[MONTESQUIEU]. Lettres persanes. Nouvelle édition, revue, co - Lot 159

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[MONTESQUIEU]. Lettres persanes. Nouvelle édition, revue, co - Lot 159
[MONTESQUIEU]. Lettres persanes. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée par l'Auteur. A Amsterdam et à Leipsick, chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1758-1760. 2 parts in one volume in-12, (1)-221pp., 1 bl. f. and (2)-235 pp. (including table). Contemporary marbled and lightly pebbled havana calf, ribbed spine, tawny title-piece, fleurons and gilt fillet decoration on the caissons, crowned arms stamped on the tail of the spine, red edges (corners dulled, side edges worn, some spotting, head cap frayed). First posthumous edition, partly original. Copy of the "D" edition, published by Montesquieu's son, Jean-Baptiste de Secondat, with 161 letters, to which he added a short essay written by his father, Quelques réflexions sur les lettres persanes (pp. 3-6). The crowned iron stamped at the tail of the spine may be Bouthier de Rochefort (Maconnais), even if the crescent appears to have been poured, perhaps Jean-Baptiste Bouthier de Rochefort (1736-1814), member of the Dijon Parliament, whose ex libris are known to have been applied to books from the same period. USBEK & RICA. EPISTOLARY NOVEL.
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