Oeuvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu Nouvelle édition (7 tomes) - Revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée

Features

Author:  Charles-Louis de Secondat, barone di Montesquieu

Publisher:  Chez François Grasset,

Place of printing:  Amsterdam

Year of publication:  1771

Product Condition:
Work in 7 volumes. Full leather binding with titles on gussets and gilt friezes on the spines with 5 bands, in poor condition: spines very compromised due to peeling, cuts and lacks on the leather covering (especially on volumes I and III), defects on the caps and superficial cuts to the hinges; minimal peeling and traces of dust on the plates. Cuts colored red with traces of dust. Marbled end sheets, burnished at the edges. Cataloging notation in pencil on the v of the front endpapers. Irregularly browned papers with widespread blooms and brown spots; i vols. II, III and V present some partially unbound notebooks; Volume VII lacks the buttonhole and has different printing characters compared to the other 6 volumes. Text in French/Texte en Français

Pages:  (4),CIV,412;(4),XVI,488;(4),XIV,475;(4),IV,422;(2),492;(6),413;295

Format:  In the sixteenth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  17
Width:  9

Description

This edition of Montesquieu's Opera omnia (1689-1755) takes up a previous edition of Grasset in 6 volumes, printed in Basel in 1761, which collected all of Montesquieu's published works up to that year, including some posthumous works. This was a corrected and enlarged edition, as indicated on the title page, compared to previous collections and is one of the rarest editions to be found among the eighteenth-century editions of the French political philosopher's complete works. In our example, a seventh volume is added to the 6 canonical volumes of the Grasset 1771 edition in Amsterdam, with a title page in continuity with the Grasset edition, published by Arkstée et Merkus also in Amsterdam, with different printing characters. The contents of the individual volumes: Tome I:l'Eloge de M. de Montesquieu, L'analyse de l'Esprit des Loix, L'Esprit des Loix (I-XI). Tome II: L'Esprit des Loix (XII-XXII). Tome III: L'Esprit des Loix (XXIII-XXX). Tome IV: L'Esprit des Loix (XXXI-XXXII), Défense de l'Esprit des Loix, Eclaircissement sur l'Esprit des Loix, Remerciement sincère à un Homme charitable. Volume V: Les Lettres Persanes Augmenté de douze lettres. Tome VI: Ler Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence, Le Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate, Le Temple de Gnide, L'Essai sur le Gout. Tome VII: Lettres familieres

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