Rousseau (Jean Jacques)] Discours qui remporté a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'année 1750, first edition, issue with "horloges" at beginning of line 18 of p.35, engraved frontispiece by Baquoy, staining to pp.45-49, Geneva, Barillot & fils [?Paris, Pissot], [1750] bound with Voltaire (F.m.A. de) La Merope, Tragedie, Nouvelle Edition, title in red and black, 2 engraved plates, some soiling, mostly marginal, Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1744; L'Orphelin de la Chine, Tragédie, small stain to foot of final leaf, 12mo, "Londres", Jean Nourse, 1756, together 3 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, uncut, a little rubbed, 8vo ⁂ The first is Rousseau's first major published work and the one which established his reputation, a prize-winning essay claiming that the arts and sciences corrupted, rather than morally benefitting, mankind.
Rousseau (Jean Jacques)] Discours qui remporté a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'année 1750, first edition, issue with "horloges" at beginning of line 18 of p.35, engraved frontispiece by Baquoy, staining to pp.45-49, Geneva, Barillot & fils [?Paris, Pissot], [1750] bound with Voltaire (F.m.A. de) La Merope, Tragedie, Nouvelle Edition, title in red and black, 2 engraved plates, some soiling, mostly marginal, Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1744; L'Orphelin de la Chine, Tragédie, small stain to foot of final leaf, 12mo, "Londres", Jean Nourse, 1756, together 3 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, uncut, a little rubbed, 8vo ⁂ The first is Rousseau's first major published work and the one which established his reputation, a prize-winning essay claiming that the arts and sciences corrupted, rather than morally benefitting, mankind.
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