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Book title:

Lettres chinoises, indiennes et tartares, by Voltaire

Keywords: Anti-Clerical Works, Atheism, Catholicism, China, Christianity, India, Jesuits, Literary Criticism, Literary studies, Miscellaneous essays, Philosophie, Religion, Religious Missions, Religious orders, Sceptical works, World religions

Parisian category: Histoire Orientale

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (109 copies requested in 13 orders); Joseph II’s Index (Austrian Empire, 1788); Poinçot’s Inventory of the Bastille (France, 1789)

Acquired: 190 full copies

Sold and Given: 189 full copies

Returns: 3 full copies

N.B. Lower and upper limits (where given) are calculated by treating each incomplete set - i.e. each set containing some but not all volumes of the edition - as 0 and 1 respectively. Click 'events for this book' below for details.

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Editions:

Full title: Lettres chinoises, indiennes et tartares, à M. Pauw, par un bénédictin. Avec plusieurs autres pièces intéressantes
Edition type (by origin): Other Swiss editions

Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: Paris [Lausanne]: [J. P. Heubach], 1776
Details: 1 volume, in-8°, pages: [4], 185

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1779
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - MS1007 and catalogue information, sourced from Lausanne. At least two editions of this work were produced under the false imprint (Paris, 1776), one by Gabriel Grasset in Geneva and this one, by Jean-Pierre Heubach in Lausanne. The STN sourced the majority of their copies from Lausanne and only ever accounted for a single edition. Thus they probably never traded in the Grasset edition.