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MONTESQUIEU.
The Works of Monsieur de Montesquieu. A new edition, revised, corrected and considerably expanded by the author.
London: Nourse, 1767.
3 volumes in-4. 2) folios, frontispiece, 32–LXXXVI–527 pp., 2 maps; (2) ff., XVI–643 pp. and (2) ff., 747 pp. Contemporary speckled fawn calf, ribbed spine, red title label, havana-coloured volume numbering, richly decorated panels, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (blunted corners, rubbed caps and edges, scattered foxing, minor marginal defects including very faint water stains on a few folios of volume 3 and spots).
New edition, revised, corrected and expanded.
Compiled by François Richer with the assistance of Montesquieu’s son, based on the author’s manuscripts. Expanded to include the *Lettres familières*.
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, engraved in black on copper by Littret after Sève, and two fold-out maps for *The Spirit of the Laws* in the first volume.
A fine copy.
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