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VOLTAIRE - Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton, mis à la portée de tout le monde. Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1738. In-8, 200 x 130 mm, contemporary brown calf, six-ribbed spine, title-piece (spines cracked, boards loose, ex. to be bound) [2], 399, [1] pp. title printed in red and black. Frontispiece, portrait of Voltaire, 7 off-texts (3 of which cut to the TC and flyleaf). FIRST EDITION. Bengesco attributes it to both the publisher E. Ledet and Jacques Desbordes. Edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece engraved by Folkema after Dubourg, a portrait of Voltaire by Folkema, 6 plates of scientific diagrams, a folding "Table des couleurs & des tons de la musique" (p. 182), copper-engraved head and tailpieces. Handwritten provenances to title: Louis Fromont, surgeon in Charleroi, 1811; Louis Fromont fils, 1891. Ex-libris R. Rickaert. Bengesco, 1570; Cohen, 1037. Some foxing.
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