Abbadie, Jacques. L'Art de se connoitre soi-meme. Ou la Rech - Lot 127

Abbadie, Jacques. L'Art de se connoitre soi-meme. Ou la Recherche des sources de la morale. Published in La haye by Jean Neaulme in 1760. In twelve / In-12 format. Mahogany marbled calf. Spine decorated with gilt fleurons and title. Red edges. xvi-428 pages. Gilt fillets on the edges, red morocco title page. The work is adorned with lettering, headbands and lampshades. Covers rubbed, minor rubbing to boards, corners dulled. Traces of moisture on the edges of some pages, otherwise clean and free of foxing. A fine copy. Jacques Abbadie (1654-1727) was a great name in French Protestant literature, renowned as a theologian and preacher, and in the tradition of the French moralists of the century.