[MANUSCRIPTS -- FINANCE]. "Ordonnances concernant les charges de prsidens trsoriers de France, avocats et procureurs du Roy, greffiers, huissiers, et autres officiers des Bureaux des finances, et Rglemens sur le domaine, les finances et la Voyrie". France, [1737 or later]. 2 parts in one, 264, 260 pages, folio, in various secretarial hands the last 20 pages of part 1 and last 100 pages of part 2 left blank, 19th-century reversed calf, 18th-century manuscript lettering-piece on spine. The first part of this governmental register contains a list of edicts and ordonnances, relating in part to the French road system; part 2 is an inventory of the legal documents held in the Cabinet du Bureau des Finances. Engraved armorial bookplate inscribed "Donn par Moron de Valence, Trsorier de France, en 1785"; stencilled arms with 2 lizards and initials M M. -- "Instruction sur les aydes...". [France], 1765. 95 leaves, 4to, in a neat secretarial hand, double-rule page borders, contemporary limp vellum. Relates to taxes and tarifs (the term "aides" was reserved principally for tarifs on wine and other beverages. -- "tat actuel des affaires generalles concernant les finances du Royaume de France". [France, 1763]. 150 pages, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, broken. A government financial report for the years 1755-1761. -- LLOYD, General G. "A Rhapsody on the Present system of French Politicks, on the Projected Invasion of England and the Means to Defeat it. By a Chelsea pensioner. To Lt. General Robert Clerk" [England, ca. 1775]. 28 pp., 4to, bound with 2 other manuscripts in early 19th-century half calf. At the end are 2 charts of distances on the military roads from Plymouth to London and from Portsmouth to London. [Bound with:] ADDINGTON, HENRY [first Viscount SIDMOUTH]. "The affinity between poetry and printing in Point of composition... by Henry Addington. B.A. Brasenose Coll[ege]". 1779. 24 pages, in two different hands. A short essay written in Addidngton's youth. [And with:] "The Advantages & Disadvantages of Foreign Travel". [ca. 1780-1800]. 15 leaves, written on rectos only. (5)