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CENDRARS, BLAISE AND SONIA DELAUNEY.

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Couleurs simultanées de Mme. Delaunay-Terk [caption title].

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.....

Price: $3,500.00

[DIDEROT, DENIS].

Principes de la Philosophie Morale; ou, Essai de M. S. sur le Mérite et la Vertu.

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).....

Price: $1,750.00

GENLIS, STEPHANIE-FELICITE, COUNTESS DE.

De L'Influence des Femmes sur la Littérature Française, comme Protectrices des Lettres et comme Auteurs . . .

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).

Price: $375.00

[GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH, TRANSLATOR].

The Memoirs of Ninon de L'Enclos, with Her Letters to Monsr de St Evremond and to the Marquis de Sevigné. Collected and Translated from the French, By a Lady.

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.....

Price: $650.00

LAMBERT, ANNE THERESE MARGUENAT DE COURCELLES.

Essays on Friendship and Old Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert . . . Translated from the French by A Lady. With an Introductory Letter to William Melmoth, Esq.

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).....

Price: $375.00

[LENNOX, CHARLOTTE, TRANSLATOR].

Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon and of the Last Age. Translated from the French by the Author of the Female Quixote.

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.....

Price: $875.00

LOCKE, JOHN.

Essai Philosophique Concernant L'Entendement Humain . . . Traduit de l'Anglois de Mr. Locke, par Pierre Coste.

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.....

Price: $1,500.00

NODIER, CHARLES.

Questions de Littérature Légale. Du Plagiat. De La Supposition D'Auteurs, Des Supercheries qui ont Rapport aux Livres.

Paris: Barba, Libraire, 1812. First edition. Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictivia, 1639. ¶ A scarce study of literary forgery by French author, antiquary and bibliophile Charles Nodier (1780-1844), who was also apparently well versed in the subject: "The French C19 saw Charles Nodier, whose Questions de Littérature Légale . . . is.....

Price: $475.00

POUGENS, CHARLES.

Jocko, Anecdote Détachée des Lettres Inédites sur L'Instinct des Animaux.

Paris: P. Persan, 1824. First edition. An interesting work of short fiction by French author and polymath Charles Pougens (1755-1833). A female orangutan on a jungle island encounters a Portuguese man, Fernandez, who gives her the name Jocko. They become friends and engage in numerous activities together, including having meals.....

Price: $725.00

[SAINT-REAL, CESAR VICHARD DE].

Vida del Principe D[o]n Carlos, Espana Escrita por el Abad de S[a]n Real.

[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.....

Price: $1,500.00

VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE.

Letters Concerning the English Nation.

London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First edition. Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance of an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistolary observations comparing British and French society, culture, science.....

Price: $2,500.00