Examen du matérialisme, ou réfutation du systéme de la nature.
Paris: Chez Humblot, 1771. First edition. Corners. spine ends lightly worn, small worn spot on front cover of Volume I. A very good copy. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines with brown morocco labels, marbled edges. Two volumes, twelvemo. xvi, 425; xii, 431 pp., plus leaf of advertisements at the end of Volume I. Item #7094
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.
Brunet VI, no. 1856.
Price: $400.00