Author: [ Bayle, Pierre ]
Title: Reponse Aux Questions D'Un Provincial Tome Cinqiéme [only]
Description: Reinier Leers, Rotterdam, 1707, 1st edition. Full contemporary calf, G+. [xii]+383pp, leather rubbed at the edges, especially to the spine, last few pp rather yellowed, good margins, Armorial Bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Odd volume of a defence of Bayle's earlier 'Dictionnaire Historique et Critique' which had contained controversial passages & fideist ideas. Pierre Bayle [ 1647 - 1706 ] French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. Sir Charles Grave Hudson, 1st Baronet [ 1730 - 1813 ] married well and became the owner of Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire. He was a director of the South Sea Company and became a High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1783.

Keywords: theology, eulogy, french history, biography