Denis DIDEROT. Lettre sur les aveugles, à l'usage de ceux qui voyent London, s.n., 1749. In-8, buff calf with coat of arms on boards, spine with 5 ornate nerves (Period binding).
Barbier, II-1213 / Guigard, II-421 / Olivier, pl. 1147 / Tchemerzine, VI-432 /// 220-(1f.).
First edition of this text, which earned the author several months' imprisonment in Vincennes.
It is illustrated with 6 plates.
A copy bearing the coat of arms of the Roujault family, probably a close relative of Vincent-Etienne-Nicolas Roujault, President of the Parliament of Paris.
A fine copy, despite a small loss at the upper head, with minor damage to one jaw.
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