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Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First French edition. Corners a bit exposed. 1741 Full-Leather. 159; [160]-301, [3] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers, red edges. A work on chemistry by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine. La Mettrie's concepts later became influential in the theories of evolution and quantum mechanics. Bookseller John Howell says: "A little-known work by the famous materialist philosopher [La Mettrie] and author of L'Homme Machine" (Duveen). La Mettrie translated seven of Boerhaave's works into French. The present edition contains, in addition to his chemical theories, Boerhaave's treatise on vertigo, La Mettrie's own account of a case of 'catalepsie hysterique,' and his letter to Anstruc.…