COYER — AA.VV. Collection of seventy works in the original edition, years 1744-1749. The War in Flanders, Voltaire and rare first editions of the works on utopia if the 1748 by Coyer.

4to; Contemporary full calf binding, gilded ornaments and titles on the spines, marbled endpapers, sprayed red edges. Prestigious collection of extremely rare and important pamphlets. We can divide the set into five main areas:

Prestigious collection of extremely rare and important pamphlets. We can divide the set into five main areas:- The Mandements the archbishops of Paris, pastoral letters that celebrate the victories achieved by the French, with 36 documents;

- Relationships, 3 documents, the battles, which reconstruct accurately the war, to which you can addArrests some of the Parlement of Paris and some Ordinances of King tied to these same events;- General Policy issues, analyzing the political situation of Europe, 8 documents;

- The writings of Coyer Utopia, 3 "loose-leaf" in very rare original edition, which must be added two pamphlets of 1748,testifying to the popularity and outcry from the works of Coyer;- Two works of Voltaire and other works of philosophical or poetic character, among which the materialist philosophy essay of the famous Marquise de Lambert.

The three works of Coyer are: L'Année merveilleuse; Supplement à l'Année merveilleuse; The Astrologue du jour, all of 1748.These are some of the most incisive and tasty pages written French dall'utopista, in which the author criticizes the luxury and trade system, reverses functions, rights and privileges of women and men, he paints with a sardonic sense of paradox social roles upside down, finally imagines a total revolution in the near future. Voltaire is present, in the role of "historian of France", with two poems of 1745 and 1747 to celebrate the victories of the French army at Fontenoy and Lawfelt. Finally the rare Lettre, original edition, the Marquise de Lambert is a materialist philosophy Treaty concerns the intellectual functions and the language of animals. The Marchesa, 1647-1753, held in Paris a famous Salon, meeting point forced for all the major intellectuals of the period, including Fenelon, La Rochefoucault, Montesquieu.

Nice specimen.