Lot 706
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: M.M. Rey, 1755, first edition, first issue, with the aigu accent on 'conformé' on page 11 added by hand, and the misspelling of the authors name on both the title-page and at the end of the Dedicace, engraved frontispiece by Eisen, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, contemporary calf, spine gilt, slight damp-staining to upper margin, upper hinge cracked, slight wear to head and tail of spine
Footnote
Note: First edition of Rousseau's classic work arguing that private property had exercised a corrupting influence upon primitive man and that it was the enduring cause of inequality and injustice in human society. Tchemerzine X, p.32; Goldsmith 9064; Kress 5470
Provenance: Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse, bookplates.