RAYNAL (G.T). HISTOIRE PHILOSOPHIQUE ET POLITIQUE DES ETABLI - Lot 177

RAYNAL (G.T). HISTOIRE PHILOSOPHIQUE ET POLITIQUE DES ETABLISSEMENS ET DU COMMERCE DES EUROPEENS DANS LES DEUX INDES. Genève, Pellet, 1780. 10 volumes in-8, marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine and 1 atlas in-4° blond calf, ornate spine (period binding). THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION of this work which, along with Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, was at the origin of a profound movement of opinion for the abolition of slavery. To commission this work, Abbé Raynal gathered around him a host of collaborators, all philosophers, d'Holbach, Naigeon and above all Diderot, who wrote at least a third of it. Portrait of the author and 9 engraved frontispieces in the text volumes. The atlas includes the table of maps, 28 pages of succinct analysis of the book and 50 double-page or fold-out MAPS, drawn by M. Bonne, ingénieur-hydrographe de la Marine, and engraved by André. Minor defects, good copy.