*MONTESQUIEU (Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de). Works... New edition containing the praise of Montesquieu by M. Villemain, the notes of Helvétius, of Condorcet, and the commentary of Voltaire on the Spirit of the Laws. Paris : E. A. Lequien, 1819. - 8 volumes in-8, 208 x 128 : portrait, xvj, 350 pp., (1 f.) ; (2 ff.), 339 pp. ; (2 ff.), 378 pp. ; (2 ff.), 352 pp. ; (2 ff.), 272 pp. ; xij, 386 pp., (1 f.) ; (2 ff.), 439 pp. ; (2 ff.), 322 pp. Long-grained dark blue morocco, central cold plate composed of an interlaced rhombus and quatrefoil, gilt fleuron at the inner tips of the quatrefoil, and gilt filets and gilt roulettes framing the boards, spine with ornamented nerves, gilt roulette inside, gilt edges (Thouvenin). Beautiful edition of Montesquieu's works, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Burdet. Copy on vellum paper, sumptuously bound by Thouvenin. Scattered foxing. Provenance: Galerie de Bossange frère, with label on the first endpaper of the first volume. - Bourlon de Rouvre, with ex-libris.