Dissertation sur les Raisons d'tablir ou d' Abroger les Loix...
by Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786. Formey, Jean-Henri-Samuel, 1711-1797. Burckhard, Johann Heinrich, 1676-1738
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Utrecht: Chez Sorli, MDCCLI [1751]. Hard Cover. 130 p.; 17 cm. Attributed to Frederick II --NUC pre-1956. Title continues: A laquelle on a joint l'Examen de l'Usure suivant les Principes du Droit Naturel. Kress 5457; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08645.0-A; Cioranescu 29591; 29182. The Formey text on usury is at pages 86-130. With this is bound Epistola ad Godofredum Guilielmum Leibnitium, qua characterem plantarum naturalem non a partibus earum peti posse ostendit by Johann Heinrich Burckhard, published Helmstadii, 1750. a reprint of his 1702 publication where Burckhard and Leibniz had developed some ideas, well before Linnaeus, regarding the sexual organs of plants. This edition contains a 98-page introduction by Laurentius Heister before the reprint (pp. [101]-159) with a 15-page index. The two folded hand-colored plates are here but 1/3 of the first is torn off. Pritzel (2nd ed.) 1378. Two significant books of the mid-18th Centiry Enlightenment bound together in contemporary 3/4 calf. Bookplate of Royal Barry Wills. (architect), 1895-1962; very good. Stock#OB1001.
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- Dissertation sur les Raisons d'tablir ou d' Abroger les Loix...
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- Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786. Formey, Jean-Henri-Samuel, 1711-1797. Burckhard, Johann Heinrich, 1676-1738
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- Hard Cover
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- Used
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- Hardcover
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- Chez Sorli
- Place of Publication
- Utrecht
- Date Published
- MDCCLI [1751]
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- Antiquarian: 1701-1800
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