Considérations philosophiques sur l’action de l’orateur, précédées de recherches sur la mémoire

by Francois-Philippe Gourdin

$300 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Amsterdam & Caen: Chez la Veuve Desaint; Chez J. Manoury, 1775. 12mo. iv , 150 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece depicting Mercury, god of eloquence, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Nineteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, spine blind-stamped and with rules and title in gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. An excellent copy with the armorial bookplate: “De la bibliothèque de

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