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199810732Toronto: University of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division. Good in Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0802042856 . Kb28.xx 406 pp. Index. B&W illustrations frontis gravure of Madame Helvetius. Octavo. Perrywinkle blue dust jacket with oval image of madame Helvetius shows very minor shelf wear flaps intact. Book itself is clean and unmarked a quite nice copy. In French except for the occasional English letter. Suivies de lettres relevant des periodes des trois permier volumes et decouvertes depuis leur parution. Introduction etablissement des textes et appareil critique. The 4th of 5 volumes of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius 1715-1771 author of the controversial De l'Esprit. Featuring the corresopndence of Mm. Helvetius nee Anne Catherine de Ligniville in the years following her husband's death this volume also includes letters by and to Helvetius discovered since the publication of the first 3 volumes. ; French Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 426 pages . University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division hardcover
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1998282874Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1998. hardcover. fine/near fine. Edited by David Smith et al. Illustrated. xx 406pp. 8vo blue cloth d.w. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1998. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> University of Toronto Press unknown
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
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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
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
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2004SONG1432624229Kessinger Publishing 2004-12-01. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.00x1.38x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing hardcover
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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. <br/><br/><em>Extremely rare first edition first issue with manuscript dedication-inscription from the author of this monumental work of the French Enlightenment. This magnum opus of modern thought is considered the founding work of modern Utilitarianism as it is here that Helvétius articulates the greatest happiness principle "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" for the first time and becomes the first to define social welfare upon this utilitarian maxim directly influencing Bentham and Mill.The materialistic philosophy of Helvétius' "De l'Esprit" also directly influenced Karl Marx who had studied the work while in Paris and called the ideas presented in it "the social basis of communism"."De l'Esprit" arguably constitutes the greatest "succès de scandale" of Western thought and one of the most influential works of Western philosophy.This magnificent copy is stunning in all ways. It contains all the extremely rare condemned and repressed leaves of the first issue bound in the back it is printed on large paper contemporarily bound presumably under instruction by Helvétius himself in a stunning full calf gift binding and with two manuscript ex-dono- presentation- inscriptions by Helvétius himself. One of them on the verso of the title-page is crossed out but is still legible reading "donum auctoris 17 avril 1760 Cl. Helvetius" the second on the front free end-paper reads "ex dono auctoris 1761" - thus indicating that Helvétius who had the copy in his possession to give away when he felt it appropriate had first intended to give it away - perhaps late in the year - in 1760 and then ended up giving it away in 1761. The work lost its privilege almost immediately and even though Hélvetius wrote three retractions it was still condemned and publicly burnt. In spite of this Helvétius still kept a few copies of the very first issue with all the original leaves. According to Smith 15 copies existed and as Jacques Guérin also notes these copies were all intended for his close friends and family we know for instance that Rousseau received one of the copies. These copies of which the present is one are thus of the utmost scarcity. Only one other has been on the market within the last 25 years namely that of Jacques Guérin which however did not have a dedication-inscription from Helvétius.As Tchermerzine describes the extremely rare copies of the first issue which are either without the newly formulated leaves or with the original leaves preserved our copy has them all! are between 10 and 60 times as valuable as the later issues depending on condition - these between 4 and 15 copies are the only ones to contain the 80 revolutionary pages that caused the work to be condemned and burnt and sent Helvétius into exile. Tchermerzine does not however account for copies with a presentation-inscription like the present. The work caused an immense uproar when it appeared. It was considered so heretical atheistic and immoral that it lost its privilege within a fortnight; it was heavily condemned by the Church and the State and was burnt by the Hangman the plan being to destroy all copies of it. Few books in the entire history of printing have been met with such opposition - it was condemned by both the son of Louis XV and the Sorbonne and the priests succeeded in convincing the court that the doctrines were so dangerous that even though Helvetius wrote three retractions the book was still publically burned; and when the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert was suppressed for the second time this had much to do with Helvétius' De l'Esprit and the scandal it had caused.This scandalous work however gained so much attention that it was almost immediately translated into all European languages contributing to the immense influence it came to have on all European thought. "The history of Helvetius's De l'esprit 1758 his first major work is eventful complicated and paradoxical. No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseau's Emile 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 succes de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication. It was attacked in Church periodicals and in polemical pamphlets in the literary salons and in popular songs from bishops' pulpits and from the stage of the Théâtre francais. Though Helvetius retracted his book three times he was condemned by the Archbishop of Paris Nov. 1758 the Pope Jan. 1759 the Parlement of Paris Feb. 1759 the Sorbonne Apr. 1759 and by various bishops." Smith p. 332."In "De l'ésprit" 1758 Helvétius follows the Lockean sensationalism of Condillac and pairs it with the claim that human beings are motivated in their actions only by the natural desire to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their pain. "De l'ésprit" though widely read gives rise to strong negative reactions in the time both by political and religious authorities the Sorbonne the Pope and the Parlement of Paris all condemn the book and by prominent fellow philosophes in great part because Helvétius's psychology seems to critics to render moral imperatives and values without basis despite his best attempts to derive them. Helvétius attempts to ground the moral equality of all human beings by portraying all human beings whatever their standing in the social hierarchy whatever their special talents and gifts as equally products of the nature we share plus the variable influences of education and social environment." SEP.D. W. Smith The Publication of Helvetius's De l'esprit in French Studies 1968 p. 105.Tschermerzine III:672. </em> hardcover
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
