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De l'Esprit des Loix

De l'Esprit des Loix by MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
De l'Esprit des Loix
Author
MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Geneve: Chez Barrillot & Fills, 1748. Full Description: [MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de]. De l'Esprit des Loix Ou du rapport que les Loix doivent avoir avec la Constitution de chaque Gouvernement, les Moeurs, le Climat, la Religion, le Commerce, &c. à quoi l'Auteur a ajouté Des recherches nouvelles sur les Loix Romaines touchant les Successions, sur les Loix Françoises, & sur les Loix Féodales. Geneva: Chez Barrillot & Fils [i.e., Paris: Prault], [n.d., 1748]. First edition. With the double "r" spelling of the printer on both title-page, as described by Tchemerzine. Two quarto volumes (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 247 x 184 mm.). [2, blank], [8], xxiv, 522; [2, blank], [4], xvi, 564, [2, blank] pp. Woodcut device on title, decorative woodcut tail-pieces. Both volumes with half-titles. Without the errata as is normal for the first edition. Full contemporary acid-treated calf. Each volume with two original tan morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges marbled. Outer hinges of both volumes with some repairs. Previous owner's armorial book plate on front paste down of each volume. Some minor rubbing to boards. A few pages of light toning, but generally very clean. Previous owner's light unobtrusive pencil marginalia. A very good set. Both volumes housed in a morocco-edged marbled board slipcase. "Finally in 1743 he began De l'Esprit des Loix. It took four years to write, and when it was finished almost all his friends advised him not to publish it. Montesquieu paid no attention and it was printed in Geneva in the autumn of 1748. It consists of six main sections, the first dealing with law in general and different forms of government, and the second with the means of government, military matters, taxation and so on. The third deals with national character and the effect on it of climate; a subject of peculiar originality and the one most discussed at the time. The fourth and fifth deal with economic matters and religion; the last is an appendix on law-Roman, feudal and modern French. The most distinctive aspect of this immense syllabus is its moderation: a quality not designed to achieve official approval in 1748. It is an always original survey which is neither doctrinaire, visionary, eccentric, nor over-systematic... The scheme that emerges of a liberal benevolent monarchy limited by safeguards on individual liberty was to prove immensely influential... his theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated" (Printing and the Mind of Man ). En Français dans le texte 138. Kress 4920. Printing and the Mind of Man 197. Tchemerzine VIII, p. 460. HBS 69043. $24,500.
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ARCHITECTURE OF ROBERT & JAMES ADAM (1758-1794) by BOLTON, Arthur T.

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Title
ARCHITECTURE OF ROBERT & JAMES ADAM (1758-1794)
Author
BOLTON, Arthur T.
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1922. BOLTON, Arthur T. THE ARCHITECTURE OF ROBERT & JAMES ADAM (1758-1794). In two volumes. London: George Newnes/ New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Folio, green cloth with spine in gilt and raised gilt relief portrait to front of both boards. Illustrated in black and white. Both volumes bowed. Spine of volume 1 has a small bump, extremes are worn, with general soiling to spines and boards. Gilt is dulled on spines and rubbed at relief portraits. Inch-long open tear to second endpaper and repaired 6" tear to frontispiece of volume 1. Text and illustrations are clean and fresh. A good working copy, sold as is.
THE HEIRESS; bound with THE WAY TO KEEP HIM; with FALSE APPEARANCES

THE HEIRESS; bound with THE WAY TO KEEP HIM; with FALSE APPEARANCES by (THEATER)

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THE HEIRESS; bound with THE WAY TO KEEP HIM; with FALSE APPEARANCES
Author
(THEATER)
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
(THEATER) THE HEIRESS; bound with, THE WAY TO KEEP HIM; bound with FALSE APPEARANCES. Three plays bound in one volume. London: J. Debrett, 1786; T. Cadell, 1785; J. Debrett, 1789. 12mo. Contempor quarter-calf. 112; (iv), 122, (ii); (xvi), 75, (1) pages. Three British comedies bound together. "The Heiress" is by John Burgoyne, British socialite and general who lost the Battle of Saratoga. Hinges crackin but a good copy overall.
The House of the Prophet - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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The House of the Prophet - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Auchincloss, Louis

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Title
The House of the Prophet - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Auchincloss, Louis
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780395290842
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0395290848 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in a like dust-jacket; The House of the Prophet is a historical novel set in nineteenth century Cairo. The novel tells the story of the love affair between the Englishman, Tait, and the Egyptian, Aya. Tait is a member of the British Royal Engineers who is stationed in Cairo during the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Aya is the daughter of the Sheikh of al-Azhar, the most prestigious mosque in Egypt. The novel is based on the true story of Tait and Aya.; 8vo; 275 pages .

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