LEIBNIZ Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von. Opera Omnia, nunc primum collecta, in Classes distributa, praefationibus & indicibus exornata, studio Ludovici Dutens. Génève, Frères de Tournes, 1768

6 vols. Wide 4to, mm. 240x200; Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with 4 ribs and gilded titles and ornaments, red edges. VOL. I: pp. [2], IV, [2], CCXLIV, 790, 2 bl., with a elegant portrait of Leibniz engraved at the beginning; II: pp. [2], VIII, 400; pp. 291, with XIV copper plates at the end; III: pp. [2], VIII, LV, [1], 663, [1] p., 1 folded table, with XXV copper plates at the end; IV: pp. VIII, 216 - 285, [3] - [2], 647, [1], with 2 copper plates out text V: pp. VIII+632; VI: pp. VIII+632; pp. VI, 334, 344. Note of possession at the fist endpaper of the vol. IV ‘Ex biblioteca Octavii Donaudi’.

First edition of the complete works. This is the most important ancient edition, even today a reference edition: it was edited by Louis Dutens and the text is preceded from the praise of Fontenelle and the biography of Leibniz written by Jacob Brucker. The work is divided into six volumes the first contains the theological writings; the second the writings devoted to logic and metaphysics, followed by the writings of chemistry, medicine, botany, natural history; the third mathematical works; the fourth philosophical writings, historical and legal; the fifth the philological writings; the sixth finally the exchange of letters, followed by the continuation of the writings of philological and etymological character.

Zeitlinger: “"Rare”. Brunet: “Collection très recherché”. L’opera è corredata dal bel ritratto dell’autore inciso su rame da Pierre Savart nel 1768 e da 42 Tavole fuori testo. Esemplare appartenuto all’Abate Ottavio Donaudi, erudito esponente della nobiltà torinese del XVIII secolo. Zeitlinger, n. 2531; Brunet, III, 950.

Later endpapers, nice specimen with wide margins. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE