Defense de milord Bollingbroke, par le docteur Good Natur'd Vellvisher, chapelain du comte de Chesterfield. Traduit de l'anglois

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  • Defense de milord Bollingbroke, par le docteur Good Natur'd Vellvisher, chapelain du comte de Chesterfield. Traduit de l'anglois
  • Oeuvres mêlées.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London?] : Imprimé avec la permission des supérieurs, novembre, 1752.
Added name
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Publication year
1752
ESTC No.
N48340
Grub Street ID
32908
Description
22p. ; 12°.
Note
Anonymous. By Voltaire, who composed this piece on the subject of the controversy that arose between Maupertuis and the German mathematician Samuel Koenig (cf. Bengesco 1624)

Presence of press figure '1' on p.13 suggests an English origin

May have been issued together with 'Diatribe du docteur Akakia', with imprint 'A Rome', 30p. The two were published together as 'Oeuvres mêlées d'un auteur célèbre, qui s'est retiré de France', Berlin [i.e. Paris?] (cf. Bengesco 2180 and BN, CCXIV-II 3869).
Uncontrolled note
Title and imprint transcription verified by L. This edition apparently not in Bengesco or the catalogue de la Bibliothque nationale