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[HOLBACH (Baron d'). Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. With an Examination of the Influence of Government on Morals. London, s.n., 1773. 3 volumes in-8, speckled half-basin with corners, spine decorated with gilt fillets, orange title page, speckled edges (Binding of the period). First edition, the work was seized by the police and placed on the Index in 1775 (Vercruysse, 1773-A4). A well-bound and interleaved copy of the period, with handwritten annotations by the same hand covering the first 60 leaves of Volume I. Slight rubbing to boards.
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[HOLBACH (Baron d'). Système social, ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique. With an Examination of the Influence of Government on Morals. London, s.n., 1773. 3 volumes in-8, speckled half-basin with corners, spine decorated with gilt fillets, orange title page, speckled edges (Binding of the period). First edition, the work was seized by the police and placed on the Index in 1775 (Vercruysse, 1773-A4). A well-bound and interleaved copy of the period, with handwritten annotations by the same hand covering the first 60 leaves of Volume I. Slight rubbing to boards.
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