Candide ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire pseud François-Marie Arouet

La Belle Page, Paris 1945. 1st ed., thus, first printing. Small 4to. Traduit de l'allemand par M. Le Dr Ralph... Avec 16 hors-texte de A. Patte. Of an edition of 1000 copies, this is # 328, one of four hundred printed on imitation japon, numbered 191-590. Donor inscription to the ffep: 'Barbara / du Prof / affectueusement / Octobre 1950', otherwise a fine copy in the publisher's cream card covers, with the original glassine wraps, in a chemise with textured pale-green boards, in a substantial matching slipcase, now a little faded and marked