The origin and progress of despotism
Subtitle: in the Oriental, and other empires of Africa, Europe, and America
Contributors: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Series: Literature of theology and church history; Literature of theology and church history
Publisher: Printed
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
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.