The Limited Editions Club 1952. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Sylvain Sauvage. 87/1500cc. Illustrated by Silvain Sauvage who tragically died before signing his work. In slipcase. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
France: A Londres. This is a Good Copy of this hardcover Book in full burgundy leather binding with faded gilt title to spine.Text in French.This is the second volume with parts 12 to 21blue endpapers and with gilt ruled borders to the front and rear cover.All page edges are in gilt.Measures 12cm by 8cm with one previous owner's stamped initials to half title page and one small name to the blank endpaperOne engraved headpeice to the beginning of part 12.All page edges are in gilt.One small crack to the lower gutter hinge join.Light water stain mark to the first two leaves of the book.Corners are rubbed.32mo 180pp 1780 . Good. Hardcover. 1780. A Londres hardcover
London: Printed for Robert UriePrinted for T. Backet and P. A. d'Hondt 1768. One of three editions in English of Voltaire's only publication on a distinctly economic subject "an immortal satire on physiocracy" Higgs published the same year as the original French language edition published in Geneva the others published in Glasgow and in Dublin. Directed against the physiocracts and against Le Mercier de la Rivière's Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés in particular L'Homme aux quarante écus is "the history of the owner of a small estate yielding a net income of forty crowns a year who has been frightened by the appearance of several edicts promulgated 'by a few gentlemen who having some leisure have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides'" Palgrave. Octavo 209 x 126 mm. Twentieth century half calf and marbled boards spine ruled gilt red morocco label sprinkled edges. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 10405; Higgs 4515; Kress 6597. For the original edition see Bengesco 1478. hardcover
Glasgow: Robert Urie 1768. First Scottish Edition First printing. Hard Cover. 182pp with 2 pages of ads. VERY GOOD. LIGHT RUBBING TO FULL LEATHER BINDING HINGES TIGHT. PAPER AGED. SLIGHT MARGINAL WATER STAINS ON 8 PAGES. TEXT QUITE CLEAN. ON TITLE PAGE IS OWNER SIGNATURE AND 1778 DATE. OWNER NAME IN PENCIL ON FRONT END PAPER. Scarce especially the Scotish edition. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. Robert Urie unknown
London: Printed for S. Bladon 1765. Simplicity and lucidity coupled with lively malice and sarcasm First edition in English of Voltaire's incisive exposition of his intellectual project his largest and yet also his most accessible philosophical work structured as a collection of 73 short essays. The Dictionary "consists largely of attacks on religious dogma; at the same time it shows the author's abhorrence of falsehood obscurity and oppression and is written with simplicity and lucidity coupled with lively malice and sarcasm. It was at once ordered to be burnt at Geneva and was subsequently 1765 condemned by the parlement and by Rome" Harvey & Heseltine p. 209. The work was first published in 1764 in Paris. ESTC identifies two editions printed in London in 1765: the other which appears to be a paginary reprint of this edition was done for Thomas Brown. No priority has been established. Octavo 206 x 124 mm pp. iv 335 1. Wood-engraved device to title page. Contemporary sprinkled calf spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco label edges sprinkled red. Contemporary ink signature of one John Hamilton to head of title page. Light rubbing and bumping front joint cracked but holding firm minor browning to contents: a very good copy. ESTC N20652. Paul Harvey & J. E. Heseltine The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959. unknown
Leather Bound. Fair. The philosophical dictionary for the pocket. Translated from the French edition Corrected by the author. Catskill: J. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. 12mo. 6 2/8 x 3 6/8 inches. Engraved title-page with vignette of Voltaire engraved by Peter K. Maverick. Contemporary American sheep. Married loose later full leather front cover. Includes front blank; rear blank loose laid-in. Loss at spine tips as pictured. Complete except for front cover. No library or ownership marks. Please see our pics. hardcover
New York: George H. Evans 1835. No Statement of Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in tan paper-covered boards and brown cloth spine Covers worn paper tanned text unmarked and fully legible throughout. Not ex-library. <br/> <br/> George H. Evans hardcover
The Pioneer Press 1919. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'A Freethought Classic' Soft covers some handling and marks First Series. 3 lines in ink to inner face of front cover. <br/> <br/> The Pioneer Press paperback
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