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[VOLTAIRE]. 8 tragedies, 1772-1793, published in Toulouse, b…
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Lot no. 160
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Sale date : 12/10/2025 at 10:30 AM
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Books, manuscripts, old papers and historical documents
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[VOLTAIRE]. 8 tragedies, 1772-1793, published in Toulouse, by Brouilhet, of which 6 are missing from BEGENSCO. Collection in-8°. ● Sémiramis. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] Nouvelle édition, conforme aux représentations du Théâtre Français. Toulouse, Brouilhet, 1786. 52 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Tancrède. Tragedy in five acts. [...] New edition conforming to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Id. 1785. 56 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Irène. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. Id. 1784. 39 pp. [Bengesco, I, 303]. ● Mérope. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] Nouvelle édition conforme aux représentations du Théâtre Français. Id. 1786. 44 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Mahomet, ou le Fanatisme, Tragédie en cinq actes. [...] New edition conforming to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Id. 1791. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Brutus, Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] New edition. Id. 1793. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Les Pélopides, Tragedy. Conforms to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Geneva and Paris, Valade, 1772. 41 pp. [The last leaf is bound at the end of the collection. Bengesco refers to 64 pp; our edition has 41]. ● Adélaïde du Guesclin, Tragédie. Toulouse, Brouilhet, 1784. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. Ivory half vellum, mute spine with 4 raised bands (contemporary binding). The collection includes various plays of the period as well as Esther and Athalie by RACINE, Polyeucte by CORNEILLE. La Fausse Agnès, ou le Poète campagnard, a comedy in three acts by NERICAULT-DESTOUCHES, from scene 7 act I, which was inserted between the first two and the last quires of Gaston et Bayard, a tragedy by BELLOY, the plays thus being truncated. Binding rubbed.
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