Three volumes rebound in one. French text, with two pages in Dutch bound in at the beginning. Includes fold-out frontispiece preceding vol. 2, vol. 3 frontispiece, ad preceding vol. 1. Aesthetics and moral philosophy; Socratic in content, Platonic in form. Hemsterhuis, Franciscus, (born Dec. 27, 1721, Franeker, Neth. - died July 7, 1790, The Hague), Dutch philosopher and aesthetician whose works influenced the German Romantic thinkers Johann Gottfried von Herder, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and Friedrich Holderlin. He sought to coordinate Rationalism and sensationalism, holding that all things in the perceptible universe provide evidence of a unifying force or spirit. - Britannica
