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Description
[LITERATURE]
By MONTESQUIEU (Charles, Baron de la Brède)
Informal Letters from President Montesquieu, Baron de la Brède, to Various Friends in Italy.
No publisher, no year, 1767.
Small 8vo. Half-bound (20th century) in ivory-coloured vellum. Smooth spine. Title label in red morocco leather. Portrait of the author on the frontispiece.
A few sentences underlined in ink. 264 pages.
Tchemerzine: ‘A very rare first edition, published in Florence by the Abbé de Guasco in 1767. It contains three letters against Madame Geoffrin (pp. 222–241), which led to the destruction of a large part of the print run by Madame Geoffrin herself, who eagerly sought out copies of it.” Tchemerzine, VIII, 461.”
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ID: 89135389
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