- Lot 531

[VOLTAIRE ]- The Maid of Orleans. Poem, divided into 21 songs, with notes. New edition, corrected, increased & collated on the author's manuscript. S.l.s.n., [Geneva, Cramer], 1762. In-8, 185 x 115 mm, contemporary speckled green calf, gilt framing on the boards, smooth ornate spine, title-piece, gilt edges (spine faded and cracked, small lack on the lower board). [2], viii, 358 pp. Illustrated with 20 unsigned engraved plates. Bengesco, I, 131. Some foxing and/or browning, upper margin of last 5 ff. restored and strengthened, small loss of text in one or two places. ENCLOSED, OF THE SAME: - La Henriade, en dix chants, précédée, accompagnée, & suivie de toutes les piéces rélatives à ce poëme & à la poësie épique en général ; auxquelles on a joint le Temple du goût, les Discours sur l'homme, les Poèmes, de Fontenoy, sur le désastre de Lisbonne, sur la loi naturelle, &c. Geneva, [Cramer], 1768. In-4, 270 x 200 mm, [2 (of 4, without the false title)], xxxii, 483 pp. Contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, title-piece (headpieces torn off, corners dull, jaws cracked to split at head and tail). Frontispiece and 10 gr. plates by J.-J. Flipart, A.-J. Duclos, D. Née, J.-F. Rousseau, de Lorraine, J.-B. Simonet, C. Le Vasseur and N. de Launay, after Gravelot, portrait of Henri IV gr. by Cathelin, after Jannet and portrait of Gravelot gr. by J. Massard, after La Tour. Volume I only of the "Collection complette des Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire". Bengesco, IV, 73. One endpaper torn off, margin of frontispiece perforated, foxing and browning. TOGETHER 2 VOLUMES.