Philadelphia: Printed by and for W. Spotswood, 1792. First American edition. Evans 24210; ESTC W31229. A memoir of François-Marie Arouet, i.e. Voltaire (1794-1778), by his Enlightenment colleague Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), who was almost as famous as his subject and who tragically died a victim of the reign of terror.....
London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R. Dodsley, and W. Warner, 1737. First edition, second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year with the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains...
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. First edition. Tchemerzine, Bibliographie d'Editions Originales ou Rares d'Auteurs Francais II, 916; and see P.N. Furman, Diderot, A Critical Biography. ¶ The first book by the great French philosopher, writer, and polymath Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a translation of An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1699)...
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of an Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be...
(Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018.), First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition...