L'Anti-Sénèque ou Le souverain bien.

[LA METTRIE, Julien Jean Offray de]

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Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1751

4to: xvi-220 [i.e. 120]) pp. (some minor soiling).

Contemp. calf, gilt spine with 6 raised bands, red edges, marbled endpapers, silk marker. Very good large paper copy.

Rare philosophical treatise by the French materialist physician (and author of "L’Homme machine") Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751), 1st publ. Potsdam 1748 as "Discours sur le bonheur".
Ref. STCN 339737948. - Cp. Conlon (Lumières) 48:770 (1st ed.).