VOLTAIRE. 12-volume set, 10 bound and 2 paperback. - Lot 76

VOLTAIRE. 12-volume set, 10 bound and 2 paperback. Collection d'anciens Évangiles, ou Monumens du premier siècle du christianisme. ÀLondres, [Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey], 1769. In-8, ornate marbled brown basane. First edition (Bengesco, n°1776). Provenance: Castillon (ex-libris printed vignette) then Belgian bibliophile Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (1762-1836, ex-libris printed vignette). -Contes de Guillaume Vadé. [Geneva, Cramer], 1764. In-8, ornate marbled brown half-basane; worn binding with restored head (period binding). First edition (Bengesco, 660). Bound in: Examen du Voltéranisme. S.l.n.n., 1757. In-8. Attributed to Edme-Louis Billardon de Sauvigny. Includes, printed following the poetic suite entitled, "Epîtres d'un homme désintéressé à M.de Voltaire, sur son poëme de la religion naturelle". -L'Évangile du jour. London, [i.e. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey], 1769. 6tomes in 3volumes in-8, garnet half-basin (period binding). First edition (Bengesco, 1904). Head of this collection, published from 1769 to 1780 and comprising a total of 18 volumes. -L'Homme aux quarante écus. London, s.n., 1768. Paperback, in-8. Original date edition. Comprising (4)-89-(one blank)pp. not referenced by Georges Bengesco. -Letter [...] to M.d'Alembert. [Paris, Prault, 1763]. In-8, bound in the volume of Contes de Guillaume Vadé above. First edition (Bengesco, 1939). -Nanine, comédie. ÀParis, chez P.G.LeMercier, M.Lambert, 1749. Paperback, in-8. Published the same year as the original (Bengesco, n°197). -Œdipe, tragedy. ÀParis, chez Pierre Ribou, Pierre Huet, Jean Mazuel et Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1719. In-8, ornate seeded brown calf; worn binding (period binding). First edition (Bengesco,2). Provenance: Edme Blondeaux (manuscript bookplate). -Le Pauvre diable. ÀParis, s.n., 1758 [i.e. 1760]. In-8, bound in the volume of Contes de Guillaume Vadé above. Published the same year as the original in-4, with, printed subsequently and also by Voltaire, Vanité et Requête de Jérôme Carré (Bengesco, 682). -Collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse. ÀLondres [i.e. Rouen, no doubt], aux dépends de la Société, 1741. In-12, ornate marbled brown calf; worn binding with rebacked headbands, spines and corners (period binding). Published the same year as the original in-8 (Bengesco, 2194). Includes the Essai sur le siècle de LouisXIV, banned by the censors, and numerous verse pieces on Man, fanaticism, the physics of Newton, Descartes, Malebranche, Fontenelle, etc. A copy bound with the coat of arms of Jean-Claude Fauconnet de Vildé, Councillor of the City of Paris (gilded coat of arms on the boards, OHR, pl.n°1654). -Collection of new fugitive pieces in prose and verse. Ibid. In-12, bound in the Recueil volume above. First edition of this collection of plays, partly original (Bengesco, n°2195). Includes a short story, and poetic pieces, mainly circumstantial. Bound at the end, Voltaire's Poésies diverses (64pp.) from the volume LaLigue ou Henri le Grand published in 1724 in Amsterdam by Henri Desbordes. A reader in the eighteenth century inscribed in ink on the last page a response to the last poem in Voltaire's collection, based on Jean Racine's poem de la Grâce. -LeRusse à Paris. S.l.n.n., [1760]. In-8, bound in the volume of Contes de Guillaume Vadé above. Published the same year as the original in-4 (Bengesco, 688). -Le Siècle de LouisXIV. ÀBerlin, chez C.F.Henning, 1751. 2volumes in-12, decorated brown calf, unidentified coat of arms gilded on the boards; worn binding with wetness on the boards and some restorations to the spines (English binding of the period). First edition (Bengesco, n°1178) -Traité sur la tolérance. [Geneva, Gabriel Cramer], 1763. In-8, half brown marbled basane (modern binding). Published the same year as the original. Comprising (2d of which the second blank)-213-(one blank)pp. it is not listed by Georges Bengesco.