FOE (Daniel de). ROBINSON CRUSOE. Translated by Petrus Borel. Enriched with the life of Daniel de Foë, by Philarète Chasles and with notes on Seaman Selkirk, on Saint-Hyacinthe, on the island of Juan-Fernadez, on the Caribbean and the Puelches, by Ferdinand Denis; and with a religious dissertation by Abbé La Bouderie. Paris, Borel and Varennne, 1836, 2 volumes in-8, half morocco blue long grain, richly decorated spine, cover preserved for the second volume (Canape). "Very rare edition, considered one of the most beautiful specimens of the renovation of woodcutting" (Carteret III, 240). First edition of Pétrus Borel's translation and first edition of the 250 woodcuts after Nanteuil, Lorentz, Marville,..., Le portrait de De Foë d'après Devéria, is engraved on China as a frontispiece. Nice copy nicely bound, a few unavoidable freckles. (Vicar III, 749).