Montesquieu & MM. Desttut de Tracy / Müller - Œuvres de Montesquieu - 1826-1827

A fascinating representative set documenting the reception, at the beginning of the 19th century, of one of the great political, historical and philosophical thinkers of the Enlightenment —

Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, appears there through a highly varied body of work that combines political reflection, analysis of laws, philosophy of history, critique of mores, historical studies, literary writings and meditations on society —

The foundational text of this collection is naturally De l’Esprit des lois, first published in 1748, a vast inquiry devoted to the relations between laws, institutions, mores, climate, religion, economy, traditions and forms of government —

Montesquieu seeks to understand why institutions differ from one people to another and rejects the idea that a political system can be considered independently of the historical and social conditions in which it operates —

Montesquieu & MM. Destutt de Tracy / Müller - Œuvres de Montesquieu - 1826/1827 - Tome I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII - Dalibon - XV-411; 480; 493; 488; 475; 544; 460 pages.

Good condition of the bindings, works in their green half-bindings from the period, covers with signs of wear, some minor defects on the covers, spines worn, several heads dulled, speckled edges, backs smooth adorned with gilded and blind-tooled decorations, titles, volumes and author’s name gilded -

Good interior condition, some stains and foxing, edition with critical apparatus by MM. Destutt de Tracy and Villemain, with a portrait of the author engraved by Müller after Devéria, text in two columns, small vignette and ownership stamp on the title page, a vast set -

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