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Oronoko : imité de l'Anglois.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7407 ptie.1/2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689, author.
Contributor:
La Place, Pierre Antoine de, 1707-1793, translator.
Jorry, Sébastien, 1702?-1774, bookseller.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Standardized Title:
Oroonoko. French
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Slavery--Suriname--Fiction--Translations into French--Early works to 1800.
Slavery.
Genre:
Booksellers' advertisements.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)
Edition:
Nouvelle edition, revuë & corrigée / par M. De La Place.
Fingerprint:
s,e? r-e: n.de fisu (3) 1756 (R) v.1
seon Ilil it;& n'd' (3) 1756 (R) v.2
Place of Publication:
A Paris : Chez Sebastien Jorry, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, près le Pont S. Michel aux Cigognes, MDCCLVI [1756]
Language Note:
French translation of: Oroonoko.
Notes:
Each volume has half-title leaf.
Signatures: 1. partie: a⁸ A-D¹² E⁸ ; 2. partie: pi² A-H¹².
Pagination: 1. partie: xvj, 112 pages ; 2. partie: [4], 188, [4] pages.
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, head-pieces and tail-piece.
Type ornament head- piece.
Bookseller's advertisement at end of 2. partie.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy bound in 1 volume.
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2025 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible autograph ("A. M. G[...]") on front pastedown.
Schimmel Collection copy: 2. partie: leaf B3 torn near inner margin; tail outer corner of leaf C2 torn off.
OCLC:
11239596

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