Name: Essai sur le Despotisme: augmentee &amp; corrigee par l'editeur de cet ouvrage. (Essay on Despotism: Enlarged and Corrected by the Editor of This Work.)
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Essai sur le Despotisme: augmentee & corrigee par l’editeur de cet ouvrage. (Essay on Despotism: Enlarged and Corrected by the Editor of This Work.)

Essai sur le Despotisme: augmentee & corrigee par l’editeur de cet ouvrage. (Essay on Despotism: Enlarged and Corrected by the Editor of This Work.). [Mirabeau, Honorè Gabriel Riquetti de]. No publisher.

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2nd edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt spine title. 20.5x12x2 cm. No publisher. Londres. 1776. viii, 308, (2) pp. Very good, cover chipped at upper foredge, otherwise a tight fresh copy. “French text. Mirabeau denounces arbitrary royal power – “”Despotism is not a form of government […] if it were so, it would be criminal brigandage against which all men must unite.”” Mirabeau is noted for his oratory and his statesmanship during the French Revolution. This is his first published work. weight: 0.8 lb.”.