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VOLTAIRE.- Élémens de la philosophie de Neuton, mis à la porté de tout le monde. Amsterdam, Etienne Ledet & Compagnie, 1738. In-8° (belles marges : 200 mm) : portrait de Voltaire, frontisp., [2]-399-[1 d'errata] pp. Rel. de l'époque : pleine basane marbrée, dos fleuronné doré à nerfs, roul. dorée sur les coupes, tr. jaspées de bleu (coins inf. lég. émoussés, pet. craquelures sur les mors sinon bon aspect).
Edition originale. Exemplaire de premier tirage en 25 chapitres : l'édition de 1738 fut publiée par les libraires hollandais Ledet et Desbordes à qui Voltaire, malade, avait confié le manuscrit incomplet des "Élemens". Ledet, impatient, fit achever l'ouvrage (chapitres XXIV et XXV) par un mathématicien hollandais et le mit en vente à la fin mars ou au début d'avril 1738. Voltaire se décida alors à publier dans les "Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts" des "Éclaircissements" et, devant le succès de l'éd. hollandaise, fit paraître chez Prault à Paris une édition augmentée d'un nouveau chapitre (XXVI) que les libraires hollandais s'empressèrent de joindre aux exemplaires des "Élemens" non encore débités.
Illustré d'après Dubourg d'1 portrait et 1 frontispice gravés par Folkema,- d'1 vignette de titre gravée par Duflos,- 7 hors-texte dont 1 dépliant ("Table des couleurs et des tons de la musique"),- 27 bandeaux et 22 culs-de-lampe (certains répétés) gravés par Folkema, Lacave, B. Picart... et de 61 figures géométriques in texto.
# Bengesco 1570; # [Cat. expo] Voltaire. Brux., KBR, 1978, n° 16; # Cohen 1037.
Provenance : J. Champeaux (mention ms.); Jean Jacobs (ex-libris). 1.000 Euros
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