HOLBACH, Paul-Henri Thiry, baron
La Contagion sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la superstition. Work translated from English.
London, 1768. 2 volumes in one in-12 (157 x 97 mm) with a title leaf, X, 169 pp. for volume I; 2 ff.n.ch., 184 pp. for volume II.
Double gilt fillet in olive morocco, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding)
Vercruysse, 1768, A2.
Original edition, "condemned on August 18, 1770, to be torn up and burned... Although presented as a translation by Trenchard, La Contagion sacrée is an original work" (Vercruysse).
Provenance: Édouard Kann library ? (inscription at the end, sale of 30 November 1930, lot 84).
