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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Observations on the History of Gree - Lot 259
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Observations on the History of Greece; or of the causes of the Prosperity and Misfortunes of the Greeks. In Geneva, By the Company of Booksellers, 1766. In-12 of (2)-VIII-314 pp., marbled havana basane, spine decorated with nerves, red morocco title piece, red edges (contemporary binding). First edition. Mably's critical reflections on the Observations on the Greeks, published in 1749. "The book I am addressing to you today is still only a series of reflections on the morals, government & politics of Greece; I am looking for the general & particular causes of its prosperity & misfortunes. It often happens to me today to praise what I have blamed in my first Observations, and to blame the same things that I have praised; that there was a time when I looked at certain maxims on the greatness, power and fortune of states, as so many indisputable truths; and that after fifteen years of meditating on the same objects, I have come to see them only as errors which our passions and habit have consecrated. A worn-out bit. Cioranescu, 41167.
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