Lot 348
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis De.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£432
Description
Introduction a la conoissance de l'esprit humain, suivie de reflexions et de maximes. Paris: Antoin-Claude Briasson, 1746. First edition, 12mo (166 x 97mm.), half-title, with the errata leaf, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, pencil markings in margins of first few leaves, joints repaired
Footnote
Note: Vauvenargues (1715-1747) was a soldier as well as a philosopher and essayist. He wrote on free will and the innate goodness of man, in opposition to the writings of La Rochefoucauld and Pascal, who were pessimistic in their view of man's condition.