[COOPER (John Gilbert)]: - La Vie de Socrate Traduitte [sic] de l'Anglois.

A Amsterdam, par la Compagnie, 1751. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo (in 8s and 4s), pp. 16, [2], xiii [xiv blank], 17 - 247 [248 blank], engraved portrait of Socrates as frontispiece, engraved title-page; first two gatherings misbound, with half-title and preface inserted after p. 16, contemporary continental calf, gilt spine; binding very worn, with joints cracked, loss of leather to corners, rear joint with early, crude reinforcement, ex-library with armorial library bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, and library stamps on the verso of the front free end-paper and the recto of the following leaf as well as the stamp "Hilopostus/ Doctor impenetrabilis". Cooper's life of Socrates was first published by Dodsley in 1749, with a second edition in 1750. The translation is by M. de Combles.

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