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TOUSSAINT, François-Vincent] - Les Moeurs.
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777
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TOUSSAINT, François-Vincent] - Les Moeurs.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
TOUSSAINT, François-Vincent] - Les Moeurs. S. l., 1748. 3 parts in one vol. in-12, front, (16) ff, 474 pp, vignette repeated on the titles of each part, contemporary marbled fawn calf, triple gilt thread on covers, spine ribbed and decorated.
PEIGNOT II, 162. Edition published in the year of the first edition. This work, which caused quite a stir at the time, was condemned by the Parlement de Paris to be burnt by the hand of the executioner. This book is full of random things in metaphysics and morals; the author spouts some rather singular maxims: he destroys the notion of the virtues that are most invariable in their principles. We have bound the following Arrêt du Parlement ''Qui ordonne qu'un livre intitulé les Moeurs (...) sera lacéré et brûlé par l'exécuteur de la Haute-Justice. 6 May 1748. (2 ff.)
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