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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Etat : Sehr gut. 23 x 14 cm. TP, iv, 94 / TP, vi, 80 / TP, vii, (2), 107 / TP, (4), 96 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and decorations on spine. Speckled edges. Very good condition.Front board detached. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and mildly foxed. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Internally clean.…

1st English Ed. Title page + 380pp. + [iv]. publ. adverts. Decorative head and tail piece. Browning, ex.-libris H.D. Seymour Esq., contemporary panelled calf with blind motifs to corners, minor wear, upper joint gently cracking in part though firm, gilt lettered title label to spine with loss across head. ESTC T107127. US$134.…

8°, Ganzledereinbd., VIII, 360 S. / 380 S. - Einbände berieben, Rücken schadhaft, ein Einbanddeckel lose, Ex Libris, Namenseintrag, etwas nachgedunkelt und braunfleckig, sonst innen gut erhaltene Exemplare der raren Publikation. Buch.

Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 'An enormously popular work, rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe' (Howgego); a portion of the plot occurring in California [Longueville, Peter]. The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman, 1727. Westminster. J. Cluer and A. Campbell for T. Warner and B. Creake.8vo, (190 x 112 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 2 plates. Later tree calf gilt by Riviere, marbled endpapers, edges stained red; upper joint weak. A very fine copy, clean horizontal tear to frontispiece restored, backed with a sheet of laid paper, occasional soiling, repairs to blank margins of G3, L1. First edition, scarce, 'an enormously popular work, rivalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, of which it is possibly the best imitation' (Howgego). The tale of a Bristol merchant living on an uninhabited island in the South Seas, in the style of Robinson Crusoe. The frontispiece depicts Philip Quarll with his monkey companion, Beaufidell. The work proved immensely successful and was swiftly translated into French, German and Dutch. Unlike other works of the same nature, here the publisher makes the claim that the story is real, unliely Defoe's famous Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders. The Hermit borrows heavily for context from Dampier "For its geographical descriptions The Hermit borrows substantially from William Dampier, and it has been shown by William Bonner in his Captain William Dampier that the island on which Quarll is shipwrecked is identical in its topography to one of the Tres Marias group off the coast of California, located and described by Dampier in his Voyages" (Howgego). Provenance: monogram bookplate "WV" and motto "Vernon semper viret"; Bernard Gore Brett (bookplate); Walter Ambrose Heath Harding (booklabel); R. David Parsons (booklabel). ESTC T36149. …

First edition of this lesser-known novel, an African travelogue and pirate adventure with parallels to Robinson Crusoe and Conrad's Heart of Darkness. After being marooned on Madagascar for his part in a mutiny, the young Singleton embarks on a journey across the spine of Africa to the Gulf of Guinea. Along the way, he acquires enormous quantities of gold and ivory, returning with this treasure to England. In the second half of the novel, Singleton uses his fortune to become a privateer, enjoying a series of piratical adventures in the East Indies. Michael Seidel has observed that, in Defoe's narrative, Singleton encounters a European ivory trader in the depths of the African interior, having passed close by the inland Congo region. The trader has cornered the local market in ivory, amassed great local power, and enjoys the protection of armed native tribesmen. ESTC T69688; Furbank & Owens 209; Moore 435; Sabin 19281 (third edition). Michael Seidel, "Defoe in Conrad's Africa", Conradiana, vol. 17, no. 2, 1985. Octavo (188 x 120 mm), pp. [ii], 344 (= 360, pp. 209-24 repeated). Wood-engraved head- and tailpiece and initial. Late 19th-century crushed red morocco, spine ruled and decorated in gilt and with twin dark green morocco labels, covers panelled and with cornerpieces in gilt, turn-ins in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges marbled and gilt. Light sunning to spine, minor browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy indeed.…