VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet, dit)Livre Rare Book
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15691Genève, s.n., 1764. In-8, XII-314-(2) pp., reliure de l'époque, plein veau raciné, filet estampé à froid en encadrement sur les plats, dos lisse richement orné, pièce de titre, tranches carmin (mors usés).
0469-16Wien Privatdruck 1910. 12°. 77 S. Mit 4 Taf. nach Kupferstichen. OKart. [Wien], Privatdruck [1910]. unknown
184333932AB1843. Leipzig Brockhaus = Ausgewählte Bibliothek der Classiker des Auslandes Band 17 1843 8° XLVIII 206 S. mit Zeilenzählern Glanzvorsatzseiten Text: Fraktur Leineneinband der Zeit mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung der Rücken etwas aufgehellt alter Besitzervermerk auf Vorsatzseite zu Beginn und am Schluß etwas altersbraunfleckig sonst ein schönes sauberes Exemplar. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. unknown
99463Paris La Porte 1777. . Französisch-lateinischer Paralleldruck des Gedichtes zu Ehren von Henri IV. zuest 1723. Die lateinische Übersetzung wohl vom Drucker und Verleger Antoine Louis Guillaume Catherine La Porte 1746-1817 selbst. - Einband bestoßen ob. Kapital abgestoßen Paris, La Porte, 1777. unknown
0880-14Genève 1778. 16°. 2 Bll. 168 S. Mit gest. Titelportr. Henri IV gest. v. Louis Le Grand. HLdr. d. Zt. Mit Rückengoldpräg. Etw. berieb. Bengesco I 391 - Voltaire verfasste 'La Henriade' zu Ehren König Heinrich IV. In diesem 1723 erstmals erschienenem Epos schildert er die Endphase der französischen Religigionskriege des 16. Jahrhunderts und feiert König Heinrich IV als Friedensstifter und Retter der Nation. Genève 1778. unknown
1981123982Berkeley CA: The Arif Press 1981. cloth label on spine. Arif Press. 12mo. cloth label on spine. 16 2 pages. Limited to 150 copies. Translated from the French by P.H. Hanson. Frontispiece facsimile of 1784 engraving. The Arif Press unknown books
16958Voltaire. Candide. Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1979. Hardcover. A Limited Edition. Original binding. Bound in one quarter premium full leather. Covers Accented in Gilt motifs. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges with silk ribbon page marker and decorated endsheets. Translation of Tobias Smollet This version also includes many with illustrations of Antoni Clave. Candide is a satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. A beautiful book in pristine condition.<br /> <br /> Candide is living a sheltered life with his mentor Professor Pangloss who's mantra is "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds" but as the fantastical and fast-moving plot continues Candide slowly and painfully is disillusioned as he witnesses and experiences great hardships. Voltaire concludes Candide with a practical precept "we must cultivate our garden" in lieu of the "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication the book was widely banned to the public because it contained religious blasphemy political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. Today Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon. unknown
16958Voltaire. Candide. Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Library First Edition 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Limited Edition. Original binding. Bound in one quarter premium full leather. Covers Accented in Gilt motifs. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges with silk ribbon page marker and decorated endsheets. Translation of Tobias Smollet This version also includes many with illustrations of Antoni Clave. Candide is a satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. A beautiful book in pristine condition.<br/><br/>Candide is living a sheltered life with his mentor Professor Pangloss who's mantra is "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds" but as the fantastical and fast-moving plot continues Candide slowly and painfully is disillusioned as he witnesses and experiences great hardships. Voltaire concludes Candide with a practical precept "we must cultivate our garden" in lieu of the "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication the book was widely banned to the public because it contained religious blasphemy political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. Today Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon. unknown books
19281393977London UK: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD 1928. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxxiii 220 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue lettering and motif. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering has mild shelving wear. Boards have fraying along the rear head edge mild bending wear along the corners and mild fraying along the front tail fore corner and rear tail edge. Textblock has stains on pages xxxiv and 1 and 128-129 splitting along the gutter between pages 33-128 and mild age toning. Shelved in Room C. 1393977. Special Collections. John Lane The Bodley Head LTD hardcover
197721835Lincoln Massachusetts: Penmaen Press 1977. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 34pp. Black half clothed binding over b/w illustrated boards in black cloth covered slipcase. Some wear and rubbing to slipcase. Half Title. Frontispiece. Pages uncut. "Translated into English by Anthony Hecht with six wood engravings by Lynd Ward and an introduction by Arthur Wilson". A poem by Voltaire about the devastating earthquake that struck Lisbon on Nov. 1st 1755. A special edition of 200 signed by Hecht Ward and Wilson. In French and English. In very good condition. Penmaen Press hardcover
1802mon0000032325<p>Paris Pierre Didot l'A�ne et d 1802. Half Leather. Very Good. in x in x in. Unread. Foxing to end pages. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Leather wrapped spine and corner corner tips all of which are rubbed.</p> Paris, Pierre Didot l'A�ne, et d hardcover
1973mon0000020382Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Unread. Limited numbered edition this being book number 179. Signed by the illustrator. No markings in book. Binding is tight. There is a round perhaps bookplate on front free page that has 3 initials. Slipcase as some rubbing to covers and a bump to spine edge. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1930L046960Editions Nilsson 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 217 4 pages plates. Text in French. Illustrated edition of the 3 short novels; notable for the tipped-in pochoir stencilled watercolor illustrations on glassine. Date is conjectural not dated in book. Few small chips browning and slight rubbing to color pictorial glassine jacket; inner upper hinge starting; slight browning to plates generally unaffecting images; slight internal browning to edges.Polack Robert illustrator; 6 Color Illustrations / Plates. Editions Nilsson paperback
1898142603260005George Barrie Philadelphia 1898. Hardcover. Good. Set of Three Hardcovers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned and foxed. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! George Barrie, Philadelphia hardcover
1981WRCLIT20753Cambridge: For Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club 1981. Quarto. Half morocco t.e.g. Manuscript facsimiles. Edited by Desmond Flower. First edition. Tiny duplicate deaccession stamps on verso of title and once in text carefully erased but still faintly visible otherwise fine. For Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club unknown books
1787WRCLIT71108A Geneve 1787. 164pp. 12mo. Old mottled calf gilt label. A number of edges untrimmed. Some spotting and smudging binding rubbed and joints cracked; just a good copy. The second edition noted in Barbier of one of the popular biographies of Voltaire first published the previous year with a portrait not carried over to this edition. BARBIER IV:1018. unknown books
137212Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs n.d. The Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's satirical novella. Quarto bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers ribbon bound in top edge gilt with 46 monochrome plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. In fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. 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. Librairie d'Amateurs hardcover
192027654MODERN LIBRARY 1920 This COPY is a first edition from new plates with Parts I and II printed June 1930 with 268 Titles Mentioned on Dustjacket Back. HBDJ BK VG- / GOOD DJ SMALL Chip top front edge in Blue Margin Copyright states it was first publ. in 1920 in ML and the plates soon Destroyed. This COPY is a first edition from new plates with Parts I and II printed June 1930. . sunned chipped and scuffed spine 1st edn thus 268 book titles mentioned on Back DJ limp green covers. Small Octavo.16mo Upper page ends are dyed green in color OR TOPSTAIN light FADE Dimensions: 4.50" x 6 3/4 in 236 pgs 5 pgs ADS Small Octavo GREEN Flexible Cloth The publisher's logo is embossed into the front cover in lightly worn gilt. The Title is embossed into the spine in Faded Gold Gilt light wear rub.Order coupon on rear panel of DJ with 95 Cents Tiny chips tears wear Extremities DJ Toledano #2 in green CLOTH. The classic attack on "Optimism" in which we meet Dr. Pangloss and Cunegonde in addition to Candide. Voltaire spent 3 days composing his Satanic Masterpiece in 1759 Satire . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. MODERN LIBRARY hardcover
198195056Berkeley: Arif Press 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by P. H. Hanssen. Slim small octavo. Cloth with applied paper label. Fine. One of 150 copies. Arif Press hardcover
1977020413Lincoln: Penmaen Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Light marking to cloth along spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Quarto in cloth-backed boards. Of 200 numbered copies of this special edition this copy not numbered but marked "O.S." out-of-series. Illustrated with six wood engravings by Lynd Ward. SIGNED by artist Lynd Ward Anthony Hecht the translator and Arthur Wilson who wrote the introduction. Hand-printed by Michael McCurdy and Evelyn Clarke with Ward's engravings struck from the blocks. There were also 100 deluxe copies and 200 trade copies. Prospectus laid in. <br/><br/> Penmaen Press hardcover
176567241765 reliure demi velin havane in-octavo, dos 5 nerfs décoré - entre-nerfs à fleurons au centre avec des petits fers isolés en remplissage et des fleurettes exécutées aux filets courbes aux angles - pièce de titre sur fond grenat, coiffe supérieure légèrement défraichie, coin de tête manquant sur le premier plat et légèrement défraichi sur le second, tranches peignées, cahiers très légèrement déboités, illustrations : frontispice + sur la page de titre + bandeaux + lettrines + culs-de-lampe et hors-texte, 211 + 96 + 127 pages, 1765 à Amsterdam Chez François l'Honoré,
0863-08Paris l'Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique 1785. Tome second de 3. gr.-8°. 439 S. HLdr. d. Zt. Mit goldgepr. Rückensch. Enthält Briefe aus dem Zeitraum 1740-1770. Es erschienen insges. 3 Bde. Die Herausgeber waren Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet et Jacques-Joseph-Marie Decroix. [Paris], l'Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique 1785. unknown
12125Paris, Duchesne, 1765. 1 vol. in-12, veau brun marbré, dos lisse orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre et de tomaison en maroquin La Vallière, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque, coiffe sup. élimée. Malgré tout, bel exemplaire. (2) ff., 448 pp., (1) f. Les 52 premières pages sont numérotées en chiffres romains.
119077Paris: A. le Chevalier 1867. 4to 430pp. Good to very good no dust jacket. Three quarter leather binding frontispiece illustrations index. The leather is scuffed and the corners are worn there is minor cracking at the inner hinges but the binding is tight some spotting on the first few pages afterwhich the pages are generally clean and bright. Text in French Language. Fiction. A. le Chevalier Hardcover
1739852London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton at the Crown in Ludgate Street 1739. First edition. Near fine. Small octavo. 2442 pp. Likely disbound from a pamphlet collection with vestiges of the leather spine present; outer leaves dust soiled with occasional spots; internal pages near fine. Original price intact on title page: Price Six-Pence. One page advertisement after conclusion of the translated text. <br /> <br /> First edition. An exceptionally scarce prospectus for Voltaire's landmark French enlightenment philosophy "Le Siecle de Louis XIV." Voltaire's revolutionary philosophical approach that argued intellect over military might was not completed or published until 1751 making this fragile 1739 pamphlet a remarkably early standalone English translation. ESTC T112827. Printed for J. and P. Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate Street unknown
