‎VOLNAY Constantin François Chasseboeuf :‎
‎Les Ruines ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires par M. Volnay Député à l'Assemblée nationale de 1789.‎

‎ Bourg, chez Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon, (1790), in-4°, 26 x 19 cm, engraved frontispiece + title + viii + 242 pp + two plates h.t. of which one folding. contemporary full leather binding, covers with gilt fillet, smooth back with red title label and gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, some quires printed on blueish paper, some quires uniformly slightly browned. Very nice copy of the first edition. First attempt at comparative theology, one of the most original works to come out of the Enlightenment. (this rare first edition not in Cioranescu) . Classical essay on the philosophy of history, containing a vision which predicts the final union of all religions by the recognition of the common truth underlying them all. (Enc.Britt. 11th ed.).‎

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