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A commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws / prepared for press from the original manuscript, in the hands of the publisher ; To which are annexed observations on the thirty-first [i.e. twenty-ninth] book by the late M. Condorcet ; and two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work.
LIBRA Microprint 21 no. 22689.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude, comte, 1754-1836.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689.
- Standardized Title:
- Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. De l'esprit des lois.
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
- 6x9 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by William Duane, 1811.
- Notes:
- For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
- Originally written in French about 1807. Later the manuscript was "committed" to Thomas Jefferson, by whom the present translation was revised and forwarded to Duane. The French edition appeared in 1819 under title: Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois.
- Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1972-73. 4 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689).
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 22689.
- OCLC:
- 15438299
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