109 - ROUSSEAU (JEAN-JACQUES)

ROUSSEAU (JEAN-JACQUES) Letters Written from the Mountain, by J. J. Rousseau. Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1764. 2 parts in 1 vol., in-8, viii-248 pp., 168 pp. (excluding the 2 folios of the half-title and title page of the second part). Marbled sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). An 18th-century engraving depicting Socrates drinking the hemlock, pasted as a frontispiece. Dufour lists five editions dated 1764; this one is a pirated edition that is rarer than the original editions. (Dufour, 235.)