144 - Games - BARBEYRAC (Jean). A Treatise on Games, Examining the Principal Questions of Natural Law and Morality Relevant to This Subject. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1737. 3 volumes in-12, brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title and volume number labels in red morocco, gilt fillet framing the covers, red edges (contemporary binding).

Games - BARBEYRAC (Jean). A Treatise on Games, Examining the Principal Questions of Natural Law and Morality Relevant to This Subject. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1737. 3 volumes in-12, brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title and volume number labels in red morocco, gilt fillet framing the covers, red edges (contemporary binding). Allegorical frontispiece engraved by Bernaerts after L. F. du Bourg, repeated in each volume, and a portrait of the Princess of Orange engraved as a separate plate in the first volume. Second edition, revised and expanded, of this little-known treatise by the great natural law scholar Barbeyrac (1675–1744), who was exiled to the Netherlands, first published in 1709. It addresses all moral, economic, and social issues related to the practice of gambling. A very fine copy.