1768Best.-Nr. 324281768. A Basle Ble / en ralit GenÂve s.. 1768. Un vol. au format pt in-8 187 x 117 mm de vii - 131 pp. Reliure de l'poque de plein veau glac et marbr havane filet froid encadrant les plats dos lisse orn d'un filet d'encadrement dor doubles filets dors fleurons dors semis de petits fleurons circulaires dors piÂce de titre de maroquin acajou titre dor palette dore en queue. Edition originale rare ; ce titre agrmente en page de titre d'une jolie vignette figurative imprime. ''La varit des sujets ici abords tmoigne de lՎtendue de la curiosit de Voltaire et de son intrÂt pour les sciences naturelles naissantes. De la gologie la biologie lÕauteur rflchit sur les grandes questions qui agitent les esprits et mÂne ses propres expriences''. Barbier IV Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 497-e - Bengesco II 1766 - L'Oeuvre imprim de Voltaire la BN II 4175 - Cioranescu III Bibliographie de la littrature franÂaise au XVIIIÂme 64840. DiscrÂtes altrations superficielles affectant la reliure. TrÂs rares rousseurs dans le texte. Nonobstant trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
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1998Best.-Nr. SBBI-SBL-011936Oxford Paperbacks 1998. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Oxford Paperbacks paperback
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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
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2016Best.-Nr. x-1357762453Palala Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 282 pages. 6.14x0.69x9.21 inches. Palala Press hardcover
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
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2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1170720404Gale Ecco Print Editions 2010-10-20. paperback. New. 7.44x0.73x9.69. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Gale Ecco, Print Editions paperback
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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
1977Best.-Nr. 016637Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Van Kaufman. 8vo medium. Limited Edition. Red genuine leather gilt decorated boards and spine AEG red moire endpapers and matching silk book marker 254pp full page B&W illustrations with Editors Notes laid-in 22pp. Fine. The Franklin Library hardcover
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
Best.-Nr. Z1-X-014-00685French and European Publications Inc. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. French and European Publications Inc unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 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
1989Best.-Nr. 006340Dedalus 1989. Soft cover. Fine. Tim Gray. First Dedalus edition/printing small trade paperback. As New unread condition. Translated by W. Fleming. Intro by Ben Barkow. Collection of stories. ". as Proto SF is "Micromégas" the title story contained in Le Micromégas de Mr. de Voltaire avec une Histoire des Croisades & un nouveau plan de l'Histoire de l'esprit humain coll 1752; trans Tobias Smollett as Micromegas a Comic Romance for full subtitle see Checklist 1753 in which two Alien giants see Great and Small the larger from a planet circling Sirius and a smaller giant from Saturn visit Earth where their responses to human life make some satirical points not least that our species may not be so very important in the context of the much larger physical Universe that was coming to be accepted at the time Voltaire was writing. " JC/PN Encyclopedia of SF Internet 4th Ed. Dedalus paperback
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
