Item #123 Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau
Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau

Collection complète des œuvres de J. J. Rousseau

Publisher: Neuchâtel: Samuel Fauche, Libraire du Roi, 1775.

Illustration: Engraved portrait of Rousseau, numerous engraved plates (frontispieces and text illustrations), and approximately 14 engraved fold-out musical examples.

Edition: Nouvelle édition, soigneusement revue & corrigée.

Binding: Complete set in 11 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with floral tooling and morocco title labels, marbled endpapers. Bindings rubbed with some chipping at spine ends and joints, but attractive, uniform, and sound.

Description: A complete 11-volume set of Rousseau’s collected works, printed in Neuchâtel by Samuel Fauche in 1775 — a landmark Enlightenment edition issued during Rousseau’s lifetime and widely circulated in the turbulent years leading up to the French Revolution.

Includes Rousseau’s most influential writings: Du Contrat Social, Émile, Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, La Nouvelle Héloïse, Confessions, his political essays, and his works on botany and music. Lavishly illustrated, this set features a fine engraved portrait of Rousseau, numerous full-page plates, and c.14 fold-out engraved musical examples from Rousseau’s pioneering musicological writings — all present and intact.

The Fauche Neuchâtel edition is celebrated for its completeness and accuracy, “soigneusement revue et corrigée,” and for the quality of its illustrations. It embodies the dissemination of Rousseau’s radical political and social philosophy on the eve of the Revolution. His critiques of inequality, theories of natural freedom, and treatises on education and civil society profoundly influenced both 1789 and the trajectory of modern thought.

Condition: Bindings rubbed, spines with some wear and chipping, but internally clean and crisp; plates strong impressions; fold-outs fresh, complete, and rarely surviving in such good state. A highly desirable set, both bibliographically and historically.

Condition: Good overall; bindings worn but attractive; interiors clean; engravings and fold-outs all complete and in strong impressions.

Annotation: Complete 11-volume Neuchâtel edition (1775) of Rousseau’s works, with engraved portrait, plates, and fold-out music examples — a cornerstone Enlightenment set in contemporary calf.

Item #123

Price: $5,500.00

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