De l'esprit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helvétius, 1715-1771, author.

Contributor:

Arkstée et Merkus, bookseller.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Early works to 1800.

Psychology.

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Penn Provenance:

Penniman, James Hosmer, 1860-1931 (bookplate) (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Smith, David, 1932- (donor) (Kislak Center copy 2)

Horembut, Armand (autograph) (Kislak Center copy 2)

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 19 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam & à Leipsick : Chez Arkstée & Merkus, MDCCLVIII [1758]

Notes:

Published anonymously. By Helvetius. See STCN.

One of the "fourteen surreptitious editions." See D.W. Smith, Publication of Helvétius's De l'esprit (French studies, v. 18), page 336 and note 20.

Signatures: tome 1: A¹²(±A1,2) B-R¹² S1 ; tome 2: A¹⁰ B-P¹² Q⁴(-Q4) ; tome 3: A⁸ B-M¹² N¹⁰.

Half-title and title leaf of tome 1 are cancels on octavo paper.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: tome 1 only.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by James Hosmer Penniman (with his bookplate on front pastedown) and formerly housed in the Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education.

Kislak Center copy: edges untrimmed.

Kislak Center copy 2 imperfect: tome 2 only.

Kislak Center copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1997 by D.W. Smith.

Kislak Center copy 2 has dated 19th-century autograph ("Armand Horembut 1860") with annotations in the same hand in text.

Cited in:

STCN 306030772

OCLC:

16110751