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1752139674Sans mention d'éditeur 1752. Hardcover. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. Traduit de l'anglais. Reliure plein veau d'époque. Manques au cuir. 333 8 82 pages. <i>ref. 139674</i> Sans mention d'éditeur hardcover
1775z07373London: J. Dodsley 1775. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition 1775. iv416 pp. 19th-century speckled calf spine gilt raised bands gilt morocco label. Ex-lib. with small insitutional inkstamp on rear endpaper. Textblock and spine split neatly between N and O signatures front board detached calf worn and lightly stained. Internally very clean. Good. Henrietta Knight Lady Luxborough 1699-1756 was banished by her husband Robert Knight to his estate at Barrells Hall Warwickshire upon suspicion of infidelity. Once there she set to work on restoring the neglected estate and created an early and celebrated ferme orné on the grounds. During her years at Barrells Lady Luxborough became part of the literary circle known as the Warwickshire Coterie at whose center was the poet and landscape artist William Shenstone to whom the present letters are addressed. Luxborough is credited with having invented the word 'shrubbery' - its first recorded appearance is here in her letter to Shenstone dated October 16 1748 p. 56. J. Dodsley hardcover
1775128R57Printed for T. Davies London: 1775. 1775 pp. xxxvi 243 Engraved Portrait Frontis. Offsetting from frontis. Booklabel of C. S. Burman on front paste down. 205mm. Original full worn leather binding. Boards fragile. Spine very worn with loss at head and tail. Lacks one of two leather spine labels. Henry St John 1678-1751 was an English politician government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories and supported the Church of England politically despite his anti-religious views and opposition to theology. Bolingbroke was a major influence on Voltaire and on the American patriots John Adams Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Adams said that he had read all of Bolingbroke's works at least five times; indeed Bolingbroke's works were widely read in the American colonies where they helped provide the foundation for the emerging nation's devotion to republicanism. His vision of history as cycles of birth growth decline and death of a republic was influential in the colonies; as was his contention on liberty: that one is "free not from the law but by the law." ENGLAND BX 5 Language: eng. Hardcover. Fair. Printed for T. Davies, London: 1775. hardcover
1786221357Saint Jean d'Angély France 1786. 6pp. signed by the Greffier and others; stamped with seal at top margin. 1 vols. 4to. Very good. 6pp. signed by the Greffier and others; stamped with seal at top margin. 1 vols. 4to. Late 19th-century real estate dispute in this town in the department of Charente-Maritimes. unknown
175254154s. l.: S. n. 1752. Fine. S. n. s. l. 1752 10 x 16.20 cm relié New edition after the first edition published in 1749. One portrait as frontispiece. Les réflexions sur l'exil has its own title page in volume I as does the Lettre à Mylord Bathurst in the second. Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. 4 corners bumped one trimmed. Volume II slightly worn at foot. Rubbing. Rather handsome copy. Secretary of state then English Minister of Foreign Affairs Lord Bolingbroke was an influential statesman who experienced both notoriety and disgrace. He pursued a literary career alongside his political activities beginning by contributing to the writing of the journal The examiner against the Whig party. The 2 volumes gather the author's philosophical works which would have a lasting influence on philosophers such as Pope or Voltaire or even Mirabeau. His philosophy is inherited from Locke and the author shows himself in his writings to be anti-clerical and anti-religious but deist. In the second volume we find a historical work on the state of Europe before the Treaty of Utrecht of which Bolingbroke was one of the architects. Bookplate: Bibliothèque de Belay. S. n. hardcover
1787006850Paris: Chez Cuchet Libraire 1787. Second French Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine. 8vo. xxxii 478 2 438 6 592 1 pp. With five large folding maps. Two copper engraved plates in first volume. The translation was dedicated by Crevecoeur to de Lafayette. Full contemporary calf. Gilt ruling raised bands. Marbled edges. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Light wear to the binding which remains highly attractive. Chez Cuchet Libraire unknown
