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The ruins, or A survey of the revolutions of empires. Part the second, containing the law of nature. Third edition

1801 Subjects: Conduct of life, Law Forms: Catechisms, Instructional and educational works 3 Printing and Publishing Status: Re-issues Translation Status: Integral English London URL

Authors of source text

Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney

Contributions

uncertainty Anonymous (Daniel Isaac Eaton)
translator
Henry Delahoy Symonds
publisher

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Notes

Third edition of the Philadelphia translation of 'The Law of Nature', with the editor's preface and a portrait of the author. From the title-page: "Philadelphia printed, London reprinted, for H.D. Symonds". Symonds' 1802 catalogue mentions that was printed in a (cheap) pocket-sized edition.

See https://books.google.be/books?id=INyJh0Q4KKkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=volney&f=false