the ‘last universal genius’
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm.
Oeuvres de Leibniz publiées pour la première fois d’après les manuscrits originaux avec notes et introductions par A. Foucher de Careil …
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1859-1875.
7 vols, 8vo, pp. [12], cxxxvi, 495, [1], 4, [497]-512; [4], cviii, 599, [1 (blank)], with 3 facsimile plates (1 folding); [4], 431, [3]; lxxix, [1 (blank)], 352; [4], xlvii, [1 (blank)], 374, [2]; viii, 408, [2]; xxxvi, 652; some light foxing, occasional light marginal damp staining most noticeably to vol. 7; overall very good in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; vol. 1 upper joint split, some wear to extremities and rubbing to covers, spines sunned; old shelfmark labels to front pastedowns.
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Oeuvres de Leibniz publiées pour la première fois d’après les manuscrits originaux avec notes et introductions par A. Foucher de Careil …
A handsome seven-volume edition of the correspondence and historical and political writings of the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the ‘last universal genius’, edited by Louis-Alexandre Foucher de Careil (1826–1891), with texts in French, German, and Latin. The second volume of correspondence includes facsimile samples of Leibniz’s handwriting.
Ravier, Bibliographie des oeuvres de Leibniz (1937), nos. 634, 640, 646, 649, 654, 662, 684.
