The origin and progress of despotism in the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America :
this theologico-political research is calculated for an introduction and key to Montesquieu's Spirit of laws, as the author declares in his last section.

Description

Main Author

Boulanger, Nicolas Antoine

Related Names

Goldberg, Gerald M., former owner.
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, tr.
Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

Language(s)

English

Published

Amsterdam [i.e. London?] : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCLXIV [1764]

Subjects

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, > Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, / baron de, > Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, / baron de, / 1689-1755. > Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, / baron de, / 1689-1755. / De l'esprit des lois
Despotism > Despotism / Early works to 1800.
False imprints (Printing).
Early works

Note

Title page printed in red and black.
Last p. blank.
Signatures: [A]1 B-N⁴ O⁴ (-O4).
John Wilkes was probably the translator of this work, having printed a French edition of this work at his private press, London, in 1763. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 61, p. 249.
Translation of Nicolas Antoine Boulanger's Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental.

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[2], 285, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

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