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ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer

Lettres chinoises, ou Correspondance philosophique, historique et critique, entre un Chinois voyageur et ses correspondans à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse et au Japon. Nouvelle édition [...].

The Hague, P. Paupie, 1769

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Lot description

6 vol., 12mo (some min. browning, title 1st and 4th vol. sl. cut short).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. flat spines, marbled edges (some corners, heads and tails restored).

Philosophical work by the French rationalist Boyer in which he intends to compare the morals of Europeans with those of the Chinese and more generally with Asian people. "Songes philosophiques [...]" bound in last vol.
Ref. STCN. - Cp. Barbier II:1228.
Prov. Franz Pollack-Parnau (1903-1981), Jewish Viennese industrialist who had amassed a legendary library in the Palais Pollack-Parnau on Schwarzenbergplatz (bookpl.). - Bookseller's ticket.

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Lot 584

Lettres chinoises, ou Correspondance philosophique, historique et critique, entre un Chinois voyageur et ses correspondans à la Chine, en Moscovie, en Perse et au Japon. Nouvelle édition [...].

ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer

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