HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien). On Man, his Intellectual... - Lot 88 - Kâ-Mondo

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HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien). On Man, his Intellectual... - Lot 88 - Kâ-Mondo
HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien). On Man, his Intellectual Faculties, and his Education. In London, by the Typographical Society, 1773. 2 vols. in-12, XLIII-399 p. 2 vols. in-12, XLIII-399 p. + [2] f., 495 p., contemporary tortoiseshell calf, spine with 5 nerves, red-brown basane title-piece, stamped tomaison, ornamented caissons, triple gilt fillet bordering the boards, gilt fillet at the edges, marbled edges (snagging of a tail-cap, 5 dull corners; brownings). First edition, posthumous, published by Prince Galitzin. It was the author's own wish not to publish this book during his lifetime, after the setbacks caused by the publication of De L'esprit in 1758. Tchemerzine (VI, p. 192), reports this edition as the first of the three variants published that same year 1773. (David Smith, Bibliography of the writings of Helvétius, p.311, edition H4). Provenance: stamp of a religious college on the titles.
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