508 - MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de)]. De L'Esprit des loix, ou Du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c. To which the author has added new research on the Roman laws of succession, on French laws, & on feudal laws. Genève [Paris], Barillot, & fils, sd [1749]. 2 vol. in-4 of [4] ff, XXIV-522 pp., [1] f. ; [2] ff, XVI-564 pp. Marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Covers missing, corners dull, dark stain on one cover, some jaws partly split. Wormholes in inner margin in places. Ex-libris cut out from the titles (lack filled). Several small corrections (probably from corrected definitive editions) and handwritten notes from the period. Armorial bookplate of Abbé Jean-François du Resnel, Académie française (perhaps the author of the marginalia and handwritten corrections?). Jean-François du Resnel (1692-1761) entered the Oratorians, where he led a brilliant career as a scholar, translator and preacher. A member of the Académie française and the Académie des inscriptions, he made a name for himself with his poetic translations of Pope ("Essai sur la critique" and "Essai sur l'homme"), his learned dissertations and his enlightened taste for foreign literature.

MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de)]. De L'Esprit des loix, ou Du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c. To which the author has added new research on the Roman laws of succession, on French laws, & on feudal laws. Genève [Paris], Barillot, & fils, sd [1749]. 2 vol. in-4 of [4] ff, XXIV-522 pp., [1] f. ; [2] ff, XVI-564 pp. Marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Covers missing, corners dull, dark stain on one cover, some jaws partly split. Wormholes in inner margin in places. Ex-libris cut out from the titles (lack filled). Several small corrections (probably from corrected definitive editions) and handwritten notes from the period. Armorial bookplate of Abbé Jean-François du Resnel, Académie française (perhaps the author of the marginalia and handwritten corrections?). Jean-François du Resnel (1692-1761) entered the Oratorians, where he led a brilliant career as a scholar, translator and preacher. A member of the Académie française and the Académie des inscriptions, he made a name for himself with his poetic translations of Pope ("Essai sur la critique" and "Essai sur l'homme"), his learned dissertations and his enlightened taste for foreign literature. Second edition, in fact a Parisian counterfeit of the original, with a single r in Barrillot's name at the address, and the same ciphering errors in the Preface as in the original. It appeared at the end of January 1749, and is more commonly found in France than the princeps edition of October 1748, which was mainly sold in London and England.