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Anonymous. Lettres de quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonois, à M. de Voltaire. Avec un petit commentaire extrait d’un plus grand. Quatrième édition, revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. Tome premier.
Paris: Moutard, Libraire de la Reine, de Madame, & de Madame la Comtesse d’Artois, rue du Hurepoix, à S. Ambroise, 1776.
Small 8vo. Contemporary binding (later rebacked in library style), red edges. Contains institutional stamps from a Protestant / theological library.
Year: 1776
Edition: Early Edition
Publisher: Libraire de la Reine, de Madame, & de Madame la Comtesse d’Artois, rue du Hurepoix, à S. Ambroise, Paris
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Sharp Enlightenment-era rebuttal literature directed at Voltaire. These letters defend Jewish history and belief against arguments circulating in Voltaire’s writings and became part of the wider 18th-century debate on toleration, religion, and civil status.
Later editions such as this show the work’s continued readership and controversy. Institutional marks indicate long residence in theological collections, a common survival route for polemical religious texts.
Material evidence of the religious counter-argument to Enlightenment criticism. These works sit at the intersection of philosophy, censorship, and minority history — a collecting field that continues to strengthen internationally.
