A commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws.
By: Prepared for press from the original manuscript in the hands of the publisher. Translated by Thomas Jefferson. To which are annexed: Observations on the thirty-first [i.e. twenty-ninth] book by M. Condorcet, and Two letters of Helvetius on the merits of the same work.
Contributors: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794.; Helvétius, 1715-1771.; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Series: Philosophy monograph series, 18; Burt Franklin research & source works series, 290.
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.; Political science.
Other titles: Montesquieu's Spirit of laws.; Spirit of laws.
Notes: On spine: Montesquieu's Spirit of laws.
Jefferson's translation was based on a French MS. originally written about 1807. Cf. G. Chinard. Jefferson et les idéologues. 1925. p. 45-55.
Reprint of the Philadelphia ed., 1811. The 1st French ed. was published in 1819 under title: Commentaire sur l'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu.