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Voltaire,
The famous French enlightenment thinker and writer. A champion of civil liberties and great wit. On his deathbed, Voltaire was offered the chance to renounce the devil. His alleged reply is pure Voltaire: 'Now is not the time to be making new enemies.' He had frequent troubles with the authorities and high ranking nobles. After falling out with the influential de Rohan family he was imprisoned in the Bastille. He successfully asked to be exiled to England which was accepted by the French authorities as a serious alternative punishment. He lived in Wandsworth and met everybody who was everybody.
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1865 Voltaire a Ferney: Sa Correspondance Avec la Duchesse de Saxe-GothaParis: 1865A scarce detailed account of Voltaire's correspondence and letters to Duchess Saxe-Gotha, in the original French. -
1808 Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de SuedeLondon: 1808An early nineteenth century edition of Voltaire's 'Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede', in the original French. -
1929 CandideNew York: 1929Voltaire's scandalous tale of 'Candide' with the illustrations by Rockwell Kent, first edition thus. -
1996 Candide, or OptimismMarlborough: 1996A beautiful large paper copy of Voltaire's scandalous novel Candide, one of a very scarce limited edition. -
1765 Oeuvres de MoliereAmsterdam; Leipzig : 1765A complete collection of the works of J. B. de Moliere, an eighteenth century scarce edition edited by M de Voltaire and illustrated with engravings by J Punt, in uniform full calf bindings, -
1768-77 Collection Complette des Oeuvres de Mr. de VoltaireGeneve: 1768-77The first folio edition of the complete collected works of Voltaire, an original French set in a mottled calf binding complete with illustrations throughout. -
1756 The History of the War of 1741Not Stated: 1756An early English edition of Voltaire's history of the 1741 war, bound in smart contemporary leather. -
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1982 La Pucelle d'OrleansParis: 1982A smart copy of the Voltaire classic, The Maid of Orleans. In the original French. Illustrated throughout with many erotic coloured and engraved plates. Limited to 3050 copies, of which this is numbered 2024.