Translations of Voltaire’s works

See below for information on pre-1778 translations of Voltaire’s works into different languages:

Dutch and Flemish

Jeroom Vercruysse, ‘Bibliographie provisoire des traductions néerlandaises et flamandes de Voltaire’, SVEC 116 (1973), p.19-64.

English

Hywel Berwyn Evans, ‘A provisional bibliography of English editions and translations of Voltaire’, SVEC 8 (1959), p.9-121.

German

Hans Fromm, Bibliographie deutscher Übersetzungen aus dem Französischen, 1700-1948 (6 vols, Baden-Baden: Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1950). See also this online resource.

Italian

Theodore Besterman, ‘A provisional bibliography of Italian editions and translations of Voltaire’, SVEC 18 (1961), p.263-310.

Portuguese

Theodore Besterman, ‘Provisional bibliography of Portuguese editions of Voltaire’, SVEC 76 (1970), p.15-35.

Scandinavian languages and Finnish

Theodore Besterman, ‘A provisional bibliography of Scandinavian and Finnish editions and translations of Voltaire’, SVEC 47 (1966), p.53-92.

Spanish

Francisco Lafarga, Voltaire en Espagne (1734-1835), SVEC 261 (1989).

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