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ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Du Contrat Social; ou, Principes du Droit Politique. [2] (of [4]), viii, 323, [1] pages; lacks half-title. 8vo, 204x127 mm, modern blue buckram; conspicuous dampstain in lower inner corners throughout, title detached, with 19th-century owner's embossed monogram stamp. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762
first edition of Rousseau's chief work of political theory, elaborating his controversial notion of the general will as the basis of political legitimacy; third state, with the final 2 leaves reset, eliminating a long footnote on civil marriage and adding a list of Rey publications on the last page. Dufour 132; Leigh, Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, page 22; Printing and the Mind of Man 207.
