DEFOE (Daniel). The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, Publisher, n.d. [Printed by the Ve Panckoucke Press, Year VIII (1799/1800)]. 3 volumes, in-8°, light brown sheepskin, with gilt fillet and fine serrated rule framing the covers, smooth spine adorned with personalized metal stamps (contemporary binding). “A revised and corrected translation based on the fine edition published by Stockdale in 1790, expanded to include the author’s biography, which had not yet been published […]” Three engraved titles adorned with a vignette (different on each of the three), a portrait, and fifteen other plates engraved by DELVAUX after STOTHART; a folded world map (Volume I). Binding rubbed; stains on one cover; a tear on the world map has been restored (no material missing). “The finest edition we have of this translation of Robinson ” (Brunet, II, 566, who notes that this edition originally included only 16 plates, but that two additional ones, as well as the world map, were added in 1816); Cohen, 406.