Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. - Of the Social Contract or Principl - Lot 274

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. - Of the Social Contract or Principl - Lot 274
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. - Of the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law. Edition without cardboard, to which a letter from the author to his only remaining friend in the world has been added. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, [Lyon, Réguilliat], 1762. 1 vol. in-12, bound in parchment with laces, spine ribbed. Bound with: 1/ -Memoire pour la veuve Game. Lyon, Grabit, 1773. In-12. 2/ - Réplique pour le père Game contre monsieur le procureur général et contre les sieurs Chaix, Marron et autres intimés. Lyon, Grabit, 1774. In-12. 3/ - Reply for the widow Game against the Attorney General and against the sieurs Chaix, Marron and other respondents. Lyon, Grabit, 1774. In-12. 4/ - Important questions in the matter of seigniorial rights for the countries of written right. Lyon, Jacquenod, 1774. In-12. 5/ - Massabiau, François. - Essai sur la valeur intrinsèque des fonds ou le moyen de les apprécier, de faire connaître leurs bornes, leurs limites leurs servitudes, de pénétrer dans leurs charges et d'en donner le rapport exact et précis en justice. London and Paris, Knapen, 1774. In-12. - Modest binding, soiled and stained, very short margins in places, the binder's knife having nicked the text of 6 leaves of the Réplique pour la veuve Game - VIII, 376, 111, 50, 66, 75, X, 163 pp. - In the same year that the first edition of the Social Contract was published by Marc-Michel Rey, there were eleven underground pirate editions. The most interesting one is this one made by the Lyon printer Jean-Baptiste Réguilliat in July 1762, which contains, unlike the others, the note on marriage and is increased by an apocryphal letter attributed to Rousseau. Réguilliat was arrested in August, in his workshop, in flagrante delicto of reprinting the book. The work became one of the major texts of political and social philosophy, by affirming the principle of sovereignty of the people based on the notions of freedom, equality, and general will. Three other pieces in this collection concern the Game affair, in which an honest merchant from Lyon, falsely accused of theft, was arrested and imprisoned without trial on the basis of false testimony and died of seizure in his cell. His father and widow tried to obtain rehabilitation and damages from the false witnesses. The last two pieces are legal treatises.
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