Balguerie Pere. Memoire pour le Maire de la Ville d’Agde… Contre le Sieur Jean Baptiste Marguerite Guy, Marchand Drapier en detail et Debitant de Tabac.
Beziers, Imprimerie de P. Gravie, 1819
4to. 250x200 mm. Publisher's paperback. Pp. 12. Few defects on binding, traces of wear.
First edition. Important document on the tobacco trade in France at the beginning of the 19th century. The Balguerie family was one of the most important in the Herault department. Balguerie Pere finally signs this account of the lawsuit between the administration of the city of Agde and the cloth merchant and tobacco retailer Guy who claimed to be a creditor of the city of Agde for a very significant amount.
Bound with:
Napoleone Empereur des Francais, Decret Imperial relatif aux Tabacs eisans, soit chez les cultivateurs, soit chez les fabricans et les debitans... 29 decembre 1810.
Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale, 1811
8vo. 215x135 mm. 8 leaves, with pagination 649-664. In the last page the woodcut seal of the First Empire. Good condition.
First edition. Important document relating to the cultivation, manufacture and retail sale of tobacco in France. The text of this decree is contained in the first four pages of the brochure: other decrees issued in December 1810 follow.