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Voltaire Candide and Other Tales
Geneva Edito-Service First Thus Leatherette Fine No Jacket
Gold title and decoration to spine on dark green leatherette spine with ornate gold decoration on mustard coloured leatherette boards. A Fine unmarked copy. Yellow page marker bound in. Uniform with Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking Series. Translated from the French by Tobias Smollett and revised by James Thornton. With an introduction and appreciation by Christine North. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. Not dated but circa late 1960's / early 1970's.
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7.00 GBP
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Voltaire The Calas Affair - A Treatise on Tolerance
London Folio Society 1994 Hard Fine Fine
A Fine unmarked copy with Fine slipcase. Bound in vegetable parchment printed with an 18th century engraving by Ganiere of the Pope condemning Jansenism. Translated and edited by Brian Masters. 17 illustrations. The murder of Jean Calas in 1762, sanctioned by the sword of justice,caused much uproar between Protestants and Catholics. He was broken on the wheel in Toulouse.
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12.00 GBP
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Voltaire Voltaire's Romances
New York Peter Eckler Publishing Co. 1922 Cloth Very Good No Jacket
New edition profusely illustrated throughout complete in one volume. Translator not mentioned. Gilt lettering to spine on olive green cloth boards. An attractive small volume with only slight spotting to front end papers else this would be a Fine copy.
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15.00 GBP
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Voltaire Zadig and Other Romances
London George Routledge Cloth Very Good No Jacket
Translated by H. I. Woolf with an introduction and notes. Second impression. A nice small volume in the Broadway Translations series of books for the most part difficult to obtain. Red covers with cream spine gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally marble pattern end papers and also clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Not dated but probably 1950's.
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12.00 GBP
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Voltaire Zadig and Other Tales
London G. Bell & Sons 1923 Cloth Very Good No Jacket
Gilt title and decoration on red cloth boards which have some light marks. Internally there is age darkening to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. Comprises Zadig - An Eastern Tale first published in 1747, Candide and 13 other tales. Uniform with Bohn's Popular Library Series translated by R. Bruce Boswell. *** NOT EX LIB ***
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