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Title

Du contract social, ou, Principes du droit politique / par J.J. Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve.

Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Publication

A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1762.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bolomey, Benjamin Samuel, 1739-1819.

Description

191, [1] p.; 17 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

Principes du droit politique

Subjects

• Political science > Early works to 1800
• Piracies (Publishing) > Netherlands > 18th century
• Social contract > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Piracies (Publishing) – Netherlands – 18th century.

Note

• "--foederis æquas / Decamus [sic] leges. Æneid. XI."
• Pirated ed., based on the first 12mo ed., which had imprint as above; perhaps printed in the Netherlands.
• Lacks preliminaries; leaves A1,2 (p. [1-4])=half title and t.p.; text begins on leaf A3 (p. [5]); lacks the note on civil marriage. Cf. Leigh, R.A., Unsolved problems in the bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau (1990), p. 51-52 and plate 18: plate depicts t.p. of a closely related ed., with same engraved vignette and same misprint in epigraph, but the ed. is described as containing preliminaries and two versions of one leaf, with and without the note on civil marriage, with repeated pagination. Cf. also Gagnebin, B. Notices bibliographiques (In Rousseau, J.-J. Works, 1959-1995, v. 3, p. 1851-1890), p. 1870, no. 6.; Dufour, T. Rousseau, 135; Sénelier, J. Rousseau, 561 (with misprinted epigraph, but described as containing [IV] 191 p.; Gagnebin states that the ed. lacks the note on civil marriage).
• Signatures: A-M⁸.
• Engraved t.p. vignette (Justice standing); unsigned copy of the first of 2 used by Rey in the original ed., after a design by B.S. Bolomey.
• Ornamental head- and tailpieces.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Provenance (note)

• Martin J. Gross Collection.

Call Number

*KGV (Rousseau. Du contrat. 1762) 01-203

OCLC

NYPG01-B3892

Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Title

Du contract social, ou, Principes du droit politique / par J.J. Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve.

Imprint

A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1762.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Local Note

With: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Jean Jaques Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve, à Christophe de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris ... A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1763 -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettre de J.J. Rousseau à Monsieur de Voltaire. [Paris? : s.n.], 1763 -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur l'economie politique. Nouvelle edition. A Geneve : [s.n.], 1760 -- Peyrou, M. du (Pierre Alexandre). Lettre de Monsieur *** relative a Monsieur J.J. Rousseau. A Goa : Aux dépens du St. Office, 1765. Number 1 of 5 items bound together subsequent to publication.

Binding: Contemporary marbled calf, gilt; red morocco spine label. Binder's title: Oeuvres div. de Roussea[u].

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Added Author

Bolomey, Benjamin Samuel, 1739-1819. Illustrator

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV (Rousseau. Du contrat. 1762) 01-203