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36 - [BERTON DE CRILLON, Louis Athanase des Balbes de]. Philosophical Memoirs of Baron ***.
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[BERTON DE CRILLON, Louis Athanase des Balbes de]. Philosophical Memoirs of Baron ***. Vienna, Paris, Berton, 1777. In-8 (19.5 x 12.5 cm), full marbled calfskin, smooth spine decorated with panels. Upper cap damaged. Illustrated edition featuring 4 aquatints, including the frontispiece and a view of the interior of the famous philosophers’ café, the Procope. Apocryphal memoirs. Presented in a fictional form in which a German baron, enamored with philosophy and the philosophers, finds himself in Paris, where he critiques the philosophers and, in particular, Holbach’s materialist doctrine. A fine copy in a contemporary binding.
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