El arte de conocer a los hombres y maximas para la sociedad civil

Amberes [Antwerp]: Andres Perisse, 1755. Good. Amberes [Antwerp]: Andres Perisse, 1755. 12mo (16 cm); [xvi], 318pp. Full bound in contemporary dark brown roan, gilt spine. Edges red speckled. Boards worn at edges and corners with some loss to spine ends. Generally scuffed and scratched with minor staining. Boards lifting at fore edge but binding tight. Pages foxed and toned. Previous owner's manuscript ex libris pasted in at first pastedown with a small illustrated icon of Saint Philomena loosely laid in. First endsheet stained and has lifted some of the facing page. A few signatures sit slightly proud. A Good copy.

This revised and expanded edition of The Art of Knowing Men and the Maxims of Civil Society was originally published in French. Sections include Of Shame, On the Disregard of Death, and On the Honesty of Women.