LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT. Resultats extraits d'un Ouvrage intitule: De la Richesse Territoriale du Royaume de France. 48 pages. 8vo, 19th-century .25 sheep gilt, rear joint cracked at top. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1791 [i. e., circa 1810]

LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT. Resultats extraits d'un Ouvrage intitule: De la Richesse Territoriale du Royaume de France. 48 pages. 8vo, 19th-century .25 sheep gilt, rear joint cracked at top. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1791 [i. e., circa 1810] E500-750 Forged reprint of Lavoisier's report to the Comite de l'Imposition of the National Assembly on the territorial wealth of the realm of France. "The work is a very important one in the history of political economics. To establish a system of taxation based on the net output of the land, it was essential to know the agricultural wealth and theexact produce return of the country . . . Lavoisier assembled his data from all the provinces of France . . . and his aim was as complete and accurate a compilation as possible . . . This was the first time that national statistics based on reliable returns were made available . . . Lavoisier in this work records for the first time what is now known as the law of probability . . . The original edition had become so rare by the beginning of the nineteenth century that this reprint was made about 1810"-Duveen & Klickstein 265. Boundwith 9 early 19th-century French-language tracts pertaining to economics, agriculture, etc. COMPLETE LIST AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.