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David Hume. Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le thrône d’Angleterre. Amsterdam: 1765.
This French translation of part of Hume’s History of Great Britain is a deluxe one – large paper, and in a beautiful calf binding with the arms of Count Bruce on the upper and lower boards. (*DA30.H93F).
Mary Wollstonecraft. Rettung der Rechte des Weibes. Schnepfenthal: 1793.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s influential Vindication of the Rights of Women was immediately translated into most of the major European languages. This first German edition, in a translation by C.G. Saltzman, is rare. It came out the year after the English edition. (*PR4719.G5V78G).
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Paul och Virginia. Götheborg: 1803.
Paul and Virginia, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Rousseauesque novel about two children growing up “in nature,” was hugely successful in French. It was made into an opera by LeSueur during the French Revolution, and was widely translated. This is a copy of the first Swedish translation, in a version by A.G. Kymell. (*PQ2065.P35).