Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 64 records

Total number of records: 64

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection8
English Literature5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
epic poetry2
french literature2
architecture1
crusades1
english literature1
french letters1
imaginary letters1
metamorphosis1
painting, french1
philosophers1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
France51
Germany2
Holy Roman Empire2
Great Britain1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Voltaire (1694-1778)64
Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite (1673-1729)32
Maintenon, Madame De, 1635-171932
La Beaumelle, Laurent Angliviel De (1726-1773)31
Du Fresne De Francheville, Joseph (1704-1781)6
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-16102
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-17152
Voltaire2
Voltaire, 1694-17782
Academie Des Sciences, Arts Et Belles Lettres De Dijon (France)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170055
From 18009

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179954
Up to 189910

Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Tancrede : tragedie

Voltaire (1694-1778)

[1825?]

Wanting title-page; catalogued from half-title. Probably incomplete: catchword 'A' at foot of final page. Part-title, p.[1], reads "Théâtre. Tom. V." at foot.

More details


Archive Print Item

Éloge de Louis, dauphin de France

Thomas M (1732-1785); Voltaire (1694-1778)

[1766?]

With a letter from Voltaire to Antoine Thomas.

More details


Archive Print Item

An essay upon the civil wars of France, extracted from curious manuscripts : And also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer down to Milton

Voltaire (1694-1778); Prevost, N

1731

The "Discourse on tragedy" forms the epistle dedicatory to Lord Bolingbroke, originally prefixed to Brutus. "Intended as a kind of preface or introduction to the Henriade."

More details


Archive Print Item

An essay upon the civil wars of France, extracted from curious manuscripts. : And also upon the epick poetry of the European nations, from Homer down to Milton

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1728

"Intended as a kind of preface or introduction to the Henriade"--Page iv. Written by Voltaire in English. Cf. BN. ESTC notes that the printer's ornaments are those of Henry Woodfall.

More details


Archive Print Item

Étrennes à la nation

Washington, George (1732-1799); Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier marquis de (1757-1834); Voltaire (1694-1778); Richelieu, Louis François Armand Du Plessis duc de (1696-1788); France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791)

1789

Anon. Contents: Etrennes a la nation. Extrait d'une lettre du général Washington, à M. le marquis de la Fayette -- Extrait d'une lettre de Voltaire, à M. le maréchal de Richelieu. 20 mai 1771 -...

More details


Archive Print Item

La pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants avec des notes

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1762

Head and tail pieces. "C'est la première édition avouée par l'auteur... Le chant XX est une version presque entièrement nouvelle du chant XV de 1755, ou XVIII de 1756." -- J. M. Quérard, La Fra...

More details


Archive Print Item

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...

More details


Archive Print part

Diatribe du docteur Akakia medecin du pape : decret de l'Inquisition et rapport des professeurs de Rome, au sujet d'un prétendu président

Voltaire (1694-1778)

1753

Anonymous. By Voltaire, who composed this piece on the basis of the controversy that arose between Maupertuis and the German mathematician Samuel Koenig (cf. Bengesco 1624). The imprint is fictitiou...

More details


Archive Print part

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...

More details


Archive Print Item

Letters concerning the English nation

Voltaire (1694-1778); Lockman, John (1698-1771)

MDCCXLI [1741]

Translation, by John Lockman, of Lettres philosophiques. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Published first in English in 1733, and in France a year later under the title "Lettres philosophiques." The hypothesis (BN...

More details