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The origin and progress of despotism : in the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America ...

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boulanger, Nicolas Antoine.
Contributor:
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Series:
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Despotism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 p.l., 285 p. )
Other Title:
Origin and progress of despotism
Place of Publication:
1764 Amsterdam,
Amsterdam : [publisher not identified], 1764.
Notes:
"This theologico-political research is calculated for an introduction and key to Montesquieu's Spirit of laws."
John Wilkes was probably the translator of this English version of Boulanger's Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental; having printed a French edition of this work at his private press, London, in 1763. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 61, p. 249.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Sabin no. 6885.
Cited in:
RLIN, CTRG10151404-B
OCLC:
516475517

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