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1393 - SORBIÈRE, Samuel. Account of a Journey to England, Cologne (Pierre Michel). 1666. In-12°, contemporary sheepskin binding, heavily damaged; top and bottom caps and spine head torn off; hinges broken but sturdy, pp. [viii] + 180 + [iv] with one fold-out plate.
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SORBIÈRE, Samuel. Account of a Journey to England, Cologne (Pierre Michel). 1666. In-12°, contemporary sheepskin binding, heavily damaged; top and bottom caps and spine head torn off; hinges broken but sturdy, pp. [viii] + 180 + [iv] with one fold-out plate. Provenance Library of Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson (gilded coat of arms on the first page of the binding, his name gilded on the fourth page. Library of the Dépôt de la Guerre (two stamps, p. 1 & p. 180). A work that was immediately censored upon its publication. A free thinker, Sorbière promoted the works of Hobbes, as well as those of Gassendi, whose biography he wrote as a preface to his Complete Works. Provenance: Library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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