French fictional travel accounts: (1) Prévost, d'Exiles. Voyages du Capitaine Robert Lade

en différentes parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amérique: contenant l'histoire de la fortune, & les observations sur les colonies & le commerce des Espagnols, des Anglois, des Hollandois, &c. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Paris, printed by Cl. Simon for Fr. Didot, 1744, 2 vols., (2),XVI,370: (2),400 p., w. 2 fold. engr. maps, cont. unif. mottled calf, gilt and ribbed spines w. mor. letterpiece. With some sm. internal and external defects/ imperfections, still a good set. First edition of this smart fictitional travel account, quoted from by authors such as Buffon, d'Alembert and Jules Verne as if it was actually all true, only proven to be a pastiche as late as 1939. Alden & Landis 744/180; Gove, The imaginary voyage, p. 310-11; Sabin 65412. (2) A. de la Barre de Beaumarchais. Avantures de Don Antonio de Buffalis. Histoire Italienne. The Hague, J. Neaulme, 1722, (12),240,(4 bookseller's cat.) p., w. 6 engr. plates, cont. calf. Scribbling in red chalk and pencil on free endpapers, library stamps of the Gräfliche Hofbibliothek Ehrbach on title-p. (both recto and verso) and 2nd leaf. Offsetting from turn-ins at the beginning, spine-ends dam. and outer corners showing. Ullrich, Robinson and Robinsonaden p. 223-4, no. 2. First edition of this picaresque "Italian Robinsonade", full of piquant details on early 18th century daily life.

(total 2 in 3 vols.)