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 book by the late M. Condorcet: and two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work. ; [Six lines of quotations].
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia-- : Printed by William Duane. No. 98, Market Street, 1811. |
| Description | viii, 292 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude, comte, 1754-1836. |
| Other author/creator | Helvétius, 1715-1771. |
| Other author/creator | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. |
| Other author/creator | Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794. |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 22689. ^A575643 |
| General note | The word 'thirty-first' on the title page is an error for 'twenty-ninth,' which is correctly given at the beginning of Condorcet's Observations on p. 261, and on the title page of the French edition of this work, Paris, 1819. |
| General note | Originally 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. |
| General note | Attributed in NUC pre-1956 to Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy. The author's note on p. [1] to "his fellow citizens of the United States of America" states that he is a Frenchman who "flying then from the tyrannies of the monster Robespierre, I found, and still enjoy, safety, freedom, and hospitality, among you." There is, however, no record that Destutt de Tracy ever left France. |
| General note | Copyright July 4, 1811, by William Duane. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 22689 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22689). |