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1783164923Amsterdam & se trouve à Paris: Rue et Hotel Serpente 1783. Octavo pp. 1-4 i ii-lxii 1 2-507 508: blank four inserted plates old calf spine panel richly tooled in gold red and black title labels on spine panel marbled endpapers all edges stained red. Later edition. Outer front joint weak calf worn at edges a good copy. #164923 Rue et Hotel Serpente unknown books
175148447London: Printed for R. Francklin in Russel-street Covent-Garden 1751. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Small marginal stain primarily to A3v A4r. Overall Very Good. iv 4 92 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. <br/><br/>Founded on the story of Aurora in Le Sage's novel Gil Blas. Garrick penned the epilogue. Printed for R. Francklin, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden unknown books
173436125Amsterdam: Desbordes 1734. hardcover. very good. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo contemporary calf rubbed. Amsterdam: Chez Henry Desbordes 1734. Second Edition. With the 1707 approbation as of the first edition. Very good.<br/><br/> Desbordes unknown books
17713896Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires 1771. 12mo. 4 vols. Illustrated with 29 of 32 copper engraved plates. Cont. mottled calf ornately gilt spines with red & black calf labels small chips at extremities. Front hinge of Vol. I split but still sound. Cont. engraved armorial bookplates on front pastedowns. Cohen 631. Par la Compagnie des Libraires unknown books
1758771461758. LE SAGE Alain-Rene. LE DIABLE BOITEUX. Nouvelle Edition corrigee refondue at ornee de Figures. London Pierre van Cleef 1758. Octavo. Two volumes in one. xii240; iv222pp. 13ff. With 13 engraved plates. By the author of Gil Blas "Le Diable Boiteux" The Limping Devil is a genie released from a bottle who shows his master life in the houses of Paris seen from the sky as though through the roofs. First published in France in 1707. Early calf quite worn with losses to spine ends and corners; front flyleaf missing interior well-thumbed with some pages smudged and dog-eared. unknown books
1785122444France: A. Montargis 1785. Hardcover. Fair Sold as-is; Spine detached but present from vol. I; Spines on other three volumes cracked; Paper worn at extremities of boards; Some foxing . Tan paper over boards; Leather at spines with gilt decoration and titling; 462 pp. vol. I 398 pp. vol. II 438 pp. vol. III 434 pp. vol. IV; Numerous bw plates. Text in French; Lesage's 18th-century novel considered the last masterpiece of the picaresque novel genre. A. Montargis hardcover books
1717246813London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand 1717. The Eighth Edition. v i 338 22 index pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contempoasry calf spine revbacked. Nice copy. The Eighth Edition. v i 338 22 index pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand unknown books
17326643Venice: Appresso Antonio Bortoli 1732. Vellum. Very Good. 12mo. 3 vols. 384;312;358pp. Copper engraved frontispiece. Each title page with a woodcut printer's vignette. Cont. vellum a bit soiled. Front pastedowns of Vol. II & III with the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir James Wemyss of Bogie. The second Italian translation of Books 1-9. The first French ed. of Books 1-9 is 1724 Books 1-6 appeared in 1715. Appresso Antonio Bortoli hardcover books
1759131864London: Printed for T. Osborn 1759. 12mo two volumes: pp. i-ii iii-iv v vi vii-viii 1 2-266 267-280: index; i-iv 1 2-260 261-272: index twelve inserted plates with uncredited copper engravings early full calf brown leather spine labels. Second edition in English. The second English translation this one by Laurent Bordelon according to the British Library catalogue of LE DIABLE BOITEUX a classic French fantasy first published in Paris in 1707. Le Sage's novel "imitated in framework and title . DIABLO COJUELO of Guevara 1641." Asmodée the "diable boiteux" is "released by Don Cléophas Zambullo from a bottle in which he has been imprisoned by an astrologer. To divert his benefactor Asmodée lifts the roofs off the houses of Madrid and shows him what is passing within. This provides the author with an opportunity for a satirical picture of the Parisian society of the day in all its perversity." - Harvey and Heseltine eds The Oxford Companion to French Literature p. 201. "Light entertaining material that has served as the ultimate model for many diabolic tours for purposes of satire and amusement." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1009. "Less a novel than a sequence of highly entertaining satirical episodes ASMODEUS became the model for numerous narratives in which a demon gives a human being a magical tour of contemporary life and vice." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 1-45. Bleiler 1978 p. 123. Reginald 08942. Lowndes p. 1343. ESTC N008912. Some offset to upper lower and fore-edge margins of each frontispiece and last leaf of each index caused by interaction of the paper with the leather under the paste-downs some offset from frontispieces on title pages otherwise internally clean and fine throughout. The binding is sound but the calf is quite scuffed and there is cracking peeling and some loss of surface to the spine panels especially that of volume two. An uncommon edition. #131864 Printed for T. Osborn unknown books
176658832London: Printed for T. Osborne and others 1766. Third edition of the Smollett translation first published in 1749. 12mo. 4 volumes: xii 312; iv 263; vii 292; viii 276 pp. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece to each volume and 29 other copper-engraved plates. For his own fiction Smollett "preferred to adapt to his purpose the 'picaresque' method of Le Sage . Smollett's hero like 'Gil Blas' recounts a life of varied adventures which he experiences in the company of a servant" DNB from a long entry. CBEL II p. 525. Lowndes Vol. II p. 1343: "A translation of great merit . the English author is true to the sense manner and spirit of the original and is often extremely happy in the interchange of particular idioms" quoted from Tytler. A little foxing but a very good copy. Later tan polished calf rubbed especially joints and spine ends gilt marbled endpapers leather labels and gilt rules and ornaments between raised bands on spine aall edges gilt by Zaehnsdorf. #5970. <br/><br/> Printed for T. Osborne [and others] hardcover books
1795229570Paris Didot Jeune. An IIIe 1795. 1795. First edition thus. 8vo. Illustrated with 99 engraved plates by Bornet Duplessis-Bertaux Charpentier J.J. Hubert and others. Half titles. 19th century 1/2 blue morocco over marbled boards; marbled edges; marbled endpapers. Fine condition no foxing. 4 volumes complete. Bookplates of Herbert Eberhard; volume I with engraved bookplate of Edouard Saint Paul. Brunet III S 1006. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Paris, Didot Jeune. An IIIe [1795]. hardcover books
174925274Londres: Jean Nourse 1749. First English edition. 32 engraved plates 8 in each volume. 4 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt spines red leather labels. Heads of two volumes slightly nicked spines and joints a little rubbed else very good. First English edition. 32 engraved plates 8 in each volume. 4 vols. 12mo. First English edition of the French Text. Scarce first printing in England of the French text appearing in the same year as the Smollett translation. NUC gives four locations only. Jean Nourse unknown books
1797310699London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson 1797. First complete translation. Without half-titles. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary quarter calf. Volume one neatly rebacked but lacking spine label ownership signature removed from title scattered light foxing very good. First complete translation. Without half-titles. 2 vols. 12mo. "An English translation of Alain René Le Sage's 'Histoire d'Estanville Gonzalez surnommé le garçon de bonne humeur' itself a French translation of 'Vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzalez' by Esteban González but which is also sometimes attributed to Luis Vélez de Guevara" ESTC. ESTC T120779 Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson unknown books
