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Recueil de Poésies, Extraites des Ouvrages d'Helena-Maria Williams, Traduites de l'Anglais par M. Stanislas de Boufflers . . . et par M. Esménard
by WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA
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- Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.
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About This Item
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary French red straight-grain morocco, blue watered silk doublures with gilt-decorated borders, boards, spine and inner dentelles, gilt lettering, a.e.g. Errata. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale"; "Sonnet sur l'oiseau du tropique"; "Les glaciers des Alpes"; "Hymne, composé au milieu des Alpes"; and "Nouvelle Américaine." French scholar, writer and friend of Williams, Charles Pougens (1755-1833) arranged the translations specifically for this sole edition; the majority of the poems were not published in English until 1823.
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- Title
- Recueil de Poésies, Extraites des Ouvrages d'Helena-Maria Williams, Traduites de l'Anglais par M. Stanislas de Boufflers . . . et par M. Esménard
- Author
- WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA
- Format/Binding
- Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First and only edition
- Publisher
- Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808
- Date Published
- 1808
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Morocco
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- Errata
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