Hardcover
1750 · Amsterdam
by Bougeant, Guillaume Hyacinthe / François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye Desbois
Amsterdam: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1750. Nouvelle Édition. Hardcover. 12mo., 134pp., 50pp., [4]; VG; bound in brown cloth, paneled spine, gilt tooling, red label and gilt lettering; publishers binding; moderate wear to boards, including rubbing and scraping to boards, peeling to corners; leather cracked on hinges; chip missing to tail of spine; wear to head of spine; text block dyed red; marbled endpapers; interior clean; First published in 1737, Beugeant's celebrated but thinly disguised satire on Descarte's notion of the animal-machine attracted the censure of his superiors, leading to his brief exile from Paris; shelved in Allan's Office. 1335583. (truncated)