MONTESQUIEU. - Lot 88

MONTESQUIEU. The Works of Monsieur de Montesquieu. A new edition, revised, corrected, and substantially expanded by the author. London: Nourse, 1767. 3 volumes, in-4. 2) folios, frontispiece, 32-LXXXVI-527 pp., 2 maps; (2) ff., XVI-643 pp. and (2) ff., 747 pp. Contemporary speckled fawn calf, ribbed spine, red title label, tan volume numbering, richly decorated panels, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (blunted corners, rubbed caps and edges, scattered foxing, minor marginal defects including very faint water stains on a few folios of volume 3 and spots). New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded. Compiled by François Richer with the assistance of Montesquieu’s son, based on the author’s manuscripts. Expanded to include the *Lettres familières*. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, engraved in black on copper by Littret after Sève, and two fold-out maps for *The Spirit of the Laws* in the first volume. A fine copy.