[VOLTAIRE, François Marie-Arouet de].
The Philosophy of History. By the late Abbé Bazin. Amsterdam, Changuion, [Geneva, Cramer], 1765. 1 vol. in-8. Full blond glazed calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, red morocco title-piece, gilt edges.
Work containing "bold propositions which made him condemned" (Quérard), dedicated by Voltaire to the empress Catherine II of Russia.
Edition at the date of the original. Copy of Jean de Boullongne, counsellor at the Parliament of Metz.
Handwritten bookplate on the false-title: Naigeon le jeune, and Cte Alphonse de la Guère, on the back of the flyleaf.
O.H.R. pl. 24, n°1.
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