CHARRON (Pierre): De La Sagesse. Paris, Jean... - Lot 250 - Richard Maison de ventes

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CHARRON (Pierre): De La Sagesse. Paris, Jean... - Lot 250 - Richard Maison de ventes
CHARRON (Pierre): De La Sagesse. Paris, Jean Servières, 1783. Two volumes. 12,5 by20,2 cm. XXVIII-384; (4)-385-768 pages (continuous pagination. Two frontispieces (portrait of Charron and the Allegory of Peace). Full contemporary calf, smooth spine with punches, red title and giblets. Dishes framed with a gilt fillet. A small bump on a cut (minor) otherwise good condition. Interior foxing, relatively discreet. A disciple of Montaigne, of whom he is a contemporary, his main work, De la Sagesse, is an ode to religious tolerance, and to a morality distinct from religion. Its reading has lost nothing of its topicality
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