A rare Voltaire political pamphlet Missionaries Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exile’s Histoire

Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exile’s Histoire Generale des Voyages

18th-century lavishly gold-tooled calf

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all densely filled with handwritten technical notes

A rare Voltaire political pamphlet Missionaries Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exile’s Histoire[Voltaire (= Franois Marie Arouet 1694 1778)]. Lettres amricaines sur les parlemens. [No place, no name], 1770 1771. 12. 3 44 pp. [lacks first blank]. Contemporary marbled calf with gold tooled spine, red edges, marbled endpapers. First edition of one of Voltaire's most important political pamphlets of the Maupeou era. Cast in the form of a fictional correspondence between two inhabitants of Port au Prince in Saint Domingue, identified only as R** and