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five volumes of philosophical works.
This popular science work, which helped disseminate Isaac Newton's theories and thoughts, detailing his ideas on light and gravity, was more successful than any other because its author committed five years of work to understand it in order to

Philosophy - Quantity: 5 - Book

VOLTAIRE - Oeuvres De Voltaire Dont Elements De Philosophie De Newton - 1760-1772

Two books on the topic of Magnetism. Hardback bindings with cloth. Traite Experimental with wear as shown, marks, scuffs and some discolouring to cloth, corners bumped. Mesmer with light wear in a more recent binding. Both with ex libris Alan Gauld label to front pastedowns and

Philosophy, History, Science - Quantity: 2 - Book

Hector Durville - Mesmer et Le Magnétisme Animal & Traité Expérimental de Magnétisme (volume one). - 1853-1895

2 books from the 17th century, extremely rare, in large folio formats (see photos).

Rarissime works from the 17th century.
2 volumes contain 4 parts.

Collection of acts, titles and memoirs concerning the affairs of the clergy of France, augmented by a large number of pieces and

History, Literature, Philosophy, Colonial history, Art history, War history, Law, Sociology, Bibles, Biographies and memoirs, Religion - Quantity: 2 - Book

Jean le Gentil - Recueil des actes, titres et mémoires concernant les affaires du clergé de France[ Formats in-folio - 1673

Fifth edition, revised and corrected, of this work treating Christian morality in two volumes. 
A work attributed to Pierre Nicole, but no author’s name appears on these copies. 
Volume 1: 407 pp., preceded by 22 pp. of preface and table of contents. 
Volume 2: 325 pp., preceded

Philosophy, Religion - Quantity: 2 - Book

Pierre Nicole - Essais de morale contenus en divers traitez sur plusieurs devoirs importants - 1679

Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr (1767-1829). Essay on the perfection of the Fine Arts by the exact sciences, or calculations and hypotheses on poetry, painting and music. Paris, Pougens, Henrichs, Magimel, 1803, 226 pp., 242 pp.

A volume in-8 (200x120 mm), full morocco

Literature, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr - Essai sur le perfectionnement des Beaux-arts par les sciences exactes, calculs et hypothèses sur la - 1803

Colloquia Familiaría: Cum Notis accuratioribus M. Nicolai Merceri, Pisciaci, Artium Doctoris in Academia Parisiensi, & Grammaticorum Regiae Navarrae Propinmariæ. Paris: Apud Claudium Thiboust, 1661. Third edition. 

Contemporary full speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments

Philosophy, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Erasmus of Rotterdam - Colloquia Familiaria - 1661

Rare edition of this collection that constitutes an erudite reappropriation of Valerius Maximus' antique work, author of the Facta et dicta memorabilia, a collection of memorable facts and sayings intended to illustrate examples of virtue and vice in Roman and foreign history -


Literature, History, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology - Quantity: 2 - Book

Valère Maxime - Valere Maxime - 1700

Bouhours, Dominique. The Way of Good Thinking in the Works of the Mind. Dialogues.

Ouvrage orné de quatre culs-de-lampe gravés en taille-douce.

Paris, Vve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, imprimeur du Roy. 1687. 402 pages. In-4. Reliure basane avec dos à cinq nerfs. Commentaire à

Sociology, Religion, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Bouhours - La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d’esprit - 1687

Rare old book from the early 17th century (see photos).

Contemporary leather binding, format “15 X 9 cm”, headbands, tailpieces, spine with raised bands, red edges, vignette on the title page, initials, very beautiful rare 17th-century copy (see attached photos).

Pagination: 6

History, Philosophy, Politics, Linguistics, Literature, Sociology, Colonial history, War history, Biographies and memoirs, Bibliography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Justin - L'histoire universelle de trogue pompée réduite en abrégé par Justin - 1690

Dimensions(cm):25x16x15(1kg)
Slight scuff on the spine edge of the cover.
Collection of philosophical poems by Franz TOUSSAINT (1981 edition, numbered 1321/1900)
« Franz Toussaint was born in Pau on October 4, 1879, and died on December 9, 1955.
He was a French writer and

Poetry, Fine Bindings, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Franz Toussaint - La flûte de jade - 1981-1981

Rare edition of this spiritual treatise, which aims to render accessible, in poetic form, the teachings of the interior Christian life -

The text develops a meditation on the vanity of the world, the importance of material detachment, and the necessity of turning to a spiritual

Religion, History, Bibles, Philosophy, Sociology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Pierre Corneille - L'imitation de Jésus Christ - 1665

THE MAN WHO UNDRESSES: ROUSSEAU'S CONFESSIONS BETWEEN TRUTH AND SHOW.
A cornerstone work of European modernity, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions inaugurate a new form of autobiography, radically introspective and built on the idea – as ambitious as it is problematic – of a

Philosophy - Quantity: 3 - Book

J.-J. Rousseau - Les Confessions. - 1860

René Descartes – The Principles of Philosophy – 1724 – Complete edition with plates – Contemporary binding.
Beautiful old edition of The Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes, published in Paris in 1724.

Fundamental work of Cartesian thought, here presented in a French

Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Reference book

René Descartes - Les Principes de la Philosophie - 1724

Rare illustrated edition notably of 25 superb plates of this fascinating erudite, apologetic and cosmological work by the abbé Noël-Antoine Pluche, in which he undertakes to trace the intellectual and religious history of celestial representations, linking them to idolatries and

Astronomy, Philosophy, History, Illustrated, Religion, Sociology, Reference, Esotericism - Quantity: 1 - Book

Abbé Pluche / Jacques-Philippe Le Bas - Histoire du ciel ou l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolâtrie et les méprises de la philosophie - 1740

Exciting edition of this collection that offers a medico-moral reading of human affections in the 19th century, seeking to establish a direct link between passions and the state of physical, mental, and social health -

Passions such as anger, love, hatred, ambition, or fear are

Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Religion, Sociology, Literature, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

J.-B. F. Descuret - La médecine des passions ou les passions considérées dans leur rapports avec les maladies - 1841

Les Oeuvres de M. Boileau Despréaux, avec des éclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-même. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée & augmentée d'un grand nombre de Remarques Historiques et Critiques. 4 volumes complete. - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) / Bernard Picart

Literature, Collected works, Philosophy, Illustrated, Poetry, Theatre - Quantity: 4 - Tipped in plates - Book

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) / Bernard Picart (1673–1733) (illustrations) - Les Oeuvres de M. Boileau Despréaux, avec des éclaircissemens historiques, donnez par lui-même. - 1735-1735

Rare edition of this work offering a French version of the major spiritual work of Saint Augustine, in which the author relates his inner journey and his path to the Christian faith -

The text traces the stages of his life from childhood to his conversion, highlighting his moral

Religion, History, Sociology, Biographies and memoirs, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Saint Augustin & Arnould d'Andilly - Les Confessions de S. Augustin - 1676

Pascal:
In-12 bound (18 x 11 cm), full calf binding (tanned lambskin) editor's brown color, smooth spine adorned with fine 23-carat gold fillets, under rhodoid, in an illustrated slipcase, with 2 bookmarks, volume of 1568 pages completed October 1987. Edition established and

Philosophy, Literature - Quantity: 3 - Dust jacket, Slipcase - Book

Blaise Pascal; Jacques Chevalier / Jean-Paul Sartres; Contat et Rybalka / René Char; Jean Roudaut - LA PLEIADE ENSEMBLE DE 3 OEUVRES COMPLÈTES : Pascal, Sartres (oeuvres romanesques) et Char - 1982

Muratori, Louis-Antoine; Muratori, Jean-François Soli. Treatise on Public Happiness.

Complete work in two volumes.

Lyon, Ve Réguilliat, Bookseller. 1772. Small octavo. XXIV + 420 pages; 574 pages. Full calf bindings with five spine nerves and title and volume labels in morocco,

Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology - Quantity: 2 - Book

Muratori - Traité sur le bonheur public - 1772

Collection of books in 18th-century quarto format complete in 8/8 volumes, ornately illustrated with beautiful illustrations off the text, and containing a double provenance (see attached photos).

Provenance “Sévigny fils – 1786” (see photo of the title page of volume 1).
- a

Sociology, History, Illustrated, Philosophy - Quantity: 8 - Book

Pope, Alexandre - Œuvres diverses de Pope [ format in- quarto ] [texte en français- anglais & complète en 8 /8] - 1780

Marivaux. The French Spectator.

Complete work in two volumes.

Paris, Prault jeune. 1752. In-12. 427 ; 432 pages. Full calf bindings with a five-raised spine and richly ornate compartments (gilt frames and floral motifs).

Rare edition partly original, augmented with several

Literature, Philosophy - Quantity: 2 - Book

Marivaux - Le spectateur françois - 1752

The Philosophical Palingénesis, or Ideas on the past state and on the future state of living beings.
Author: C. Bonnet.
Publisher: Claude Philibert-Barthelemi Chirol in Geneva 1769.
2 volumes, half-leather binding.
Copies in generally good condition, show signs of wear. Some

Philosophy - Quantity: 2 - Book

C. Bonnet - La Palingénésie Philosophique, ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres vivans. - 1769

Rare edition of this work that gathers part of the philosophical and ethical writings of the Greek thinker, aiming to instruct the reader in the conduct of life and moral reflection -

The collection offers a series of treatises addressing varied themes such as virtue,

Philosophy, Literature, History, Reference, Sociology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Plutarque - Les œuvres morales de Plutarque - 1588

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