A commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws

Author(s)

• Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude, comte
• Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de
• Helvétius
• Jefferson, Thomas

Bibliographic Information

A commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws

prepared for press from the original manuscript in the hands of the publisher, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy ; translated by Thomas Jefferson. To which are annexed: Observations on the thirty-first [i.e.twenty-ninth] book by M. Condorcet, and Two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work

（Philosophy monograph series, 18）（Burt Franklin research & source works series, 290）

B. Franklin, [1969]

Other Title

Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu

Montesquieu's Spirit of laws

Spirit of laws

Note

On spine: Montesquieu's Spirit of laws

Jefferson's translation was based on a French MS. originally written about 1807. Cf. G. Chinard. Jefferson et les idéologues. 1925. p. 45-55

Reprint of the Philadelphia ed., 1811. The 1st French ed. was published in 1819 under title: Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu

Details

• NCID: BA20503132
• LCCN: 68057920
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 292 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC179.M8
  • DC : 320
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. De l'esprit des lois
  • LCSH : Political science
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03786405
  • BA00608579