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183840115No place: No publisher/printer 1838 14 August. Small 8vo 20 cm 7.875". 2 ff. <br><br>Thanks for sending him papers in which his name occurs.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: ExAllyn K. Ford Collection Minnesota Historical Society recently deaccessioned. Off-white sheet of paper folded in half with writing on front of one leaf; some minor wrinkling and faint creases very small water-stain underneath date stray ink dots through both leaves. No publisher/printer unknown books
1899007626London: Gibbings & Company Limited 1899. Originally published in green cloth this set handsomely rebound in early unsigned 20th century half calf over marbled boards marbled endpages gilt lettering with lovely gilt floral decoration at spine top edge gilt with etchings by Ed. de Beaumont and engraved by E. Boilvin. Translated into English by John Davidson. All three with period bookplate of Eugene Lent small label of Lewis Vogler noted collector. Near Fine tiny rubs to leather at spine ends. . First Thus. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gibbings & Company, Limited Hardcover books
182941517Paris: Au Bureau des Éditeurs 1829. Deuxième édition 12mo pp. 255; contemporary dark green calf over marbled boards gilt-tooled and lettered spine in 6 compartments marbled endpapers; boards rubbed edges and corners shelf worn spine head chipped front hinge rather weak; spotting throughout else interior very good. No copies in North America according to OCLC. See Brunet III p. 1861 for the first 1734 edition. <br/><br/> Au Bureau des Éditeurs hardcover books
1842667911842. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field Field Stephen J. 1816-1899. Montesquieu Charles-Louis De Secondat 1689-1755. De L'Esprit des Lois par Montesquieu. Paris: Daguin Freres Libraires 1842. Three volumes. iv vi 508; iv 559; iv 476 pp. Volume I has portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Quarter calf over marbled boards gilt titles gilt-edged blind fillets and gilt ornaments to spine marbled endpapers. And Destutt de Tracy Antoine Louis Claude 1754-1836. Commentaire sur L'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu; Suivi d'Observations Inedites de Condorcet Sur le Vingt-Neuvieme Livre du Meme Ouvrage. Edition Entierement Conforme a celle Publiee a Liege en 1817. Paris: Delaunay Libraire Palais-Royal 1819. xvi 476 pp. Quarter morocco over textured cloth raised bands gilt title and gilt ornament to spine marbled endpapers. Octavo 8" x 5". Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities some wear to spine ends and corners a few hinges starting. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing faint dampstaining to a few leaves lower corners of rear free endpaper of each book removed fragments of later owner label to foot of spines fragments of later bookplates to front pastedowns another later bookplate to each front free endpaper. Book ticket of Stephen J. Field to front pastedowns of Volume I and II of De L'Esprit des Lois and Commentaire his signature and "Paris/ Nov 1848" to front endleaf of each volume of De L'Esprit des Lois. $1500. L'Esprit: later edition; Commentaire: third edition. Montesquieu's classic study of the English Constitution and the most important commentary on that work were acquired during a trip to Paris by Stephen Johnson Field then a lawyer about to move to California. Following the Gold Rush to California in 1848 Field served in local government the California's state legislature and the Supreme Court of California He was the principal draftsman of the 1851 California Practice Act. Appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1863 he remained on the bench until 1897. One of the great justices of the nineteenth century he had a lasting influence on Constitutional law through his co. unknown books
1886492561886. MONTESQUIEU. GRANDEUR ET DECADENCE DES ROMAINS POLITIQUE DES ROMAINS DIALOGUE DE SYLLA ET D'EUCRATE LYSIMAQUE ET PENSEES. Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot 1886. 12mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards stamped in gilt. Later Edition. "From the Library Of Le Duc De Richelieu 1875-1952" stamped on half-title page. Good. $75.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18551330864Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères 1855. Hardcover. Octavo 345 pages; VG-; quarter bound in brown leather paneled spine has gilt lettering and tolling; binding has moderate wear along the top and bottom edges with a small piece missing from the top of the spine heavy fraying and bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have minor age toning; shelved case 10. 1330864. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères hardcover books
1826014779Paris: Lefevre 1826. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The best French language collection including Vol. 1-4 De l'espris des lois Vol. 5: Defense de l'espirit des lois; v. 6 Letteres persanes; Vol. 7 Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence Vol. 8 Le Temple de Gnide Essai sur le gout; Pensees diverses. Notes sur l'Angleterre. Poesies. Montesquieu was read by all of the Founders and represents one of the great intellects of the Eighteenth Century. This set is the French Edition that was read by most legal philosophers through the Twentieth Century. A very good copy bound in quarter calf over marbled boards and with only light edgewear and some light brown spots on the spine. Lefevre unknown books
1892293230London: Privately Printed 1892. hardcover. very good. Newly Translated into English with Notes and Memoir of the Author by John Davidson. With portrait and eight etchings by Ed. de Beaumont engraved by E. Boilvin. 2 volumes 8vo ornately 3/4 brown morocco ornately gilt spine top of volume 2 bumped. London: Privately Printed 1892. A very good copy of this handsome set.<br/><br/> One of 520 numbered copies with etchings on mounted India paper printed by the Chiswick Press.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1892126521London: Privately published 1892. UK Limited Edition. Octavo two volumes. One of 520 numbered copies this being No. 144 printed for England and America. Publisher's navy cloth paper spine title labels gilt top page edges all other edges deckle. With a portrait and eight etchings all present by Charles Edouard de Beaumont and two illuminated Persian designs. <br/><br/>Montesquieu 1689-1755 was a French political thinker and philosopher as well as a social commentator during the Enlightenment. His theories of separation of powers feudalism and his perspective on the Byzantine Empire have established his role as precursor for many fields of social anthropology including slavery reformation. These volumes comprise an excellent early example of an epistolary novel. <br/><br/>Each volume with light foxing throughout two Honduran postage stamps on the front pastedowns a few contemporary owner ink stamps and small blindstamps on some of the preliminary and rear pages a two small chips at one of the paper spine labels with light shelfwear overall else Near Fine. Privately published unknown books
180265202Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas Jun. sold by him and by Mathew Carey Philadelphia; also by the various Booksellers throughout the United States 1802. First American edition. The first edition was published in 1748. The first translation into English was by Thomas Nugent in 1750 1752 according to the DNB which went through several editions. It may be this translation in the American edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Contemporary calf. Rebacked new endpapers hole in upper margin of title and adjacent leaves tear on final leaf affecting a few letters browning and offsetting. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition. The first edition was published in 1748. The first translation into English was by Thomas Nugent in 1750 1752 according to the DNB which went through several editions. It may be this translation in the American edition. 8vo. In thirty-one books Montesquieu treats the historical origins and principles of laws. The books fall into six sections the first dealing with forms of government and law in general eight books; the second with taxation and military arrangements five books; the third with manners and customs and their "dependence on climatic conditions" six books; the fourth with economic matters four books; the fifth consisting of three books relates to religion; and the last five books sixth section with Roman French and feudal law. This work is "an assemblage of the most fertile original and inspiriting views on legal and political subjects put in language of singular suggestiveness and vigour illustrated by examples which are always apt and luminous permeated by the spirit of temperate and tolerant desire for human improvement and happiness and almost unique in its entire freedom at once from doctrinairism from visionary enthusiasm from egotism and from an undue spirit of system" Ency. Brit. "One of the greatest masterpieces of political theory and a pioneering work in sociology . In its stress on the historical role of the nobility as a check to royal power it provided a theoretical justification for the resurgance of aristocratic power which was so important in the origins of the French Revolution . its emphasis on the separation of powers of government and on a system of checks and balances profoundly influenced constitutional thought in both America and France" Charles B. MacNamara "France in the Age of Revolution" Cornell 1981. Montesquieu's disapproval of slavery and of religious intolerance are both voiced in this work as are his views on witchcraft sceptical. In the "Preface" the author writes "I have laid down the first principles and have found that the particular cases apply naturally to them that the histories of all nations are only consequences of them; and that every particular law is connected with another law or depends on some other of a more general extent." One of the primary evidences of Montesquieu's teachings that "in a republican government the whole power of educaion is required if the virtue that makes men choose public over private interest is to be sustained" appears in Jefferson's "Bill for More General Diffusion of Knowledge" of 1779 Cremin "American Education" p. 439. Shaw and Shoemaker 2682; Tchemerzine viii 459/60 and PMM 197 for the first edition; McCulloch pp. 356-8 for the first English edition Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. sold by him and by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia; also by the various Booksellers throughout the Uni unknown books
180265201Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas Jun. sold by him and by Mathew Carey Philadelphia; also by the various Booksellers throughout the United States 1802. First American edition. The first edition was published in 1748. The first translation into English was by Thomas Nugent in 1750 1752 according to the DNB which went through several editions. It may be this translation in the American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern calf backed marbled boards. Some browning of text generally light. With the signature Jos. Allen on titles. First American edition. The first edition was published in 1748. The first translation into English was by Thomas Nugent in 1750 1752 according to the DNB which went through several editions. It may be this translation in the American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. In thirty-one books Montesquieu treats the historical origins and principles of laws. The books fall into six sections the first dealing with forms of government and law in general eight books; the second with taxation and military arrangements five books; the third with manners and customs and their "dependence on climatic conditions" six books; the fourth with economic matters four books; the fifth consisting of three books relates to religion; and the last five books sixth section with Roman French and feudal law. This work is "an assemblage of the most fertile original and inspiriting views on legal and political subjects put in language of singular suggestiveness and vigour illustrated by examples which are always apt and luminous permeated by the spirit of temperate and tolerant desire for human improvement and happiness and almost unique in its entire freedom at once from doctrinairism from visionary enthusiasm from egotism and from an undue spirit of system" Ency. Brit. "One of the greatest masterpieces of political theory and a pioneering work in sociology . In its stress on the historical role of the nobility as a check to royal power it provided a theoretical justification for the resurgance of aristocratic power which was so important in the origins of the French Revolution . its emphasis on the separation of powers of government and on a system of checks and balances profoundly influenced constitutional thought in both America and France" Charles B. MacNamara "France in the Age of Revolution" Cornell 1981. Montesquieu's disapproval of slavery and of religious intolerance are both voiced in this work as are his views on witchcraft sceptical. In the "Preface" the author writes "I have laid down the first principles and have found that the particular cases apply naturally to them that the histories of all nations are only consequences of them; and that every particular law is connected with another law or depends on some other of a more general extent." One of the primary evidences of Montesquieu's teachings that "in a republican government the whole power of educaion is required if the virtue that makes men choose public over private interest is to be sustained" appears in Jefferson's "Bill for More General Diffusion of Knowledge" of 1779 Cremin "American Education" p. 439. Shaw and Shoemaker 2682; Tchemezine vii 459/460 and PMM 197 for the first edition McCulloch pp. 356-8 for the first English edition Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. sold by him and by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia; also by the various Booksellers throughout the Uni unknown books
188593769London: Vizetelly 1885. hardcover. very good. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Extra illus. title page and illustrated with the original copper-plate engravings from the designs of C. Eisen and Le Barbier. Tall 8vo brown cloth-backed decorative gilt-embossed boards a bit edgeworn; uncut edges. London: Vizetelly no date circa 1885. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Of 850 copies this is one of 200 for the U.S. on handmade paper.<br/><br/> Vizetelly unknown books
1889WRCLIT53599London: Vizetelly & Co. 1889. Large octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth and boards. Frontis engraved extra- title and plates. Binding a trace edgeworn fore-tips a bit bruised else very good. First Vizetelly edition ordinary issue the translation unattributed. With a Preface by Octave Uzanne. Illustrated with plates engraved after designs by Eisen and Barbier. One of 850 copies with the plates on handmade paper of which this is copy #10 of two hundred for the U.S. Vizetelly & Co. hardcover books
