1776. No Edition Remarks. 655 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. French text. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Book I. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to page before title page. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Binding is shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Book is notably forward leaning. Heavy splits along spine joints. Stained marking to front board.