VOLTAIRE, Candide ou l'Optimisme. Translated from the German - Lot 90

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VOLTAIRE, Candide ou l'Optimisme. Translated from the German - Lot 90
VOLTAIRE, Candide ou l'Optimisme. Translated from the German by M. le docteur Ralph with the additions found in the doctor's pocket when he died in Minden in the year of our Lord 1759. Illustrated with sixty-five etchings by Gus Bofa in 1932. P., Librairie des Champs-Elysées, 1932, 4°, 221 p., leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase (spine of folder stained, slipcase rubbed, ex. very fresh). Limited edition of 100 numbered copies on Arches vellum, signed by Gus Bofa and initialled by the publisher, with a suite of hors textes in black (remarks in the margin of the second state of the plates comment on and develop the main theme of each illustration). This book, one of Gus Bofa's most beautiful illustrated books, marks the start of his collaboration with Librairie des Champs-Elysées, which would also publish "Slogans" and "La Croisière incertaine".
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