Lot 15
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Traduit de l'allemand par Mr. le Docteur Ralph, no place, no printer, 1759.
Hammer Price: £400
Description
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Traduit de l'allemand par Mr. le Docteur Ralph, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece & ornaments to text, C4 small chip to fore-margin, damp-stain to lower-margin throughout, some staining or light spotting elsewhere, lightly browned, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral motif, g.e., upper joint and upper corners repaired, slight abrasion to foot of covers, some wear to extremities, [Bengesco I, 1441], 12mo, no place, no printer [likely Rouen, widow Jacques-Nicolas Besongne], 1759.
⁂ One of a number of editions of this important novel published in the same year as the true first edition. This copy corresponds with Bengesco 1441, with the following points: numbers 215pp., the last erroneously paginated 315, title with "Par M. de V." between double horizontal lines, p.195 mispaginated 105, the typeface changing from p.193 onwards.
Description
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Traduit de l'allemand par Mr. le Docteur Ralph, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece & ornaments to text, C4 small chip to fore-margin, damp-stain to lower-margin throughout, some staining or light spotting elsewhere, lightly browned, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral motif, g.e., upper joint and upper corners repaired, slight abrasion to foot of covers, some wear to extremities, [Bengesco I, 1441], 12mo, no place, no printer [likely Rouen, widow Jacques-Nicolas Besongne], 1759.
⁂ One of a number of editions of this important novel published in the same year as the true first edition. This copy corresponds with Bengesco 1441, with the following points: numbers 215pp., the last erroneously paginated 315, title with "Par M. de V." between double horizontal lines, p.195 mispaginated 105, the typeface changing from p.193 onwards.
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