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GOGUET, Antoine-Yves - On the Origin of Laws,...

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GOGUET, Antoine-Yves - On the Origin of Laws, Arts and Sciences; and their Progress chez les anciens peuples. Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1758. 3 vol. in-4, XXVIII, 401 pp. VIII, 438 pp. and 1 large folding table; VIII, 368 pp. and 2 ff. and 1 large folding table. in contemporary porphyry calf, triple gilt thread on the boards, spine with ornamented nerves. BRUNET II, 1647. First edition. One of the first essays on the history of civilization in which one not content to study only the laws and the political institutions, but where one took into account the development of techniques and agriculture. Ex-libris of Talleyrand, stamp of the of the castle of Valençay.