Montesquieu Trans (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Good trade paperback, some wear.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

8vo, xii + 246pp. Original cloth in predominantly white dustwrapper, slihgtly rubbed and exhibiting some closed tearing to top and bpttom edges. Top edges of text block dyed crimson; fore- edges untrimmed. A very good copy. First edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Oriental Tales, Vol. XIV, Limited Delhi Edition. No. 174/1000 copies; xxii + 297pp; b/w frontis of Montesquieu & plates with engraver's marks & tissue guards; laid paper; contents unmarked; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; 8.75" tall; slight darkening / shelf wear to edges of green cover; 2 bumps to fore edge of front cover; paper title label on spine. Hardcover.

Condition: Fair. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover.Medium 8vo. Grubby green cloth with gilt lettering and gilt motifs on backstrip. Bumped corners and light fraying and wear to exterior. Frontispiece, tissue guard absent from vol II. Illustrated title page. Pages reasonably secure. Several pencil markings in vol II. Contains a few plates with tissue guards. Foxing, Untrimmed save for gilt top edge. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Duodecimo. green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 193 pp, corners bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. vii, 307pp. Vol: 2 ONLY. His satire on European institutions. Leather is broken to front joint but firm on strings and some rubbing, paper discoloured. 400g.

Leather Bound. pp. xxiv, 381; pp. xiv, 427. 8vo. Bound in full brown leather with gilt rules, lettering and decoration to spine, faint marbled foredges. Extremities lightly rubbed, some edgewear, superficial surface cracks to the spine of Vol. 2; ink name and date to corner of front free endpapers, contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound bindings. Overall, very good. Originally published in French as 'De l'esprit des loix' in 1748 it was immediately subject to censorship both by the French authorities as well the Catholic Church where it was added to the Vatican's "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" or List of Prohibited Books. A consequential work of political theory it influenced many outside of France, notably Catherine The Great who's, "Nakaz", copied more than 400 articles verbatim from the works of Montesquieu; it heavily influenced the Founding Fathers when they gathered for the Constitutional Convention of 1787 where they incorporated many ideas from Montesquie in the drafting of the United States Constitution.