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A letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in the city : touching Sir William Petty's posthumous treatise entituled, Verbum sapienti, or The method of raising taxes in the most equal manner, &c.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- H. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. Political anatomy of Ireland ... to which is added Verbum sapienti.
- Petty, William.
- Taxation--Great Britain.
- Taxation.
- Great Britain.
- Finance, Public--Great Britain--History--1688-1815.
- Finance, Public.
- History.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 17th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sherard, Richard (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 20 pages ; 21 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by G. C. for William Miller ... where gentlemen and others may be furnished with school-books and most sorts of Acts of Parliament, Kings, Lord Chancellors, Lord Keepers and Speakers speeches, and other sorts of discourses and state-matters, as also books of divinity, church government, humanity, sermons on most occasions, blank funeral-tickets, &c., 1691.
- Notes:
- Text signed: H. J.
- Petty's 'Political anatomy of Ireland' includes "Verbum sapienti, or An account of the wealth and expences of England, and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner."
- Advertisements: p. 18-20.
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) J15
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. 2868
- OCLC:
- 19375971
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