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Rare edition with 10 contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Second edition of the Latin translation of Heinrich Campes' adaptation of 'Robinson Crusoe'. Signed by the translator F.J. Goffaux.
Description: Contemporary calf, sides with rolled gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Vigesimo-quarto: 14 × 9 cm; pp. 284, [1]. With hand-coloured frontispiece and 9 hand-coloured plates.
Condition: Binding show some wear to corners, edges, spine ends and hinges. Gold decoration somewhat faded or gone in places. Spine label partially rubbed. Text block with minor inkstains in lower margin of pages 17–20 and 67–71. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy.

A beautifully designed and produced edition with with 18 original drypoint etchings by André Michel (1900-1972). No. 232 of a limited edition of 275 copies.
Description: Folded sheets loosely inserted in a glassine-wrapped portfolio; housed in a pull-off box of quarter morocco and paper-covered boards; the box with a rounded spine. Quarto: 34 × 28 cm; pp. 138, [1].
Condition: The spine of the box is slightly faded and the glassine is somewhat darkened due to age. Otherwise in very good condition.
Notes: André Marie de Chénier was a French poet and journalist born in Constantinople on 30 October 1762 and executed by guillotine in Paris on 25 July 1794 at the age of 31. His oeuvre includes rewrites of ancient poems, philosophical and political poems characterised by the period of the French Revolution.

The first translation of the 'Commentarii' into French.
Description: Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Quarto: 25 × 20 cm; [18] ll., 623, [1], 64, [36] pp. Engraved frontispice.
Condition: Binding somewhat soiled and stained, title on spine somewhat faded. Occasional paper repairs to endpapers and cracked at head and tail. Pages slightly toned, light dampstaining to first few leaves. Some pencil notes and comments. Missing plate 'Pont de César'.