ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Collection complète des œuvres. - Lot 232

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Collection complète des œuvres. Genève, [Paul Moultou], 1782. 19 vol. in-8° [of 24]. Volumes I-III, V-XVI, XX-XXIII. Marbled fawn basane, spine with 5 raised fleuronné, fawn morocco title page, green morocco green morocco, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. (Binding of the period). Complete with Le Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité Lettres écrites de la Montagne ; botanique ; théâtre ; Dissertation sur la Musique moderne ; Essai sur l'origine des langues ; Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire ; Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques ; etc. Volume XV contains the 5 engraved folding plates engraved from Le Devin du village and the general folding tablé of tones and keys appears in vol. XVI. Deficient: Les IIe et IIIe parties de la Nouvelle Héloïse (tome IV), le Dictionnaire de Musique (vols. XVII and XVIII), the first four books of the Confessions (vol. XIX) and Lettres sur divers sujets de philosophie, de morale and politics (vol. XXIV). First Geneva edition after ROUSSEAU's death. Published simultaneously in 4°, 8° and 12°. Originally planned for 24 volumes (volumes volumes 25-30 were subsequently published as supplements I and volumes 31 33 as supplement II). Volumes XIX and XX with the first printing printing of the Confessions. (Part 2 of the Confessions did not appear until 1789 in the 2nd supplement). Fairly fresh interior, a few binding defects, including an ink stain on vol. VII.