DENESLE. Les Préjugés du public, with observations.... Lot 1656

DENESLE. Les Préjugés du public, with observations. Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1747. 2 vols. in-12, xxiv-412 pp. ; [2] ff. 468 pp. in marbled fawn calf, spine decorated, red title and tom. pages, red tr. One corner damaged. Denesle, of whom almost nothing is known apart from the date of his death (November 2, 1767), is the author of a series of three texts entitled Préjugés : Les Préjugés du public (1747 - this title, which deals with people of letters, scholars and their productions); Les Préjugés des anciens et des modernes sur la nature de l'âme humaine (1765); Les Préjugés du public sur l'honneur (1747 and 1766). (Quérard II, 475.)