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8vo (193 x 123 mm) engraved portrait frontispiece, XIV, 1 nn.l., 183 pp. Contemporary polished calf, triple gilt filet on covers, flat spine gilt in grotesque style, red edges.
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Sabin, 68102 ; Leclerc (1878), n° 985 ; Cioranescu, 52363 (other edition) ; Howes, R-85 ; see INED, 3749.
Edition published in the year of the original, decorated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. This work, “probably printed in Geneva and not in London, as the title indicates” (Leclerc), contains the eighteenth book of the Histoire philosophique des deux Indes. Five editions appeared in the same year, differing in the number of pages. The first was published by Cl. Plomteux in Liège, where the author had taken refuge after fleeing Paris.
“Essai historique sur la révolution américaine. Les colonies étaient en droit de se séparer de leur métropole. À la fin, quelques considérations sur l’avenir économique et démographique des provinces confédérées… Les Américains doivent craindre l’affluence de l’or, qui apporte avec le luxe la corruption des mÅ“urs et le mépris des lois, et se garder d’établir une trop inégale répartition des richesses” (INED).
Very light occasinonal marginal waterstain, else a very pretty copy.
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