////Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu. Le temple de Gnide. — Paris: Le Mire, 1772.

Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu. Le temple de Gnide. — Paris: Le Mire, 1772.

Hardcover volume, 8vo, 24.3 x 16.5 cm, bound in contemporary full marbled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt floral tools in compartments, gilt title lettering, marbled end-papers and all edges, printed on laid paper 23.9 x 5.5 cm with a watermark, entirely engraved (frontispiece, title, nine plates, and text), gatherings not indicated.

Title-page (engraved, vignette, tall ‘s’) LE | TEMPLE | DE | GNIDE | Nouvelle Edition, | Avec Figures | Gravées par N. LE MIRE, | des Acad. De Vienne en Autriche et de Rouen, | D’apres les Dessins de Ch. Eisen. | Le Texte Gravé par Droüet. | — | {3 lines quotation from Gallien} | A PARIS | Chez le Mire Graveur | Rue St. Etienne des Gres. | AVEC PRIVELEGE DU ROI. | 1772. ||

Frontispiece (engraved, vignette): Portrait medallion inscribed “CHARLES SECONDAT DE MONTESQUIEU — N. Le Mire del et sc”, signed beneath “N. le Mire sculp 1771″; under the plate: “Dessiné par Ch. Eisen, et Gravé par N. le Mire.”

Pagination: frontispiece, t.p. / explication, dedication, [i] ii-vii [viii blank] 1-104 [105-6 blanks]; engraved throughout, plus 9 plates by Le Mire after Eisen.

Catalogue Raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 726-27; Ray, French Illustrated Book, №32/p. 61-2.
Ref.: MFA (Boston): Accession Number 37.1726.

Charles Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778) – artist.

Noël Le Mire (French, 1724 – 1801) – engraver, publisher.

Droüet (French, 18th century) – text engraver.

Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French, 1689 – 1755) – author.

SKU: LIB-2525.2020 Categories: ,

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