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French translation of the Hermit

[LONGUEVILLE, Peter].
Le Solitaire Anglois, ou Avantures Merveilleuses de  Philippe Quarll. Par Mr. Dorrington. Traduit de l'Anglois.

With fine engraved frontispiece showing Philippe Quarll with his pet monkey at work on his deserted island, and with folding engraved map.

With fine engraved frontispiece showing Philippe Quarll with his pet monkey at work on his deserted island, and with folding engraved map.

With fine engraved frontispiece showing Philippe Quarll with his pet monkey at work on his deserted island, and with folding engraved map.



Paris, Etienne Ganeau, Guillaume Cavelier, 1729. Sm.8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red painted edges. With fine engraved frontispiece showing Philippe Quarll with his pet monkey at work on his deserted island, and with folding engraved map. (12),368, (4) pp.

Rare early edition of the French translation of "The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled (!) Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll An Englishman. Who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington a Bristol Merchant, upon an unhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any human Assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away", first published at Westminster, in 1727. Since the original preface, here also included in translation, was signed P.L., the author is now identified as Peter Longueville.

Fine copy.- (Binding rubbed and sl. dam. at corners and top and bottom of spine; few old ink annotations in the margins).
Ullrich IV, 13 o (Rotterdam ed. of 1728); not in Gumuchian; NUC lists 2 copies; Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, p. 263

Related Subjects: English  French  Literature  Robinson Crusoe 

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