Les voyages et avanture du capitaine robert boyle: ou l’on trouve l’histoire de mademoiselle villars, avec oui il se sauva de barbarie...
Amsterdam: Wetsteins & Smith, 1730. Two vols. 12mo. [viii], 341; [ii], 276, [11] pp. First Edition of French Translation. Complete with 7 engraved plates (including frontispieces in both volumes), titles in red and black, woodcut ornaments and initials. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands and spine label; marbled endpapers. The text is clean and only slightly toned. A good copy with bookplate and circulation documents from Troy (NY) Public Library purchased from the bequest of William R. Yourt. Item #15168
First French edition. This inventive work of fiction has been attributed to several different authors, including Benjamin Victor and Daniel Defoe. It contains a series of stories in which each new one is prompted by a character and/or situation from the previous one. First printed in London in 1726, early editions included a description of Philadelphia, believed to be authentic according to Cox and Sabin. Later editions did away with this passage.
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