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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. ~ [Poor Richard’s Almanac/The Way to Wealth, in French.] La Science du bonhomme Richard, ou moyen facile de payer les impôts. Traduit de l’anglois. Seconde édition, exactement semblable à la première. “A Philadelphie, et se trouve à Paris, chez Ruault...” 1778.

One of several French editions of 1778.  more...

The Way to Wealth first appeared in French as a separate publication in 1775. The original English text was first published in Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under the title: Father Abraham’s Speech and frequently reprinted under the title: The Way to Wealth. La Science du bonhomme Richard was translated by A.F. Quétant; the Interrogatoire de Mr. Franklin by P.S. Dupont de Nemours and the Interrogatoire de M. Penn by A.F. Quétant and J.B. L’Écuy..  see full details

£250

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(WOLFF, Christian, Freiherr von). ~ Psychologie ou traité sur l’âme, contenant les connoissances, que nous en donne l’experience. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1745.

First edition of this anonymous translation (or more properly précis) from Wolff’s Psychologia empirica (1732) and Psychologia rationalis (1734).  more...

A key thinker of the Enlightenment, Wolff had divided psychology into these two distinct fields: the first regarded the soul as an immaterial substance about which it could only deduce rational concepts; he second regarded the soul as matter..  see full details

£400

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HUME, David. ~ Le Génie de M. Hume, ou analyse de ses ouvrages, dans laquelle on pourra prendre une idée exacte des mœurs, des usages, des loix, et du gouvernement du peuple Anglois. “Londres & se trouve à Paris, Chez Vincent” [printed at Paris], 1770.

First and only edition, apparently the last of numerous French translations of Hume’s works to be published in his lifetime.  more...

It contains excerpts from his Essays (arranged thematically) and History of England (arranged chronologically). It was evidently aimed at a wider audience than the philosophical and appears as much a guide to the peculiarities of the British as to Hume’s philosophy..  see full details

£300

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[BAKER, Thomas]. ~ Traité de l’Incertitude des Sciences. Traduit de l’anglois [translated by Nicolas Berger]. Paris: Pierre Miquelin and Jacques Piget, 1714.

First edition in French of Baker’s Reflections upon Learning (1699), a work designed to display the inadequacies of human knowledge and reason and to emphasise the ultimate need for belief in revelation.  more...

It proved controversial (provoking an angry response from geologist and physician John Woodward) and was widely reprinted. Bacon and Descartes are closely considered..  see full details

£200

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ASCARGORTA, Juan de. ~ Manual de confessores, ad mentem Scoti, por el R.P. Fr. Juan de Ascargorta, de el Orden de N.S.P.S. Francisco, lector jubilado, custodio, y examinador synodal. Van anadidas las direcciones, practicas para los nuevos confessores, y al fin las definiciones. Seville: for Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, [1743].

A confessor’s manual arranged according to the Scotist system favoured by the Franciscans: a system named after the thirteenth-century Oxford theologian John Duns Scotus.  more...

It was first printed in 1713; all editions are rare..  see full details

£350

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