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Lot 275
VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET. The Philosophical Dictionary, for the Pocket.
Catskill and New York: J. & M. Croswel and E. Duyckinck, 1796. Original sheep, red leather spine label, in a grey cloth custom clamshell box. 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 (16 x 9 cm); [10], 336 pp., with engraved portrait by P. R. Maverick to title page. Worn, front board detached, front free endpaper loose, contents with staining, toning, and some spotting.
An early American edition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, the culmination of the author's views on Christianity, God, morality and other subjects. Evans records no earlier editions of this title, so it is likely the first American edition. This is also an early Catskill imprint - the Croswell family registered their firm there in 1792. Evans, 31518.
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