Essai sur les erreurs et les superstitions

First edition.
Contemporary speckled beige cardboard binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Beige morocco title-label. The paper covering the cardboard is lacking in the first compartment, over 1 cm. Good copy.
Treatise on fanaticism and false beliefs. After a general approach on understanding and judgment, the author particularly studies 2 subjects: magic, witchcraft and all the beliefs that accompany them, and Mohammed and Islam, the latter being depicted as an impostor destined to enslave the Arabs; the author draws a damning portrait of him.