VOLTAIRE: Candide, or the Optimist, translated... - Lot 257 - Richard Maison de ventes

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VOLTAIRE: Candide, or the Optimist, translated... - Lot 257 - Richard Maison de ventes
VOLTAIRE: Candide, or the Optimist, translated from German by Mr de Volt***. London, unnamed, 1759. One volume. 9 by 16.2 cm. 167 pages. Full period marbled fawn basane, spine with 5 floral nerves, title piece in blond morocco. Damaged headdresses, wear at the corners, blurred spine fleurons. Rare edition among the 9 published in 1759 of which we do not know which is the original. Bengesco quotes it in note (I, p. 448). Edition of the year of the original. A passable copy, with a remarkable guard paper with flower motifs printed in red, yellow and green. A rare edition of this immense novel by VOLTAIRE where he mocks the philosophy of LEIBNITZ.
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