ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, L'Esprit des nations, 1753

La Haye, Isaac Beauregard, 1753.

Two volumes 12mo (165x95 mm),viii-(8)-296 pages / (10)-274 pages.  binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Volume one worn by water. A booklet unbound. 

references: Seth & Kulessa ["He considers the influence of physical factors, connected to geography, on national character and stresses that ‘for a nation, climate is the fundamental cause of genius, to which must be added similar subordinate ones like the quality of the blood, the nature of the diet, the quality of the water and the vegetation’. He examines particular applications of his theory by taking into account women and love"].

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