London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R. Dodsley, and W. Warner, 1737. First edition, second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year under the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains.....

Paris: C. Painparré, Libraire, 1821. Second edition, "revue et augmentee." Preceded by the first edition of 1819, of which OCLC records only one copy. OCLC and COPAC record this second edition in six locations. A perspective on London and England by minor French author Madame D'Avot (or Davot), who spent.....

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 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).....

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.....

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.....

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.....