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‎Robinson crusoé‎

‎Robinson de J. J. Rousseau ou Aventures de Robinson Crusoé‎

‎1 vol. in-12 reliure de l'époque demi-veau vert, dos lisse orné, Chez Caillot, Paris, s.d. [ circa 1833 ], 2 ff. (faux-titre et titre gravé), frontispice, 168 ff. n. ch., avec 2 planches hors texte‎

‎Rare exemplaire de cet étonnant ouvrage, manière de "Robinson abrégé" telle que Jean Jacques Rousseau l'imaginait dans l'Emile. "Chaque alinéa forme un paragraphe qui porte son numéro ; les chiffres, qu'on trouve dans le texte entre deux parenthèses, renvoient à ces paragraphes, afin que l'on puisse retrouver facilement ce que l'on aurait oublié, ou éclaircir à l'instant même une difficulté". Etat satisfaisant (reliure frottée, notamment en coupes, rouss. et mouill. parfois fortes). "Il s'agit en fait de la réédition d'un ouvrage rare, le Robinson de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou Aventures de Robinson Crusoé, d'après le plan tracé par le philosophe de Genève, publié par Chaignieau en 1823. L'auteur dans sa préface cite le long texte de Rousseau dans "L'Emile" sur le roman de de Foe, il critique l'ouvrage de Campe qui comporte trop de digressions, enfin il s'explique sur sa méthode rigoureuse : "J'ai fait les recherches les plus exactes pour ne placer dans l'île du Robinson de Jean-Jacques Rousseau que les productions des îles qui bordent, comme la sienne, la côte de l'Amérique Méridionale sur la mer des Caraïbes..." Chaque paragraphe du livre comporte un numéro permettant à l'auteur de fournir une importante table des matières par paragraphe et un dictionnaire des mots les moins courants avec les numéros des paragraphes correspondants. Un titre gravé avec vignette et trois planches hors texte. Curieuse robinsonnade, extrêmement "sérieuse"" (Notice de la BMVR de Marseille)‎

‎Das Leben und die gantz ungemeine Begebenheiten des weltberuffenen Engellanders Robinson Crusoe, welcher durch Sturm und Schiffbruch (...).Die Zweyte Hamburgische Ausgabe. (+) Das Leben und die gantz ungemein merckwürdigen Begebenheiten Des Weltberühm... - [GERMAN ROBINSON CRUSOE AND RONBINSONADE]‎

‎Hamburg, Wierings Erben, 1721 (Part 1) Leipzig, Weidmann, 1721 (part 2) Leyden, Peter Robinson, 1721 (part III & IV). 8vo. Four parts uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label to upper part of spines. Wear to extremities. Leather on spine cracked and scratches and soiling to bords. Front board on vol. 3/4 bended with outer margin partly broken off. Annotation in contemporary hand to front free end-paper in both volumes. Title-page and first leaves in vol. 1 soiled and with reapir. Folded plate closely trimmed with loss to lower margin, several tears, with some loss. Internally generally a good copy. [Vol. 1 & 2:] (14), 463, (1), (14), 448 pp. + frontispiece, 1 folded plate, 1 map and 5 plates (wanting 1)." [Vol. 3 & 4:] (6), 624 pp. + frontispiece and 2 plates. ‎

‎The very rare second edition of the first German translation of Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe and the equally rare first German translation of Tyssot’s “La Vie, Les avantures, & le Voyage de Groenland”. From a first glimpse the two works seemingly are unrelated whereas in reality they are a fine testament to the Robinson Crusoe-craze that swept through especially Germany in the first half of the 18th century, being one of the earliest, the first or second, example of the literary genre of Robinsonade - a genre that features stories with plots similar to that of Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"". These stories typically revolve around a character who is stranded in a remote or isolated location, often an uninhabited island, and must rely on their own ingenuity and resourcefulness to survive. Both works are rare in themselves. We have not been able to trace a single similar set at auction. ”Tyssot’s second novel (“La Vie, Les avantures…“ here offered) enjoyed a great success in its day. There was only one French edition and whatever attention it attracted probably resulted from the sudden and widespread demand for desert island literature occasioned by the enormous popularity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 and immediately translated into French and Dutch and, in the following year, into German. Tyssot’s novel was published in 1720 and was translated into German in 1721. According to Briiggeman, the title of the German edition was originally intended to be Reise um den Nordpol… but this was hastily changed to Des Robinson Crusoe Dritter und Vierter Theil… Perhaps this catch-penny title caused some demand for the novel in Germany although copies are now hard to find.”(Rosenberg, The Voyage De Groenland). “The popularity of Robinson Crusoe in Germany is evidenced not only by the amazing number of editions of the work itself, some of which found in the collection have previously been commented upon but by the large number of imitations which almost immediately made their appearance. If, in attempting to define the term ""Robinsonade,"" one emphasizes particularly solitary isolation from man's companionship with its ""charm that has bewitched the world,"" as Charles Lamb describes the universal romantic appeal of the central theme of Robinson Crusoe then this genre is not large. Include, however, more than one person, and the growing colony of Crusoe easily becomes a Utopia. Transfer the realistic oceans, ships, islands, and cannibals of Defoe to the realm of the unreal, the simple scenery of Robinson Crusoe becoming the romance of the old wonder-filled travel and adventure stories (…).” (Some Imitations of Robinson Crusoe - Called Robinsonades, The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 2, October 1936) “The first German edition of Defoe’s anti-novel novel appeared in 1720 in Hamburg, published by T. von Wiering’s heirs. The translation was probably done by Ludwig Friedrich Vischer"" “Vischer” signed the translator’s preface and dated it March 26, 1720—only eleven months after the book had first been published by W. Taylor in London. The year 1720 also saw translations of Crusoe into French and Dutch. ""While the exact order in which these editions appeared remains unclear, scholars commonly assume, correctly I believe, that the Amsterdam French edition predated the first German edition in Hamburg, which in turn preceded the Dutch. The Hamburg edition by Wiering’s heirs was immediately pirated in another German edition, perhaps by Jonathan Adam Felßecker, although the title page listed only the information “Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1720.” The second German edition stole even Vischer’s preface, reprinting it in its entirety and signing it simply “des hochgeneigten Lesers Geflissenster der Ubersetzer” (the gentle reader’s most devoted translator). While Vischer purported to rely solely on the English edition for his Hamburg translation, Felßecker’s pirated edition clearly also copied from the French edition published in Amsterdam. While the Hamburg edition featured an engraved frontispiece copied after the original English published by W. Taylor, the frontispiece of the pirated edition copied that in the French translation published by L’Honoré & Chatelain in Amsterdam (fig. 15). Like that edition, the pirated edition was also outfitted with six engravings, which it advertised prominently on its title page. All six were copied after those in the edition that L’Honoré & Chatelain had richly illustrated. Whether French or English, a novelty, after all, needed fashion plates. By September of 1720, yet another edition appeared. This one advertised itself, in the publisher’s informative preface, as the “fifth” German edition. Within six months then, five different German editions of the English anti-novel novel had appeared. This latest edition gave only the year 1720 and “Frankfurt & Leipzig” on its title page (fig. 16). In all likelihood, it had been undertaken by Moritz Georg Weidmann, whose circumspection here contrasts sharply with the engraved portrait done five years later announcing the publisher’s prominence."" (Wiggin: Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680 – 1730). ‎

‎Robinson du jeune âge, ou Aventures les plus curieuses de Robinson Crusoé.‎

‎orné de 7 jolies fig., 1 vol. in-18 rel. demi-basane brune, dos orné, toutes tr. marbrées, Langlumé et Peltier, Paris, s.d. (circa 1845), iij-200 pp + 3 pp. de catalogue. Les vignettes correspondent à 2 vign. en frontisp. + la vignette centrale de titre + 2 ff. de 2 vignettes chacun.‎

‎Etat satisfaisant (couv. frottée, lég. rouss., ancienne trace de mouill. en coin des premiers ff., une p. avec petit mque en coin, bon état par ailleurs). ‎

‎Robinson Crusoë (Daniel Defoe). ‎

‎ 1 La Voix de son Maître, 1932, 27 x 30.5 cm., reliure de percaline verte estampée, décor central en couleurs de Goursat représentant Robinson et Vendredi, ensemble de six disques "Gramophone" dans des pochettes crème illustrées, reliées et montées sur onglets. ‎

‎"L'opérette phonographique" inspirée du livre "Robinson Crusoé" est enregistrée par "La Voix de son maître", dont le logo représente un petit chien écoutant un gramophone. Cette oeuvre méconnue d'Henri Christiné fut écrite à l'intention des enfants et était vendue sous la forme d'un coffret renfermant 6 disques. La couverture est illustrée par G. GOURSAT, le livret est signé Camille Ducray et la musique d'Henri Christiné. Les six 78 tours sont interprétés par André Urban (dans le rôle de Robinson Crusoë), Aissa (Vendredi), le chien, le chat, le perroquet (Esau), le Capitaine du navire (Baldouce). chaque pochette comprend une strophe de l'opérette et une phrase musicale avec une portée. Petites usures à la couverture et légères brunissures aux pochettes. ‎

‎Defoe D. Adventures de Robinson Crusoe. (Robinson Crusoe). In Russian /Defoe D. ‎

‎Defoe D. Adventures de Robinson Crusoe. (Robinson Crusoe). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Defoe D. (Defo). Aventures de Robinson Crusoe. (Robinzon Kruzo). Illustrations by J. Granville. Paris. 1840. 610s. SKUalb1adbaa12284f35a9.‎