A commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws / prepared for press from the original manuscript, in the hands of the publisher ; To which are annexed observations on the thirty-first [i.e. twenty-ninth] book by the late M. Condorcet ; and two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work.

Author/creator Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude
Other author Helvétius, 1715-1771.
Other author Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Other author Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794.
Format Microform
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by William Duane, 1811.
Descriptionviii, 292 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleCommentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu. English
SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689
Early American imprints. Second series no. 22689. ^A575643
General noteOriginally written in French about 1807. Later the manuscript was "committed" to Thomas Jefferson, by whom the present translation was revised and forwarded to Duane. The French edition appeared in 1819 under title: Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois.
References Shaw & Shoemaker, 22689.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New Canaan, CT] : Readex Microprint, [1987-1992] microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689).

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