Sale 7386
London, South Kensington
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25 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 748
Estimate
VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Collection Complète des Oeuvres de Monsieur de Voltaire. Nouvelle édition, Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764, 12°, volumes I-XVIII only (? of 19) bound in 21 volumes, 12°; Essai sur l'Histoire Générale et sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations, Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764, 7 volumes, 8°; Lettres Secrettes, Geneva: 1765, 12°, together 29 bound volumes, forming as a uniform set of works in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and morocco lettering-pieces giving titles and volume numbers (lacking vol. 22, spine of vol. 24 split, one label lacking from vol. 19). With Voltaire's Contes de Guillaume Vadé. Première partie, Europe: 1764, 12°, uniformly bound with the above set though with no volume number on spine -- and 2 other volumes, also including his Le Siecle de Louis XIV (vol. I only, Frankfurt, 1753) uniformly bound but numbered "I" on spine. The lot sold not subject to return. (32)
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This set of Voltaire's works, as numbered on the spines, lacks a volume 22. Unlike the other volumes, the Contes has no number on the spine, and though otherwise uniformly bound presumably stands outside the numbered sequence.
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