Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Discours sur l'oeconomie politique. Geneva: Emanuel du Villard fils, 1758

8vo (184 x 115mm.), woodcut vignette on title-page, contemporary calf, flat spine gilt, title-page and a few other leaves lightly stained, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Dufour 68; Goldsmiths 9320; Kress 5756

Catalogue Note

first edition in book form of the article written by Rousseau for the Encyclopédie, published in 1755. Despite its title, this article is more an exploration of a legitimate political regime than a work of political economy, to some degree a precursor to his famous Du contrat social of 1762.