Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[DIDEROT, DENIS.] Principes de la Philosophie Morale; ou, Essai de M. S[haftesbury] sur le Mérite et la Vertu. 2 etched plates, title vignette, and 2 divisional headpieces by Fessard after Durand. xxx, 297, [13] pages. 8vo, 157x96 mm, contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt with morocco lettering piece, chipped at bottom, front joint partly cracked; contents generally clean. Stamp on title of the Bibliothèque du Clergé, Paroisse St. Nicolas du Chardonnet. Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain [i. e., Paris?], 1745

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first edition of an adaptation by Diderot of the Earl of Shaftesbury's Essay concerning Virtue and Merit. Adams PY1; Tchemerzine (1977) II, 916.