Joseph de MAISTRE (1753 – 1821)

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Joseph de MAISTRE (1753 – 1821)
Les soirées de saint-PétersBourg, ou Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence : suivi d'un traité sur les sacrifi ces. Paris, Librairie grecque, latine et française, 1821. Two volumes in-8 with a frontispiece, (2) ff, XXVI, 456 pp., (1) f.; (2) ff, 474 pp., (1) f., contemporary binding in glazed fawn calf, framed with a cold fillet and a cold garland with gilt corner pastilles on the boards, spine ribbed and gilt decorated with gilt fillets, roulettes and motifs with black morocco title-pieces and tomato, inner roulette, spotted edges. First edition, posthumous, of the most famous work of Joseph De Maistre. Lithographed portrait of the author in frontispiece. Through these lively exchanges between a Russian senator, a French knight and the author himself, De Maistre - who lived in St. Petersburg from 1802 to 1817, where he was minister plenipotentiary to the king of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel I - endeavors with extreme skill to demonstrate the necessity of order and tradition, imposing himself as the master of thought of the French theocratic school. The work will exert a notorious influence on the thought of the 19th century. A very nice copy in elegant full contemporary bindings with delicately decorated spines. Slight foxing on the titles and in the margins of some leaves. Small light corner stain at the bottom of the second plate of volume I.
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