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"HELVETIUS.
Le vrai sens de la Nature. Ouvrage posthume.
London, 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.
Reference : 42324
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.
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2 book(s) with the same title
Jean-Baptiste de MIRABAUD et Paul Henri Dietrich Baron d'HOLBACH + HELVETIUS
Reference : 35411
(1774)
Systeme de la nature ou Des Loix du monde Physique et du monde moral - [Ensemble] - Le vrai sens du systême de la nature - Ouvrage posthume de M. Helvetius -
1774 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 -
Rare réunion avec l'ouvrage d'Helvétius en édition originale -
Le Vrai sens du Système de la Nature. Ouvrage posthume de M. Helvétius.
A Londres, , 1774. In-8 de (4)-III-151 pp., basane havane, dos lisse orné, filets dorés sur les plats (reliure de l'époque).
Édition originale. Tchemerzine (VI, 195) classe cette édition en deuxième position ; D. Smith, Bibliography of the writings of Helvetius, A4A. Menus défauts à la reliure ; annotations modernes à l'encre violette sur quelques feuillets.
