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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. Chez Marc-Michel Rey unknown
1790VT - LA - HAY049891790 - Édition originale. Paris chez G. de Bure. relié plein veau marron raciné de ce temps là. Mors fendus en pied et surtout en tête avec quelques manques de cuir le long de la charnière coins un peu usés ; quelques inscriptions à l'encre sur la page de garde et de titre ; petite trou au centre d'une rousseur en marge de la dernière page sinon intérieur en très bon état. in-16. dos lisse à faux-nerfs orné de motifs dorés et pièce de titre en cuir rouge avec lettres dorées ; coupes agrémentées de filets dorés ; toutes tranches marbrées. unknown
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
1752002066Paris: Durand Pissot 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "Un Mémoire sur la Maniere de faire le Saffre; Le Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de Chine & de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de faire le Verre & le Crystal d'y porter des Couleurs d'imiter les Pierres Prétieuses de préparer & colorer les Emaux de faire la Potasse de Peindre sur le Verre de préparer des Vernis de composer des Couvertes pour les Fayances & Poteries d'extraire la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or de contrefaire les Rubis de faire le Saffre de faire & peindre les Porcelaines &c. Traduits de l'allemand par M. D." 4 lv 1 629 3 p. 16 leaves of copperplate engravings including the frontispiece most folded; 26 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Orange leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. All page edges red. Woodcut head pieces and in-text illustrations. Contents: Sol sine Veste ou Trente Experiences pour Tirer la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or by J.C. Orschall -- Helioscopium Videndi sine Veste Solem Chymicum -- Sol non sine Veste ou L'Invincibilité de l'Or by Christophe Grummet -- De la Vitrification des Vegetaux -- Chapitre XI du Livre de Mr. Henckel qui a pour titre Flora Saturnizans -- Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de la Chine et de Saxe. Baron von d'Holbach translated several early works on glassmaking including works by Antonio Neri Christopher Merret and Johannes Kunckel. In Very Good Condition: front joint starting to separate from tail; slight loss of leather at head and tail of spine; light cracking on spine; corners rubbed. Pages and plates are clean and bright. Durand, Pissot hardcover
1773elala1356London Amsterdam: 1773. 1773. 3 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 210; 176; 167. with half-titles. contemporary sprinkled calf gilt back extremities worn. Published the same year as the first edition. Holbach was the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism in the Enlightenment. In the Politique Naturelle La Morale Universelle and the Système Sociale Holbach attempted to construct a system of ethical and political values based on mans physical nature and primary needs as the only desirable alternative to the illusory and harmful system predicated on supernatural theology. Copies of the present work were seized by the police and it was placed on the Index on August 18 1775. Vercruysse 1773-A5. Barbier IV 621-22. Cioranescu 34061. Quérard IV 119. Rand I 269. cfTchemerzine VI 246 a. 1st Edition. Hardcover. London [Amsterdam?]: 1773. Hardcover
177436999à Londres London Amsterdam: S. n. Marc Michel Rey 1774. Fine. S. n. Marc Michel Rey à Londres London Amsterdam 1774 12.50 x 19.50 cm relié Rare and interesting gathering of these two works. New edition of the Système de la nature after the rare first edition of 1770 and first edition of Helvetius's work at the same date of 1774 as this new edition of Mirabaud; in reality three editions appeared at the same date with different collation without being able to determine if there is a true first edition. Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Richly decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. Red edges. Tail headcaps torn away. A brown stain on the upper board of volume I. Restoration using a piece of leather on the upper board of volume II. Fairly good copy. Helvetius's work is an exegesis and examination of the Système de la nature the author seems to have condensed the material in the form of maxims and assertions all resting on a strong materialist creed. We now know that the work may not be by Helvetius although we recognize his philosophy in it. As for Mirabaud's Système de la nature it was received like a bombshell in literary circles and ultimately quite poorly received by the philosophers. It was not d'Holbach's openly materialist theses that were condemned but the demonstration of atheism and anticlericalism. S. n.[ Marc Michel Rey] hardcover
177520090“Londres†but Amsterdam 1775. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf flat spine and label gilt board edges and turn-ins gilt gold edges blue silk marker. In excellent condition. A scathing dismissal of the miracles cited in the Bible. Purporting to be a partial translation of the Latin manuscript Theophrastus Redivivus the first systematic atheistic philosophy the text argues that pagans have performed miracles as often as Jews and Christians. The anonymous author cites paranormal events in Greek and Roman mythology as analogous to the miracles of Christian tradition and claims that the existence of oracles and pagan religion after the birth of Christ prove the existence of extra-Christian miraculous power.<br /> <br /> Although the author remains a mystery the text was likely translated and disseminated by Paul Holbach a Franco-German philosopher and atheist. For obvious reasons this title bears a false imprint but Holbach’s works were usually printed in Amsterdam.<br /> ESTC T111947; see Yve-Plessis 267 and Caillet 3835. unknown
9a587G. de Bure Paris 1790. 2 Bl./208 S. Interimsbroschur der Zeit Rücken mit Fehlstelle. - Holbach war ein Philosoph der französischen Aufklärung der vor allem für seine religionskritischen und atheistischen Thesen bekannt war. Er verfasste das Werk bereits 1765. Es wurde allerdings erst ein Jahr nach seinem Tod 1790 veröffentlicht/Raupp Bd. 15 sp. 716 - 726/Neue Deutsche Bibliographie Bd. 9 510 - 512 - unknown
1773POLP[HOL54London ie. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey: 1773. 1773. 2 Volumes bound in 1. 8vo. pp. vii 1 232; 2 p.l. 280. with half-titles. 19th century half calf back joint cracked. First Edition of one of the principal works of the 'foremost exponent of atheistic materialism in the Enlightenment'. Holbach advanced a system of natural politics based upon the needs common to all men and a system of ethics based on social utility. As the legitimacy of government depends upon the happiness of one or all living under it Holbach affirmed the people's natural right to overthrow an unjust ruler. In keeping with his ethocratic ideal Holbach proposed radical political and economic reforms for France. He favoured the adoption of a limited constitutional monarchy the abolition of hereditary class privileges the implementation of the principle of progressive taxation according to wealth the separation of church and state and the toleration of all religious sects the establishment of a system of secular public education and absolute freedom of thought and the press. Cioranescu 34059. Rand I 269. Tchemerzine VI 245. Vercruysse 1773.A2. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London [ie. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey]: 1773. Hardcover
60039Londres Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE OF "THE BIBLE OF MATERIALISM" PMM 215. 2 vols. 8vo. 20 x 12.5 cm. Half-title Table des chapitres 2 title Avis de l'editeur 2 Préface de l'auteur 4pp.370; title Table des chapitres 2pp.412. Contemporary full mottled calf spines decorated in gilt two brown morocco labels vol. 1 missing one label decorative navy blue chequered endpapers pink silk ribbon page markers red speckled edges. Joints slightly cracked but strong and with some minor losses spines rubbed contents clean save for some occasional light toning generally a very good unsophisticated set of this major philosophical work. The rare first edition first issue with the correct pagination the comma after 'Londres' in the imprint' and without the 4-page errata which was added later during the printing process as mistakes were discovered of d'Holbach's main work the main work of materialism and one of the most important works of natural philosophy. Paul Heinrich Dietrich Baron d'Holbach was born at Heidelsheim in Germany and educated in Holland at Leiden University before settling in Paris and becoming a naturalized Frenchman. He first became known as a scientist and contributed some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie of his lifelong friend and colleague Denis Diderot. Diderot d'Alembert Helvetius Voltaire and others of the philosophes met frequently for dinner and philosophical discussions at the Baron's house which became known as 'the café of Europe' among foreign visitors to these dinners were Wilkes Hume and Sterne. Later Holbach turned from science to more dangerous topics: he wrote and had published abroad a stream of books attacking religion in all its aspects which flooded illegally into France. He could not publish safely under his own name but had had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus in 1770 his most famous book 'The System of Nature' appeared under the name of Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud. When it reached France it provoked one of the greatest scandals of the century being immediately condemned on the 18th of August 1770 and put on the Index the 9th of November. "In the Système Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena physical and mental in terms of matter in motion. He derived the moral and intellectual faculties from man's sensibility to impressions made by the external world and saw human actions as entirely determined by pleasure and pain. He continued to direct his attack on religion by attempting to show that it derived entirely from habit and custom. But the Système was not a negative or destructive 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 works especially La Morale Universelle 1776. It was his aim to derive a morality and an ethic from a completely materialistic and atheistic bias.the confident dogmatism and the comprehensiveness of the Systême de la Nature which even provoked Voltaire to reply in defence of religion have ensured its survival as the bible of materialism" PMM 215. PMM 215. Londres [Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey], 1770. unknown
1773POLst[HO77Londres Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1773. 1773. 3 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. viii viii 9-218 2; 2 p.l. 174 2; 2 p.l. 166 2. with half-titles. contemporary quarter calf gilt back extremities worn head of spine chipped. First Edition First Issue. Holbach advanced a system of natural politics based upon the needs common to all men. As the legitimacy of government depends upon the happiness of one or all living under it Holbach affirmed the people's natural right to overthrow an unjust ruler. Barbier IV 621-22. Cioranescu II 34061. Querard IV 119. Tchemerzine VI 246. Vercruysse 1773-A4. Rand I 269. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Londres [Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey], 1773. Hardcover
elala2504Londres Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1773. First Edition First Issue. Holbach advanced a system of natural politics based upon the needs common to all men. As the legitimacy of government depends upon the happiness of one or all living under it Holbach affirmed the people's natural right to overthrow an unjust ruler. Barbier IV 621-22. Cioranescu II 34061. Querard IV 119. Tchemerzine VI 246. Vercruysse 1773-A4. Rand I 269. 3 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. viii viii 9-218 2; 2 p.l. 174 2; 2 p.l. 166 2. with half-titles. contemporary quarter calf gilt back extremities worn head of spine chipped Londres [Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey], 1773 unknown
1776elala1354Amsterdam: March-Michel Rey 1776. 1776. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii xxiv 152 143-286; 2 p.l. 256; 2 p.l. 283. with half-titles engraved title vignettes. 19th century vellum covers bowed some staining to lower covers & lower margins in Vol. I. First Edition. Holbach was the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism in the Enlightenment. In the Politique Naturelle La Morale Universelle and the Système Sociale Holbach attempted to construct a system of ethical and political values based on mans physical nature and primary needs as the only desirable alternative to the illusory and harmful system predicated on supernatural theology. Happiness is the supreme natural goal of human existence but man is a social animal and Holbachs ethics was based on social utility. "Ethics is the science of human cooperation to promote the well-being of the individual through that of society and it is based on the positive knowledge of mens reciprocal social needs Atheism is the prerequisite of all valid ethical teaching. In place of the condemnation of sin Holbachs exposition of secular and utilitarian ethics is typically accompanied by vibrant appeals to humanitarianism and moving exhortations to civic virtue all in the name of nature and happiness. A.Vartanian Encyc. of Philosophy Vercrysse 1776-A4 our copy without the errata in Vol. III as usual. Barbier III 355. Cioranescu 34064. Quérard IV 119. Rand I 269. cfTchemerzine VI 248. 1st Edition. Amsterdam: March-Michel Rey, 1776. hardcover
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.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Very good copy.<br/> <br/> ⧠Kafker The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie pp. 170-75. unknown
elala5529London i.e. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. First Edition of Holbach’s most famous work the sole example in the Enlightenment of a comprehensive uncompromising defence of atheistic materialism which became the “principal free-thought textbook of the late eighteenth century.†PMM Holbach drew on the ideas of Hobbes La Mettrie Helvétius and Diderot but pressed them to their most radical conclusion. His work was assailed alike by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities as well as by the philosophes; both Voltaire and Frederick the Great wrote responses to it. This copy has the same pagination as the first edition first issue as described by Vercruysse 1770-A6 with a coma rather than a period after ‘Londres’ in the imprint but there are no errata leaves and the title of Volume I exhibits slight differences in setting and typography and has a different title ornament. It is generally referred to as a first issue in the trade. Brunet III 1739. Cioranescu 34051. Printing and the Mind of Man 215. Rand I 269. Quérard IV 119. cfVercruysse 1770-A6. cfTchemerzine VI 243. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 6 p.l. 370; 2 p.l. 412. with half-title in Vol. I. A nice copy in contemporary mottled calf gilt backs few nicks & scrapes to binding faint embrowning to outer leaves. elala5529 London [i.e. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey], 1770 unknown
177066930Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. The Bible of Materialism"<br> <br> HOLBACH Paul Henri Thiry baron d'. Systême de la nature. Ou Des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Londres i.e. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770.<br> <br> First edition. Two volumes octavo. 12 370; 4 412 pp.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Paul Heinrich Dietrich Baron d'Holbach 1723-1789 first became known as a scientist contributing some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie 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 "The System of Nature" appeared under the name of Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud.<br> <br> "In the Système 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 man's 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 Système 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 works" Printing and the Mind of Man.<br> <br> Goldsmiths' Library 10607. Kress 6737. Printing and the Mind of Man 215.<br> <br> HBS 66930.<br> <br> $3250. Marc-Michel Rey unknown
177340375London recte: Amsterdam M.M. Rey 1773. 8vo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine; triple gilt line-borders to boards and inner gilt dentelles. Edges of boards with single gilt line. All edges gilt. Corners abit bumped and a bit of overall wear. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally very fine and clean. All in all a very fine copy indeed. 4 210; 176; 167 pp. With all three half-titles all three title-pages and all three indexes as well as the introduction. <br/><br/><em>The rare first edition first issue though Tchermerzine mentions an unknown 2-volume-edition form the same year - this edition has never been verified of one of d'Holbach's most important works his influential "social" and political continuation of his seminal main work "Systeme de la nature" - the bible of materialism. D'Holbach 1723-1789 who was raised by a wealthy uncle whom he inherited together with his title of Baron in 1753 maintained one of the most famous salons in Paris. This salon became the social and intellectual centre for the Encyclopédie which was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert whom he became closely connected with. D'Holbach himself also contributed decisively to the Encyclopédie with at least 400 signed contributions and probably as many unsigned between 1752 and 1765. The "Côterie holbachique" or "the café of Europe" as the salon was known attracted the most brilliant scientists philosophers writers and artists of the time e.g. Diderot d'Alembert Helvetius Voltaire Hume Sterne etc etc. and it became one of the most important gathering-places for the exchange of philosophical scientific and political views under the "ancient régime". Apart from developing several foundational theories of seminal scientific and philosophical value D'Holbach became known as one of the most skilled propagators and popularizers of scientific and philosophical ideas promoting scientific progress and spreading philosophical ideas in a new and highly effective manner. D'Holbach was himself the most audacious philosophe of this circle. During the 1760's he caused numerous anticlerical tracts written in large but not entirely by himself to be clandestinely printed abroad and illegally circulated in France. His philosophical masterpiece the "Système de la nature ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral" a methodological and intransigent affirmation of materialism and atheism appeared anonymously in 1770" D.S.B. VI:468 as did the social and political follow-up of it the famous "Systême social" in 1773. That is to say Mirabeau whom he had used as the author on the "System of Nature" in 1770 is not mentioned in the "Social System" on the title-page of which is merely stated "By the Author of "Systême de la Nature". As the theories of d'Holbach's two systematic works were at least as anticlerical and unaccepted as those of his smaller tracts and on top of that so well presented and so convincing it would have been dangerous for him to print any of them under his own name and even under the name of the city or printer. Thus "Systême de la Nature" appeared pseudonomously under the name of the secretary of the Académie Francaise J.B. Mirabaud who had died 10 years earlier and under a fictive place of printing namely London instead of Amsterdam. "He could not publish safely under his own name but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus in 1770 his most famous book "The System of Nature" appeared under the name Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud." PMM 215 and so the next "System" also appeared in the same manner three years later.In his "Systême de la Nature" d'Holbach had presented philosophical materialism in an actual system for the first time and had created a work that dared unite the essence of all the essential material of the English and French Enlightenment and incorporate it into a closed materialistic system; on the basis of a completely materialistic and atheistic foundation he provided the modern world with a moral and ethic philosophy the effects of which were tremendous. It is this materialism and atheism that he continues three years later in his next systematic work "Systême social" through which politics morality and sociology are also incorporated into his system and take the place of the Christianity that he had so fiercely attacked earlier on. In this great work he extends his ethical views to the state and continues the description of human interest from "Systême de la Nature" by developing a notion of the just state by d'Holbach calle "ethocracy" that is to secure general welfare. "Système social 1773; "Social System" placed morality and politics in a utilitarian framework wherein duty became prudent self-interest." Encyclopaedia Brittanica. "Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: "Man is of all beings the most necessary to man" Sysème social 76; cf. Spinoza's Ethics IVP35C1 C2 and S. Society when it is just unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare and society contracts with government for this purpose." SEP.As the "Systême de la Nature" had been condemned to burning in the year of its publication so the "Systême social" was on the list of books to be confiscated already in 1773 and it was placed on the Index of the Church in August 1775. As the "Systême de la Nature" the "Systême social" is thus also of great scarcity. Another edition of the work appeared later the same year in 12mo. Tchermerzine says that "Il ya une édition que nous ne connaissons pas en 2 vol. in-8. C'est sans doute l'originale." The present edition was reprinted the following year in 1774.Tschermerzine VI:246; Graesse III:317; Barbier IV:622 only listing later editions. </em> hardcover
