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First edition in English. Two volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked some time ago and given new labels. Surface cracking to the original leather and some surface chipping at the top of the back board of vol. 2, bindings in good condition overall. Internally quite good. Owner's name (Da. Bell 1747) on front free endpaper in both volumes, and his armorial bookplate, a complicated cut-out, on both front pastedowns, in the first volume the plate is printed in black, and in the second volume in carmine. The full title of the above work is: New Memoirs Establishing a True Knowledge of Mankind, by Discovering the Affections of the Heart, and the Operations of the Understanding, in the Various Scenes of Life: Being a Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Friendship and Happiness. And Essays on Other Important Subjects. By the Marquis d'Argens, Lord of the Bed-Chamber to the King of Prussia, Director of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Author of the Jewish Spy. Interspersed with Letters from the Baron de Spon, the Emperor's Minister at Berlin; from a Member of the Royal Society at London, &c. And Two Novels, Spanish and French; Shewing the Tragical Effects of Jealousy; the Dissembling Arts of Coquetry; and the Unhappy State of the Comedian. With Thoughts on the Art of Beautifying the Face. By Mademoiselle Cochois, the Favourite both of the Court, and the Theatre, of Berlin. The back-and-forth exchange between Baron Spon and the Marquis concerns the vacuum, the age of the Earth, and other natural-philosophical questions, with discussion of the opinions of Newton, Descartes, and others, and is accompanied by one engraved plate of apparatus for measuring the weight of air. The letters of a couple of other correspondents are also included in the work. Babette Cochois later became the wife of the Marquis. A pretty portrait of her by Antoine Pesne is in the Neues Palais, Potsdam. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1796
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