The title page of volume 2 of <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu" class="extiw" title="w:Montesquieu"> Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu</a> (1748)      <i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montesquieu,_De_l%27Esprit_des_loix_(1st_ed,_1748,_vol_2).pdf" title="File:Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 2).pdf">De l'Esprit des loix ou du rapport que les Loix doivent avoir avec la Constitution de chaque Gouvernement, les Moeurs, le Climat, la Religion, le Commerce, &amp;c : à quoi l'Auteur a ajouté Des recherches nouvelles sur les Loix Romaines touchant les Successions, sur les Loix Françoises, &amp; sur les Loix Féodales [The Spirit of the Laws, or the rapport that the Laws should have with the Constitution of each Government, the Customs, the Climate, the Religion, the Commerce, &amp;c: to which the Author has added new research on the Roman Laws concerning Succession, on French Laws, and on the Feudal Laws]</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Geneva" class="extiw" title="w:en:Geneva"><span title="city in Switzerland and capital of its canton">Geneva</span></a>:  Barrillot &amp; Fils  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a>:   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/150438488">150438488</a>. </small></cite>
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>; photographed from an original copy.