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Puffendorf, Samuel.
The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature.
Publisher: Printed for William Sleater. Dublin;
Date of Publication: 1754
Stock Code: 14202
Duodecimo, pp., [16], 340, [16]. Contemporary mottled calf, double fillets gilt to boards, continuing to spine compartments, edges speckled red. Joints worn through but bands still holding, corners bumped and rubbed, a few scuffs and light gouges, particularly to lower board and to spine. Spot of damp to sig. A5, a few leaves cut a little close, but contents otherwise clean, bright and fresh. Irish edition of the German jurist and historian Samuel Puffendorf’s response to the works of Thomas Hobbes and Hugo Grotius. The book went on to influence Locke, Hume, Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot. A good copy of a scarce work of the German Enlightenment. £85.00