Verlag: İthaki Yayınları, 2014
ISBN 10: 6053754048 ISBN 13: 9786053754046
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Voltaire Foundation, 1986
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1986. No Edition Remarks. 542 pages. Paperback book with plain cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Spine tanned.
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: Torino , Giulio Einaudi, Torino, 1959
Anbieter: Libreria Alberto Govi di F. Govi Sas, Modena, Italien
Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). In 8vo (mm 213x133); pp. XVI, 455, [1]. Tela editoriale un po' sporca. Fa parte della collana "I Millenni", n. 10.
Verlag: Librairie d'Amateurs n.d, Paris
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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The Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's satirical novella. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt, with 46 monochrome plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. In fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, François-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment.
Verlag: Chez Francois Grasset & Comp, Lausanne, 1772
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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Early edition of Voltaire's biography of one of the most influential and widely translated writers of all time. Octavo, bound in full sprinkled sheepskin. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pictorial endpapers, all edges red, ribbon bound in. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Tasteful period bookplate. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, François-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment.
Verlag: Socià tà Littà raire-Typographique, 1785
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
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Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. Kehl, Baden, 1784 - 89. Complete 70 Volume Set. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' Famous first collected edition of Voltaire's works known as the 'Kehl Voltaire' Vols. 10, 27 and 28 printed 1784, summary volume 70 printed 1789, all others printed 1785. Bound in Uniform 18th century full brown mottled calf leather. front and rear boards have floral chain decorated borders; gilt spiral design on foredges. Spines decorated in gold floral and trophy designs with gilt titles and vol numbers on red and black labels. Marbled end papers and page edges. Green silk reading ribbons are bound in. - Approx 400 pages per volume. Volume 1 frontispiece engraving of Voltaire by Moreau.; Vol 16 frontispiece portrait of Voltaire; Vol 24 engraved map. Vol 31 14 engraved plates. - All 70 Vols are well bound, no cracked hinges, no loose pages. Varying degrees of edge wear; a few volumes have chipping to spines, or vol #s worn off. Browning or toning at times (mostly end papers) Otherwise, A Very Good Set!.
Verlag: Chez Jacques Desbordes, Amsterdam, 1738
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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First edition of one of the most elegantly illustrated science books ever printed and the book that introduced France to Newtonian physics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated seven folding engraved plates, headpieces and tailpieces and 60 in-text illustrations. In good condition, lacking the frontispiece. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, François-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment. "With the publication of the 'Elemens' Voltaire committed himself entirely to the propagation of Newtonianism, which he had first encountered during his exile in England from 1725-1728; to Voltaire, Newton's empiricism, experimental method and avoidance of dogma symbolized the Enlightenment's victorious assault on Christian theory and metaphysics" (Hook/Norman). "Voltaire witnessed the beginnings of the scientific revolution brought about by the impact of Newton's work⦠[and] played a key role in spreading knowledge of Newton" (Cambridge Companion, 48). This work unites two of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, Newton and Voltaire, whose "importance for the history of science lies particularly in his having composed⦠Ãlà ments." To many it established Voltaire as the "earliest exponent of the modern discipline of the history of science⦠One of the greatest compliments to Voltaire's work was its immediate translation and publication in England" the same year (Aldridge, Voltaire, 109). While exiled in England in the 1720s, Voltaire recognized the immense philosophical and scientific implications of Newton's genius, and saw "that Newton had shifted reason onto a new plane" (Silver, Ascent of Science, 55-6). "For Voltaire, Newton's scientific approach was just as revolutionary as political liberalism. It asserted that scientific truth had to be derived from observation and measurement of the physical world and that theories about the material world should be based on these measurable observations" (Oates, Encyclopedia of World Scientists, 135). Here Voltaire presents an extensive analysis of "Newton's work, particularly the Opticks (1704), as well as his underlying philosophy of science" and his theory of gravity (Schofield, Leadership or Chaos, ix). Before Voltaire, "France was under the 'spell' of Descartes' system⦠Newton's system, by contrast, 'provided a trustworthy instrument for predicting the motions of the planets⦠[and] led to the general decline of the Cartesian system and its total replacement by that of Newton'" (Barber cited in Shank, Newton Wars, 34). By 1750 "France had been converted from backward, erroneous Cartesianism to modern, Enlightened Newtonianism thanks to the heroic intellectual efforts of figures like Voltaire" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Newton's principles had "a profound effect on Voltaire's thought. They encouraged him to beware of theories and hypotheses unsupported by observation and experimentation, and his treatment of Bacon and Newton greatly helped to establish the preeminence of empirical philosophy in 18th-century French thought. Also, Newton's laws of gravitation inspired in Voltaire an abiding awe of the majesty of the heavens⦠The earliest expression of Voltaire's mystical sense of cosmic awe occurs in the dedicatory poem of the Elements" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Verlag: Geneve, 1768
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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First edition of one of Voltaire's best-known works of prose. Octavo, original full period calf, gilt titles to the spine, red morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Rare and desirable. âOne of Voltaireâs finest romancesâ, The Princess of Babylon relays the story of the beautiful Formosanta, who travels the world in search of her lover Amazan (Barron, Fantasy Literature I:88). Subtle in its philosophy, Voltaire breaks narrative conventions in this novella to foster Enlightenment values and in the process also âpokes fun at a number of literary traditionsâ (Pearson, Fables of Reason 196). The novella saw instant success upon publication and was in such demand that it was being illegally pirated in England, and printed under a false imprint of âGenevaâ when it was actually printed in London.
Verlag: Na Officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, Lisboa, 1790
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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First Portuguese edition of Voltaire's three tragedies translated into Portuguese. Octavo, bound in full period calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red spine label, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. A nice example. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, François-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment.
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
[Geneva, Cramer], 1765. Two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines ornamented in gilt and with morocco lettering-pieces, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (bound as volume 24 and 25 of a a collection of Voltaire' works, but published separately); pp. 280; 288, woodcut vignettes and headpieces; a few corners with wear, p. 6 in volume II with small paperflaw, otherwise a beautiful, clean and fresh set. First published in 1759, these two volumes are based on much insider information Voltaire could gather through his friendship with both Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great.