Lot n° 440
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François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Voyages et Aventures d'un - Lot 440
François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Voyages et Aventures d'une Princesse Babylonienne, To serve as a sequel to those of Scarmentado. By an old Philosopher, who doesn't always ramble. In Geneva, Paris, 1768. In-8 of (4)-156 pp. The Man of the Forty Eccuses. No place, 1768. In-8 of 124 pp. Les Droits des Hommes, et les Usurpations des Autres. Translated from the Italian by the Author of L'Auteur de l'Homme aux quarante écus. In Amsterdam, 1768. In-8 of 47 pp. Le Dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers, By Mr. St. Hiacinte. In Amsterdam, Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1768. In-8 of 48 pp. 4 pieces bound in 1 vol. in-8, marbled havana calf, spine decorated with nerves, jagged edges (binding of the time). 1. New edition of the Princess of Babilone, divided into 22 chapters with summaries instead of the 11 chapters of the original edition published the same year. This edition is said to be "truncated and corrupted" according to the words of the Count of Argental in the letter he addressed "to a publisher" published in the Mercury of December 1768. Bengesco quotes an eloquent passage in this regard where Voltaire's own text is hijacked and rewritten (pp. 126-127 "He was invited that evening to supper (...) to these favors"). Bengesco, 1494; Oeuvre imprimé de Voltaire à la B.N., 2937. 2. Edition made after the second edition in Geneva, published in the year of the original. Excerpts from these physiocratic reveries were first printed in the Mercure de France, July and August 1768. This book is directed against the Wealth of the State by Roussel de La Tour (1763), and against L'Ordre naturel et esentiel des sociétés politiques by Le Mercier de La Rivière (1767). "It is a work of progress, celebrating the march of reason, tolerance, experience, like the other writings from this Ferney that V., lord of the village, organized and revalorized following the example of Candide's smallholding. Here, words meet deeds. Both being exemplary " (J. Vercruysse). Bengesco, 1482; Oeuvre imprimé d
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