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27538 — Amsterdam 1725. 12:mo. 32 434 pp. engr. portrait. Title printed in red and black. Some spotting title page somewhat soiled. Contemporary half calf spine richly gilt with red and green label red edges. Duplicate-stamp from the library of Uppsala University exlibris of Arne Holmberg. Hoffman III 395. First French edition of the Pyrrhonian Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus c. 200 AD the only ancient greek sceptic whose writings are still extant. His claim to eminence rests on the facts that he developed and formulated the doctrines of the older Sceptics and that he handed down a full and on the whole an impartial account of the members of his school. His theses inspired Montaigne as well as Bayle and Hume. A reprint appeared in 1735. unknown