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1782291822London 1782. hardcover. very good. 250 pages. 12mo contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards well rubbed at spine ends. Londres i.e. Amsterdam: M. M. Rey 1782.<br/><br/> An exposition of his philosophy by "the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment". A comprehensive defense of atheism. Barbier I 137. Brunet Table 2315. NUC lists only one copy of this edition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1773299676London 1773. hardcover. 3 volumes bound in 1. viii 218 2 pp.; 4 174 2 pp.; 4 166 2 pages. 8vo contemporary calf burgundy leather spine label corners a bit rubbed London: 1773. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> unknown books
177654261Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1776. First edition 3 volumes 8vo pp. 5 vi-xxiv 1 2-286; 5 2-256; 5 2-283; engraved vignette title pages; contemporary full mottled calf gilt-decorated spines. red and black morocco labels; moderate wear especially at the tops of 2 spines and the bottom of another; marbled edges and endpapers; ex-Forbes Library Northampton Mass. with bookplates and perforated stamps in the title pages; minor dampstains on the edges of a few leaves; a good reasonably sound copy. As an early atheist and critic of the Church Baron d'Holbach was an influential figure in the French Enlightenment. Known for his lavish dinner parties he hosted various intellectuals such as Denis Diderot Charles-Georges Le Roy Jean-François Marmontel abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Holbach's work here heavily influenced by Locke and Hobbes discusses a universal system of ethics and political philosophy based upon the nature of man. Holbach posited that people are concerned with their self-preservation and their own happiness but are ultimately social creatures. Human happiness and self-preservation can be best achieved through altruistic co-operation with others and according to Holbach this co-operation is what motivates the acquiring of virtues. When individuals make this social contract with one another they expect their governing body to function in a utilitarian manner to uphold their basic rights such as a right to property freedom of speech and freedom of religion. When these rights were violated Holbach argues the people have a right to revolution. Volume I discusses a theory of morality volume II the practice of morality and volume III the duties of one's private life. Holbach often published anonymously as his ideas were considered dangerous and contemptible in a time when a humanist theory of morality was seen as anathema in a pre-dominantly Christian western world "Paul-Henry Thiry Holbach" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. See PMM 215. <br/><br/> Chez Marc-Michel Rey unknown books
1773263604Londres 1773. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes slim 12mo 318 pp 252 239. Bound in full contemporary tree calf rubbed at the extremities gilt spines with black leather labels red speckled edges. Londres Amsterdam 1773. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> Paul-Henri Dietrich Thiery d'Holbach 1723-1789 the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment. Holbach had associated with the younger philosopher who with Diderot d'Alembert and Rousseau were grouping around the Encyclopédie to which he also became a major contributor. His Salon soon became the main social center and a sort of intellectual headquarters for the Encyclopedist movement. Almost everything he wrote -whether because it expounded atheism and materialism attacked Christianity or castigated absolute monarchy the state church and feudal privilege. Consequently his innumerable manuscripts were usually forwarded through secret channels to Holland for publication after which the books were smuggled back into France. Kress S.4739; Higgs 5873.<br/><br/> unknown books
57861 p.l. x 169 pp.; 2 p.l. 184 pp. Two vols. in one. Small 8vo cont. mottled calf foot of spine a little chipped lower edge of upper cover a little defective spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. "Londres" but probably Amsterdam: 1768. First edition of one Holbach's most important assaults on religion in which he attacked Christianity and other religions as the source of all human evils. Holbach 1723-89 French philosopher kept a salon in Paris for Helvetius d'Alembert Diderot Condillac Turgot Buffon Grimm Hume Garrick Wilkes Sterne Rousseau and other free-thinkers. He was a major contributor to the Encyclopédie of articles on chemistry mineralogy and metallurgy as well as hundreds of unsigned articles which contained controversial statements on politics and religion. Very good copy. ❧ Kafker The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie pp. 170-75. unknown books
177066930ìThe Bible of Materialismî HOLBACH Paul Henri Thiry baron dÃ. SystÃme de la nature. Ou Des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Londres i.e. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. First edition. Two volumes octavo. 12 370; 4 412 pp. Contemporary speckled calf with covers ruled in blind. Elaborately gilt spine with burgundy morocco label gilt board edges marbled endpapers edges stained red. Joints and extremities rubbed. Occasional light foxing and browning primarily to first and last few leaves of each volume. Generally a very good crisp copy. In a quarter morocco clamshell case. Paul Heinrich Dietrich Baron dÃHolbach 1723-1789 first became known as a scientist contributing some four hundred articles to the EncyclopÈdie of his friend and colleague Denis Diderot. Holbach later turned from science to more dangerous topics writing and having published abroad a number of books attacking religion in all aspects which flooded illegally into France. Unable to publish safely under his own name he had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus in 1770 his most famous book ìThe System of Natureî appeared under the name of Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud. ìIn the SystËme Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attemped to explain all phenomena physical and mental in terms of matter in motion. He derived the moral and intellectual faculties from manÃs sensibility to impressions made by the external world and saw human actions as entirely determined by pleasure and pain. He continued his direct attack on religion by attempting to show that it derived entirely from habit and custom. But the SystËme was not a negative or desctructive book: Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence and he tried to supply a more desirable alternative. In fact he outlined a whole ethical and political philosophy which he expanded in his later worksî Printing and the Mind of Man. Goldsmithsà Library 10607. Kress 6737. Printing and the Mind of Man 215. HBS 66930. $3250 Marc-Michel Rey unknown books
