[HOLBACH, PAUL-HENRY THIRI, Baron d'.] Systeme de la Nature; ou, DesLoix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral. Par M. Mirabaud [pseud.]. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tan calf gilt, flat spines divided by false bands into 6 compartments,

[HOLBACH, PAUL-HENRY THIRI, Baron d'.] Systeme de la Nature; ou, DesLoix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral. Par M. Mirabaud [pseud.]. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tan calf gilt, flat spines divided by false bands into 6 compartments, red morocco lettering pieces in 2 and floral and ornamental tooling in the rest. London [i.e., Amsterdam], 1770 E800-1200 FIRST EDITION, second printing, of Holbach's most famous work. "The first-and only example in the Enlightenment of a comprehensive, unmitigated defense of atheistic materialism . . . It caused much consternation in France not only among spokesmen for the official faith but among deistic philosophes as well" (EP). Printing and the Mind of Man 214; Tchemerzine (1977) III, 727; Vercruysse 1770 A7.