Author: HOLBACH, Paul Henry Thiry Baron D' [ ] - MIRABAUD ( pseudonym) :
Title: Système de la Nature. Ou Des Loix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral. ( 2 volumes).
Description: .: Londres ( London ), no printer, [ Amsterdam Marc Michel Rey] 1770, 2 volumes in-8°, ( 20 x 12 cm), [v.I] (12) nn pp + 366 pp ; [v.II] (6) nn pp + 408 pp. This is the second printing of the first edition, so without the errata leaves , which have been corrected in this second printing. Bound in uniform mottled calf, smooth spine with two labels and gilt decoration. Triple gilt fillets on both coversMarbled endpaperes & marbled edges. Some slight wear at the corners , with tiny loss of leather, still a very fine set. Provenance: with a printed ex-libris pasted in on the first paste down of ''Duc de Berwick'' Item nr. 110 is added in manuscript..(He was the grandson of marschal James-Fitz James who was himself an illigitimate son of king James II.). Nice copy of the first edition , second impression of one of the most important philosophical works of the Enlightenment ; the bible of Materialism. See PMM 215. .

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