Lettres écrites de Londres sur les Anglois, et autres sujets Suivant la copie imprimée à Londres [Bound after:] Alzire ou les Americains, Tragedie [and:] La Mort de Cesar, Tragedie.

se vend à Amsterdam [i.e. Rouen]: Chez Jaques [sic] Des-Bordes, 1739.

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Early edition of Voltaire’s Lettres Philosophiques. Originally published in English, 1733, under title: Lettres concerning the English nation. Collation: *[π]2,*A-*M8. [4], 176, [11] pp. Title leaf and preface (*1 & *2) repeated in Table at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed with losses to spine ends and corners. Small loss in bottom blank margin of last leaf. Bengesco 1558, vol. 2, p. 19-20; Lanson, 39.

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Early edition of the Lettres Philosophiques, published as part of the Rouen edition of the works of Voltaire, with the imprint, Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie. This text is in 26 letters with the last being Sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. The two tragedies preceding it are Alzire pp. 1-88; and La Mort de Cesar pp. 89-152 (signed A-K in 8s).