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VERY FINE EDITION FINELY PRINTED BY DIDOT L'AINÉ.
COLLECTION DES MEILLEURES OUVRAGES DE FRANCE DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE, DEDICATED TO LOVERS OF THE ART OF TYPOGRAPHY AND ACCURATE AND CORRECT PUBLISHING
COPY ON LARGE VELLUM PAPER The frontispiece, a portrait of Montesquieu engraved by John Chapman, is set in colour.
Superb copies bound in contemporary full red morocco with long grain.at the bottom of each copy the words vellum paper.
3 volumes divided as follows:
Volume 1: [362 pp]"Persian Letters 1 to 122.
Volume 2: [360 pp]"Persian Letters 122 to 161, sollowing "Various works including "Arsace and Isménie (page 125), "The Temple of Gnide" (page 197), "Cephise and love (page 253)Lysimachus (page 257)Essay on taste (page 265)Speech academic (page 315).
Volume 3: [367 pp]"Various works including "Observations on natural history"(page 1), "Speeches given at the opening of the Bordeaux parliament". (page 31), "Ébauche de l'Éloge historique du Maréchal de Berwick" (Draft of the historical eulogy of Marshal de Berwick) (page 72)Various thoughts (page 96)Notes on England (page 141)Invocation aux Muses (page 161)Poetry (page 163)Familiar letters (page 173)Original letters from Montesquieu to the Chevalier d'Aydies (page 345)Lettres de Madame d'Aiguillon à l'abbé de Guasco" (Letters from Madame d'Aiguillon to the Abbé de Guasco) (page 356)Fragment of a letter from M. Secondat, son of Montesquieu, to the Abbé de Guasco". (page 357)Fragment of another Letter from the same to the same (page 360)Anecdotes about Montesquieu (page 362).
The letters break down as follows:
- Letters 1-21 [1-23]: the journey from Isfahan to Paris, which lasts 13 months (from at ).
- Letters 22-89 [24-92]: Paris under the reign of Louis XIV, 3 years in all (from à ).
- Letters 90-137 [93 -143] or [additional letter 8 = 145]: the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans, which covers five years (from à ).
- Letters 138-150 [146 -161]: the collapse of the Seraglio in Isfahan, 3 years (1717-1720).
Bound in contemporary long-grain red morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt frames, friezes and fleurons, gilt title, framed with fillets and friezes on the boards, friezes on the edges, spine bordered and decorated with friezes, all edges gilt. Green morocco at foot marked "papier vélin". Bookmark.
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