First French edition; originally published: Berlin, 1767.

"Les ouvrages du philosophe juif [i.e. Mendelssohn] formeront quatre volumes in-8⁰ indépendants les uns des autres. On en donne ici le premier"--Avertissement (p. xiv).^ "Tome I." appears in direction line.

Colophon: De l'Imprimerie de Quillau.

"Vie de Socrate": p. [1]-78.

Frontispiece signed in the plate: "Monet, inv. et del.; Menil, sculp."

Signatures: pi² a⁸ b⁴ A-X⁸ Y⁴.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; Ronald and Ute Schechter; 118 Stanley Drive, Williamsburg, VA 23188; 2005 December 19; 2005-636.

Bequest; L.M. Friedman; 1957; 65J-900.

From the library of Granville Leveson Gower, Marquess of Stafford, with his armorial bookplate; and from the library of "D.L.P.", with ink-stamped monogram on title page.

Bound in contemporary brown sheep, spine panelled gilt, marbled endpapers, edges stained red; hole from corrosive ink on title page, with damage to frontispiece.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine panelled gilt, red leather spine label, marbled endpapers, green silk ribbon marker, edges stained red.