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De l'esprit.

Title: De l'esprit.
Author: Helvétius, 1715-1771
Publication: A Amsterdam et a Leipzig : Chez Arkstee & Merkus, MDCCLIX [1759]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	t. 2	Text	Restricted use	*KGV 13-89 t. 2	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	t. 1	Text	Restricted use	*KGV 13-89 t. 1	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

2 volumes; 17 cm (12mo)

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Genre/Form

Banned works – France – 18th century.
Condemned works – France – 18th century.

Note

By Helvétius; first published by Durand, Paris, 1758. See sources cited below.
Distinguished from an earlier Arkstee & Merkus edition (Smith E.12) by the presence of accents in title page quotation (here beginning "Undè animi") and extension of table of contents in v. 1 to page xxiv, which in the earlier edition is blank and unpaged.
The work was ordered suppressed by decree of the Conseil d'état on August 10, 1758. Condemnations of other civil and religious authorities followed, including that of the Parlement de Paris, by whose order this and other works were publicly burned on February 10, 1759.
"Lettre au R.P.***" (tome1, pages [vij]-xix) is by C.-G. Le Roy.
Tome premier: [4], xxiv, 365, [3] pages ; tome second: [4], iv, 383, [1] pages.
Signatures: Tome premier: pi² *⁸ 2*⁴ A-P¹² Q⁴ (Q4 blank); tome second: pi² *² A-Q¹² (Q12v blank).
Title pages printed in red and black. Woodcut title page vignettes, both signed "VLS jn f" (that is, Vincent Le Sueur); woodcut tailpiece; type flower head- and tailpieces. See Smith for detailed account.

Indexed In (note)

Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800
Smith, D. Bibliography of the writings of Helvétius

Additional Formats (note)

Also available online (York University Libraries copy) via Open Library/Internet Archive

Provenance (note)

C. B. (unidentified circular stamp on title pages, with coronet of a viscount).

Binding (note)

Later half brown calf and speckled paper boards; tan calf spine labels.

Call Number

*KGV 13-89

OCLC

434647619

Author

Helvétius, 1715-1771, author.

Title

De l'esprit.

Publisher

A Amsterdam et a Leipzig : Chez Arkstee & Merkus, MDCCLIX [1759]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available online (York University Libraries copy) via Open Library/Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/delesprit01helvuoft ; http://www.archive.org/details/delesprit02helvuoft

Indexed In:

Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800, p. 72

Smith, D. Bibliography of the writings of Helvétius, E.13

Local Note

Library copy: Leaf pi1 in each volume (half title) wanting.

Binding

Later half brown calf and speckled paper boards; tan calf spine labels. NN

Provenance

C. B. (unidentified circular stamp on title pages, with coronet of a viscount). NN

Local Note

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

Netherlands Amsterdam.

Germany Leipzig.

Added Author

Le Roy, Charles-Georges, 1723-1789. Lettre au R.P.***.

Le Sueur, Vincent, 1668-1743, woodcutter.

Arkstée et Merkus, publisher.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV 13-89

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