Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018. First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. ¶ Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and.....
Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob,".....