1330465 IDYLLES ET POEMES CHAMPÊTRES. Salomon Gessner.
IDYLLES ET POEMES CHAMPÊTRES
IDYLLES ET POEMES CHAMPÊTRES
IDYLLES ET POEMES CHAMPÊTRES

IDYLLES ET POEMES CHAMPÊTRES

Lausanne: Jean Pierre Heubach, 1764. Troisieme Edition. Octavo, xliv, [4], 144 pages; VG; bound in period brown paper-wrapped boards, worn paper label with ink titling to spine; mild wear and rubbing to boards; text block entirely untrimmed; no endpapers bound in; small bookplate to front pastedown; scarce imprint; text in French; shelved case 0.

1330465

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Price: $600

NOTES

A fascinating oddity, being a Swiss pirate of a French translation of a living Swiss author publishing in Switzerland.

First translated from the German by M. Huber in 1762 and published in Lyon, based off the first edition published in Zurich in 1756.

Jean-Pierre Heubach was the Director of the Société typographique de Lausanne, pirated French books published with a royal privilege. [British Library]

Contains the bookplate of Paul Wallich (1882–1938), a German banker and son of the banker Hermann Wallich.

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