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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Meslier, J[ean]. Nouvelle Grammaire GrecqueAugmentée d un Traité des Accens Grecs, de l Investigation du Thème, d une Syntaxe Grecque, des Regles de Quantité, & des Dialectes. Dediée a Monseigneur le Dauphin Nouvelle edition revuë exactement. Paris, Jean de Laulne, L.V.Thiboust & Pierre Esclassan, 1702. 8vo. 104 + 33 + [3]p. Title in red & black with floral vignette. Ornamental woodcut head and tail pieces. Contemporary limp vellum. Revised edition of a simplified Greek grammar for the French student, first published in 1683, here much enlarged with chapters on syntax, accents, and the Attican, Ionic, Doric, and Aeolian dialects. Meslier (1664-1729), a priest and principal of Laon College, is chiefly known for his unpublished paper on atheism discovered after his death widely read by 19th century American freethinkers, and admired by Karl Marx. With prefaces addressed to Louis Grand Dauphin of France (1661-1711) and to the reader. Some light traces of usage at beginning, tailend right corners waterstained towards the end, otherwise a good copy with a contemporary presentation inscription ex dono R.p.Simier to Condren Susanne regent de cinquieme au mans. on the title.