TUSCAN TARIFFS - PAPER, TOBACCO AND MORE

[Tuscany, Grand Duchy of:] Tariffa delle gabelle per Firenze. In Firenze [Florence], per Gaetano Cambiagi 1781.

Containing information on consumption and commercial interests in Florence in the later eighteenth century, this is the compilation of the duties for importing goods, ordered by Archduke Leopold I as part of his reorganization of the customs system of Tuscany. Three and a half pages (281-284) are given to different types of tobacco, with special instructions on how to import it, while  two pages (between pp. 58 and 60) concern paper of various sorts (printed paper, paper with music, paper with manuscript, painted paper, etc.) Bound books are valued according to whether they're blank (with different rates for whether or not they come from Tuscany), printed, or manuscript. Seven pages (between pp. 264 and 271) concern swords. The tariffs are heavily concerned with agricultural produce and foodstuffs.

Details

4to., pp. 312 [2]. Title-page with large engraved vignette of Hermes, within wreath, besides armorial of Duchy. Light foxing, pastedowns and endpapers stained with pink chalk or talcum powder, else good, bound in contemporary vellum boards, edges mottled blue, title in ink on spine. F.f.e.p. with small library label of Ramberg, inscription on same page "Ramberg, Febr. 1903" (Walter Ramberg, d. 1914, cataloguer's great-grandfather).

Not in Kress or Goldsmith's. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside Italy at NYPL, Penn, IHR (London), LC, Kansas.