France.- [Hardoin de la Reynnerie (Louis-Eugène)] Consultation pour les Actionnaires de la Compagnie des Indes, first edition, title with woodcut arms of the French East India Company, woodcut head-piece, letterpress tables at end, one folding, modern marbled boards, roan label, uncut, [Goldsmiths' 13586; Not in Kress], Paris, Lottin, 1788 § Calonne (Charles Alexandre de) Requête au Roi, 2 parts in 1, half-title to part 2, errata leaf at end, original boards, uncut, rubbed & soiled, rebacked, [Kress B1174; Einaudi 801], [T.Spilsbury], 1787 § Hocquart de Coubron (M.) Nouvelles Vues sur l'Administration des Finances, et sur l'Allégement de l'Impôt, first edition, half-title, tables, errata leaf at end, [Kress B885], The Hague, 1785; Calculs sur la Circulation, relativement aux Impôts..., first edition, large folding table, "Londres", T.Spilsbury, 1787, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked § Levesque (P.Ch.) L'Homme Moral, ou l'Homme Considéré tant dans l'Etat de pure Nature, que dans la Société, first edition, title with ornamental border, contemporary blue paste-paper boards, rubbed, rebacked in calf, Amsterdam, 1775; and 7 others, French economics etc., v.s. (11)*** The first is a substantial paper relating to the termination of the old Compagnie des Indes and the creation of the new one. The life of the Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales was a short one after Clive's largely successful anti-French campaigns in India. Louis XVI decided to nationalise the Company's assets and, between 1769 and about 1790 most of these assets were taken over by the French government at often a derisory low value. The Company was finally wound up in 1795.