FOE (Daniel de).

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FOE (Daniel de).
Robinson Crusoe. Translation by Petrus Borel. Enriched with the life of Daniel de Foë, by Philarète Chasles; notices on the sailor Selkirk, on Saint-Hyacinthe, on the island of Juan-Fernandez, on the Caribbean and the Puelches, by Ferdinand Denis; and a religious Dissertation by the abbot La Bouderie. Paris, Borel et Varenne, 1836. Two volumes in-8, long-grained lavaliere half morocco with corners, spines decorated in gilt with cathedral motifs with green morocco title-pieces and red morocco tomes, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved (G. Mercier, sr de son père, 1923). First edition of the translation by Petrus Borel and first printing of the illustration. Two title-frontispices and 250 beautiful vignettes, half at the head of the chapters, the latter included in beautiful frames, half in the culs-de-lampe, all wood-engraved after Célestin Nanteuil, Devéria, Lorentz, Forest, etc. "Very rare edition, considered as one of the beautiful specimens of the renovation of wood-engraving" (Carteret, III, p.240). A very fine and rare copy, with all margins, complete with its dark blue cover, "very curious" (cf. Carteret, who reproduces it on a full page), with on the second plate, in a grid, the figure of Robinson under his umbrella. From the library of Paul Villeboeuf (1963, no. 205), with his ex-libris and his gilt monogram on the first counter-piece.
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