[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English ed. of Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." London: 1766

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Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. London:
Printed for I. Allcock. 1766. First English edition. viii,316pp. 19th
c. 1/2 calf, gilt, over marbled boards, hinges & tips rubbed, minor
chips at extremities of spine.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
An attack upon the established order, which in effect supplies the
philosophical underpinnings for his earlier novel, CANDIDE.

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