De l'origine des loix, des arts et des sciences, et de leurs progrès chez les anciens peuples [...].

6 vol., 12mo; 9 pl. and 3 tables (some sl. foxing, sl. damp stain in vol. IV).

Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt-orn. flat spines, red edges (some sl. traces of use or def.).

Sought after work (1st 1758) on the people of Antiquity, their civil and political organisations, their arts, knowledge and development of techniques (architecture, medicine, astronomy, metallurgy...), by the lawyer and historian Goguet (1716-1758) and continued by the counsellor to "Cour des aides" Fougère (1721-1758). Ill. with 9 fold. plates (hieroglyphs, pyramids, ploughs...) and with 3 fold. chronological tables.