Shelfmark
Fm.9.02(04)
Author
Title
Defense de milord Bollingbroke, par le docteur Good Natur'd Vellvisher, chapelain du comte de Chesterfield. Traduit de l'anglois..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London?] : Imprimé avec la permission des supérieurs., Novembre, 1752..
Physical description
22 p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Note
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴(-B4).
Note
Anonymous. By Voltaire, who composed this piece on the subject of the controversy that arose between Maupertuis and the German mathematician Samuel Koenig (cf. Bengesco 1624).
Note
Presence of press figure '1' on p.13 suggests an English origin.
Note
May have been issued together with 'Diatribe du docteur Akakia', with imprint 'A Rome', 30p. The two were published together as 'Oeuvres mêlées d'un auteur célèbre, qui s'est retiré de France', Berlin [i.e. Paris?] (cf. Bengesco 2180 and BN, CCXIV-II 3869).
Note
With a half-title.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N48340
Provenance
Bookplate of Nicholas Mann inside front cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1754. Armorial bookplate of Eton College inside back cover.
Binding
18th century quarter binding in brown calf; five raised bands; marbled paper sides; text block edges sprinkled red; spine label wanting, with tooling visible "Miscellan: II.".
Copy-specific note
Bound in a volume of pamphlets. Ms. contents list on front flyleaf: "Contents ..."
Subject
Subject
Subject
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (), 1678 - 1751 Viscount, Letters on the study and use of history.
Subject
Deism Early works to 1800.
Subject
Satire, French Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--title
Oeuvres mêlées d'un auteur célèbre, qui s'est retiré de France.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
fre eng
Identifier
B47407