HELVETIUS Claude-Adrien)Livre Rare Book
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175815638Paris Durand 1758 In-4 (20 X 25,5 cm) veau porphyre, roulette dorée encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs, filets dorés, caissons ornés d'une lyre dorée en guise de fleuron, pièce de titre noire, tranches rouges. (2) ff + XXII + 643 + (1) p. (Reliure de l'époque signée au bas du dos Hubaye ainé. (Manque un bout de cuir sur un nerf et un infime manque sur le premier plat, le bas de la page 306 a été rapiécé habilement).
177436999S. n. [ Marc Michel Rey] | à Londres [Amsterdam] 1774 | 12.50 x 19.50 cm | relié
1758453611758 Paris. Durand. 1758. 1 volume in-4, plein veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre rouge. (2) ff. ; XXII pp. ; 643 pp. ; (1) p. De privilèges.
42784Paris.Le Mercier.1724.2 vols.en maroquin d'époque aux armes,in-12 de 517 et 495 p. BE.Reliures un peu frottées.Triple filet doré sur les plats.Armes avec couronnes de duc.Coquille.Hermine des Ducs de Bretagne.Double cordelière.Ordre de St.Michel. (ne se trouve pas dans l'Olivier).Dos à 5 nerfs très ornés.Tranches dorées.Intérieurs avec qques rousseurs et mouillures.Légère ouverture à un mors et une charnière.
177442324London, 1774. 8vo. Very nice, contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spine. Gilt line to edges of boards. Marbled edges. A bit of minor scattered brownspotting and some smaller dampstaining towards end. All in all a very nice copy. (4), III, (1), 151 pp. Beautiful woodcut vignettes.
177442324London 1774. 8vo. Very nice contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spine. Gilt line to edges of boards. Marbled edges. A bit of minor scattered brownspotting and some smaller dampstaining towards end. All in all a very nice copy. 4 III 1 151 pp. Beautiful woodcut vignettes. <br/><br/><em>Possibly first edition. One of three editions printed in 1774 none of which has been established as the true first. All three editions are printed in London but differ in number of pages the other two having 96 and 84 respectively ours having 151. This very interesting work of the French Enlightenment is probably not written by Helvetius but by whom is not known. It does stay within the controversial lines of the great Enlightenment philosophers though probably being the reson why the author has never been identified. It has a lot in common with d'Holbach's monumental "Système de la Nature" from 1770 which constitutes the main work of materialism and one of the most important works of natural philosophy. Tchermerzine VI:195. </em> hardcover
1758CLL-624Paris, Durand, 1758 In-4 de (2)ff., XXII pp., 643 pp., (1) p., veau marbré, triple filet à froid d'encadrement sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné de roulettes et caissons avec motifs floraux, macles et d'étoiles dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, double filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
1758LIQ-6885Paris, chez Durand 1758. In-4° pleine basane racinée, dos à nerfs, dorures du dos éffacées, pièce de titre vieux rouge, coins émoussés, xxij + 643 pages.
209090Londres [Maastricht], s.n. [Dufour & Roux], 1777 4 vol. in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., iij-484 pp. ; [2] ff. n. ch., xx-513-[2] pp. ; [2] ff. n. ch., xxviij-586 pp. ; [3] ff. n. ch. , pp. v-xiv, 416 pp., avec un portrait-frontispice gravé par H. Godin d'après Van Loo, basane fauve marbrée, dos à nerfs cloisonnés et fleuronnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison cerise et vertes, encadrement de triple filet doré sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Bon exemplaire.
18274336Paris, Henri Feret, 1827 ; huit tomes, in-8 ; demi-veau glacé bronze, dos lisses ornés de palettes décoratives dorées et fleurs stylisées à froid, titre doré, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque) ; XV, 411 ; 483 ; 495 ; 488 ; 476 ; 544 ; 460 ; 464 pp. ; et portrait par Devéria, gravé par H.C. Muller. Contient une table des matières de l'Esprit des lois très détaillée.
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
175878291758 Paris: Durand, 1758. In-4: 20.5 x 25.5 cm, 2 ff. n. chiff. de faux-titre et titre, xxii pp. de préface et table, 643 pp. de texte des 4 Dicscours, privilège au vo du dernier f. Édition originale de ce célèbre essai matérialiste qui fit date tant dans lhistoire de la pensée que dans celle de lédition. (Smith, «The publication of Helvetius's De l'Esprit», French studies, XVIII, 1964, pp. 332 et sq.) Paru sans nom dauteur le 27 juillet, les thèses matérialistes défendues par Helvetius sont rapidement dénoncées par les milieux conservateurs; le privilège est révoqué en janvier 1759, et bon nombre dexemplaire sont brûlés après larrêté du parlement du 6 février 1759. Reliure de lépoque en veau brun. Dos à cinq nerfs avec pièce de titre en maroquin rouge et caissons ornés aux petits fers. Tranches rouges. Déchirures marginales aux faux-titre et titre, rares piqûres. Manque à la coiffe de tête. Griffures aux plats, coins émoussés. Beau volume de lecture.
182745081827 Paris, Dalibon, 1827, 14,5x23, huit volumes. Élégante reliure en demi basane bleue. Dos orné à 5 nerfs, titre, auteur et tomaison en lettres dorées. Plats et tranches marbrées. Portrait en frontispice et une page d'écriture en fac-similé, bon exemplaire malgré quelques rousseurs. Envoi de photographies sur demande.
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
ORD-5002A Paris Chez Durand. 1758. 1 volume in-4 (20,5x28cm), veau brun, dos à 5 nerfs ornés, pièce de titre maroquin brun, tranches rouges, fleurons aux coins des plats, 2ff., XXII et 643pp. 1p.n.ch. (Approbation et privilège). Reliure de l'époque habilement restaurée, lgt frottée, dos un peu fendillé mais bon exemplaire à grandes marges. Edition originale.
175922826London: printed for the translator and sold by Mr. Dodsley 1759. First edition in English 4to pp. xvi 331; title-p. in red and black; recent full black goatskin gilt ruled border gilt paneled spine red morocco label. About fine. Interesting text and the author's most famous book probing psychology ethics the moralities of social interaction the rewards and virtues of human understanding memory mortality. Kress 5783. printed for the translator and sold by Mr. Dodsley unknown
17586311Paris, Chez Durand, 1758. In-4 (254 x 195 mm), (4)-XXII-643-(1) pp., sont reliés à la suite : - "Arrest du conseil du Roi" du 10 août 1758 qui révoque le privilège accordé à l'ouvrage, 1 f., - la "Lettre au Révérend Père *** jésuite" d'Helvetius, 4 pp., - "Chanson sur le livre intitulé : De l'Esprit", 1 f. de 192 x 120 mm. Reliure d'époque en basane marbré, dos orné de fleurons dorés, filets sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Manque à la coiffe sup., début de fente au mors sup., les 2 coins inf. sont anciennement restaurés, épidermures sur les plats, un poème de M. Saurin, "aux Manes de M. Helvetius 1772" est retranscris sur le premier feuillet de garde, petite tache brune sur les 5 premiers feuillets, légères traces de mouillure dans le coin sup. plus visible sur les 3 premiers et les 2 derniers feuillets et sur l'Arrest du conseil du Roi.
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
17581883Paris, Durand, 1758. 1 vol. in-4, (26 x 20,5 cm) ; [2] ff., XXII pp., 643 pp. et [1] p. Reliure en plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Restaurations aux mors, aux coupes et aux coins. Faiblesse en pied du mors supérieur.
388442 tomes reliés en un volume in-4 (272 x 218 mm), veau havane raciné de lépoque, dos lisse orné de roulettes, palettes, filets dorés et dun fleuron répété au centre, pièce de titre de veau rouge, plats encadrés de filets dorés, dentelle intérieure, tranches jaspées, viii, 260 p. et (8), 189, (12) p. de tables, errata et catalogue, un tableau dépliant. Londres, De l'imprimerie de W. & C. Spilsbury (...), 1797.
17580055151758 Paris, Durand, 1758. In-quarto (256 X 214 mm) veau fauve marbré, dos cinq nerfs, caissons dorés ornés, pièce de titre maroquin fauve, tranches rouges (Reliure de l'époque) ; (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre, XXII-643 pages, (1) page d'approbation et privilège. Petite épidermure au second plat.
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
elala2495Paris: Durand 1758. Second Quarto Edition. Conceived as a rival work to Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Lois this is Helvétius' principal work and the only one to be published in his lifetime. Helvetius' thought represents the extreme form attained by the sensationalist and utilitarian philosophy in eighteenth century France and his treatise 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. Smith E2A. Cioranescu III 33643. Goldsmiths' 9432. Kress 5710. Rand I 250. cfTchemerzine VI 188. 4to. pp. 2 p.l. xxii 643 1. complete with half-title. woodcut title vignette. contemporary mottled calf gilt back spinal extremities chipped small piece of calf missing from lower front cover; a nice crisp copy Paris: Durand, 1758 unknown
1774584284 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque plein maroquin rouge, dos à 5 nerfs dorés orné, triple filet doré d'encadrement en plats, filet doré en coupes, toutes tranches dorées, Chez Bassompierre, A Liège, 1774, 2 ff., frontispice, VIII-634 pp. ; 2 ff., 226-201 pp. ; XVI-495 pp. ; 2 ff., 615 pp. Titre complet : Oeuvres complettes (4 Tomes - Complet) Tomes I et II : De l'Esprit [ Suivi de ] Le Bonheur, Poëme en six Chants, avec des Fragments de quelques Epîtres. Ouvrages posthumes de M. Helvetius ; Tomes III et IV : De l'Homme, de ses Facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation [ Oeuvres complètes ]
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
