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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

De l'esprit des loix

Chez Barrillot et fils, à Genève 1749, In-4 (19,5x25,7cm), xxiv, 326pp. et (2) xiv, 398pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, rare, after the original remarkable scarcity of published in 1748. It is one of two editions published in 1749 in Barrillot, the latter in two volumes and contains for the first time a large folding map . It is this issue that is referenced by Brunet.
Binders full mottled calf and then frozen. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in beige leather. Lack of head of Volume I. Head Hat Volume II threadbare, with missing the joint. 5 wormholes on the back of Volume II. Scuff along the joints of Volume I with slight lack the volume number. Another scuff the first well of Volume I. 3 bumped corners and bare. Friction. Despite the shortcomings mentioned, nice copy, quite elegant. One rarely finds copies in two volumes, they are mostly connected one.
and emblematic book of the eighteenth century lighthouse, The Spirit of Laws, ie the principles and trends by which bills become law, will have a decisive influence on the political life, and will be a guide for the drafting of the constitution of 1791 and that of the United States. The general thesis of Montesquieu (1689- 1755) is that the laws are not only a creation of men - The spirit of the law is "the various reports of laws with different things" - but that causes the form are manifold; so there physical causes (climate), moral causes (religion, customs ...) more primitive justice is the source of legislation; So there is indeed a spirit of laws. But the book is not only a treaty of the spirit of the law, it is primarily a treaty of governments and especially, freedom. Although the book was widely read, he was greeted with a certain coldness (by philosophers, who did not recognize in Montesquieu one of them and resented his conservatism) and many critics (from the church).

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