1740 CICERO ACADEMICS DAVID DURAND VALENCE TRANSLATION

  Academiques
 de
 Ciceron,

 avec le texte latin

de l'edition de Cambrige,
& des remarques nouvelles,
outre les conjectures de Davies, & de Mons. Bentley,
et 
le Commentaire philsophique de Pierre Valentia, ...
a Londres
 chez Paul Vaillant,
1740.

This is the rare First Edition of David Durant's French translation of Cicero's Academica together with the Latin text, and Valencia’s Latin text with its own title page : Academica, sive de judicio erga verum. Ex ipsis primis fontibus; Operâ Petri Valentiae zafrensis. Londini, typis Bowyerianis. 1740

David Durand 1680 –1763 was a Hugenot French and English Minister and historian. He fled France to the Netherlands before heading to Spain with a group of refugees, being captured at the Battle of Almanza in 1707, sent to France and then escaping to the Netherlands again. He was a minister in Rotterdam and became a friend of Pierre Bayle's there. He moved to England in 1711 and served as a pastor to the Church Of England French-speaking churches in London, became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. During his time in England, he wrote many works in French, most of them history. His continuation of Paul Rapin's History of England  was his most successful work, but as a student of the philosophical writings of Cicero he produced this now rare work.

2 Works bound as one each with its own numbering, title page and dedication, preface etc, the first with 392 pages. the second with 111 pages