ROBINSON CRUSOE / FIRST TRUE ORIGINAL EDITION... - Lot 2 - Vermot et Associés

ROBINSON CRUSOE / FIRST TRUE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FRENCH "La Vie et les Avantures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe", "Contenant entre autres événemens, le séjour qu'il a fait pendant vingt huit ans dans une ile déserte, située sur la Côte de l'Amérique, près de l'embouchure de la grande Rivière Oroonoque", "Le tout écrit par lui-même", "Traduit de l'Anglois", A Amsterdam, chez L'Honoré Chatelain, 1720 - Very rare first edition of the first French translation, published only a few months after Daniel Defoe's original English edition (1719), by the Dutchman Justus VAN EFFEN and the Frenchman THEMISEUL DE SAINT-HYACINTHE - This edition, which has a xvi p preface and 619 p, features a frontispiece with Bernard PICART's famous engraving of Robinson and his parasol, and 5 other out-of-text engravings (it is one of the first editions in the world to be illustrated with out-of-text engravings, This edition is complete in 1 volume (it was followed the following year by 2 other volumes of adventures by the same translators, and it is this edition that we usually encounter under the title of first translation into French) - The work presented (10 x 17 x 4.5 cm) is in average condition, the period binding in full speckled calf shows some rubbing, a small loss on the first cover, the corners a little crushed and a loss at the spine cap, the interior has suffered quite visible wetness on the first 20 pages, including the preface, then there are 4 tears and 2 small losses in the lower margin (without loss of text), the binding block is quite solid, although there is a little play in the sewn quires and a loosening of the very first pages - At the head, the first owner has written his name, as well as that of 1815.