[HOLBACH, Paul-Henri Thiry, baron]
Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou Examen des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne.
London, 1767. In-12 (154 x 94 mm) of 2 ff.n.ch., 242 pp. Marbled calf, spine with ornamented nerves, red edges (contemporary binding).
Vercruysse, 1767, A2; see INED, 2282.
One of five editions published in 1767 (the original is from 1756) of this moral work. "The Christian religion is contrary to a sound policy and the welfare of nations" (INED).
[Bound with:] [FRÉRÉT, Nicolas]. Letter of Thrasibulus to Leucippus. Posthumous work by M.F.. In London, n.d. 312 pp., 1 f.n.ch.
"His Lettre de Thrasibule... a survey of paganism, Judasim and
Christianity, raised some standard objections to the theory of the
Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch" (Noel Malcolm, Aspects of
Hobbes, 2002, p. 385).
Nice copy.
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