Beschreibung:

circa 16 x 10 cm., 2 ff., XXX pp., 1 f., 180 pp.; 2 ff., 256 pp., 8 ff.. Contemporary polished calf with gilded spine Early edition, one year after the first that was published in Paris and edited posthumously by the Abbé de Rothelin. In his Anti-Lucretius the cardinal de Polignac (1661-1741) gives a refutation of Epicureanism and materialism in famously elegant verse. The idea goes back to conversations he had had with Pierre Bayle. - Uncommon London imprint by the English bookseller John Nourse (1705-1780).

Bemerkung:

- Minor browning, bindings somewhat rubbed, hinges weak (not detached but swith cracking), upper spines with small repairs, inside mostly clean.