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.....

Anvers: Chez Van der Hey, Libraire, 1735. First edition. OCLC 8848288 records five copies (Yale, Smithsonian, Virginia, Sydney, and one in Germany); COPAC records four later editions, but not this one. The gossipy and scandalous memoirs of the eccentric and learned Abbe de François Timoleon Choisy (1644-1724), who, at his.....

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.....

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.....

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1743. The second edition (but first London) of the first English translation of The Memoirs and Adventures of the Marquis de Bretagne and the History of the Chevalier de Grieu and Moll Lescaut, preceded only a Dublin edition of 1741, printed "for the translator." ESTC.....

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.....

Paris: Jules Gay, Editeur, 1863. First edition, number 75 of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper (of a total of 317 copies). An interesting compilation by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author, of the library of Marie Antoinette that was housed at her estate, Petit Trianon. The.....

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: 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.....

[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.....

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.....