VOLNEY, C. F. - Lot 76

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VOLNEY, C. F. - Lot 76
VOLNEY, C. F. The Ruins, or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires. Paris, Desenne, Volland, Plassand, August 1791. In-8, XVI, 410 pp., front and 2 unfolded plates, russet bones, fawn stockings, smooth ornamented back, damaged lower headdress with small lacuna, upper hinge slightly cracked, blunt corners, epidermis bones. In French in the text, n°188. SCOFFIER 48. Original edition decorated with a frontispiece by Fr. Martini and two engraved folding plates. This work, the fruit of the author's reflections on the history of nations, and on the effects of despotism and superstition, as he had observed them in the East, has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe.
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