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Original engraving executed with a burin after a 16th-century painting by Maerten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen or Maarten van Heemskerck, Marten, Maerten, Martin.
Proof on watermarked laid paper, early 17th-century work.
This is an illustration of the Gospel according to Matthew 6-10, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (the Lord's Prayer).
Latin caption in the lower portion of the engraving.
Artist's signatures in the plate. Numbered notations "3" at lower left in the engraving and in the lower right corner in the area reserved for the caption, and manuscript notation "49" in the margin in the upper right corner. Crown watermark visible by transparency...

First edition of the French translation.
A good and rare copy.

A first impression copy printed in 'cent mille copies'.
A good and rare copy.

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Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains, ou Mémoires intéressants pour servir à l'histoire humaine
N. n., Berlin 1771, in-8 (18,7 x 12 cm), 326 (24 of table) pp., 366 (30 of table) pp., 247 pp., 3 volumes, original wrappers
The second edition of the first two volumes and the first edition of the third, which contains Pernety's defense of the Americans and a refutation of Paw. Brunet, 28465.
Contemporary blue wrappers, titled in red and black. Very good copy.
The work consists in a primarily ethnographic discussion of the American continent. It contains a curious account of hermaphrodites in Florida and the...

First edition published anonymously.
A very good and rare copy.

Second edition after a first of 1790 which is rarely found. Original wrappers, greyish paper. Various minor accidents to covers. Mounier remained a monarchist deputy and thought that only a constitutional monarchy, following the model of England, could spread liberty and happiness to the people. In the aftermath of the revolutionary events of October 5 and 6, 1789 when the king was brought back from Versailles to Paris amid numerous pillaging, Mounier pressed for the assembly of the third estate so that it might finally give a constitution to France. Under threat, he took refuge in Geneva and had this work printed against the report of the constituent assembly president Chabroud regarding...