GESSNER, Salomon. New Idylles … Translated by W. Hooper MD. With A Letter to M: Fuslin, on Landscape Painting, and the Two Friends of Bourbon, a Moral Tale, by M. Diderot. London, Printed for S. Hooper … & G. Robinson … 1776.
Large 8vo (255 × 182 mm) in half-sheets, pp. [4], 129, [1], plus etched and engraved title-page, head- and tailpieces, and 9 plates by Sparrow or Chambars after Gessner, opposite which the nine original plates by Gessner (dated 1771) have been tipped in; printed on thick paper; some light spotting only; near-contemporary mottled calf, marbled endpapers, a trifle rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; early ink ownership inscription of G. Cumberland to the front flyleaf.
Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900, Schweiz
16.07.2026 - 10:30
590,- EUR
Simon Beattie Ltd.