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1769rif. 54921769. A Amsterdam Lausanne chez Jean-Jacques du Fay Grasset 1769. 2 tomes relis en 1 fort vol. in-8 202 x 121 mm de 1 f. bl. viii - 235 pp. ; viii - 235 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure de l'poque de plein veau marbr havane filet froid encadrant les plats dos nerfs orn de doubles caissons d'encadrement dors doubles filets dors jeu de filets obliques dors sur les nefs fleurons dors semis de pointills dors piÂce de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge titre dor palette dore en queue filet dor sur les coupes toutes tranches rouges. Seconde dition en partie originale publie la mÂme date que la premiÂre. ''Traumatis par la dramatique affaire du chevalier FranÂois-Jean de La Barre condamn Âtre excut aprÂs avoir subi un supplice inhumain Voltaire avait cÃur de dnoncer les excÂs d'une institution qui rendait si mal la justice. L'hostilit de Voltaire envers le Parlement de Paris n'avait rien voir avec les querelles contemporaines: en retraÂant son histoire le philosophe entendait jeter le discrdit sur le fonctionnement de lÕinstitution et mettre en vidence l'arbitraire et la barbarie des jugements rendus. Pour ce faire l'auteur procÂde non en polmiste mais en historien. C'est avec objectivit que Voltaire dresse son ÇrquisitoireÈ adoptant pour ce faire une perspective chronologique. Il rvÂle ainsi le caractÂre redoutable de cette institution gangrene par la vnalit des charges et un profond obscurantisme. Voltaire insiste c'est ce parlement qui condamna la marchale d'Ancre pour sorcellerie qui rendit des arrÂts justifiant la Saint-Barthlemy et enregistra la bulle Unigenitus sous la pression du cardinal Dubois qui ordonna le supplice inflig Damiens indigne selon lui d'une socit civilise''. Valrie Crugten-Andr. ''Cet ouvrage fit beaucoup de bruit dÂs l'instant qu'il parut. On sut bientt d'o venait le livre on en nommait l'auteur. Voltaire qui savait ce qu'il pouvait gagner irriter les membres du Parlement fut tellement effray de cette proscription qu'il s'empressa d'crire de tous cts qu'il n'tait point l'auteur de cet ouvrage. Il n'osa pas mÂme en faire la confidence ses plus intimes amis tels d'Argental et d'Alembert. ''Il me parat absurde crivait-il ce dernier de m'attribuer un ouvrage dans lequel il y a deux ou trois morceaux qui ne peuvent Âtre tirs que d'un greffe poudreux o je n'ai assurment pas mis le pied ; mais la calomnie n'y regarde pas de si prÂs. Je vous demande en grce d'employer toute votre loquence pour dtruire un bruit encore plus dangereux que ridicule''. Le Parlement renonÂa toutefois ''pour le moment l'inutile crmonie de brler le libelle et au soin plus srieux d'en chercher l'auteur''. in Qurard. Elle finira pourtant par Âtre saisie et dtruite. Le prsident Desportes reconnut que le ''rcit des faits dpeints dans l'ouvrage tait d'une grande exactitude''. Barbier IV Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 786 - Cioranescu III Bibliographie de la littrature franÂaise du XVIIIÂme siÂcle 64425 - Qurard X La France littraire p. 362 - Bengesco 1247 - Peignot II Livres condamns 189. Angles mousss. Petit dfaut au mors suprieur. Quelques feuillets brunis et rares rousseurs dans le texte. Nonobstant bel ensemble. b42961 unknown
rif. 2038A Londres Fictitious imprint. BN gives place of publication as Amsterdam. Bengesco gives place of publication as Paris.: Pour la compagnie 1747. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. iv 172pp. 2 A8-K8 L6. With the half-title. Title-page in red-and-black. Engraved title vignette. Paper boards. Bengesco 1420; BN CCXIV 2973; Cioranescu 64349. From the library of the Fideicommis Bodenstein with their stamp on the title-page. The first published edition of a work by Voltaire which later appeared under the title Zadig ou La destinée. 0 A Londres [Fictitious imprint. BN gives place of publication as Amsterdam. Bengesco gives place of publication as Paris.]: Pour hardcover
rif. 1617Paris: Rene Kieffer 1926. Soft cover. Good. Quarto. 98 pages. Edition limited to 550 copies; this is No. 191 on vélin blanc. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Glassine dustwrapper spine mostly missing. Illustrated by Georges Braun with 41 plates in pochoir. 0 Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1926. paperback
rif. 75392London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon and T. Warner 1732. Swedish History THIRD EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo 20 x 13cm pp.4 xii; 371; 96 2. Complete with the copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles XII to each title and the folding map of Sweden. Recently re-backed in brown calf with raised bands gilt titles to a black label further gilt decoration to spine and the original brown calf boards ruled in gilt to margins. Occasional minor corrections to margins otherwise internally clean with toning to edges and endpapers. Heavy wear to original boards. Restored to an attractive robust condition. Very good. The notorious French Philosopher and wit here weighs into the debate over Sweden's most remarkable and most tragic Monarch. Like Napoleon and Hitler after him the young gifted General-King met his match in the wastes of Russia before dying of a shrapnel wound while attempting to conquer Danish Norway. Bound together with an interesting supplementary text. London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon [and] T. Warner, 1732 unknown
rif. 102812Zürich Conrad Orell et Comp. 1738. . Erste in der Schweiz gedruckte Ausgabe. - Einband stark fleckig Rückenbezug mit Einschnitt u. kl. Fehlstelle Gelenke locker fliegender Vorsatz Titel u.erstes Blatt lose Nesitzvermerk von alter Hd. a. V. "de Hayn" u. von Haym 1784. Zürich, Conrad Orell et Comp. 1738. unknown
1777rif. KNY480041777. Hardcover. Good. no. 1777. Hardcover. Language: please ask before ordering. Condition: good. Restored. No illustrations. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post as a tracked international parcel including customs clearance. Where applicable VAT or sales tax is calculated and collected by Biblio at checkout EU orders up to EUR 150 UK Canada Australia New Zealand many US states; for EU orders over EUR 150 import VAT and a carrier fee may be charged on delivery. Antiquarian book 1777. Export from Ukraine requires a cultural-goods export certificate; we obtain it before shipping so delivery takes several weeks. Please ask before ordering if you need a firm delivery date. Covered by the BIBLIO 30-day return guarantee. If the book does not match the description or is damaged in transit please contact us right after receipt. hardcover
1792rif. KNY1646461792. Hardcover. no. 1792. Hardcover. Language: French. Condition: not graded please see the photos. Black-and-white illustrations. Original title transliterated: Oeuvres completes de M. de Voltaire. Dictionnaire philosophique. T. 54. 1792. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post as a tracked international parcel including customs clearance. Where applicable VAT or sales tax is calculated and collected by Biblio at checkout EU orders up to EUR 150 UK Canada Australia New Zealand many US states; for EU orders over EUR 150 import VAT and a carrier fee may be charged on delivery. Antiquarian book 1792. Export from Ukraine requires a cultural-goods export certificate; we obtain it before shipping so delivery takes several weeks. Please ask before ordering if you need a firm delivery date. Covered by the BIBLIO 30-day return guarantee. If the book does not match the description or is damaged in transit please contact us right after receipt. hardcover
1784rif. 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
1761rif. 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
rif. ANAIS-1412812488Routledge. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
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1927rif. 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
rif. ANAIS-0486426734Dover Publications. paperback. Good. 4.8x0.3x8.6. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Dover Publications paperback
1765rif. 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
1785rif. 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
1977rif. A1D260202018Easton Press 1977-01-01. hardcover. New. 0x0x0. New never used. Cover has minor shelf rubbings. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available. Easton Press hardcover
1734rif. 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
1949rif. 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
1925rif. 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
1876rif. 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
1766rif. 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
1928rif. 059795New York: Random House 1928. 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 111 Pp. #1057 Of 1450 Copies The First Book Published By Random House Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Tan Cloth Beveled Edges Gilt. Binding With Only Slight Wear To Gilt Contents Fine. With The Original Sales Receipt Dated Sept. 13 1928 From E. Weyhe / Prints And Books On The Fine Arts. Random House hardcover
1928rif. 059796New York: Random House 1928. 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 111 Pp. #1324 Of 1450 Copies The First Book Published By Random House Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Tan Cloth Beveled Edges Gilt. Binding With Only Slight Wear To Gilt Contents Fine. Random House hardcover