first edition Hardcover
1738 · Amsterdam
by Voltaire, [François Marie-Arouet]
Amsterdam: Etienne Ledet & Compagnie, 1738. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], 4-399, [3] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; all edges decoratively stained red. A blue silk-ribbon bookmark bound in. Title page printed in red and black with the publisher's device engraved on it. Illustrated with two frontispieces, six plates, a folding table, a full-page chart, in-text engravings and diagrams, and engraved head and tailpieces (quite elaborate ones). Babson 59-60. Bengesco 1570. Gray 33. PMM 97. SEP, Barbara Becker, "Émilie du Châtelet". The first state, as the Desbordes (truncated)