DEMOSTHENES. Philippiques de Démosthène: et Catilinaires de Cicéron; traduites par L'Abbé d'Olivet; avec des remarques de Bouhier sur le texte de Cicéron. Paris: chez Pierre Gandouin. 1736
[2], 416, [4]pp. 12mo. Full contemporary calf; joints & corners rubbed, upper joint sl. cracked, lacking label.
¶The first edition of this translation by Joseph Thoulier, Abbe d'Olivet, 1682-1768, French critic and scholar, an acquaintance of Alexander Pope, and most able translator of Cicero and Demosthenes' three orations against Philip of Macedon. He was also an intimate friend of Voltaire, whom he assisted and directed in his studies.
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