Voltaire - La Henriade. Poëme - 1737

A rare and fascinating eighteenth-century edition of La Henriade, Voltaire's celebrated epic poem about the events of Henry IV of France during the Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestants.
The edition is indicated on the title page as “Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée,” i.e. revised by the author with corrections and enlargements compared to previous versions.

Voltaire, La Henriade, Poëme, Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée, Londra [ma Paris?], [s. e.], 1737.

PP.: XXXI, (I), 364, (I). COMPLETE (Some copies include a portrait in the frontispiece).

Copy with plates in overall very good condition. Usual signs of time usage.

Volume bound in full leather, with title on a inlaid piece and gilt tooling on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Red edges.