Jean Henri Latude. Die neun und dreißigjährige Gefangenschaft des Herrn De la Tüde,

nebst Anzeige der Mittel und Wege, die er angewandt, um einmal aus der Bastille, und zweymal aus dem Gefängnisthurme zu Vincennes zu entkommen. Geschrieben von den Gefangenen selbst. Aus dem Französischen, welches den 8ten August 1787 in Paris zu verkaufen oder zu lesen scharf verboten worden. (German translation by J.J.C. Bode). "Deutschland", n.publ., 1788, 104 p., contemp. simple boards, sm. 8vo.

Upper pastedown, first free endpaper, title and leaf A2 with library/ owner's stamps and sl. dam. in lower blank outer corner. Paper cover spine and boards (partly) lacking. Very rare edition, only 2 copies in OCLC. The first edition of this translation appeared in 1787, the same year as the original French edition. Jean Henri Latude (1725-1805), famous for his very long imprisonment in various prisons (among them the Bastille), and for a number of clever escapes from those prisons. During the French revolution, he was rehabilitated and compensated with a pension and with a fine of 60000 francs that Madame de Pompadour had to pay him. He died a very wealthy and famous man.