Dissertations sur les anciens monumens de la ville de Bordeaux, sur les gahets, les antiquités, et les Ducs d'Aquitaine ; avec un traité historique sur les monnoyes que les anglais ont frappées dans cette province

Very rare first edition, illustrated with 8 plates including 3 of coins.
Contemporary marbled brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Havana morocco title label. The last compartment is missing but has been placed inside the work. Wormholes at head. 2 corners slightly bumped. Foxing on several plates but the whole relatively fresh. Some rubbing.
According to the "Publisher's Notice", these dissertations, presented to the Academy of Bordeaux, were published by J.-B. de Secondat [Montesquieu's son], perpetual secretary. Extract from the Journal des scavans, February 1775: "...The light that these scholarly and painstaking researches shed on the history of the Roman empire, on that of France and England, makes them no less precious to lovers of Antiquity & to those who apply themselves to medals, than to those who wish to know the particular history of Bordeaux."