"VOLTAIRE. - Lot 40

"VOLTAIRE. Œuvres. Second edition considerably enlarged, enriched with intaglio figures. [Paris, Michel Lambert], 1757, 23 volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary calf, ornate smooth spines, double title-piece, corner fleurons and triple fillet framing the boards. Illustrated with a portrait and 32 hors-texte engravings after Eisen. Issue of the 1757 edition in 22 volumes containing the Henriade, the plays, his mêlanges de poésies, his mêlanges de philosophie, de littérature et d'histoire, the philosophy of Newton, the Histoire de Charles XII, the Annales de l'Empire, and the Essai sur l'histoire générale, et sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à nos jours. The 23rd volume, bound identically, is La Pucelle d'Orléans, in the 1812 edition."