Abbé Charles Batteux. Histoire des causes premières, ou expo - Lot 312

Abbé Charles Batteux. Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophes sur les principes des êtres. P., Chez Saillant, 1769, in-8, XX-452pp.-2ff. in full contemporary calf, smooth ornate spine, red morocco title-piece, marbled edges, small loss at foot. A good copy. First edition. Abbé Batteux was very close to the Comte de Saint-Germain, under whose inspiration he wrote several works. This volume was the cause of the suppression of his chair at the Collège de France. It contains an analysis of Chaldean, Persian and Egyptian dogmas, the mysteries of Eleusis and Orpheus, Pythagoras and principled numbers, etc. (Caillet-833) (Brunet-I-701)