[LOCKE, John]

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[LOCKE, John]
Du Gouvernement civil, où l'on traite de l'origine, des fondemens, de la nature, du pouvoir, et des fins des societez politiques. Translated from the English. New edition. Geneva, Du Villard & Jacquier, 1724. In-12 (148 x 82 mm) of 4 ff.n.ch., 365 pp. 1 f.n.ch. Speckled calf, central coat of arms of the La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt family (OHR 709), spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding). See PMM, 163. Second edition of the French translation, first published at Amsterdam in 1691, of this great classic on the principles of democracy. "A classic example of the empirical approach to social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy" (PMM). A fine copy bearing the arms of the famous La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt library of the Château de La Roche Guyon (with the wet stamp on the title).
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