‎Collectif/ROBINSON ‎
‎ROBINSON ‎

‎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). ‎

‎ [LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON] Commune de Plessis-Piquet. Arrond.t de Sceaux. Canton de Sceaux.‎

‎ 1854-1870. 619 x 904 mm.‎

‎Très grand et beau plan de la commune du Plessis-Robinson en 1870, dressé par Onésime Théodore Lefèvre en 1854, puis révisé en 1870. Il a été lithographié par Avril Frères et Louis Wuhrer pour l'Atlas communal du département de la Seine, et finement aquarellé à l'époque. Nommée le Plessis-Liberté sous la Révolution, la commune reprend son nom d'origine de Plessis-Piquet en 1801, puis est baptisée Le Plessis-Robinson en 1909, du nom de la guinguette Au Grand Robinson, construite en 1845 par le restaurateur parisien Joseph Gueusquin. Avec ses cabanes dans les arbres comme dans Le Robinson suisse de Johann David Wyss, inspiré du Robinson Crusoé de Daniel Defoe, cette guinguette connut un tel succès que d'autres guinguettes firent leur apparition, et que le quartier finit par prendre le nom de Robinson. En 1870, la commune du Plessis-Robinson faisait partie du canton de Sceaux, ancienne division administrative créée en 1800, au sein de l'arrondissement de Sceaux et du département de la Seine. Le département de la Seine, nommé département de Paris à sa création en 1790, comprenait trois districts ou arrondissements, et seize cantons. Il fut dissous en 1968, pour former les départements de Paris, des Hauts-de-Seine, de la Seine-Saint-Denis et du Val-de-Marne. Issy fut officiellement renommée Issy-les-Moulineaux en 1893, lorsque le petit hameau des Moulineaux, qui appartenait à la commune de Meudon, fut rattaché à la commune d'Issy. Ce très grand plan figure Le Plessis-Robinson et les communes limitrophes de Fontenay-aux-Roses, Sceaux, Châtenay et Malabry (réunies en 1920). Une importante légende accompagne la commune du Plessis : liste des établissements communaux (mairie, écoles, cimetières, etc) ; route nationale de Versailles à Choisy-le-Roi ; cours d'eau (ru de la Fontaine du Moulin) ; route départementale de Choisy à Versailles ; chemins vicinaux ordinaires et ruraux ; nomenclature des rues ; signes conventionnels. Six teintes ont été utilisées : en rose, la route impériale de Versailles à Choisy-le-Roi ; en bleu, le ru de la Fontaine du Moulin (couleur non utilisée) ; en jaune, la route départementale de Versailles ; en violet, les chemins vicinaux ordinaires ; en bistre pâle, les chemins ruraux ; et en orange, les voies urbaines qui sont les rues de la Ferme et de l'Église. Plan intéressant pour l'histoire de cette commune, montrant des rues qui ont aujourd'hui disparu ou qui ont été renommées, comme la rue de l'Église renommée rue de la Mairie, ou les rues de l'Étang rouge et de Versailles, aujourd'hui disparues. Onésime Théodore Lefèvre était ingénieur, géomètre et cartographe du département de la Seine, installé à Villejuif. Il a également dressé en 1871 une carte du département de la Seine, et fut maire de Villejuif de 1856 à 1871. Bel exemplaire aquarellé à l'époque.‎

‎A Fowl Alphabet. Twenty-six Wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. ‎

‎Easthampton, Cheloniidae Press, 1986. In-8°, reliure de plein vélin, emboîtage de toile (Gray Parrot). Illustré de 26 gravures sur bois par Robinson et de 26 lettrines par Suzanne Moore. Tiré à 231 exemplaires, l’un des 26 de tête sur papier de Rives, signé par Alan James Robinson, contenant les lettres et noms des oiseaux à l’encre par Suzanne Moore. Cet exemplaire est bien complet de la suite de toute les gravures signées par Robinson, ainsi que d’une encre originale d'un Jacanidae, pour la lettre J. Par ailleurs, il contient aussi la suite des lettres embossées. ‎

‎Bel exemplaire de tête, en parfaite condition. RARE:‎

‎THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES. Illustrated by Charles Robinson ‎

‎London Duckworth & Co 1920 in 8 (25,5x19) 1 volume reliure pleine percaline moutarde de l'éditeur, dos orné, plat supérieur titré en noir et illustré au centre d'une marotte, 133 pages [1], avec des illustrations hors-texte en couleurs par Charles Robinson), dont frontispice (illustrations by Charles Robinson). Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎Wyatt Malcolm and A. H. A. Robinson. (Malcolm W. Robinson A. N.). Canada: Geolo‎

‎Wyatt Malcolm and A. H. A. Robinson. (Malcolm W. Robinson A. N.). Canada: Geology mines and metallurgical industries. (Canada: geology mining and metallurgical industries. Second (three-year) Imperial Mining and Metallurgical Congress). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Wyatt Malcolm and A. H. A. Robinson. (Malkolm U. Robinson A. N. ). Canada: Geology mines and metallurgical industries. (Kanada: geologiya gornodobyvayushchaya i metalurgicheskaya promyshlennost. Vtoroy (trekhgodichnyy) Imperskiy gorno-metallurgicheskiy kongress). In English. Ottawa Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress 1927. front VII 214 p. SKUalbf5d9530851dff1b7.‎