OEuvres Completes de M. Helvetius.
by HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien):
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A Londres, 1777. 4 volumes. 8vo, 206 x 120 mms., pp. [iv], 484; [ii], xx, 513 [ 514 - 515 Approbation and Privilege, 516 blank]; xxviii, 586; xiv, 416, including half-title in each volume, attractively bound in full contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled borders on covers, spines richly gilt in compartments with oval sunburst motif, red and green morocco labels, marbled end-papers. A fine and attractive set, A bookplate loosely inserted in volume 4 claims "From Croom Court/ Roger Payne binder/ 1738 - 97 used a tool/ used in this binding." Helvetius (1715 - 1771) is probably best-known for his De l'Esprit (1758) and its successor De l'Homme (1772). Although the imprint claims London for the place of publication, it is clearly a French, and probably, Parisian printing. De l'Esprit had been condemned by the French parliament soon after it was published and was burnt, so Helvetius was clearly still considered dangerous to the structure of the state in 1777. The imprint is false, as the volumes were printed in Maastricht by Dufour and Roux. David Smith: Bibliography of the writings of Helvetius (2003), O.3.
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7130
- Title
- OEuvres Completes de M. Helvetius.
- Author
- HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- A Londres, 1777
- Keywords
- Philosophy binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- philosophy;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Morocco
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