BERGIER, Nicolas
Examen du matérialisme : ou Réfutation du système de la nature. Paris, chez Humblot, 1771. 2 volumes in-12
(165 x 95 mm) with a title leaf, XVI, 495 pp. for volume I; title, VIII, 484 pp., 8 pp. of bookseller's catalogue for volume II.
Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding).
See INED, 416 (ed. Migne 1855).
First edition of the refutation of Holbach's work, written by the abbé Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier. The first volume deals with "de la nature & de ses loix. Of man. Of the soul & its faculties.
Of the dogma of immortality. Of happiness", the second volume has for theme "The divinity; of the proofs of its existence; of its attributes; of the manner in which it influences the happiness of men".
Nice copy.
