Bilhon, Jean Fr!deric Joseph

Du gouvernement des Romains, consid‚r‚ sous le rapport de la politique, de la justice, des finances, et du commerce

      Paris: Chez Louis (pr. by Pierre Didot l'Ain!), 1807. Publisher's rose paper wrappers, rebacked in paper wrapper edges chipped and hinges (inside) reinforced. Half-title and title-page institutionally rubber-stamped, front pastedown with institutional bookplate and early inked numeral, half-title with small inked ownership inscriptions. Signatures unopened, edges untrimmed; pages age-toned throughout, some with a little foxing; a nice copy. Now housed in a neat rose-maroon cloth clamshell case with gilt-stamped leather title-label.. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). viii, 312 pp. . Sole edition, here unopened and uncut in the publisher's paper wrappers, of this treatise on ancient Roman government and economics. Bilhon also published Principes d'administration et d'!conomie politique des anciens peuples, appliqu!s aux peuples modernes and !loge de J.J. Rousseau.#11; Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only eight U.S. holdings.