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Lot 112
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Rousseau, J[ean-]J[acques]

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Du Contract Social; Ou, Principes du Droit Politique. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rev, 1742
  • calf, gilt,
8vo (190 x 115 mm). Half-title, state A of the title with engraved vignette by Borley after Bolomey of Justice, helmet on her head, holding a scale in her right hand and a lance raising a hat in the left, a cat at her feet, and the last two leaves cancelled; some occasional light marginal spotting, pale damp-stain touching the lower edge of title and first few ff, and another touching the head of a few ff, end-papers browned around edges. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with morocco label; joints and spine a bit rubbed & dry.

Provenance

Jean Marc Eggen (contemporary ownership inscription to half-title); 

Literature

Brunet VIII:527; Dufour 117; PMM 207; See R.A. Leigh, Unsolved problems in the bibliography of Rousseau, Cambridge: 1990.

Catalogue Note

First edition, with the first part of the title moved to a half-title, but retaining the original state of the title.