Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 125
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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(PHOCION.) Nicocles, attributed to. Entretiens de Phocion, sur le Rapport de la Morale avec la Politique. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mably; medallion portrait of Phocion on title. xl, 239, [1] pages, including half-title. 12mo, 168x101 mm, contemporary deep navy straight-grain morocco gilt by Bozerian, stamp-signed at foot of spine; contents clean. Paris: Ant.-Aug. Renouard, 1804

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Translation by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably of a Greek manuscript ascribed to Nicocles purporting to record conversations of the 4th-century B.C. Athenian general and statesman Phocion on political ethics.