Maggs Bros.

First collected edition in French. Two volumes. 8vo. xlviii, 452, [xxii]; iv, 292 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece of Hobbes by Le Beau after Le Clère. Contemporary polished tree calf, smooth spines richly panelled in gilt, second and fourth panels lettered in gilt on red morocco labels, the rest with gilt devices covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spot-marbled endpapers, all edges in gilt (endpapers a little dampstained, a few bibliographical notes in neat pencil, otherwise internally clean with isolated spots; minor wear to extremities, slight blemish to foot of first volume and lower cover of second volume, otherwise a very nice set). Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1787.