SENAC DE MEILHAN (Gabriel): Considérations... - Lot 17 - Eric Caudron

SENAC DE MEILHAN (Gabriel): Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs. London, et se trouve à Paris, Chez les Marchands des Nouveautés, 1787; in 8°, basane fauve jaspée, spine with false-nerve ornamented, red morocco title-piece, red edges. Binding of the period. Edition published the same year as the original. It is in this book that Sénac de Meilhan strongly opposes Necker's financial theories, putting forward the importance to be given to the population, the basis of society. LINGUET (Simon Nicolas Henri) : Theory of Civil Laws or Fundamental Principles of Society. London, 1767; two volumes in 12, (2)ff. 507pp. and (2)ff. 532pp. in calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco titles, red edges. First edition of an important 18th century political science text. Linguet (1736-1794), lawyer and pamphleteer, opposed Montesquieu and the physiocrat authors, developing a theory close to the socialist thought of the following century. Ex libris manuscript of G. E. de Bona, at the Parliament of Burgundy in 1769.