VOLTAIRE - Novels and tales (Zadig, The Princess of Babylon, - Lot 194

VOLTAIRE - Novels and tales (Zadig, The Princess of Babylon, The White and the Black, Bababek and the Fakirs, The Blind Judges of Colours, Micromégas, Candide, The Huron or the Ingénue, Jenni or the Wise Man and the Atheist, Jeannot and Colin, The Man with Forty Ecus, etc). Bouillon, Aux dépens de la Société Typographique, 1778. 3 vols. in-8, portrait, 2 fronts, 55 p. o. t., ss. clear wet. paper, lemon morocco, triple golden thread on plates, spines with ornamented nerves, flesh and leg. spines rubbed, slices and lace int. gilt (CUZIN). COHEN 1038. Portrait of Voltaire engraved by Cathelin after La Tour. 13 vignettes by Monnet, engraved by Deny, 57 figures by Marillier, Martini, Monnet and Moreau, engraved by Baquoy, Châtelain, Deny, Dambrun, Lorieux, Patas, Vidal and Elisabeth Thiébaut. Ex-dono of Pierre Charpentier's colleagues dated March 3, 1950. He had been Minister of France in Romania since February 1948.