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Nouveaux tableaux de famille, : ou, La vie d'un pauvre ministre de village allemand, et de ses enfans / traduit de l'allemand, d'Auguste La Fontaine, par Madame Isabelle de Montolieu, auteur de Caroline de Lichtfield, et de la traduction de Charles Engelmann.

Accession number
PML 199170.1-5
Creator
Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius, 1758-1831.
Published
Geneva : J.J. Paschoud, An XII - 1804.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2024.
Notes
Translation of: Leben eines armen Landpredigers.
In the Morgan's copy, formerly owned by the translator, volume 2 has the title page from the first edition, dated: An X - 1802.
Description
5 volumes ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With Montolieu's manuscript corrections in v.2, pp. 28, 78, 112, 137, 159, 215; v.3, p. 135; and v.5, p. 233. Inscribed on front paste-down and flyleaf of vols. 3 & 5: Bibliothèque de Mdme de Montolieu.
Provenance
From the library of Isabelle de Montolieu.
Binding
Contemporary half sheep with speckled paper sides; tan leather spine label, stamped and lettered in gold.
Classification
Department