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066603740X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
6274783-nnew. unknown
6274783like new. unknown
MA03OS-00071Albion Press. Collectible - Acceptable. Albion Press 1810. 8vo Hardcover. 4frontisxxxviii498pp4. Poor book. 1/4 leather backed marbled boards with decorative gilt compartments raised spine bands gilt spine lettering and green endpapers. Heavy edgewear. Boards rubbed. Pages age toned. Penciled notations to the verso front free endpaper and first blank. Bottom corner of page 409 torn away with some text missing. With typical period foxing throughout. philosophy enlightenment atheism Inquire if you need further information. Albion Press hardcover
ZZ90316-59Original paper binding minor discoloration along the edges spine damaged 20 x 13 cm. Rare theatre play on the care for the surviving members of the Scheveningen community. unknown
0259342343.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0332795772.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1983LFA-126736155Un ouvrage de 179 pages, format 145 x 205 mm, broché, publié en 1983, U.E.R. des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, bon état
200406379Londres, s.e., 1781 ; in-8, 282-448-384-398-407 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Les 5 volumes. Plein veau : EN 5 VOLUMES.
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.
17581735Paris, Durand, 1758. 1 vol. in-4, (25,5 x 20 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. Exemplaire en belle condition (deux coins légèrement frottés à signaler).
59190Amsterdam et Leipsick, Artstee et Merkus, 1758, in 12 relié pleine veau ancien, dos lisse très orné, 409 pages ; coiffes usées ; coins émoussés.
4756Ex-Libris manuscrit sur la page de titre
1385Chez Pierre Motjens (sic), LA HAYE , 1759
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.
110164A Amsterdam et Leipsick, chez Arkstee et Merkus 1774, 2 volumes in-12 de 175x100 mm environ, Tome I : 1f. blanc, titre avec vignette, viij-384 pages, 1f., - Tome II : faux-titre, titre avec vignette, 392 pages, pleine basane écaille, titres et tomaisons dorés sur dos lisses, ornés de caissons à fleurons et motifs dorés, pièces de titre vert sapin et tomaisons havane, coupes corées, gardes et tranches marbrées. Mouillure marginale en début de volume (tome I), fréquents petits défauts de marge et déchirure sans manque, frottements sur le cuir avec début de fente sur les mors, erreur de pagination dans le tome I, p.96 le cahier E F G sont placés après les cahiers H I (p. 167 à 216 entre les pages 96 et 97).
107603A Paris, Chez Durand, Libraire rue du Foin, 1769, 1 volume in-8 de 205x125x35 mm environ, 1f. blanc, xx-481 pages, 1f. (privilège), Avec approbation et privilège du Roi (édition clandestine publiée après la révocation du privilège), parchemin ivoire, dos lisse portant titres dorés sur pièces de titre vert olive, orné de petits fers dorés, tranches mouchetées de rouge. Quelques rousseurs, une mouillure dans l'angle supérieur sur les 65 premières pages, des taches (p. 133,268, 288 à 291), une coupe abimée avec manque de cuir, rares petits défauts de marge.
177611333A Amsterdam & à Leipsick, chez Arkstée & Merckus, 1776. 2 volumes in-12 de XII-370 et [4]-379 pages, demi-veau moucheté à petits coins, dos lisses ornés de filets, roulettes, fleurons, titre et tomaison dorés, pièces de titre tabac, de tomaison noires, tranches mouchetées.
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
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
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
B9781340311582Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781340311582Hardback. New. hardcover
132540aafA La Haye Chez Pierre Moetjens, Imprimeur, M. DCC. LIX, (1759), in-8°, 2 ff. + VIII (Préface) + X (Table) + 244 p.; 2 ff. + XI (+1 blanche) + 209 p. (+ 1 bl.); 2 ff. + IV + 156 p. (sic 166 p.) nom ms. sur faux-titre (en 1818), Reliure en veau, dos orné or, pièce de titre brun, tranches jaspées rouges, bon exemplaire.
175852026Paris, Durand, 1758. Large 4to. Large-paper copy bound in a beautiful contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Triple gilt line-borders to boards, all edges of boards gilt and inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. A stunning, bright, clean, and fresh copy, with minimal wear and no restorations of any kind. Presentation-inscriptions to front free end-paper and to verso of title-page (see description in note below). Large woodcut title-vignette and many smaller vignettes throughout. (4), XXII, 643, (1) pp. + 40 ff. (i.e. the original, uncorrected leaves: pp. 1-16 35-38 59-62 67-70 75-78 139-142 145-154 169-176 187-190 233-34 227-230 459-462 547-550" 603-606 + 2 extra leaves that were printed incorrectly, namely p. 160 - reset & p. 239 - different vignette).
