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"CETTE EDITION EST FORT BELLE" (BEUCHOT). THE RARE FIRST DRESDEN EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S WORKS IN A FINE BINDING WITH TWO PRESTIGIOUS PROVENANCES.Large 8vo. 9 vols, 8 printed in 1748 and 1 in 1750 (A 10th supplementary volume was issued four years later, in 1754 – here not present and very rarely found to complete the series). First volume with frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Jean-Joseph Balechou after Maurice Quentin de La Tour's painting; 20 full-page plates (11 to the 1st, 5 to the 4th and 4 to the 5th volume) by Johann Martin Bernigeroth, some of which, according to Bengesco, were engraved after the illustrations of La Henriade (1728, 4to) and others after those of the collected and separate editions of Voltaire's Théâtre. 17 folding plates at the end of the 6th volume illustrating Voltaire's scientific works. 38 plates in total. Half-titles, titles in red and black, engraved vignettes on title-pages, numerous head- and tail-pieces. Bound in strictly contemporary sumptuous fauve… Read More
