Placaat. De Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland (…) doen te weeten: Dat nademaal de veiligheid en welvaart van eene Natie veelal afhangt van de meerdere of mindere welgesteldheid haarer financien (…).

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Colophon: The Hague ('s Gravenhage), Isaac Scheltus, 1788, 4to., speckled paper cover, 27 pp., ruffled edges and some waterstains, but overall in good condition, with a woodcut illustration depicting the Dutch heraldic lion and several city crests (e.g. Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Hoorn, Haarlem and Leiden) and a woodcut initial also depicting the Dutch heraldic lion. On a compulsory loan to strenghten the financial position of the Dutch States, issued 30 September 1788. ‘Was geteekent C. Clotterbooke’.