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CHEMIN-DUPONTÈS (Jean-Baptiste). Code de religion...

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CHEMIN-DUPONTÈS (Jean-Baptiste). Code de religion et de morale naturelles, à l'usage des adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes. New edition. Paris, Chez l'Auteur, An VII [1799]. In-12, marbled basane, ornate smooth spine, red and black title-pieces, mottled edges (period binding). Breviary for followers of theophilanthropy, a deist movement founded by the author and based on two main ideas: belief in God and love of man (Caillet, no. 2310). Colored frontispiece depicting a Professeur du culte de la religion naturelle in costume, and 24 pages of notated music. Wet stamp of a religious congregation on the title. Small tear without missing two leaves, rubbing to binding, one of the spine pieces missing.