La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Châtelet by Zinsser, Judith P - 2006

Viking, 2006. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight/ pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; creased; moderate edge wear/ several pages and page tips creased/ corners and spine bumped/ black mark on bottom of book

New York: Viking Press, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. Small name plate in front. 176pp. Notes. Biblio. Index. Plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

New York: Viking; Penguin, 2006. viii, 376 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton. Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey as his patroness, his lover, and his companion. In this sparkling life, Judith P. Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chatelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment. Freed by her wealth and status to pursue a life of the mind, Du Ch?telet developed swiftly into an accomplished… Read More

New York: Viking. Hardcover. 2006. 1st Edition. 8vo 376pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749) was a French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica. The translation, published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation .

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0670038008 . 378 pp. Spine bumped. Jacket has edgewear, small dents on rear. The life of Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, patron, mistress, and intellectual companion of Voltaire for 15 years. But she was much more that that single relationship. She was an intellectual in her own right, in a time when women were barred from the gatherings of learned men. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Viking, 2006. Un volume (24 cm) di VIII-376 pagine, con illustrazioni ft in nero. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale con sovracoperta illustrata (minime usure al margine). Ottime condizioni.