£850.00
[Guasco, Antoine (attrib.)]. Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais et allemands, à M. de Voltaire. Troisième édition, revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. Paris: Moutard, Libraire de Madame la Dauphine, 1772.
Tome premier.
Single volume.
Contemporary calf, red edges.
Noticeable external wear; internally generally clean; American institutional stamps.
Year: 1772
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Libraire de Madame la Dauphine, Paris
A late eighteenth-century polemical response to Voltaire that reveals how Jewish intellectual communities actively contested Enlightenment narratives on religion, history, and identity.
Single volume. Contemporary calf, red edges. Noticeable external wear; internally generally clean; American institutional stamps.
Texts answering Voltaire occupy an increasingly important place in Enlightenment studies, revealing the complexity of intellectual exchange and resistance. They provide rare insight into how Jewish writers and advocates confronted one of Europe’s most influential thinkers. Institutional demand for such material has grown steadily.



