RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. PHILOSOPHIE DE MONSIEUR NICOLAS by th - Lot 87

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. PHILOSOPHIE DE MONSIEUR NICOLAS by the author of Le Cœur-Humain dévoilé. Paris, de l'imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1796. 3 volumes in-12 of 44-264; [4]-284; 268 pages, 19th century bradel boards. ORIGINAL EDITION, not to be republished. "This is the most reasonable work that could be included in a madman's library; it belongs next to Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage dans la lune. This philosophy is not all by Restif... The book had been printed by Bonneville, founder of the Cercle Social, and Bonneville, who was an extraordinary enlightened man and a kind of freemason poet, wrote the preface to this philosophy, which Restif had already tried out as a novel in Découverte australe". Small loss in margin of p.243. (Lacroix, p.407) (Rives-Childs, p. 330). Provenance: From the library of Marc-Antonio Borghese (1814-1886), prince of Sulmona, president of the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, supporter of Bonaparte whose son married Pauline Bonaparte (bookplate) (cat. 1893, no. 1667).