Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart and Solitude Considered Part II. (2 volumes)

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8vo., Contemporary full brown calf, gilt spine decorations, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, non-uniform bindings. 8vo. C. Dilly. London. 1799. viii, 420, viii: xvii, 378 pp. Translated from the French by J.B. Mercier. Engraved title pages and frontispieces. Light wear to cover extremities, toning to title pages and frontispieces, otherwise a very good set in non-uniform bindings. Zimmerman was a Swiss physician and philosopher. His musings on solitude were influential in Europe in the late eighteenth century. He was the private physician of Frederick the Great. weight: 2.6 lb.