A rare Enlightenment-era French edition of Plato’s Republic, printed in Paris by Humblot in 1765. This handsome Volume I presents the foundational dialogue on justice, translated into French and divided into ten books. Bound in full calf leather with gilt spine decorations and marbled endpapers, the volume carries an early armorial bookplate, suggesting noble or scholarly provenance.
Plato’s Republic was a cornerstone of European intellectual history, shaping political and philosophical debates in the decades leading up to the French Revolution. This 18th-century French edition offers collectors a remarkable artifact of classical thought as interpreted during the Age of Reason.
