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 with the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains...

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)...

Paris: Librairie de Bibliophiles, 1877. Number 15 of 20 numbered copies (of a total of 210 copies), published in Jouaust's Librairie de Bibliophiles. ¶ Xavier de Maistre’s famous novella, first published in 1794, reprinted and translated many times, and it remains in print today. ¶ From the library of San...

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...