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VOLTAIRE. La Henriade, Poéme en dix chants, suivie de l'essai sua les guerres civiles et de l'essai sur les poètes. Du poème de fontenoy, des discours sur l'homme, des poèmes sur la loi naturelle et sur le désastre de Lisbonne, du temple du gout et du temple de l'amitié.
Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, Paris 1848
378pp.. Engraved frontis. Bound in contemporary full calf, raised spines decorated in gilt. Bookplate to ffep.. Edges worn and sl. bumped, joints cracked but sound, small portions of leather missing from extremities. E/ps.extremities foxed and sl. stained. Contents, apart from some sl. foxing, clean. US$54
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VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. The Age of Lewis XVI. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
London: R. Dodsley. 1752
First edition in English. In Two Volumes.Vol. I, viii, 436 + [16]pp. adverts. Vol. II. 48, 33-292, 90 + [20]pp. index. Engraved frontis. to each volume. Bound in contemporary full calf, very worn and rubbed, joints cracked and upper hinges very tender, small portions of leather missing from head and tail of spines. E/ps. foxed and sl. stained, rear e/p to vol. I loose, small ink stain to outer edge of vol. II. Contents, apart from some sl. foxing, clean. This great historical work was first published in France in 1751 and had taken Voltaire twenty years to complete.This is the first English edition, published only a year later. US$270
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150.00 GBP
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