VoltaireOeuvres de M. De Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition,... Lot 884

VoltaireOeuvres de M. De Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition, Revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée, (avec des Figures en Taille-douce). 9 vols. With engraved frontispiece portrait and a total of 23 copper plates. Amsterdam, Ledet, 1738-1756 and Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arckstee & Merkus, 1745 (vol. 6). 8°. Uniformly bound in spotted cloth of the period with gilt-stamped ribbed label and gilt lettering, red edges and marble endpapers (somewhat rubbed, spine partly somewhat stronger). Voltaire Oeuvres de M. De Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition, Revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée, (avec des Figures en Taille-douce). 9 vols. With engraved frontispiece portrait and a total of 23 copper plates. Amsterdam, Ledet, 1738-1756 and Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arckstee & Merkus, 1745 (vol. 6). 8°. Uniformly bound in spotted cloth of the period with gilt-stamped ribbon marker and gilt lettering, red edges and marbled endpapers (somewhat rubbed, spine partly somewhat stronger). Contains a further volume from the "Collection complette des Oeuvres" with the "Seconde Suite des Melanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, de Philosophie &c.", here uniformly bound as the 2nd part of vol. 5, but belonging to the edition by Cramer in Geneva 1761. - The first four volumes correspond to the edition often regarded as self-contained, which was published by Ledet in 1738-1739 and is each illustrated with an engraved title vignette and a total of one engraved portrait and 18 copper plates. The design of the title pages changes from vol. 5 onwards, vols. 8 and 9 without the addition "augmentée avec des figures en taille douce", but no longer illustrated from vol. 7 onwards. - Some browning and occasional inconspicuous spotting. Overall very well-preserved and decorative edition. 9 vols. With engraved frontispiece portrait and a total of 23 copper plates. Uniformly bound in cont. leather with gilt label and gilt decoration on spine, red edges and marbled endpapers (somewhat rubbed, spines somewhat stronger in places). - Contains a further volume from the "Collection complette des Oeuvres" with the "Seconde Suite des Melanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, de Philosophie &c.", here uniformly bound as the 2nd part of vol. 5, but belonging to the edition by Cramer in Geneva 1761. - The first four volumes correspond to the edition often regarded as being complete in itself, which was published by Ledet in 1738-1739 and is each illustrated with an engraved title vignette as well as a total of one engraved portrait and 18 copper plates. The design of the title pages changes from vol. 5 onwards, vols. 8 and 9 without the addition "augmentée avec des figures en taille douce", but already no longer illustrated from vol. 7 onwards. - Somewhat browned and sporadically inconspicuously stained. Overall a very well-preserved and decorative edition.