Le temple de Gnide
1772
Engraved throughout. The [10] leaves comprise frontispiece with medallic port. of Montesquieu, the author, and nine full-page illustrations. Head-piece with arms of Great Britain at dedication to George III Includes Montesquieu's Céphise et l'Amour, p. 99-104 Binding: mottled calfskin. Boards gilt tooled with triple fillets along margins and fleurons at corners. Spine gilt tooled incorporating title. Edges of boards and turn-ins gilt rolled, page edges gilt. Ribbon place marker. Plates have guard tissues. Label of Buchbinderei Albert Günther, Vienna, with pencilled annotation "Restaurierung." Bookplate of Oscar Ladner, dated 1916 at Vienna












