GARNIER, Charles-Georges-Thomas, traducteur. - Lot 1065

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GARNIER, Charles-Georges-Thomas, traducteur. - Lot 1065
GARNIER, Charles-Georges-Thomas, traducteur. Imaginary journeys, dreams, visions, and cabalistic novels. Ornamented with figures. Amsterdam and is in Paris, 1787-1789. 39 volumes in-8 (193 x 119 mm); 79 copper-engraved plates after Marillier; red half calf with corners, coronated czarina Maria-Feodorovna 'MF' figure, crowned with smooth decorated spine, yellow edges (contemporary Russian binding). First edition and complete series of this famous collection with more than 30 texts from utopian journeys. Compiled by Charles-Georges-Thomas Garnier, it contains all the international classical texts of the period by Defoe, Swift, Mercier, Berington, etc. First edition of Marillier's beautiful illustration: 79 figures engraved on copper by Berthet, Borgnet, Croutelle, Delignon, Delvaux, Langlois, Delaunay etc. The last volume contains an index of the pieces contained in the first 36 volumes. Good copy despite a few minor defects; spine slightly faded. Collation on request Provenance: Maria-Féodorovna (monogram on the back, ex-libris from the Tsarskoje-Sélo library). Gove, The Imaginary voyage in prose fiction, pp. 27-63; Cohen-de Ricci, 1050 (indicates only 70 plates); Brunet, V, 1381.
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