Voltaire - Oeuvres de Voltaire - 1820

Works of Voltaire – Large important set of 37 volumes – Paris Edition 19th century – Incomplete
• Author : Voltaire
• Title : Works of Voltaire
• Place of publication : Paris
• Publishers : Carez, Thomine and Fortic, booksellers, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs
• Date : around 1820–1821
• Format : small octavo (about 16 × 9 cm)
• Binding : homogeneous antique bindings, smooth spines with titles and gilt-tooled
• Pagination : very extensive (about 15,000 pages accumulated)

Volumes numbered :

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 11 –13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 19 – 21 – 22 – 23 –24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 29 –43 – 44 – 46 – 47 –51 – 52 – 53 – 54 –56 – 57 – 58 – 59 – 60.

Total : 37 volumes present

The present volumes cover, notably:
• Theatre (a largely represented series)
• Poetry (partial series)
• Essay on Manners
• Centuries of Louis XIV and Louis XV
• History of Russia
• Annals of the Empire
• Historical miscellanies
• Politics and Legislation
• General Philosophy
• Commentaries on Corneille
• General correspondence (partial)
• Correspondence with the sovereigns
• Correspondence with d’Alembert

• 37 volumes well bound, a homogeneous set
• Spines in good condition, legible titling
• Many foxings and sometimes pronounced, typical of 19th-century paper
• Interiors complete for each present volume, pages legible
• Normal wear for an old working library

The volumes are offered as visible in the photographs. The set comprises 37 non-consecutively numbered volumes and does not constitute a complete edition. Any absence of volumes is in accordance with the above description

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