VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. Kehl], From... - Lot 36 - L'Huillier & Associés

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VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. Kehl], From... - Lot 36 - L'Huillier & Associés
VOLTAIRE. Complete works. S. l. Kehl], From the Printing Office of the Literary Typographical Society, 1785-1789. 70 volumes in-8°, rooted calf, fine gilt serrated roulette wheel framing the plates, smooth spine with mosaic faux nerves, title and tomaison pieces in red morocco, gilt edges (period binding). A title-frontispiece decorated with the bust of Voltaire, a dedication with the portrait of Frédéric-Guillaume, 93 figures by MOREAU the Jeune, engraved by Bacquoy, Simonet, Lingée..., including seventeen portraits, and fourteen physics plates. Very small accident with four headdresses, marginal wetness on the first pages of volume 4 and freckles on some volumes, but GOOD EXAMPLE in BINDING from the ERA to the MOSAIC BACK, ILLUSTRATED from the FOLLOW-UP of MOREAU le Jeune. Bengesco, 2142; Cohen, 1042-1047 ("Famous edition, due to Beaumarchais [...] One of Moreau's masterpieces").
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