Contemporary copy of ‘Épître à Uranie’

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CMV32849

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Drouot- Lot 1133, ‘[Poetry – law] – Collection of 9 Dutch and French written documents’

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Contemporary copy of ‘Épître à Uranie’

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Voltaire: Author
Unknown: Author

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Brief Summary:

A collection of 9 Dutch and French documents including a contemporary copy of Voltaire’s ‘Épître à Uranie’.

Detailed Summary:

Also included are two Dutch allegorical poems: ‘De reuck gherepresenteert dooe eenen herder, ghenesende sijne schaepen’ and ‘De smaecke’; a Dutch document titled: ‘Samenspraek tusschen den jongman en zijne lief rosalin’; a Dutch religious treatise with a Latin title: ‘De miraculoso sanguine Sancti Nicolai Tolentinatis’, dated ‘Angiae 1763’; and Five legal documents in French: ‘Des jurisdictions du Bailly (…) du tournesis’, ‘La vie ou la bourse. Reflexions à faire tant pour le soldat que pour le citoyen’, ‘Objections touchant la nouvelle constitution du clergé de France et reponses à icelles’, a notarial document from Paris on vellum dated 18 February 1763, and a notarial document from Brussels dated 11 November 1805.

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4 ff.

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1

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Undecorated

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Sold at auction by Drouot on 21 November 2015 (Lot 1133).

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OCV Reference:

vol.1B, p.463-502

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