HOLBACH PAUL-HENRI-DIETRICH BARON D',

Systeme de la nature. ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral. par mirabaud, avec un discours

Geneve, Slatkine, 2011. 1 vol., 15X22CM, 810 pp, BROCHÉ.

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Book number: H38101-5803

HOLBACH PAUL-HENRI-DIETRICH, BARON D',

Catalogue des tableaux des trois ecoles.

Geneve, Slatkine, 1979. 1 vol., in-4, 100 pp, relié.

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Book number: H3940-5466

HOLBACH, (PAUL HENRI DIETRICH THIRY, BARON D', 1723-89).

La Politique Naturelle. Ou Discours Sur Les Vrais Principes Du Gouvernement. Par Un Ancien Magistrat.

Londres (i.e. Amsterdam), Marc-Michel Rey, 1773, First edition. Hardcover . Two volumes, octavo. pp (viii), 232; [4], 280. Half-titles present, binder's blanks front and rear. Bound in contemporary tortoiseshell calf, gilt decorative borders to spines, spines with raised bands, labels, gilt ornaments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, bound-in ribbon bookmark (perished in vol. I). Small chips to foot of spine of vol. I; covers just a little bowed; yellowing to a few leaves in text; "Baron Holbach" very lightly in ink to half-title leaf in vol. II ; else fine, tight in the bindings, hinges not cracked, text clean and fresh. Variant (first printing?) with a period (vs comma) after "Naturelle" on title page, and with the signature marks at bottom centre of pages, and collating a little differently from the other recorded variant. Vercruysse (1773) A2 and A3 describes two variants, listing this one first, but not giving any reason for that order. Tchemerzine VI, 245b. One of several works in which Holbach, the outspoken and influential atheist of the Englightenment, argues for principles of government based solely on social utility and the common good. He advocated the abolition of class privileges, progressive taxation, separation of church and state, religious toleration, secular public education, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech - familiar principles in western democracies today.

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Book number: 19570

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

HOLBACH, (PAUL HENRI DIETRICH THIRY, BARON D', 1723-89) [VOLTAIRE].

Système de la Nature, Ou Des Lois Du Monde Physique Et Du Monde Moral. Par Mirabaud (Pseud. )

Londres [actually Amsterdam??), 1780. Hardcover. Later edition (first was in 1770). Two volumes, octavo. pp xii, (48), 371, [1, blank]; [4], ii, 464 pp. Half-titles present, binder's blanks front and rear. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt lettered (giving author as Mira baud), raised bands. Fore and bottom page edges untrimmed. Spines are lightly sunned, boards are a little bowed, bindings are otherwise fine. Volume I has a damp stain to fore margin of title leaf and some other scattered leaves; damp stain to lower outer corner of pp 249-74; text has tanning to some signatures, scattered foxing throughout; ink spot to fore margin of last two leaves, no printing affected; outer corners torn from last leaf, no printing affected. Volume II has scattered foxing a nd some tanning in text. In all, VG internally, text unworn and unmarked, with untrimmed edges. Volume I contains on pp 1-47 "Sentiment de Voltaire sur le système de la nature". >> Holbach's most famous book. "The third and properly philosophical stage of Holbach's output began in 1770 with the Système de la nature.. This first-and only-example in the Enlightenment of a comprehensive, unmitigated defense of atheistic materialism was the culmination of a whole trend of ideas already expressed in varying degrees by La Mettrie, Helvétius, Diderot, and others. It caused much consternation in France, not only among spokesmen for the official faith but among the deistic philosophes as well..Système de la nature..defines man as a product entirely of nature, subject to the laws governing the physical universe, which, in turn, constitutes the whole of reality. The soul, or spiritual substance, is an illusion; the moral and intellectual attributes of man are simply his organic machine considered in certain of its special, less visible operations. Since sensibility is a primary function of the animal organism, all our higher faculties are derived ultimately from the different forms that sensation takes" - Encyclopedia of Philosophy IV , pp 49-51. "Holbach's influence was perhaps never very great, but the confident dogmatism, and the comprehensiveness of the Système de la nature, which even provoked Voltaire to reply in defense of religion, have ensured its survival as the bible of materialism." - PMM 215. Vercruysse (1780) A1.

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Book number: 19571

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Voltaire

MIRABAUD (HOLBACH, PAUL HENRI DIETRICH, BARON D') (1723-1789):

Système de la Nature. Ou des Loix du monde physique et du monde moral. Nouvelle édition. Première partie (seul).

Londres (= Amsterdam, M.M. Rey), 1775, in-8vo, 6 ff. + 370 p. (qqs taches brunes dans dern. 2 ff.) / 2 ff. + 412 p., sans les 2 ff. d'errata, taches, quelques soulignés, reliures en veau marbré, pièce de titre et tom. aux dos, dos richement ornés en or, filet doré sur les coupes, un plat avec deux pet. éraflures près du dos, pet. accroc à une coiffe sup., tranches rouges.
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