[Rarebooks] FS: Gabriel Mably, "the first 'communist' writer, " on European social inequality. Lausanne: 1777

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(SOCIALISM) Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de. DE LA LEGISLATION, OU PRINCIPES DES LOIX. Lausanne: Chez la Societe Typographique. 1777. Second edition. 12mo. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title-page.(2),viii,248;(2),iv,250pp. Early boards, hand lettered paper spine labels (a bit faded).    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
Second edition (first is 1776) of Mably's most important work; a critique of European social inequality and the political reforms needed to redress it. It earned him the reputation of being one of the first "communist" writers.

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