[Denis DIDEROT - Anthony Cooper SHAFTESBURY]. Philosophie mo - Lot 22

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[Denis DIDEROT - Anthony Cooper SHAFTESBURY]. Philosophie mo - Lot 22
[Denis DIDEROT - Anthony Cooper SHAFTESBURY]. Philosophie morale réduite à ses principes, ou Essai de M. S*** sur le mérite et la vertu... Venise (Paris), Par la Société des Libraires, 1751. In-12, marbled basane, spine with 5 ornate nerves (period binding). Barbier, III-878 / Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-916 /// (3f.)-IV to XX-368-(5f.). Second edition, the first having appeared in 1745 at the equally fictitious address of Amsterdam, Chatelain. According to Tchemerzine, Anthony Shaftesbury "is the author of this book, but in reality Diderot did not merely translate it; he merely drew inspiration from the English work" entitled An Inquiry concerning virtue or merit to compose another. Marginal tear to 2 leaves.
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