Journal encyclopédique - Dédié à son altesse sérénissime, Mgr. le Duc de Bouillon

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Author:  AA.VV.

Publisher:  De l'Imprimerie du Journal

Place of printing:  Bouillon

Year of publication:  1762

Product Condition:
Specimen in fair condition. Rustic hardback binding with calligraphic titles on the spine, partly faded; the binding is rather loose with dust spots, peeling on the headphones and crushed corners. Frayed cuts with traces of dust; partly closed lateral cuts from G7 to G10 (tome I) and in G7 and G8 (tome II). Well preserved cards; burnished spots at the lower margin of E6 (tome I), of C6 (tome II) and from G to G12 (tome II); pale blooms in A and A2 (volume II). Text in French. Texte en Français. Livre en bon ètat.

Pages:  167, (1), 167, (1)

Format:  In sixteenth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  18
Width:  11

Description

The Journal Encyclopedique is a fortnightly magazine founded by Pierre Rousseau on January 1, 1756. Published first in Liège, and then in Bouillon, it was placed by Voltaire in 1760 in first place "des cent soixante-treize journaux qui paraissent tous les mois en Europe" . Each issue contains reviews of all the bibliographic novelties of the period, compiled mainly by Rousseau himself, but also entrusted to numerous external collaborators; unpublished works of various subjects followed, with an opening to all the novelties of the time, reports of academic sessions and, in the last section, an overview of French and foreign political news. There is no precise line of thought in the magazine: religious authors, jurists, economists, mathematicians, naturalists and philosophers from France, England, Germany or Italy, of all the currents of thought of the time, are present in the pages of the magazine; however, he seems to intuit a certain predilection for the positions of the Illuminists (Voltaire, Montesquieu, Buffon, Diderot, d'Alembert with the Encyclopedie). Our volume contains the two issues published in February 1762 (1er février 1762, Tome I, Troisième partie; 15. février 1762, Tome II, Premiére partie): the review “Essai sul l'Homme, nouvellement traduit de l'Angloise avec des notes critiques, et un discours sur la Philosophie Angloise ”dedicated to the translation of Alexander Pope's poem published in England in 1733; in the February 15th issue the “Lettre de Mr. D'Alembert servant de réponse á la Lettre del M. Clairaut, inserted in the Journal des Savants de Décembre 1761” on a criticism of his Opuscoles Mathematiques. Text in French. Texte en Français.

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