Voltaire: ‘Philosophie’
Reference code
MSS/0763
Title
Voltaire: ‘Philosophie’
Date
After 1767
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; pp. ii + 1-69; i + 70-139. Two volumes.
Quarto.
Marbled boards. Labels 29, 30 on the spines.
Quarto.
Marbled boards. Labels 29, 30 on the spines.
Scope and content
An Answer to the Philosophy of History In a Series of Letters to the Marquiss of C+++ Translated from the French of Father Viret Conventual Cordelier.. A Lyon chez Benoît Duplain.. 1767' (Vol. I, p. ii). A translation of Louis Viret, Réponse à la Philosophie de l'histoire (Lyon, 1767). Two volumes. Voltaire's Philosophie was first published ostensibly in Amsterdam (1765) but actually in Geneva. See G. Bengesco, Voltaire Bibliographie, I (1882), 333-4.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/763