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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
1781029514Berna 1781. Un volumetto in 12mo 10x175 cm di VIII-88-1 pagine; una macchia bruna al margine inferiore da pag. 23 più accentuata nelle ultime pagine. Una nota manoscritta alla pagina di titolo: Libro proibito. Brossura cartacea d'attesa gialla qualche macchia. Raro. Il luogo di stampa è certamente fittizio così come resta anonimo l'editore ma è probabile che l'edizione sia di Livorno. unknown
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
1773009256Londres 1773. Un volume in 8vo 10x17 cm di LXII-77 pagine. Legatura coeva in piena pelle dorso liscio ornato e dorato pagine di sguardia marmorizzate mancano le cuffie mancanza di pelle agli angoli in particolare al retro. unknown
178438341Londres: Not Attributed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1784. Leather. Armorial bookplates of Geroge Philips. Tomes II and III. Full bound in sturdy tree calf leather ruled in gilt with carmine morocco spine labels. . Not Attributed hardcover
17734276London i.e. Maastricht: Dufour & Roux 1773. Very Good. 23 cm; cxxv 1 110 pages. Title page printed in red and black. Half title present. Woodcut device on title page; typographic ornaments in text. Bound in original publisher's boards untrimmed and unsophisticated. Leaves sewn out of order in first signature but all pages present. Pervasive damp stain at lower right corner of text block. Reference: Smith Bibliography of the writings of Helvetius B.4. <br /><br />A philosophical inquiry into happiness which Helvetius worked on sporadically during the last 30 years of his life. The line of reasoning accords remarkably well with recent studies of human happiness by "positive psychologists" such as Martin Seligman: happiness is a mental state independent of the things and places we seek it. The unfinished poem was published in a small edition with a long biographical preface six months after Helvetius died. No less than ten printings surfaced all of them with surreptitious imprints within a year of the initial publication. These have been elegantly sorted and exhaustively described by David Smith in the bibliography cited. Our copy was the fourth printing. [Dufour & Roux] hardcover
1780174645A Londres 1780. Relié. Etat moyen. in-8. Pleine reliure Charnières et coiffes accidentées Coins frottés unknown
17277948JB1727. Nouvelle edition. Band 1 von 2. Paris Le Mercier 1727. 8 Bl. 517 S. 1 Bl. XXIII Index. Lederband der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung und gepunzten und vergoldeten Kanten berieben geringfügiger Wurmfraß. Roter Sprenkelschnitt. Vorsatz mit Bleistift beschrieben. Stellenweise geringfügig bis leicht fleckig sonst innen in schöner Erhaltung. unknown
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
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
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
17271344CB1727. Nouvelle édition. 2 Bände. Paris Le Mercier 1727-1734. Kl.-8°. 6 Bl. 501 S. 13 Bl. - 482 S. 11 Bl. Späterer Halbpergamentband mit marmoriertem Deckel und umlaufendem Rotschnitt. Band I S. 465/466 oben mit ausgerissener Ecke etwas Textverlust. Band II Titelblatt mit professionell hinterlegter Fehlstelle am Oberrand erstes Wort des Titels fehlt. Stellenweise geringfügig fleckig Band I teils auch mit sehr hellem Feuchtigkeitsrand entlang des Kopfschnittes. Sonst beide Bände in äußerst schöner Erhaltung. unknown
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
1774009257Liege: Bassompiere 1774. Due volumi in 8vo 12x19 cm di XVI-495pp e 615pp. Mancano gli occhielli. Graziosa legatura dell'inizio dell'800 dorso liscio ornato e dorato piatti marmorizzati. Bassompiere unknown
177425060Amsterdam: Arkstee et Merkus 1774. Very Good. Amsterdam: Arkstée & Merkus 1774. Two volumes; 12mo; contemporary cats paw calf gilt spines marbled endpapers all edges marbled blue; 2viii384; 4392pp. collated complete including half titles; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Leather rather scuffed joints starting to crack but holding coin-sized loss to top fore-edge corner of first eight leaves of Vol. II not quite touching text else a Good to Very Good internally clean and fresh set. Arkstee et Merkus unknown
175938286A La Haye: Chez Pierre Moetjens. Good with no dust jacket. 1759. Leather. Bound in full morocco leather. Three red and black title pages. Front cover attached by binding cords. Inside front cover scraped by removal of bookplate. An ideological work with heretical and subversive opinions. Possibly a pirate edition. . Chez Pierre Moetjens hardcover
1759024098Amsterdam Leipsick: Arkstée & Merkus 1759. Due tomi in un volume 11x17 cm di XXVI-324 e 336 pagine. Una interessante nota manoscritta d'epoca alla prima pagina bianca. Legatura coeva in piena pelle dorso liscio ornato e dorato risguardie con carta marmorizzata; ex libris settecentesco con stemma eraso al retro del piatto. Condizioni molto buone. Arkstée & Merkus unknown
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
1772024099Amsterdam Leipsick: Arkstée & Merkus 1772. due volumi 10x17 cm di VIII-384 e 392 pagine. Bella legatura coeva in piena pelle qualche usura ai margini dorso a nervi ornato e dorato con motivi floreali tagli rossi testimoni. Una nota a penna alla prima pagina bianca dice: Quest'Elvezio comprato a Londra. è di Domenico Cayrela. 1776. Condizioni molto buone. Arkstée & Merkus 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
175896792Chez Durand - à Paris 1758. Bonded Leather. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. 3 volumes reliés pleine basane. 379 338 276 pages. Dos légèrement frottés. Graffitis sur les pages de garde. <i>ref. 96792</i> Chez Durand - à Paris hardcover
177629193AB1776. A Amsterdam & à Leipsick Chez Arkstée & Merkus 1776. Octavo. Tome Premier: XII 370 pages / Tome Second: 551 pp. avec "Le Bonheur - Poeme" - 'Ou Essai sur la Vie & les Ouvrages de M.Helvetius par M'. Hardcover - Modern masterbinding / Tres bon reliure moderne demi-maroquin. Tres bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. An excellent early french language edition on beautiful uncut excellent paper with extra wide margins. Helvétius' philosophical studies ended in the production of his famous book De l'esprit On Mind. It was first published in 1758 and was intended to be the rival of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws with Helvétius arguing strongly against Montesquieu's theory that climate influenced the character of nations. 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. It had far-reaching negative effects on the rest of the philosophes in particular Denis Diderot and the great work he was doing on the Encyclopedie. The religious authorities particularly the Jesuits and the new pope began to fear the spread of atheism and wanted to clamp down on the 'modern thought' hard and quickly. De l'esprit became almost a scapegoat for this. This great publicity resulted in the book being translated into almost all the languages of Europe. Voltaire said that it lacked originality. Rousseau declared that the very benevolence of the author gave the lie to his principles. Grimm thought that all the ideas in the book were borrowed from Diderot. Madame du Deffand felt that Helvétius had raised such a storm by saying openly what everyone thought in secret. Madame de Graffigny claimed that all the good things in the book had been picked up in her own salon. Wikipedia hardcover
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
1739245544Paris: Chez la Veuve Le Mercier ruë S. Jacques 1739. Nouvelle edition. First published in 1703. xii 501 xxvi Index contents privilege 1 ; 482 xxi I pp. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary calf. Signed on ffep of each volume "Ce livre appartient a moy nicolas Anthonioz Chirurgien as 6 juin 1744. With his booklabels. Nouvelle edition. First published in 1703. xii 501 xxvi Index contents privilege 1 ; 482 xxi I pp. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Bayle & Thillaye II pp. 106/7; Blake p. 206; See Wellcome III pp. 242/3 for survey of editions Chez la Veuve Le Mercier, ruë S. Jacques unknown
