L'homme des champs, ou les Géorgiques francaises
first edition
1800 · Strasbourg
by Delille, Jacques
Strasbourg: L'imprimerie de Levrault, 1800. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [3], 31-239; frontispiece engraving by Géurin, occasional worming and foxing, lacks front free endpaper, joint cracked, extremities worn and scuffed, spine separating at hinges, otherwise good in original three quarter calf over marbled boards. Jacques Delille (1738-1813), French Poet and Translator was well known for his translation of Virgil's Georgics in 1769. During the French revolution he emigrated to Switzerland, where he finished his Homme des champs. (Inventory #: 39150)