PUFENDORF, Samuel de and BARBEYRAC, Jean. Les devoirs de l'H - Lot 196

PUFENDORF, Samuel de and BARBEYRAC, Jean. Les devoirs de l'Homme et du Citoyen, tels qu'ils lui sont prescrits par la loi naturelle. Trevoux, Imprimerie de son Altesse Sérénissime, 1747. 2 vol. in-12, brown speckled basane, ribbed spines set with a gilt frieze, gilt fleurons on the entrenerfs, gilt title and tomaison on brown and burgundy leather parts, floral frame with angular fleur-de-lys and central fleuron cold-stamped on the boards of volume 1, ornate borders in volume 2, red edges. Contemporary binding. LVIII (warning, preface by the author and translator), 1 f. of table and 403 pp. ; 411 pp. with floral bands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. Volume I in used condition, with major leather damage to boards and last lower panel, headbands faded, corners dulled and recessed. Some minor foxing. Seventh edition translated from the Latin of Baron de Pufendorf by Jean Barbeyrac and "accompanied by the two discourses on the permission and benefit of laws and the Judgement of Mr. Leibnitz on this work, with reflections by the same translator". Important political and philosophical treatise by Samuel de Pufendorf (1632-1694), one of the advocates of the natural law school, which influenced the philosophers of the Enlightenment and later inspired the principles of the American Constitution of 1787. Complete set in 2 volumes. Handwritten bookplate of Antonii Guilhem on the title of volume 1, stamped bookplate of Soufflot de Magny on the title of volume 2. Interiors well preserved.