1768 1ed Voltaire Man Forty Crowns + Pythagoras Metempsychosis + Mousquetaires

1768 1^ed 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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