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ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES. Dissertation on Political Economy: to which is added, a Treatise on the Social Compact; or, the Principles of Politic Law. The First American Edition. Albany, N.Y: Barber & Southwick, 1797. 12mo. 72, 214 pp. Lacks covers. Contemp. calf backstrip with orig. leather label, only. Lacks plate & two page subscriber's list. First and last leaves browned. Very sound. $400.00
Evans 32780. LCP, American First Editions Exhibition, 1984, # 2: Rousseau's Social Contract with its defense of a republican government and the sovereignty of a people was a good choice for reprinting in the young United States. If the ordinary man was to have a voice in the government, he should also know something of the principles on which it is based."