RAYNAL (abbot). A Philosophical and Political... - Lot 50 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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RAYNAL (abbot). A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Revised, Augmented, and Published in ten Volumes by the abbé Raynal. Newly translated from the French, by J.O. Juwstqmond with a New Set of Maps Adapted to the Work, and a Copious Index. In Eight Volumes. London, A. Strahan and T. Caddll, 1788, 8 vol. 8°, portrait, 2 folding maps, [8]-399-1 white; [6]-423, folding map; [6]-426, folding map; [8]-523-1 white, folding map; [8]-499-1 white, folding map (small tear with no loss); [8]-520 p. 8]-564 (small blow to some pages in the upper corner), folding card; [4]-374-[85-1 white] p., full leg. brown flamed calf of the period, smooth decorated spines, title and tomaison coins, plates framed with a small golden garland (some snags and wears). Nice and complete set of the seven large maps. Raynal had the assistance of various members of the "philosopher côteries" in his most important work, "L'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes". Diderot is credited with a third of this work, which was characterized by Voltaire as "du réchauffé avec de la déclamation". The other chief collaborators were Pechméja, Baron d'Holbach, Paulze, the farmer-general of taxes, the Abbé Martin, and Alexandre Deleyre. The "philosophic" declamations perhaps constituted its chief interest for the general public, and its significance as a contribution to democratic propaganda. The Histoire went through many editions, being revised and augmented from time to time by Raynal; it was translated into the principal European languages, and appeared in various abridgments. Its introduction into France was forbidden in 1779; the book was burned by the public executioner, and an order was given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared in the first edition, but was printed on the title page of the Geneva edition of 1780. Seven new maps for the 178
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