Pensees Diverses sur les Situations de la Vie, ou, le Philosophe Chretien (4 tomes)

Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey

Par la Compagnie, 1758

4 volume set.  Full contemporary leather bindings.  Hinges cracked. Pages generally clean and unmarked.  All edges red.  Institutional blind stamps. Early reprint of Le Philosophe chretien (1740). 

Formey was the son of French Huguenot refugees who took refuge in Germany.  Fromey wrote on philosophy and Christianity.  Book plates of William R. Williams (American Baptist minister, NY, 1804–1885).  Includes long note on the first tome written by Williams about Fromey's life and Protestant thought.  Williams describes how Fromey's experience has the children of religious refugees influenced his thought.  Williams was one of the founders of the ABHS.