1848 Volney’s Ruins; or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

Volney, C.-F. de (Constantin-François de Chassebœuf) – Volney’s Ruins; or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires New-York: Smith and Company, 1848. 12mo. Original cloth-backed boards (publisher’s binding). Early American edition of Volney’s influential philosophical meditation on the rise and fall of civilizations, first published in French at the close of the eighteenth century and widely read in the Anglophone world throughout the nineteenth. Good condition with boards soiled and some staining to pages. Tight binding. Inv. Ho10