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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

L'esprit des loix

Chez Les libraires associés, à Leyde 1749, 2 tomes en un Vol. In 4 (21,5x27cm), relié.

New edition after the original 1748 Geneva badge of a rarity; there will be a second edition corrected in 1748 by the same publisher, also very rare; that we present is the third edition in 4 according Tchemerzine, it is rare, especially in good condition. It contains both errata and changes made by the author on the first edition. Some sources have this issue as Lyon. Full marbled calf period. Back tooled raised. As part of modern red morocco. Few scuffs. Nice copy, very fresh. Book and iconic flagship of the eighteenth century, The Spirit of Laws, ie the principles and trends by which bills become law, will have a decisive influence on political life, and will be a guide for the drafting of the constitution 1791 and the United States. The general thesis of Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), is that the laws are not only a creation of men - The Spirit of Laws is "the various reports of laws with various things" - but that causes the form are manifold; So there are physical causes (climate), moral causes (religion, morals ...); more primitive justice is at the origin of the laws; so there is a good spirit of the laws. But the book is not only a treatise on the spirit of the law, it is primarily a treaty governments and above all, freedom. Although the book was widely read, he was greeted with a certain coldness (by philosophers, who did not recognize one of their own in Montesquieu and reproached him his conservatism) and many critics (from the church). Bookplate weapons Plum St. Andrew, a powerful family of parliamentarians Dauphinois.

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