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Deluxe edition of the Works of Salomon Gessner, published in Paris between 1786 and 1793 in three large quarto volumes, finely printed on wove paper and preserved in handsome uniform contemporary green morocco bindings.

Smooth spines decorated with four gilt cornucopia tools and ornamental rolls, gilt roll borders to the boards, board edges and turn-ins, pink paper pastedowns, all edges gilt. Some rubbing, darker areas to the boards of the second volume, spines uniformly faded, occasional foxing.

The illustration comprises three engraved titles, a...

First edition of these important memoirs covering the years 1747 to 1783 (cf. Sabin 39271).

Contemporary full mottled calf, smooth spine gilt with fillets, roulettes and floral tools, some rubbing with small losses of leather at the foot of the upper board, marbled endpapers, gilt fillets to the edges, marbled edges; period binding.

Upper cap and corners restored.

The duc de Lauzun (1747–1793) accompanied the comte de Rochambeau during the French expedition to America; he recounts this campaign in his Mémoires, pp. 339–375.

The editorial history of this publication deserves notice: the original manuscript having not been recovered, the text—issued some twelve times...