1768 1ed Voltaire Man Forty Crowns + Pythagoras Metempsychosis + Mousquetaires
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. One of Voltaire’s lesser-known works was his philosophical essay ‘L’Homme aux quatre écus’ or “The Man with the Forty Crowns”. This works discusses the parity in wealth in France offering his perspective on taxes, monetary circulation, governmental treasuries, and the manipulation of finances. Humorously, the satirical Voltaire suggests a tax on intelligence!
This tome also includes two other treatises – Jean Olivier’s edition of Pythagoras’s speech and study on metempsychosis and the reincarnation of the soul; as well as Louis Desbief’s discourse on musketeering.
1768 1ed Voltaire Man Forty Crowns + Pythagoras Metempsychosis + Mousquetaires
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. One of Voltaire’s lesser-known works was his philosophical essay ‘L’Homme aux quatre écus’ or “The Man with the Forty Crowns”. This works discusses the parity in wealth in France offering his perspective on taxes, monetary circulation, governmental treasuries, and the manipulation of finances. Humorously, the satirical Voltaire suggests a tax on intelligence!
This tome also includes two other treatises – Jean Olivier’s edition of Pythagoras’s speech and study on metempsychosis and the reincarnation of the soul; as well as Louis Desbief’s discourse on musketeering.
Item number: #11806
Price: $750
Author: VOLTAIRE
Title: L’homme aux quarante écus.
Publishing: Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associes, 1768. 1st edition
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Author: DESBIEFS, Louis
Title: Passe-tems de mousquetaires, ou, Les loisirs bien employés : choix de petits contes modernes
Publishing: Au Quartier Géneral : De l’imprimerie de Tambour-Major, En tout tems [i.e. 1775]
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Author: OLIVIER, Jean
Title: La métempsycose discours prononcé par Pythagore, dans l’école de Crotone.
Publishing: Amsterdam : Chez Prault, 1760.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 works in 1
- Voltaire – [2], 102
- Desbiefs – [3], 6-190, [2]
- Olivier – xxii, 77, [1]
- Language: French
- Binding: Leather; tight & secure
- Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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11806
Category
Literature
Authors
various
Printing Date
18th Century
Language
French
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete