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MONTESQUIEU (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de). Le Temple de Gnide. 
Paris, Didot jeune, An III (1795) ; in-18, plein maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs orné, triple filet doré à écoinçons encadrant les plats, double filet doré sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées (reliure fin XIXe). 

1 f. bl., 210 pp., 2 ff. bl. 1 titre avec le portrait de Montesquieu par Saint-Aubin et 12 figures, dont 10 de Regnault, gravées à l’eau-forte par Bertaux et terminées par Baquoy, de Ghendt, Halbou, Lingée, Patas et Ponce, et 2 de Le Barbier, gravées par Courbe et Patas. 

Plaisante édition, « très recherchée » (Cohen), imprimée en papier vélin, avec 10 figures avec la lettre et 2 avant-lettre. Exemplaire parfaitement établi dans une élégante reliure en plein maroquin de la fin du XIXe siècle. 

Cohen, 729.

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