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1781R300113661A LONDRES. 1781. In-8. Relié plein cuir. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 384 pages - tranches jaspées - titre, tomaison et caissons dorés sur le dos - 2 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.05-XVIII ème siècle
17391383127Paris: Chez la Veuve Le Mercier 1739. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. 12mo two volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in full contemporary brown calf with red leather labels bearing gilt titling and gilt tooling to spine. Light plus rubbing to edges and corners of boards; light plus cracking to joint of front board on Vol. 1. Text block edges stained red; text blocks lightly age toned. Ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper versos.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> CONTENTS: Vol. 1 12 501 27 pages -- Vol. 2 482 21 pages. Shelved in Room G. 1383127. Special Collections. Chez la Veuve Le Mercier 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
1762AMO-3176A Amsterdam, chez E. Van Harrevelt, 1762 4 parties en 1 volume in-12 (17,5 x 10,5 cm) de XII-228, VI-284 pages. Reliure hollandaise de l'époque plein parchemin rigide, titre doré au dos, tranches mouchetées. Quelques légères et discrètes retouches à la reliure, intérieur frais. Rousseurs sur les gardes blanches. Rares rousseurs dans le texte. Nouvelle édition. Cet ouvrage a paru pour la première fois au format in-8 l'année précédente (1761 chez le même libraire). Publié anonymement, il a été rapidement attribué à Diderot, Helvétius et même Voltaire. L'auteur, un certain Robinet (âgé de seulement 27 ans), s'est fait connaître comme l'auteur de cet ouvrage dans le Journal des Savants en 1762. La Première Partie traite de l'équilibre nécessaire de biens et de maux dans la nature (elle occupe tout le premier tome et la moitié du volume). La Seconde Partie traite de la génération uniforme des êtres (pp. 1 à 146 du second tome). La Troisième Partie traite de l'instinct moral (pp. 147 à 190 du second tome). Enfin la Quatrième et dernière Partie traite de la physique des esprits (pp. 191 à 284 du second tome). Une seconde édition plus étendue a paru en 1763, mais dépouillée du prestige de l'anonymat, elle intéressa moins le public. L'édition définitive complète de De la Nature sera publiée en 1766 (d'autres éditions suivront). De la Nature a pourtant été mis à l'index le 9 septembre 1762 (année de notre édition) pour ses prises de positions matérialistes sur l'Âme et Dieu. Robinet formule dans cet ouvrage l’idée que les organismes vivants se transforment de manière à former une chaîne ininterrompue, idée qu’il développe dans ses Considérations philosophiques de la gradation des formes de l’être, ou les essais de la nature qui apprend à faire l’homme et dans son Parallèle de la condition et des facultés de l’homme avec la condition et les facultés des autres animaux, parus en 1768 et 1769. On assimile ainsi Robinet à l'un des précurseurs des théories transformistes telle qu'elles seront synthétisées plus tard par Charles Darwin. Il fut le continuateur de la grande Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert (il publia les Suppléments). "Jean-Baptiste Robinet, philosophe en partie éconduit par la postérité, publie à Amsterdam à partir de 1761, sous couvert de l'anonymat pour le premier tome, son ouvrage principal De la Nature, "livre capital" selon Hegel, représentatif de l'épistémè de l'âge classique selon Foucault. Cette oeuvre qui est un morceau étonnant de philosophie hylozoïste, adossé aux découvertes récentes des naturalistes, est également une entrée privilégiée dans les Lumières européennes : positionné entre Voltaire sur la question du mal et Diderot dont il commente les Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature, le philosophe rennais tente en outre d'arbitrer le débat sur "l'ordre des choses" entre nominalisme et essentialisme. Il entre également dans le cercle des rédacteurs des Suppléments de l'Encyclopédie. À ces titres divers il s'inscrit, à la fois comme éditeur et philosophe, dans une nouvelle manière de faire de la philosophie comme pratique raisonnée des dictionnaires et comptes rendus des sociétés savantes. Soucieux de ne laisser aucune question dans l'ombre, y compris quand elle est mêlée de religion, il assume une critique radicale de l'anthropomorphisme, appuyée sur le commentaire de Bayle, ce qui contribue à le situer durablement, entre athéisme et matérialisme, du côté des pensées inclassables." (Jean-Baptiste Robinet, De la nature, édition critique par Françoise Badelon, Paris : Honoré Champion, coll. "L'âge des Lumières" n° 49, 2009, 2 vol. 632, 496 p. Présentation de l'éditeur). Bel exemplaire.
1774354111774 Londres - [Amsterdam] - [Marc Michel Rey] - 1774 - Complet des 2 tomes et de l'ouvrage d'Helvetius en un volume in8 de (14) - 397 - (4) - 500 - (4) - 84 - (3) pages - Reliure pleine basane d'époque - dos cinq nerfs orné - coins émoussés - tranches frottées - accrocs aux coiffes - mouillures anciennes en angle supérieur droit de 81 pages environs -
177436999S. n. [ Marc Michel Rey] | à Londres [Amsterdam] 1774 | 12.50 x 19.50 cm | relié
17872075165Liegnitz und Leipzig: David Siegert 1787. XXIV, 16, 646 Seiten. Frakturdruck. 8° (21 x 13,5 cm). Dekorativer Halblederband der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Titelschild und goldgeprägten Harfen auf dem Rücken, Buntpapierbezug, rotgefärbtem Schnitt und Buntpapiervorsätzen. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
178438284Aux Deux Ponts: Sanson & Compagnie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1784. Leather. ". .la marche progressive de la civilisation et les besoins actuels de la France ; seconde edition revue corrigee et considérablement augmentee. " bound in full tree leather lined in gilt. With armorial bookplates of George Philips with the names J K and B J Brown- Annapolis 1926. Vol I with front cover hinge cracked. 271 397 273. This date not listed in WorldCat. How the faculties develop. . Sanson & Compagnie hardcover
175969044London: Printed for the Translator 1759. Full Description:<br> <br> HELVETIUS Claude Adrian. De L'Espirit: or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties. Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection. London: Printed for the Translator 1759.<br> <br> First edition in English published one year after the first edition in France. Quarto<br> <br> 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 275 x 215 mm. xvi 331 1 blank pp. with the title page printed in red and black.<br> <br> Full later crushed morocco. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge deckled fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Newer endpapers. Title-page with a small tear to upper blank margin presumably from erasing a previous owner's old signature which there are traces of. Leaf B4 with small tear to top blank margin and a small hole in text only affecting one letter. Leaf X2 with a closed tear with no loss and a large marginal stain. Pages 273-296 with a marginal dampstain not touching text. A few leaves with minor stains and spots. Still A very good copy with wide margins and virtually no foxing.<br> <br> "The main position of Helvetius may be summed up as follows: man is a purely sentient animal only differing from other animals by a higher degree of physical sentiency. Human passions are nothing else but the various modes of manifestation of this physical sentiency which is the only motor of human actions; pleasure or pain are their unavoidable results: to pursue the former and avoid the latter is to conform to the only natural law. Helvetius is thus in some respects a forerunner of modern utilitaranism and hedonism" Palgrave Vol. II p. 299.<br> <br> Higgs 2090. Kress 5783.<br> <br> HBS 69044.<br> <br> $1000. Printed for the Translator unknown
1758233527Paris: Chez Durand 1758. First edition second issue. 4 xxii 643 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Contemporary mottled calf gilt spine with red leather label marbled endpapers and edges. Upper joint starting but solid half-title with small stain at outer edge overall a fresh crisp copy. First edition second issue. 4 xxii 643 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius De l'esprit On the Mind was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism regarded as dangerously revolutionary by the Court of Louis XV and publicly condemned by Parliament. A follower of Locke's empiricism Helvetius's work was an important development in the history of utilitarian thought and both Bentham and Mill were strongly influenced by Helvetius's elaboration of a theory which saw mankind as the product of his environment and his education. <br /> <br /> The first issue of the first edition is very rare: Smith locates only 15 copies. Smith E.1B Chez Durand unknown
1758716331758. HELVETIUS Claude-Adrien. DE L'ESPRIT. Nouvelle edition. Revue et corrigee sur un Exemplaire non chatre de la premiere Edition. Paris: Chez Durand libraire 1758. Two octavo volumes. Vol. I: 4xiv318 pp.; Vol. II: xiii334 pp. Contemporary bindings; full calf gilt labels and decoration at spine all edges speckled red. Large armorial bookplate at front pastedown of each volume. Except for occasional light foxing the volumes are clean internally. Bookblocks are lightly foxed at exposed edges and are dust-soiled at top-edges. The bindings are a bit edgeworn with shallow loss at spinal ends. The top joint of volume one and the lower joint of volume two are cracked though the boards are still attached; and the other boards have been professionally re-hinged. One spine label is missing and another is nicked. The leather was varnished at one point and the finish has rubbed off in some places. Very good overall. Helvetius French 1715-71 was one of the encyclopedistes and De l'esprit is his major work. It was written as a response to Montesquie's L'Esprit de lois and was first printed in 1758. It attracted immediate attention and aroused formidable opposition because of its utilitarian philosophy. The Sorbonne the Parlement of Paris the Pope the Bishop of Paris as well as various other bishops condemned the book. It was even publicly burned by the hangman. The attendant controversy caused it to be widely read and many editions were printed within a short time to satisfy the demand. This is a later edition by the publisher of the original edition printed the same year as the first edition. Smith "The Publication of Helvetius's De l'espirit" in French Studies Vol. 18 pp. 332-44. unknown
1759173613Amsterdam: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. hardcover. very good. 2 vols. small 8vo full contemporary calf; leather spine labels. spines rubbed & chipped at the extremes; hinges weak. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. Very good.<br/> <br/> Early edition of the most important work of the renowned Encyclopedist in which he championed hedonism & self interest. The work was condemned by the Sorbonne and publicly burned in Paris in 1759 the year following the first edition. 18th century bookplate of Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes in each volume as well as 20th century book labels of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/> <br/> Arkstee & Merkus unknown
1781294242London: Societe Typographique 1781. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. 282; 448; 384; 398; 407 pages. Small 8vo full contemporary tree calf gilt-lettered and decorated spines; books are a bit rubbed top of spine on volume 3 is chipped; speckled edges. Londres: 1781. Internally tight and bright a very good set.<br/> <br/> Societe Typographique unknown
177317694London = France: La Société Typographique 1773. Contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine. 8vo. 2 volumes bound as 1. Third or second edition of one of the key works of the Radical Enlightenment published in the same year as the first edition. The author had evoked huge outcry with the publication of De L'esprit 1758 a carefully argued essay on the mind in which he roundly rejected metaphysics and the idea of Truth replacing Christian morals by purely utilitarian ethics and stressing the importance of education as the key to moral behaviour. In De l'homme Helvétius expanded and clarified his views provoking even Diderot to write a Réfutation. The present edition was most likely printed in France and as Smith argues it was probably this edition that the Paris Parliament condemned on 10 January 1774.Binding slightly rubbed; top of spine slightly worn. Fine copy.l Smith Bibliography H.3; cf. Cioranescu 33651 other edition; for Helvétius's philosophy: Blom A Wicked Company pp. 126-129. La Société Typographique, unknown
1774264014London: Societe Typographique 1774. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. xl 231pp. 123pp and 462pp. 12mo full mottled calf gilt-lettered and decorated spine; both books lightly rubbed and with bumped corners stain to front cover of volume II as well as a small tear to upper front edge. Londres: Chez La Societe Typographique 1774. Internally tight and bright a very good set<br/> <br/> Societe Typographique unknown
177325123Londres i.e. The Hague: Chez la Société typographique 1773. 2 vols 12mo pp. 2 lxiv 639; 2 760 2 errata; brown morocco-backed brown cloth boards gilt lettering direct on spine; a good solid copy. Edited by Alexander Gallitzin. Posthumously published. There are at least two separate editions each with different title page ornaments. In this edition there is no comma after "intellectuelles" line 6 of title reads "et de son" and the title-page ornament looks somewhat like a stylized scallop shell. I can find no copies in ESTC that are duodecimo in format and with the stylized scallop-shell ornament. See Wellcome III p. 242 for the octavo edition. Chez la Société typographique unknown
1758873<p>Paris: Durand 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An Important Document for Understanding 18th Century French Censorship and Printing Practices and the Philosophical-Political Climate in 1758 <br /><br />HELVÉTIUS Claude-Adrien. De lesprit On the Mind Durand Paris 1758. 1 blank leaf half- title TP i-xxii 1-643 644 = Approbation and Privilege du Roi 1 blank leaf. Quarto. The B Tirage of De lesprit see below.Smith E.1b. <br /><br />The history of Helvétiuss De lesprit his first major work is eventful complicated and paradoxical. No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseaus Émile evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic materialistic sacrilegious immoral and subversive it enjoyed a remarkable success de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication. <br /><br />The publication history is no less eventful and complicated. There are three distinct first editions of the book: called the A B and C tirages. After carefully orchestrating efforts to mislead and bully the censor into a hasty approval of the text the A tirage the first impressions of the original edition which had begun to leave the presses by the end of June were kept by Helvétius for his personal friends. But before the work could be put on sale to the general public Malesherbes directeur de la librarie ordered that publication of the work be suspended indefinitely. The subversiveness of the book had been discovered and a new censor was introduced into the controversy and changes were made to the text. <br /><br />At this point the cunning of Helvétiuss publisher Durand came into play. He set up a completely new type modeling it upon the original edition. This type it can easily be recognized by its different type-setting and by its several new printing errors was adapted to suit the second censors requirements and was used to produce the second edition the B tirage. Thus when De lesprit was officially published in Paris on July 27th 1758 nobody suspected that it was in fact a completely new edition. However Durand had secretly saved and hidden the original typeset forms. <br /><br />The publication in 1758 of his principal work De lesprit was noisily condemned by the authorities both ecclesiastical and ministerial for its dangerously heretical and subversive opinions. Suppression of the book signaled a grave but fortunately temporary setback for the party of philosophes and Encyclopedists. Despite the recantations that Helvetius was forced to make regarding De lesprit he reaffirmed his ideas even more strongly in De LHomme de ses facultes intellectuelles et se son education published posthumously in 1772. EP Vol. 3 p. 472 Helvètius continued the work of Condillac by reducing all human understanding to sensation or sense- <br />perception. He then took this reductionist psychology and erected a utilitarian theory of morality based upon it making him one of the chief pioneers and promoters of utilitarian moral theory Copelston VI 1 p. 51. Helvètius was a strong defender of the benefits of education and also extremely political attacking all forms of despotism and in particular French despotism. <br /><br />CONDITION: Very good or better in a contemporary full calf binding with boards that are just a bit scuffed. The spine with five raised bands and beautiful gilt lettering and devices. Bookplate to front paste down. Stamp to upper corner of title page. Seemingly rehanged but expertly done. With lovely marbled endpapers. Overall a very beautiful copy of this book. <br /><br /></p> Durand hardcover
1773179London: n.p. 1773. 12mo pp. 4 LXII 77 3; title page decorated with a ornament illustration; full calf spine decorated in blind paste paper endpapers edges stained blue; bookplate of Joh. Bap. Gr. Orlick Freih. von Lazischka on verso of title page with his signature on title page boards a little bowed a few pages soiled at the bottom edge otherwise text clean and sound very good.A much pirated title this also likely a false imprint and produced on the continent. With a 62-page life of the author. [n.p.] hardcover
177228199B1772. Londres: 1772. cxx 115 p. Boards missing only inner book uncut. Half-title and title page foxed marking and former library stamp to title considerable staining to ca. 15 pages apart from that only minimally foxed. First edition. Londres means Amsterdam hardcover
178161820London 1781. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Two ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper in each volume. Light wear to extremities spines with stains. Internally nice and clean. CXV 5 282 pp. frontispiece; 2 448 pp. 4 384 pp.; 4 VIII 398 pp.; 2 407 pp. <br/><br/><em>Uncommon clandestine edition of the works of Helvetius. "Cette edition clandestine de Bouillon au titre rouge et noir fut tirée a 2000 exemplaires sur papier de qualite. Est importante pour l'etude de Helvetius et est assez rare. Elle fut preparee a Paris par l'abbe Lefebvre de La Roche heritier des textes du philosophe . Il existe une autre edition identique sur papier moyen et sans portrait". Tchemerzine VI 200 i.e. This clandestine edition from Bouillon with a red and black title was printed in 2000 copies on quality paper. It is important for the study of Helvétius and is quite rare. It was prepared in Paris by Abbé Lefebvre de La Roche heir to the philosopher's texts. There is another identical edition on medium-quality paper and without a portrait. Tchemerzine VI 200.Graesse III 238. </em> unknown
1781elala1449London Bouillon: Société Typographique 1781. 1781. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. lxxii 407; 2 p.l. iv 708. with half-titles. titles in red & black. engraved frontis. portrait by Aug. de St. Aubin after L.M.Vanloo. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary marbled calf gilt backs some wear to extremities short splits in joints. First and Only Quarto Edition of which 500 copies were printed according to Smith. This copy has both titles in red and black dated 1781 the original setting of the table in smaller type pp. 399-409 and the second version of the portrait noted by Smith. Helvetius' thought represents the extreme form attained by the sensationalist and utilitarian philosophy in eighteenth century France and his most famous treatise De LEsprit had a wide and profound influence on Beccaria the Encyclopedist movement particularly Holbach the British Utilitarians especially Bentham and Mill as well as on Godwin who considered it to be one of the most influential books in his development. "No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseau's Émile evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic materialistic sacrilegious immoral and subversive it enjoyed a remarkable succès de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication." Smith Denounced by the Sorbonne as containing within its pages all of the poisons scattered through modern literature it was burned by order of the parlement at the beginning of 1759. Helvetius himself made three separate retractions but his work was widely reprinted translated and read throughout Europe. The second volume contains De LHomme De Ses Facultès Intellectuelles Et De Son Éducation Le Bonheur and correspondence with Voltaire Hume &c. Smith O6. Tchemerzine VI 200 b. Hardcover. London [Bouillon: Société Typographique], 1781. Hardcover
17807053007Londres London 1780-1781. 1/2 calf and marbled boards. 1/2 veau. Spines all damaged with tops and bottoms of leather missing: needs rebacking. Covers otherwise lightly rubbed contents clean tight: nice reading copy as is or reback to collectible condition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait by L.M. Vanloo. Volume 2 is dated 1780; the others are 1781. Neither the editor nor the publisher are specified. TEXTS IN FRENCH; TEXTES EN FRANCAIS. hardcover
1792S11263Paris:: Jean Servieres Jean Francois Bastien 1792. 1792. Five volumes. 8vo. xxiv lxxiv 75-446; xii 419; xiv viii 9-349; 4 xii 315; 4 viii 339 pp. Occasional faint spotting not affecting legibility. Full tree calf triple-gilt-ruled covers gilt-stamped spines and red leather spine labels gilt-tooled inside edges; spines rubbed some leather labels chipped Vol. 5 head torn Vol. 1 front cover stained three front covers joints neatly reattached with kozo Vols. 1 3 5. Half-title ownership stamp of Andre Lepine. RARE. Good. The collected works of Helvetius the noted philosopher freemason and 'litterateur'. "In 1758 Helvétius published his philosophical magnum opus a work called De l'esprit On Mind which claimed that all human faculties are attributes of mere physical sensation and that the only real motive is self-interest therefore there is no good and evil only competitive pleasures. Its atheistic utilitarian and egalitarian doctrines raised a public outcry and the Sorbonne publicly burned it in 1759 forcing Helvétius to issue several retractions". / " The work attracted immediate attention and aroused the most formidable opposition especially from the dauphin Louis son of King Louis XV. The Advocate General Joly de Fleury condemned it in the Parlement of Paris in January 1759. The Sorbonne condemned the book while the priests persuaded the court that it was full of the most dangerous doctrines. The book was declared to be heretical – so atheistic that it was condemned by Church and State and was burned. Helvétius terrified at the storm he had raised wrote three separate and humiliating retractions. In spite of his protestations of orthodoxy the book was publicly burned by the Paris hangman". Wikip. / De l'homme de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation On Man was published in 1773. Contains: De l'Esprit; De l'Homme et de Son Education; Le Bonheur; Epitres. See: Helvetius: A Study in Persecution by David Warner Smith Clarendon Press Oxford 1965. Jean Servieres, Jean Francois Bastien, 1792. hardcover
1781elala1449aLondon i.e. Paris: Cazin 1781. 1781. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l. lvii 1 leaf 176. with half-title. engraved frontis. portrait by Dupin after Vanloo. contemporary mottled calf gilt back all edges gilt joints cracked spine ends chipped. Smith B15. Tchemerzine VI 198 a. Hardcover. London [i.e. Paris: Cazin], 1781. Hardcover
179159511A Londres i.e. Paris no printer 1781. 12mo. Contemp full mottled calf. Richly gilt apine. All edges gilt. Spine-ends chipped. Light wear along edges. The portrait of helvetius loosely insterted. On good paper. unknown