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1780177337Londres A Londres, SL, 1780. Cinq volumes In-8 reliés pleins cartonnages d'attente rouges, pièces de titre et de tomaison vertes. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée sur les manuscrits de l'auteur, avec sa vie et son portrait. Portrait gravé en frontispice par A.M. Vanloo + 282 + 448 + 384 + 398 + 407 pages. Bandeaux et culs de lampes gravés. Exemplaire à grandes marges. Cartonnages frottés et défraichis présentant des manques, absence de pièce de titre au tome II. Le corps des volumes est en très bon état, on signale juste une tache marginale sans atteinte au texte sur 4 pages du tome III. Bon ensemble mériterait une jolie reliure.
120531Douai (Duaci) (= Zürich), Typis Petri Columbii, 1734.
120531Douai Duaci = Zürich Typis Petri Columbii 1734. 8vo. XVI;XXXVI404 p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: Brunet 4602; Graesse 5263; E. Weller 'Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte' Leipzig 1858 p. 190 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Short title & year on the back. All 3 edges marbled. Good quality paper Condition: Vellum soiled. Old inscription on the front flyleaf: 'Bel exemplaire de ce livre curieux et recherché'; old references written on the verso of this flyleaf Note: 'Johannes Jakob Zimmermann Professor der Theologie an der Karlsschule in Zürich war der erste namhafte Vertreter der religiösen Aufklärung dieser Stadt'. Zimmermann was born in 1695 in Zürich and died there in 1756. During his studies he came under the influence of freethinkers like Clericus and Grotius and began to dislike orthodoxy and grew interested in heretics. In 1737 he was appointed professor of natural law and of church history in his hometown and later succeeded against all expectations in gaining a professorship of theology. Hauptprofessur 'In dieser Stellung entfaltete er eine bedeutende Thätigkeit als Lehrer und Freund der studirenden Jugend und veröffentlichte daneben eine Reihe von theils gelehrten theils mehr populären Abhandlungen philosophischen und theologischen Inhaltes'. Zimmermann wanted to discuss fruchtbringende Fragen instead of the traditionellen Subtilitäten and made a stand against Verketzerungssucht. He warned against too exaggerated views on the holiness of the first christians and the visions and wonders that occurred in the first centuries of christianity. To prove his point he wrote this De miraculis quae Pythagorae Apollonio Tyanensi Francisco Assisio Dominico & Ignatio Lojolae tribuuntur libellus. Their stories were merely inventions of naive followers he argues. His scepticism brought him ennemies among the clergy who opposed his arminian heresy. 'Zimmermann's Bekämpfung der Orthodoxie stützt sich auf die Überzeugung das die Religion eine praktische Angelegenheit des Menschen sei. Das oberste Ziel der Religion ist die Besserung des Menschen. . Die zürcherischen Theologen der zweiten Hälfte des Jahrhunderts kamen aus seine Schule'. ADB 45271-273 Zimmermann's book against wonderworking and supernatural tales remained on the Index of forbidden books of the Catholic Church till 1948. It was published pseudonymously in Zürich. The name of the Swiss author was already revealed to the public in a review of the book in the Bibliothèque germanique ou Histoire littéraire de l'Allemagne de la Suisse et des Pays du Nord Année 1735 Tome 31 p. 148/152. We quote part of the review: 'Après quelques Reflexions générales sur les Miracles il parle d'abord de ceux de Pythagore & d'Apollonius & puis de ceux de St. François de St. Dominique & de St. Ignace de Loyola. Ensuite il entre dans l'Examen de la doctrine des moers; & du but de chacun des ces faiseurs de Miracles en particulier. Il prétend que les Miracles des uns & des autres ne sauroient venir de Dieu; mais il ne veut pas non plus qu'ils ayent été l'Ouvrage de Demon desorte qu'il ne lui reste d'autre partie à prendre que de les taxer comme il fait de Chimeres & d'impostures de faux Miracles ménagés par l'adresse des Charlatans Thaumaturges. On se sera pas faché de lire ce que Notre Auteur dit pour appuyer son sentiment surtout par rapport aux prétendus Miracles d'Apollonius de Tyane. Monsieur Zimmermann ameroit mieux qu'on canonisât Socrate que les trois Saints qu'il met en parallele avec Pythagore & avec Apollonius'. Zimmermann's pseudonym Phileleutherus Helvetius means a Swiss loving freedom or a Swiss liberal. This pen name echoes the pseudonym used by the famous English philologist and theologian Richard Bentley 1662-1742 the greatest name among classical scholars of the first half of the 18th century. In 1710 he published a book with his emendations of the fragments of Menander and Philemon under this assumed name. Zimmermann by choosing this name seems to connect his endeavour to wipe out idolatry superstition and the belief in wonders in pre-elightenment faith with the battle fought by Bentley against orthodox classical philologists who thought that old was best. He proved in his Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris 1697 that some ancient texts which were believed to be old authorative and great literature were in fact late antique forgeries without any literary or historical merit. Zimmermann tries to do the same. He argues that wondrous tales concerning Franciscus of Assisi the founder of the Franciscan order and Dominicus Guzman the founder of the Dominican order and Ignatius de Loyola the founder of the Jesuit order which were considered to be true and which were promoted by the Catholic Church were in fact mendacious fabrications. mendacia & figmenta Monachorum p. a2 recto He also battles against the veneration of saints and the canonization of numerous saints by the Catholic Church. The transsubstantion of the body of Christ is in his eyes ridiculous. As a consequence the Vatican placed this book on the Index of forbidden books. And allthough Zimmermann admits in his preface in caeteris satis ostendi me natura ad jocos risusque proclivem non esse p. b4 verso one reads on the title that this book was published in 'Duaci' i.e. in Duacum the Latin form of the name of the city of Douai in North of France near Arras. It was in this city in the Spanish Netherlands now French Flanders that the Spanish king Philip II founded in 1559 with the support of pope Paulus IV a university which was to be a catholic bulwark of the Contrareformation against the spreading of the protestantism in the Low Countries. The contemporary reader would immediately have realized that this was an impossible and funny combination an antipapist book on the title of which pagan charlatans were on equal level with great saints being published in the lion's den of Douai. The book was in fact published in Zürich. The name of the printer/publisher deserves some attention too. The non existing name 'Petrus Columbius' Peter Dove in the imprint seems to be programmatic. Contemporary readers might recognize Acts 4:8-11 where the apostle Petrus speaks up filled with the Holy Spirit and explains that Christ is the only one a christian should worship. This passage forbids to believe in wonders other than those of Christ and forbids to worship other deities/saints. The dove symbolises the Holy Spirit since early christianity. It is told John 1:32 that the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus's head like a dove quasi columbam when he was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan. By way of conclusion we cite the titles of some chapters. Chapter 10: Miracula Pythagorae Apollonii Francisci Dominici Lojolae non sunt a Deo quia doctrina eorum omnibus Dei virtutibus contraria 11: '. quia Relig. Christianae veritatem & divinitatem subvertunt; 13: Disquiritur utrum Miracula illa Diabolo sint tribuenda'. There is also a chapter 15 in which Zimmermann proves that Pontifices illos homines fuisse cum rerum divinarum ignarissimos tum impudentissimos nequissimosque Collation: 8 a-b8 A-2B8 2C2 Photographs on request hardcover
1373705A Paris: chez Durand, 1758 3 volumes in-12, 409, 362 et 300 pages Reliure veau moucheté d'ép. dos lisse orné de fleurons, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin rouge, tranches marbrées, usures minimes aux coiffes, bel exemplaire. Première édition in-12 publiée la même année que l'édition originale in-4. (Tchermezine, 189,c).
17226107Paris, Rigaud, Imprimerie Royale, 1722 ; in-8 ; plein veau havane, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièce de titre bordeaux, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; (38), 388, (8).
1781122940Londres 1781 5 vol. relié 5 vol. in-8, veau fauve marbré, dos lisses avec pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge et vert, caissons ornés de dentelle dorée, tranches rouges, CXV + 282, 448, 384, VIII + 398 et 407 pp. Belle édition collective ornée d'un portrait gravé d'après Van Loo et comprenant De l'esprit, De l'homme, Le Bonheur, et un choix d'épîtres et de lettres. Une coiffe légèrement rognée, mais agréable série en reliure d'époque de qualité.
1781122940Londres 1781 5 vol. relié 5 vol. in-8, veau fauve marbré, dos lisses avec pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge et vert, caissons ornés de dentelle dorée, tranches rouges, CXV + 282, 448, 384, VIII + 398 et 407 pp. Belle édition collective ornée d'un portrait gravé d'après Van Loo et comprenant De l'esprit, De l'homme, Le Bonheur, et un choix d'épîtres et de lettres. Une coiffe légèrement rognée, mais agréable série en reliure d'époque de qualité.
170372101703 reliure plein veau havane brun marbré in-douze (binding full calfskin duodecimo), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands) - entre-nerfs à fleuron au fer évidé et rinceaux aux angles (between the raised bands floweret with hollowed out blocking stamp with foliages carried out with the curved line with the angles) - 1 entre-nerf abîmé (between the 2 raised bands completely unobtrusive gilding) - pièce de titre sur fond grenat avec double filet or (garnet label of title with double gilt line), une forte et petite épidermure jusqu'au carton sur le premier plat (a strong and small scratch to the paperboard on the front cover), craquelures sur le quatrième plat (crackles on the back cover), roulettes sur les coupes (fillets on the cuts) - manque de dorure (blurred gilding), tranches rouges (red edges), marque-page en tissu jaune (yellow bookmark in tissue), pages de garde peignées à motif "modèle plume de paon" (painting flyleaf - model plucks peacock), annotations manuscrites anciennes à l'encre sur la page de faux-titre et sur le verso de la dernière page (old handwritten annotations with ink on the half title page and on the reverse of the last page), illustrations : orné de deux lettrines - de bandeaux et de culs-de-lampe (illuminated of two dropped initials - headpieces and headpieces), cicatrices claires de mouillures en marge de tête sur les premières pages (light scars of waterstains on the top margin on the first pages), XXVI pages (d'Epître et de préface non paginées) + 337 pages et 5 pages non paginées d'Approbation & de Privilège du Roy, 1703 à Paris Chez Laurent d'Houry - Chez Pierre-Augustin Le Mercier,
1795300624A Paris Chez Serviere, libraire. 1795 VIIIp+416p(T1)+462p+506p+446p+487p 5 tomes en 5 volumes IN8. Reliures d'époque en plein veau blond.Plats ornés de filets dorés.Dos lisses avec pièces de titres et de tomaisons.Nouvelle édition corrigée & augmentée sur les manuscrits de l'auteur avec sa vie,et son portrait en frontispice d
120405aafA Londres, Chez la Société Typographique. M. DCC. LXXIII., (1773), gr. in-8vo, (20.5x12.5 cm), XXXII + 326 p. / 1 f. de titre + 412 p., mouilleure et qqs rousseurs à la fin de l’ouvrage, reliures en veau, dos à cinq nerfs richement dorés (caissons fleuronnés et ornés), titre et de tomaison au dos, gardes marbrées, tranches marbrées, qqs coins touchés, sinon bel exemplaire.
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 books
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
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
26370Londres, 1774, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane marbrée, dos orné de fers et filets dorés, filets dorés sur les plats, tranches jaspée (reliure de l'époque), (petit accroc à la coiffe, légères épidermures sur la partie inférieure du second plat de couverture), (2), 3pp., 151pp.
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].
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 -
1385Chez Pierre Motjens (sic), LA HAYE , 1759
12267Nouvelles édition corrigée et augmentée sur les manuscrits de l'auteur avec sa vie et son portrait .A Paris ,chez Servière ,1795 .Cinq volumes in 8° reliés plein veau marbré d'époque .Dos lisses ornés de motifs dorés .Pièces de titre verte .Filets sur les plats .
92807EBDen Haag van Dyck 1664. Pgmt. d. Zt. Einband fleckig. Rückendeckel stark fleckig. Aufkleber a. Innendeckel. Name a. Titel. Papier leicht gebräunt u. teils etwas fleckig. Den Haag, van Dyck 1664. 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
62043Deux-Ponts = Zweibrücken Sanson 1784. . Inhalt: Vol. I u. II: Le Bonheur Poéme sic! allégorique en quatre chants. Lettres de M. de Voltaire á M. Helvetius. De L'Esprit I. - Vol. III u. IV: De L'Esprit II / III; Examen des critiques du livre intitulé De L'Esprit; Analyse . De L'Esprit. - Enth. außerdem Briefe an u. von Helvetius Montesquieu Hume Abbé Chauvelin u. a. sowie "Vers sur la mort de M. Helvetius" von Dorat. Hier ohne die postum aus seinem Nachlaß bearbeitete Neufassung u. Weiterführung des "De l'esprit": De l'homme de ses facultés et de son éducation 3 Teile 1772. - Über den französ. Philosophen des Materialismus u. Sensualismus Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715-1771 den Enzyklopädisten nahestehend schrieb Voltaire: "Ich liebte den Verfasser des Esprit." Der massiven Kritk an seinem Hauptwerk "De l'esprit" 1758 durch Jesuiten die Sorbonne u. den Papst entzog er sich dank seiner guten Beziehungen nicht zuletzt zu Friedrich d. Gr. - Einbände berieben das Frontispiz mit 2 Feuchträndern einige Bll. des 2. Bandes etwas gebräunt u. stockfleckig. Alter Namenseintrag a. V. Im Ganzen gutes Exemplar. Deux-Ponts (= Zweibrücken), Sanson, 1784. unknown
1827592428 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-maroquin brun, Chez Dalibon, Paris, 1827, XV-410 ; 495 ; 483 ; 490 ; 475 ; 544 , 464 ; 460 pp. Rappel du titre complet : Oeuvres de Montesquieu (8 Tomes - Complet) Avec Eloges, Analyses, Commentaires, Remarques, Notes, Réfutations, Imitations, par MM. Destutt de Tracy, Villemain, Membres de l'Institut, d'Alembert, Helvétius, Voltaire, Condorcet et Bertolini. Tome I : Grandeur des Romains ; Tomes II, III et IV : Esprit des Lois ; : Tome V : Défense de l'Esprit des Lois ; Tome VI : Oeuvres diverses ; Tome VII : Lettres Persanes ; Tome VIII : Commentaire sur l'Esprit des Lois
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. <br/><br/> Chez la Société typographique hardcover books
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
