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1822réf. 290382London: Printed for John Miller and W. Wright 1822. Full Leather. Good binding. With 59 full page plates in Vol. I 9 of which are duplicates on poorer paper and 58 full page plates in Vol. II 9 of which are duplicates; with 25 white Fine Paper engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 25 in Vol. II; with 11 gray Papier de Chine engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 11 in Vol. II. Most of the engravings are illustrations of the various scenes with a few portrait plates; all of the Papier de Chine illustrations are small engraved illustrations meant for the start of each canto and are facing duplicates on Fine Paper. Hinges reinforced by a conservator with Japanese tissue paper. Signed full red morroco binding by Matthews; with gilt lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Good binding. Printed for John Miller and W. Wright unknown
1901réf. 184304London: E. R. Dumont 1901. Translated by W. H. Ireland with rare and voluminous notes. Complete in two volumes. Pp. vi300last blankiv292last blank 18 hand-coloured plates with lettered guards including a frontispiece to each volume the title pages printed in red & black additional notes; demy 8vo; dark red morocco spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands boards lettered and decorated with a floral motif in gilt; t.e.g. others uncut; dentelles decorated in gilt around a large inlaid panel of tortoiseshell veneer dark green moire silk upper endpapers laid on the original light green marbled endpapers; a couple of tiny edge splits occasional light foxing; E. R. Dumont London 1901. Sans Souci edition limited to 25 numbered copies; this set specially bound. E. R. Dumont unknown
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1901réf. 034194Akron Ohio U.S.A.: The Werner Company 1901. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 2 Volumes. Bound in black half-morocco with marbled boards and endpapers gilt top edges title gilt on the spines. Minuscule tear in the leather at the front hinge top of volume two; very little wear overall a lovely set. Illustrated with plates portraits. reproductions of rare engravings steel plates photogravures and curious fac-similes done by the craftsman of the Hubert Guild. 299 291 pages. Volumes XL XLI from The Works of Voltaire. The Werner Company Hardcover
1822réf. 290382London: Printed for John Miller and W. Wright 1822. Full Leather. Good binding. With 59 full page plates in Vol. I 9 of which are duplicates on poorer paper and 58 full page plates in Vol. II 9 of which are duplicates; with 25 white Fine Paper engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 25 in Vol. II; with 11 gray Papier de Chine engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 11 in Vol. II. Most of the engravings are illustrations of the various scenes with a few portrait plates; all of the Papier de Chine illustrations are small engraved illustrations meant for the start of each canto and are facing duplicates on Fine Paper. Hinges reinforced by a conservator with Japanese tissue paper. Signed full red morroco binding by Matthews; with gilt lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Good binding. Printed for John Miller and W. Wright unknown books
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1768réf. 156969London: 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
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1796réf. 35912Catskill NY: Printed by T. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. 8 336 pp. Disbound textblock split. Title page engraving of Voltaire by Peter R. Maverick. Good. An early Catskill imprint; printing began there in 1792. Evans located no earlier American edition of this work; NAIP records a 1795 New York printing with only three locations. The Publisher's preliminary Advertisement notes "the great noise which the following work has made in foreign parts on account of the author's freedom in regard to matters of religion." Evans 31518. Printed by T. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York unknown
1796réf. 65253Catskill: Printed by T. and M. Croswell for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. First American edition. This edition was first published in 1764. Engraved title with vignette portrait by P. R. Maverick of New York. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep morocco label; front joint cracked. Marginal browning of text browning or staining of endpapers else a very good copy with the contemporary signature of John Gebhard Jr on free endpaper. First American edition. This edition was first published in 1764. Engraved title with vignette portrait by P. R. Maverick of New York. 1 vols. 12mo. The editor notes on the advertisement leaf that he recognizes that there might be criticism for the translation and publication of this work "on account of the author's freedom in regard to matters of religion" but feels that the quality of the work exceeds its criticisms and the "True religion is not afraid of bearing the strictest examination." There was strong interest in the French writers of "free thought" and "intellectual liberalism" in America in the eighteenth-early 19th century especially Voltaire and Condillac. The Enlightenment in France greatly influenced the American enlightenment. Library Company of Philadelphia "First American Editions" p. 5; Shipton and Mooney 31518 Printed by T. and M. Croswell for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York unknown
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1765réf. 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
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