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VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET DE. Letters concerning the English Nation. [16], 253, [19] pages. 8vo, 200x121 mm, contemporary panelled calf, spine darkened, front cover detached; contents crisp and clean. Armorial bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers. London: [William Bowyer for] C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733
first edition of Voltaire's collection of essays on English society, institutions, and intellectual life. The French text was first published the following year. Four of the letters deal with Sir Isaac Newton and his ideas; a variant of the anecdote about the falling apple that inspired his theory of gravity appears on page 127. Babson 242; Wallis 424.
