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Voltaire (1694-1778)99
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)92
Beisson, Francois-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)92
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)92
Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827)92
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-17511
Calas, Jean, 1698-17621
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-16831
Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)1
La Font De Saint-Yenne1

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Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1738

With a half-title. Pp. 93-96 repeated and pp. 311-312 omitted in pagination; but text and register continuous. The imprint is false; printed in Paris, by Prault. Published in Paris.

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Appel à toutes les nations de l'Europe, des jugemens d'un écrivain anglais; ou manifeste au sujet des honneurs du pavillon entre les théâtres de Londres & de Paris

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1761

"Cet opuscule [par Voltaire] a reparu sous ce titre "Du théâtre anglois", par Jérôme Carré" - Barbier, v.1, col. 259. Half-title reads "Suite de la collection complette des oeuvres de M. de ***...

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Traité sur la tolérance

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1763

Probably published in Paris. On the case of Jean Calas. By Voltaire.

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L'ombre du grand Colbert, le Louvre, & la ville de Paris, dialogue. Reflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France. Avec quelques lettres de l'auteur à ce sujet

La Font de Saint-Yenne; Voltaire (1694-1778); Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606)

1752

Title on spine: L'Ombr de Colber. "Réflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France" has special t.p. Engraved frontispiece signed: D.L.F. inven. Eisen idæm expres. Le...

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Defense de milord Bollingbroke [sic]

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1752

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 figu...

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Zara : a tragedy as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Voltaire (1694-1778)

1778

Two columns to a page.

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.1)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.2)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.3)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.4)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire (v.5)

Voltaire (1694-1778); Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799); Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de (1743-1794); Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827); Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)

1785-1789

Edited by Beaumarchais, Marquis de Condorcet and Decroix. Portrait engraved by François Joseph Etienne Beisson. Printed with Baskerville types under the direction of J. F. Letellier and later of J. ...

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