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Les colimaçons du reverend pére L'Escarbotier : par la grace de Dieu Capucin indigne, prédicateur ordinaire & cuisinier du grand couvent de la ville de Clermont en Auvergne : au reverend pére Elie, Carme chaussé, docteur en théologie.

Title
Les colimaçons du reverend pére L'Escarbotier : par la grace de Dieu Capucin indigne, prédicateur ordinaire & cuisinier du grand couvent de la ville de Clermont en Auvergne : au reverend pére Elie, Carme chaussé, docteur en théologie.
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Publication
[Geneva? : Cramer?], 1769.

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Martin J. Gross Collection.
Description
24 p.; 20 cm (8vo)
Subject
  • Regeneration (Biology) > Early works to 1800
  • Snails > Early works to 1800
  • Snails > Humor
Note
  • By Voltaire. Cf. Quérard, J.M. Supercheries littéraires (2. éd.), I, col. 1250.
  • Original ed. published: [Geneva : Cramer], 1768. Cf. BN, v. 214, col. 1477, no. 4187; Bengesco, G. Voltaire, II, no. 1768.
  • The present ed. resembles the original ed. typographically; layout on t.p. and layout and ornaments on p. [3] are the same. Cf. digital facsims. of t.p. and p. [3] of original ed., in GBV/GVK (WWW) cat. record (FB Gotha copy of original ed.).
  • Condemned by the Court of Rome on March 1, 1770. Cf. Bengesco.
  • Signatures: A⁸ B⁴.
  • Woodcut t.p. vignette, depicting a snail; ornamental head- and tailpiece, ornamental rules.
Indexed In (note)
  • Quérard, J.M. Bib. voltairienne
  • Besterman, T. Some eighteenth-century Voltaire eds. (4th ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • H. Marchant; F[ran]çois Rabut; Marquis de Saint-Amand.
Call Number
*KGV 09-33
OCLC
29116861
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Title
Les colimaçons du reverend pére L'Escarbotier : par la grace de Dieu Capucin indigne, prédicateur ordinaire & cuisinier du grand couvent de la ville de Clermont en Auvergne : au reverend pére Elie, Carme chaussé, docteur en théologie.
Imprint
[Geneva? : Cramer?], 1769.
Edition
Nouvelle edition.
Indexed In:
Quérard, J.M. Bib. voltairienne, 90
Besterman, T. Some eighteenth-century Voltaire eds. (4th ed.), 312
Provenance
H. Marchant; F[ran]çois Rabut; Marquis de Saint-Amand. NN
Local Note
Bound 9th in a vol. containing 10 works by or about Voltaire. First work: Voltaire. L'A, B, C. A Londres : Chez Robert Freemann, 1762 [i.e. Geneva : Cramer, 1768]
Martin J. Gross Collection.
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Marchant, H. Former owner
Rabut, François. Former owner
Saint-Amand, marquis de. Former owner
Martin J. Gross Collection.
Research Call Number
*KGV 09-33
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