first edition Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines with brown morocco labels, marbled edges.
1771 · Paris:
by Bergier, Nicolas Sylvestre
Paris: Chez Humblot, 1771 First edition. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines with brown morocco labels, marbled edges. . Two volumes, twelvemo. Corners. spine ends lightly worn, small worn spot on front cover of Volume I. A very good copy. Bergier (1718-1790), the French scholar and theologian, wrote several competent treatises in defense of Christianity against the attacks of the philosophes Voltaire, Holbach and Rousseau. The present work assaults the materialistic and atheistic views espoused by Holbach in his Systeme de la Nature, published the previous year.
(Inventory #: 7094)