[Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron.]

Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains, et de leur decadence

Amsterdam: J. Wetstein, 1746. 12mo, pp. 190; engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red and black; full contemporary calf (a couple of stains on back cover), spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label and 2 paper heart-shaped labels (one of which is torn) added later to top and bottom compartments, "11" in ink on both labels; minor worm holes to leather, spine edges rubbed; pages trimmed, else a very good copy. OCLC locates 3 copies in the United States, at Kansas, Florida Atlantic, and Bowdoin. See Brunet III, 22933 for the first edition of 1734. Item #39020

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