CURIOSA - [FABRY de MONTCAULT d'AUTREY (Henri-Jean-Baptiste)] Le Pyrrhonien raisonnable ou méthode nouvelle proposée aux incrédules. La haye, Néaulme, 1765. In-12 contemporary marbled half calf, smooth ornate spine (minor snags to headpieces, corners worn, ex-libris stamp on title11 ff. and 266 pp. Following: Mémoires historiques sur l'orbilianisme et les correcteurs des jésuites...1764. Frontipsice, 191 pp. Rare first edition. ''The author walks and leads his reader between two fatal precipices: incredulity and superstition. The work is divided into two parts, the first of which is designed to convince the mind of the truth of Revelation. The second, to persuade the heart. A new way of looking at and presenting objects is combined with a style that has the interest, elegance and warmth to match the importance of the subject". (in Journal des Sçavans). Barbier III, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 1113 - Quérard III, La France littéraire, p. 57 - Cioranescu I, Bibliographie de la littérature française au XVIIIème, 8934. A fine copy, from the Peyrefitte library.
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