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[MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de)]. Lettres persanes. Seconde édition, revuë, corrigée, diminuée & augmentée par l'auteur. Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1721. In-12, 312 pp. (vol. 1 only), brown calf, ribbed spine, red title page, speckled edges (worn contemporary binding with major leather tears on spine and traces of rough restoration). Rare second first edition by the author. Probably backdated, it was not published until 1730 by Jacques Desbordes in Amsterdam. The order of the letters has been changed from the original edition. Handwritten bookplate of Paolo Ceruti on the upper flyleaf. Interior free of foxing. (Tchemerzine, VIII, 452).

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[MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de)]. Lettres persanes. Seconde édition, revuë, corrigée, diminuée & augmentée par l'auteur. Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1721. In-12, 312 pp. (vol. 1 only), brown calf, ribbed spine, red title page, speckled edges (worn contemporary binding with major leather tears on spine and traces of rough restoration). Rare second first edition by the author. Probably backdated, it was not published until 1730 by Jacques Desbordes in Amsterdam. The order of the letters has been changed from the original edition. Handwritten bookplate of Paolo Ceruti on the upper flyleaf. Interior free of foxing. (Tchemerzine, VIII, 452).

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