Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English. ESTC T61467; Norton, Some Uncollected Authors, Book Collector, Winter, 1959, 2. One of the earliest works by Elizabeth Griffith (1727-93), the interesting English playwright and novelist, who resorted to translation at the beginning in her career to support.....
London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Nourse, R. and J. Dodsley; D. David and C. Reymer, 1757. First edition. ESTC T89805; Fleeman 57.3LMM/1. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), written by Madame Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773), and one.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780. First separate English edition and the first English edition of this translation. ESTC T142635, records ten locations (BL, Oxford, University College, William and Mary, Houghton, McMaster, LC, HEH, Chicago and Kansas). Philosophical treatises on friendship and old age by the Marchioness de Lambert (1647-1733).....
![Vida del Principe D[o]n Carlos, Espana Escrita por el Abad de S[a]n Real. CESAR VICHARD DE...](/pictures/thumb/21846.jpg?v=1591052525)
[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his.....
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. First edition. Tchemerzine, Bibliographie d'Editions Originales ou Rares d'Auteurs Francais II, 916; and see P.N. Furman, Diderot, A Critical Biography. ¶ The first book by the great French philosopher, writer, and polymath Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a translation of An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1699).....
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....