Un Voyageur Philosophe au XVIII Siecle, L'Abbe Jean-Bernard Le Blanc

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Small quarto; xiii pages, 2 leaves, [3]-565 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm. Near fine to very good+ in a very good to vg(-) jacket now in archival mylar. Partially unopened. Hardcover.

In French. Contents: La vie et les oeuvres de l'abbe Le Blanc.- Correspondance de l'abbecLe Blanc.- Notes.- Bibliographie (p. [537]-554). Notes: "Une premiere version de ce livre a ete presentee comme these de doctorat en litterature comparee a l'universite du Michigan."--Preface. // "Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc (1707–1781, Paris) was a French art critic and one of the Parisian literati. Through his patron Mme de Pompadour, he was appointed historiographer of the Bâtiments du Roi, the defender of state expenditures and official French policy in the arts, and was also an advocate before the Parlement of Paris."—Wikipedia