COMTE, Auguste.

Lettres d’Auguste Comte a M. Valat. Paris, Dunod, éditeur, successeur de Dalmont, Juillet 1870.

8vo, pp. [4], vii, [1 blank], 350, [1], [1 blank]; some foxing to extremities, otherwise a good copy in contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, edges and corners rubbed, spine with raised bands and lettered direct, gilt, front joint cracked at head of spine.

£125

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First edition thus, Comte’s letters written to Philippe Valat, a disciple of whom little seems to be known. He was a professor of mathematics at Montpellier and rector of a church at Rhodez. The letters, all of them from Comte to Valat, are sometimes highbrow but mostly show Comte simply discussing recent events or personal affairs.

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COMTE, Auguste.

Lettres d’Auguste Comte a M. Valat. Paris, Dunod, éditeur, successeur de Dalmont, Juillet 1870.