[SIRET, Pierre-Louis.]
L'Homme au Latin, ou la destinée des savans, histoire sans vraisemblance.
"Londres:" John Nourse, 1769.
12mo (157 × 100 mm.), pp. 110, including half-title. Preserved in modern wrappers to style. A good copy.
A rare satire by the multilingual philologist Siret, considered by Martin to be plagiarised from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Two imprints of 1769 are known, one (probably the first) giving Geneva and the other London. The London imprint is certainly fictitious, the imprint being continental, but evidently not French. The typography perhaps suggests a German origin.
Martin, Bibliographie du genre romanesque français, 69.63. Not found in OCLC/RLG.
£275.00
US$546.67*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008