[Rarebooks] fa: L'EUROPE SAVANTE 1719-20 • 3 vols. VOLTAIRE Ceylon PERSIA "Superstitions Chinois" &c.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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L'Europe Savante. Tome dixieme. Premiere & seconde partie. MDCCXIX. [WITH:] Tome onzieme. Premiere & seconde partie. MDCCXIX. [WITH:] Tome douzieme. Premiere & seconde partie. MDCCXX. La Haye: chez A. de Rigissart, 1719-20. First editions. Three volumes, 12mo (15.5 cm) in early/period speckled calf, gilt-tooled spines, marbled endpapers, page edges dyed red; copper-engraved frontispieces and title-page vignettes in each volume.

Three volumes of this scarce, short-lived (1718-1720) scholarly journal consisting of extracts from, reviews of, and/or essays inspired by contemporary works of literature, history, philosophy, exploration, the sciences, and religion. The main contributors included Themiseuil de  Saint-Hyacinthe, P. F. Le Courayer, and Levesque de Burigny, de Pouilly, and de Champeaux.

With significant essays on such topics as: Oedipe par M. Voltaire; Traite de la Religion revelee; Histoire de l'Ile de Ceylan [Ceylon] par Capt. J. Ribeyro [Ribeiro]; Voiages celebres & remarquables fait de Perse [Persia] par Jean Albert de Mandesto &c.; Histoire de la Decouverte & de la Conquete du Perou [Peru] par Augustin de Zarate; Voyage de Paul Lucas, fait end 1714 &c, dans la Turquie; Nouvelles literaires de la Chine (the text of the bishop of Peking's condemnation of "un Livre pour la defense des Superstitions Chinoises"); L'Alcoran de Mahomet translate d'Arabe en François; Le Triomphe du Beau-Sexe sur les Hommes, où l'on fait voir les avantages & les prerogatives qui rendent les Femmes superieures aux Hommes...; Reflexions Critiques sur la Poësie & la Peinture; Physices elementa Mathematica Experimentis confirmata, sive Introductio ad Philosophiam Newtoniam... par G. J. s'Gravesande; etc.

Bindings with generally modest rubbing and wear, loss of one spine label; vol. II a bit moisture-damaged, with some bowing and an abrasion to the front board, modest cockling to the first part of the text block; a few leaves bumped at the upper corners; otherwise the contents are very fine: exceedingly clean, bright, fresh and crisp, apparently unread, firmly bound.