[MANUSCRIPT - FERMIERS GÉNÉRAUX]. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du publicanisme Moderne, Contenant l'origine, les Noms, qualités, Le portrait et l'histoire de Nosseigneurs Les fermiers-généraux du Roy qui se sont succédés depuis l'année 1720 jusqu'à la presente année 1750. S.l., 1750 - Manuscrit in-4, 280 x 219. Marbled basane, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt roulette inside, speckled edges (period binding). Manuscript of more than 200 pages proposing the biography of more than seventy farmers general, among whom the philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), the financier Antoine Gaspard Grimod de La Reynière (1687-1754), the collector and patron Alexandre Jean Joseph Le Riche de La Popelinière (1693-1762), etc. This text seems never to have been printed, but it was widely distributed at the time in manuscript form. Indeed, several copies can be found in public libraries. Its author remained anonymous. Copy in its original binding. It bears on the first guard this note : " De l'inventaire du 7 ventôse 3e année républiquaine. Epidermures on the boards, rubbing from use, dull corners. Worm work on the covers.