Voltaire [Jean-Marie Arouet]Biblio.com
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Oeuvres complètes. Avec des notes et une Notice sur la vie de Voltaire par Condorcet. Complete in 13 vols.
187647251Paris: Chez Firmin-Didot et Cie Libraires 1876. 13 vols. Large 8vo 26x19 cm. Contemporary half morocco spines gilt in compartments with ribbons; covers cloth blindstamped lines around the borders; decorated endpapers; marbled edges. Corners sl. bumped and partly damaged. - Tome I: Vie de Voltaire Théâtre. iv848 pp. with frontisp.portrait and 12 other engraved plates. - Tome II: Théâtre La Henriade La Pucelle Poésies.iv814ii pp. With frontisp. portrait and 13 engraved plates. - VolTome III: Essai sur les moeurs Annales de l'Empire. iv816 pp. With frontisp. portrait. iv516 pp. misbound 8 leaves missing: N.B.: Quire 6 p.81-96 bound twice and quire 9 p.129-144 MISSING. - Tome IV: Siècle de Louis XIV Précis du siècle de Louis XV Histoire de Charles XII Histoire de Russie Histoire du parlement Fragments historiques sur l'Inde. iv840 pp. With frontispiece and 3 other portraits. - Tome V: Mélanges historiques Politique et legislation Physique. iv818 pp. and at the end 4 engraved plates with mathematical figures. - Tome VI: Philosophie Dialogues. iv784 pp. tear upper margin p.769-770 repaired. - Tome VII: Dictionnaire philosophique 1. 782 pp. - Tome 8: Dictionnaire philosophique 2; Romans Facéties. iv716 pp. With 13 engraved plates. - Tome IX: Melanges littéraires Commentaires sur Corneille. iv662 pp. - Tome X: Correspondence avec le roi de Prusse 'l'Impératrice de Russie et d'Alembert. iv762 pp. With frontispiece portrait of Catherine 2 and 1 portrait of Dalembert. - Tome XI: Correspondance général tome premier. iv900 pp. With plate: facsimile of a letter. - Tome XII: Correspondance générale tome deuxième. iv1032 pp. including 4 pp. "Table des personnages auxquels sont adressées les lettres". small tear in margin of 3 leaves repaired. - Tome XIII: Correspondance générale tome troisième et Table générale et analytique des matières: p. 417558 printed in 3 columns. iv558 pp. - Complete set printed in 2 columns. Titles with engraved title-vignette and with together 52 steelengraved plates. Lightbrown spots in a few plates and in places in the text for a few leaves more serious spots. Paper age-toned. - 8 leaves see Tome III missing but on the whole a good hard to find set. Interesting edition guided by the edition of M. Beuchot. With the notes of Voltaire notes of the new editor and the annotations by 'Les editeurs de Kehl K. M. Clogenson Ml. and M. Renouard Ren. Chez Firmin-Didot et Cie, Libraires hardcover
