CONDILLAC Lot n° 23

A treatise on animals, in which, after making critical observations on Descartes' and de Buffon's feelings, we set out to explain their main faculties. A Letter from the Abbot of Condillac, to the author of Letters to an American, was attached to this book. Amsterdam and wind in Paris, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1766. In-12, VII, 200 pp., fawn calf speckled with spine, back with nerves decorated. In this treatise partly directed against Buffon, Condillac fights against the reduction of all life phenomena to mechanical laws and is particularly aimed at the Cartesians. The work includes a chapter on the knowledge of God composed in 1746 and unpublished in France. Stamp of the Palais-Royal (bibl. Louis-Philippe). (Enclosed:) - [POUILLY LEVISQUE] - Theory of Pleasant Sentiments. Where, after indicating the rules that Nature follows in the distribution of pleasure, the principles of Natural Theology and those of Moral Philosophy are established. Paris, Young David, 1749. In-12, front, XVII pp., (1) f., 224 pp., fawn calf marbled on the spine, back with ornamented nerves.