Defense de milord Bollingbroke [sic]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Defense de milord Bollingbroke [sic]
Classmark: Anglo-French 10 1752/VOL
Creator(s): Voltaire (1694-1778)
Related people: Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Publisher: Imprimé avec la permission des supérieurs, novembre
Publication city: [London?]
Date(s): 1752
Language: French
Size and medium: 22 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269684
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017817079705181
Description
Anonymous. By Voltaire, who composed this piece on the subject of the controversy that arose between Maupertuis and the German mathematician Samuel Koenig (cf. Bengesco 1624).
Presence of press figure 'I' on p.13 suggests an English origin.
May have been issued together with 'Diatribe du docteur Akakia', with imprint 'A Rome', 30p. The two were published together as 'Oeuvres mêlées d'un auteur célèbre, qui s'est retiré de France', Berlin [i.e. Paris?] (cf. Bengesco 2180 and BN, CCXIV-II 3869).
Additional description
Bound with one other publication by Voltaire. Volume contents: 1. Defense de Milord Bolingbroke ..., 1752. -- 2. Diatribe du docteur Akakia ..., 1753
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