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Oeuvres Philosophiques de Mr. de la Mettrie: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur
by de la Mettrie, Julian Offroy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Amsterdam: S.N. [Elie Luzac], 1752. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Spine leather drying, light stain to front flyleaf. 1752 Full-Leather. 78, 109, 198, 58, 77, 56, 114 pp. Original full leather, leather spine label, marbled paste-down endpapers. A collection of works by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine, which takes materialist concepts introduced by Rene Descartes one step further to contend that human beings are automatons with no souls. These concepts later became influential in the theories of evolution and quantum mechanics. This volume includes: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur.
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- Yesterday's Muse Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2305753
- Title
- Oeuvres Philosophiques de Mr. de la Mettrie: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur
- Author
- de la Mettrie, Julian Offroy
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- S.N. [Elie Luzac]
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1752
- Weight
- 0.50 lbs
- Keywords
- PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT ENLIGHTENMENT JULIAN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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