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[VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)]. Candide, ou l' Optimisme, Traduit de l' Allemand de Mr. Le Docteur Ralph, [n.p.], 1759. 12° (180 x 110mm). Woodcut device on title, headpiece (some light spotting and staining). Later half vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Provenance: Alfred de Curzon (armorial bookplate). Bengescu 1441 (variant, with 212 pages).
With miscellaneous French works in c.70 volumes, various sizes, the majority leather-bound, including Alexandre Dumas's Histoire d' un Casse-Noisette (Paris, [n.d.], PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author's son to his cousin Guy de Cassagnac in 1893), Octave Uzanne's La Guirlande de Julie (Paris, 1875, ONE OF 517 COPIES) and Pierre Loti's La Chanson des Vieux Epoux (Paris, 1899, illustrated by Henry Somm, ONE OF 300 COPIES).
With miscellaneous French works in c.70 volumes, various sizes, the majority leather-bound, including Alexandre Dumas's Histoire d' un Casse-Noisette (Paris, [n.d.], PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author's son to his cousin Guy de Cassagnac in 1893), Octave Uzanne's La Guirlande de Julie (Paris, 1875, ONE OF 517 COPIES) and Pierre Loti's La Chanson des Vieux Epoux (Paris, 1899, illustrated by Henry Somm, ONE OF 300 COPIES).
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