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Books from the library of
Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
(1761-1835)

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Books from the library of
Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
(1761-1835)

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The books in this catalogue belonged to Diane-Adélaïde
Damas d’Antigny, Madame de Simiane (1761-1835) collected
by her at the Chateau de Cirey (Champagne).
Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane’s early life was colourful and she came to
Cirey in 1795 after a period of incarceration during the Terror. Prior
to that she had been married to Charles-François de Simiane, who
had served with Lafayette in America and who died in mysterious
circumstances in France 1787. The death was publicly explained as
a hunting accident, but the circumstances were unusual and suggest
suicide; Charles-François was almost certainly homosexual and his wife
Diane-Adélaïde had pursued a long affair with Lafayette in the 1780s.
After her husband’s death Madame de Simiane never remarried.
The majority of the books in this catalogue date from the two decades
on either side of the year 1800, with some notable earlier editions. They
are, for the most part, Madame de Simiane’s books for personal reading
and almost all are works of fiction. They clearly illustrate changing
literary taste in France after the Revolution; above all, the phenomenal
popularity of the historical novel and the enthusiasm for British authors
in translation. Milton, Shakespeare, Richardson, Goldsmith and
Macpherson are all represented in eighteenth-century editions, while the
books of the early nineteenth century are dominated by historical fiction,
especially the works of Scott, but also lesser known British and French
authors. As a collection put together by a woman, it is not surprising that
a large proportion of the authors represented are women too.
These were popular books which must have been widely owned by readers
of Madame de Simiane’s generation, but as is often the case, many are
now rare, especially in institutional collections. Some of the most popular
titles turn out to be among the rarest in library holdings. The translations
of Sir Walter Scott, for example, printed in many thousands of copies,
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane

and having a profound influence on contemporary readers and writers
(including, as we know, Stendhal, Dumas, Balzac and Hugo) are still
absent in their first editions from many major libraries.
The books are all in early or contemporary bindings. Many of the novels
show signs of having been read in previous publisher’s bindings (wrappers
or boards) then bound up in various binding ‘campaigns’, probably all
before 1830.
Abbreviations to the principal references cited:
Cioranescu Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la litterature français du
dix-huitième siècle, 1969.
Dargan E. Preston Dargan, ‘Scott and the French Romantics’,
PMLA, Vol. 49, 2 (June 1934).
GRS Garside, Raven & Schöwerling, The English Novel
1770-1829, 2000.
MMF Martin, Mylne & Frautschi, Bibliographie du genre
romanesque français, 1977.
Rochedieu Rochedieu, Bibliography of Frenhc Translations of
English works 1700-1800, 1948.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
1 ARLINCOURT, [Victor-Prévost, Vicomte d’]. Le Solitaire. Paris: Le
Normant, Veuve Renard, Dentu, Delaunay and Nepveu, 1821. £300
8vo (200 × 170 mm), pp. [4], 395, [1]. Half-title and title torn across (no loss),
both carefully laid-down at the time of binding. Early quarter calf, gilt. An
attractive copy.
First edition of d’Arlincourt’s celebrated roman noir, a colossal
literary success which ran to 12 editions in a few months. It was
translated into all the major European languages and spawned
a host of dramatic offshoots and countless poetical and pictorial
responses. ‘The hero, a miraculously resurrected Charles the Bold,
is a gloomy hermit who has retired to a mountain-top to expiate
innumerable fearful crimes, and only sallies forth to perform
incredible rescues or steal the heroine’s blue hair-ribbons. The
heroine, Élodie, is a tender virgin who can accept the fact that the
hero has murdered her father, seduced her cousin, and wrecked
her uncle’s happiness, but cannot face love without a weddingring’
(Oxford Companion to French Literature).
2 ARLINCOURT, [Victor-Prévost, Vicomte d’]. Le Renégat. Paris and
Rouen: [Baudouin frères for] Béchet, 1822. £300
2 vols, 8vo (195 × 125 mm), pp. [4], 315, [1]; [4], 334, complete with half-titles,
though that to vol. 1 misbound after p. 16. Old marginal repairs to title and
half-title in vol. 1 and half-title in vol. 2, some spotting. Contemporary quarter
calf, gilt panelled spines, red morocco labels (one chipped). Upper hinge of vol. 1
cracked but secure.
First edition of d’Arlincourt’s follow-up to Le Solitaire (1821).
His success seems to have been chiefly among female readers
who devoured his novels and hailed him as a ‘new Ossian’. Often
pilloried by the critics (who mockingly referred to him as ‘le
Vicomte inversif ’ for his inversion-packed syntax) his influence was
nonetheless great, notably on realists such as Balzac (who also
parodied him). In 1834 The Foreign Quarterly Review commented
on his novels: ‘The style of those romances, stilted and inflated

almost to bombast, the extravagance of the incidents, and the
gross and revolting improbabilities of the stories, were such, as
to make the reading of them alternately a source of pain and a
provocative of laughter.’
3 [BARANTE, Guillaume-Prosper Brugière]. De La littérature française
pendant le dix-huitième siècle. Paris: [Crapelet for] Léopold Colin,
1809. £300
8vo (192 × 125 mm), pp. [4], 267, [1]. One gathering lightly browned, otherwise
clean and fresh. Contemporary half calf, gilt panelled spine. Chateau de Cirey
bookplate. An excellent copy.
First edition. An influential survey of the literature of the siècle des
lumières, praised by Madame de Staël and by Goethe (who wrote
that it said ‘neither too much nor too little’) and which brought
its author to the attention of Napoleon. Barante’s method was
historical and he advanced the thesis that literature could in itself
become an institution, especially when other institutions failed
(as they had in the Revolution).
4 BEAUHARNAIS, Fanny, Comtesse de. Les Amans d’autrefois. Paris:
Couturier and l’Esclapart, 1787. £600
3 vols, 12mo (168 × 88 mm), pp. [4], 315, [1]; [4], 356; [4], ‘229’ [329], [1] complete
with half-titles, plus 2 leaves of engraved music in vol. 2. 1 printing flaw (slight
loss to text) and 1 marginal scorch mark in vol. 2. Contemporary mottled quarter
calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, marbled edges. Lower joint of vol.
2 minimally wormed. A pretty copy.
First edition of this collection of prose and verse by the popular
salon host, aunt by marriage to the future Empress Joséphine. A
lively gathering, it was noted in England by the Analytical Review:
‘This is a collection of novels, some serious, some comic, and in
some Fairy-land has been laid under contribution. Two of them
are from the Italian of Bandello, of the 16th century: the others
JUSTIN CROFT
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
are original. There is also some poetry, chiefly new. The French
journalists commend highly this work...’
Cioranescu 10295; MMF, 87.24; OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Princeton and NLS
only outside continental Europe.
5 BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri. Paul et Virginie
... [with: Paul et Virginie, comédie en trois actes, en prose, mêlée
d’ariettes. Représentée par les comèdiens italiens, le 15 Janvier
1791]. Paris: Le Petit et Guillemard, [n.d., 1793]. £100
18mo (130 × 74 mm), pp. 1-284, [3], 274-346, complete despite mispagination,
plus engraved title and 5 plates (one a frontispiece). Contemporary sheep, gilt.
Rubbed, but a good copy.

One of greatest literary successes of the Revolutionary period, first
published separately in 1789 (having first appeared in the author’s
Étude de la Nature of 1787). It was a European phenomenon,
especially in England where it became a powerful tool in the antislavery
movement, being set in French Mauritius and charting
the corruption of a ‘child of nature’ by the sensibilities of French
polite culture. There were many early editions and spin-offs. This
pretty example, with the addition of the dramatic adaptation of
1791, is probably a counterfeit of the Cazin edition of 1793, which
contained an engraved frontispiece (reproduced in our edition) in
addition to the original plates after Moreau.
cf. Cohen-De Ricci 931 (an account of the early editions).
6 BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CAMPAGNE, ou amusemens de l’esprit et du
coeur ... Nouvelle édition, corigée & augmentée. Geneva: ‘À Lyon,
Chez Pierre Duplain l’ainé, 1766. £1000
24 vols, 12mo (164 × 90 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines, red
and green morocco labels. Rubbed, but a very good set.
The Bibliothèque de campagne was a popular collection of novels,
short stories and fairy tales issued in a variety of editions since
the first edition of 1749, each containing different selections
and abridgements. Included here are: Mémoires de la vie du Comte
de Grammont; Histoire de fleur d’épine (Hamilton); Zayde histoire
Espagnole (Mme de La Fayette); Le Temple de Gnide (Montesquieu);
La princesse de Clèves (Mme de La Fayette); Amours d’Ismene et
d’Ismenias (Godart de Bauchamps); La Comtesse de Vergi (La
Vieuville d’Orville); Caterine de France, Reine d’Angleterre (Baudot
de Juilly) and Zadig (Voltaire).
7 BIBLIOTHÈQUE UNIVERSELLE DES ROMANS, ouvrage périodique,
dans lequel on donne l’analyse raisonnée des romans anciens
& modernes, françois, ou traduits dans notre langue; avec des
anecdotes & des notices historiques & critiques concernant les
auteurs ou leurs ouvrages; ainsi que les moeurs, les usages du
temps, les circonstances particulières & relatives, & les personnages
connus, déguisés ou emblêmatiques. Paris: Lacombe [later volumes
Bureau], November 1776-April 1784. £2000
JUSTIN CROFT Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane (1761-1835)
60 vols, 12mo (162 × 90 mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary uniform
quarter calf (with minor variations), spines gilt, turquoise morocco labels. Spines,
occasionally with further wear and the odd small tear, but a handsome set.
A good run of this influential literary journal published from
1775-1789, which owed much to the medieval adaptations of the
Comte de Tressan (see below). It was influential in shaping the
gothic taste in French literature.

8 BOURNON-MALARME, Charlotte. Les Trois Générations, ou,
Drussilla, Wilhelmina et Georgia. Paris: Gérard, ‘An XII’ 1804.
£1500
3 vols, 12mo (170 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 254; [4], 269, [1]; [4], 257, [3], complete with
half-titles, several leaves in vol. 1 misbound out of order. An old ?waterstain to
first and last few leaves of vol. 1, resulting in quite heavy subsequent spotting.
Contemporary quarter calf, gilt panelled spines, red and green morocco labels.
First edition of a rare novel by a prolific writer of romans noirs
(which were usually British-set) for a French audience. The final
advertisement lists 15 of her other novels (Anna Rose-Tree, Richard
Bodley, Milady Lyndsey etc) now barely known. This copy gives an
instructive clue to the novel’s intended audience, being bound to
match works by Sir Walter Scott in the same library.
OCLC lists a single copy worldwide
(Cambridge). No copy located in
France by the Bn catalogue or
the CCFr.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
9 [BURNEY, Frances]. Evelina, ou l’Entrée d’une jeune personne
dans le monde. Ouvrage traduit de l’anglois. Paris & se trouve à
Amsterdam: D.J. Changuion, 1780. £300
3 vols, small 8vo (158 × 95 mm), pp. [5], vi, 224; [4], 216; [4], 254, complete with
half-titles. Occasional minor tears (not affecting text) and stains. Contemporary
mottled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels. Rubbed, spines rather
more worn. A good copy. Early inscriptions ‘Mde de Simiane.’
Second French edition (first 1779, also
published by Changuion) of Evelina, or a
young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778).
cf. GRS 1778, 10 (1779 edition); Rochedieu, p. 44.
10 [CLARKE, Richard, attributed to]. Aspasie; traduit de l’anglois. ‘À
Londres; et se trouve à Paris’ [Paris]: Buisson, 1787. £800
2 vols in one, 12mo (165 × 90 mm), pp. [2], 236; [2], 238, [2], complete with
publisher’s advert leaf at end of vol. 1. Numerous attractive woodcut ornaments
some depicting putti with musical instruments. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt,
red morocco label. Spine slightly dry and rubbed, lower joint starting at head. A
very nice, unsophisticated copy bearing the contemporary inscription: ‘Aspasie à
Mde. de Chatellet.’
First edition in French of Arpasia; or the Wanderer. A Novel. By the
author of the Nabob... (first printed in 1786 by William Lane, later

proprietor of the Minerva Press); attributed to Richard Clarke
by Martin but unattributed by Garside, Raven and Schöwerling.
The translation is sometimes attributed to Isabelle de Montolieu.
The Critical Review wrote of the original: ‘This is a common
story, but related with some art, and in many passages highly
interesting. Hurried on by events, there is not much time to detect
the numerous improbabilities which occur; and affected by the
situations, we are sometimes led to overlook inconsistencies in the
characters.’ Buisson’s adverts list numerous other novels, quite a
few being translations from the English.
GRS, 1786. 4; Rochedieu Appendix I, 12; MMF, 87.3. ESTC wrongly notes that this
is a translation of Aspasia, or, the dangers of vanity (1791, a novel which is actually a
translation from the French!)
11 [COTTIN, Sophie Ristaud]. Claire d’Albe. Paris: Maradan, ‘An VII’,
1799. £450
12mo (167 × 92 mm), pp. viii, 285, [1], (without final blank leaf), engraved
frontispiece. A couple of leaves with small marginal tears (slight loss, not affecting
any text). Contemporary quarter sheep, morocco label lettered in gilt. Rubbed. A
very good, unsophisticated copy.
First edition of the author’s first novel, one of the key novels of post-
Revolutionary France. Claire d’Albe ‘remains [Cottin’s] best known
work. It establishes the subject matter and tensions of her literary
output: love, virtue and the situation of women’ (Encyclopedia of
The Enlightenment). Claire is contracted in an arranged marriage
with an older man, but falls in love with Frédéric his adopted
son, setting up a thematic tension between virtue and desire
and beginning a sequence of reflections on human happiness,
familial responsibilities and the nature of female sexuality. The
tragic ending sees the heroine die of grief, because she could not
love freely. The novel was immensely popular, running to many
editions, but the first edition is scarce.
MMF, 99.62.
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12 [COTTIN, Sophie Ristaud]. Malvina, par Madame *** Auteur de
Claire d’Albe. Paris: Maradan, ‘An IX’, 1800. £600
4 vols, 12mo (164 × 92 mm), pp. [4], iv, 255, [3]; [4], 259, [3]; [4], 251, [3]; [4],
259, [3] complete with half-titles and errata leaves to each vol. 4 engraved
frontispieces. A few minor marginal tears, not affecting text. Contemporary
sprinkled half calf, spines gilt, each with 2 red morocco labels. Slightly rubbed. A
very pretty copy.
First edition of Cottin’s second novel, a
gothic tale set largely in Scotland, with its
heroine Malvina named after the daughter
of Ossian. It was offered as a response or
correction to Cottin’s own Claire d’Albe
(1799). ‘Malvina is much longer, more
complex, with a cast of character types
who foreshadow Jane Austen; but tears,
fainting spells, fires, mortal fevers make it
very characteristic of the excesses of pre-
Romantic sensibility’ (A New History of
French Literature, Hollier, ed., 1989, p. 602).
MMF, 00.60

13 COTTIN, [Sophie Ristaud.] Amélie Mansfeld. Par Madame ***,
auteur de Claire d’Albe et de Malvina, Paris: [Fegueray for]
Maradan, ‘An XI’, 1802. £400
4 vols bound in 2, 12mo (165 × 91 mm), pp. xii, 208; [4], 208; [4], 273, [1]; [4],
310, complete with half-titles, the leaves of one gathering in vol. 3 misbound out of
order, paper flaw to pp. 139-40 in vol. 4 minimally affecting text. Contemporary
sprinkled half calf, spines gilt, red and brown labels. Rubbed, but still an
attractive copy.
First edition of the author’s third novel.
14 COTTIN, [Sophie Ristaud]. Mathilde, ou Mémoires tirés de l’histoire
des croisades. Paris: Giguet et Michaud, ‘An XII’, 1805. £400
4 vols in 2, 12mo (156 × 85 mm), pp. 244; 264; 260; 272, complete with half-titles.
Contemporary quarter sheep, spines with red and tan labels lettered in gilt. Spines
slightly worn at head and foot, labels rather chipped. A good, unsophisticated copy.
First edition. ‘So successful that it influenced women’s fashions’
(Oxford Companion to French Literature). Mathilde, an English
princess follows her brother, Richard the Lionheart, on a crusade
to the Holy Land, where she is captured and falls in love the
Muslim Malek-Adhel, brother of Saladin. The theme then is the
tension between following the heart or the responsibilities of
nation and religion.
15 [COVENTRY, Francis]. La Vie et les aventures du Petit Pompée.
Histoire critique traduit de l’anglois par M. Toussaint. ‘Londres’ [i.
e. Paris, Michel-Étienne II David], 1752. £850
2 vols bound together, 12mo (148 × 78 mm), pp. [2], vi, [4], 214; [4], 253, [3],
including half-titles, plus engraved frontispiece depicting the lap-dog. One leaf
(I, pp. 213-4) with marginal tear (slight loss to blank margin). Contemporary
sheep, spine with five raised bands, label lettered in gilt. Slightly rubbed. A very
good copy.
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A rare translation of The History of Pompey the Little, or, The Life
and Adventures of a Lap-dog (1751), one of two issues of 1752 (the
first year of publication), with MMF listing the other issue with
‘Londres, et se trouve a Paris, chez Couturier’ imprint. It is not
clear which is the first. Coventry’s ‘lively novel of fashionable life
... caused a stir when it was published anonymously by Dodsley
in 1751. Following the fortunes of a lap-dog through various
situations, it records the follies of London society so vividly that
some fashionable readers recognized the originals of its satiric
portraits’. Favourably noticed (by John Cleland) in the Monthly
Review (February 1751), commended to Samuel Richardson by
Lady Bradshaigh, and admired by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
it was variously attributed to Sir John Hill, the printer William
Bowyer and Henry Fielding.
MMF, 52.21; Rochedieu 69. OCLC lists copies at Cambridge, NLS and McGill only
outside continental Europe.

16 DURAS, Claire de Durfort, Duchesse de. Ourika. Paris: [J. Pinard
for] Ladvocat, 1824. £250
12mo (172 × 90 mm), pp. 172, including half-title, bound without publishers’
adverts found at the end of some copies. Quite spotted, heavier at front and rear,
old paper repair to pp. 7-8, not affecting any text. Contemporary quarter sheep,
spines gilt in compartments, green morocco labels. Early paper label to front
pastedown with manuscript note attributing authorship. Spine quite dry and
rubbed, a good unsophistcated copy.
First trade edition of a novel which had first appeared in a
small edition (between 25 and 40 copies) privately circulated in
December 1823. Ourika, based on fact, and influenced by Rousseau
and Chateaubriand, is the complex story of a black African child
raised in aristocratic circles in Revolutionary France. It is the first
fully developed attempt to portray a black heroine in Europe and
the first French novel with a black female narrator. This edition
bears the statement on the verso of the half-title ‘Publié au profit
d’un établissement de charité, and has no edition statement on
the title-page, which bears a quotation from Byron. A true bestseller,
at least four editions appeared in 1824, together with four
plays and two poems based on the novel.
17 DURAS, Claire de Durfort, Duchesse de. Édouard, par l’auteur
d’Ourika... Seconde édition. Paris: [De Fain] for Ladvocat, 1825.
£150
2 vols, 12mo (174 × 95 mm), pp. [4], 238; [4], 225, [1]. Contemporary quarter
sheep, spines gilt in compartments, green morocco labels. Spine quite dry and
rubbed, a good unsophistcated copy.
Second edition (issued in the same year as first). In Édouard Duras
turns her attention from issues of race to the inequalities of class,
exploring the love affair of a duchess and a commoner.
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18 LA FAMILLE DE FITZ-MORRIS; traduit de l’anglais, par L.B. de
L****y. Orné de gravures. Paris: Le Normant, 1801. £1500
2 vols, 12mo (165 × 94 mm), pp. [4], 386; [4], 346, complete with half-titles, plus 2
engraved frontispieces by Mariage after Binet. Some fragility to margins, a few
small tears (with loss to blank margins only) from careless opening, a few loose
leaves in vol. 1 held in place with a pin. Contemporary mottled half sheep, spines
ruled in gilt. Rather dry. An unsophisticated copy.
Sole edition, purporting to be a translation
of a British novel of the fashionable Celtic
genre. We can find no corresponding
work in English, so conclude this to be an
original work with a spurious assertion
of translation. It tells the story of an Irish
family, though it begins in Cornwall and is
mostly set in London.
Not found in in Rochedieu or GRS. OCLC lists a single
copy (Munich University) and we can find no copy in
French, British or American public libraries.
19 [FERRIER, Susan Edmonstone]. L’Héritage, par Miss Ferriar [sic];
traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans de Sir Walter
Scott. Paris: [Cosson for] Lecointe et Durey, 1824. £1500
5 vols, 12mo (170 × 100 mm), pp. [4], 296; [4], 286; [4], 301, [1]; [4], 295, [1];
[iv], 299, [1], complete with half-titles. Occasional spots and stains, a few upper
forecorners torn away (careless opening) not affecting any text, except in one

instance where the pagination of one leaf is lacking. Contemporary quarter
sheep, spines gilt in compartments, green morocco labels. Spines quite dry and
rubbed, one joint cracked, covers of vol. 1 and 5 faded. An unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French of The Inheritence (Edinburgh, 1824),
Scots novelist Susan Ferrier’s popular second novel, translated by
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret, already established as the
translator of Sir Walter Scott. Ferrier had known Scott since her
childhood — her father, James Ferrier was a colleague of his in
the Court of Session, and she was the novelist’s frequent visitor
and correspondent. Her first novel Marriage appeared in 1818 to
considerable acclaim (it also later appeared in French) and Ferrier
was offered £1000 by Blackwood as an advance on The Inheritence.
When it appeared in 1824 it was enthusiastically received by Scott
and many others. ‘Appreciation of the work was not confined to
Scotland; an American edition and a French translation both
appeared in 1824 and a Swedish translation in 1836’ (ODNB).
GRS, 1824, 33. OCLC list copies at Bn, NLS and Universitätsbibliothek München
only.
20 [FIELDING, Henry]. Tom Jones, ou l’Enfant trouvé. Imitation de
l’anglois, de M. H. Fielding, par M. de La Place. Quatrième édition,
Revuë, corigée & augmentée de la Vie de l’Auteur Anglois. ‘Londres
et se vend à Paris’: Bauche, 1767. £400
4 vols, 12mo (166 × 95 mm), pp. [4], 348; [4], 346; lvi, 296; [4], 372 (the pages
from p. 361 misbound at the end of vol. 2), complete with 12 engraved plates by
Pasquier after Gravelot. Some thumbing and staining. Contemporary mottled
calf, gilt panelled spines, red and green labels. Rubbed, spines faded with two
labels lifting at edges, another chipped with slight loss. A modest copy.
Fielding has been described as ‘the most important and durable
of eighteenth-century English novelist in Europe (Cambridge
Companion to European Novelists). Tom Jones (1749) first appeared
in French in 1750, the translation by Pierre-Antoine de La Place.
Tremendously popular and influential in France, it ran to at least
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10 editions (including other translations and appearances in
collections) by the end of the century and was adapted for stage
several times. This is fourth French edition, the first with the
addition of a life of Fielding.
Rochedieu p. 108.
21 [FIÉVÉE, Joseph]. La Dot de Suzette, ou, Histoire de Mme. de
Senneterre. Paris: Maradan, ‘An sixième’, [1798]. £600
12mo (162 × 88 mm), pp. [4], xii, 233, [1], complete with half-title, plus engraved
frontispiece. Occasional spots and stains, 2 leaves (pp. 131-134) loose. Early
quarter calf, gilt panelled spine, lettered direct. Spine quite faded, but a good copy.
First edition of one of the bestsellers of
the Directoire-era, a clandestine novel of
contemporary morality, told by a female
narrator. Fiévée is an interesting figure.
A journalist, novelist and civil servant, his
Royalist sympathies forced him into hiding
in the 1790s. Freed by Napoleon, he became
an intelligence agent under the Empire and
was ennobled. He lived in an openly gay
relationship with Théodore Leclercq until
his death and the two men share the same
grave at Père Lachaise.
MMF, 98.41.

22 GAY, Sophie. Le Moqueur amoureux. Paris: [August Mie for]
Levavasseur, 1830. £400
2 vols. in one, 8vo (205 × 125 mm), pp. [4], 302; [4], 305, [1], complete with halftitles
Some spotting. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt panelled spine, binder’s
ticket ‘Boilet, Doulevan’. Spine faded, but a good copy.
First edition. Sophie Gay (1776-1852) was a prolific and popular
novelist of the Directoire and Empire periods.
Outside continental Europe OCLC locates copies at the British Library, Yale and
Brigham Young universities.
23 GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Adèle et
Théodore, ou Lettres sur l’éducation, contenant tous les principes
relatifs aux trois différens plans d’éducation des princes, des jeunes
personnes et des hommes. Paris: M. Lambert & F.J. Baudouin,
1782. £600
3 vols, 8vo (196 ×125 mm), pp. [4], 460; [4], 43; [4], 464, [6], complete with halftitles
in vols 2 & 3 as called for. Woodcut ornaments throughout. Several early
pencil markings (crosses beside particular passages). Contemporary sprinkled
sheep, gilt, spines with simple double rules, red morocco labels. Rubbed, but a
very good copy.
First edition of Madame de Genlis’ pioneering educational novel,
advocating the post-Rousseauian ideal that one or both parents
should personally devote themselves to the education of their
children. Hugely influential and translated into most European
languages at an early date, its presence was felt throughout
the literature of the nineteenth century. In Austen’s Emma, for
example,(chapter 17 of the final book) the heroine tells Knightley
that Mrs. Weston, her governess, practised on her ‘Like La
Baronne d’Almane or La Contesse d’Ostalis in Madame de Genlis’
Adelaide and Theodore’, implying familiarity with the work by
both author and audience. The ‘Cours de lecture’ at the end of
vol. 3 is a fascinating cross-section of literature deemed suitable
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for children at every stage of development. It includes a number
of English works: Robinson Crusoe, Lady Montague’s Letters,
Macaulay’s History, Richardson’s Pamela and Charles Grandison,
Shakespeare and Milton.
Cioranescu, 30608 (stating format as 12mo, an error, the first edition being in 8vo,
as here).
24 [GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Les Veillées
du château, ou, cours de morale à l’usage des enfans par l’auteur
d’Adèle et Théodore. Paris: Lambert & Baudoüin, 1784. £600
3 vols, 12mo (187 × 115 mm), pp. [4], xv, [1], 555, [1]; [2], 587, [1]; 408, [2]
(adverts), bound without half-titles in vols. 2 & 3 (present in vol. 1). Early
nineteenth-century quarter calf, gilt panelled spines. A handsome copy.
First edition. One of the most influential
educational works of the eighteenth
century. A collection of educational stories,
it was reprinted and translated in numerous
editions throughout Europe within a year
and appeared in English as Tales of the
Castle; or, Stories of Instruction and Delight
(1785). The first edition is scarce.
Cioranescu, 30611; MMF, 82.20 (giving the 8vo issue
precedence over the 12mo issue).

25 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Les Chevaliers
du cygne, ou, La Cour de Charlemagne. Conte historique et moral pour
servir de suite aux Veillées du château, et dont tous les traits qui peuvent
faire allusion à la révolution françoise, sont tirés de l’histoire. Paris:
Lemierre and P.F. Fauche in Hambourg, 1795. £600
8vo (200 × 121 mm), pp. xxiv, 381, [1]; [4], 406; [4], 434, complete with half-titles
in vols. 2 & 3 as called for. Preliminaries slightly frayed at inner margins, a few
spots and stains, the paper of indifferent quality. Contemporary quarter sheep,
plain spines with labels lettered in gilt.
First edition of Genlis’ historical novel, full of overt analogies
to the upheavals of the Revolution, written during Genlis’ exile
and offered as a sequel to Les Veillées du château. It appeared in
English in a translation by James Beresford as The Knights of the
Swan in 1796 (printed for J. Johnson). A measure of its remarkable
currency in the literature of the following century is provided by
its cameo appearance in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. On an occasion
when Prince Andrew visited General Kutuzof, ‘He found him
reclining in an armchair, still in the same unbuttoned overcoat.
He had in his hand a French book which he closed as Prince
Andrew entered, marking the place with a knife. Prince Andrew
saw by the cover that it was Les Chevaliers du cygne by Madame de
Genlis’ (X, chapter 16).
Cioranescu, 30617; MMF, 95.20.
26 GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de. Les Petits
Émigrés, ou Correspondance de quelques enfans. Ouvrage fait
pour servir à l’éducation de la jeunesse. Paris: Onfroy and Fr. de
Lagarde in Berlin, 1798. £400
2 vols, 8vo (149 × 90 mm), pp. [i-ii], [2, the second numbered in error ‘iv’], [iii]-viii,
404; [2], 430, complete, despite misnumbering and misbinding of 1 leaf ‘Epitre
dédicatoire à mes petits-enfans’ after first title. Rather spotted. Early nineteenthcentury
quarter calf, gilt. Spines faded, but a good copy.
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First edition. Aimed directly at younger children, the novel opens
with epigrams from Irish-born actor-playwright Arthur Murphy
(‘There are three things highly pernicious to the endearments of
beauty ...... gaming, scandal and politics’.) and Voltaire (‘C’est être un
monstre, que de ne pas aimer ceux qui ont cultivé notre ame’).
Cioranescu, 30621; MMF, 98.44.
27 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Les Voeux
téméraires, ou l’enthousiasme. Paris: Chez les marchands de
nouveautés, ‘An VII’, [1798/9]. £200
4 vols bound in 2, 12mo (131 × 65 mm), pp. [4], [ii], 196; [4], 192; [4], 190; [4],
192. Occasional old waterstains. Contemporary quarter calf, spines gilt with red
morocco labels. Rubbed, but a very good copy.
Largely set in England, where Madame de Genlis had stayed in
1791 during her exile from France, Les Voeux téméraires received
a lengthy review in the Critical Review of December 1798. ‘In
the dedication [to Irish emigré Lady Edward Fitzgerald and to
Henriette Matthiessen], the writer does not scruple to call this
the most moral novel in the language, and perhaps [the] only one
which all young persons might be permitted to read.’ According
to the Biographie universelle Madame de Genlis accused Madame
Cottin of plagiarising Les Voeux téméraires in her novel Malvina
(item 12 above). First printed at Hamburg in 1798, and published
in English in 1799 as Rash Vows, or, the Effects of Enthusiasm. This
little Paris edition in 4 volumes (almost all early editions are in 3)
is rare.
cf. Cioranescu, 30624; MMF, 98.45 (Hamburg editions).

28 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Les Souvenirs
de Félicie L***. Paris: Maradan, 1804. £200
12mo (171 × 95 mm), pp. [4], 391, complete with half-title. Contemporary
sprinkled quarter sheep, gilt ruled spine, vellum corners. An excellent copy.
First edition of Madame de Genlis’ autobiographical work. It was
followed by a Suite in 1807.
Cioranescu 30650.
29 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Alphonsine,
ou, la Tendresse maternelle. Paris: H. Nicolle, 1806. £150
3 vols, 12mo (165 × 92 mm), pp. xxviiii, 355, [1]; [4], 325, [1]; [4], 368, complete
with half-titles. Occasional marginal tears, some with slight loss (not touching
text). Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with orange and blue labels. Rubbed,
with further wear to corners and fore-edges of boards, but still a good copy.
The second Parisian edition (first, Nicolle, 1805). It had also
appeared in London (in French) in 1805.
cf. Cioranescu 30655.
30 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de]. Le Siège de La
Rochelle, ou le Malheur et la conscience. Paris: Frères Mame for
Librairie stéréotype de Nicolle, 1807. £300
8vo (190 × 112 mm), pp. 416, including half-title, which is carefully laid down and
the title mounted on a stub, with neat paper repair to fore-edge. The first few leaves
rather soiled with a few expert old repairs. Early quarter calf, gilt panelled spine.
First edition, dedicated to Pauline Brady, an admirer who had
withdrawn to her estate outside Orléans to devote herself to the
education of her children according to the author’s methods.
cf. Cioranescu, 30660 (edition of 1808, in 12mo).
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31 GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de. De l’Influence
des femmes sur la littérature française, comme protectrices des
lettres et comme auteurs, ou Précis de l’histoire des femmes
françaises les plus célèbres. Paris: [Cellot for] Maradan, 1811. £500
8vo (195 × 120 mm), pp. [4], lx, 373, [1], complete with half-title. Some spotting,
half-title creased. Contemporary quarter sprinkled calf, spine gilt, red morocco
label. An attractive copy. Chateau de Cirey bookplate.
First edition. A pioneering biobibliographical
survey of French female
authors from the Middle Ages to Mme.
Genlis’ own time, arguing throughout
for the right of women to write for
publication.
Cioranescu 30665. It also appeared the same year
with the London/Paris imprint of Colburn. Both
are surprisingly scarce. COPAC, for example, lists
the Women’s Library (London) copy only of the first
edition.

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32 GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité Brulart, Comtesse de]. Mademoiselle
de La Fayette, ou, le siècle de Louis XIII ... deuxième édition. Paris:
[Cellot for] Maradan, 1813. £200
2 vols, 12mo (160 × 85 mm), pp. [4], xii, 274; [4], 260, complete with half-titles.
Occasional spotting. Early quarter calf, gilt panelled spine. A nice copy.
Second edition (printed in the same year as the first) of Genlis’
historical novel on the reign of Louis XIII, who she revered for his
piety and whose reputation she sought to rehabilitate in France.
Cioranescu 30670.
33 [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]. Le Ministre de Wakefield, histoire supposée
écrite par lui-même ... ‘Londres, Et se trouve à Paris’ [Paris]: Pissot
and Desaint, 1767. £400
Two vols. bound together, 12mo (164 × 90 mm), pp. [4], 258, [2], 233, [3].
Woodcut and typographic ornaments. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, 2
red morocco labels. Rubbed, headcap with very slight short tears (minimal loss),
a small scatter of worm tracks to lower joint at foot. A good copy.
First edition in French of The Vicar of
Wakefield (March, 1766). The translation
is usually attributed to Charlotte-Jeanne
Béraud de la Haie de Riou, Marquise de
Montesson, a mistress to Louis Philippe
d’Orléans, Duc d’Orléans, and ultimately,
his wife.
Rochedieu, 127 (citing it as Le Vicaire de Wakefield,
apparently an error, since neither OCLC nor ESTC
lists it under this title); MMF, 67.34.
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34 GOLDSMITH, [OLIVER] and others. Pièces choisies de Goldsmith,
Pernell, Gray, Pope, Grenville, Prior, Mallet, suivies d’un entretien
sur la beauté. Paris: Veuve Nyon, 1804. £400
8vo (168 × 105 mm), pp. iv, 160. One neat early repair to a short marginal tear
(pp. 113-4). Contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco label, gilt edges. Spine chipped
at head and foot.
Presumed first edition of this collection of prose translations
of highlights of eighteenth-century English poetry, including
Goldsmith’s Deserted Village and Gray’s Elegy.
OCLC: Leeds, Columbia, Bn and Rouen only.
35 [GRAFFIGNY, Françoise Paule Huguet de]. Lettres d’une
Péruvienne. Nouvelle édition augmentée de plusieurs lettres et
d’une introduction à l’histoire. Paris: Duchesne, 1761. £250
2 vols, 12mo (154 × 88 mm), pp. ix, [1], 336; 372, plus engraved titles and
frontispieces, engraved headpieces (all after Eisen) in each volume. Contemporary
calf, gilt, red and green morocco labels. Slightly rubbed, head cap of vol. 2
slightly torn, a very nice copy. Early engraved bookplates of N.F.B. Le Sage.
First published in 1747; Madame de Graffigny’s epistolary novel was
a best-seller in numerous early editions. This illustrated version, with
the addition of the suite entitled Lettres d’Aza (first published 1748),
by Ignace Hugary de Lamache-Courmont, bears an approbation
dated 14 September 1759 but was first published in 1752.
cf. Cohen-De Ricci 447 (1752 edition).
36 GREGORY, [John]. Legs d’un père à ses filles, par feu M. Gregory,...
traduit de l’anglois sur la 4e édition . ‘Londres et se trouve à Paris’:
Pissot, 1774. £600

8vo (156 × 95 mm), pp. [3], vi-xii, [2], 152. Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary
quarter calf, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label. Inscription to head of title
‘Du Cht. d. Vn’. An attractive copy.
A translation of A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters (1774), an
immediately popular work which found two French translations in its
first year: one by De la Pierre (with a Londres, Dixwell imprint), and
ours, by the abbé Morellet (Londres et se trouve à Paris imprint). It is
not known which was the first. Gregory was a celebrated Aberdeen
physician and later professor at Edinburgh who had trained at Leiden.
‘After the death of his wife, on 29 September 1761, Gregory wrote A
Father’s Legacy to his Daughters to relieve his loneliness and to record
her opinions about the education of their two surviving
daughters... He may have incorporated the advice given
him by his friend and celebrated bluestocking Elizabeth
Montagu, who approved his pattern of educating the
girls “in a philosophical simplicity” ... This little work
was not intended for publication, but was to be given to
his daughters after his death. However, it was published
by his son James in 1774 and was an immediate success,
running into many editions and translations. The work
contains advice on religion and moral conduct, female
friendship, and behaviour towards the opposite sex,
principally regarding love and marriage. Deploring
the forwardness and freedom of contemporary female
manners, Gregory argued that modesty, delicacy,
and elegance would better secure men’s respect and
admiration. His concern for his daughters’ reputations
in the world led him to advocate caution and prudence;
thus he advised them to conceal their learning and
wit, advice that was scornfully dismissed as a system of
dissimulation by Mary Wollstonecraft in Vindication of the Rights of
Woman’ (ODNB).’ The arrangement of preliminaries in this copy is
confused. They consist of 6 leaves, with the signature ‘a’. Though there
is a jump from aii to aiv, the pagination (vi-vii) runs continuously, as
does the text of the preface. However, the first numbered page ‘vi’ is
actually the fourth page, suggesting the lack of one leaf, perhaps a
blank or half-title. The text appears entirely complete.
OCLC lists copies of this translation at Médiathèque Valais (Sion, Switzerland) and
Bn only and, of the other issue/translation: BL and NLS.
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37 [HAMILTON, Elizabeth]. Bridgetina, ou les Philosophes modernes.
Trad[uit]. de l’anglais sur la deuxième édition, par M. B...... Paris:
Le Normant, 1802. £1500
4 vols, 12mo (155 × 88 mm), pp. [4], xviii, 317, [1]; [4], 357, [1]; [4], 343, [1];
[4], 328, complete with half-titles, plus 4 engraved frontispieces by Mariage after
Binet. Preliminaries to vol. 1 loose, marginal stain/scorch mark to margin of final
18 leaves in vol. 3, sometime trimmed with scissors to neaten, not affecting text.
Contemporary mottled half sheep, spine gilt, red and green labels. Vols. 1 and 3
slightly faded, but a good copy.
First edition in French of Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800), a
popular satirical novel debating the education and role in society
of women. Engaging with the Revolution controversy of the
1790s, Hamilton treds a middle course between the radicalism of
Godwin and Wolstonecraft and the conservatism of Hannah More
and makes frequent allusions to these and
other prominent contemporary thinkers.
Belfast-born of Scots parentage, Hamilton
(?1756-1816) spent much of her life in
Scotland and England. One of her earliest
literary endeavours was in assisting her
brother, the orientalist Charles Hamilton,

in translating the Hedaya, the Islamic code of laws. Her first novel
was Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796), a satire of
contemporary British society in the style of Montesquieu’s Lettres
Persanes.
GRS, 1800, 39.OCLC lists 4 copies only: BL, Bn, University of Erfurt and Clark
Library (UCLA).
38 (HAYS, Mary). [GUIZOT, Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline de MEULAN,
later Madame]. La Chapelle d’Ayton, ou, Emma Courtney. Paris:
Maradan, ‘An septième’, 1798/9. £600
5 vols, 12mo (161 × 88 mm), pp. vii, [1], 272; 295, [1]; 270; 250; [4], 228, complete
with half-titles and with 4pp. adverts at end of vol. 5. Early nineteenth-century
quarter calf, gilt panelled spines, lettered direct, vellum corners, marbled edges.
A lovely copy.
A French imitation of the English novel
by Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtenay
(1796); not precisely a translation. Issued
by Maradan both unillustrated (as here)
and illustrated (with frontispieces): with
the unillustrated issue probably preceding.
Madame Guizot was propelled to fame by
her two novels: Les Contradictions and La
Chapelle d’Ayton and became an important
educational theorist, especially in the field
of female education. The adverts list 59
other works then available from Maradan,
almost all fictional, many by women and
many translations from the English.
Several are offered in two formats: 12mo
and 18mo, as was Maradan’s custom.
MMF, 99.93; cf. GRS, 1796: 50; not in Rochedieu.
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39 [HELME, Elizabeth]. [Isabelle de MONTOLIEU, translator]. Saint-
Clair des Isles, ou, les Exilés à l’Isle de Barra; Roman traduit
librement de l’anglais, par Mme. de Montolieu auteur de Caroline de
Lichtfield. Paris: [J. Gratiot for] H. Nicolle, 1808. £1500
4 vols, 12mo (160 × 85 mm), pp. [4], 278; [4], 312; [4], 333, [1]; ‘377’ (actually 367),
[1], complete with half-titles, mispagination to final vol. Spotting throughout,
printing flaw to vol. 2, p. 176, minimally affecting a few words. Contemporary
quarter calf, spines gilt in compartments, lettered and numbered direct. An
attractive copy.
First edition in French of the gothic and Ossianic-flavoured St.
Clair of the Isles or, the Outlaws of Barra, a Scottish Tradition (1803).
Durham-born Elizabeth Helme was a prolific novelist, and wrote
several notable celtic tales popular both in English and French.
It is often asserted that the works of Scott brought about the
taste for the Scots or celtic novel in France,
but it is clear from works such as this that
other British novels in translation laid
the foundation for Scott’s success on the
continent.
GRS, 1803, 34. OCLC: Cambridge, NLS and Harvard.

40 INCHBALD, [Elizabeth]. Simple Histoire. Traduction de l’anglois
de Mistriss Inchbald. Par M. Deschamps. Paris: [Du Pont] Chez les
Marchands de Nouveautés, 1791. £600
2 vols. bound together, 8vo (195 × 114 mm), pp. xvi, 247, [1]; 295, [1]. Endpapers
slightly spotted. Early nineteenth-century quarter calf, gilt panelled spine. A very
attractive copy.
First edition in French of A Simple Story (1791), or more properly
of the its first half, since it was followed by a translation of the
second half Lady Mathilde in 1792. This was Inchbald’s first and
best-known novel and was frequently reprinted in England,
France and Germany. Maria Edgeworth praised it thus: ‘I never
read any novel that affected me so strongly, or that so completely
possessed me with the belief in the real existence of all the people
it represents … I believed all to be real, and was affected as I should
be by the real scenes as if they had passed before my eyes’.
GRS 1791: 41; MMF, 91.28; Rochedieu, p. 165.
41 INCHBALD, [Elizabeth]. La Nature et l’art, roman traduit de
l’anglais de Madame Inchbald, auteur de Simple Histoire. Genève:
J.J. Paschoud, 1797. £600
2 vols, 12mo (131 × 74 mm), pp. 191, [1]; 209, [1], complete
with half-titles. Light old waterstain to preliminaries in
vol. 1, a few other minor spots and stains. Contemporary
mottled half sheep, spines ruled in gilt, tan morocco
labels. Paper sides slightly rubbed, but a good copy.
First edition in French of Inchbald’s second novel,
Nature and Art (1796): ‘openly critical of English
social institutions and class structures. Through the
story of two brothers and their children, one selfish
father–son pair, both of whom rise in a corrupt
world, and one unselfish pair, condemned to
poverty, Inchbald attacks the system of patronage,
the administration of justice, and the cruelties
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and hypocrisies of sexual morality’ (ODNB). A second translation
(‘Nouvelle traduction’) also appeared in Paris in 1797, but it is
generally assumed the Geneva edition precedes it.
GRS, 1796, 57; MMF, 97.36; Rochedieu, 165 (giving 1796, apparently an error).
OCLC lists copies at BL and National Library of Sweden only.
42 [JACSON, Frances Margareta]. La Femme de bon sens, ou la
Prisonnière de Bohéme: traduction de l’anglais par B. Ducos,
traducteur de Henry. Paris: Maradan, An VI. 1798. £1500
3 vols, 12mo (165 × 85 mm), pp. [4], 255, [1]; [4], 256; [4], 278, complete with
half-titles, 1 engraved plate to each volume. Some staining and a number of neat
early paper repairs and reinforcements (presumably done on binding). Early
nineteenth-century green quarter calf, spine gilt in compartments, raised bands,
lettered direct. Spine slightly faded.
First edition in French of Jacson’s novel Plain Sense (London,
Minerva Press, 1795). The translation is not noted by Garside,
Raven and Schöwerling or by Rochedieu and the two COPAC
records (for copies at the Taylorean and Brotherton) note:
‘Supposedly a French translation of an original work in English,
although ESTC does not list any works with a similar title’. The
novel has previously been attributed to Alethea Lewis. It was
the publisher Maradan’s practice to issue novels in two formats,

12mo or 18mo, probably simultaneously, and this was the case
here. The Bibliothèque nationale copy is described as 18mo and
in four volumes, while the Oxford and Leeds copies, like ours, are
12mo in three. Ours was evidently enthusiastically read, probably
in wrappers, before rebinding a few years later for the Chateau de
Cirey collection. Its pages are quite soiled and show numerous
small repairs and its frontispieces have been transposed to the
relevant pages of each volume.
MMF, 98.12; cf. GRS, 1795: 26 (English, Irish and American editions only). OCLC/
COPAC list several European copies, but no copy in BL or in America.
43 [JOHNSON, Samuel]. The Rambler. In four volumes ... The Sixth
Edition. London: for A. Millar, J. Rivington, J. Newbery, R.
Baldwin, S. Crowder and Co., T. Caslon, B. Law and Co., and B.
Collins, 1763. £300
4 vols, 12mo (168 × 95 mm), pp. [2], 290; [2], 278; [2], 287, [1]; [2], 239, [33]. Some
light browning. Contemporary English sprinkled calf, spines with 5 raised bands
between gilt rules, orange morocco labels, numbered direct. Slightly rubbed but
a very good copy. Slightly later ownership inscriptions of Madame de Simiane to
each volume
A lovely example of French female readership for Johnson’s Rambler
(1750-2). Though enthusiastically read in France, The Rambler did
not appear in French translation until 1785 (as Morceaux choisis)
and in full in 1786 (Rochedieu).
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44 [KELTY, Mary Ann]. Eliza Rivers, ou la favorite de la nature.
Roman traduit de l’anglais ... par Mme. S*****. Paris: [Madame
Jeunehomme-Crémière for] Ladvocat, 1823. £1500
5 vols, 12mo (161 × 100 mm), pp. [4], xii, 289, [1]; [4], 300; [4], 263, [1]; [4], 241,
[1]; [4], 219, [1], complete with half-titles, 4 gatherings misbound in vol. 2 but
complete, contemporary repairs to a few blank upper forecorners in vols. 2 and 3.
Contemporary quarter calf, spines gilt in compartments, lettered and numbered
direct. An excellent copy.
First edition in French of the novel The Favourite of Nature
(London, 1821), the translation usually attributed to either the
Comtesse de Molé or Sophie Pannier. The translator adds a
preface bemoaning the lack of good contemporary French novels
and noting that the works of Scott had eclipsed their French
counterparts, a sentiment widely echoed in contemporary French
literature. Balzac’s Illusions perdues (1837) for example contains an
episode from 1827 in which a young author, Chardon (‘Thistle’)
takes his new novel to various Parisian publishers, describing it
as ‘dans le genre de Walter Scott’ only to
be told that such was Scott’s popularity
that their own publishing enterprises were
prejudiced (cited by Dargan). Kelty (b. 1789)
was raised in Cambridge, where her Irishborn
father had been a surgeon and her
brother a fellow of King’s College. ‘In 1821
she published anonymously The Favourite
of Nature, dedicating it to Joanna Baillie. It
was favourably reviewed as a “well written
novel, in which female character and an
intimate knowledge of the human heart
are ably pourtrayed” and praised as “a tale
which no mother need be afraid to place
in the hands of her daughter” ... Harriet
Martineau called it “the first successful
religious novel”‘ (ODNB).
GRS, 1821:54. Rare: OCLC lists copies at BL, Bn and
Strasbourg only.

45 [KELTY, Mary Ann]. Osmond par l’auteur d’Élisa Rivers. Traduit
de l’anglais sur la deuxième édition par Mme S***... Paris: [Moreau
for] C.-J. Trouvé, 1824. £1600
4 vols, 12mo (172 × 90 mm), pp. [4], 237, [1]; [4], 223, [1]; [4], vii, [1], 277, [1]; [4],
228, complete with half-titles. Some spotting, mainly to first and last leaves of
each volume (including titles). Contemporary quarter sheep, gilt panelled spines,
green labels. Spines slightly dry with some rubbing, upper strip of each board
faded. A good, unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French of Osmond, a Tale (London, 1822), Kelty’s
second published novel. Following the success of The Favourite of
Nature, Kelty fell increasingly under the influence of evangelical
preachers and Osmond is partly
concerned with the Methodist
movement, a theme explained to
the French public by the translator
(probably Sophie Pannier) in a
preface found in the third volume.
GRS, 1822:51. Rare: OCLC lists copies at Bn
and University of Basel only.
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46 KOTZEBUE, August von. Léontine de Blondheim ... traduit de
l’allemand par H[enri]. L[ouis]. C[oiffier de Verfeu]. Paris: [Veuve
Jeunehomme for] F. Buisson and Delaunay, 1808. £600
3 vols, 12mo (170 × 95 mm), pp. [4], iv, 222; [4], 220; [4], 215, [1], complete
with half-titles, several leaves bound out of order in vol 2, in which volume
lower forecorners of 2 leaves neatly cut away (not affecting text). Contemporary
quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s
ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very
good copy.
First French edition of Leontine von Blondheim, Kotzebue’s
historical novel, recognisably based on Madame Cottin’s Claire
d’Albe. Two editions of the same translation appeared in 1808,
probably simultaneously: this Paris edition and another published
by Dulau in London. Underlining the novel’s pan-European
appeal, it is bound here to match a group of translations of British
novels, including several by Scott.
OCLC: Bn, Universities of Heidelberg and Strasbourg.
47 LA CALPRENÈDE, Gauthier de Costes de. [Alexandre-Nicolas de
La Rochefoucauld Marquis de SURGÈRES, editor]. Cassandre,
roman. Paris: Paulus-du-Mesnil and Veuve Pissot, 1752. £400
3 vols, 12mo (168 × 92 mm), pp. xii, 522, [6]; [2], 504; [2], 486. Woodcut
ornaments. Two small early marginal tears in vol. 3. Contemporary mottled calf,
spines gilt, morocco labels. Spines and portions of covers faded, upper joint of vol.
3 just starting. A nice set.
First edition of the Marquis de Surgères’ abridgement of a vast
romance on the subject of the bride of Alexander the Great, first
published in 10 volumes (1644-50). The editor’s task, as well as
his preface, is an interesting reflection of changing tastes among
French readers. By the Marquis de Surgères’ time, it seems no-one
could be expected to wade through all ten volumes of the original.
In the preface he expresses surprise that such works, great as they

were, could have remained popular and he neatly sums up the
contemporary literary mood in his description of contemporary
France as a ‘Nation légere toujours pressée de jouir & cherchant
moins à s’amuser qu’à changer d’amusement.’
48 LA CALPRENÈDE, Gauthier de Costes de. [Alexandre-Nicolas de
La Rochefoucauld Marquis de SURGÈRES, editor]. Faramond,
roman. Paris: Bauche, 1753. £400
4 vols, 12mo (165 × 92 mm), pp. [4], xxii, 447, [1]; [4], 490; [4], 1-456, 459-553, [1];
[4], 1-432, 439-486, 481-530, complete (with half-titles) despite mispaginations
in the final vol. Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt panelled
spines, red morocco labels. Slightly rubbed, but an excellent set.
First edition of the Marquis de Surgères’ abridgement of La
Calprenèdes massive historical romance on the early history of
France, first published in 12 volumes (1661-70). Following the
success of his earlier abridgement of Cassandre, he reduces the
text of Faramond to manageable size for a contemporary audience.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
49 [LA FAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Madame de.]
La Princess de Clèves. Paris: Compagnie des Libraires Associés,
1741. £400
12mo (161 × 90 mm), pp. [6], 204; [4], 209, [3]. Old ink stain to foot of final leaf,
a few tears and paper flaws, the most serious being the upper margin torn away
from 2 leaves (2, pp. 109-12) Contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine. Spine rather
rubbed and faded. A modest copy. Early engraved bookplate of N.F.B. Le Sage.
First printed in 1678, with numerous reprints, a milestone in
the history of European fiction, generally considered the first
historical novel and the first psychological novel.
50 LAFONTAINE, August [Heinrich Julius]. Tableaux de famille, ou
Journal de Charles Engelman, traduit de l’allemand d’Auguste
Lafontaine; par l’auteur de Caroline de Lichtfield [Isabelle de
Montolieu]. Paris: Debray, 1801. £400
2 vols, 12mo (162 × 95 mm), pp. [4], xv, [1], 279, [1]; [4], 239, [1], the leaves of
sig. 6 in vol. 2 bound out of order, but complete with half-titles and two engraved
frontispieces. An old stain slightly affecting upper forecorners towards the end
of vol. 2, but generally clean and fresh. Contemporary sprinkled half calf, spines
gilt with red morocco labels. Sides slightly rubbed. A pretty copy.
First edition in French of Carl Engelmanns Tagebuch (1800) from
Lafontaines’ Familiengeschichten series (1797-1804), translated by
novelist Isabelle de Montolieu.
Lafontaine’s didactic tales
of domestic life, though now
little remembered, were
among the most-read German
novels of the day
OCLC: Bibliothèque Sainte-
Genviève, Indiana and Penn State
only.

Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
51 LAFONTAINE, August [Heinrich Julius]. Nouveaux Tableaux de
famille ou, La Vie d’un pauvre ministre de village allemand, et de ses
enfans. Traduit de l’allemand ... par Isabelle de Montolieu. Geneva:
J.J. Paschoud [se trouve à Paris, Fuchs, Maradan, Lenormant,
Pougens], 1802. £600
5 vols, 12mo (160 × 80 mm), pp. [4], 276, [4]; [4], 292; [4], 289, [1]; [4], 239, [1];
[4], 335, [3], complete with half-titles and errata. Early quarter calf, spines gilt.
A very nice copy.
First edition in French of Lafontaine’s popular novel Leben eines
armen Landpredigers (Berlin, 1800-1), the translation by novelist
Isabelle de Montolieu.
OCLC: UCLA, Princeton and Penn State only outside continental Europe.
52 LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT, Jeanne-Marie. La Nouvelle Clarice,
histoire véritable. Lyon: Pierre Bruyset-Ponthus, Paris: Desaint,
1767. £800
2 vols, 12mo (160 × 90 mm), pp. [4], 359, [1]; [4], 343,
[1], complete with half-titles. Woodcut ornaments.
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines, red and
green morocco labels. Slightly rubbed, but a very nice
copy. Early inscriptions to titles ‘D. Ch. de Vn.’
First edition. Following an early divorce, the
author spent several years in England (1748-
62) as a governess in the households of several
aristocratic families, including that of the Prince
of Wales, and there began writing, often with
young readers in mind. Her Magasin des Enfants
(1758) actually appeared first in English as The
Young Misses Magazine (1758). La Nouvelle Clarisse,
an overt response to Richardson, is highly didactic

and provides an alternative heroine who attempts (successfully) to
shape her own fortune and who participates in various progressive
social schemes for the improvement of agriculture and social wellbeing
at the estate of her powerful mother-in-law, the Baronness
d’Astie. The novel engages with the current French population
debate, particularly the perceived depopulation of the country.
This copy is of the first of three issues of 1767 (one with Lyon only
in imprint, one, as here, with Lyon and Paris and another with
Nourse in London. Both Lyon imprints are apparently identical
save for the title.
MMF, 63.36; cf. Cioranescu 39422 (Lyon only issue).
53 [LOCKHART, John Gibson]. Le Ministre écossais, ou le Veuvage
d’Adam Blair; par un professeur de l’Université d’Édimbourg,
traduit de l’anglais sur la troisième edition, par le traducteur
d’Edouard en Écosse. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin ‘Éditeur
des Oeuvres complètes de sir Walter Scott’, 1822. £1800
2 vols, 12mo (164 × 94 mm), pp. [4], iv, 234; [4], 239, [1], complete with half-titles.
Lower forecorners of 2 leaves of vol. 1 (pp. 5-8) torn away (from careless opening),
not affecting any text, titles lightly browned. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines
gilt in compartments, red and green labels,
marbled boards. An excellent copy.
First edition in French of Lockhart’s Some
Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair, Minister
of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle (Edinburgh.
1822). Very rare: not found in COPAC,
OCLC or the French union catalogue and
with no translation in any language noted by
Garside, Raven and Schöwerling’s English
Novel 1770-1829). The translation, published
as it was by Gosselin, was clearly aimed at
enthusiastic French readers of Scott and
this copy was contemporaneously bound
to match other works by Scott in the same
collection. ‘Lockhart’s second novel ... Adam
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
Blair... is generally regarded as his best. Based on a true story that
Lockhart heard from his father, it is a bold portrayal of passion
and adultery in the keeper of community virtue, the Presbyterian
minister. It is also an unusual story of compassion, forgiveness,
and restoration. Henry James, in Hawthorne, compared Adam Blair
with The Scarlet Letter, noting the analogies between the two and
proclaiming each the ‘masterpiece’ of the author’ (ODNB).
54 MACPHERSON, [James]. Ossian, fils de Fingal, barde du troisième
siècle: poésies galliques ... Paris: Musier, 1777. £800
2 vols, 8vo (195 × 115 mm), pp. [4], lxxx, 309, [1]; [4], 301, [2]. Woodcut
ornaments. Contemporary quarter sheep, brown morocco labels, gilt. Spines
rubbed, vol. 1 with tears towards the head (slight loss), a few small wormholes to
both spines. A modest, unsophisticated copy. Bookplates of the Chateau de Cirey.
First edition of the first major European collection of translations
of the Ossian forgeries, the work of Pierre Le Tourneur, whose
edition of Shakespeare had appeared the previous year. ‘In France,
where a first translation [of Ossian], by Letourneur, appeared
in 1777, they were, like ‘Les Nuits d’Young’ ... one of the strong
foreign influences of the pre-Romantic era. Their wild, romantic
qualities served to emphasize Mme de Staël’s distinction between
‘les littératures du Nord’ and ‘du Midi’ (Oxford Companion to
French Literature). Le Tourneur’s collection was preceded only
by fragments in translation published by Suard in his Journal
étranger and Gazette litteraire and his collection Variétés littéraires
(1768-9).
MMF, 77.49; Rochedieu 201.
55 MANZONI, Alessandro. I Promessi Sposi storia Milanese del secolo
XVII. Scoperta e rifatta. Florence: Guglielmo Piatti, 1830. £200
3 vols, 12mo (145 × 85 mm), pp. viii, 294; 339; 328. Some spotting. Contemporary
quarter calf, spines gilt, red and green labels, French binder/bookseller’s label to
front pastedown. One spine very slightly chipped, but a pretty copy.

One of the great bestsellers of nineteenth-century Europe, first
appearing in 1827, as popular in France as in Italy and reprinted in
numerous editions there. This copy contains a nice contemporary
ticket for binder/bookseller Boilet in Bar-sur-Aube: ‘Fait toutes
espèces de reliures dites anglaises, allemandes, Cartonnages à
la bradelle, Cahiers de musique, Portefeuilles, Boîtes de bureaux
et autres...’
56 MANZONI, Allesandro. Les Fiancés, histoire milanaise du XVIIe
siècle, découverte et refaite par Alex. Manzoni. Traduite de l’italien
sur la troisème édition, par M. Rey Dusseuil... Paris: [Guiraudet for]
Charles Gosselin, A. Sautelet, 1828. £1200
5 vols, 12m (170 × 100 mm), pp. xl, 176; [4], 211, [1]; [4], 199, [1]; [4], 203, [1];
[4], 199, [1], complete with half-titles. One gathering loose in vol. 1. Occasional
foxing or staining, but generally clean. Contemporary quarter calf, spines gilt
with damson and green labels. A handsome copy.
First edition of Rey Dusseuil’s translation
of Manzoni’s Scott-inspired historical
novel Promessi Sposi (1827), perhaps the
most read Italian novel of the nineteenthcentury.
This edition contains a long
preface by Gosselin ‘Essai sur le roman
historique et sur la littérature italienne...’
considering the genre as a whole and
the all-pervasive influence of Scott on
contemporary European literature. ‘Le
roman tel que Sir Walter Scott l’a conçu est
pour l’histoire ce que les contes de Voltaire
furent pour la philosophie. L’auteur anglais
a voulu rendre l’histoire populaire par le
drame, comme le poète français avait voulu
populariser la philosophie par le grâce et le
piquant des formes.’
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
57 MARINI, Giovanni Ambrogio. Les Désespérés, histoire héroïque,
nouvellement traduite de l’italien du célèbre Jean-Ambroise
Marini, sur la 10e édition de Venise. Paris: Prault, 1731. £1200
2 vols, 12mo (160 × 90 mm), pp. [12], 1-169, 180-182, 173, 184-325, [1]; [4], 291,
plus 8 engraved plates by Baquoy after Humblot, complete despite mispaginations
in vol, 1. Woodcut ornaments. 2 plates with marginal stains, but generally very
clean. Contemporary calf, gilt panelled spines, red morocco labels. Slightly
rubbed but a very good copy.
Rare first edition of Jean de Serré de
Rieux’s translation of the seventeenthcentury
chivalric romance Il Calloandro
smascherato. Serré de Rieux (1668-1747)
was one of the leading French exponents
of Italian literature and music at the time
of Louis XV. A previous translation by
Georges de Scudèry had appeared in 1668.
Rare: OCLC lists the Bn copy only of this first edition.

58 MARIVAUX, [Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de]. La Vie de Marianne,
ou les Avantures de Madame la Comtesse de ***. ‘Londres’ [Paris].
1788. £250
4 vols, 12mo (125 × 70 mm), pp. [4], 245, [1]; [4], 260; [4], 292; [4], 235, [1],
complete with half-titles, plus 4 engraved frontispieces. 2 leaves in vol. 1
transposed (pp. 173-4, 174-5). Contemporary sprinkled quarter sheep, gilt
spines with red morocco labels. Slightly rubbed, slight wear to corners, but a
pretty copy.
Marianne exercised a lively influence on the development of the
novel both in France and England, being widely-read on both
sides of the Channel. Left incomplete by Marivaux, it was first
published in 11 individual parts between 1731 and 1741 and a final
part added later by Madame Riccoboni. There were numerous
French and English editions: this attractive Cazin-like edition
contains all 12 parts, the ‘Londres’ imprint is false, and the second
volume bears a Paris ‘chez Laporte’ imprint.
cf. Gay IV, 1338 and Cioransecu 42737-42747 (first edition), neither lists our
edition. ESTC: BL, Amsterdam Universiteitsbibliothek, Johns Hopkins, McGill
and McMaster. OCLC adds no more.
59 MAYER, [Charles-Joseph de]. Geneviève de Cornouailles, et le
demoisel sans nom. Roman de chevalerie. ‘Londres et se trouve à
Paris’ [Paris], Buisson, 1786. £400
2 vols, 8vo (167 × 95 mm), pp. xix, [3], 146; [4], 194, [2], complete with half-titles
and final leaf with letterpress music. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt, sides with
triple fillet borders, panelled spine with red and green labels, gilt edges. Spine
slightly rubbed, tiny wormholes to upper joint of vol. 1. A very pretty copy.
Second or third edition of this chivalric novel first published in a
Cazin edition of 1783.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
60 MAYER, [Charles-Joseph de]. Lisvart de Grèce, roman de
chevalerie; ou suite d’Amadis de Gaule. Amsterdam ‘et se trouve à
Paris’, 1788. £500
5 vols, 12mo (138 × 70 mm), pp. [4], xii, 298; [4], 334; [4], 314; [4], 309, [1];
[4], 330, including half-titles, plus 12 leaves of engraved music, most printed
on both sides. Some light browning, mainly to the leaves with engraved music.
Contemporary marbled calf, gilt, green morocco spine labels, gilt edges. Spines
faded and two bumped at head with short tears (no loss), lower board of vol. 2
bumped at head. An attractive copy.
First edition. A rare musically-accompanied novel, a
spirited spin-off from the chivalric romance of Amadis of
Gaul, in particular of Tressan’s popular version printed in
1779. The novel takes up the story of Lisvart,
son of the emperor of Constantinople.
Mayer, best known for the monumental
fairy-tale collection Le cabinet des fées (1785-
1789) worked with Tressan in editing the
Bibliothèque universelle des romans (1775-
1789) and his Avertissement to Lisvart is both
an appreciation of Tressan and a patriotic
reflection on the state of contemporary
French literature. He writes that he hopes
the publication of Lisvart is timely, since for
some years, France has read nothing but
translations of English and German novels,
to the extent that it seems that its colours
have faded under the fashion for ‘cette
manière noire.’ He offers his tale then as a
corrective, since the French, by nature ‘sont
gais & légers’. To add to the good nature of
the proceedings he adds a sequence of 12
musical interludes, by Pierre-Jean Porro
(1750–1831), guitarist and popular composer
of chansons.
Cioranescu 44113; MMF, 88.91; OCLC lists US copies at
the Library or Congress and Cleveland Public Library only.

61 MILTON, John. Le paradis perdu de Milton, poëme héroique, traduit
de l’anglais, Avec les Remarques de M. Addison. Nouvelle Edition,
revûë & corrigée [Le paradis reconquis], traduit de l’anglois de
Milton, par le P. de Mareüil de la Compagnie de Jesus. Avec six
lettres critiques sur le paradis perdu et reconquis, par le P.R. de la
Compagnie de Jesus. Paris: Ganeau, 1743, £300
3 vols, 12mo (158 × 88 mm), pp. 233, [1]; 400; xvi, 373, [3], complete with halftitle
to vol. 3 (Le paradis reconquis). A few stains, but mainly clean, first title
laid down at an early date. Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, spines gilt. Spines
slightly faed, but a good copy.
This is the French translation of Paradise Lost by Nicolas-
François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774), first published in
1729 (Amsterdam) to which is added his translation of Paradise
Regain’d, first appended to the 1736 edition (Paris), which also
contained Routh’s six letters.
This edition not in Rochedieu, which lists over 20 eighteenth-century editions of
Dupré de Saint-Maur’s translation.
62 MILTON, John. Paradise lost, a Poem ... To which are added, Paradise
Regain’d, Lycidas, l’Allegro, il Penseroso. Paris: ‘Printed by Didot
the eldest; And sold by J.N. Pissot, Barrois, junior, Booksellers,
1780. £300
2 vols, 12mo (144 × 75 mm), pp. [4], 243, [1]; [4], 243, [1]; [4], 234, [2] complete
with half-title and errata. Text in English. Half-titles browned at margins,
otherwise very crisp and fresh. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines ruled in gilt,
red and tan morocco labels. Spines slightly faded.
A pretty Paris-printed pocket Milton (in English).
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
63 MONTAGU, Mary Wortley, Lady. Oeuvres de Lady Montague,
contenant sa vie, sa correspondance avant son mariage, avant et
durant l’ambassade en Turquie, et pendant les deux voyages qu’elle
a faits en Italie depuis cette ambassade. Paris: Valade, Henrichs,
Artus Bertrand and at Bordeaux: Melon et Ce. 1804. £400
4 vols (the first in 2 parts, separately paginated, 12mo (169 × 95 mm), pp. [4],
lx, 116; [4], 168; [4], 331, [1]; [4], 335, [1]; [4], 318, complete with half-titles.
Contemporary sprinkled half calf, spines gilt with pink morocco labels. Spine
slightly dry, but a very nice copy with the bookplates of the Bibliothèque de Cirey.
First edition in French of James Dallaway’s edition of The Works
of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). Lady
Montagu’s Embassy Letters had been
published in 1763 (and enthusiastically
read in French in several editions of the
1760s). Dallaway’s edition gathered a wider
spectrum of her letters from manuscripts
retained by her family. Critics have not
been kind to his endeavours: ‘skimpy and
deplorably edited’ (ODNB sub Montagu)
and ‘shockingly incompetent’ (ODNB sub
Dallaway).
OCLC lists several copies worldwide but none in the
UK; confirmed by COPAC.

64 [MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de]. Lettres
persanes. ‘Amsteram’ [sic] [vol. 2 ‘Amsterdam’] [Rouen]: Pierre
Brunel, 1721 [1730]. £1000
2 vols. in one, 12mo (149 × 85 mm), pp. [2], 311, [1]; [2], 347, [1]. Titles in red
and black with armillary sphere ornaments. Woodcut ornaments. Occasional old
waterstains. One manuscript correction (1, p. 53), some early pencil markings
to margins. Contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label. Spine
rubbed and faded but still a good copy.
An early contrefaçon of Montesquieu’s revolutionary epistolary
novel, in which he pioneered the authorial stance of observing his
own society through the eyes of a stranger, a technique imitated
in countless European novels of the eighteenth century and
beyond. ‘A collection of imaginary letters written and received by
two Persians (Rica and Usbek) who visit Paris about the end of the
reign of Louis XIV ... The letters, in which the Persians record
what they observe and the reflections to which the observations
give rise, form a satirical review of French contemporary society
and social and political institutions, covering a great variety of
subjects, from Louis XIV himself and later the Regent and their
methods of government, through the Church and its sectarian
quarrels, the magistrature and the University, the financiers and
Law’s system, to the poets, gamblers, Lotharios, and so forth
whom they encounter. A series of letters ... describing a visit to
the University library contains pungent criticisms of the various
categories of French literature’ (Oxford Companion to French
Literature).
Cioranescu 46180 (not distinguishing issues). See: Rochebilière, no. 770-772 and
Tchemerzine, IV, pp. 921-22; cf. Edgar Mass, ‘Les éditions des Letters persanes,’
Revue française d’histoire du livre, 102–103 (1999), pp. 19–56.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
65 MONTJOIE, Christophe Felix Louis Ventre de Latouloubre, called
Galart de. Manuscrit trouvé au mont Pausilype. Paris: Le Normant,
1802. £600
5 vols, 12mo (170 × 88 mm), pp. [4], 300; [4], 353, [1]; [4], 268; [4], 275, [1];
[4], 360, complete with half-titles, plus 5 engraved frontispieces by Maradan.
Occasional spots and stains. Contemporary sprinkled half calf spines, soines gilt,
red morocco labels. Slightly rubbed. A very good set.
First edition. A Royalist throughout the Revolution, the author
spent several periods in hiding, but emerged as a prolific journalist
and novelist after the fall of Robespierre, contributing to the
Journal des débats, and Journal général de France. A popular novel,
making use of the the well-established manuscrit trouvé trope,
Hector Berlioz recalled reading it (in a meadow) at the age of 17
(Voyage Musical, 1844).
OCLC: BL only outside continental Europe, no US copies.

66 MONTJOIE, Christophe Felix Louis Ventre de Latouloubre, called
Galart de. Histoire d’Inès de Léon. Paris: Le Normant, 1805. £500
6 vols, 12mo (165 × 90 mm), pp. [6], xx, [21]-312; [4], 322; [4], 376; [4], 330,
complete with half-titles, plus engraved frontispiece to vol. 1. Contemporary half
calf, spines ruled in gilt, tan lettering pieces and black circular numbering pieces,
green edges. Spines faded, corners bumped. An attractive set.
First edition of the last of Galart de Montjoie’s several novels on a
Spanish theme.
Margaret Rees, French Authors on Spain, 1800-1850 A Checklist (1977), As 37. Rare: OCLC
lists copies at Bn, National Library of Sweden and Michigan State University only.
67 MORTONVAL, M. [pseudonym of Alexandre Fursy GUESDON].
Dame de Saint Bris chroniques du temps de la Ligue, 1587 ... deuxième
edition. Paris: [J. Pinard for] Ambroise Dupont, 1827. £400
4 vols, 12mo (167 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 210, [2]; [4], 214, [2]; [4], 251, [1]; [4], 258,
complete with half-titles. Some spotting, one neat old repair to marginal tear in
vol. 1. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt panelled spines, red and plum morocco
labels. A handsome copy.
Second edition (printed in the same year as the first) of a popular
historical novel set at the time of the French Wars of Religion.
Gusedon served in the Napoleonic armies before producing
several plays for the theatre and then devoting himself to historical
fiction, which he published under the pseudonym Mortonval. This
copy has been bound to match several works by Sir Walter Scott
from the same library.
OCLC locates copies at University of Kentucky (this edition) and Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek (edition not stated) only, but there are copies of both first and
second edition at Bn.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
68 OPIE, [Amelia]. Le Père et la fille. Conte moral; traduit de l’anglais de
mistriss Opie. Par Mme. S.... T. V.... Paris: Renard, ‘de l’imprimèrie
de Cottin’, 1802. £1500
12mo (164 × 95 mm), pp. [3], vi-viii, 279, [1], plus engraved frontispiece, probably
wanting initial blank or half-title. Occasional spots and stains, slight abrasion
to a tiny portion of the frontispiece towards the foot, just affecting image.
Contemporary half sheep, spine ruled in gilt. Slightly rubbed with wear to upper
cover (slight loss to paper). An unsophisticated copy.
A translation of Opie’s The Father and Daughter (1801). Two
French issues appeared in 1802, the year Amelia travelled to
Paris at the time of the Peace of Amiens, both are very rare, ours
perhaps otherwise unrecorded. OCLC lists 2 copies of the other
translation (by Mlle L.-M.-J.-M. Brayer-Saint-Léon, copies at Bn
and University of Illinois)) and another of
an unspecified version (Spanish National
Library). Opie was associated with
Godwin’s radical circle, which included
Thomas Holcroft, Elizabeth Inchbald,
Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Siddons,
Anna Letitia Barbauld, and several French
refugees. ‘The tale recounts the seduction
and abandonment of a naïve young woman
by an aristocratic rake, the ensuing grief
and madness of her father, the later remorse
of the rake, and the reconciliation of father
and daughter at death. Such fictionalized
social protest was popular with reformists
and liberals, and Opie’s tale went through
numerous editions. Fifteen years later
Walter Scott told her “he had cried over it
more than he ever cried over such things”‘
(ODNB).
GRS, 1800.

69 PANNIER, Sophie. Le Prêtre, par Mme S. P*** seconde edition.
Paris: [P. Dupont] Ponthieu, 1820. £300
4 vols, 12mo (170 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 240; [4], 264; [4], 268; [4], ‘287’, [1], complete
with half-titles, the final volume mispaginated with a jump from p. 216 to 241, the
text continuous. Occasional light spotting. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines
gilt, red and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez
Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
Sophie Pannier’s popular tale of a priest at the time of the Revolution
afflicted firstly by the unsolicited attentions of a young woman
in his tutelage and then by those of the hostile revolutionaries.
The first edition appeared earlier the same year: both editions are
institutionally scarce. This copy is bound uniformly with several
other novels from the same collection, notably works by Scott.
70 [PECHMÉJA, Jean de]. Télephe, en XII livres. ‘À Londres; et se
trouve à Paris, Chez Pissot,’ 1784. £200
8vo (196 × 118 mm), pp. [6], 264, complete with half-title. Woodcut title vignette.
Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label, marbled
edges. A very good copy. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper ‘M[a]
d[am]e de Simiane’.
First separate edition of a classically-set utopian novel advocating
(inter alia) the renunciation of personal property, by a Professeur
d’éloquence at the college of La Flèche and contributor to Raynal’s,
Histoire des deux Indes. The novel is dedicated to ‘Monsieur
Dubrueil, médicin’, with whom Pechméja lived communally in
the spirit of his utopian ideals, the two men dying within a few
months of each other in 1785. Télephe appeared in the Journal
encyclopèdique and the Mercure in the same year. Franklin owned a
copy.
Cioranescu 29290; MMF, 84.52.
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71 POPE, Alexander. Oeuvres diverses de Pope. Traduites de l’anglois.
Nouvelle édition considerablement augmentée, avec des très-belles
figures en taille-douce. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkstée & Merkus,
1754. £800
6 vols, 12mo (165 × 92 mm), pp. [2], xx, [2], 414; [4], 446, [2]; [8], 428; [2], 420;
[4], xii, 395; [4], xii, 369, [23], complete with half-titles and publishers’ catalogue,
plus 22 engraved plates (including a portrait and 2 frontispieces), engraved title
vignettes, woodcut ornaments. Occasional spots and stains but usually very clean
and crisp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines, red and tan morocco
labels. Spines faded, slightly rubbed, upper joint of vol. 4 just starting, but a good
set. Titles with early inscription ‘D. Cht. d. V.’; bookplates of the Chateau de Cirey.
First illustrated collected
edition. The first collected edition,
gathering the translations of Élie
de Joncourt, Silhouette, la Boucle
and Marmontel had appeared,
unillustrated, the previous year.
The fine portrait is by Johann
Christoph Syfang and the plates
are after the English originals by
Blakey, Hayman, Wale and Walker,
mostly engraved for this edition by
Fritsch. A supplement appeared in
1758, but the six volumes are
complete in themselves.
Rochedieu 250; Cohen-de Ricci 816-7.

72 PORTER, Jane. Les Chefs écossais. Roman historique ... traduit
de l’anglais par le traducteur d’Ida, du Missionnaire, etc. Paris:
A. Égron, H. Nicolle, Renard, Galignani and Le Normant, 1814.
£2500
5 vols, 12mo (168 × 72 mm), pp. xviii, 222; [4], 212; [4], 240; [4], 227, [1]; [5],
6-242. Some spotting and occasional small stains. Contemporary quarter sheep,
vellum corners, original printed spine labels. Spines faded and rubbed with slight
loss to a few labels, stubs of removed endpapers in some volumes. An interesting,
unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French of Porter’s most significant novel, The
Scottish Chiefs, a Romance (London, 1810) based on the lives of
William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Hugely popular, reprinted
the same year in New York and running to some further 9 English
editions by 1850, the novel became
something of a cause célèbre in
this French translation which was
banned by Napoleon. Despite it’s
fanciful and sentimental rendering
of the Scots national story, it was
clearly perceived by him as symbol
of British belligerence. Nonetheless,
it was widely read in France and
was adapted for the stage by
Guilbert de Pixérécourt and played
to enthusiastic audiences in Paris
and the provinces. Indeed, just as
the success of the original English
novel may well have spurred Scott
on to publish Waverley in 1814 (as
is widely suggested), its popularity
in France also paved the way for
Scott’s massive success on the
Continent.
GRS, 1810, 68.OCLC lists a handful of European copies including BL and NLS, but
no copy in the Bn (which has only the second French edition of 1820) and none in
America.
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73 PORTER, Jane. Le Champ des quarante pas, Épisode du temps de
Cromwell, par Miss Jane Porter,... traduit de l’anglais, par C.-A.
Defauconpret. Paris: [Imprimerie de Cosson for] Mame et Delaunay-
Vallée, 1828. £1500
3 vols, 12mo (165 × 90 mm), pp. [4], 269, [1]; [4], 197, [1]; [4], 234, complete with
half-titles, plus engraved frontispiece to each volume. Titles and frontispieces
browned. Contemporary quarter calf, spines gilt in compartments, lettered
direct. Slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of The Field of Forty Footsteps. Paired with
her sister Anna Maria’s novel Coming Out, Jane Porter’s historical
novel of the seventeenth century appeared in a joint London
edition earlier in 1828. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling suggest
only Jane’s novel subsequently appeared in French translation.
The translation is by Charles-Auguste Defauconpret, son of
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste, celebrated translator of Scott.
GRS,1828: 64. Rare: OCLC lists copies at Bn and McGill (Canada) only.
74 POUGENS, Charles. Jocko, Anecdote détachée des Lettres inédites
sur l’instinct des animaux. Paris: [J. Tastu for] P. Persan, 1824.
£800
12mo (167 × 85 mm), pp. [iv], 176, complete with half-title. Light dampstaining/
foxing becoming noticeable towards the rear. Contemporary quarter sheep, spine
gilt in compartments, green morocco label. Spine slightly dry, marbled boards
faded at head, but a good copy.
First edition. One of the earliest fictional treatments of the
hominoid-ape theme, previously explored biologically and
philosophically by Tyson, Buffon, Linnaeus and Rousseau (all of
whom appear in the extensive list of cited sources here). Pougens
tells the tale of a traveller who befriended a female orang-outang
on an unspecified island of the New World and performed
various social experiments upon her before proving the greed

and corruption of the human race when
Jocko brings him a haul of diamonds.
Jocko was tremendously popular, with a
second edition appearing in the same year
and audiences flocking to see theatrical
adaptations.
OCLC lists US copies at Harvard, UCLA and UC only.
75 [PRÉVOST, Antoine François, Abbé]. Le doyen de Killerine. Histoire
morale composée sur les mémoires d’une illustre famille d’Irlande;
et ornée de tout ce qui peut rendre une lecture utile & agréable.
Paris: Poppy, 1760 [vols. 2-6, La Haye: Pierre Poppy, 1744]. £600
6 vols, 12mo (160 × 90 mm), pp. [2], vi, 183, [1]; [2], 210; [2], 211, [1]; [2], 192; [2], 202;
[2], 234, [2]. Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines,
vol. 1 slightly different from the other 5, matching contemporary red morocco labels.
Rubbed. Early manuscript addition of the author’s name ‘Prévôt’ to free endpapers.
Prévost’s novel Le doyen de Killerine was first published in 1735
and was frequently reprinted. Set in Ireland, it tells the story of
the attempts of a worldly Irish priest’s attempts (usually thwarted)
to find suitable marriage partners for his siblings. It is full of
romantic anguish, especially in dealing with the thorny question
of intermarriage between Protestant and Catholic, and was
influential in forming the French taste for ‘celtic’ novels which
became so prevalent towards the end of the century and in the
next. This copy is an early match of a 1760 edition of volume 1
and 1744 editions of the remainder, with slightly different spine
tooling, unified by matching labels (presumably c. 1760).
cf. Cioranescu 51276-7 (1735 and 1740 editions).
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76 RADCLIFFE, Anne. Les Mystères d’Udolphe traduit de l’anglois sur
la troisième édition. Paris: Maradan, 1797. £600
4 vols, 12mo (158 × 88 mm), pp. [4], 300; 334 (vol. 2 wanting half-title and title);
[4], 341; [4], 300, half-titles to vols. 1, 3 & 4. Quite browned with some staining,
evidence of careless opening, with a few marginal tears, one leaf (vol. 4) with
slight loss to a few lines of text, repaired with missing text supplied in careful
manuscript. Early nineteenth-century quarter calf, gilt panelled spines, lettered
direct, vellum corners, marbled edges.
First edition in French of Radcliffe’s classic gothic novel. Critical
reception in France was mixed to begin with, but soon Radcliffe’s
popularity increased and ‘her influence, good
or bad, could not be denied. According to
the Mercure she had “ajouté à la romancie un
nouveau moyen d’émouvoir et d’intéresser,
celui d’amener au plaisir par la terreur”…
To a contemporary critic [Udolpho] seemed
such an extravagant work it must have issued
from the hand of a genius, for it is “une
monstruosité tout à fait originale, frappante
même…”’ (Streeter). Translated by L.M.V.
de Chastenay de Lanty and edited by P.V.
Benoist and J.B.D. Després.
GRS 1794: 47; MMF, 97.58; Rochedieu, p. 268. Outside
continental Europe OCLC lists copies at Harvard and
Clark Library (UCLA) only. COPAC adds UK copies at
Bodley and Leeds.

77 RICCOBONI, Mairie-Jeanne. Collection complète des oeuvres
de Madame Riccoboni. Nouvelle édition revue & augmentée.
Neuchâtel: Société typographique, 1787. £250
10 vols, 12mo (159 × 88 mm), pp. 456; 525, [1]; 489, [1]; 572; 532; 367, [1]; 459,
[1]; 336; 309, [1]; 329, [1]. Woodcut ornaments. Early nineteenth-century quarter
calf, gilt panelled spines. Spines faded, but a very crisp copy.
Madame Riccoboni, née Laboras de Mézières, had acted with
the Comédie Italienne prior to beginning her writing career with
an extension and imitation of Marivaux’s Vie de Marianne (1751),
followed by her first novel, an imitation of Richardson, Lettres de
Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1756). In addition to her several novels, she
made translations of English novels, including Fielding’s Amelia
(1762) and plays by Garrick and Colman (all present here). She
was well regarded by Voltaire and was part of the circle attending
the salons of the Baron d’Holbach, where she became acquainted
with Diderot, David Garrick and David Hume. In The Theory of
Moral Sentiments Adam Smith ranked her with Voltaire, Racine,
Richardson, and Marivaux as ‘one of the poets and romance
writers who best paint the refinements of… private and domestic
affections.’ The first collected edition of her works appeared in
1773, followed by augmented editions of 1780 and 1787 (ours).
78 [RICHARDSON, Samuel]. Histoire de Sir Charles Grandison,
contenue dans une suite de lettres, publiées sur les originaux, par
l’éditeur de Pamela et de Clarisse ... Ouvrage traduit de l’anglois.
Göttingen & Leiden: Elie Luzac, fils, 1756. £1100
7 vols, 12mo (158 × 90 mm), pp. xv, [1], 420; [4], [4], 500; [4], 396; [4], 391,
[1]; [4], 502; [4], 414, complete with half-titles. Titles printed in red and black
with engraved vignettes. Occasional browning due to paper stock, a few corners
turned down. Contemporary marbled sheep, gilt panelled spines. Rubbed, but a
very nice copy.
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First edition of Gaspard-Joël Monod’s translation of The History
of Sir Charles Grandison (1753) Richardson’s riposte to Fielding’s
Tom Jones. It appeared a year after a translation of the first part by
Prévost, Nouvelles lettres angloises, ou Histoire du chevalier Grandisson
(1755). Prévost nonetheless praised Monod’s version as ‘un des plus
singuliers monuments qui soient jamais sortis de la presse’. It was
reprinted at Leipzig later in 1756 and again in 1764 (Rochedieu).
Monod, a Protestant minister who had formerly travelled to
Guadeloupe and later settled in Geneva, also translated Charlotte
Lennox’s novel Henrietta (1758).
MMF, 56.27; Rochedieu, 279.

79 [SCHLEGEL, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric]. Lothaire et Maller,
roman de chevalerie, traduit de l’allemend. Geneva: J. J. Paschoud
[se trouve à Paris, chez Buisson, Dufour, Gautier et Bretin,
Lenormand, Treuttel et Wurtz], 1807. £400
12mo (162 × 91 mm), pp. [4], v, 292, complete with half-title. Contemporary
quarter calf, gilt, vellum corners. Spine faded, but an attractive copy.
First edition. A medieval chivalric romance (Lohier et Mallart)
supposedly translated into modern French by a fourteen-year-old
boy, sometimes identified as Albert the son of Madame de Staël.
The Preface explains that the original medieval text was written
in ‘langue romance’ by Marguerite, Comtesse de Vaudemeont,
Duchesse de Lorraine and that it was translated into German in
1405 by her daughter Elisabeth, Comtesse de Nassau-Saarbrük.
Fréderic Schlegel (1772-1829) rendered it in modern German,
which was in turn translated by the young French editor.
OCLC lists US copies at UCLA and Illinois only.
Sir Walter Scott
Madame de Simiane was an enthusiastic reader of the novels of Sir Walter Scott in their
French translations by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret. She owned copies of most of the important
titles, many in their first French editions, which appeared almost simultaneously with the
first British editions. Like many of her compatriots, Madame de Simiane’s enthusiasm
for Scott dates from around the year 1820, the heyday of his popularity in Europe. In the
decade 1820-30 Madame de Simiane seems to have acquired new titles as soon as they
were published and caught up with a few earlier titles in reprinted editions.
Her enthusiasm was not unusual. Scott was the great literary phenomenon of the
period in France, to the extent that his novels were widely considered to have eclipsed
all homegrown literary talent. His works left a profound impression on readers and
writers of the nineteenth century and almost all the major Romantic novelists of the next
generation, including Stendhal, Dumas, Balzac, Flaubert and Hugo, derived inspiration
(both positive and negative) from Scott’s reinvention of the historical novel. It is no
exaggeration to say that he changed the literary landscape in France and that subsequent
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
novels are filled with references to his characters and stories: it has been well-said that
without Waverley there could be no Notre Dame de Paris.
The craze for Scott in translation was fed by the industry of Defauconpret, not only in
translating the novels, but in negotiating rights with Scott and his London agents (Black,
Young and Young) to obtain proof sheets of the British editions as they came off the press.
This arrangement, begun in 1822, ensured that the French editions could appear hard on
the heels of their British counterparts and so it is fair to imagine that the novels assembled
at the Chateau de Cirey were read within a few weeks of their first publication across the
Channel.
Between 1820 and 1830 the thirst for new novels could sometimes appear unquenchable
and the publisher Gosselin responded accordingly. Editions were rapidly reprinted and
sets of the Oeuvres complètes offered alongside new titles. The complex bibliography
of the period was reconstructed by E. Preston Dargan in his 1934 article ‘Scott and the
French Romantics’ (PMLA, 49, 2, 599-629) and is referred to in the descriptions below.
As the Oeuvres complètes got underway new titles could appear simultaneously in first
edition as stand-alone works or as volumes in the collected works. The collection contains
examples of both. An attempt at uniform binding was made in the Cirey collection, though
the piecemeal acquisition of titles has resulted in at least three distinct binding types.
80 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Guy Mannering, ou l’Astrologue; par Sir Walter
Scott: traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques
de Sir Walter Scot [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for]
Henri Nicolle, 1821. £800
3 vols, 12mo (170 × 97 mm), pp. [4], x, ‘232’ [actually 292]; [4], 315, [1]; [4], 342,
complete with half-titles. Occasional spots and stains and a few short tears from
careless opening. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt in compartments with
red and green labels. A very good copy.
First Defauconpret edition of Guy Mannering (1815), preceded by
a little-noticed translation by Joseph Martin (1816) issued before
Scott’s celebrity in France and now exceptionally rare.
cf. Dargan, 1 (the 1816 Martin translation, our edition not mentioned); GRS, 1815:
46 (giving the earlier Martin translation only).

81 [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Les Puritains d’Écosse et le nain mystérieux,
contes de mon hôte recueillis par Jedediah Cleisbotham, Paris:
[Clo for] H. Nicolle and Ledoux et Tenré, 1817. £2000
4 vols, 12mo (160 × 92 mm), pp. [4], viii, [9]-253, [3] (including additional halftitle
to Le Nain Mystérieux at end); [4], 240; [4], 239, [1]; [4], 258, complete with
half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, mottled vellum corners, spines lettered
direct. Spines dry and slightly rubbed. A very good unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French of the two novels comprising the first
series of Scott’s Tales of my Landlord: Old Mortality and The Black
Dwarf (1816), the second volume of Scott’s fictional works to
appear in France (after Guy Mannering). Pseudonymously issued,
both in Britain and France, it was listed under the pseudonym
Cleisbotham in the Bibliographie de France. This is the first of
Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret’s translations and marks the
beginning of Scott’s celebrity in France: ‘the first considerable
success’ (Dargan). It is also one of the most influential of Scott’s
works in France. ‘Defauconpret’s Les Puritains d’Ecosse gave Scott
his first French success and first major European breakthrough.
Although partially obscured by Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward,
it remained for many Frenchmen the Scott novel Par excellence.
Stendhal is among many to call Scott not ‘the author of Waverley’
but ‘the author of Old Mortality’ Often critical of Scott, Stendhal
remained an unswerving admirer of Old Mortality’ (Barnaby). It
was also frequently alluded to by Balzac throughout La Comédie
Humaine. On the strength of its immediate success, the publisher,
Nicolle (the predecessor of Gosselin) engaged Defauconpret to
translate subsequent novels as they appeared.
Dargan, 2 & 3 (May 3); Paul Barnaby, ‘Another Tale of Old Mortality: The
Translations of Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret in the French Reception
of Scott.’ in Pittock, ed., The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, 2006; GRS,
1816: 53. OCLC lists copies at Bn, NLS, Universities of Edinburgh, Leipzig and
Princeton.
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82 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Rob-Roy, par Sir Walter Scott; précédé d’une
notice historique sur Rob-Roy Mac-Grégor Campbell et sa famille.
Traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques de Sir
Walter Scott [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles
Gosselin and Ladvocat, 1822. £300
4 vols, 12mo (171 × 92 mm), pp. [4], lxix, [1], 186; [4], 286; [2] (wants title), 256;
[4], 219, [1], complete with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt in
compartments, green morocco labels. Spines quite dry and rubbed.
Rob Roy (1818) first appeared in French in 1818 (Defauconpret’s
translation and another, entitled Robert le Rouge). This copy is of
the edition printed for Gosselin’s first collected Oeuvres complètes,
as indicated by the half-titles.
Dargan, 5 (1818 edition); GRS, 1818: 55 (1818 edition).

83 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Waverley, l’Écosse il y a soixante ans. Par Sir
Walter Scott: traduit de l’anglais par Joseph Martin. Paris: [Cosson
for] Charles Gosselin and Ladvocat, 1821. £250
4 vols, 12mo (168 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 237, [1]; [4], 228; [4], ‘365’ [but 231], [1];
[4], 219, [1], complete with half-titles for the Oeuvres complètes. Some spotting.
Contemporary quarter sheep, gilt panelled spines, green morocco labels. Spine
quite rubbed and dry.
Waverley (1814) first appeared in French in 1818, before Scott
attained celebrity in France and therefore now very rare. This
reprint is for the first of Gosselin’s collected Oeuvres complètes,
containing half-titles for that series.
cf. Dargan, 6 (1818 edition); GRS, 1814: 52 (1818 edition).
84 SCOTT, Sir Walter. La Prison d’Édimbourg. Contes de mon hôte,
recueillis et publiés par Jedediah Cleisbotham ... traduits de
l’anglais par A.-J.-B. Defauconpret avex des notes explicatives. Tome
cinquième [-huitième]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin, 1828.
£300
4 vols, 12mo (165 × 92 mm), pp. [4], 310; [4], 301,[1]; [4], 270; [4], 300, complete
with half-titles. Some spotting. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines attractively
gilt, red and green labels.
Heart of Mid-Lothian was first published in France in 1818. This
late edition is part of one of Gosselin’s Oeuvres complètes, probably
the second.
cf. Dargan, 7 (1818 edition); GRS, 1818: 56 (1818 edition).
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85 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Lettres de Paul à sa famille, écrites en 1815;
suivies de la recherche du bonheur, conte ... traduit de l’anglais sur
la 5e édition, par le traducteur des Oeuvres de Lord Byron. Paris:
[Cosson for] Charles Gosselin, 1822. £600
3 vols, 12mo (169 × 98 mm), pp. [4], vi, 223, [1]; [4], 215, [1]; [4], 199, [1], complete
with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco
labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very
slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of Paul’s Letters
to his Kinsfolk (Edinburgh, 1816), Scott’s
memoir of his visit to the field of Waterloo
in 1815 (Scott was amongst the first
British civilians on the scene) and Paris.
It is printed here with the first edition in
French of his Byronic poem The Search after
Happiness; or the Quest of Sultaun Solimaun
(1817) appropriately translated by Byron’s
translator, Amédée Pichot.
Not in Dargan.

86 SCOTT, Sir Walter. La Fiancée de Lammermoor, contes de mon
hôte recueillis et mis au jour par Jedediah Cleishbotham... Paris:
[Cosson for], H. Nicolle, 1819. £1000
3 vols, 12mo (166 × 100 mm), pp. [4], 270; [4], 274; [4], 272, complete with halftitles.
Some light spotting. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and
green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-
Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of The Bride of Lammermoor, first published
as part of Tales of My Landlord (1819).
Dargan, 9 (September 25).
87 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Ivanhoé, ou le Retour du croisé. par Walter
Scott, Roman traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des contes
de mon hôte [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris; [Cosson for] Nicolle,
1820. £2500
4 vols, 12mo (168 × 96 mm), pp. [4], iii, [1], 246; [4], 264; [4], 239; [4], 263, [1].
complete with half-titles. Two gatherings transposed in final vol. Contemporary
quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s
ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very
good copy.
first edition in French (1820) of one of Scott’s greatest successes,
called the ‘véritable épopée de notre âge’ (‘the true epic of our age’)
in France shortly after publication (Dargan, p. 605), and which
saw Scott on the crest of a wave, according to Nodier and Dumas.
Dargan, 10 (April 8); GRS, 1820: 63. OCLC lists copies at BL, NLS and Basel only;
none in the US.
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88 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Le Monastère, par Sir Walter Scott, Roman
traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur de ses Oeuvres complètes [A.-
J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Henri Nicolle, 1820. £1200
4 vols, 12mo (167 × 98 mm), pp. [4], lix, [1], 165, [1]; [4], 231, [1]; [4], 228;
[4], 262, complete with half-titles, 4 leaves misbound and transposed in vol.
2. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels,
bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly
rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of The Monastery (1820). The half-title
verso to the first volume announces the projected collected French
edition of Scott: ‘Pour paroître à la librairie de Henri Nicolle: Oeuvres

complètes de sir Walter Scott, précédées d’une notice historique
sur l’auteur, et ornées de son portrait, format in-12, publiées par
livraisions de quatre volumes: le prix chaque livraision est de 8
francs pour ceux qui s’engageront à prendre la collection complète.
On paie 8 francs d’avance imputables sure le prix de dernière
livraision.’
Dargan, 11 (July 1); GRS, 1820: 64. OCLC lists the NLS and Texas A & M copies
outside France.
89 SCOTT, Sir Walter. L’Abbé, Suite du Monastère, par Sir Walter
Scott, traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques
de Sir Walter Scott [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris:[Cosson for]
Henri Nicolle, 1821 £1200
4 vols, 12mo (168 × 96 mm), pp. [4], 262; [4], 260; [4], 260; [4], 271, [1], [4]
(adverts), complete with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red
and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet
Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of The Abbot (1820). The final volume
contains a 4-page prospectus for the projected Oeuvres complètes,
listing the order of volumes already separately issued and those
currently being issued (including this one), forming 51 duodecimo
volumes — beginning with 8 volumes of Romans poètiques and 43
of Romans historiques.
Dargan, 12 (Dec 9); GRS, 1820: 62. OCLC lists copies at Bn, NLS, Aberdeen and
University of South Carolina only.
90 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Kenilworth, par Sir Walter Scott, traduit de
l’anglais par le traducteur [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret] des romans
historiques de Walter Scott, précédé d’une notice sur le château de
Kenilworth et sur le comté de Leicester. Paris: [Cosson for] Henri
Nicolle and Ladvocat, 1821. £1200
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
4 vols, 12mo (170 × 95 mm), pp. [4], xxiv, 226; [4], 252; [4], 283, [1]; [4], 260,
complete with all half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and
green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-
Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French and the first of
three Paris translations by rival publishers
printed in the same year (the other two being
by Mme Collard and Parisot respectively) a
measure of the potential market for Scott
by 1821.
Dargan, 13 (March 3); GRS, 1822: 66. OCLC lists
copies at Bn, NLS, Texas A & M (and possibly one at
Strasbourg University, though the record is without
imprint).
91 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Le Pirate, par Sir Walter Scott, traduit de
l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques de Sir Walter
Scott [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Gosselin and
Ladvocat, 1822. £800
4 vols, 12mo (167 × 98 mm), pp. [4], vi, 271, [1]; [4], 263, [1]; [4], 258; [4], 304,
complete with half-titles. A few short tears from careless opening, minor loss to
one corner (not touching text). Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and
green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-
Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.

One of several French editions of The Pirate published in the same
year as the first (1822). Dargan notes that our edition (published
in December) was preceded by the edition for the collected works
(February) and that an unauthorised anonymous translation (Le
Pirate, ou les Flibustiers) also appeared in February.
Dargan, 14 (Dec. 14)); GRS, 1822: 68.
92 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Les Aventures de Nigel, par Sir Walter Scott.
Traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques de
Sir Walter Scott [A.J.B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles
Gosselin and Ladvocat, 1822. £800
4 vols, 12mo (170 × 98 mm), pp. [4], xlvi, 246; [4], 322; [4], 246; [4], 294, complete
with half-titles, 2 leaves transposed in preliminaries of vol. 1. Contemporary
quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s
ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very
good copy.
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French translations of The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) appeared
rapidly. Gosselin’s first French edition was actually that for his
collected edition, and was advertised in June 1822. The separate
edition (as here) only appeared in October and is (at least partly)
a different translation, usually attributed to Fanny Angel Collet.
The verso of the half-title advertises a further bookseller, Martin
Bossange, offering the book both in Paris and London (Bossange
was active in London from 1814).
Dargan, 15 (Oct. 12); GRS, 1822: 66.
93 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Quentin Durward, ou l’Écossais à la cour
de Louis XI, par Sir Walter Scott, traduit de l’anglais par le
traducteur des romans historiques de Sir Walter Scott... [A. J.-B.
Defauconpret.]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin and Ladvocat,
1823. £2000
4 vols, 12mo (165 × 90 mm), pp. [4], lxiii, [1], [5]- ‘205’ (actually 203), [1]; [4],
260; [4], 286; [4], 307, [1], complete with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep,
spines gilt, red and green morocco labels. A very good copy.
First edition in French of ‘the most
influential’ of all Scott’s novels in France
(Dargan).
Dargan, 17 (May 31) and p. 605 ff.; GRS, 1823: 74.
OCLC lists copies at Bn, NLS, Aberdeen and University
of Toronto only.

94 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Péveril du Pic, par Sir Walter Scott, traduit de
l’anglais, par le traducteur des romans historiques de Walter Scott
[A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin and
Ladvocat, 1823. £1200
5 vols, 12mo (169 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 308; [4], 242; [4], 272; [4], 254; [4],
324, complete with half-titles. Some spotting and light old dampstaining.
Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels. Very
slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of Peveril of the Peak (1822).
Dargan, 16 (Jan 25); GRS, 1822: 67 (erroneously giving dates for this edition as
1823-4). OCLC lists several European copies, but only one in the US (University of
Wisconsin).
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95 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Les Eaux de Saint-Ronan; traduit de l’anglais
par le traducteur des romans historiques de Sir Walter Scott. Paris:
[Cosson for] Charles Gosselin and Ladvocat, 1824. £800
4 vols, 12mo (165 × 100 mm), pp. [4], 282; [4], 278; [4], 262; [4] 250, complete with
half-titles. Some browning and staining to vol. 1 and one leaf loose in that vol,
otherwise quite clean. Contemporary quarter
sheep, spines gilt in compartments, green morocco
labels. Spines quite dry and rubbed, but a good,
unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French of St Ronan’s Well
(1824). There are two issues of 1824, one
with a De Wincop imprint the other with
Gosselin and Ladvocat; Dargan lists only
the latter — both are institutionally very
rare.
Dargan, 18 (Jan 13); GRS, 1824: 84.
96 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Redgauntlet, histoire du dix-huitième Siècle ...
traduit de l’anglais par le traducteur des romans historiques de Sir
Walter Scott [A.-J.-B. Defauconpret]. Paris: [Cosson for] Charles
Gosselin, 1824. £1200
4 vols, 12mo (166 × 98 mm), pp. [4], iii, [1], 296; [4], 240; [4], 283; 258, complete
with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt in compartments, green
morocco labels. Spines quite dry and rubbed, but a good, unsophisticated copy.

First edition in French. Volume one contains an interesting
Avant-propos de l’Éditeur commencing: ‘En publiant ce nouveau
roman de l’auteur de Waverley, qui ajoute 4 volumes à l’édition
complète in -12, et qui formera les tomes 38 et 39 de l’in-8o...’ It
explains the speed with which the translation had to be prepared
in order to beat rival translations to the press. It also engages with
criticisms of the recent translation of St. Ronan’s Well and with the
popular supposition that some of the new novels emanating from
Scotland were not in fact by Scott at all but by Lockhart. The
publisher sets the record straight, stating precisely which were
Lockhart’s (Valerius, Adam Blair, Reginald Dalton) and which were
Scott’s.
Dargan, 19 (July 3); GRS, 1824: 83.
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97 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Woodstock, ou le Cavalier, histoire du temps
de Cromwell, Année 1651 ... traduit de l’anglais par A.J.B.
Defauconpret ... Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin, 1826. £1200
4 vols, 12mo (170 × 94 mm), pp. [4], xi, [1], 257, [1]; [4], 272; [4], 263, [1]; [4],
308, complete with half-titles. Some light spotting. Contemporary quarter sheep,
spines gilt in compartments, green morocco labels. Spines quite dry and rubbed,
but a good, unsophisticated copy.
First edition in French.
Dargan, 22 (May 24); GRS, 1826: 70. OCLC lists several European copies, but only
one in the US (Texas A & M).
98 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Vie de Napoléon Buonaparte, empereur des
Français, précédée d’un tableau préliminaire de la Révolution
française. Paris: [Cosson for]: Charles Gosselin, Treuttel et Wurtz,
A. Sautelet, 1827. £900
18 vols, 12mo (172 × 104 mm), engraved portrait to vol. 1. Some spotting
throughout, title of vol. 1 with a few inkstains and an old waterstain to upper
inner margin. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red morocco labels.
Spines dry, but still a good copy.
The million or so words of Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
(1827) were completed in less than a year (a period which included
research visits to both London and Paris). Immediately translated
into French, the work was issued both in 8vo (in 9 volumes) and
12mo (in 18), the latter (as in our copy) presumably intended to
match the novels already printed in that format. The work, highly
critical of its subject, caused a furore in Paris.
‘Upon its publication in France in 1827, Scott’s biography of the
emperor became the subject of a heated debate in the French
press. In a series of articles, the critic for the Journal des Débats
called it the worst thing that Scott had ever written... faulting it for
distorting the truth, for using bad sources, or for turning history

into a novel... but crediting it for awakening French patriotism in
response: “at this moment, from all sides awakes the sentiment
of the national ego... I heartily thank Sir Walter for this great
Service”’ (Samuels, The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the
Novel in Nineteenth-century France, 2004, p. 94n).
Rare: very few non-continental copies listed by OCLC. COPAC lists no UK copies
of the 12mo issue (listing only 8vo editions at NLS, Edinburgh and BL).
99 SCOTT, Sir Walter. La Jolie Fille de Perth, ou le Jour de saint
Valentin; roman historique par Sir Walter Scott; traduit de l’anglais
par M. A.-J.-B. Defauconpret, avec des notes explicatives. Paris:
[Cosson for] Charles Gosselin, 1828. £600
12mo (165 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 282; [4], 275, [1]; [4], 270; [4], 271, [1], complete
with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco
labels. Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of Saint Valentine’s Day; or, The Fair Maid
of Perth (the first edition of which appeared as the second series
of Chronicles of the Canongate earlier in 1828). Gosselin’s edition,
though separately issued, was also part of the Oeuvres complètes, as
indicated by the half-titles in this copy.
Dargan, 24 (May 31); GRS, 1828: 72.
100 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Histoire générale de l’art dramatique suivie d’un
essai littéraire sur Molière et du poëme dramatique d’Halidon-Hill.
Paris: [Le Normant for] Charles Gosselin, 1828. £800
2 vols, 12mo (175 × 98 mm), pp. vii, [1], 276; [4], 283, [1], complete with halftitles
for the ‘Oeuvres Complètes’. First and last few leaves of each volume heavily
spotted, the remainder of the text very clean. Contemporary quarter calf, spines
gilt, red and green morocco labels.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
First edition in French of Scott’s essay on drama contributed to the
supplement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1815–24 and of his essay on
Molière. Appended is a translation of the dramatic poem Halidon Hill
which had first appeared in French in 1822. The Histoire générale was
issued as a volume of the complete works, though obtainable separately.
Not in Dargan.
101 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Charles le Téméraire, ou, Anne de Geierstein, la
fille du brouillard, roman historique par Sir Walter Scott; traduit
de l’anglais par A.-J.-B. Defauconpret. Paris: [Lachvardière for]
Charles Gosselin, 1829. £600
5 vols, 12mo (168 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 227, [1]; [4], 221, [1]; [4], 231, [1]; [4], 267, [1];
[4], 267, [1], complete with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt,
red and green morocco labels. Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of Anne of Geierstein; or, the Maiden of the
Mist (Edinburgh, 1829), which though separately issued also
formed part of the Oeuvres complètes, as stated on the half-titles.

102 SCOTT, Sir Walter. Le miroir de la tante Marguerite et la chambre
tapissée, contes; précédés d’un Essai sur l’emploi du merveilleux
dans le roman, et suivis de Clorinda ou le collier de perles. Traduit
de l’anglais par l’auteur d’Olésia ou la Pologne [Mme Gosselin].
Paris: [Lachevadiére for] Charles Gosselin, 1829. £1200
12mo (168 × 100 mm), pp. [4], lxiv, [2], 190, [2], complete with half-title for
the Oeuvres complètes. Some spotting/foxing. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt
panelled spines, red and green labels. A very pretty copy.
First edition in French of Scott’s essay ‘On the Supernatural in
Fictitious Composition; and particularly on the works of Ernest
Theodore William Hoffmann’ (1827), in which he criticised
Hoffmann for his unbridled use of supernatural effects and
his inability to separate fantasy from ‘reality’ in fiction. To this
translation are added 3 suitably-gothic short stories, translations
of: My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror and The Tapestried Chamber (both from
The Keepsake for 1828) and Clorinda: or the Necklace of Pearl (from
The Keepsake for 1829, by ‘Lord Normanby’ but pseudonymous). It
was issued as a volume of the complete works, though obtainable
separately, as here.
Not in Dargan. OCLC lists no copies outside continental Europe, COPAC gives no
UK copies.
103 [SCOTT, Sir Walter, falsely attributed to]. Contes de mon hôte.
Le chateau de Pontefract, par Sir Walter Scott; traduit de l’anglais
par Madame Collet... Paris: [Poulet:] for H. Vauquelin, Pigoreau,
Corbet, Locard et Davi, Durey et Lecointe, 1821. £1200
4 vols, 12mo (174 × 92 mm), pp. vi, [viii], 8-208; 219, [1]; 233; 216, complete
with half-titles. Contemporary quarter sheep, spines gilt, red and green morocco
labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville, Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very
slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
First edition in French of a counterfeit Scott title; a spurious
addition to the Tales of my Landlord series first published in English
as Pontefract Castle in late 1819. Ballantyne and Constable publicly
disavowed any connection with the novel, though European
publishers seized upon it as a genuine Scott title. The translator,
Madame Fanny Angel Collet did translate several genuine Scott
titles, including Kenilworth (published the same year). Despite
(or perhaps because of) the false attribution, a second edition
appeared in 1823. Both editions are very rare.
Not in Dargan, or GRS. OCLC lists a single copy (Strasbourg). There is also a copy
in the Bn.

104 SHAKESPEARE, William. [Pierre LE TOURNEUR, translator].
Shakespeare traduit de l’anglois, dédié ay Roi. Paris: [Clousier,
Demonville, Valade, Veuve Ballard & Fils for] Veuve Duchesne,
Musier, Nyon, La Combe, Ruault, Le Jay, Clousier, [vols 3-20, ‘Chez
l’auteur ... chez Mérigot,] 1776-1782. £4000
20 vols, 8vo (194 × 115 mm), pp. [48], cxl, 284; [4], 410, [2]; [4], 444; [8], 478;
[8], 304; [8] (includes blank), 187, [1]; [4], clxxx, 215, [1]; [4], xcviii, [2], 208; [8],
491; [8], 236, 18, lvii, [1]; [4], 223, [1], 230, [2]; [4], 495, [1]; [4], 255, [1]; [4], 227,
[1]; [4], 204, 186; [4], 144, 249, [1]; [4], 302, [2], 231, [1]; [4], 237, [1], 259, [1];
[4], 500; [4], 210, [3], 198, [2]. Numerous typographical ornaments. Occasional
spotting and light browning, usually at openings, sometimes affecting half-titles
and (less frequently) titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines, red
and green labels, marbled edges. Spines and portions of some sides lightly faded,
very light rubbing, a few very minor insect holes to sides. A handsome set, each
title-page bearing the early inscription ‘D[u] ch[ateau] d[e] V[...]e’.
First edition of Le Tourneur’s monumental translation,
instrumental in securing Shakespeare’s reputation in France.
Preceded only by La Place’s pioneering but partial translations
(1745-49) and by some individual translations by Voltaire and Ducis,
Le Tourneur’s is the first attempt at the complete works. Inspired by
the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, Le Tourneur prefaces the collection
with a long account of the Stratford celebrations presided over by
David Garrick (taken without acknowledgement from Benjamin
Victor’s History of the Theatres of London, 1771) and with a biography
drawn mainly from Rowe. There is also an important critical essay
using materials from Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Johnson and
Sewell.
The story of Shakespeare’s slow acceptance in France, in the
face of prevailing classicism, is well known — Le Tourneur’s
translations were the first to allow French readers to make their
own judgements and they perfectly reflect the transition from
classicism to romanticism in French culture. Indeed, the preface
is considered to contain the very first printed appearance of the
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word ‘romantique’ in the French language, with Le Tourneur
referring to the suitably romantic prospect of a clouded landscape
and then stressing the need for both the word and the concept
in French. The edition provoked the ire of the ageing Voltaire
(always ambivalent to Shakespeare) who on receiving the first
volume wrote in a letter to friend: ‘I must tell you how upset I am
for the honour of the theatre, against a certain Tourneur, who
is said to be Secretary of [La Librairie], but who does not seem
to me the Secretary of Good taste. Have you read two volumes
by this miserable fellow, in which he wants to make us all treat
Shakespeare as the only model of true tragedy? ... What is
frightful is that this monster had a following in France; and the
height of calamity and horror is that it was I who was once the first
to speak of this Shakespeare, it was I who was the first to show the
French some pearls that I discovered in his enormous dung-heap’
(translated by Davidson, Voltaire: a life, 2010, p. 439).

Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane

105 [SMYTHIES, Susan]. Le Coche, traduit de l’anglois, par Monsieur
D. L. G. La Haye: 1767. £1500
2 vols. bound together, 12mo (158 × 88 mm), pp. vi, 311, [1]; [2], 350, [2] (errata).
Ornaments. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spine. Slightly rubbed,
lower cover partially faded. A very good copy.
First edition in French of The Stage-coach:
containing the character of Mr. Manly, and the history
of his fellow-travellers (1753), by the first of several
popular novels by Colchester-born Susan Smythies.
In a stage-coach travelling from Scarborough to
London the reader is given the ‘histories’—that is
short biographies—of the passengers’ (ODNB). The
translation is by Nicolas de La Grange, who also
provides a short introduction.
MMF, 67.50; Rochedieu, 309. OCLC lists copies at BL, Harvard
and Clark Library, UCLA only outside continental Europe.
106 STAËL-HOLSTEIN, [Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker], Madame de.
Delphine. Paris: Maradan, ‘An XI’, 1803. £350
6 parts in 3 vols, 12mo (168 × 98 mm), pp. [4], 585, [1]; [4], xxiv, 525, [1]; [4],
413, [3], 25, [1] (publisher’s catalogue), complete with half-titles. A few corners
and margins torn (careless opening) with occasional minor loss, a few leaves
misbound out of sequence in vol. 1 (noted in neat contemporary manuscript at foot
of one page). Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, red and green labels. Rubbed,
some abrasion to pink paste-paper sides. A good copy.
First French edition, quickly following the Geneva edition of
1802, of a much-discussed and translated epistolary novel whose
heroine has been called ‘perhaps the first “modern woman” in
French fiction, whose ideas of how women behave are not those
of her conventionally-minded lover’ (Oxford Companion to French
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
Literature). The work secured for its author a brief exile from Paris,
ordered by Napoleon, a punishment which did nothing to dampen
the enthusiasm with which her book was read across Europe.
107 STAËL-HOLSTEIN, [Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker], Madame de.
Corinne ou l’Italie. Paris: [Imprimerie des Annales des Arts et
Manufactures for] Librairie Stéréotipe, chez H. Nicolle 1807. £600
2 vols, 8vo (197 × 122 mm), pp. [4], 414, [1], 420-425, [3], table; [4], 511, [3]
table, complete despite mispagination at the end of vol. 1. A few marginal
stains. Contemporary half sheep, spine elaborately gilt, tan morocco labels, the
numbering pieces with blue onlays, green edges. Rubbed, edges worn.
First edition. The story of the melancholic Englishman Lord
Oswald Nevil and his matrimonial choice between the passionate
Italian poetess Corinne and the respectable English Lucile. Its
theme is once again the limitations imposed upon the intelligent
and creative woman in ‘respectable’ society, and the novel was
considered sufficiently de-stabilising to invoke the renewal of
Mme de Staël’s exile from Paris. Corinne is an essential novel of
the period, being the first major vehicle for nationalism in French
fiction, introducing for the first time the word ‘nationalité’ in
French usage. ‘Édition originale qui passe, bien à tort, pour
une contrefaçon allemande ou autre’.--
Lonchamp, L’oeuvre imprimé
de Madame Germaine
de Staël.

108 SUARD, Jean-Baptiste and Abbé François ARNAUD. Variétés
littéraires ou Recueil de pièces tant originales que traduites
concernant la philosophie, la littérature et les arts. Paris: Lacombe,
1768-1769. £2000
4 vols, 12mo (166 × 88 mm), pp. [8], 560; [4], 536; [4], 518, [1]; [4], 590, [2]. Browning
to the first and last few leaves (including title) in final vol, a few marginal tears,
usually without loss and never affecting text. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, red
morocco labels. Spines slightly dry and rubbed, head of vol. 2 spine with small hole.
A very good copy. Bookplates of the Bibliothèque de Cirey.
First edition of this collection, a key text for understanding
contemporary French literary culture, especially its assimilation of
works in English, with important contributions on Shakespeare,
Johnson, Ossian, Gray, Richardson, Young and Hume.
Most of the articles had previously appeared in periodical form
in the editors’ Journal étranger and Gazette litteraire but this is
their first appearance in book form. Included is the first French
translation of Gray’s Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (the first
translation in any European language) by Madame Necker (vol.
4) and the first substantial selections from Macpherson’s Ossian
forgeries (vol. 1), translated by Suard himself, with the assistance of
Turgot and Diderot. Ossian was, of course, to become profoundly
influential in the development of French romanticism and the first
collected edition did not appear until 1777. Vols. 2 & 3 respectively
contain first French translations (by the comte de Bissi) of books
1 and 2 of Young’s Night Thoughts. Equally significant are Suard’s
Essai historique sur l’origine & le progrès du théâtre anglais (vol. 1);
Diderot’s éloge on Richardson (2); a comparison of Richardson
and Rousseau (3); reflections on Hume’s History of England (3);
Beattie’s essay on Minstrels (3); a letter on Smollett’s journey in
France (3); letter’s on Rowe’s Ambitious Stepmother (4) and large
portions of Johnson’s preface to his 1765 Shakespeare (4).
Rochedieu passim. noting several first translations of English works into French in
this collection.
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109 SURR, Thom[as Skinner]. Latimore, ou le plus infortuné des
hommes au sein de l’opulence et des grandeurs. Nouvelle anglaise
traduite sur la 5e édition de Splendid misery, by Thom Surr, author
of Georges Barnwell etc. Par Joseph Martin ... Paris: Villet ‘et à
Verdun’, 1807. £1200
3 vols, 12mo (170 × 94 mm), pp. viii, 235, [1]; [4], 247, [1], [4], 201, [1], complete
with half-titles, one leaf in vol 2 (pp. 15 & 16) misbound after p. 2. Old stain to
upper forecorner of first part of vol. 1. Joinville. Contemporary quarter sheep,
spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, bookseller/binder’s ticket ‘À Joinville,
Chez Durollet Libr.-Relieur.’ Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy.
A rare French edition of Surr’s Splendid Misery (1801), perhaps the
first. It is one of two French translations of 1807, the other entitled
Splendeur et souffrance published by Maradan. It is not clear which
was the first. Though little remembered, Surr’s several novels of

fashionable British society were bestsellers in England and were
much read in both France and Germany. He was born in London
in c. 1770 and was educated at Christ’s Hospital before becoming
a clerk at the Bank of England.
GRS, 1801, 64 (noting the Splendeur et souffrance edition only. OCLC lists copies
pf Latimore at Bn and University of Illinois only; COPAC adds no British copies.
For Splendeur et souffrance OCLC lists copies at Bn and Universities of Erfurt and
Göttingen only; COPAC adds no British copies.
110 SWIFT, [Jonathan]. Le Conte du tonneau, contenant tout ce que les
arts et les sciences ont de plus sublime et de plus mystérieux: avec
plusieurs autres pièces très-curieuses. La Haye: Henri Scheurleer,
1757. £450
3 vols, 12mo (165 × 64 mm), pp. [8], xvi, 312 (all leaves within sig A misbound
out of order); [4], xii, 296; [4], xvi, [2] (blank), 280, plus 8 engraved plates.
Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels.
Swift’s Tale of a Tub first appeared in
French in 1721 and was reprinted in several
editions, with the third volume containing
additional pieces added in 1733.
GRS,. 322. COPAC lists British copies at BL,
Cambridge and Leeds only (no copy in NLI or TCD).
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
111 THÉIS, Alexandre Etienne Guillaume de. Viaggio di Policleto
a Roma ... traduzione dal francese corredata di note per cura di
Davide Bertolotti. Mialn: Fratelli Sonzogno, 1824. £200
4 vols, 12mo (160 × 92 mm), pp. xxxix, [1], 276, [2]; 308, [2]; 297, [3]; 293, [3],
complete with half-titles. Contemporary black quarter morocco, spines gilt,
vellum corners. An excellent copy.
First edition in Italian of Théis’ popular
Voyage de Polyclète (1821) written in the
mould of the travels of Anacharsis as an
introduction to ancient Roman customs
and antiquities.
112 TRESSAN, [Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne de]. Traduction libre
d’Amadis de Gaule ... nouvelle édition. ‘Amsterdam et se trouve à
Paris’: Pissot, 1780. £200
2 vols, 12mo (162 × 85 mm), pp. xxviii, 470; [2], 624, bound without second
half-title. Woodcut ornaments. Marginal stain to one leaf (pp. 91-2) of vol. 1.
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spines. Spines faded, otherwise a very
good copy.
Second edition (first 1779) of Tressan’s free translation, a version
which turned the sixteenth-century chivalric romance into a
hugely-popular French novel.
cf. Cioranescu 62210 (1779 edition).

113 TRESSAN, [Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne de, translator]. ARIOSTO,
Ludvico. Roland furieux, poème héroïque de l’Arioste [Extrait
de Roland l’amoureux de Matheo Maria Boyardo,...]. Nouvelle
traduction Paris:Pissot, 1780. £200
5 vols, 12mo (163 × 88 mm), pp. [4], 422; [4], 536; [4], 575, [1]; [4], 570; [4],
376, complete with half-titles. Woodcut ornaments. A few closed tears to vol. 3
(affecting text, without loss). Contemporary mottled calf. gilt panelled spines,
green morocco labels. Spines slightly dry and rubbed, minor loss to foot of p. 2.
Bookplates of the Chateau de Cirey.
First edition of Tressan’s prose translation of Orlando Furioso
(1516) and (in the fifth volume) of his selections from Boiardo’s
Orlando innamorato (1498). The latter includes a short life of
Ariosto and a version of Galileo’s letter to his friend Rinuccini in
praise of Ariosto.
114 WIELAND, Christoph Martin. Peregrinus Protée, ou, Les
dangers de l’enthousiasme. Paris: De l’Imprimerie du Magazin
Encyclopédique, ‘An III’, [1795-6]. £250
12mo (125 × 75 mm), pp. [2], 342, compete with half-title, pp. 85-96 misbound
after p. 72. Light browning. Contemporary green paper covered boards, gilt,
yellow endpapers. Spine faded, but a very good copy.
First edition in French of Wieland’s philosophical novel Geheime
Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus (1791), on the life and
death of cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, best-known for
having committed suicide at the Olympic Games of 165AD, gving
his own funeral oration and throwing himself upon a pyre. It was
an important text for the Romantic movement and appeared in
English in 1796.
MMF, 95.44 (but giving issue in 2 vols. 18mo, and not this one).Rare: OCLC list
copies at Vanderbilt and Texas A&M universities in the US; no UK copies in OCLC
or COPAC.
Books from the library of Diane-Adélaïde de Simiane
115 [WILSON, John], misattributed to Allan CUNNINGHAM. Les
Épreuves de Marguerite Lyndsay, roman traduit de l’anglais
d’Allan Cunningham par Mme la Csse de M*** [Molé], précédé
d’une notice par M. de Barante ... Paris: [vols. 1& 2 H. Fournier;
vols. 3 & 4 Firmin Didot for] Ambroise Dupont et Roret, Urbain
Canel, 1825. £400
4 vols, 12mo (168 × 98 mm), pp. [4], xvi, 202; [4], 202; [4], 220; [4], 217, [1] (pp.
209-216 present in duplicate), complete with half-titles. Contemporary quarter
sheep, spines gilt, green morocco labels. Spines quite dry and rubbed, edges of a
couple of labels just lifting, but a good copy.
Second French edition of The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay(1823), the
first French edition being 1823 (both editions very rare). Issued
anonymously in English, the novel was is attributed by its French
editors to Scots poet Allan Cunningham
and presented with a biographical
preface. It is in fact by fellow Scot John
Wilson, better known as the pre-eminent
contributors (with Blackwood and Hogg)
to Blackwood’s Magazine (he is credited
with over 500 contributions between 1817
and 1854).
OCLC lists 2 copies only of each French edition: 1823
(Bn and University of Lille); 1825 (NLS and Lyon)

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