Lot 999
Live veiling
Bibliothèque de Voltaire. Catalogue des livres = Biblioteka Voltera. Katalog knig.
€ 100 / 150
Live bieden (Drouot*) Live bieden (Invaluable*)Biedingen zijn afgesloten.
Beschrijving lot
Moscow, Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 1961
8vo: 1166-[6] pp.
Publ. cloth. Good copy.
Very scarce full catalogue of the personal library of Voltaire, bought by Catherine the Great on Voltaire's death, and currently housed in the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg. Each book is catalogued in the original language; introduction and all notes are in Russian.
Joined: 1. Collection voltairienne du Comte de Launoit. Brussels, Weissenbruch, 1955. 4to. Limited ed. (n. 91/300). Collection donated to the Royal Library of Belgium. - 2. "Voltaire", in: Quérard, J.M. - La France littéraire, T. 10 (1842), pp. 276-457 [bound with] "Voltaire", in: Biographie universelle [...], T. 49 (1827), pp. 464-512. 8vo. Bound. Loosely inserted: Pseudonymes de Voltaire. S.l., s.n., s.d. 12mo: 19 pp. Sewn. - 3. Voltaire. Exposition catalogue. Brussels, KBR, 1978. 4to. Sewn. (4 vol.)