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196432693Dell 1964. paperback. VG-. VERY-GOOD-MINUS MASS-MARKET-PAPERBACK. IN ENGLISH Amazon says French SOLID & UNMARKED; A LITTLE SCUFFED AROUND THE EDGES Dell paperback
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1985__072940322XVoltaire Foundation 1985. Hardcover. New. 210 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.44 inches. Voltaire Foundation hardcover
190800544745L. Carteret Editeur 1908. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A beautifully bound extra-illustrated copy. Fine bound by Bayntun & Son for Buckland of Knightsbridge in full crushed navy blue morocco spine with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt-rulled compartments bordered with twin rules covers bordered in gilt with twiin rules board edges with twin gilt rules elaborately decorated gilt inner dentelles featuring an interlocking gilt floral border surrounding 5 varying decorative gilt rules top edge gilt other edges uncut light rubbing wear to front hinge at top; some scattered foxing to the extra plates. Original cvers bound in at rear. Copy #46 of 200 numbered copies on Marais paper. This limited edition was issued with 13 plates each present in two states all are present. This unique copy is extra-illlustrated with the insertion of 34 additional plates mainly engraved and most 19th century of which 3 are hand-colored. This edition includes an extended preface by Voltaire. Marthe-Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Mursay Marquise de Caylus 1673-1729 French noblewoman and author. Her memoirs first issued in 1770 were edited by Voltaire and are an entertaining and information first-hand account of Louis XIV and his court. Description:Illustrated by Lionel Peraux. L. Carteret, Editeur unknown
1770100487F. Newbery 1770. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Translated into English from the French translation and commentary by Voltaire of the original Italian edition written by Cesare Baccaria. Third edition. Leatherbound. Covers worn and gutters are cracked. Bookplate inside front cover of Thomas Munro Governor of Madras between 1820-1827. Munro introduced the Ryotwari System which allowed the government to deal directly with the cultivator 'ryot' for revenue collection and gave the peasant freedom to cede or acquire new land for cultivation. F. Newbery hardcover
1986__0729403394Voltaire Foundation 1986. Hardcover. New. 429 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.94 inches. Voltaire Foundation hardcover
1020275340.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1827117452London UK: Whittaker Treacher Arnot / Hunt and Clarke 1827. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 24mo 5 - 5.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Whittaker Treacher Arnot / Hunt and Clarke London UK 1827. Volumes I to XXIV 1827 to1831. Dark red leather spines and board tips with marbled paper Schrottel boards. Portraits of each diarist. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Light general wear. Bindings hinges text pages near fine. No foxing except for near portraits. Size: 24mo 5 - 5.75'' tall. Brilliant entertaining autobiographies by: I. Colley Cibber comedian. II. Hume William Lilly astronomy Voltaire. III IV. Jean-François Marmontel history opera poetry novels. V. Robert Drury sailor Madagascar captive. VI. George Whitefield Methodist Voyage from London to Savannah. James Ferguson astronomer instrument and globe maker. VII. Mary Robinson actress. Charlotte Charke aka Cibber Charlotte Secheverell Charles Brown actress playwright novelist and noted transvestite. VIII. Lord Herbert of Cherbury Prince Eugene of Savoy. IX X. Augustus Von Kotzebue dramatist writer Siberian exile. XI. Captain John Creichton Scottish soldier. William Gifford critic editor poet satirist. Thomas Ellwood religious writer. XII. Lewis Ludvig Holberg writer essayist philosopher historian and playwright. XIII. James Hardy Vaux swindler thief transported to Australia thrice. XIV XV. Edward Gibbon historian member of Parliament. XVI XVII. Benvenuto Cellini artist. XVIII. James Lackington bookseller. XIX. Theobald Wolfe Tone Irish revolutionary United Irishmen father of Irish republicanism leader of 1798 Irish Rebellion. XX. Bubb Dodington English politician and nobleman. XXI XXII. Margravine of Bareith Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina sister of Frederick the Great. XXIII XXIV. Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni comic writer Italian playwright and librettist. Biography History::Britain RBR15 RBR15 Whittaker, Treacher, Arnot / Hunt and Clarke hardcover
176438945Paris Geneva The Hague and Amsterdam: Sébastien Jorry and Delalain 1764-1771. A sammelband comprising four interesting and very rare 18th-century French works all in FIRST EDITION and all printed on fine laid paper. 1. Claude Joseph Dorat "Lettre du Comte de Comminges à sa mère suivie d'une Lettre de Philomène à Progné" Paris 1764. With two full-page hors-texte engraved plates two headpieces and two tailpieces after CHARLES EISEN. 2. Jean-Antoine Comparet "La Vérité ode à Mr de Voltaire suivie d'une dissertation historique et critique sur le gouvernement de Genève et ses révolutions" Londres but probably Geneva 1765. 3. Aimé Ambroise Joseph Feutry "Opuscules poëtiques et philologiques" La Haye 1771. 4. Charles Palissot de Montenoy "L'homme dangereux comédie. Par l'auteur de la Comédie des philosophes". 8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary calf. Spine gilt in six compartments with fleurons and raised bands. All edges red. Some wear to extremities otherwise FINE AND BRIGHT. A unique book comprising four very rare ones. <br/><br/> Sébastien Jorry and Delalain hardcover
1774001963Geneve. VG books. Contemporary leather boards with moderate wear. 1774. Hardcover. VG books. Quality mid 20th C rebind preserves original mottled calf boards and rebacking closely duplicating the original. . The "Voltaire" edition first published about 1764 in 12 vols. Here expanded upon but printed in 8 vols. With 35 engraved copperplates. Each vol with a frontispiece. Vol 1 frontis engraved by Watelet others by Gravelot. Most vols with frontis & 3 plates BUT vol 3 had 5 plates & vol 7 had 5. Spines with 5 gilt dotted raised ribs. Red/brown leather title labels & brown leather vol # labels both in gilt. 1774 date along heel. The 4 other spine panels all gilt edge ruled with elaborate floral corner & center designs. Spines very attractive. Voltaire wrote a 2 page intro in vol 1. Text blocks tight as new no loose leaves or sprung signatures. Text & plates quite nice only scattered light foxing & type offset mostly confined to margins. No aging or any other type of stain. But DAMP STAINED vol 3 back cover and very last end paper. NOT INTO TEXT. . hardcover
177402594THEATRE DE P. CORNEILLE AVEC COMMENTAIRES ET AUTRES MORCEAUX INTERESSANS Geneva 1774 the revised edition with augmentations 8 volumes complete occasional moisture stain sometimes quite obvious sometimes quite faint to the lower fore edge corner sections / tips of some of the leaves of several volumes never entering the text some wear to the corner tips and edges of the boards slight wear to some of the spine extremities some rubbing to the boards else a tight vg set bound in what appears to be an early 19th century binding of 1/2 leather and marbled / spotted boards with raised spines of 6 compartments 4 decorative and one each with red and black leather labels the red bearing the title with the black revealing the volume number. Pierre Corneille was a most important player in the history of French theater writing 32 plays between 1629 and 1684. These 8 volumes are also enhanced with 34 engraved plates by Hubert Gravelot. Text in French of course. N. A. hardcover
ALDR0052Genève Cramer 1765. 8°. 390 340 404 392 344 356 368 328 366 398 440 u. 334 S. Titelei in Pag. Mit Front. von Watelet nach Pierre und 34 Kupferstich-Tafeln nach Gravelot. Marmorierte Kalbslederbde. der Zeit auf Rücken mit reichen Verz. sowie m. Titel und Bandnr. in Goldpräg. auf 2 mont. Papierschi. Stehkantenvergoldung marmor. Vorsätzen sowie umseit Rotschnitt. Einbände stärker berieben Kapitale und Ecken größtenteils schadhaft Buchdeckel tlw. m. Schabspuren Leder am Rücken brüchig und z.Tl. unvollständig vorhanden im Text weitgehend fleckenfreie und schön erhaltene Ausgabe. - Alle Bände mit gest. Adelsexlibris Bde. 1 u. 2 mit Namenseintrag v. alter Hand 'Ger. Nicolas . Roterodami 1772'. Brunet II 281; Graesse II 267; Ebert 5229; Reynaud Sp. 95; Bengesco II 141. - Die berühmte von Voltaire edierte Gesamtausgabe hier die zweite rechtmäßige Ausgabe mit den gleichen Illustrationen wie die der ein Jahr zuvor ebenda erschienenen Erstausgabe. Enthält sämtliche Bühnenstücke von Pierre Corneille einige Stücke seines jüngeren Bruders Thomas sowie Bühnenwerke von Jean Racine. Band 1 mit einer gedruckten Widmung von Voltaire an die Mitglieder der 'Académie Francaise'. - ""Diese Ausgabe veranstaltete Voltaire bekanntlich zum Besten der Urenkelin von Corneille"" Ebert / ""Belle édition a été longtemps regardée comme la meilleure que l'on eût de ce poete et les exemples avaient acquis une certaine valeur "" Brunet. / ""Belle édition que Voltaire fit imprimer par souscription chez les frères Cramer à Genève en l'accompagnant de commentaires afin de doter une descendante du grand Corneille qu'il avait recueillie. Toute l'Europe y prit part."" Cohen/R. Sp. 255 zur EA. [Genève], [Cramer] 1765. unknown
MM012<p>A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné . 1795-1796. Hard Cover. 10 v. ; 32 cm. 4to. "Vie de Pierre Corneille par Bernard de Fontenelle son neveu": t. 1 p. 17-42" Cette édition a été imprimée au nombre de 250 exemplaires seulement ." Voltaire edition first published: 1764. Series: Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins. MM012. Vg /</p> A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné ..., 1795-1796. hardcover
0364498811.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1733040225London: C Davis 1733. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. The first appearance of the famous "Lettres Philosophiques" which brought Voltaire fresh troubles with the authorities when the French edition appeared the following year. The French Parliament ordered the book to be burned. This has a smart recent binding brown leather covered spine with 5 raised bands gilt title on leather title plate and gilt lines either side of the bands. Marbled paper covered boards clean bright and square. One slim section of text in the middle is detached but present otherwise text block and hinge firm. A few lightly pencilled annotations but still a very good copy indeed of a major work of political philosophy. <br/> <br/> C Davis hardcover
2021__0729411796LUP – Voltaire Foundation 2021. Hardcover. New. 644 pages. French language. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. LUP – Voltaire Foundation hardcover
176479132Basle Christ. Revis 1764. Parti 2 rilegati in 1 volume in 8° cartonato rustico coevo pp. VII 406 continuative leggere e marginali tracce di tarlo tavola in nero in antiporta con l'immagine del re piccolo vecchio restauro al frontespizio del primo volume. Fresca e buona copia di questo esemplare nelle sue barbe Basle, Christ. Revis unknown
1947149981Peter Pauper Press. Very Good/Good. 1947. Hard Cover with Slip Case. A431 Circa 1947 . Peter Pauper Press hardcover
193944846London The Nonesuch Press 1939. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY RICHARD ALDINGTON. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL MORAND. ILLUSTRATED BY SYLVAIN SAUVAGE. 4to. 147pp. 20 coloured plates and other text illustrations. PRESENTED BY RICHARD ALDINGTON TO JOHN ARLOTT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Aldington 1892-1962 was an English writer and poet. Arlott 1914-1991 was a famous cricket commentator and author. unknown
