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LE SAGE, ALAIN RENE. The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Called De Beauchene. Captain of a Privateer in New-France, 1745, 2 vols., contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine labels, sprinkled edges, 3 outer joints cracked, worn, a label defective , the rare First Edition in English (the first French edition appeared in 1732). "This history [fictionalized account, really] of the exploits of a French privateer captain [born near Montreal, adopted by the Indians], who met his death at Tours in 1731 when fighting the English, was written [by Le Sage] from material suggested by [the actual privateer's] widow..."--Lande 1916; "Contains an account of his residence among the Indians...and his being sold as a slave in New England, and is said by the author to be a vertiable narrative"--Sabin 40158. Bookplates of Henry Corbet and Richard Corbet--[WILLIAMS, WILLIAM A.]. The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman, 1813, 4 vols., contemporary olive diced calf, gilt spines, black roan spines labels, marbled edges, spines darkened, light rubbing, some mild foxing, FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, 3 leaves of publisher's ads at end of vol. 1. "Williams, who was a painter and the first tutor of Benjamin West [the book's dedicatee], wrote the novel in America between 1747 and 1775. It was thus the first novel written in America . Williams died in 1791...Williams was indeed shipwrecked in the Caribbean for three years, and the novel is autobiographical. It is an extraordinarily vivd narrative, Swiss-Family Robinson in genre"--Wolff 7238 (with a long note about this novel). Armorial bookplate of Nowell of Netherside; both London, together 6 vols., 12mo-small 8vo. (6)