The origin and progress of despotism.
Subtitle: In the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America ...
Contributors: Wilkes, John, 1727-1797, supposed tr.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Despotism
Notes: "This theologico-political research is calculated for an introduction and key to Montesquieu's Spirit of laws."
John Wilkes was probably the translator of this English version of Boulanger's Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental; having printed a French edition of this work at his private press, London, in 1763. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 61, p. 249.