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First edition. Seven plans by Coquart and one by De Fer: 
- Lutèce or first plan of the city of Paris
- Lutetia conquered by the Franks over the Romans
- Troisième plan de la ville de Paris, son étendüe et les Bourgs dont elle étoit entourée sous le règne de Loüis le Ieune VIIème du nom (Third plan of the city of Paris, its extent and the towns around which it was surrounded during the reign of Louis VII)
- Fourth plan of the city of Paris, its growth and condition under the reign of Philippe Auguste
- Fifth plan of Paris, its frowth and fourth fortification begun on 1367 and finished under Charles VI in the year 1383
- Sixth plan of the city of Paris, and its growth...

First French edition, translated by Mme Belot.
With the arms of Marc-Pierre Voyer Comte d'Argenson (1696-1764), Président du Conseil and Garde des Sceaux repeated four times on spine.
Light brown polished marbled calf, spine in compartments with the arms of Marc-Pierre Voyer Comte d'Argenson, roulette to foot. Red morocco title and volume labels, rubbing to headpieces, joints, bands on spine, bands, and corners. Four corners bumped, a pale yellow dampstain to head of first leaves of volume II. Contents and notices inverted, mixed with preliminaries. A very good copy.
Hume began his history of England in reverse chronological order, starting with the history of the Stuarts...