Thoughts and Aphorisms

Second edition.
Contemporary half cloth. Bluish paper boards. Title label, with lack. Corners slightly bumped.
Ex exergue: this work has been adopted for rhetoric and humanities classes by the public instruction commission. Decree of November 13, 1818.

Second edition revised and enlarged.
Curious autograph inscription signed by the author.
Lacking at head and foot of spine, joints partly cracked, some lacks affecting the cover boards, interior fresh. Very rare.

First edition.
The frontispiece portrait, first endpaper and half-title page are lacking from our copy which is presented in its original wrappers.
Occasional light foxing.

First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Occasional light foxing, a marginal tear at head of second board discreetly repaired with tape.
Rare.

First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on offset vellum, the only printing along with 10 on Rives vellum.
Fine autograph inscription from Philippe Dumaine to André Schuck.

First edition.
Materialist conception of astrology, phatic engrams, Cassandra complex, astro-human radiation, universal telepathy...
Handsome copy, rare.

Reissue for 'De l'égalité' and first edition for 'Aphorismes.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motifs, burgundy sheep boards decorated with the same motifs as on the spine.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition published anonymously.
Broken spine with a lack at foot, significant tear to back cover, copy free from foxing.

First edition. Uncommon. One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (and a reprint from 1730) and another at Oxford. Absent from the British Library and French catalogues.
Late 18th-century full pasteboard binding. Red morocco title label. Upper and lower joints cracked 5 cm on lower board. The upper corner in right margin of title page has been torn away without loss of text. Title page of second volume missing. Pages 1 to 12, the upper corner of each page has been torn away with occasional loss of a few letters. A hole in the middle of the last page of the table of contents. The beginning of the fourth part is annotated, certain paragraphs are crossed out, some lines deleted. Leaf 35 detached.
The work is a collection of thoughts on all sorts of matters, on drunkenness, brunettes, tea, hunting, celibacy, riches, a kind of entertaining, original and free counterpart to the edifying and moral collections of thoughts that circulated at the same time.

First edition, published in a small number of copies.
Autograph inscription by Jean Lehon.
Beautiful illustrated cover, a rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Occasional foxing.
Rare.

Second edition with some parts in first edition, collected and arranged by P. Raynal.
Copy virtually free from any foxing.