Julien Offray de LA METTRIE
Politique du médecin de Machiavel, ou Le chemin de la fortune ouvert aux médecins. Ouvrage réduit en forme de Conseils, par le Docteur Fum-Ho-Ham, & traduit sur l'Original Chinois, par un Nouveau Maître és Arts de St Cosme. Première partie. Qui contient les portraits des plus célèbres médecins de Pékin
Chez les Frères Bernard|à Amsterdam • [Lyon] 1746|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition published anonymously in Lyon and not in Amsterdam as stated on the title page. The second edition published on the same date by the same publisher has different pagination and a smaller format (12mo); it should not be confused with the true first edition (64 pp. for ours versus 96 pp. for the other).
Binding in full vellum. Endpapers replaced.
This is a pamphlet in which the author attacks and ridicules the principal physicians of the period, and expounds the main features of his materialist doctrine. The book was condemned to be torn and burned by order of Parliament on July 9, 1746. Too often forgotten is that La Mettrie was himself a m
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