Voltaire, M. de (François-Marie Arouet)

The History of the War of Seventeen hundred and forty one (Histoire de la Guerre de 1741)

London: J. Nourse, 1756. 1st edition in English, two parts in one vol., octavo, pp.(viii), 260, quarter leather and marbled bds. worn, some loss to head and foot of spine with splitting along edge, contemporary inscription of Tho. Fenwick (Thomas Fenwick) on t.p., contents clean and in very good condition

The first translated edition into English, in which is now added a continuation of this history (also by Voltaire) up to 1747, chapter titled "Supplement to the History of the War of 1741. Affairs of Genoa in 1746 and 1747" Item #94688

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