PHILOSOPHY] - Lot 187

PHILOSOPHY] CUMBERLAND (Richard), BARBEYRAC Philosophical Treatise on Natural Laws... Amsterdam, published by Pierre Mortier, Huart, 1744 One quarto volume in full calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, comprising: frontispiece, title page, (1) blank page, XXVIII, (2), 435 pages, (9) pages A fine copy of the first edition of the French translation. ...In which the form of these laws, their principal principles, their order, their publication, and their enforceability are sought and established through the nature of things; it also refutes the elements of morality and politics put forth by Thomas Hobbes. Bookplate of Germain Barré, parish priest of Mouville near Rouen. Pen-and-ink bookplate on the title page.