L'art de se connoître soi-même ou La recherche des sources de la morale.

8vo: xvi-428 pp.

Contemp. quarter mottled calf, paper on boards, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red edges. Good copy.

Later edition (first Rotterdam 1692) of this popular study on Christian ethics by the French Protestant minister, writer and Dean of Killaloe (Ireland), J. Abbadie (1654-1727). The work is written in a true ethos of "vanitas" within the tradition of the French moralists, specific for the 17th c.
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