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. 94p. 12mo. Contemp. calf, gilt back with red label, marbled endpapers, red edges, top of back slightly damaged. Bound with 4 other works. A plea for 'better and cheaper bread' urgently needed for the poor population of France after the bad harvest of 1767. As a Physiocrat Baudeau of course advocates the free trade in grain, despite the decrees of 1764 still not guaranteed. He adds several proposals for improving the grinding of corn and the baking and distribution of bread. First published in the Ephemerides du citoyen' and again separately in 1768. *Kress and INED list the 1768-edition only. Not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths'. Bound with': [BAUDEAU, Nicolas] Avis au peuple sur l'impot force qui se percevoit dans les halles et marches sur tous les bleds et toutes les farines. [No place] 1774. 21,[1]p. First edition. A protest against the decree of 1770 regulating the distribution of bread, according to Baudeau 'raising the taxes on bread for the people with more than 16 millions a year'. *INED 272. Goldsmiths' 11163. Not in Kress or Einaudi. And with': La ferme de Pensylvanie. Les avantages de la vertu. Plan d'instruction pour le peuple; avec quelques observations sur la liberte du commerce de grains. A Philadelphie, et a Paris, chez Ribou 1775. XII,96p. First (only) edition. A very rare little book by an unknown author consisting of three essays. The first essay is an allegorical history of a farm in Pennsylvania named Nobroub' (anagram of Bourbon), or 'the happy family', administered in the same wise way as the state of Pennsylvania. In the second essay the author holds that a criminal while injuring others above all injures himself, virtue is its own reward. In the third essay the author pleads for free trade in grain, with several references to the physiocratic Ephemerides du citoyen' and Nicolas Baudeau. *Not found in any of the usual bibliographies of Americana or economics, but it is included in Evans, Early American imprints' 14029. And with': BAUDEAU, Nicolas. Questions proposees par M. l'Abbe Baudeau, a M. Richard des Glannieres, sur son plan d'imposition, soi-disant economique. [No place 1774.] 22p. First (only) edition. A critical discussion of the plan for fiscal reform published by Des Glannieres in 1774. *INED 294. Goldsmiths' 11164. Not in Kress or Einaudi. And with': LE CRI de l'agriculture. A Paris, chez Ruault 1775. [IV],129,[3]p. With folding table. On the importance of agriculture, against the taxation of land and for a moderate taxation of its yield, the introduction of a relief-fund for 'agricultural accidents', the liquidation of the public debt, a plan for a Royal Bank, against luxury, etc. *INED 4581. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 35693
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