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The origin and progress of despotism. : In the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America.

Accession number
PML 9718
Creator
Boulanger, Nicolas Antoine.
Published
Amsterdam: : [s.n.], [1764]
Notes
Title page in red and black.
John Wilkes was probably the translator of this English version of Boulanger's Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental; having printed a French ed. of this work at his private press, London, in 1763--cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 61, p. 249.
"This theologico-political research is calculated for an introduction and key to Montesquieu's Spirit of laws."--T.p.
Translation of: Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental.
Probably translated by John Wilkes; cf. DNB.
Description
[2], 285, [1] p. ; 19 cm
Binding
3/4 dark brown morocco.
Classification
Department