[DIDEROT (Denis)], [YVON (Claude)], [PRADES (Jean-Martin de) - Lot 20

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[DIDEROT (Denis)], [YVON (Claude)], [PRADES (Jean-Martin de) - Lot 20
[DIDEROT (Denis)], [YVON (Claude)], [PRADES (Jean-Martin de)]. Apologie de Monsieur l'abbé de Prades... Amsterdam, s.n., 1752. Three parts in 1 vol. in-8, XLV-1-86-294 p., [1] f., 72 p., contemporary marbled tan basane, 5-ribbed spine, garnet basane title-piece, ornate caissons, red edges (defects including torn tail-cap, splits at foot of spines, one corner worn, dampening at corners of title then rare in qq. margins). Important collection containing a collective defense of the Abbé de Prades, author of a thesis condemned by the Sorbonne and the Archbishop of Paris, and which was one of the pretexts for condemning Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Second edition of this work, part 3 of which was written by Diderot. Also included, bound at the end: Pièces nouvelles et curieuses sur l'affaire de l'abbé de Prades. S.l., s.n., 1754. 32 p. Early handwritten note on title: "one can be oneself like a brazen wall when one has nothing to reproach oneself for, and when one does nothing of which one is obliged to be ashamed".
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