The Ruins; or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. To which is Added, The Law of Nature

Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney

R. Carlile, London, 1827

[Volney traveled to Syria and Egypt and those experiences helped him write this political work on the decline and fall of empires.] Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards.  Wear, rubbing to cover. viii, 224 p., 2 l., 44 p. frontispiece illustration, 2 folding charts. 22 cm.  "The law of nature" has separate title-page and pagination. 2 p. l., 44 p.  "In 1791 his most influential work appeared, Les Ruines, ou meditations sur les revolutions des empires.  Seeking the origins of civil society and the causes for its dissolution, he saw revolution as a result of the abandoning of the principles of natural law and religion, equality, and liberty." - Enc.Brit.