Charles de Brosses
LETTRES FAMILIERES Aix-en-Provence - MarseilleLimited edition illustrated with eight etchings by Pierre Guastalla
depicting the towns and countryside of Provence and a harbor
scene of Marseille. One of 205 numbered copies, this being no. 77,
printed on fine paper alas much foxed. The single fold pages are loose,
not sewn in, which makes them easier to clean if you've the skill for it.
Published in France 1942. Original glassine wrapper has not done
much to protect the covers. Size is 8 by 10 inches.
The engravings have a rather dream like quality. They were made by
Marcel Bourreau in Lyon.
No previous owners names, inscriptions, or notes in the text.
French language only.
CHARLES DE BROSSES (1709 - 1777)
Comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, was a French writer of the 18th century.
Noted for his work On the Worship of Fetish Gods, an ethno anthropological study
in which he coined the word "fetishism" used as an alternative to "magic" but
nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term
has influenced Marx, Hegel, Kant, Freud, Derrida, and others.