PHILOSOPHY and miscellaneous. 17th-18th centuries. - Set of - Lot 114

PHILOSOPHY and miscellaneous. 17th-18th centuries. - Set of 16 volumes; sold as is. BACON (Francis). Novum organum scientiarum. Amstelædami, apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1694. Small in-12, stiff parchment (contemporary binding). Copper-engraved frontispiece. Bound in: BACON (Francis). Phænomena universi sive Historia naturalis & experimentalis de ventis. Ibid. 1695. Small in-12. - BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (THE) and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. London, printed by Robert Barker [...], and the assignes of John Bill, 1639. In-4, printed in Gothic script, brown morocco (George Bayntun). Woodcut frame to title. Bound in: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES. London, printed for the Company of stationers, 1641. Colophon: London, printed by I. Okes for the Company of stationers, 1640. English translation by several people, including Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins. Woodcut frame to title. - BOYER D'ARGENS (Jean-Baptiste de)]. Lettres cabalistiques, ou Correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits élémentaires, & le Seigneur Astaroth. À La Haye, chez Pierre Paupie, 1754. 7 volumes, small in-12, fawn calf, smooth spines decorated with grecques; bindings a little rubbed and stained, two headpieces nicked (period binding). Partly original edition of this work originally published in 1737-1738. Written in the tradition of erudite libertinism, the Lettres cabalistiques tackle all manner of philosophical, political, social, historical and other subjects, applying to them the critical method of Bayle, Fontenelle and Montesquieu. The Marquis d'Argens attacks superstition and defends the philosophers of the Enlightenment. - FENELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe). Explanation des maximes des saints sur la vie intérieure. Paris, chez Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery, Charles Clousier, 1697. In-12, morocco, gilt edges (binding circa 1900). Published in the same year as the original, this is the work that brought Fénelon disgrace. Provenance: "FL" (bookplate), then Yves Paillet (bookplate). - FREDERIC II]. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Maison de Brandebourg. [Berlin], Au donjon du chasteau, 1750. 3 parts bound in 2 volumes in-8, marbled fawn calf (period binding). Out-of-text copper-engraved plates by various artists, including Simon Fokke. Without the third volume, published in 1762, which includes the last 2 parts. - HELVETIUS (Claude-Adrien)]. De l'Esprit. Paris, chez Durand, 1757. Large in-4, marbled fawn calf; a few marginal annotations in ink from the period; binding rubbed, jaws restored and split (period binding). First edition, first printing, with characteristics specified by David Smith. Provenance: the diplomat and Voltaire bibliographer Georges Bengesco (bookplate), and Prince Roland Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, geographer, ethnographer, botanist and photographer (bookplate). - NECKER (Jacques). De la Révolution françoise. S.l.n.d. 3 (of 4) volumes in-)8, ornate granulated fawn calf (period binding). Without the last volume.