VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. (Kehl),... - Lot 177 - De Baecque et Associés

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VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. (Kehl),... - Lot 177 - De Baecque et Associés
VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. (Kehl), Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire Typographique, 1784-1789. 70 volumes in-8°, blond basane, gilt lace on the boards, very ornate smooth spine (P. Devers-Mali in Lyon). Famous edition of Voltaire's works, known as the "Kehl edition", "due to Beaumarchais who had created in Kehl a printing house expressly intended to carry out this great work" (Cohen 1044). The bulk of Voltaire's correspondence is published here for the first time. One of the copies on large paper (which are the only ones to contain the illustrations). Edition including the 10-page "Preface of the Editors", a title-frontispiece with a bust of Voltaire, a dedication with the portrait of Frederick William of Prussia, 94 figures by Moreau, 14 plates of physics and 16 portraits. A few quires foxed otherwise a pleasant copy in a binding signed by P. Devers Mali, bookbinder in Lyon.
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