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1778263011Paris: Not Identified 1778. hardcover. near fine. Title with ornamental borders; title vignette and ornamental head/tail pieces throughout. Illustrated with a portrait of Pascal engraved by L. Demeuse. XII 316 pages. 8vo handsomely bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated spine and marbled page edges. Paris i.e. Geneva: Publisher Not Identified Grasset 1778. Nouvelle edition. Scarce.<br/> <br/> According to BN the imprint is false; this edition was printed in Geneva by Grasset. A reprint of Condorcet's selection from the Pensees. he added to his own notes a selection from the "Remarques sur les Pensees de Pascal" by Voltaire who's notes are signed "Note du present editeur." -- Bengescu 1910; BN 5391. Page 163 is misnumbered 139; page 193 is misnumbered 391.<br/> <br/> Not Identified unknown
1792164946Madrid: en la Imprenta Real 1792. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ADAM SMITH IN SPANISH First Spanish translation of Condorcet's summary of Smith's Wealth of Nations the first appearance of any of his work in Spanish prior to the complete translation by J. A. Ortiz in 1794. The translator of the present summary is the young marqués de Casa Carlos Martinez de Yrujo y Tacón 1763-1824. "This is a translation of the Roucher/Blavet condensation of Wealth of Nations in the Bibliothèque de l'homme publique. to which Condorcet lent his name. The translator restores to the text a summary of Smith's Digression on the Bank of Amsterdam WN IV iii. b 479-88 a five-line qualification of the argument for free trade. The criticism of Catholic clergy is omitted." Tribe. Octavo 174 x 108 mm. Contemporary tree sheep flat spine ruled and decorated in gilt red morocco label marbled endpapers red edges. 19th-century ownership inscription to front free blank leaf extremities lightly rubbed one corner slightly worn; a crisp clean copy in fine condition. Palau 59126; Tribe 47. This edition not listed in Goldsmiths' Kress or Vanderblue. unknown
178486383Kehl Baden: Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique 1784. Leather Bound. Very Good. L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique Kehl Baden 1784. In French. Famous first posthumous collected edition of Voltaire's 1694-1778 works known as the 'Kehl Voltaire' produced by Beaumarchais who created a print foundry at Kehl to carry out this great work. Set contains 69 of the 70 Volume 8vo edition smaller 12mo 90 volume edition was also produced. Volume 23 Histoire de Charles XII missing. Volumes 10 and 27 printed 1784 summary volume 70 printed 1789 all other volumes printed 1785. Uniform 18th century calf full brown leather. Spines decorated in gold floral designs titles volume numbers within 6 boxed compartments. Boards have a natural brown mottled leather finish slanted gold lines on the narrow board edges. All page ends stained a very light yellow finely bespeckled with green. Green silk reading ribbons. Moderate wear of leather at spine tops light stress wear along exterior leather hinges some boards show minor leather loss at edges. All interior hinges firm untorn. Volume 20 upper rear board tip charred. Otherwise no volume damaged or repaired uniform light general wear. Only endpapers show browned bands along margins from pasted endpaper glue chemistry. Volumes 1 to 69 containing all the works and massive correspondences of Voltaire. Volume 70 contains Condorcet's Life of Voltaire and Condorcet's 'Memoires' of Voltaire index and 'Additions et Corrections' to the 70 volumes. Volume 1 frontispiece engraving of Voltaire by Moreau.; Volume 10 frontispiece engraving of Henry IV; Volume 16 frontispiece portrait of Voltaire; Volume 24 frontispiece engraving military map camp plan; Volume 31 14 engraved plates of scientific diagrams. Provenance: Each volume has the small ink stamp 'William H. Floyd Collection No.' on the rear of the title page. Floyd was a late 19th century American antiquarian collector. The numbering sequence 5098-5166 shows that volume 23 was missing even when cataloged by Floyd. Size: L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. A major cultural event of the last decade of the ancien regime a beautiful monument to Voltaire the greatest man that literature had produced. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais led a controversial life. Playwright The Marriage of Figaro politician publisher entrepreneur spy supplier of munitions for the American Revolution and an early champion of the rights of artists and intellectual property. Shortly after the death of Voltaire in 1778 Beaumarchais set out to publish Voltaire's complete works many of which were banned in France and vehemently condemned by the Church. Royal letters would be censored by Frederick II of Germany Catharine II of Russia and others. He bought the rights to most of Voltaire's many manuscripts from publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke in 1779. To evade censorship printing presses were set up in the small neutral independant state of Baden at Kehl. Beaumarchais bought with exclusivity the complete foundry of the famous English type designer John Baskerville for the Societe Litteraire Typographique an organization he established to produce editions in which he was interested. Three paper mills were purchased. Seventy volumes were published between 1783 to 1790. While the venture proved a financial failure Beaumarchais was instrumental in preserving many of Voltaire's later works which otherwise might have been lost. The Kehl edition was banned on French territory until 1789. Baskerville font was revived by Americans in the 20th century. Voltaire Kehl Condorcet Pierre Beaumarchais Charles-Joseph Panckoucke RBR4 RBR4 Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique hardcover
19742080502106911867Not Available 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
20022111902158500916Iwanamishoten 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 460 9p Size: 15cm Iwanamishoten paperback
