GROUBER DE GROUBENTAL.

Théorie générale de l'administration politique des finances. Dédiée à Monsieur, frère du Roi.

Paris, for the author and Visse, 1788. Two vols, 8vo, pp. 367, [1] blank; 343, [3] privilege; printed on tinted paper; small ink ownership stamp to verso of half-title in vol. I; a very fine copy in contemporary full calf, spines stamped gilt, with gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels, arms stamped centrally gilt to all boards; a desirable set. First edition of a comprehensive work, divided into seven sections: ‘Observations politiques sur les finances’; ‘Théorie générale de l’administration politique des finances’; ‘Mémoire sur les administrations provinciales’; ‘Mémoire sur l’impôt territorial unique’; ‘Mémoire sur l’emprunt public et la libération’; ‘Examen politique du Compte-rendu au Roi par M. Necker’; ‘Mémoire sur la suppression des saisies-réelles, consignations et directions’. See INED for full details of each part.Provenance: from the library of the leading French statesman Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort (1715–1789), duc de Duras. He began his career as a musketeer, serving in nearly every war during the reign of Louis XV, was appointed ambassador to Spain in 1752, and was made pair de France in 1757 and, later, like his father, Jean-Baptiste, before him, maréchal de France (1775), and premier gentilhomme de la chambre du roi. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1775.INED 2174; Quérard III, 492; not found in Goldsmiths’ or Kress.

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