LA MORT D'ABEL, POEME EN CINQ CHANTS, SUIVE DU PREMIER NAVIGATEUR. Ornee de huit planches gravees en taille-douce
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, 1807. One of many translated and illustrated editions (first published in German in 1758). 12mo. 295, (1, table), (4, publisher’s catalogue) pp. Eight engraved plates. Gessner (1730-1788) was “the most successful and typical representative of a rococo movement. His pastorals were translated into 20 languages” (Britannica..... More