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ENTRETIENS DE PHOCION, SUR LE RAPPORT DE LA MORALE AVEC LA POLITIQUE; TRADUITS DU GREC DE NICOLES, AVEC DES REMARQUES PAR M. L'ABBE MABLY; 1763
by Phocion [Translated by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably] [L'Abbey Mably]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Amsterdam, 1763. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Stated Second Edition. xxxvi, 248 pages. Full brown calf with label and gilt spine decorations. Small octavo. Boards of catspaw marbling. Marbled endpapers Spine shows general wear , chafing along hinge and corners. Binding tight. Marbled endpapers. Two bookplates. Text clean. In French. With the bookplate of Viscount Palmerston showing his heraldic shield. Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston [1739-1802] was Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty [1766-77] and Lord of the Treasury [1777-82].
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76697
- Title
- ENTRETIENS DE PHOCION, SUR LE RAPPORT DE LA MORALE AVEC LA POLITIQUE; TRADUITS DU GREC DE NICOLES, AVEC DES REMARQUES PAR M. L'ABBE MABLY; 1763
- Author
- Phocion [Translated by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably] [L'Abbey Mably]
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1763
- Keywords
- Foreign Language, French Philosophy, Antiquarian Books,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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- Gilt
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