94. CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in-8, VIII-389 pp., rooted fawn basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with fleuron and geometrical gilt sowing, cherry title piece, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Upper headgear hook, damaged corners. Linked with LE VIEUX CORDELIER. Re-issued with a new title page from the original edition. Related to the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. Everything that came out of that ephemeral but famous periodical. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essay on the main causes that contributed to the destruction of the first two races of the Kings of France; work in which the fundamental constitutions of the French nation are developed in these ancient tems: by the author of the Theory of Luxury. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp. First edition of Condorcet's best collective, which has become extremely rare.
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94. CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in-8, VIII-389 pp., rooted fawn basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with fleuron and geometrical gilt sowing, cherry title piece, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Upper headgear hook, damaged corners. Linked with LE VIEUX CORDELIER. Re-issued with a new title page from the original edition. Related to the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. Everything that came out of that ephemeral but famous periodical. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essay on the main causes that contributed to the destruction of the first two races of the Kings of France; work in which the fundamental constitutions of the French nation are developed in these ancient tems: by the author of the Theory of Luxury. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp. First edition of Condorcet's best collective, which has become extremely rare.

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94. CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second edition. Paris, Agasse, year III, (1795), in-8, VIII-389 pp., rooted fawn basane, smooth spine alternately decorated with fleuron and geometrical gilt sowing, cherry title piece, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Upper headgear hook, damaged corners. Linked with LE VIEUX CORDELIER. Re-issued with a new title page from the original edition. Related to the suite: I. DESMOULINS (Camille): Le Vieux Cordelier. Paris, Imprimerie de Desenne, s.d. 25 November 1793 - 4 February 1794], 7 issues, 172 pp. in continuous numbering. Everything that came out of that ephemeral but famous periodical. II. BUTEL-DUMONT (Georges-Marie):] Essay on the main causes that contributed to the destruction of the first two races of the Kings of France; work in which the fundamental constitutions of the French nation are developed in these ancient tems: by the author of the Theory of Luxury. Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1776, [12]-191 pp. First edition of Condorcet's best collective, which has become extremely rare.
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