[LEGATURA-VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) - Le poeme de Fontenoy. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1745.   A copy with the arms of Louis XV of this rare edition, printed the same year as the first, of the poem that Voltaire composed for the French victory at Fontenoy on 11 May 1745 over the armies of England and Austria in the presence of the King himself and the Dauphin, during the war of the Austrian Succession.   4to (233 x 178mm). 28 pages, engraved vignette on title representing Louis XV in triumph within a medallion, text printed within frame (light browning, mainly in the margins). Calf with gilt arms of Louis XV on covers, gilt decorations with lilies of France, crown and title on spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

Estimate € 500 - 800

Sold € 480