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1929Best.-Nr. 144266New York: Ives Washburn 1929. Hardcover. A. Parker's Books Offering antique books vintage books and rare books for over 43 years View our other listings: A.Parker's Books Candide by Voltaire Wood Engravings by Howard Simon Voltaire François-Marie Arouet New York: Ives Washburn 1929 8vo. ix 327 pp. Limited Edition #116/160 cc. Simon's ink inscription to half-title. 3/4 vellum over black with paper label no dust jacket. Woodcut plates signed by the Howard Simon. Chipping to paper title label on spine; boards worn some loss to paper where it meats vellum all corners worn through though toned in margins internally very clean. PH A2 V. Ives Washburn hardcover
1792Best.-Nr. 22934AB1792. 3 volumes. Napoli G.P. Merande 1792. 8°. Volume I: 315 pages. Volume II: 284 pages. Volume III: 281 pages. Brochure. Worn. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 20320CB1919. Band 1 von 2. Potsdam und Berlin Gustav Kiepenheuer 1919. Oktav. 434 Seiten. Original Kalbspergament mit Kopfgoldschnitt. Sehr gut erhalten. Seltenes Exemplar der Vorzugsausgabe hier # 91 von 150 Exemplaren auf handgeschöpftemBütten gedruckt die Abbildungen sind Original Heliogravüren. Meisterhandeinband unter der Leitung von Otto Dorfner ins Kalbspergament gebunden. Der Einbandentwurf ist von Walter Tiemann. unknown
1784Best.-Nr. 191724Kehl: De L'imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique 1784-89. Canonizing Voltaire an enterprise on the eve of Revolution The first complete collection known as the "Kehl" edition for the small German town in which it was printed to avoid French censorship. After his death the Société Littéraire Typographique was founded there dedicated to the monumental effort of disseminating Voltaire's work through a definitive and typographically magnificent edition. The group of Enlightenment intellectuals ready to champion the author were led by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais who financed the operation and the Marquis de Condorcet who acted as chief editor. For the first time Voltaire's correspondence was published and commentary and a biography by Cordorcet was added. For the type Beaumarchais bought John Baskerville's apparatus from his widow. This coupled with the unprecedented price he paid for the rights the paper mills he purchased and the cost of setting up in Kehl bankrupted Beaumarchais. Nevertheless he concluded "Europe will be satisfied". Octavo 70 vols 213 x 134 mm. Portrait frontispiece engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf signed by François Gaudreau at foot of spines red morocco labels double gilt fillet to compartments and boards marbled endpapers varicolour bookmarkers. Superficial splits and worming to joints still very firm occasional wear contents largely clean. A very good set. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 50356Préface d'Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l'aquatinte par d'Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil 1925. Quarto finely bound by Riviere in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt spine in compartments with raised bands gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels some silver fishing and retouching to the boards marbled endpapers original wrappers bound in pp. 100; 5 blank illustrated with 19 original etchings and aquatints by Lafarge tissue guards a beautiful work. Edition limited to 302 copies this is one of 75 copies printed on antique paper containing the six original prints each in three states plus an additional rejected etching in the first state. A beautifully illustrated edition of Voltaire's Contes en vers Tales in Verse and Premiers contes en vers Early Tales in Verse being collections of satirical humorous and risqué poems that reflect his philosophical critiques of society the Catholic Church superstition and faith. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 117621Glasgow Printed by Robert Urie 1759. . Fourth edition; 12mo 18 x 10.5 cm; a little toned front hinge reinforced; contemporary tree calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine joint and headcap repaired slightly scuffed and rubbed very good; 6 3-149 13pp. An early Glasgow printing of this interesting outsider's take on English society and its people precipitated by Voltaire's exile to Great Britain in 1726. The resulting Letters first published in 1734 following his return to Paris express his great admiration for the comparative religious freedom enjoyed by England's Quakers and Socinians as well as its constitutional monarchy 'where the Prince is all powerful to do good and at the same time restrain'd from committing evil' the implication being that England could provide a model for France's reform p.53. When the French edition was published the following year without the approval of the royal censor as Lettres Philosophique it caused a storm with copies confiscated and publicly burnt and Voltaire again forced to flee Paris. The work remains one of Voltaire's most widely known and read texts which helped introduce Bacon Locke and Newton to Europe's Enlightenment thinkers. It also contains an early account of Newton's famous discovery of gravity passed on to Voltaire by Newton's niece Catherine Barton as well as an early translation into French verse of Hamlet's soliloquy from Act 3 Scene 1: 'Demeure il faut choisir & passer à l'instant / De la vie à la mort ou d l'Etre au neant.' p.173. Widely ranked as Voltaire's most important early philosophical work and 'the first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime' Babson. ESTC T137639. Glasgow, Printed by Robert Urie, 1759. unknown
Best.-Nr. 434/382München Wolff 1920. gr.-8 89 pp 26 Ill. OHLn m. Schildchen berieben Ecken bestoßen Rücken leicht besch. Schauer II/188 das einzige von Klee illustrierte und mitgestaltete Buch. München, Wolff, (1920), unknown
1761Best.-Nr. 186427London: Printed for J. Newbery R. Baldwin W. Johnston; Printed for S. Crowder T. Longman J. Wilkie; Printed for G. Kearsley; Printed for J. and H. L. Hunt 1761-1824. His oeuvre in English for the first time First collected edition of Voltaire's works in English. This first collection did not include two works but this handsome set makes up the omission. It includes uniformly bound copies of the first English translation of The Age of Louis XV and the second English edition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary. In the early 1750s editions and translations of Voltaire's works multiplied rapidly. Following his earlier surge of fame in the late 1730s driven largely by his plays and his Life of Charles XII publishers eventually produced a full English edition of his writings. This thirty six volume collection was issued between 1762 and 1765 under the direction of Tobias Smollett. Lowndes however notes that Smollett lent his name to the project but took little active part in its translation. A final volume appeared in 1770 although in this set it is represented by a later edition dated 1781. 44 vols duodecimo 170 x 109 mm. Engraved frontispieces with tissue guards to 32 vols. 2 folding plates to vol. 26 folding map to vol. 29. Late 19th-century mottled half calf twin red morocco labels compartments elaborately tooled in gilt marbled sides edges yellow. Bookplates of Sir Walter Runciman 1847-1937 occasional minor contemporary inscriptions. Bindings bright sporadic foxing pale damp-staining to a couple of volumes a few chips and short closed tears to fore edges. A very good set. Lowndes 2791. unknown
Best.-Nr. ANAIS-1412812488Routledge. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
1765Best.-Nr. 317331765. A Paris chez Janet 1817. Un vol. au format pt in-12 147 x 88 mm de 1 f. bl. 1 frontispice grav n.fol. xxxvi - 179 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure signe de l'poque d eplein veau glac olive dentelle d'encadrement froid et filet d'encadrement froid termin par de petits fleurons angulaires dors ports sur les plats dos nerfs orn de filets froid filet en pointills dor sur les nerfs roulettes froid larges fleurons dors filets dors palette dore en queue filet stylis dor sur les coupes tranches dores dentelle intrieure dore. Exemplaire revÂtu d'une dlicate reliure romantique du temps ; signe P. Thouvenin Jeune en queue du dos. L'ouvrage s'ouvre sur un portrait-frontispice grav figurant Henri IV et recÂle en outre trois planches graves l'eau-forte signes Desenne dans la plaque. Malgr ses frquentes infirmits Voltaire a conduit la Henriade un point de maturit o je ne sache pas qu'aucun Pome soit encore parvenu. Jamais la langue franÂaise n'eut autant de force que dans la Henriade. Oeuvre emplit d'humanit on y trouve partout de la noblesse l'auteur s'lÂve avec un feu infini jusqu'au sublime vivacit dans les peintures force dans les caractÂres et les descriptions beaut des sentiments.'' Ramsden French bookbinders p. 204 - Flty Dictionnaire des relieurs franÂais p. 100. Angles et coiffe suprieure lims. Petit dfaut affectant le mors suprieur du premier plat. Quelques claires rousseurs dans le corps d'ouvrage. Du reste bonne condition. b42961 unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 14954New York: The Bennett Libraries Inc 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. With ten etchings by Clara Tice. Limited to 250 copies this one out of series but still signed. Good. Red leather binding by Whitman Bennett rubbed at the joints and edges. Square bound with some reading wear scuffed gilt top edge hinges weak bookplate inside the front board. The Bennett Libraries Inc hardcover
Best.-Nr. ANAIS-0486426734Dover Publications. paperback. Good. 4.8x0.3x8.6. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Dover Publications paperback
1765Best.-Nr. 186478London: 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
1785Best.-Nr. 188824Dublin: Chez Byrne 1785. Third edition of Voltaire's self-penned reminiscences published a year after the first. This copy is from the library of Francis Hutcheson the 19th-century rector of Donaghadee and grandson of the Enlightenment philosopher of the same name with his engraved bookplate on the front pastedown and his 1784 ink signature on the title page. Octavo 167 x 96 mm pp. iv 208 4. Contemporary calf spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco panel edges yellow. Bumping and wear loss to lower half of rear free endpaper minor browning to contents: a very good copy. ESTC N35122. unknown
1734Best.-Nr. 189026London: Jacob Tonson 1734. Later edition of Voltaire's national epic from the library of Francis Hutcheson the 19th-century rector of Donaghadee and grandson of the Enlightenment philosopher of the same name with his engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. The elder Francis Hutcheson was a direct contemporary of Voltaire: both were born in 1694 and came of age as the War of the Spanish Succession was ravaging Europe. Both men had key works published in London in 1728: Voltaire then living in Pall Mall published a lavish subscription edition of the Henriade while Hutcheson then in Dublin published the first edition of his Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. La Henriade itself was consciously developed as a national epic for France in the mould of Virgil and Homer. For his hero Voltaire selected the religious moderate Henry IV celebrating his efforts to balance Protestant and Catholic interests. The work was first published in 1723 but despite the 1728 subscription edition the first translation into English did not appear until 1732. Octavo 161 x 104 mm pp. xx 245 1 99 1. Wood-engraved devices and initials title page lettered in red and black. Contemporary calf spine decorated in gilt and with red morocco label marbled endpapers edges red. Contemporary ink signature of one Simeon Boileau possibly the Dublin merchant 1717-1767 and inscrutable near-contemporary French signature to title page. Light bumping and wear minor loss to spine ends front joint splitting but holding firm slight foxing to contents: a very good copy. Bengesco I 372; ESTC T130137. unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 1-2070384829Editions Flammarion 1992. Mass Market Paperback. New. 512 pages. French language. 6.85x4.25x0.94 inches. Editions Flammarion paperback
1770Best.-Nr. 81841London:: Printed for G. Kearsly 1770. First English edition. 18th c. full tree calf with gilt-decorated spine and gilt-lettered spine labels. Upper joint of Vol. I split but the cover still attached by cords; contents very nice. 16mo. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. Printed for G. Kearsly, unknown
1785Best.-Nr. 320861785. S.l. Editions d'Art Seper / Le Chant des SphÂres / Arts et couleurs 1984. 3 forts vol. au format pt in-4 262 x 205 mm de 244 211 et 236 pp. Reliures d'dition de plein skyvertex lie-de-vin l'imitation de maroquin filets d'encadrement dors et froid sur les plats lesquels s'ornent d'une large frise d'encadrement froid composition figurative en relief au centre frappe des armes dores de France jeux de filets en relief formant croisillons sur fond de lys en relief fleurons dors dos nerfs orns de filets maigres froid caissons d'encadrement dors entrelacs de fleurons en relief froid armes de France et fleuron hraldique dors titre dor tomaison dore tÂtes dores gardes de pleine moire lie-de-vin sous tuis bords. Un des exemplaires du tirage numrot ; complet de son certificat d'authenticit volant. Ensemble complet des trois volumes le constituant. Chacun s'agrmente de nombreuses autant que dlicates compositions en couleurs par Jean Gradassi. ''Toutes les illustrations de cette collection en trois volumes vritables reconstitutions historiques en couleurs ont t reproduites partir de slections manuelles et rehausses d'aquarelle au pochoir. Confrant cette dition une grande valeur artistique''. ''Passionn d'Histoire Jean Gradassi se spcialise dans cet art difficile qu'est l'illustration et pour lequel l'tude des costumes civils et militaires de l'architecture du mobilier d'poque sont une base indispensable sa cration artistique o chaque dtail mrite d'Âtre examin la loupe. Quand on sait avec quelle minutie et quel souci du dtail chaque architecture chaque costume chaque personnage sont mis au point et avec quelle Ç maestria È dans la couleur il parvient faire vivre toutes ces scÂnes spirituelles et animes on est transport d'admiration pour son art''. ''Amour extrÂme de la vrit et impartialit entiÂre sur toutes les matiÂres qui y sont traites caractrisent cet ouvrage lequel recÂle plus de faits intressants et plus d'anecdotes curieuses que dans les collections immenses qu'on nous a donnes jusqu'ici sur le rÂgne de Louis XIV. Dans cette dition on verra de nouvelles particularits sur l'Homme au masque de fer sur la cour de Louis XIV sur la paix de Riswick sur la maniÂre de Louis XIV reconnut le fils de Jacques II sur le testament de Charles II et enfin jusqu' des mmoires trÂs curieux crits de la propre main du feu Roi.'' in Avertissement de l'Editeur. Car s'intresser l'poque moderne c'est reconnatre une fonction l'histoire : celle d'aider les contemporains comprendre pour agir et peser leur tour sur le destin du monde. Ce sont donc eux qu'il faut intresser et l'crivain y russit merveilleusement en mettant au service du mtier d'historien son talent de conteur et de dramaturge mais aussi de causeur spirituel. C'est ce brio qui nous sduit encore : rien ici qui pÂse ou qui pose.'' TrÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1785Best.-Nr. 320871785. S.l. Editions d'Art Seper / Le Chant des SphÂres / Arts et couleurs 1986. 2 forts vol. au format pt in-4 262 x 205 mm de 201 et 216 pp. Reliures d'dition de plein skyvertex lie-de-vin l'imitation de maroquin filets d'encadrement dors et froid sur les plats lesquels s'ornent d'une large frise d'encadrement froid composition figurative en relief au centre frappe des armes dores de France jeux de filets en relief formant croisillons sur fond de lys en relief fleurons dors dos nerfs orns de filets maigres froid caissons d'encadrement dors entrelacs de fleurons en relief froid armes de France et fleuron hraldique dors titre dor tomaison dore tÂtes dores gardes de pleine moire lie-de-vin sous tuis bords. Un des exemplaires du tirage numrot ; complet de son certificat d'authenticit volant. Ensemble complet des deux volumes le constituant. Chacun s'agrmente de nombreuses autant que dlicates compositions en couleurs par Jean Gradassi. ''Toutes les illustrations de cette collection en trois volumes vritables reconstitutions historiques en couleurs ont t reproduites partir de slections manuelles et rehausses d'aquarelle au pochoir. Confrant cette dition une grande valeur artistique''. ''Passionn d'Histoire Jean Gradassi se spcialise dans cet art difficile qu'est l'illustration et pour lequel l'tude des costumes civils et militaires de l'architecture du mobilier d'poque sont une base indispensable sa cration artistique o chaque dtail mrite d'Âtre examin la loupe. Quand on sait avec quelle minutie et quel souci du dtail chaque architecture chaque costume chaque personnage sont mis au point et avec quelle Ç maestria È dans la couleur il parvient faire vivre toutes ces scÂnes spirituelles et animes on est transport d'admiration pour son art''. Voltaire clÂbre ici les ides progressistes des LumiÂres fait tat des avances culturelles techniques et conomiques ralises au cours du rÂgne de Louis XV. TrÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1949Best.-Nr. 148560New York: Hermitage House 1949. Hermitage House limited edition of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece. Octavo bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers with black and white illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies this is number 500. In fine condition. Illustrated by Sydney Joseph. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment François-Marie Arouet know by the nom de plum Voltaire was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays poems novels theoretical essays and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment. Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide who in the course of his travels in Europe and South America saw and suffered such misfortune that it was difficult for him to believe this was "the best of all possible worlds." Indeed it seemed to be quite the opposite. In brilliantly skewering such naïveté Voltaire mercilessly exposes and satirizes romance science philosophy religion and government — the ideas and forces that permeate and control the lives of men. Hermitage House unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 72418Stockholm 1925. Leks8vo. Originalt helshirtingbind med vignett på fordekkelen og enkel ryggforgylling. 123 s. Illustrert i svart/hvitt i teksten. Med noen farveplansjer utenom pagineringen. Albert Bonniers Förlag Svensk. Med dedikasjon fra illustratøren samt vedlagt en signert tegning med hilsen. unknown
1876Best.-Nr. 60571Paris. 1876-78. Leks8vo. Samtidige røde skinnryggbind med svakt opphøyde ryggbånd og marmorerte dekler. Med Voltaires graverte portrett som frontispiece i bind I. 845 ; 814 ; 816 ; 839 ; 848 ; 785 ; 782 ; 716 ; 662 ; 760 ; 900 ; 1032 ; 558 s. Med noen illustrasjoner. Chez Firmin-Didot et Cie Libraires Fransk. Ex libris. Et pent sett. unknown
1766Best.-Nr. 58868Uten sted. Amsterdam eller Haag. 1766. 8vo. I materie. Ubeskåret. 6 120 s. Fransk. Første 4 s. med et lite hull. Boken utkom flere steder i året 1766 - London Berlin Augsburg m. fl.Materien noe smusset. unknown
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