L'apocalypse de Meliton, ou revelation des mysteres cenobitiques par Meliton

Rare first edition. This book is said to have been printed in Sedan.

Contemporary full brown speckled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Red morocco title label. Headcaps and corners skillfully restored. Good copy.
Voltaire attributed this violent pamphlet against monastic life to Abbé Du Bellay and made extensive use of it in his Philosophical Dictionary. The author addresses the work to Hermodore, one of the dialoguists of the Secret Conversations. Pithois is said to have compiled writings by Camus, particularly his Response to the Conversations of Hermodore, as seen in the title on p. 1.