VAUBAN, Maréchal de ( Sébastien Le Prestre de )Livre Rare Book
(Roman Taxes) Burman, PeterBiblio.com
Petri Burmanni Vectigalia Populi Romani et Zeus Kataibates sive Jupiter Fulgerator in Cyrrhestarum Nummis
1734Best.-Nr. 59334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown
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