Histoire veritable et merveilleuse d’une jeune Angloise...

by Francois Marin

$4,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Lottin, 1772. 12mo. viii, 88 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards, spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled blue. Fine, internally fresh. Item #18306 First edition, a descriptive account of two teenagers with super-human powers. The first, a Provençal shepherd boy, possessed the ability to detect subterranean waters. The second was an English girl who

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