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Voltaire Jean Francois Marie Arouet De
CANDIDE
New York: The Literary Guild 1929. cloth dust jacket. Kent Rockwell. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. 1111 pages. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Reprint of the 1928 edition which was limited to 1470 numbered copies. Printed by the Pynson Printers and with designs and illustrations throughout by Kent. Jacket has most of spine missing. Glue mark on front pastedown. The Literary Guild unknown books
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Voltaire W. H. Ireland Translator
THE MAID OF ORLEANS OR LA PUCELLE OF VOLTAIRE. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE; WITH NOTES EXPLANATORY CRITICAL HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II
London: Printed for John Miller and W. Wright 1822. Full Leather. Good binding. With 59 full page plates in Vol. I 9 of which are duplicates on poorer paper and 58 full page plates in Vol. II 9 of which are duplicates; with 25 white Fine Paper engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 25 in Vol. II; with 11 gray Papier de Chine engravings pasted down in Vol. I and 11 in Vol. II. Most of the engravings are illustrations of the various scenes with a few portrait plates; all of the Papier de Chine illustrations are small engraved illustrations meant for the start of each canto and are facing duplicates on Fine Paper. Hinges reinforced by a conservator with Japanese tissue paper. Signed full red morroco binding by Matthews; with gilt lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. Good binding. Printed for John Miller and W. Wright unknown books
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Voltaire. Sotheby & Co
Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Eighteenth century Editions of Voltaire and a few Letters and Manuscripts Property of Dr. Desmond Flower with Catalogue of a Distinguished Collection of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts of Voltaire and His Circle. Two Volumes
London: Sotheby & Co. 1968. First edition. Paper wrappers. Paperclip mark to rear wrapper and leaf of one volume else fine copies. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. 8vo. Both sales on Tuesday 11th June 1968. The first sale with seven lots had the House of El Dieff taking the main collection of first editions; the second sale had most of its 168 lots bought by either the Voltaire Institute or the Geneva University Library. Prices and buyers list laid in both copies. Sotheby & Co. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 34715
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Voltaire
Mecure De Francededie Au Roi. Mai. 1764 and Juin 1764
Paris: Chaubert et al. 1764. 12mo. Two monthly works in one volume. Engraved vignette title pages 216pp. and 216pp. illustrated with two musical scores one folding Dedicated to the king Includes articles poems pastiches translations and songs medicine astronomy and more. Bound in full calf raised bands two compartments lettered in giltsome rubbing. A very good copy. Chaubert et al. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 003035
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet de
CANDIDE
Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press 1985. patterned paper-covered boards slipcase. Inky Parrot Press. small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards slipcase. x 1411 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 360 numbered copies. Translated by Richard Aldington. Signed by the illustrator Wilton Priestner. Profusely illustrated with slightly disturbing almost surreal line drawings that push the satirical tone of the story itself to a new level. The modern edgy drawings are evidence of the relevancy and adaptability of the work of the eighteenth-century French writer Voltaire. The imagery does not exactly match up with the moment of the story it illustrates but rather offers a highly interpretive version of the events as told by Voltaire. For example whereas the text reads ".she observed Doctor Pangloss in the bushes giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting maid a very pretty and docile brunette" the illustration shows a couple copulating in the garden. Paper covered boards and the slipcase also with drawings by Priestner. With shoulder notes. The Inky Parrot Press unknown books
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Voltaire
KANDIDE ODER DIE BESTE WELTE
Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1920. quarter cloth paper-covered boards triple gilt band stamped gilt title. Klee Paul. 4to. quarter cloth paper-covered boards triple gilt band stamped gilt title. 89 3 pages. Text in German. Translation of Voltaire's classic. With 26 pen and ink illustrations by Paul Klee. An important book in German expressionism Artist and the Book 143. Boards sunned at spine and scuffed at corners. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown books
Bookseller reference : 107249
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Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Voltaire GungabAlan S. Quismorio et al et al.
Lavender Godzilla: a monthly publication for the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance members and supporters November 1996: Harvest Moon Dinner
San Francisco: GAPA 1988. 6p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports very good newsletter in unbound folded sheets bright yellow covers. Yet another incarnation of the house organ for GAPA. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
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Breidert Wolfgang herausgegeben Voltaire Jean Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant et al Hubert Kennedy association
Die Erschütterung der Vollkommen Welt: die wirkung des erdbebens von Lissabon im Spiegel europäischerzeitgenossen
Darmstadt: Wissenschafteliche Buchgesellschaft 1994. Hardcover. vi 234p. text in German introduction bibliography index pictorial endpapers very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dh. Personal inscription to Hubert Kennedy signed by the editor. Contemporary reports by authors and philosophers on the 1775 Lisbon earthquake. Wissenschafteliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 221709 ISBN : 3534120795 9783534120796
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Voltaire; and Abner Kneeland
A philosophical dictionary; from the French of m. de Voltaire. With additional notes both critical and argumentative by Abner Kneeland. American stereotype edition
Boston: Printed and Published by J. Q. Adams 1836. Leather Bound. Two volumes bound as one: frontis portrait tissue-guarded lii 408 2 light cardstock "Family Record" leaves frontis of family with tissue lii repeated material 416p. first edition recased in late 19thC red morocco gilt: a custom-bound production with pleasing spine titling raised bands ruled and tooled gold all edges fully gilded sewn headbands green endsheets overprinted gilt. Extremities are slightly abraded a 3-inch split upper front joint boards yawn somewhat. Within textblock is quite sound; find original blanks faintly toned with flecks of soil v.I foxing to portrait occasional foxing in text v.II frontis heavily foxed some splashy foxing in text. A very good copy pace the split which in no way affects handling. Kneeland an intimate with Robert Dale Owen and Frances Wright was a frequent contributor to their Free Enquirer. In 1831 he moved to Boston and established The Boston Investigator one of the longest lived 1831-1904 freethought publications in the United States See Brown & Stein p. 33; he was tried four times and eventually convicted for his writings in the Dec. 20 1833 issue. Printed and Published by J. Q. Adams unknown books
Bookseller reference : 194898
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Voltaire; and Abner Kneeland
A philosophical dictionary; from the French of m. de Voltaire. With additional notes both critical and argumentative by Abner Kneeland. American stereotype edition
Boston: J.P. Mendum 1836. Hardcover. Two volumes bound as one xlviii 408 416p. ads for the Boston Investigator and related publications frontispieces vol. 1 portrait of Voltaire vol. 2 family portrait. Original publisher's ribbed black cloth panelled and ruled in blind spine title gilt quite bright boards are edgeworn and show card top and tail are frayed with small losses hinges slightly weak one signature starting a little front free endpaper has been excised with an old ugly adhesive remnant opposite on the pastedown. Handleable and otherwise sound. Later stereotype edition copyright is noted to be held by John Quincy Adams who also published this in 1836. Kneeland an intimate with Robert Dale Owen and Frances Wright was a frequent contributor to their Free Enquirer. In 1831 he moved to Boston and established The Boston Investigator one of the longest lived 1831-1904 freethought publications in the United States See Brown & Stein p. 33; he was tried four times and eventually convicted for his writings in the Dec. 20 1833 issue. J.P. Mendum hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 142105
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Voltaire and Paul Klee
Candide
New York: Pantheon Books 1960. Hardcover. VG corners lightly bumped light edgewear to boards pages are otherwise very clean. Burgundy cloth boards with stamped gilt lettering white spine with gilt lettering 120 pp 26 bw illustrations. Includes 26 illustrations by artist Paul Klee. Pantheon Books hardcover books
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Voltaire
La Henriade: Nouvelle édition
Paris: Chez la Vve Duchesne Saillant Desaint Panckoucke and Nyon 1770. Hardcover. VG wear to leather especially around spine stain on edge of pages near front mild foxing pencil marking on back flyleaf otherwise remarkably tight and clean given age. Full leather binding with gilt borders gilt dentelles on turn-ins 8 compartments and gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled endsheets. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustration. Engraved half-titles 10 engraved plates. French. 272 pp. Volume I of II only. The first 8 chants/cantos of Voltaire's 1694-1778 epic poem Henriade. One of only two epics written by Voltaire the poem concerned the life of Henry IV of France. This volume was published within Voltaire's lifetime just 8 years before his death. Chez la Vve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke and Nyon hardcover books
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VOLTAIRE Francois Marie Arouet De 1694 1778
LA PUCELLE;; or The Maid of Orleans: A Poem in six cantos. From the French of M. De Voltaire with the author's preface and original notes Translated by Catherine Maria Bury Countess of Charleville
London: privately printed by Catherine Maria Bury Countess of Charleville 1796. First Edition large paper copy one of just 5. The first complete English translation. Large 8vo just under 24 cm pp. 227 218. Untrimmed. Bound in later 3/4 red morocco and plain boards rubbed along the extremities without the half title. "Mostly all of the copies were destroyed the freedom of the translation being considered injurious to the memory of Lady Charleville. Only 5 copies were printed on large paper. See the notes to the Renouard copy no. 1349- sale by Sotheby June 30 1834." The preface and notes cover 5 pages. ESTC; T137636.A nice clean tight set. A poem about Joan of Arc. From Wikipedia: "Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age and The Maid of Orleans was also certainly one of his more contentious works. An epic and scandalous satire concerning the life of the not-yet-canonised Joan of Arc "the Maid of Orleans" the poem was outlawed burned and banned throughout a great portion of Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Containing mockery and satirical commentary on the life and antics of its subject the poem itself has variously been described as "bawdy" and "licentious". Despite the often sexist and indecent contents of the text its notoriety and contraband status made it one of the most widely read texts concerning Joan of Arc for several centuries. Circulating throughout the banned regions by often surreptitious means the book was read by a large number of the populace. It was also disseminated by Voltaire himself to some of his colleagues and other members of the upper class the circle of people and the portion of society that the text was specifically intended for. The author 1762-1851 was the daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson she married first James Tisdall and then in 1798 Charles William Bury first Earl of Charleville. She was an invalid for many years. privately printed by Catherine Maria Bury, Countess of Charleville unknown books
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VOLTAIRE M. De Francois Marie Arouet
LE DROIT DU SEIGNEUR; comedie en vers. Represente pour le premiere fois sous le titre de l'Ecueil de Sage par le Comediens Francois Ordinaires de Roi le 18 Janvier 1762
Geneve: Chez Les Freres Associes 1763. First edn. 8vo pp. 119. Bound in contemporary calf with marble endpapers. A very good copy. BN Voltaire 859. A comedy in verse by the great satirist author of Candide 1759. Chez Les Freres Associes unknown books
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VOLTAIRE M. Francois de
THE HISTORY OF CHARLES THE TWELFTH KING OF SWEDEN; A new translation from the last Paris edition
Hartford: Silas Andrus 1829. Small 8vo pp. 276. Bound in calf blind-stamped design on front and back. Cover worn especially along the hinges which are loose some slight foxing o/w VG. Imprints # 41400 Nice American binding. Silas Andrus unknown books
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AROUET Francois Marie Voltaire
THE WRITINGS OF VOLTAIRE; Four volumes in one
NY: Wise 1931. 8vo pp. 293 308 316 294. Frontis portrait. Red cloth. Owner's bookplate on pastedown. Cover little scuffed and worn one hinge tender o/w VG. Wise unknown books
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VOLTAIRE Jean Francois Marie Arouet de
CANDIDE
NY: Literary Guild 1929. Book club edition. Kent Rockwell. 4to pp. 111. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Cover somewhat soiled and worn o/w VG. Literary Guild unknown books
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ROUSSEAU Jean Jacques Voltaire {Francois Marie Arouet and Denis Diderot
FRENCH THOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Rousseau Voltaire Diderot presented by Romain Rolland Andre Maurois and Edouard Herriot
London: Cassell 1953. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxiii 428. Index. Blue cloth. Cover worn at edges o/w a VG copy. Cassell unknown books
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VOLTAIRE
CANDIDE
NY: Arden 1930. 8vo pp. 144. Profusely illustrated. Small water stains cover little stained o/w VG. Arden unknown books
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Caylus Comtesse de Marthe Marguerite le Volois de Vilette de Murcay. 1673 1729. Voltaire Pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet
Les SOUVENIRS De MADAME De CAYLUS
Amsterdam Geneva: Jean Robert 1775. Early reprint of 1770 first edition. Half-bound blue leather spine and edges blue cloth covered boards. Gilt stamped lettering to spine navy endpapers. TEG red edgestain. Wear and rubbing to binding light soiling to leather and sunning to edges. Bookplate to front pastedown lacks front free endpaper. Age-toning to paper. An About VG copy. viii 174 2 blank pp. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>"Madame de Caylus was the mother of the noted French archeologist engraver and man of letters Comte de Caylus. She was a close relative of Madame de Maintenon who brought her up like her own daughter and introduced her to the life at court. She wrote valuable memoirs of the court of Louis XIV entitled 'Souvenirs'; these were edited by Voltaire and by many later editors." Encyclopedia Britannica. Voltaire studied and wrote about this historical period and was the first to edit the 'Souvenirs'. He added interesting observations critical remarks corrections of Madame de Caylus' statements - completing the vivid sketch of life at the court. Jean Robert hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 38798
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Voltaire.
The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket.
London but New York. : Printed for I. Carnan & Sold by Berry Rogers & Berry New York. circa 1795 . First American edition. Contemporary tree calf red spine label gilt title. . Good hinges spit but holding ink names to endpapers corners torn from ffep pages lightly toned. 12mo. 18x10.7 cm. . Compact edition of Voltaire’s famous dictionary. "Revolutionary material must be small enough for people to carry with them" .Voltaire. weight: 0.7 lb. Cameo portrait of the author on the title page. Printed for I. Carnan & Sold by Berry, Rogers & Berry, New York. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 289953
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet
Candide
Franklin 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. A Fine hardback Limited Edition in full real leather binding not faux leather not leatherette with raised bands spine gilt lettering spine gilt decoration covers all edges gilt silk moire endpapers silk ribbon bookmark. 8vo. 214 pp. no bookplates 8vo hardcover bound in saddle colored full leather with raised bands on spine gilt titles and handsome gilt decorations on boards and spine burnt orange moire silk endpapers with matching silk ribbon placeholder bound in 215 pages. All Edges Gilt perfect. The translation of Tobias Smollett with the illustrations of Sylvain Sauvage. Part of the series: The 100 Greatest Books of All Time a limited edition. Franklin hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 107408
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet
Candide
The Franklin Library 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and 3 raised bands to spine with all page edges gilt. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges orange ribbon marker and orange silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. Near fine book scratches on top edges and forend some light foxing on bottom edges and scuff marks on back cover corners of book and left edge of raised bands on spine. The Franklin Library hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1506095
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Voltaire Fracois Marie Arouet de
Candide
The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Part of "The World's Best-Loved Books" series. Bound in full leather with all edges gilt and a ribbon marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 109146
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Voltaire Francois
Candide
The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. 1/4 leather bound with cloth covered boards gilt detailing and a permanent satin ribbon book marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108676
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Voltaire Francois
Candide
The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Leatherette with gilt detailing and a permanent satin ribbon book marker. With the illustrations of Antoni Clave. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108585
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet
Candide
Easton Press 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Full-bound leather with gilt lettering decorations and edges. Moire endpapers. Collectors Edition. Previous owners bookplate on reverse side of front free end paper. Easton Press hardcover books
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Voltaire Francois
Candide
The Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Shows minimal wear along the edges. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 108413
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VOLTAIRE Francois Marie Arouet de.
Candide or Optimism.
Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. B00H9Z9SJI . Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Introduction by Paul Morand. Collector's edition. Large octavo bound in gray leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine.; 131 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 90897
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VOLTAIRE Francois Marie Arouet de.
Candide or Optimism.
Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. B00H9Z9SJI . Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Introduction by Paul Morand. Collector's edition. Large octavo bound in gray leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon book mark. Blank Easton Press book-plate affixed to front endpage else about fine.; 131 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 21158
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Voltaire and Robert Polack
CandideOu L'Optimisme Zadig Jeannot et Colin
Paris: Editions Nilsson 1930. Paperback. Good- moderate corner and edge wear including small edge tears to brown paper dj. light interior and exterior discoloration. Plain cream wraps with brown folded paper dust jacket featuring watercolor illustrations front and back. 217 pp. 6 watercolor illustrations on glassine. 3 short novels by Voltaire illustrated by Robert Polack. Editions Nilsson paperback books
Bookseller reference : 172739
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Voltaire
Candide
New York: The Literary Guild 1929. Hardcover. VG- light interior and exterior discoloration. some scuffing and scratching to boards. light corner and edge wear to boards. Blue cloth boards with silver stamped design and lettering. 111 pp. Illustrations. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Translation by Richard Aldington. The Literary Guild hardcover books
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Voltaire and David Garnett
Zadig
New York: Rimington & Hooper / Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1929. Hardcover. VG No dj; quite clean inside and out. Tan cloth gilt letters on spine 132 pp. illus. An English and special edition of "Zadig" a novel first published by French author Voltaire in 1747. With an introduction by David Garnett and illustrations by Valenti Angelo. One of 999 copies. Rimington & Hooper / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 151877
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Voltaire Jean Francois Marie Arouet de and Rockwell Kent
Candide
New York: Halcyon House 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. G- Cover shows soiling edgewear and possible water damage; pages are generally good but are tanning/aging along all edges and in gutter; illus. and text are generally clear. Red cloth gilt letters on spine & front cover illus. flylfeaves 112 pp. BW illus. An edition of Voltaire's classic illustrated with line drawings by American artist Rockwell Kent 1882-1971. One of 1928 copies. Halcyon House hardcover books
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Voltaire and Anthony Hecht translator
Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster / Poeme sur le Desastre de Lisbonne
Lincoln: Penmen Press 1977. Hardcover. VG. Slipcase covered in black cloth; Black illus. paper over boards; Black cloth at spine; Gilt titling at spine;. Voltaire's poem translated into English by Anthony Hecht; Includes six engravings by Lynn Ward and an introduction by Arthur Wilson; Poem provided in both French and English rest of text in English only; Presentation copy signed by Ward Hecht and Wilson; Also inscribed by Ward on half-title page. Penmen Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 122302
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Klee Paul illus and Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet de
KANDIDE ODER DIE BESTE WELTE
Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1920. Small quarto 26 x 20 cm. Cloth backed boards lettered in gilt. Tips a bit bumped lower edges shelf-rubbed very good. First this edition illustrated with 26 pencil drawings by Paul Klee. "This book is included as one of the few examples of Klee's book illustration as well as an important record of his early drawing style" - Artist & The Book. ARTIST & THE BOOK 143. Kurt Wolff Verlag hardcover books
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Voltaire Jean Marie Francois Arouet de
Candide; or Optimism
New York: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. 4to. Signed by the illustrator May Neama. Excellent copy in publisher's slipase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WB17070
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De Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet.
Candide: Or Optimism.
New York.: The Limited Editions Club. 1973. Limited edition #171 of 1500 copies. Hardcover quarter white leather over burgundy and white cloth gilt titles slipcase with paper label. . Fine in slipcase. . 8vo. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by May Neama. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
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De Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet.
Candide or Optimism.
Norwalk. : Easton Press. 1977. Hardcover full gray leather raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt silk end papers ribbon marker. . Bookplate to pastedown otherwise fine no dustjacket as issued. . Large 8vo. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Easton Press. hardcover books
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VOLTAIRE
PRECIS DU SIECLE DE LOUIS XV
Garnier Freres 1880. VOLTAIRE. PRECIS DU SIECLE DE LOUIS XV ET HISTOIRE DU PARLEMENT DE PARIS. Paris: Garnier Freres 1880. 12mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards stamped in gilt. Later Edition. Very Good bit of edgewear some darkening spine. $50.00. <br/><br/> Garnier Freres hardcover books
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Nonesuch Press: Voltaire M. de
THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON .
London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. Three quarter vellum and marbled boards t.e.g. Decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. Number 271 of 1500 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Vellum a bit soiled edges and boards a trifle rubbed bookplate on front pastedown but a good copy without slipcase. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
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Voltaire FM. Arouet de F. M.
LE TAUREAU BLANC ILLUSTRATIONS DE GEORGES BRAUN
Paris: René Kieffer 1926. Small quarto. Handsome color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. About fine in nicked glassine wrapper. First edition in this format. Illustrated with over thirty vignettes and decorations by Braun colored via pochoir. From an edition of 550 numbered copies this is one of five hundred copies on vélin blanc. Monod asserts that despite the colophon publication actually took place in 1930. MONOD 11440. René Kieffer unknown books
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Reiner Imre artist and Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
LA PRINCESSE DE BABILONE
Berne-Bümpliz: Éditions Les Belles Feuilles 1942. Small folio. Loose signatures laid into pictorial wrappers. Near fine in good quarter vellum chemise and slipcase the latter a bit worn with cracks and bumps at a few corners. First edition thus illustrated with ten large wood engravings a number of decorated initials and two decorations by Imre Reiner. From a total edition of 220 copies this is one of 170 copies on Rives signed by the artist with an extra suite of the woodcuts on Rives. An interesting production by the artist/designer/typographer. Éditions Les Belles Feuilles hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT57612
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Voltaire FM. Arouet de F. M.
L'INGÉNU HISTOIRE VÉRITABLE TIRÉE DES PAPIERS DU P. QUESNEL ET SUIVIE D'AUTRES CONTES
Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1917. Printed wrappers. Woodcut frontis by Charles de Fontenay. One of 1420 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1550. Very good unopened. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
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Voltaire FM. Arouet de F. M.
CANDIDE OU L'OPTIMISME TRADUIT DE L'ALLEMAND DE M. LE DR. RALPH AVEC LES ADDITIONS.
Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1913. Printed wrappers. Woodcut portrait by P.-E. Vibert. One of 1240 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1568. Very good unopened. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
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Voltaire FM. Arouet de F. M.
LETTRES D'AMOUR DE VOLTAIRE À SA NIÈCE
Paris: Plon 1957. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Color frontis portrait. First edition ordinary issue. Edited by Theodore Besterman. Wrappers lightly soiled internally fine. Plon unknown books
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet de: Duvernet Theophile Imarigeon
LA VIE DE VOLTAIRE PAR M
A Geneve 1787. 164pp. 12mo. Old mottled calf gilt label. A number of edges untrimmed. Some spotting and smudging binding rubbed and joints cracked; just a good copy. The second edition noted in Barbier of one of the popular biographies of Voltaire first published the previous year with a portrait not carried over to this edition. BARBIER IV:1018. unknown books
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Keen Henry illus Voltaire FM. Arouet de F. M.
ZADIG AND OTHER ROMANCES
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head / Dodd Mead and Co. 1926. Large octavo. Decorated orange cloth fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Spine faintly sunned a few finger smudges to cloth otherwise very good or better. First edition in this format with a portrait and 11 plates by Henry Keen. Translations by H.I. Woolf and with a new translation for this edition of "The White Bull" by Wifrid Jackson. Bookplate of Adrian Goldstone on front pastedown. John Lane the Bodley Head / Dodd, Mead and Co. hardcover books
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Voltaire Marie Francois Arouet de
LA HENRIADE NOUVELLE EDITION
Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne. 1770. Two volumes. Octavo. Full contemporary mottled dyed calf spines gilt extra. Portrait plates and engraved headpieces. Light scattered foxing largely to occasional upper margins some extremity wear with narrow losses at extreme crowns of spines three small external worm holes in lower joint of second volume otherwise a very good set. First this edition containing in the first volume a pictorial title a frontis ten plates and ten headpieces all engraved by de Longueil after drawings by Charles Eisen. There are no illustrations in the second volume which concludes with a number of additional poems and documents by Voltaire. Voltaire's letter to Eisen written after seeing his designs opens the first volume and affirms his belief that the edition will be "plus recherchee." RAY ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 30. COHEN-DE RICCI 1026/7. SALOMONS p. 172. Chez la Veuve Duchesne... unknown books
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Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet de
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF VOLTAIRE. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
London: Printed for G. Robinson 1784. 2ii2251pp. Octavo. Modern quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards gilt label. Bound without the half-title otherwise a very good fresh copy. First edition in English published the same year as the original French edition. An edition appeared from Dublin as well. The two page introduction quotes from a letter from Paris dated 2 May indicating that two or three editions "have already been seized and seven Booksellers imprisoned . The Memoirs are really written by Voltaire and must soon or late become public. This Voltaire is sort of a malignant spirit who came upon earth only to embitter the cup of life and afterwards laugh at our wry faces." ESTC T1128. Printed for G. Robinson hardcover books
Bookseller reference : WRCLIT58272
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