MABLY abbé de Collection complète des œuvres.

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Paris, imprimerie Ch. Desbrière, AN III (1794-1795)

15 volumes, 8vo (198 x 123 mm). Engraved portrait of the author in volume I. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, flat spine gilt, yellow edges.

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Brunet, III, 1264.

First edition of the complete works of Abbé Mably (1709-1785).

Brother of the famous Condillac, the Abbé is considered a precursor of utopian socialism and the French Revolution, providing a moral critique of French society under the Ancien Régime.

A good copy.