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MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat (1689-1755). Le Temple de Gnide. Nouvelle edition, Paris: chez Le Mire graveur, 1772.
2 volumes, 8° (248 x 161mm.), allegorical engraved frontispiece incorporating a portrait of Montesquieu, engraved title and 9 plates, by Le Mire after Eisen, headpiece above dedication, text engraved throughout by Drouët (occasional light spotting), contemporary red morocco gilt, sides decorated in gilt with a border of a Greek-key roll-tool within double fillets enclosing floral sprays, pineapple-tool cornerpieces, spine gilt in compartments, green morocco lettering-piece, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (head of spine chipped).
A FINELY-BOUND COPY (see front cover illustration) with good margins. Ray: "Le Temple de Gnide is an early work of the great political philosopher, first published in 1725, but Eisen does not fail to pay tribute to his subsequent accomplishments through an elaborate allegorical frontispiece ... With regard to suavity and grace Eisen never surpassed these plates." Berlin Kat. 58; Brunet III, 1860; Cohen-de-Ricci 726; Ray French 32; Tchemerzine 8:445a.
2 volumes, 8° (248 x 161mm.), allegorical engraved frontispiece incorporating a portrait of Montesquieu, engraved title and 9 plates, by Le Mire after Eisen, headpiece above dedication, text engraved throughout by Drouët (occasional light spotting), contemporary red morocco gilt, sides decorated in gilt with a border of a Greek-key roll-tool within double fillets enclosing floral sprays, pineapple-tool cornerpieces, spine gilt in compartments, green morocco lettering-piece, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (head of spine chipped).
A FINELY-BOUND COPY (see front cover illustration) with good margins. Ray: "Le Temple de Gnide is an early work of the great political philosopher, first published in 1725, but Eisen does not fail to pay tribute to his subsequent accomplishments through an elaborate allegorical frontispiece ... With regard to suavity and grace Eisen never surpassed these plates." Berlin Kat. 58; Brunet III, 1860; Cohen-de-Ricci 726; Ray French 32; Tchemerzine 8:445a.
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