MAN IN HIS NATURAL STATE. PHILOSOPHICAL-POLITICAL LETTERS

Description:
Quality: Original binding, sewn of good execution.
Thick paper of good quality.
Good quality hard covers.
Description of contents:
- Book, written in Spanish. Philosophical-political Letters, in which are discussed, illustrated and rectified the principal systems, opinions and exotic doctrines of the most celebrated modern philosophers and publicists about the natural and civil State; and it is demonstrated, that the true natural State of man is the Society: I conjugal. II patriarchal. III civil under the paternal authority of the Monarchical Government.
- The author, Fray Atilano Dehazo Solórzano, Benedictine and Lector of Sacred Theology. a Benedictine of the Fernandine period and opposed to the Liberals and the Enlightenment in general.
Parts of the Contents:
- Single volume. Spanish copy, with the complete text.
- Title page. Biblical quotation. Dedication. Errata. Introduction. First Letter (I. Hobbes' System II. Rousseau's System). Second Letter of the Society in Common. Third Letter of the Conjugal Society. Letter Four of Patriarchal Society. Fifth Charter of Civil Society. Postscript, Corollary to the preceding letter. Table of Contents.
Description of the Book:
- Period sewn binding, very good execution, with guillotined cuts, from the First Half of the 19th Century.
- The Text Single-colour printing in black, very good ink, with good stamping, well centred and with good margins.
- Book printed on white paper, of medium thickness and good quality.
- Hard covers. Spanish paperback binding with green shingles; spine with gilt iron and gilt lettering.
- Stamping on spine: Man in his natural state.
- Brown mottled guards and thick thickness, without one of the fore-edges.
Conservation and damage:
- General Condition: Good.
- Sewn binding in fair condition. Binding cracked and worn, with rubbing and creases.
- Pages XXV and XXVI (index) are bound at the end of the book.
- Cuts splashed with fine specks, with rubbing and soiling.
- Text pages are in good condition, with no major tears or stains. In some places there are annotations in pen, signs and underlining, without affecting the text.
- The vast majority of the leaves have small spots of rust and dirt, without affecting the text.
- The first leaf has a pencil restoration, on which the missing text has been completed. Two photocopies of the detail of the missing text are enclosed.
- The front flyleaf is missing the mottled guard.
- The endpapers are slightly deteriorated with light creases and folds.
- The book has not suffered external aggressions such as humidity, insect attacks, rodents, etc.
- The book shows wear typical of its age.

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- The book shows wear and tear typical of it's age.