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ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalit parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1755.
8o (220 x 138 mm., uncut). Engraved frontispiece by D. Sornique after Eisen, engraved title vignette and headpiece by Fokke, title printed in red and black. Contemporary plain wrappers (upper cover almost detached).
FIRST EDITION. "Rousseau's Discours portrayed man alienated from himself by the excessive size, inequalities of wealth, and overwhelming complexity of modern society--a theme which both Hegel and Marx would amplify in the next century" (Norman). Cohen-de Ricci 903; Goldsmith 9064; Kress 5470; Snelier 285; Tchemerzine V, p. 532; Norman 1850.
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FIRST EDITION. "Rousseau's Discours portrayed man alienated from himself by the excessive size, inequalities of wealth, and overwhelming complexity of modern society--a theme which both Hegel and Marx would amplify in the next century" (Norman). Cohen-de Ricci 903; Goldsmith 9064; Kress 5470; Snelier 285; Tchemerzine V, p. 532; Norman 1850.