WINE and TOBACCO. LABAT, François de, Chevalier... Lot 2

[WINE and TOBACCO]. LABAT, François de, Chevalier de Vivens (1687-1780) Important autograph memoir on the regulation of the tobacco trade. (s.l.n.d). 18 pp. in-8. Rich in corrections and erasures; There is no doubt that the means contained in the [ ] de culture souscrite are well suited to destroying the fraud of which the government has so much to complain; but destroying the means presented, the most decisive is that which makes it an obligation for the administration of indirect taxes to take tobacco from growers as soon as they are put in shortage; that is, at the end of November or the beginning of December. To be convinced of this truth, it is sufficient to know what this fraud consists of and how it is carried out [ ] .