Produktart
Zustand
Einband
Weitere Eigenschaften
Land des Verkäufers
Verkäuferbewertung
Anbieter: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris, Frankreich
[GUYOT-DESFONTAINES (F. F.)].Dictionnaire néologique à l'usage des beaux Esprits du Siècle.Avec l'éloge historique de Pantalon-Phoebus par un avocat de Province. Nouv. éd. corrigée et augm. de plus de deux cents articles, de la réception de l'Illustre Messire Christophe Mathanasius à l'Académie Française, d'une réponse de Monsieur le Doyen de l'Académie, des remarques, du Pantalon-Phébeana ou Mémoires, observations et anedoctes au sujet de Pantalon-Phoebus, de deux lettres d'un Rat Calotin à Citron Barbet au sujet de l'histoire des chats, etc.Amsterdam, 1731, in-12, rel. pl. veau, dos orné frotté, coiffes émoussées, mors et plats abîmés. 300 gr.
Verlag: Michel Charles le Cene, Amsterdam, 1747
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: very good. 428pp., 12mo, full mottled leather with gilt-decorated spine; bookplate inside front cover, some minor and scattered foxing, a very few small dampstains. Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene, 1747. Nouvelle Edition.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1739
Anbieter: Mats Rehnström Rare Books SVAF, ILAB, Stockholm, Schweden
Zustand: Very Good. Amsterdam, chez J. Desbordes, 1739. 8:o. V,(1),133 pp. & 1 engraved plate. + (DESFONTAINES, PIERRE FRANÇOIS GUYOT) La Voltairomanie avec le preservatif, et le factum du sr. Claude François Jore. A Londres, 1739. 8:o. (8),88 pp. Nice contemporary vellum with oxidized lettering on a coloured title area. Red edges. Boards and spine slightly soiled. First work with occasional minor spotting. Second work with a small hole on p. 55. Torsten Jungner's bookplate.Bengesco Voltaire. Bibliographie de ses oeuvres 118 for the first edition 1738. Plate engraved by P. Tanjé. Pierre Desfontaines (1685-1745) was a french journalist, translator and historian. Today he is probably best known for his quarrels with Voltaire. In his criticism, Desfontaines strived for the introduction of both estetics and ethics, which was the antithesis to the predominant criticism of the time, which was all about summaries, repetitions and paraphrases. His criticism was directed towards Voltaire's dramatic works, something which was seen as remarkable, since the latter had used his influence to help Desfontaines back to Paris after an unvoluntary exile. Voltaire responded to the criticism with a rather cutting satire entitled "Le préservatif, ou critique des observations sur les écrits modernes" (1738), to which Desfontaines responded anonymously with a short satire, "La Voltairomanie" (1738). This book contained all the scandalous stories which surrounded Voltaire and legal action followed suit. Voltaire however gave up when Desfontaines once again published "La Voltairomanie" in "Amsterdam gazette" on April 4 1739.