2 Volumes In Octavo, 1749: "anti-lucretius", A Poem On Natural Religion, By Cardinal De Polignac

A very fine copy in two octavo volumes, large margins, in a superb contemporary binding of mottled glazed calf, spine with raised bands decorated with gilt tooling in the compartments, red and olive morocco titles and volume numbers, marbled endpapers, red edges. A handsome bookplate with the arms, a portrait of Melchior, Cardinal de Polignac after Hyacinthe Rigaud, engraved by J. Daullé, engraver to the King. A fine headpiece inscribed to Her Serene Highness Madame the Duchess of Maine, by P.F. Tardieu, engraved by C. Eisen, by M. de Bougainville. "Anti-Lucretius," a poem on Natural Religion, composed by Cardinal de Polignac; translated by M. de Bougainville, of the Royal Academy of Letters. In Paris, at the shop of Jean-Baptiste Coignard and Antoine Boudet, rue Saint-Jacques, at the sign of the Golden Bible, and at the shop of Pierre-Gilles Lemercier, rue Saint-Jacques, at the sign of the Golden Book. 1749. These remarkable volumes deal, among other things, with the Philosophy of Epicurus and Astronomy.