Lot n° 439
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François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Recueil nécessaire. At Le - Lot 439
François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Recueil nécessaire. At Leipsik Geneva, Cramer, 1765. In-8 of VIII-319 pp., marbled havana calf, smooth spine decorated, red morocco titleplate (contemporary binding). First edition of L'Examen important de Milord Bolingbroke which occupies 136 of the 319 pages of this first published collection. Of the eight pieces contained in this collection, only the first two are not by Voltaire: they are the Analysis of the Christian Religion by Du Marsais and the Vicar Savoyard, taken from L'Émile de Rousseau. Following this, we find six plays by Voltaire: the Catechism of the Honest Man, the Sermon of the Fifty, an important Examination by Milord Bolingbroke, the Dialogue of the Doubter and the Adorer, the Last Words of Epictetus to his son, the Ideas of La Mothe Le Vayer and the Testament of Jean Meslier. An epicurean dish. L'Oeuvre imprimé de V. à la B.N., 5293.
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