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434 - Levesque de Pouilly, Louis-Jean.
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Estimate €80 - €120
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Levesque de Pouilly, Louis-Jean. – *Theory of Pleasant Sentiments*. In which, having set out the rules which nature follows in the distribution of pleasure, the principles of natural theology and those of moral philosophy are established. Paris, David le Jeune, 1749. In-12, bound in full marbled calfskin with a smooth, decorated spine and a red title label – slightly worn – XVII pp. (title page, ‘To the King’, preface, table of contents), [3 pp., approval, privilege], 224 pp. illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, a title vignette and two header bands engraved by Fessard after De Sève, This text, one of the finest summaries of philosophical happiness, was partly drawn upon by the editors of the Encyclopédie for the articles on ‘Passions’ and ‘Pleasures’. Levesque de Pouilly was a friend of Bolingbroke, Fontenelle and Voltaire. This third edition is the most complete.
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