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191 - JOANNET (Claude) (1716–1789). The Best-Known Animals. Essays.
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JOANNET (Claude) (1716–1789). The Best-Known Animals. Essays. Paris, Costard, 1770, 2 volumes in-12, XXXVI–356 pp.—2ff. 2ff.-478pp.-1f. Bound in fawn-colored grained calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated with gold-lined panels, gold palmettes, and fleurons, title labels, marbled edges. (Contemporary bindings). A tear in one cap, paper slightly and uniformly yellowed, more pronounced in a few quires. Claude Joannet, born in Dôle in 1716, died in Paris in 1789, was once a Jesuit. An opponent of philosophers, he refutes here the *Philosophical Essay on the Soul of Animals* by the Protestant D.-R. Boullier and argues, in line with Descartes, that animals are mere machines. The running title is: “Principles of Movement in Animals.” This work also appears under a slightly different title, at the same publisher and in the same year: “Animals Better Understood, or The Pros and Cons of the Soul in Animals.” These appear to be the only editions. (Quérard IV, p. 225 – Conlon XVI, 70.1034).
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