![- CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in 8°, VIII-389 pp. in brown basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with gilt fleuron and geometrical semis, cherry title page, edges speckled with red. Binding of the period. (tear in the upper headband, corners damaged).
Reissued with a new title page of the original edition. Published posthumously in 1795, officially adopted as the philosophical manifesto of the post-Thermidorian reconstruction when the Convention financed the distribution of copies throughout France, the Esquisse was immediately greeted by two critics (Bonald and Malthus) which clearly show the importance it was to have for the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. K. M. Baker, Condorcet. Paris, 1988. In French in the text, 196. Martin and Walter, 8083. Bound in the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. All that appeared from this short-lived but famous periodical. Hatin, p. 147. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essai sur les causes principales qui ont contribué à détruire les deux premières races des Rois de France; ouvrage dans lequel on développe les constitutions fondamentales de la nation Françoise dans ces anciens tems: par l'auteur de la Théorie du luxe. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp.](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/fullHD/6/115165/c26c16937fbec37c1da48687557695a9)
- CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in 8°, VIII-389 pp. in brown basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with gilt fleuron and geometrical semis, cherry title page, edges speckled with red. Binding of the period. (tear in the upper headband, corners damaged). Reissued with a new title page of the original edition. Published posthumously in 1795, officially adopted as the philosophical manifesto of the post-Thermidorian reconstruction when the Convention financed the distribution of copies throughout France, the Esquisse was immediately greeted by two critics (Bonald and Malthus) which clearly show the importance it was to have for the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. K. M. Baker, Condorcet. Paris, 1988. In French in the text, 196. Martin and Walter, 8083. Bound in the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. All that appeared from this short-lived but famous periodical. Hatin, p. 147. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essai sur les causes principales qui ont contribué à détruire les deux premières races des Rois de France; ouvrage dans lequel on développe les constitutions fondamentales de la nation Françoise dans ces anciens tems: par l'auteur de la Théorie du luxe. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp.
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- CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in 8°, VIII-389 pp. in brown basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with gilt fleuron and geometrical semis, cherry title page, edges speckled with red. Binding of the period. (tear in the upper headband, corners damaged).
Reissued with a new title page of the original edition. Published posthumously in 1795, officially adopted as the philosophical manifesto of the post-Thermidorian reconstruction when the Convention financed the distribution of copies throughout France, the Esquisse was immediately greeted by two critics (Bonald and Malthus) which clearly show the importance it was to have for the intellectual history of the nineteenth century. K. M. Baker, Condorcet. Paris, 1988. In French in the text, 196. Martin and Walter, 8083. Bound in the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. All that appeared from this short-lived but famous periodical. Hatin, p. 147. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essai sur les causes principales qui ont contribué à détruire les deux premières races des Rois de France; ouvrage dans lequel on développe les constitutions fondamentales de la nation Françoise dans ces anciens tems: par l'auteur de la Théorie du luxe. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp.
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