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200231556Éditions Fance-Empire 2002 In 8 Envoi signé de l'auteur pleine page sur le faux titre - Dédié à Jean-Pierre Mangroni en témoignage de l'amitié de l'auteur - 205 pp + 1 ff Table des matières - Cahier central de reproductions photographiques non comprises dans la pagination - Couverture illustrée
178467131Londres: chez Robinson No 25 Pater-Noster-Row 1784. First British edition 8vo pp. 2 ii 208; vignette title page; original blue paper wrappers; edges curled small cracks at spine ends; all else very good. Unpublished during the author's lifetime these Memoires are generally seen as an outright attack on Frederick of Prussia after Voltaire had suffered humiliation on Frederick's orders in Frankfurt. chez Robinson, No 25, Pater-Noster-Row unknown
177824618A Maestricht, chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Phil Roux, 1778. 16 vol. au format in-12 (172 x 108 mm) de 1 f. bl., vii, xxiv - 298 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 338 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 354 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iv - 306 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 327 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 294 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 300 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 384 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vi - 283 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 308 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., x - 345 pp. et 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xii - 372 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 339 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., 201 pp. et 2 ff. bl. Reliures uniformes de l'époque de pleine basane glacée et marbrée brune, filet à froid encadrant les plats, dos lisses ornés d'un double filet d'encadrement doré, doubles filets dorés, fleurons dorés, semis de petits fleurons dorés, pièces de titre de maroquin turquoise, pièces de tomaison de maroquin émeraude, titre doré, tomaison dorée, palette dorée en tête et queue, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges, gardes agrémentés de motifs à décor peint.
1965110Mercure de France, 1965, in-8°, 238 pp, broché, couv. illustrée, état correct (Coll. Le Temps retrouvé)
27408Genève, s.n., 1784. 1 vol. in-8°, basane fauve marbrée, dos lisse orné de fleurons et de filets dorés, pièce de titre en basane fauve, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque, coiffe inf. arrachée, coins émoussés. Bon exemplaire. 174 pp. Mouillures prononcée dans la marge de tête en début de volume. Il manque le feuillet d'errata.[D31]
28882Genève, s.n., 1784. 1 vol. in-8°, basane écaille, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin vert, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées. Reliure de l'époque, manque de cuir aux deux caissons de queue au dos. 174 pp., (1) p.[D57]
1784489731784 A Berlin, 1784 - In-8 - E.O. - Sans couverture (A relier) - 86 pages - Propre - Réf. 48973.
178451635BB(s.l., s.n.) 1784 12°. 96 p., avec une vignette de titre gravée en bois. Cartonnage vers 1820.
178416342A Berlin, , 1784. In-12 de 108 pp., portrait, cartonnage muet (reliure de l'époque).
17673278A LAUSANNE. PAR LA COMPAGNIE DES LIBRAIRES. 1767. 2 PARTIES EN UN VOLUME IN-12 (10 X 17 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE IV + 212 ET (2) + 70 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU MARBRE, DOS LISSE ORNE D'UN DECOR DE CAISSONS A FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN HAVANE, TRANCHES ROUGES. QUELQUES PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
192322200Paris: Rene Kieffer 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather covers decorated in blind backstrip lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard's lasting fame however lies in his book illustrations - always with a distinctly French character usually comic and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France. Rene Kieffer unknown books
175212376London: J. Robinson. London J. Robinson 1752. . Hardback. Likely a pirated edition. A very good copy in half vellum. An important early example of what would become science fiction. Three editions were published in 1752 at about the same time the actual first edition doesn't have the date on the title page unlike the present copy. The other two copies are thought to be unauthorised and likely published in Paris or Germany. An adventure following the journey of alien visitors to Earth from Sirius and Saturn. ".inaugurated a tradition of superior aliens who come to lecture humans about the need to improve themselves" Westfahl volI p17. Some scuffing to the binding handwritten title on the spine ink name to endpaper top edge dusty. A presentable copy of an important milestone in the history of science fiction. 12376 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. Edition. 1752. J. Robinson hardcover
1989006340Dedalus 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. <br/> <br/> Dedalus paperback
192322200Paris: Rene Kieffer 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather covers decorated in blind backstrip lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard’s lasting fame however lies in his book illustrations – always with a distinctly French character usually comic and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France. Rene Kieffer unknown
46036Paris Le Livre 1923 in 12 (18x13) 1 volume broché, étiquette de titre imprimée contrecollée sur le plat supérieur, VI et 174 pages, avec des bois originaux de Maximilien Vox, dont frontispice, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe en noir et blanc. Collection ''Le Livre du Lettré'', 1. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
245861 volume in-12° broché, titre contrecollé sur le plat supérieur, 174 p., frontispice, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe en noir et blanc - Petites rousseurs, dos insolé, très bon état malgré tout.
1784WRCLIT58272London: Printed for G. Robinson 1784. 2ii2251pp. Octavo. Modern quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards gilt label. Bound without the half-title otherwise a very good fresh copy. First edition in English published the same year as the original French edition. An edition appeared from Dublin as well. The two page introduction quotes from a letter from Paris dated 2 May indicating that two or three editions "have already been seized and seven Booksellers imprisoned . The Memoirs are really written by Voltaire and must soon or late become public. This Voltaire is sort of a malignant spirit who came upon earth only to embitter the cup of life and afterwards laugh at our wry faces." ESTC T1128. Printed for G. Robinson hardcover books
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
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
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
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
1927186Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1927. Un vol. in-4 (22. 3x27) en feuilles. Couverture passée, particulièrement le dos, second plat insolé.
1925elala168Paris: René Kieffer 1925. 1925. 8vo. pp. numerous text illus. with pochoir hand-colouring. contemporary half morocco original coloured pictorial wrs. bound in. First Edition Illustrated by Joseph Hémard Limited to 500 copies this one of 480 on vélin de cuve. One of the few of Voltaires works to deal with a distinctly economic subject. Directed against the Physiocrats and specifically Mercier De La Rivières Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés the witty and sarcastic tale takes its title from Merciers statement that in an organized state according to the physiocratic doctrine an average sum of forty crowns should suffice for the existence of each citizen. Voltaire singles out for special ridicule the proposed impot unique or single tax on land. The story revolves around the owner of a small estate yielding an annual net income of forty crowns who is alarmed at the promulgation of several edicts "by a few gentlemen who having some leisure have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides". According to them the government "being by divine- and birth-right co-proprietor of his land he at least owes it one-half of his income" and that "as all wealth proceeds from land land is to bear the whole burden of taxation." Carteret IV 406. 1st Edition. Paris: René Kieffer, 1925. unknown
1739312076se vend à Amsterdam i.e. Rouen: Chez Jaques sic Des-Bordes 1739. Early edition of Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques. Originally published in English 1733 under title: Lettres concerning the English nation. Collation: π2A-M8. 4 176 11 pp. Title leaf and preface 1 & 2 repeated in Table at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf worn and rubbed with losses to spine ends and corners. Small loss in bottom blank margin of last leaf. Early edition of Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques. Originally published in English 1733 under title: Lettres concerning the English nation. Collation: π2A-M8. 4 176 11 pp. Title leaf and preface 1 & 2 repeated in Table at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Early edition of the Lettres Philosophiques published as part of the Rouen edition of the works of Voltaire with the imprint Amsterdam aux dépens de la Compagnie. This text is in 26 letters with the last being Sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. The two tragedies preceding it are Alzire pp. 1-88; and La Mort de Cesar pp. 89-152 signed A-K in 8s. Bengesco 1558 vol. 2 p. 19-20; Lanson 39 Chez Jaques [sic] Des-Bordes unknown books
173446420<p>Basle i.e. London : by W. Bowyer 1734. First edition. Although an English translation had been published in London as "Letters Concerning the English Nation" in 1733 this is the first appearance of the original French text of the book now generally known as the "Lettres Philosophiques" and as "the first bomb thrown at the Ancien Régime". It has been said of Voltaire that "he came to England a poet and left it a philosopher": however that may be this book resulting from his stay in 1726-1728 is "one of the greatest and most influential works of the eighteenth century and beyond . the book that taught the whole of Europe how to think" Voltaire Foundation. The letters contrasting English and French thinking deal variously with religion in England - Quakers Anglicans Presbyterians and Socinians; politics parliament and Magna Carta; trade commerce and the businessman who "contributes to the felicity of the world"; English empiricism and Francis Bacon John Locke and Isaac Newton; and literature - Shakespeare above all Wycherley Congreve Swift and Pope etc. The London publishers' preface is interesting on the author's extreme reluctance to sanction a French-language edition - they had suppressed this edition for an entire year but others were now preparing illicit editions and they now had to displease the author to please the public. The furore which greeted the French editions when they appeared probably justified Voltaire's reluctance and the use here of a fake Basle imprint. Foolscap 8vo 171 x 103mm. viii228xxpp. Bound in a creditable modern rendition of early eighteenth-century full panelled calf; sprinkled edges; a few slight marks; Voltaire's name added to title-page in manuscript; faint fringe of very pale discolouration to fore-edge throughout text barely visible in most places; a few minor internal marks and tiny flaws but a good copy of one of the key books of the Enlightenment. Eighteenth-century 1768 ownership inscription now obscured.</p> Basle [i.e. London : by W. Bowyer], 1734. hardcover