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Hermès ou Recherches Philosophiques sur la Grammaire Universelle. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois, de Jacques Harris, avec des remarques et des additions par François Thurot.
"3. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, Messidor, An IV (Juin-Juillet 1796), in-8°, 19,5 x 12 cm, cxix + (1) + 415pp, contemporary mottled sheepskin, smooth gilt spine with label, marbled endpapers , marbled edges. Binding with some small traces of use, top turn in slightly damaged, faint foxing spots at some pages. Still a fine/good copy of the first French translation of this classical English text on language philosophy ; in first edition.The first English edition was from 1751. It was a very influential work during the Enlightenment. François Thurot made this translation on explicit demand of the ''Comité de l'Instruction Publique''. He adds an introduction of ca. 100 pp."
