MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat de). Œuvres. Amsterdam and Leipsick, Arkstée Merkus, 1758. 3 volumes in-4, edition illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 2 folding maps engraved on copperplate out of text by Robert de Vaugondy, and established by François Richer under the control of Jean-Baptiste de Secondat, son of Montesquieu, and published by Nicolas-François Moreau and Pierre-Michel Huart under fictitious address. It also includes two texts by d'Alembert, "l'Éloge de Montesquieu" and "l'Analyse de l'Esprit des loix". Portrait of the author engraved by Le Mire after de Sève. Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, with triple filleted boards, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece, brown morocco head-piece, all edges red. (incomplete with a folding map and frontispiece, minor restoration to the flyleaf of the first and third volumes). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio