LE SAGE, ALAIN RENE. The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Called De Beauchene. Captain of a Privateer in New-France, 1745, 2 vols., contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine labels, sprinkled edges, 3 outer joints cracked, worn, a label defective, the rare First Edition in English (the first French edition appeared in 1732). "This history [fictionalized account, really] of the exploits of a French privateer captain [born near Montreal, adopted by the Indians], who met his death at Tours in 1731 when fighting the English, was written [by Le Sage] from material suggested by [the actual privateer's] widow..."--Lande 1916; "Contains an account of his residence among the Indians...and his being sold as a slave in New England, and is said by the author to be a vertiable narrative"--Sabin 40158. Bookplates of Henry Corbet and Richard Corbet--[WILLIAMS, WILLIAM A.]. The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman, 1813, 4 vols., contemporary olive diced calf, gilt spines, black roan spines labels, marbled edges, spines darkened, light rubbing, some mild foxing, FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, 3 leaves of publisher's ads at end of vol. 1. "Williams, who was a painter and the first tutor of Benjamin West [the book's dedicatee], wrote the novel in America between 1747 and 1775. It was thus the first novel written in America. Williams died in 1791...Williams was indeed shipwrecked in the Caribbean for three years, and the novel is autobiographical. It is an extraordinarily vivd narrative, Swiss-Family Robinson in genre"--Wolff 7238 (with a long note about this novel). Armorial bookplate of Nowell of Netherside; both London, together 6 vols., 12mo-small 8vo. (6)

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LE SAGE, ALAIN RENE. The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Called De Beauchene. Captain of a Privateer in New-France, 1745, 2 vols., contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine labels, sprinkled edges, 3 outer joints cracked, worn, a label defective, the rare First Edition in English (the first French edition appeared in 1732). "This history [fictionalized account, really] of the exploits of a French privateer captain [born near Montreal, adopted by the Indians], who met his death at Tours in 1731 when fighting the English, was written [by Le Sage] from material suggested by [the actual privateer's] widow..."--Lande 1916; "Contains an account of his residence among the Indians...and his being sold as a slave in New England, and is said by the author to be a vertiable narrative"--Sabin 40158. Bookplates of Henry Corbet and Richard Corbet--[WILLIAMS, WILLIAM A.]. The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman, 1813, 4 vols., contemporary olive diced calf, gilt spines, black roan spines labels, marbled edges, spines darkened, light rubbing, some mild foxing, FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, 3 leaves of publisher's ads at end of vol. 1. "Williams, who was a painter and the first tutor of Benjamin West [the book's dedicatee], wrote the novel in America between 1747 and 1775. It was thus the first novel written in America. Williams died in 1791...Williams was indeed shipwrecked in the Caribbean for three years, and the novel is autobiographical. It is an extraordinarily vivd narrative, Swiss-Family Robinson in genre"--Wolff 7238 (with a long note about this novel). Armorial bookplate of Nowell of Netherside; both London, together 6 vols., 12mo-small 8vo. (6)