VOLTAIRE. complete works. Kehl], Imprimerie de la Société littéraire typographique, 1785-1789; 92 vol. in-8, contemporary bindings in light shagreened calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt designs, green and red parts, inner lace and gilt edges. Some headpieces and corners restored.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S WORKS, published by Beaumarchais in Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, to escape censorship. It contains many unpublished works as well as all the works that had been prosecuted and banned and several thousand letters of Voltaire that were a revelation. Portrait and 14 folded scientific plates.
COLLECTION IN DECORATIVE BINDINGS DESPITE MINOR DEFECTS.
Joint :
VOLTAIRE. 157 engravings to illustrate the complete works. Paris, Renouard, 1802; bound in one vol. in-8 in basane racinée, smooth spine decorated, red part. - Suite of 44 portraits (34 by Aug. de Saint-Aubin) and 113 FIGURES BY JEAN-MICHEL MOREAU DIT LE JEUNE. The latter are different from the 93 composed by the artist for the large in-8 copies of the same edition. They will only appear in 1819 in an edition published by Renouard.
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